Chapter 154

Therefore, Qi Xing had originally intended to be patient—just as Jingo Rin had said, do not be anxious, because being in a rush was useless and would only disturb one's mind.

However, he hadn't expected that Dr. Elio would actually take the initiative to crawl out from his underground lair tonight.

—Then [Master Leipu] will not stand on ceremony!

"Thunder Fist."

To deal with an enemy of this caliber, Qi Xing did not need any tricks at all.

His fist was like cast steel and iron, like thunderclouds pressing down, drawing a dull roar through the air.

One punch!

Using only thirty percent of his strength, Qi Xing blasted Dr. Elio through the floor and out of the building—as if struck head-on by Thor's hammer, he was blasted out of the already half-destroyed apartment building with a "thud," forcing him out of an area where he might harm others!

Afterward, without another word, Qi Xing first blew a breath of immortal energy toward the Magical Girls.

In an instant, the bruises all over Magical Girl Soleia's body rapidly faded, her joints gradually loosened, and her breathing became steady once again.

Although she was still pale and listless, she no longer looked like the wretched, broken doll she had been a moment ago.

Artemina's muscles, which had been stiff from the electric shock, also relaxed—the nerves tightened by the paralytic toxin slowly loosened, her fingertips regained warmth, and her magic power began to flow again.

She braced herself against the wall to stand up, looked up at Qi Xing, and before she could even speak, her eyes were already slightly red.

—After all, for her, this was not the first time.

At the critical moment, she had been rescued by [Master Leipu].

"Gojo will bring the Exorcists over soon, including the healers."

Qi Xing just calmly instructed, "You might not be very good at magical healing, but until then, I have to leave this place to you."

Having said that, he transformed into a streak of lightning and instantly flashed away, pursuing the evil doctor who had been blasted away!

Hundreds of meters away from the apartment, on a wide city street that was already devoid of pedestrians due to the late hour, Dr. Elio Dogenzaka crashed down from the sky like a falling meteorite, smashing into the ground and leaving the entire asphalt road riddled with cracks, fractured like a web.

Utility poles shook violently, emitting shrill electrical screeches, and streetlights along the road flashed and went out one by one.

He struggled to lift his head, but a flash of light had already torn through the night sky, and the thundering boom followed like a shadow!

[Master Leipu] descended in the form of lightning, cracked the road surface with one step, and stood firm before him.

After the massive explosion, countless bolts of lightning and shockwaves caused the air and even the earth and stone to be twisted by an invisible force.

The buildings surrounding the street had their power cut due to Qi Xing's thunder fire, plunging them into dead silence.

Fortunately, there were no hospitals nearby; it was just a neighborhood of ordinary residents and shops, so it wasn't a big problem.

This actually helped prevent ordinary citizens from running out to gawk.

The intense electromagnetic pulse would also stop them from recording random videos and posting them online.

"Dr. Elio Dogenzaka."

"You may now loudly deliver your final words."

The night wind blew through Qi Xing's trench coat, making it snap loudly.

Thunder rumbled, but the tone of his voice was as calm as water.

Looking at this scene, Dr. Elio could only be speechless.

…What kind of joke is this? How could [Master Leipu]'s movements be this fast?!

The answer was actually quite simple.

Ever since the great battle against [Mahamayuri] in the Northeast, Qi Xing's Sage Body had transformed, and with the help of the [Dominator] silver coin, he could now completely transform himself into lightning to fly.

Although it was far from the speed of light—the average speed of lightning within the atmosphere is far lower than the speed of light, only about one-thousandth of the speed of light, which is about 300,000 meters per second, or about a thousand times the speed of sound, taking two seconds to fly from Tokyo to Osaka—this speed was already on the level of "teleportation."

The cost was a high consumption of True Qi, and it was quite mentally draining; using it for too long would make his brain feel very uncomfortable, with his head throbbing as if it were about to split.

Regarding this, the idiot Evil God Sasa remarked: [This is just a human limitation, because humans are used to thinking with their brains. Once you become a bit more "inhuman," there won't be any side effects. Don't worry!]

…But Qi Xing personally felt that giving up his brain was something better left for later…

Back to the main topic, let's return to Dr. Elio, who had taken Qi Xing's thirty-percent-strength Thunder Fist.

Although Qi Xing had only used thirty percent of his strength and had intended not to kill him so he could be captured alive for interrogation—this doctor looked thin and small, yet after taking this punch from Qi Xing, he hadn't collapsed on the ground foaming at the mouth, which meant he did indeed have some skill.

And from the feel of it, Qi Xing could also sense: "Hmm, cybernetic enhancement?"

Dr. Elio hurriedly jumped out of the pit and raised his hands to plead: "Wait! Wait, [Master Leipu]! Calm down, please calm down! We have a misunderstanding!"

"Oh?" Qi Xing raised an eyebrow, "You're not calling me a 'son of a bitch' anymore?"

Yikes! This guy actually holds a grudge?!

Dr. Elio's original plan was to capture Magical Girl Artemina and take her to his base, using her as a hostage to lure [Master Leipu] and set a trap in advance.

But now [Master Leipu] had punched him right in the face, so what use was that original plan?!

"Damn it! [Master Leipu], whether we are heroes or villains, we were all just living our own lives; why did you have to come to Tokyo to cause trouble and interfere with our daily lives?!"

Knowing that [Master Leipu] was not the type to let things go easily just because of a plea for mercy, in his desperation, Dr. Elio gritted his teeth and jumped up, "Damn it! Don't think you are absolutely invincible! I don't need training; I can have powerful strength through intelligence! Don't force us to fight to the death!"

Qi Xing scanned him from head to toe and frowned: "Let me see… Alchemy skeleton, protein bio-muscles, armored skin, combat mechanical arm… You think you can fight me to the death with this?"

This terrifying insight was like a bucket of cold water poured over Dr. Elio's head, making him shudder instantly.

At this point, it is probably necessary to explain.

The leader of the Rise Mora Group, Dr. Elio Dogenzaka, although he did not know "magic" and had no "cultivation" of any mystic arts, the field he excelled in was not "science" in the normal sense, but [Weird Science].

Simply put, it was non-realistic science.

Death rays, humanoid combat robots, flying cars from outer space, Tesla magnetic coil towers, Atlantean sonic technology, steampunk airships, mechanical devices like Doctor Octopus, psychic enhancement equipment like Yuri's, viruses like those in Resident Evil—and many, many more strange things that only mad scientists would dare to imagine.

That's right, this crazy Sasa Universe didn't just have advanced magical technology; these were not magic—good heavens, of course they weren't magic!

Desire can not only create powerful fantasy, it can of course also create powerful science fiction, born from those unconventional, great scientific theories!

In the universe of Qi Xing's past life, none of these crazy technologies could function normally, but at least in this Sasa Universe, they could indeed work.

Dr. Elio Dogenzaka also had his own unique field of research and his own miraculous inventions… but no matter how much confidence he had in his inventions, he had absolutely no confidence in facing [Master Leipu] head-on!

At this point, the only option was to escape first and go back to regroup.

"Damn it! Die, [Master Leipu]!"

All this thinking happened in a hundredth of a second. With a loud shout, Dr. Elio immediately reached out and fired a cloud of invisible gas at Qi Xing!

Then, without wasting even half a second, he turned around and fled immediately!

—How cunning! It was a pity, however, that Qi Xing didn't take this thing seriously at all.

"Hmm, a paralytic gas targeting magic users."

Instantly identifying the effect, Qi Xing blew a breath of immortal energy with boredom, neutralizing it instead.

The next second, he had already flashed like lightning to stand in front of the fleeing Dr. Elio, blocking him once again.

"Kid, do you think that after traveling the world and slaughtering all kinds of evil, I haven't seen this kind of stuff before?"

And he even commented quite rudely, "Long before I came to Japan, I had seen enough of those poisons that 'cause one to lose all internal energy upon inhalation' or make one's 'meridians go soft.' Back in the Southern Border, I had even seen all sorts of strange Gu poisons."

"This gas of yours exists all over the world; it lacks originality."

Yikes! Striking the heart is worse than killing!

For a genius who prides himself on creativity, nothing could be more hurtful than this.

Not only was his meticulously designed toxin completely useless against [Master Leipu]—if it had just been useless, that would be one thing—but to be mocked like that by the other party—Dr. Elio was almost moved to tears of rage in an instant.

But he still gritted his teeth, swallowed his anger, activated the reactor inside his body, and immediately unleashed a full-power attack at Qi Xing to clear his path for escape!

What exactly was Dr. Elio's most specialized field of Weird Science?

At this moment, the energy that surged instantly from within Dr. Elio's body, from his reactor, finally made Qi Xing raise his eyebrows in surprise: "—Oh?"

That was indeed something that a normal person could never have anticipated in advance.

The next instant, a sharp, high-frequency noise exploded in the air, as if every substation in the entire city had short-circuited at once.

In the right hand that Dr. Elio raised, a distorted magnetic halo began to emerge, and blue-white electric sparks expanded wildly in a vortex spiral, tearing at the surrounding air until it screamed!

"200,000 Horsepower, Magnetic Field Cannon!"

There was no fire, no explosion, only the roaring vibration of the air and the surging vortex of power.

It was as if countless high-voltage electric whips were dancing wildly; the asphalt on the street was instantly torn apart, and paving stones rose up and flew in all directions.

An invisible force spread out from the doctor, pulling parked cars off the ground, along with transformers, steel bars, and advertising light boxes on the road—all of them coalesced and blasted toward Qi Xing with full force!

Odic Force—that was the answer.

A concept originally proposed by German scientist Carl von Reichenbach in the early 19th century, which is almost pseudoscience from a modern perspective, but still believed in by many—the concept of "life magnetic energy," a life energy that all living things and all cells can emit, was also a hypothesis based on science at the time.

So-called magnetic therapy, electromagnetic energy treatment, magnetic health products, and other semi-scientific, semi-mysterious techniques are still used by people even today.

At this moment, the 200,000 horsepower of magnetic field power blasted out by Dr. Elio was enough to collapse a building like cardboard, and enough to blast an aircraft carrier into two pieces with a single strike!

In the ten years since he transmigrated, this was truly the first time Qi Xing had seen someone use Weird Science technology to modify their body and launch such an attack against him using bio-magnetic field power!

For a moment, even he couldn't help but laugh out loud!

The air seemed to have been sucked out from between Qi Xing and the doctor, and the whole street seemed to be caught in the center of the apocalypse.

Could this incredibly powerful 200,000 horsepower work?

—No.

Amidst that explosive and twisted magnetic storm, only [Master Leipu] remained standing in place, motionless.

Only a few electric sparks spread along his feet to the ground, splitting into the twisted air and shattering the swirling metal fragments into dust one by one.

…Cold sweat couldn't help but pour down Dr. Elio's forehead.

Escape?

Are you kidding? How could he escape from this?

"Very good." Qi Xing finally spoke, his voice not loud, but carrying a hint of praise, "With this kind of power, indeed, only a very small number of people in all of Tokyo can surpass you. For a child like Artemina, it was still too difficult."

"If you had used this talent for the benefit of humanity, perhaps you could have flown to Mars long ago."

A full-power strike, an incredibly powerful 200,000 horsepower, yet it had absolutely no effect. Dr. Elio, his half-mechanical body draped in a torn lab coat, had arms that were shaking like a cheap robot. Metal parts were exposed for heat dissipation, and sparks from short circuits flashed constantly on his body.

Swallowing hard, his eyes turning red, his brain was still desperately trying to think of ways to stall for time to escape, while trying to mobilize his backup circuits—

But Qi Xing's next words ended his fantasies.

"Since you are a cyborg, hitting you a little harder shouldn't kill you."

"I'll just punch your head flat."

As soon as he finished speaking, he moved.

There was no more buildup, and no second warning.

Raising his fist was like a mountain collapsing; dropping his fist was like a thunderous calamity.

His fist cut through the air, bringing with it dancing thunder snakes; just the "bang" sound of the compressed air exploding shattered the car windows of the entire street.

Thunder Fist, blasted onto the magnetic defensive barrier that Dr. Elio had desperately opened with all his might!

—That defense was like dropping water on a hot stone. It shattered instantly, pierced through like paper,

"Guh—ah!!!"

Dr. Elio didn't even have time to react before he felt his entire head collide with the fury of the entire world.

The next instant, his skull caved in and deformed under Qi Xing's fist, and along with his neck, it was twisted and broken, slamming into the ground with a boom, causing the entire road to sink three feet!

The dust settled.

The doctor's steel body was dented and twitching, like a metal insect crushed by a heavy hammer.

Qi Xing slowly retracted his fist, stood at the edge of the pit, and looked down at him, commenting:

"You can be proud, Dr. Dogenzaka."

"This clever head of yours is more durable than most people I've ever seen."