Alex chose to accept it without hesitation.
New information immediately appeared on his retina.
[You have accepted this event.]
[Event Name: Mutant Crisis · The Beginning]
[Description: Humanity has never stopped pursuing power. However, people never know whether what they have opened is the door to a new world, or Pandora's box.]
[Now, an ignorant man tested a drug on himself and turned into a monster. Perhaps giving him release is also a kind of mercy?]
[Event Requirement: None. It is yours, you may handle it as you wish.]
[Event Begins!]
Alex slapped Angelina on her peach-like buttocks.
"Get up. I've got work to do."
———
Meanwhile—
In a dim alley, a girl staggered over to a trash bin. Suddenly the smell of alcohol rose in her throat, and she bent over the corner of the wall and started vomiting.
"Hey, beauty. All alone?"
New York in the middle of the night was never safe, especially for a woman. She turned around in panic and saw three men walking toward her.
The three wore earrings and nose rings, with gold-plated necklaces and bracelets. Laughing and joking, they spread out and surrounded the girl.
"Back off, or I'll call the police!", The girl waved her handbag, trying to drive them away.
With a whoosh, her handbag was snatched away by another man. He opened it, stuffed the phone and cash inside into his pockets, then tossed the bag into the trash bin.
A tall man made a vulgar gesture.
"Come with us, little lady. I know a fun place. The four of us can play a very exciting game."
The woman gritted her teeth and tried to run, but the men caught her and started groping her all over.
"Help!"
"Someone help!"
She only managed to shout twice before one of the men covered her mouth.
"Shh! Miss."
"Don't make me angry."
He took out a short knife and pressed it against the woman's neck.
Then the group dragged her deeper into the alley.
Tears streamed from the woman's eyes. She could already foresee the miserable fate waiting for her tonight. Just then, she suddenly saw something moving in the shadows ahead.
It seemed to be a person.
Hope instantly rose in the woman's heart.
At that moment, a furry paw, like that of a bear, reached out and landed on one of the men's shoulders.
The man froze. Looking at the furry paw, he swallowed, then took out his phone, turned on the light, and shone it behind him.
"Guys… what was that behind me?"
The others looked.
In the beam of light, a monster appeared.
It stood like a human. Its body was covered in brown fur. One side of its head was a wolf, but the other side was a human man, as if half a human head had been stitched together with a wolf's head.
Behind it stretched two ragged wings with shedding feathers.
One arm looked like a bear's paw, while the other resembled an eagle's claw.
Its legs had a reverse-jointed structure, with four clawed toes. The claws were thick and blunt, looking like those of a wolf.
This "chimera-like" monster let out a muffled voice from the half of its human face.
"Help… me…"
"My God, what the hell is that!"
"Damn it!"
"Shit!"
Two of the other men immediately ran away, clutching their heads. The third man tremblingly pulled out a handgun and aimed it at the monster.
The man with the bear paw on his shoulder had tears in his eyes.
"Buddy… what are you doing? Stop!"
Bang!
The dark alley lit up with the muzzle flash. A spray of blood burst from the monster's human face. Half of its human face was blown open, leaving a hole where the bone inside could be seen.
The monster let out a roar from the wolf's mouth and suddenly swung its paw, slamming it into the head of the man in front of it. The man's eyeballs instantly popped out, his skull deformed, and he died on the spot.
The woman screamed in terror and collapsed to the ground, trembling uncontrollably.
The man beside her kept firing his gun.
"Die!"
"Monster!"
"Die!"
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Gunshots echoed again and again.
The monster charged forward through the bullets.
It swung the arm shaped like an eagle's claw and thrust it straight into the man's body. The claw burst out through his back, and a gush of warm liquid sprayed out, splashing across the woman's face.
The woman was overwhelmed with shock. Her eyes rolled back and she fainted.
The monster shook the corpse off its claw, raised its wolf-like leg, and stepped on the woman's head, crushing it into a pool of pulp.
Up ahead, the man who had run earlier suddenly tripped over something and fell flat on his face.
When he scrambled to get back up, he heard a roar behind him. Turning around, he saw a black shadow rushing toward him.
In the dim alley, he only saw a faint red glow drifting in the darkness. The next second, a grotesque head stitched together from human and beast appeared right in front of him. The foul stench from the monster's mouth made him vomit everything he had eaten the night before.
At that moment, the monster opened its mouth and bit into his neck. Then it shook its head like a wolf, throwing the man aside while tearing off a large chunk of flesh from his neck.
The man was tossed against the wall like a filthy rag doll. Within a few seconds, he stopped breathing.
The monster spat out the flesh in its mouth. From the broken human face, a vague voice came out.
"God…"
"What… am I doing…"
At that moment, a voice sounded above his head, "Seems like you can still communicate."
"Hey, what's your name?"
The monster raised its head.
In the eye of the human side of its face, it reflected a figure slowly descending from midair.
A red cape.
Black battle suit.
Golden patterns.
'Homelander!'
The monster raised its bear-like paw.
"Help… me…"
"Homelander…"
Alex frowned and brushed away the claw reaching toward him.
"Don't come any closer."
"You stink too much."
"Stink…"
The monster's mind seemed sluggish. It still staggered toward Alex.
"Help… me…"
"I said…"
"HELP ME!"
The last words turned into a roar as it suddenly went mad and lunged at Alex.
The alley suddenly lit up.
As if a sun had risen.
Two golden beams carrying terrifying heat shot out, piercing straight through the monster's head. Then they swept downward in a straight line. The chimera-like monster split apart while running, the two halves of its corpse collapsing to either side. A thick smell of blood immediately filled the alley.
Alex frowned and lifted his feet off the ground.
"What a pity. If it could communicate properly, I could have found out who created it."
"Forget it."
"Rats hiding in the gutter will crawl out sooner or later."
Alex vanished into the distance in an instant.
———
After a while, a car stopped outside the alley. The doors opened, and several people wearing hazmat suits entered.
"Found it."
"Chimera No.1…"
"It's already dead. Forget it. Take the body back."
"And clean this place up."
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