319: Chapter 316 Cardiac Arrest

"Then continue the test, but this also proves that Li has indeed gained the ability to freely control the ep project state; he himself is a god.

Incredible! It's simply incredible. By comparison, Isao Machii is far inferior to him.

But this is interesting, isn't it? They are both Asian. Could it be that Asians have a greater Innate advantage when it comes to becoming a god?"

Old Michael was becoming a bit neurotic, primarily due to his excitement, causing him to mutter incessantly.

Old Michael's words caused quite a few researchers to nod in agreement.

Especially the staff of the ep project; they all held their heads high, starting to look down on others with their noses in the air.

They were as arrogant now as they had been aggrieved before.

After all, ever since the Gene Project produced a defective version, it had made very little progress.

Whereas their ep project had reached its Peak the moment it debuted.

Oh, that's not quite right; there's still that half-baked Isao Machii.

Huh? Is there such a person as Isao Machii?

No, I must have remembered wrong. A second-rate hack like Isao Machii is just a piece of shit compared to Li.

"Continue having the armed personnel cooperate with the shooting!"

Following Old Michael's instructions, the armed personnel in the footage prepared to continue raising their guns to fire, but just then, they saw Li make a gesture to pause.

"Hmm? What's going on? Has something gone wrong with Li's body?"

Everyone was suspicious, though upon further reflection, it seemed normal; the average person's body truly couldn't withstand that kind of rapid reaction speed.

However, they saw that Li had already spoken in the footage.

"Add another one."

...

Hearing the words of the person on screen, everyone fell silent.

"Listen to him!"

Old Michael said through gritted teeth; he wanted to see if this person truly had a limit.

But he immediately added, "Remember, don't aim for vital spots."

However, no sooner had he finished speaking than Li spoke again in the footage, "One aimed at my head, one aimed at my leg. Yes, stagger them a bit."

...

Now the researchers all wore complex expressions, looking at Old Michael, waiting for his response.

Veins were popping on Old Michael's forehead; he had seen test subjects who were scared to death, but he had never seen one like this.

It felt very strange, much like during wartime, when spies were captured and subjected to electrocution torture, only to shiver in pleasure while shouting, "It doesn't feel right, increase the intensity!"

It was just fucking ridiculous.

"Ag... agree to it!"

After saying this, Old Michael felt his blood pressure rise several notches.

It was the first time a test subject had caused his blood pressure to skyrocket.

And this was only a routine test; even in the official project trials, the danger coefficient wasn't this high.

Hearing the instructions, the armed personnel were also dazed; they had never seen anything so ridiculous.

He gestured to a companion nearby, who walked over hesitantly, and upon hearing the request, wore an expression that clearly said, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

However, upon hearing the instructions repeated in their earpieces, both of them followed the requirements and aimed at the head and leg, respectively.

Lux, not far away, was panting heavily like a consumptive; god knows what she had just experienced.

She had lived in the U.S. for many years and had always thought the low population density in the U.S. was normal, but now she found it extremely abnormal.

Weren't people from Xia supposed to be quite gentle and refined?

On the U.S. version of Zhihu, many Americans claimed that modern Xia people hadn't had a single real combat experience, and were actually softies? Had they lost their fighting spirit?

If she were browsing the internet right now, she would definitely spray a face full of shit at those people.

When it came to courting death, no one was quite as good at it as the person in front of her.

Watching the firearms aimed at him once again, Li Changsheng took a deep breath.

The intensity just now was still lacking in his opinion; the crisis of life and death wasn't strong enough.

It was only slightly stronger than before and hadn't stimulated his mental state at all; even in the moment he took a step, the confidence in his heart had never wavered in the slightest.

Bang bang~

Almost instantly, the gunshots rang out again. This time, Li Changsheng also moved the moment the gunshots began.

With one bullet, Li Changsheng could manage to dodge by walking the center line with minimal steps, but he couldn't do that right now.

His waist and hips moved first, instantly completing a crouching posture like a spirit cat gathering its strength.

The next instant, his step rotated outward and stomped; his whole body seemed to make a half-turn, and as his feet shifted again, the ground seemed to be subjected to a suction force.

This time it was just one step; as one step was taken, the other only shifted slightly—the leg hadn't moved yet, but the waist had already lifted.

Yet his body completed a small-amplitude undulating change; as he stepped, his figure rose, and the instant his foot landed, it sank again.

When one part moves, everything moves; when one part is still, everything is still.

The movements were even more subtle, but unknowingly, the transformation between empty and solid had already been completed between his waist and legs.

No need for hand avoidance, relying solely on footwork, every step inseparable from the hips; it was unmistakably the arc-shaped step of Taiji.

He even utilized the hidden leg technique as before, completing the leg strike during the moment of transition between empty and solid, where the hidden force of one foot acted like a propellant, pushing the other leg to complete the change rapidly.

Swoosh!~

One bullet pierced through his pant leg before it could fall back down, and another bullet grazed his cheek, leaving a shallow red mark on the side of his face.

The rich smell of gunpowder filled his nostrils. As his steps finished, although the amplitude hadn't been large, Li Changsheng couldn't help but pant slightly.

He did his best to channel Qi to his Dantian, beginning to calm the violent palpitations of his heart.

His eyes, however, were exceptionally bright. He stared at the gun barrels that were still wreathed in smoke, lost in a trance.

At this moment, under that extreme life-and-death stimulation, after the highly secreted adrenaline and dopamine gradually subsided, his brain seemed to enter a state of ethereal emptiness.

His eyes seemed unfocused. The crowd was astonished, watching as it seemed Mr. Li had dodged it.

But it looked like he had been scared silly?

However, they saw Li Changsheng slowly close his eyes.

In this state of ethereal, blank-mindedness, his cognitive activity was not truly blank like an ordinary person's; rather, it was exceptionally active, even reaching an unprecedented height.

And in this state of being both ethereal and exceptionally active, he had actually reached a state of standing while seemingly asleep but not asleep.

Seeing this scene, the crowd was still suspicious, all wondering if this Mr. Li had truly been scared silly.

Seeing this, the two armed personnel looked at each other and lowered their firearms.

However, the researchers watching the real-time data on the side had their eyes widened, pupils constricted, and their brains also went blank.

Because special iron plates had been attached to Li Changsheng's various joints and pulses earlier, both his heart rate frequency and internal element secretion could be fed back to the screen with reasonable accuracy.

But at this moment...

Beep~~~

A slightly harsh sound rang out. The person responsible for real-time ECG monitoring saw that after a period of violent fluctuations and a rapid return to a normal heart rate, it then seemed to be suddenly smoothed out, becoming a straight, flat line.

This straight line extended all the way back, with almost no signs of fluctuating again.

In an instant, not only the researchers watching in real-time at the scene, but even the high-level researchers watching through the split-screen in the monitoring room felt a chill run through their entire bodies.