Pretending To Be A Boss

"Are they still considered human? Do they still have their own consciousness? I mean, do they have their own social circles, their own lives like you do?"

Tang Xian pointed at the two experimental subjects kneeling on the ground as he asked Akasi.

Akasi's breathing gradually steadied.

He had guessed the identity of the man behind the mask; the voice was something he remembered.

He felt somewhat relieved; it was fortunate that he hadn't taken action in the Sea of Trees with such terrifying combat prowess.

Tang Xian was also surprised by Akasi's recovery ability. He had almost died just moments ago, yet now his breathing was slowly becoming steady.

These people really were monsters.

Fortunately, in terms of biological classification, they still belonged to the human race.

Akasi shook his head and said,

"Not anymore, they are just beasts caged within a pen."

"Oh, then I won't be polite."

Seeing that the vitality of the two experimental subjects was also recovering at an astonishing speed, Tang Xian did not dawdle.

His hand moved and his blade fell, cleanly slicing through, in exactly the same manner as when slaughtering cattle and pigs.

He had no strange creeds. After all, these two had come at him with lethal intent just now.

In fact, no matter what Akasi's response had been, he would have made a move.

But pretending to be a humanitarian was still necessary if only for appearance's sake; after all, he was no demon. Akasi was one thing, but he didn't want to frighten little Tang Suoye.

The strongest experimental subject in the entire Secondary Fortress Evolved Division was crushed overwhelmingly, so much so that their elimination lacked any spectacle, instilling fear in everyone who witnessed it.

Tang Xian said, "How long have you been back at the Pyramid?"

Akasi quickly understood the meaning of the question and said, "It's been ten hours. But both Suoye's and my portable transport rifts are in the equipment area."

Tang Xian thought to himself that he had bought so many transport rifts precisely for such situations.

Although the use of a portable transport rift could be set to return to coordinates, such as directly back to the Sea of Trees, it also had its limitations.

It wasn't a tool that could just appear at any location on a whim.

Because its terminal would only record the coordinates of departure.

If the transport rift was used in the Evolved Division, then after seven days, the place Akasi would return to would still be the Evolved Division.

Tang Xian pondered that he must take Akasi out of here. It was not feasible to take them to the thirty-ninth fortress with Akasi severely injured.

His only option was to first send Akasi to the mining area.

But first, he needed to find a temporarily safe place.

Dr. Duke finally gradually came back to his senses from his fear and said,

"Akasi and subject number 19 both have tracking devices with the organization's markers inside them. It's useless for them to flee anywhere!"

Tang Xian glanced at Akasi, who nodded with a stiff expression.

"Isn't there a way to remove it?" Tang Xian earnestly asked Dr. Duke.

As if Dr. Duke were a friendly unit who would seriously answer the question.

Dr. Duke had never encountered someone so brazen.

"The standard tracking devices are made of inorganic mineral-electric core chips. The main component of these chips comes from a dark brown mineral found in the western part of the mining area, which has excellent conductivity. Some of today's high-end SIM cards and graphics cards are made from this material."

"Destroying them is troublesome; it requires electromagnetic separation technology used in the military. Besides, brute force hacking might damage the spine. They're implanted in your spines, aren't they? It looks like it's not just a simple tracker, is it? With the confident look on your face, I'd guess there are also devices similar to electric shocks or explosives?"

Tang Xian stroked his chin as if he was genuinely troubled.

Dr. Duke's face was full of astonishment.

This monstrously powerful being actually knew this specialized field of knowledge... It didn't line up with the typical characteristics of powerful beings being mostly dim-witted in his understanding.

Such dim-wittedness didn't refer to IQ, but to the extent of knowledge.

After all, squaring off in fierce battle for training in the mining area and researching scientific disciplines in the Pyramid were both extremely time-consuming activities. There were few who excelled in both.

But he didn't show weakness and sneered,

"You may understand the principle, but it's meaningless. The moment you try brute force hacking, the explosive devices will blow his spine to pieces."

"I see, how extensive would the explosion be? Is it just going to sever the spine, or will it turn the entire person into a human bomb?" Tango Xian seriously asked.

He slowly approached Dr. Duke, who warned,

"If you take one more step closer, I'll detonate Akasi!"

Tang Xian shook his head; the intellectuals of this era still lacked the hammering of socialism.

We could have been discussing and exchanging academic knowledge, but instead, we choose to fight and kill.

"The confident look on your face is laughable, but your eagerness to reveal that you have a detonator in hand is quite charming."

Dr. Duke stiffened.

He suddenly realized that he had let his fear get the best of him.

Wisdom in a crisis was rare, and it wasn't that the villains lacked intelligence, but in the urgency of the situation, they would hurry to reveal their trump cards to protect themselves.

Dr. Duke calmed himself and said,

"What of it? With the distance between you and me, I can kill Akasi before you get to me! You aren't that fast, otherwise, you wouldn't be approaching me so slowly."

Tang Xian agreed with Dr. Duke's words.

He was only immune to human damage and could ignore human resistance. He was a bane to humanity.

But that didn't mean he possessed other superpowers.

Even if he did 100 squats, 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups every day, and ran 10 kilometers, he might lose his hair, but he certainly wouldn't be able to punch out a great demon king with a single blow.