HISD Chapter 56 Contract, Destroy Everything
Yi Meng allowed the girl to touch his hardened exoskeleton mask, and he lifted his hand to brush her hair, then paused as realization struck him. "I'm fine. This city is too dangerous. We'll deal with everything once we're out of the city."
Tifa grasped his cold, solid bone hand and agreed. "Alright, once we leave the city, we'll find a way to handle your current situation."
"No problem."
Yi Meng smiled, setting Tifa back into the passenger seat of the vehicle and giving a nod to the woman in the driver's seat.
"Y-You… hello!"
Chen Hong trembled, as if facing a god, speaking with caution and respect. "Do we need to head toward the military base in the east of the city? The army is evacuating survivors there and setting up defensive lines from the eastern suburbs."
She worried that with Yi Meng in his current state, he might become a target for the military—a terrifying prospect.
"No, we won't head east."
Yi Meng shook his head. "We're leaving from the west side of the city."
"West?"
Tifa blinked. The west led in the opposite direction from the Tianhe City military base.
Yi Meng spoke calmly. "You don't think that the mist tentacle monster we just faced is the biggest and strongest creature in the fog, do you?"
"No way…" Chen Hong's eyes widened in horror. "There are even bigger monsters?"
The mist tentacle monster had been the size of a small hill and a building, requiring tank shells to fend off. How massive could an even larger mist creature be?
Tifa's eyes widened in realization. "You mean the army's artillery and the gathered survivors will attract more of these massive creatures from the fog?"
Yi Meng nodded. It was inevitable. He had just witnessed it firsthand.
Chen Hong tried to start the car, but the brakes were unresponsive. Her face turned pale. "It's broken. The spiders damaged the vehicle."
"No need to drive. Buckle up. I'll get us out of here."
"No driving, but buckle up? How are we supposed to leave?" Chen Hong asked, confused.
Tifa obediently fastened her seatbelt.
The car doors closed.
In the next moment, the SUV trembled and, to Chen Hong's astonishment, lifted two meters off the ground while carrying both of them.
"What is he…?!"
Chen Hong tightened her already fastened seatbelt.
Then, with a loud boom, the road cracked and buckled as strong winds surged outward. The SUV shot forward like a rocket, tearing through the fog and soaring hundreds of meters into the air.
Inside, Chen Hong and Tifa were pressed into the leather seats by the immense inertia.
Their reactions differed greatly. Chen Hong's heartbeat stopped, pupils wide, staring in horror as the SUV flew past high-rise buildings shrouded in mist.
Tifa's delicate face flushed red with excitement. "Amazing! This is incredible!"
"This isn't amazing! We're going to die! Ahhhhh!!"
As Chen Hong screamed, the SUV began descending toward a skyscraper rooftop.
"Don't speak! You'll bite your tongue!" Tifa warned in time.
Chen Hong clamped her mouth shut.
Boom!
Powerful gusts threatened to throw them from the SUV, but the airbag deployed, sending the vehicle soaring again.
The storm raged, fog splitting apart.
Yi Meng, now half-Doomborn, half-human with spiked exoskeleton, lifted the SUV with both hands and leapt toward the outskirts, using buildings as springboards.
He could have leapt higher and farther, but he considered human tolerance and the SUV's destruction limit, so this was a cautious "gentle" leap.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The mist broke apart as the spiked boy leapt forward with the SUV, heading westward toward the suburban areas.
…
Meanwhile, in the eastern city district:
Near the outskirts, a local military base, shrouded in ghostly white fog, exuded a tense, oppressive atmosphere.
Dozens of heavy tanks, artillery, and hundreds of armed soldiers formed an absolute defensive line. Even mist tentacle monsters were forced to retreat under intense fire.
Armed vehicles transported survivors to safety, then organized buses to evacuate them outside the city.
Wang Xuan and his family were escorted to the base. Amid tens of thousands, watching artillery fire light up outside, Wang Xuan clutched his bandaged abdomen in relief.
Suddenly, a dark, muscular boy ran up, anxiously asking, "Wang Xuan, you live near Dream Tifa. Have you seen her?"
"Pan Hu," Wang Xuan recognized him and smiled. "I saw her. She drove into the fog and didn't follow the army's evacuation."
His expression darkened with pleasure tinged with malice. "Maybe the mist monsters have already eaten her."
"What?! We were classmates! Why say that!" Pan Hu's eyes blazed with anger. "Without us, the aliens would have ripped you apart!"
Wang Xuan's handsome face contorted as he clutched his still-painful abdomen—a lifelong wound.
He had grown an alien inside himself!
"You…"
He wanted to speak but froze, staring ahead in shock.
At that moment, everyone at the base—officers, soldiers, survivors—froze, staring at the exterior in terror.
From the fog, a goat-like giant emerged, standing on four limbs. Its form was indescribably bizarre. Limbs taller than skyscrapers, its head disappearing into the mist above the clouds, every step shaking the ground violently.
"Open fire!" an officer shouted.
Dozens of tanks and artillery roared, explosions echoing like thunder, enveloping the giant in a blast.
Yet the giant continued forward, effortlessly crushing several tanks underfoot, relentlessly advancing toward the base.
More giants emerged from the fog, like mountains spanning the horizon. Even the bravest soldiers felt hopeless.
"Run! Run!" someone shouted. Chaos erupted, the military base descending into pandemonium.
…
Tianhe City, western outskirts.
The further from the city, the thinner the mist, until it disappeared, leaving fresh, clean air.
Boom!
At the edge of the mist-shrouded city, a gray-white figure leapt out, SUV in hand, landing in a forest clearing. The ground gouged a trench over ten meters long.
A large tree snapped.
Yi Meng finally stopped, slowly setting down the SUV, now near its destruction limit.
"Finally, stopped."
Inside, Chen Hong gasped for air, feeling like she had nearly died.
Tifa's face was flushed, exhilarated, as if riding a thrilling roller coaster.
Both looked out at the now-clear forest with surprise.
"We made it out."
"Yi Meng," Tifa tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge.
Yi Meng held the door, voice hoarse, speaking quickly through the glass. "Tifa, there's no time. Keep moving outward. When you reach the town, continue evacuating. Stay as far from Tianhe City as possible."
Tifa's joy vanished. "You… you're not coming with us?"
Again? Yi Meng paused.
Indeed, like that day when he returned alone to the alien hunting ship, though this time was different.
"Yes. I can't leave with you. But listen, this is my plan."
He strained, voice hoarse, red light flickering outside, scaring birds and beasts from the mountains.
"In your pocket is a USB drive with new tech I acquired. You can use it to start a tech company in another city."
"If possible, wait for me. I'll solve what I must, and I will find you—no matter what!"
Yi Meng's voice was hoarse but determined.
Chen Hong fell silent, watching the black-haired girl tremble beside her.
She feared that if Tifa agreed, she would never shake off the name Yi Meng. Yet, a part of her secretly hoped Tifa would accept.
Tifa whispered, "You really must go back?"
"Yes," Yi Meng nodded solemnly.
Not for humanity, not for the city—only for himself.
The mist accelerated the Doomsday assimilation. A week shortened to three days, now less than half a day.
When he met Tifa, he was on the brink of losing control. The earlier calm was just his last rational struggle.
The Doomsday force was unstoppable, even with Tifa as an anchor.
He had to return to Tianhe City, where the mist dimension connected, teeming with creatures to feed his destructive power.
To satisfy Doomsday, only destruction would do.
He would destroy everything until he mastered the Doomsday power.
Tifa was his only attachment in Tianhe City. Once she was sent away, he had no more hesitations.
"Alright."
Inside the vehicle, Tifa's clear, determined voice said, "I'll wait for you! Outside, I'll wait for you, until you return. Ten years, fifty years! This isn't a promise—it's our contract!"
Reunion lasted only ten minutes, yet the promise stretched infinitely.
"I will find you!"
Yi Meng declared, red eyes burning like fire. He turned without hesitation, whipping up a whirlwind of dust. Leaves flew everywhere.
Snap!
The door was pushed open from the inside, and Tifa leapt out, tears streaming down her delicate face.
Through blurred vision, the silver-haired, spiked boy leapt toward the mist-shrouded city, breaking the sound barrier, until his gray-white figure disappeared.
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