Chapter Fifty: Hulk Throws Loki

Liana and Javier stared at Ye Hai in utter shock.

Ye Hai’s right arm had transformed into a terrifying claw nearly as large as his own body. The muscle tissue at his right chest had stretched and merged with his head. An enormous eyeball had grown on his arm, and another with a diameter of thirty centimeters protruded from his back—features that allowed Liana to recognize him at a glance.

“What?! You’re not dead?”

Ye Hai lifted his grotesque head slightly and gave Liana an ugly, twisted smile.

No one could blame Liana for being so astonished. She had witnessed Ye Hai’s death with her own eyes—half his body obliterated, his head and heart destroyed in one fell swoop. Even now, after mastering the Veronica Virus and reaching her second form, Liana doubted she could survive such horrific trauma. How could she not be stunned?

The Golgotha Virus, named for “the place of Jesus’s death and resurrection,” was meant to bestow new life through death. As long as the host wasn’t reduced to ash, rebirth was possible. This ability approached true immortality.

Moreover, when the host suffered mortal injury, the G-virus would assess: is the current form still imperfect? If so, it would trigger violent evolution. In this way, it resembled the Saiyans: what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.

But the G-virus was unlike the T-virus, Veronica, or the zombie virus. Most other viruses primarily strengthened the host, driving continuous evolution. The G-virus’s evolution was far more brutal—its purpose was to “create a new species.” Just as Jesus was resurrected and transcended from man to god, so too did the Golgotha Virus embody this transformation.

When an organism’s genetic structure is altered in an instant, the interplay between its proteins, enzymes, and DNA can yield countless unpredictable outcomes. In other words, the G-virus’s mutations were entirely random. They might make the host better—or worse.

It was Ye Hai’s first time using the G-virus, and he had no prior experience. Relying on memories from films and games, he’d thought the G-virus would simply reconstruct and resurrect the host at the moment of death. But he hadn’t anticipated that the system—designed to ensure the virus was harmless and controllable within him—would nearly cause a disaster this time.

Due to the G-virus’s undirected evolution, his entire genetic code was being recombined. The system intercepted many changes that could have destroyed or destabilized him, but even after accepting beneficial mutations, a massive number of “neutral” changes remained. These would not harm Ye Hai—but could either enhance or reduce his combat effectiveness depending on the environment. The system could not judge these as good or bad, so Ye Hai had to confirm each one himself.

What a nightmare! The human body contains roughly 25,000 genes. After excluding the good and bad ones, over 8,000 neutral traits remained for Ye Hai to review. Only after confirming every potential evolutionary path would the G-virus activate the changes. This was the G-virus’s greatest distinction from other viruses. While others simply enhanced the host’s existing genes, the G-virus rewrote almost everything. The workload was incomparable.

This confirmation process prevented Ye Hai from immediately returning to the battlefield. In the end, he could only use his consciousness to summon a Licker to drag him underground, so he could slowly work through the choices.

Still, Ye Hai knew this unexpected complication had put everyone in grave danger. At that time, Liana had not yet completed her evolution, and Joe was no match for the Queen Bee. The last vial of T-virus was still in his pocket, and with the Queen Bee in pursuit, there was no time to administer it to Javier. If Joe were killed, everyone except Ye Hai—who had been dragged underground by the Licker—would die.

Faced with total annihilation, they might as well gamble. Ye Hai had the Licker extract some G-virus from his own body and inject it into Javier’s kidney instead of the planned T-virus—an upgrade!

In retrospect, Javier didn’t lose out. Because the others lacked Ye Hai’s system to screen evolutionary directions, the G-virus quickly triggered Javier’s mutation, converting him into an organic bioweapon. This bought valuable time for Ye Hai. But against all odds, Javier successfully controlled the G-virus through sheer willpower, undergoing transformation—a most unexpected delight!

Now that Javier was a G-virus host, Ye Hai had no intention of letting him go. For Javier, only two fates remained: “Corpse Hunter” or “Corpse”!

…

Ye Hai, now utterly savage, seized Tang Jie by the head.

He smashed Tang Jie’s skull against the ground again and again. Cracks radiated outward for over two hundred meters, forming a vast web across the earth. Watching Ye Hai pummel Tang Jie, both Javier and Liana felt their teeth ache in empathy.

No matter how Tang Jie wielded his psychic field, Ye Hai’s overwhelming strength shattered his defenses. Tang Jie’s energy attacks, even at close range, were simply endured by Ye Hai. Any wounds Ye Hai received from the blasts would instantly regenerate.

Tang Jie, however, fared much worse. Although the explosions erupted from Ye Hai’s body, the two were so close that Tang Jie suffered as much as Ye Hai with every detonation. Lacking Ye Hai’s monstrous recovery, Tang Jie was battered mercilessly.

Thus, a powerful psychic being, caught off guard, was reduced to a near-dead state—smashed repeatedly by Ye Hai, whose strength and regeneration were beyond belief.

Everyone stood gaping, unable to comprehend what they were seeing. The Queen Bee had barely entered her third stage before Ye Hai seized her and beat her senseless—without a chance to show off her power.

They didn’t understand, but they were deeply shaken.

None of them had ever witnessed “the Hulk smashing Loki,” but today, they were privileged to witness “Ye Hai smashing Tang Jie”!

At last, Ye Hai ceased his brutal assault. He lifted Tang Jie before his eyes, revealing a satisfied grin. To Tang Jie, that hideous smile was the very visage of a demon.

“Stop… please, stop!” Tang Jie pleaded. “I’ll talk! I’ll tell you everything…”

“Why is my luck so terrible…? I went through so much trouble to flood Eryta’s core with high radiation, giving it indigestion and sending it into slumber! Today, I just ordered the worker bees and a few mutants to plant some flowers, and ended up provoking you harbingers of doom!”

“I was this close to a complete fusion with the mutants… Only a little more, and I would have succeeded! But then the container was destroyed, all my efforts for nothing… I… I… I’m so aggrieved!”

As he spoke, Tang Jie began to cry.

For a moment, Ye Hai stared at Tang Jie in a daze, feeling a little bewildered.

Had he just beaten a psychic creature… to tears?