"Kids shouldn't play with firecrackers, it's very dangerous!"
Duke, who had lightly tapped Vi's small head with the hammer, turned around to look at the mutants glowing with faint blue light. "Ugh, how ugly! Why drink that, of all things? You just had to drink some unregulated product!"
"Roar!"
One mutant abandoned Powder and roared at Duke.
Duke weighed the hammer, then threw the brass hammer back over his shoulder. "Roar your grandpa, you hear!"
The brass hammer flew out, hitting the mutant directly between the eyebrows. The immense force caused the mutant's head to snap backward.
"Janna, support me well!"
Duke stretched his limbs, stomped heavily on the ground, and charged out. In Vi's disbelieving eyes, Duke flew back even faster than before, crashing heavily against the wall.
Thud!
Duke, slowly sliding down the wall, coughed twice and shouted, "Janna, where did you go?"
"I'm busy, you handle it yourself for now!"
Duke noticed the blue bird circling above everyone in the area. As the blue bird circled, it released gusts of gentle wind, and the wounds on everyone touched by the breeze quickly healed, pulling them out of immediate danger.
"What an unreliable broom-headed goddess!"
Duke slapped the wall behind him. He only complained briefly. There were priorities; first aiding the injured and keeping them alive was the top choice. Duke also agreed with Janna's approach in his heart.
It just meant he couldn't avoid being surrounded and attacked by these few super minions.
"Level one, no equipment, no support. I'm really miserable!"
Duke took a deep breath, laughed self-deprecatingly, and charged out again.
This time, he was much slower than before, but Duke also had more time to observe his opponent's movements.
With the Super Soldier Serum as his foundation, Duke's physical attributes already surpassed those of a human.
However, lacking combat experience and never having received formal combat training, he could only learn on the fly.
Fortunately, the opponent was merely relying on the amplification provided by the Shimmer, flailing about without any real skill.
As long as his eyes could keep up and his movements were fast enough, he could inflict damage.
Duke, who was a homebody in his previous life, once heard a friend who had been fighting since childhood say that street fights weren't about who was more ruthless, but about who could endure more and react faster!
Scouring his mind for any shred of experience, Duke closed in on the mutant, his eyes fixed on the movements of its limbs.
Whoosh!
The moment the giant palm swept horizontally, Duke's eyes twitched slightly, and he quickly bent forward, taking a heavy step while clenching his right fist and punching upwards with force, leaping into the air himself.
Thud!!
The mutant's chin was struck by an uppercut, its entire face deforming, and its body even floated slightly, flying backward.
Gasp... Gasp....
Duke, breathing heavily, looked at his fist, a smile appearing on his face: "Looks like it's not that difficult after all!"
A table was directly slammed into him, sending him flying.
The mutant that threw the table roared, as if warning its other companions not to be careless; although the opponent looked like a normal person, his physical attributes were definitely monstrous.
"Duke, can't you fight?"
"I can swing a hammer to hit nails, but swinging my fists to hit people, I'm really not good at it!"
Duke, who had thrown the table away, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and spat out bloody saliva, "Do you think I'm like you, taught how to fight since childhood?"
"And....." Duke panted slightly, "Janna, are you ready yet?"
"Just a little longer, almost there!"
"What a hassle!"
Duke took out a red sphere with his backhand, regretfully looking at the sphere in his hand.
Pressing the button in the middle, he assumed a baseball throwing stance and hurled it towards the mutants standing closer to him.
The sphere spun, tracing an arc through the air, and the button Duke pressed flashed with rapid red dots.
The moment it neared the mutant, it exploded directly, and White Spider Silk instantly sprayed outwards like a torrential downpour.
Pfft!!
Those mutants were immediately trapped on the ground by the Spider Silk released from the Spider Silk bomb.
Duke looked at the mutants tearing at the Spider Silk and twitched his mouth: "What a pity, I thought I could replicate the Spider Silk formula!"
"Now it's gone!"
"What did you throw?"
Vi looked at the mutants trapped by the Spider Silk, like flies caught in a web; the more they struggled, the more they couldn't break free.
"A little gadget, I only had that one!"
"Roar!"
A ferocious face appeared before Duke.
Duke sighed, pulled out a box, pressed the button on it, and threw it to the big guy in front of him, while he himself quickly dodged with a clumsy roll.
The next second.
The box opened, and from it, a comical Joker head was picked out. The Joker let out a chilling laugh, then exploded.
Violent Fire splashed outwards, and anything it touched would be continuously burned by the flames. The mutant was shattered the moment the explosion occurred.
"Don't ask, I only have one of these!"
Duke rolled his eyes, picked up Vi, and threw her to Powder.
"Watch your sister!"
"Is Janna not ready yet?" Duke looked at the soaring blue bird above his head, "I really don't have any more items to buy time with!"
"Alright, alright, you impatient boy!"
Janna, in her blue bird form, landed on Duke. Duke let out a slight exhale, feeling the pain in his body rapidly lessen. His body also felt light, and a visible wind shield appeared on his skin.
"You finally arrived!"
Duke, with his feet on the ground, shot out like a cannonball this time. He recklessly grabbed a mutant by the neck and slammed him into the wall.
With the assistance of Janna, a living deity, what else could be said?
Just Slice and Dice!
Duke, gripping the mutant's neck, pressed him hard against the wall. The opponent tried to counterattack, but his attacks landed on Duke like a punch on rubber. Not only did they cause no damage, but they also came with a considerable recoil.
Eye of the Storm, Janna's E skill!
Roar!!
Amidst a furious roar, a mutant leaped high, clasping his hands into a heavy fist, and smashed down towards Duke, his eyes glinting with cruelty.
Behind Duke, a fierce wind spontaneously arose. The wind rotated faster and faster, instantly converging into a tornado that swept towards the high-leaping mutant.
The mutant, caught in the fierce wind, could not control his body and could only drift with the wind, being directly blown away by the tornado. His massive body crashed through the roof of the cannery, disappearing to an unknown location.
Howling Gale, Janna's Q skill.
After Duke slammed the mutant in his hands until its body rapidly shrank, he looked at the other few remaining mutants. He stomped his feet heavily, then leaped into the air, pouncing on those mutants.
The remaining mutants, facing the pouncing Duke, could only frantically meet him. Duke, protected by the wind, ignored their attacks and stomped heavily on one mutant's face, kicking him away.
As he descended, he instinctively twisted his waist, his legs spinning rapidly like propeller blades, sending the other two mutants flying backward.
Thud!
Duke landed on the ground with his legs splayed, wincing in pain: "Damn, that hurts!"
"But I can take it!"
Janna rolled her eyes, a bit speechless at Duke's clumsy performance.
This boy relied on her blessings and his robust physique, fighting like a street brawler, Slice and Dice, without any technique.
"Duke, you need to train yourself well!"
"You're right, but now is not the time to talk about this. This matter isn't over yet!"
Duke slowly stood up, using his legs, and jumped a couple of times to relieve the soreness in his muscles and bones. He then scanned the area and found that there were no more mutants that could pose a threat to him or Vi.
"Duke, Vander, they took Vander!"
After Vi checked on Mylo and Claggor, she remembered Vander being taken by Silco and immediately said to Duke, "Go save Vander!"
"Got it, got it!"
Duke took a small leap, and with Janna's help, jumped onto the overpass. Standing on the bridge, he stepped on the iron mesh floor and, guided by Janna, hurried towards Silco's hiding place.
Barely ten seconds later, Duke, having reached the underground laboratory via the elevator shaft, saw Vander tied to an operating table. Beside the table, Singed, holding an already injected syringe, looked at him in surprise.
"It seems I've come at an inconvenient time!"
Singed put down the syringe in his hand and slowly retreated a few steps. Silco, who had been facing the glass wall, turned his head and saw Duke, who was enveloped in a whirlwind.
"Who are you?"
"An unknown nobody called in to save the day in the middle of the night!"
Duke walked forward unhurriedly, saw the Shimmer placed on the experimental table, took a turn, walked to the table, and casually picked one up: "This is Shimmer?"
"You know?" Singed was somewhat surprised. Besides them, no one knew of Shimmer's existence, yet this young man directly spoke its name.
"Just a little!" Duke, after putting away the Shimmer, stuffed one after another into his inventory. This was the culmination of Singed's Alchemy, so he had to take it to analyze it and see if he could find the formula.
"You are Singed?"
"I didn't expect anyone to know my name anymore; that's quite good!"
Singed pulled out a green test tube, held it in his hand, and flicked it with his finger, "Are you also a scientist?"
"My main focus is mechanical power and mechanical engineering; I haven't delved into chemistry!"
Duke picked up the last Shimmer in front of him, examined it for a moment, and threw it into his inventory. Singed nodded: "Then it's not too late to learn now!"
After throwing the test tube filled with green Alchemy liquid, Singed quickly took a step back. Silco tilted his head, and Sevika also appeared in front of Duke.
"Your plan was quite good, but unfortunately, the timing is on my side!"
Duke wore a playful expression. The Alchemy potion that should have shattered on the ground was held up by the wind, slowly floating into Duke's palm.
"You lost!"
Singed looked at the scene from just now, saying in surprise, "Was that magic just now?"
"Legend has it that Zaun was once protected by a goddess; you must be her favored one!"
Silco surprised Duke; he actually knew of Janna's existence. Duke frowned, "You know too?"
"Heh heh, my parents were devout followers of Janna. They were still praying for Janna's protection even at the moment they died from wastewater poisoning!"
"But unfortunately, humans cannot place their hope in deities!"
Silco approached the side of the glass wall. Duke's pupils contracted, and he immediately said, "Janna, stop him!"
"Too late!"
Silco grabbed a handful of copper rings and pulled hard, causing a crack to appear directly in the glass wall. After taking out a diving mask and putting it on his face, Silco threw another one to Singed.
"Kid, let's play slowly later!"
Under the relentless assault of the Water pressure, the glass wall instantly shattered, and the river Water outside the window flooded the entire laboratory.
Sevika grabbed Singed with one hand and Silco with the other, then surged against the current through the broken opening.
"Damn it!!"
Duke's eyes were gloomy.
With Janna's help, he pulled Vander and ran out.
....The plot from the first to the third part ends here...