Chapter 506: Not My Race
An abandoned subway station in New Jersey. A group of quirky 'people' are gathering here. Some of them are well-dressed and look like elites in the workplace. Some are dressed as ordinary blue-collar workers. But now these dozens of people are gathering together, as if waiting for something.
And in the middle of them was a woman who looked like a pregnant woman. She lay on the ground and snorted in pain, seemingly waiting for a child to be born. It's just that this scene, with the surrounding environment, and the group of weird 'people'. It creates a horror movie feel.
The pregnant woman's eyes flashed with an unbelievable fear. Today is the day of her childbirth, but she never dreamed that on the day of her childbirth, her husband did not take her to the hospital, but took her to this horrible abandoned subway station. In this cult-overwhelmed environment, pregnant women are on the verge of collapse.
She desperately shouted for help and begged for mercy, but all the people around her did not respond in the slightest. Just surround her in the middle and look at her with a feverish look. Slowly the pregnant woman ceased to struggle, screaming, it would, begin to understand something. These people are not looking at themselves at all, they are looking at their unborn children.
Their mouths were muttering, some strange prayer. Sounds like a blessing to a newborn. It's just that under the background of the strange atmosphere around him, a feeling of a cult arises spontaneously.
As the prayer progressed, the pregnant woman began to feel that the baby inside her was becoming irritable. He began to struggle desperately. It doesn't look like a newborn baby at all. The pregnant woman only felt that the child in her belly was about to tear her belly and drill out. The screams echoed in this empty subway station again.
Accompanied by a terrible scream of a pregnant woman. The sound of prayers around the subway station is getting louder and louder. Finally, a loud cry rang out, and the baby was born. The surrounding 'people' also let out a burst of cheers. A white man picks up the baby. And that's when we can see the baby's state.
I saw that with the baby's cry, his appearance was constantly changing. On the body of a baby, the faces of various adults appeared. And these faces are exactly the faces of the crowd of onlookers around them. Clearly, the baby was a shapeshifter. Or that all the 'people' around are shapeshifters. They are here to welcome the birth of a newborn. But babies are clearly not your average shapeshifter.
Shapeshifters are able to change their appearance and even their shape. But there is a big flaw, that is, you have to return your current skin. It was a painful and slow process. However, this baby's abilities are obviously much higher than those of ordinary shapeshifters. It doesn't need to molt at all, and it can change its appearance at will. And there is only one type of shapeshifter with this ability. This is the direct bloodline of the Shapeshifter Ancestor.
Shapeshifters have no concept of gender. Because they can change their gender at will. As dark creatures, it is very difficult for shapeshifters to reproduce. It is very difficult for them to produce offspring between their populations. So they generally enter the human world. Take the place of a single person and reproduce with the help of a human body. The bloodline of dark creatures cannot be determined using simple genetics. They are not worried about their bloodlines being weakened. Under normal circumstances, when a child is born, if it has the blood of a shapeshifter, it will be taken away and sent to the clan to be raised. If it's human blood, it will be 'cleaned up' and then look for the next target.
And when the white man stood up with the baby in his arms, the people around him even knelt down directly. Just now, they witnessed the birth of an ancestor's direct bloodline. This means that their race is on the rise. Of course, that's just what they thought.
They cheered for the new members to join, completely ignoring the pregnant woman on the ground, whose screams were getting weaker. Until she was silent, not a single shapeshifter looked at her. She stopped breathing in such a desolate manner. The eyes opened, looking at the top of the filthy subway station, seemed to accuse of something.
At this time, outside the subway station, a team of heavily armed fighters was gathering.
"Listen, you're on your first combat mission. I know you all think you're ready. But I can tell you that the last step is not so easy to take. Inside is a shapeshifter's lair. There are probably dozens of shapeshifters, waiting for us.
And most crucially, these guys are different from dark creatures in the usual sense. All of them have human appearances. There is even a human life. Shooting a werewolf is a completely different concept than shooting a monster in human form.
So I need you to remember a fact. Shapeshifters have no identity in the human world. They are literal creatures of darkness. The appearance of every shapeshifter with an identity means that a human has been replaced. They steal the lives of innocent human beings. Live in the world as they are. They are all murderers, and probably more than once. So, when you face them, don't hesitate. I don't care if you hesitate to kill yourselves. But don't let your hesitation kill your teammates. Now, let's go. ”
Just as soon as they enter the subway station. The white man inside with the baby in his arms frowned and looked in and out. Immediately afterward, there was no movement from him. However, as if they had received an order, the surrounding shapeshifters immediately spread out and ambushed the surrounding area. The white man, on the other hand, carried the baby and walked deeper into the tunnel.
Caitlin took the lead and entered the subway station. She concentrated, and all the information from the entire subway station was instantly summarized in her brain. Chaotic footprints on the ground. Not far away, a rat seemed to be running away from something. Deeper in the subway, the sound of a crowd could be faintly heard.
As Caitlyn progressed, all sorts of details kept popping up in her mind. It is then quickly analyzed and summarized to derive information about the opponent.
That's what Caitlyn gains. It's a somewhat abstract ability. Far less intuitive than supernatural abilities such as fire, water, thunder, and storms. It's just that in this regard, neither Lin Xuan nor Caitlin have much choice.
The method that Lin Xuan thought of was to peel off the chaotic power seeds inside his body little by little. For a long time, Lin Xuan's countermeasures were all to try to say that these power seeds were completely devoured and transformed into his own things. This is not to blame Lin Xuan for being greedy, with his level, he is definitely qualified to make this choice.
However, this method is simply too time-consuming. Lin Xuan used all the magic power in his body to guide those attributeless source powers. Wrap all the seeds of power together and try to digest them slowly.
But because there are so many things, it's like a person can't walk after eating. The power in Lin Xuan's body was too much, and it was too chaotic. This is equivalent to not only eating too much, but also eating bad stomach.
So Lin Xuan's idea was that if he spit out some of it, it would reduce the burden on his body. When the time comes, it will naturally become easier to digest the rest.
However, this is not an easy job. Otherwise, Lin Xuan would have done it a long time ago. All the strength in Lin Xuan's body is now in a state of balance. And all he has to do is to make a hole in the outer encirclement and put one out of the inside. This is an extremely dangerous maneuver.
It's like when you vomit, you can't just vomit what you want to vomit. Instead, he will involuntarily vomit out all the contents of his stomach. And the things in Lin Xuan's stomach were not as simple as a little leftovers.
A seed of power from the DC Universe, inside the Wall of Origins. There are a lot of forces that are of a rule-based nature. Once you appear in this world, it will conflict with the rules of this world. When the rules are turbulent, it will directly lead to a catastrophe at the level of extinction. That situation didn't do Lin Xuan any good. And God's old man, it is estimated that he will jump out to play with him.
However, what happened before gave Lin Xuan a chance to take advantage of it. The blood of the gods in Caitlyn's body burned. This made her bloodline have a trace of Lin Xuan's bloodline in her blood. Lin Xuan is a true god-level archmage with a high level of magic. A strange bloodline magic soon came to mind.
He used this magic to amplify the blood in Caitlyn's body in a short period of time. Under the influence of that magic. The bodies of the two became one. Rather than intuitively becoming one, their bodies are still visually separated. But at the level of rules, it is already equivalent to a person.
In this case, Lin Xuan moved the power seed in his body, and he essentially didn't need to remove the seed from his body. Rather, it is equivalent to moving a place in one's own body. In this way, there is still a risk. But it had reached a level that Lin Xuan could accept.
And for the sake of safety, Lin Xuan didn't dare to move any high-level power seeds. Even the power of any energy system is no longer in the range. What he ultimately chose was a power that was completely attached to the flesh.
Caitlin herself is indigenous. Therefore, her physical changes are more acceptable to the world. Of course, the reason why Lin Xuan dared to do this was mainly because the power system of this world was chaotic. The level of acceptance of the power of outsiders is quite high.
It is a seed of power that acts entirely on the physical body. It will fully strengthen Caitlyn's body. Every detail is strengthened to the limits of the human body. Even at the level of the brain, it has gone beyond the scope of ordinary people.
Her brain is able to collect all the trivial information around her all the time. Once her attention is focused on a certain point, she can quickly obtain as much detailed information as possible about the target point through the side information collected by her brain. Now Caitlin, whether it's observing, tracking, or sneaking in. have surpassed the top figures in these industries.
In battle, it is possible to analyze the opponent's attack pattern through the opponent's micro-expressions, micro-movements, and even information such as heartbeat, sweat, and frequency of speech. With her perfect body, Caitlyn is now a perfect warrior. The most perfect warrior on the human level.
In the subway station, despite the prompting of the Ancestors, many shapeshifters have been hidden, ready to ambush the witchers. But in Caitlin's cheating senses, all the ambush points have long been clear to her.
She was unmoved on the surface. But secretly through a series of sign languages, several of the accompanying witchers have been notified. They were all new recruits, and it was the first time for them to perform such a large-scale mission. Caitlin needs to lead by example, otherwise there is a high risk of mass casualties.
There was a loud bang, accompanied by the flames and smoke of the shotgun. A shapeshifter hidden on top was blown in two by Caitlin's large-caliber modified shotshot. This blow announced the official start of the offensive.
The five witchers behind him picked up their weapons, shotguns, and automatic rifles, and fired all at once. The seamless shapeshifters that thought they were hidden were killed by modified rune bullets one after another.
On the battlefield, gunpowder smoke is the best stimulant. Several novice witchers had completely let go of their hands and feet at this point. Months of hellish training. All kinds of strange potion transformations, as well as the hatred in everyone's heart, finally vented completely at this moment.
Caitlyn put away her shotgun and let the few of them play freely. These shapeshifters are surprisingly powerful. Speed, strength, and reflexes are beyond the ordinary. But the few demon hunters he brought with him were also existences that had received potion transformation. I can't compare to myself, but I can keep up with the pace of the shapeshifters. And most crucially, these shapeshifters don't have thermal weapons. They seem to be performing some kind of ritual, so they don't have thermal weapons with them.
On Catelyn's side, with all kinds of modified firearms, as well as ammunition coated with potions and engraved with runes, they have completely crushed their opponents in terms of firepower. It's an asymmetrical battle.
At this time, Caitlin focused all her attention on the corpse on the ground, the corpse of the pregnant woman.
Apparently this woman had just gone through a birth. It's in this dirty, abandoned subway station. However, judging from her refusal to close her eyes, it was clear that this was not the result she had imagined. Caitlyn only glanced at it and came to a conclusion. She was a human woman, apparently brought here as a tool of production.
She didn't know that her husband was a shapeshifter. Or it may be replaced by a shapeshifter someday. Perhaps she was in some kind of excitement and was preparing to go to the hospital to give birth. But in the end, he died in this filthy subway station. She was in pain, fear, and at the same time had endless doubts. She didn't understand what it was all about, what was going on.
A faint chill drifted past Catelyn. Ordinary people may not be able to perceive it. But in Caitlin's absolute perception. She was keenly aware of the feeling. The seed of power did not give it supernatural vision, and under normal conditions, she could not see ghosts. But she could rely on her super senses and keenly judge that this woman's soul was standing in front of her.
She's a newborn ghost who doesn't know how to communicate with people. To Caitlin's surprise, she didn't feel the slightest bit of anger. A person who suffers from such a tragic treatment, dies with a strong obsession and turns into a ghost. But she didn't show the slightest anger. In other words, she didn't turn into a ghost like other ghosts. She's a good person. Her obsession just wants to know, why?
There is one more chapter, but it may be later. If you're not in a hurry, you can watch it tomorrow.