Apocalypse: the Most Ruthless Person

“A bunch of ignorant country bandits, only Old Wang has the foresight. Today, I’ll show you what the art of explosion is all about!”

Zhang Su was quite dissatisfied with the crowd’s reaction. After speaking, he handed the bottle to Yu Qing.

“I don’t have a delicate hand, Teacher Yu, you do it. Take one milliliter of liquid and drop it into this small medicine bottle…”

“No way!” Fu Weijun hurriedly interrupted Zhang Su, holding up a palm, and said very seriously, “Zero point five, at most zero point five milliliters is enough, trust me.”

Yu Qing looked at Zhang Su. She would definitely listen to Zhang Su’s decision.

“Mr. Zhang, we’re just testing. Too much might cause unnecessary loss. It could have even greater use in the future.”

Fu Weijun felt his previous tone was too harsh, seemed to make the situation a bit awkward, so he quickly changed his tone and spoke again.

“Alright, let’s be conservative, just zero point five milliliters.”

The reason Zhang Su wanted to do one milliliter was that whole numbers were easier to compare. Since even the usually bold Fu Weijun had become cautious, he had no reason to insist.

Yu Qing received the precise instruction and began the operation under the camp light, skillfully using a dropper to extract zero point five milliliters of purple liquid from the glass bottle, then carefully dropped it into the plastic medicine bottle.

“Done.”

Once finished, Yu Qing put the caps back on the two bottles respectively. Seeing Zhang Su being very cautious, she didn’t even hand them over but placed them on a rock, waiting for Zhang Su to pick them up himself.

“I’ll go find a place, you all wait here.”

Zhang Su knew that the venom liquid wouldn’t be as unstable as nitroglycerin, but he still handled it with care between taking and placing, secured the glass bottle, and walked towards the depths of the mountain stream carrying the small medicine bottle.

Walking forward, everything was fine until faint discussions came from behind, which made Zhang Su realize he hadn’t turned on his flashlight!

Walking on the mountain terrain in the dark as if it were flat land made everyone praise him endlessly.

“Damn, the habits formed are really troublesome.”

Zhang Su slowed down his steps and nonchalantly turned on the flashlight, intending to hang it on his chest only to find he didn’t have his backpack, so he just held it in front of him, feeling like it was an unnecessary bother.

When he first gained super vision, he always remembered to disguise it, but as days passed, he started using it more freely, often forgetting to hide his abilities. The people around him hadn’t noticed, but this time it was too obvious…

“Oh wow, is Brother Su going somewhere unusual… won’t he encounter something strange?”

“Nonsense, where is anything strange now? Nothing stranger than those zombies, definitely thinking about our safety!”

“Stop, stop, Brother Su stopped.”

Wu Lue held a very unique telescope, a thermal imaging telescope brought back from the Cyan Dragon Corps, high-end and imposing equipment.

The mountain path was rugged, the sky pitch-black, making it hard for everyone to gauge how far Zhang Su had gone. But it could be confirmed that he went much farther than the last time they detonated the explosives Yu Qing had prepared.

Trusting Zhang Su’s cautious personality, the crowd’s previously jovial expressions gradually became restrained, and they instinctively stepped back towards the campsite.

Zhang Su stood by a tree, looked around, and saw that the nearest flammable material was thirty meters away, making it a very open area.

“Here will do!”

He opened the medicine bottle and leaned it against the tree, allowing the venom liquid inside to gather as much as possible. The magical slime remained fluid in the plastic bottle, without sticking to the sides, quickly coming together as it tilted.

Next, he took the fuse from his pocket, straightened it, and placed one end into the bottle, ensuring it touched the scant venom liquid.

“What kind of chemical formula is this, so smooth, pretty… Damn, it’s such a small thing, really doesn’t inspire confidence!”

Zhang Su pulled out a lighter and couldn’t help murmuring. He once watched a video about myth-busters testing explosions with nitroglycerin, where thirty milliliters of it had quite a punch, able to blast a piece of steel larger than a palm, two centimeters thick, over thirty meters away, but that was thirty milliliters…

“C’mon, don’t disappoint me!”

With a flick, the lighter ignited the fuse end, and Zhang Su bounded back towards the campsite. As he got closer, he found the crowd had backed off quite a bit…

“Damn, weren’t you all looking down on it before, how come you know to be scared now?”

Zhang Su mocked the crowd.

“Heh heh… better safe than sorry, come, Brother Su, saved a good spot for you.”

Wu Lue chuckled, beckoning Zhang Su behind a big rock.

Looking towards the depths of the gorge from the crowd, there was a gradual rise. Everyone watched the pitch-black distance, slightly raising their heads, but after about thirty to forty seconds, still no movement.

“Did it fizzle out?”

“Teacher Yu, did the fuse get dampened?”

“Wait, it’s a meter long, the time hasn’t reached yet!”

Zhang Su had those impatient ones shut up. The others couldn’t see in the dark, but he could see the fuse’s fizzing position and its distance to the bottle; at most, ten seconds to detonation.

As the fuse burned into the medicine bottle, Zhang Su’s heart tightened.

“The time’s about right!”

As his words dropped, a small red dot first appeared in the distance, and in less than a hundredth of a second…

A dazzling purple light sphere blossomed far away, casting an eerie glow on the ravine. The light sphere reached at least ten meters in diameter; the shadow of the big tree stretched under its light only to instantly disappear, being destroyed in a blink, and at this moment, everyone clearly saw the jagged rocks on the cliff face!

Boom!

“Get down!”

As the explosion roared in, Zhang Su shouted, grabbed the dazed Wu Lue nearby, and with the wheelchair handle on the other side, ducked behind the big boulder!

Whew…

Without waiting long, a gust of strong wind swept past the stone, carrying sand and gravel that crackled all around, with accompanying curses echoing.

“Ouch damn it!”

“Damn! I’m disfigured.”

“Haha, got myself wrapped tightly, nothing happened…”

With thick down jackets, the flying gravel couldn’t harm, but the exposed cheeks were in trouble, with a few unlucky ones who didn’t dodge in time, got scrapes.

After the massive explosion and strong wind, the air not only lacked the smell of smoke and other chemicals, instead, a unique faint fragrance lingered.

Usually, explosions ignite surrounding flammable materials, but this explosion was different. After the purple flashes, the distance returned to darkness. If not witnessed, they wouldn’t believe such a violent explosion had occurred.

“Brother Su, Brother Su, was that noise you guys made?”

Zhang Ya’s voice came from the walkie-talkie; she was in the monitoring room, sensing a slight tremor in the earth.

Clatter.

Zhang Su stood up, gestured for Wu Lue to help Fu Weijun, and then took the walkie-talkie off his waist, saying, “Yes, it’s on our end, no need to worry.”

“Cough cough… bleh bleh.”

Fu Weijun sat back in the wheelchair, coughing repeatedly. That fall wasn’t light, and he got some dust in his mouth, spitting it out a few times and then bitterly laughing, “The power… I didn’t expect.”

Everyone on site was quite dry; who could’ve guessed?

Even the chemistry teacher, Yu Qing, was stunned. The more one understands the principle, the more inexplicable the phenomenon just witnessed. After experiencing it all, she wanted to shout, “Chemistry is dead”…

“Teacher Yu, according to what you said… not good!”

Zhang Su was about to ask Yu Qing, if using human technology to convert this explosive power, what level it would be at, when he suddenly saw an accident happening in the distance!

Before the crowd understood what Zhang Su meant, a rumbling noise came from afar, making everyone turn toward it, only to find nothing visible in the pitch-black!

Rumble…

Before the crowd could comprehend, a heavy landing sound echoed, not as loud as the explosion but carrying the weight of a thousand tons.

Zhang Su clearly saw a large boulder, almost two stories high, falling from the mountainside, plunging into the crater made by the explosion, exposing a person-sized sharp peak…