Mr. Melancholy Wants To Live A Peaceful Life

CHAPTER 42

There were cameras inside the mall and on the roof; the control room had seen Lian Yufan and You Zhengping's injuries. In the surveillance image, You Zhengping was propping himself up on his elbow, struggling to confront Destroyer 192. Lian Yufan had his head down, his back rightly pressed to the load-bearing wall, hands flat against it; he looked like he was deep in thought, but in reality his spine had been broken, and if he didn't maintain this posture, he would fall down at once.

"Director Xiao..." Luo Huai said in concern, seeing the state the two of them were in.

Director Xiao raised his hand lightly. The squad's main combat force was exhausted. It was in fact time for him to act. Director Xiao in fact had the power to subdue Destroyer 192, and there had in fact been no need to let the Protectors be so seriously injured in this battle. But he was getting old.

Director Xiao was forty-three years old now, and the marks of time were already climbing from the corners of his eyes. Right now, he could still be the young Protectors' backup force, explain the inside story to them. But what about when he was fifty-three, sixty-three? While he could still be the young Protectors' mainstay, however much he regretted it, however much it pained him, he still had to let the young people act, so that power could continue.

In the surveillance image, Destroyer 192 said to You Zhengping, "Do you really think I only planted bombs in this mall? Since I have to fight the mission target alone, how could I not keep some room to maneuver? Do you still remember the goldfish in the manmade lake?"

You Zhengping's gaze froze. Of course he remembered.

The Protection Organization had determined the Destroyer 192's ability was a sort of game space. It could turn all the inanimate objects the ability user touched within the space into bombs. But that couldn't explain why the goldfish had exploded at a touch. The goldfish were living beings.

You Zhengping, who had participated in the battle on the surface of the water at close range, had considered this question, but he hadn't come up with an answer. Only now did a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon occur to him—there were two types of bombs.

One type was the type they were familiar with: inanimate objects that Destroyer 192 had touched. The other type was a transmitting bomb, which could use its impact to transmit vibrations into the bodies of living beings.

Simply explained: when the little boy's cap exploded, it was thrown into the water by Cen Xiao. But in fact that cap's ability to injure had been very low. Its true use had been to disperse vibrations and make living things vibrate internally at a high frequency; in this way, they became small-scale bombs and exploded. 

The goldfish in the manmade lake had only become bombs that attacked Cen Xiao because of the impact from the cap. If You Zhengping had guessed right, then the living being on the scene that would become a bomb was...

"You're the goldfish," Destroyer 192 sang, pointing at You Zhengping. "I placed special bombs on the three children's backpacks. I was originally planning it as a fallback, but now you've taken the force of all three bombs."

He took out his phone and opened the "Explosion Game" interface. It showed that there was one living bomb on the roof. It was You Zhengping!

The expressions of everyone in the observation room grew grave. Luo Huai said nervously, "Director, if You Zhengping really does get turned into a bomb, then even with the repulsion field, he'll still..."

None of them had expected such a thing to happen. Director Xiao was enraged. The water vapor in the air over the roof trembled violently.

"You're all very powerful," Destroyer 192 said complacently. "No wonder no one has ever accomplished a world-opening mission. Too bad. You can't kill me, I'll succeed in escaping, and this special ability user will die!"