Looking at the unrecognizable corpse beside him, Huang Wen's expression fluctuated slightly, feeling a faint discomfort.
However, he quickly averted his gaze, suppressing the strange feeling in his heart.
This indirectly answered the question Huang Wen had asked himself last time: why he didn't feel any discomfort after killing Benson.
It was because Benson's death wasn't as gruesome.
"Benson's gone. Was it you?" Colin seemed to realize something, taking a deep breath to calm himself down.
He became much more composed.
"I never thought you'd have such high-tech gear.
But, it's just bulletproof..."
"It's more than just bulletproof; it should also enhance his strength," the man behind Colin said, shielding him.
"A normal person couldn't punch someone into this state.
This suit must have increased his strength!"
"Hmm?" Huang Wen frowned.
He didn't feel any pressure from the man who walked out, yet he inexplicably felt that this man would pose a threat to him, which left Huang Wen somewhat puzzled.
"Fist Rock, can you deal with him?" Colin asked, sizing up Huang Wen.
"No problem, boss, don't worry.
He's just an ordinary person with a bit of high-tech gear!" Fist Rock's face gleamed with confidence.
"Chinese kung fu? Bulletproof?
That's all child's play!"
As Fist Rock finished speaking, a layer of rocky substance suddenly covered his arms, especially his fists, which turned into enormous stone fists, each as big as Huang Wen's head.
With a ripping sound, Fist Rock's clothes burst open.
Huang Wen's pupils contracted slightly.
He saw that Fist Rock's pectoral muscles had turned into hard stone, and hard stone had also formed in his groin area and even his throat.
"Geodude? A mutant!" A thought flashed through Huang Wen's mind.
He hadn't expected to encounter a mutant he'd never heard of today, after only learning about mutants yesterday.
And his arms looked so much like a Geodude's.
Moreover, judging by Fist Rock's control over his abilities, he must have awakened his powers a long time ago; otherwise, he wouldn't be able to retract and extend them so freely.
Fortunately, there were no signs of petrification on Fist Rock's head.
Perhaps due to imperfect X-genes, his spine couldn't support such a heavy head, preventing him from petrifying his skull.
Of course, it was all just Huang Wen's conjecture.
Although this Fist Rock looked formidable, he was just a weakened version of a Stone Man.
Huang Wen was not without a fighting chance!
With a whoosh, Fist Rock's fist came crashing down with immense power, the sound of which made Huang Wen's gaze sharpen.
Huang Wen didn't directly meet the punch with his own fist.
Instead, he chose to counter Fist Rock's punch with an elbow strike!
With a bang, Fist Rock's body trembled, his fist recoiling.
But Huang Wen felt a great force that sent him flying backward.
Just as he was about to hit the wall behind him, Huang Wen stomped his feet backward, fully dissipating the force.
"Crack!" Two footprints appeared on the wall where Huang Wen had stepped, and he landed on the ground.
His elbow felt a dull ache, but it didn't affect him much.
His faster-than-normal recovery ability was already helping him heal.
"This suit of yours is quite impressive!" Fist Rock frowned, looking at Huang Wen's undamaged tailcoat.
"Normally, anyone who takes a punch from me would at least fly through the wall!"
Huang Wen knew that Fist Rock was telling the truth, because the tailcoat had automatically activated its partial bulletproof mode, dissipating some of Fist Rock's force.
But even so, Huang Wen was still sent flying.
"I can't go head-to-head! I need to find an opportunity to attack his vital points!" A thought flashed through Huang Wen's mind.
"His speed isn't fast, at least slower than mine.
I can handle him!"
With a whoosh, Fist Rock threw another punch.
Huang Wen pushed off the ground, exerting force, feeling gusts of wind brush past his ears.
The next moment, Huang Wen had already closed in on Fist Rock's side, unleashing a punch to his lower abdomen.
Huang Wen held nothing back in this punch!
With a bang, Fist Rock's body flew out, crashing heavily to the ground.
However, the same punch that Huang Wen could use to instantly kill an ordinary person, now delivered with even greater force, still failed to kill Fist Rock, or even severely injure him.
Even though Fist Rock's lower abdomen wasn't protected by stone, his mutant physique was inherently far superior to that of an ordinary person!
Coupled with Fist Rock's own mutant ability, even when not petrified, his defense was extremely strong!
"Fist Rock!" Colin looked at Fist Rock with some concern, not because of any deep affection between them, but because if Fist Rock died, then none of them would survive Huang Wen.
"Don't worry, boss!" Fist Rock got up from the ground, patted his aching abdomen, and looked coldly at Huang Wen.
"Kid, you've completely enraged me!"
Fist Rock roared and charged at Huang Wen, his moves following a karate style.
Indeed, this was originally a karate dojo, and as Colin's top enforcer and a close-combat mutant, it made sense for him to learn some fighting techniques to enhance himself.
However, while Fist Rock's strength was immense, his speed was not fast.
His petrification ability, while granting him great power, also gave him a certain stiffness.
His clumsy body and unyielding petrified arms all limited Fist Rock's speed.
"Bang!" Fist Rock punched at empty air.
Huang Wen had already cut into Fist Rock's centerline, delivering an upward palm strike to Fist Rock's chin, but it only left his own palm feeling a bit numb.
"Bang!" With another elbow strike to Fist Rock's abdomen, Huang Wen still saw no significant effect.
In fact, Huang Wen's attacks were constantly enraging Fist Rock!
Huang Wen could clearly feel that as Fist Rock grew angrier, other parts of his body also began to subtly cover themselves with a stony substance, like a thin layer of skin, which provided better protection for Fist Rock from harm.
"What a monstrous mutant!" Huang Wen felt a bit helpless.
This was simply cheating.
He couldn't break through his defense to begin with, and now his defense was getting stronger.
Wasn't this just making things difficult?
However, the only good news for Huang Wen was that as the stony skin became more pronounced, while Fist Rock's strength increased, his body became even stiffer.
The sudden surge in his mutant ability made it impossible for Fist Rock to perfectly control it for a time.