Zhou Lin

Among the four deputy wardens of the Nine Prisons, Henry Howard was undoubtedly the one with the most outstanding military exploits.

Compared with titles such as "Dream Master", "Hive Demon" and "Aphrodite", his nickname "Butcher" obviously explains a lot.

Henry's abilities were awakened when he was sixteen years old. At that time, he was considered a troubled boy with serious violent tendencies by those around him; but after becoming a person with abilities, he restrained himself a lot.

This is not because he has lost interest in violence; on the contrary, it is because his pursuit of violence has escalated.

When he didn't have special powers, Henry often fought with people. He would get hurt, bleed, and sometimes lose... But for him, fighting was exciting precisely because it came with the "risk of being defeated."

However, after the ability is awakened, this risk disappears.

Although there are many people in the world who can get happiness from bullying the weak, for Henry, there is no fun in defeating an opponent with a huge disparity in strength and no ability to fight back...

Even though Henry's ability was of no help in fighting at paper level, because his physical fitness had surpassed that of ordinary people, he never fought with "ordinary people" again.

A year later, Henry gave up his studies, which he was not very good at, and chose to join the army.

He showed excellent fighting talent during the training period, and he was an esper, so he was quickly incorporated into the federal army's esper combat unit and participated in actual combat.

On the day he set foot on the battlefield, not only did Henry not feel nervous or scared like most recruits, he also felt like a fish in water.

Fighting with the army, people with abilities... life-and-death battles are the most violent games he can play.

A person is lucky to be able to pursue his hobby as a career.

In the following more than ten years, Henry relied on his continuous accumulation of military exploits on the battlefield to rise through the ranks. Of course... due to his class background, he was unable to rise to a truly high-level position... but he didn't mind this either. He loves working on the front lines.

Unfortunately, at the age of thirty-four, his good days came to an end.

During a certain operation, he accidentally offended a high-level commander. The other party decided to punish him, so they asked someone to check for dirty information on him. If you don’t check it, you won’t know. If you check it, you will be really shocked...

In the past ten years, Henry often killed targets who should have been left alive because of his desire to kill during the execution of missions. He even once "surrendered directly because a very powerful enemy had not even fought him." , so he killed the other party on impulse.”

These matters can usually be suppressed at the grassroots level; after all, the situation on the battlefield is complex. Even if there are relevant video or audio materials to prove it, as long as the person in charge of the operation can help you write the report after the incident, It's just over... Anyway, the reviewers only want to see the results. As long as the overall results are acceptable, no one will read all the contents of the report carefully.

However, when it comes time to dig into the regulations, you can find some problems in any soldier or officer's file, not to mention Henry's problem is quite serious.

He also didn't expect that he, who had never been killed on the battlefield, would eventually be killed in the hands of his own people...

Henry went to court-martial and was sentenced to five years; fortunately, he went to a prison under the jurisdiction of the military, and there were only his own people in it, so he did not suffer much. But after he came out, he had no choice but to do anything in the federal army. Mixed down.

Fortunately, several of his brothers at the same time were doing well. Under the operation of these people, Henry, who was "very experienced in prison management", came to the "Ninth Prison" and became the deputy warden here.

This time, another five years...

In fact, it's pretty good here. Most of the time, Henry only needs to cross his legs, smoke a cigar in the office, look at the screen, and doze off, and the duty hours are over; as long as he is healthy, he will have no problem working until he retires.

As for his "violent tendencies", they have been smoothed over during the years he spent in jail...

Henry, who is forty-four years old this year, has not tasted what "combat" in the true sense is like for nearly ten years.

until today.

On January 15, Henry was on duty until 6 a.m., and it was after 3 a.m. when he was most sleepy.

When the alarm sounded, he didn't take it too seriously, because in the past few years, there were also people who came to attack the Nine Hells, and most of the guys who attacked from the front died on the wall of the abyss. From the outside, those who can break into the inside will be eliminated in a very short period of time.

But today, the progress of this matter seems a bit weird... A call for help came from the southern gate, which means that someone has broken through the plain covered by a high-intensity fire network from the front and has begun to attack the gate. .

Henry glanced at the surveillance camera and felt something was wrong, so he walked out of the duty room on the "exit floor".

In the Ninth Prison, the warden and deputy wardens can choose not to wear combat armor: firstly, wearing that will limit their combat power; secondly, the five of them can regularly receive "neutralization" provided by the federation. "Pharmaceutical", as long as you take it on time, you will not be affected by the suppressive gas in the Nine Hells.

Therefore, Henry took a federal army coat and ran out of the Nine Prisons.

In the darkness of 3:30 in the morning, he quickly passed through the ruins of Chernobyl like a strong wind passing through the night and approached the southern gate of the wall.

Just when he came behind the door, a change... happened.

The huge door, with the "squeaking" sound of metal deforming, was actually opened with a gap, and it became wider and wider...

When Henry saw this, he immediately stood up and raised his eyes to stare.

Through the crack in the door that gradually opened, he saw a black humanoid creature holding the giant door open with both arms.

Today, Dark Water, in order to facilitate daily activities, has maintained its human form at a height of 1.8 meters and a weight of 80 kilograms; its body is strong, hairless, and has no sexual characteristics; the skin on its body looks like The light-absorbing black leather almost seemed to be invisible in the dark night. Only...his pair of eyeless eyes glowed green in the shadows.

"This is..." Henry looked at the dark water and thought in his mind, "Biological armor? Mutation with superpower? Or mutant?"

Henry is curious because he feels that even he cannot open this huge alloy door with pure brute force. According to his speculation, if the black creature in front of him is an esper, it must be some kind of extreme specializing in the field of power. example.

Squeak——Woo——

On the other side, after the initial gap was opened, Anshui slowly squeezed his whole body into the crack of the door, and then pushed his palms to both sides in a better posture to exert force. The gap to be opened reached the limit of his arm span. At this time, he "extended" his arms outward, like a horizontal human jack, and continued to push the door to both sides...

From Henry's perspective, this is undoubtedly a great opportunity to attack, and he cannot miss it.

The blood full of violent factors that had not flowed through his body for ten years was flowing again at this moment. The excitement that seemed to be from another life and could only be experienced during fighting made his whole body tremble with excitement.

"I am Deputy Warden Howard. No matter who it is, after hearing this, please turn off the weapon system inside the south gate and give me some light." Henry spoke with the communicator and took a step forward. , ran forward...

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure turned into a shadow, and the bursting energy caused the surrounding temperature to rise. In the blink of an eye, he rushed to the dark water, put his hands together, and launched a set of clean combos. It can be completed in an instant with a speed far exceeding the dynamic vision and reaction speed of ordinary people.

Two seconds later, the unsuspecting Anshui's movement stagnated, and then his body fell apart like a pile of minced meat and collapsed to the ground.

This damage... was not caused by the effects of superpowers, but was caused by ordinary unarmed attacks. Of course, it cannot be said to have nothing to do with superpowers, because ordinary people could not inflict this kind of damage with their hands, just like a chef trying to relieve his cow.

Henry's ability is called "Tongyue Cave"; not to mention those conceptual and compound abilities, even compared with ordinary external abilities, his ability is extremely weak.

Specifically, at the paper level, the effect of this ability is to allow him to see through the disassembly methods of some man-made objects, such as an alarm clock, a mobile phone, and other small things. Of course...it's just a "disassembly method", why? He couldn't see it when it was put back together; and when he reached the parallel level, he could see through the disassembly of precision machinery and large objects (such as manned airliners, destroyers); when he reached the advanced level, he began to be able to see parts of "one piece" Methods for dismantling "formed objects", including "living things".

Although living things do not have many obvious and open "joints" like machines, in Henry's eyes, human joints and organs can be easily twisted or broken apart at will - this is For example, people who often cook know how to cut a piece of meat to make it easier to cut, and how to quickly and effectively decompose a chicken, a fish, etc.

In short, Henry's ability is that when faced with any living or dead object, he can instantly understand how to efficiently dismantle it just by looking at it, but when actually dismantling it, he still has to rely on his hands.

Although the effect of "Tongyoudongwei" is weak, and at first glance it seems that only demolition teams and chefs can use it, "weak" is sometimes an advantage - unlike those abilities with complex and significant effects, simple and weak The ability is very easy to improve.

It only took a few years for Henry to advance from paper level to strong level. During the more than ten years of fighting on the battlefield, he applied this ability to actual combat. Combined with his continuous training of physical strength and energy utilization, he Successfully broke through the supernatural power to the fierce level.

As early as ten years ago, Henry had few opponents in hand-to-hand combat. As soon as he strikes, his opponent will often suffer multiple fractures and amputated limbs, which can be so serious that they are directly broken into pieces of flesh, or the opponent may be intact on the outside, but the bones and internal organs will be shattered internally.

Right now, Henry would certainly not be merciful to an enemy like Dark Water, and had no intention of leaving him alive from the beginning.

Unfortunately... this kind of attack is meaningless to Dark Water.

Buzz-buzz-

Just as Henry was "tearing" the dark water apart, there were several roars of large motors starting up in the distance.

Then, several searchlight beams shot out from several nearby high points, all shining on the south gate.

Henry didn't know... Lance turned on this light for him.

At this time, inside the Nine Prisons, Lance had completely suppressed the men's side of "Xianquan Kaofen"; he occupied the control room and released all the prisoners on this floor, and those who had not yet had time to evacuate this area The guards have been taken care of by the prisoners.

When Henry gave the order with the communicator, he happened to be heard by Lance in the control room. Lance looked at the situation at the gate with a night vision probe, and repeated Henry's "no matter who it is" with a smile. , and then said to himself: "Then I will do as you wish." Then he followed Henry's instructions.

Henry's original intention in giving this order was, firstly, to prevent the weapon system from causing accidental damage to him, and secondly, to make it easier for him to see things... Although the night vision ability of the fierce-level ability user is definitely not bad, after all, he cannot see clearly in the light. .

Unexpectedly, at this moment, he helped pave the way for the reverse cross.

"It's so bright, so you can turn off the lighting brooch." When the light came, Sakaki Wuhuan, who happened to be stepping off the shuttle, was caught off guard and covered his eyes with his hands.

"No, no, this is a light evil! We are a group of people with strong yang energy now. If we are exposed to such a light, our blood vessels will burst, or we will suffer a disaster of fire. I think we should stay on the shuttle... Hehehe Hey..." Meng Zhenhan, who was standing at the cabin door, was kicked out by Kaijiu before he could finish his words.

Kaijiu looked impatient when he kicked him: "Stop talking nonsense, you pretender, don't block the door!"

Meng Zhenhan was also dissatisfied, so he turned around and said: "Hey! You are a stupid and stupid person, but you don't know what kind of advice you have. Forget it. If you want to go, just go. I will fly back alone." On the shuttle..."

He was halfway through his sentence when he was interrupted by Zi Lin who got off the shuttle and said, "You have a beautiful idea. There are still things for you to do."

While speaking, Zi Lin hooked Meng Zhenhan's shoulders and pulled him towards the door.

The last one to step off the shuttle was Che Wuchen who said nothing.

Among this group of people, only "Gun Ghost" K stayed on the shuttle...According to the plan, after everyone went in, K would stop the shuttle in the middle of the open door, so as to prevent the door from being closed again.

"These guys... are too relaxed. Do you think this is an outing?" Henry saw a few people walking towards the crack of the door from ten meters away, and there was a faint anger in his heart.

As he was chanting, his eyes moved to the ground in front of him.

Just now, after the dark water was torn into black pieces and landed on the ground, it immediately turned into a pool of black liquid. Now, after a gap of more than ten seconds, the pool of liquid gathered again, swelled, and quickly reshaped into a complete shape. Lossless human form.

This scene was like the reorganization of a liquid robot that could not be killed no matter how hard it was in a classic movie. Henry couldn't help but be shocked when he saw it: "And this guy...what's going on? He has huge power and can be reborn... …Could it be that he has the physique of a god above the ferocious level?”

Just when he was hesitating, An Shui, who had recovered, suddenly turned his head and locked his gaze on his face.

In the silence, Dark Water... took action.