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Chapter 282 - 279: This Thing’s Intelligence Is Definitely Not Low. · Nov 15, 2026

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252 Chapter 252 - 249: The Auction 2026-11-15
253 Chapter 253 - 250: He’s Just Dead Weight 2026-11-15
254 Chapter 254 - 251: Deep Sibling Bond 2026-11-15
255 Chapter 255 - 252: This Damned Familiar Feeling 2026-11-15
256 Chapter 256 - 253: House Space 2026-11-15
257 Chapter 257 - 254: Two Become One 2026-11-15
258 Chapter 258 - 255: Leisurely Life 2026-11-15
259 Chapter 259 - 256: Stirred Up a Rat’s Nest? 2026-11-15
260 Chapter 260 - 257: This Kind of Person Deserves It, Even Without a Superpower 2026-11-15
261 Chapter 261 - 258: Factory Area Construction 2026-11-15
262 Chapter 262 - 259: Already Retiring in Your Early 20s? 2026-11-15
263 Chapter 263 - 260: Not His Intention? 2026-11-15
264 Chapter 264 - 261: This Little Thing is Way Too Unreliable 2026-11-15
265 Chapter 265 - 262: Worth It for Meng Hu 2026-11-15
266 Chapter 266 - 263: Giving Him No Chance of Survival 2026-11-15
267 Chapter 267 - 264: Storming the Gate 2026-11-15
268 Chapter 268 - 265: No Dangerous Technology at All 2026-11-15
269 Chapter 269 - 266: You Can’t Just Use Force, Can You 2026-11-15
270 Chapter 270 - 267: Yellow Sand 2026-11-15
271 Chapter 271 - 268: Waterfall in the Desert 2026-11-15
272 Chapter 272 - 269: I Really Am Your Biological Father 2026-11-15
273 Chapter 273 - 270: Fooled Once, Fall for It Again? 2026-11-15
274 Chapter 274 - 271: Is This Even a Man? 2026-11-15
275 Chapter 275 - 272: How Could I Not Be Reluctant? 2026-11-15
276 Chapter 276 - 273: Miscalculation 2026-11-15
277 Chapter 277 - 274: Small Grave Mound 2026-11-15
278 Chapter 278 - 275: Where Can She Hide? 2026-11-15
279 Chapter 279 - 276: How to Kill a Cactus Monster This Big? 2026-11-15
280 Chapter 280 - 277: She Dreamed for the First Time Ever 2026-11-15
281 Chapter 281 - 278: Yu Heng 2026-11-15
282 Chapter 282 - 279: This Thing’s Intelligence Is Definitely Not Low. 2026-11-15
283 Chapter 283 - 280: Spiritual Zombie 2026-11-15
284 Chapter 284 - 281: Northern Big Shot Yu Laosan 2026-11-15
285 Chapter 285 - 282: Family Portrait 2026-11-15
286 Chapter 286 - 283: The Person Who Gave Him a Second Life 2026-11-15
287 Chapter 287 - 284: How Could She Pass Up Such an Opportunity? 2026-11-15
288 Chapter 288 - 285: How Cooperative is Chen Xing? 2026-11-15
289 Chapter 289 - 286: World of the Black Vortex 2026-11-15
290 Chapter 290 - 287: She’s Still in Huaxia? 2026-11-15
291 Chapter 291 - 288: Future Spacetime 2026-11-15
292 Chapter 292 - 289: He Thought She Committed Suicide 2026-11-15
293 Chapter 293 - 290: Tiny Worm Virus 2026-11-15
294 Chapter 294 - 291: I Have a Score to Settle 2026-11-15
295 Chapter 295 - 292: Joining the Song Family Army 2026-11-15
296 Chapter 296 - 293: The Blackened Song Yiguo is Terrifying 2026-11-15
297 Chapter 297 - 294: The Almighty Big Shot 2026-11-15
298 Chapter 298 - 295: Treated as Treasure 2026-11-15
299 Chapter 299 - 296: Cadar Appears 2026-11-15
300 Chapter 300: An Ungrateful Wretch 2026-11-15

Chapter 282: Chapter 279: This Thing’s Intelligence Is Definitely Not Low.

”What’s wrong?” Chen Xing looked closer and saw Yu Heng’s expression shifting erratically.

’From terror to disbelief?’

’Is he being controlled?’

Chen Xing immediately grabbed Yu Heng’s arm to support him. ”Someone’s trying to control you, right?”

Yu Heng was clearly in agony, but he still managed a difficult nod.

”You said your parents aren’t dead?”

Yu Heng nodded again.

Chen Xing wanted to do something more, but Yu Heng shoved her away with all his might, shouting, ”Run!”

He had already lost control of his body as some kind of power awakened within him.

It was a power he had always feared, one he never dared to even think about.

He knew that once this power was unleashed, the only outcome was death.

Using his last ounce of conscious will to push Chen Xing away, his body began to emit a white mist.

Wherever the white mist touched, everything was scorched black—the grass, the rocks, the very ground itself.

Just as the white mist reached her, she gave Yu Heng one last look before pulling Meng Hu into the Jiezhi Space with her.

The white mist lingered for a long time, incinerating everything within a several-hundred-meter radius, leaving the area looking as if it had suffered a great cataclysm.

And within that mist, Chen Xing saw Yu Hang slowly melt into a pool of blood.

His ID tag was on his foot.

Only after all the white mist had dissipated did Chen Xing emerge from the Jiezhi Space.

She picked up ID tag number 00129 from the ground.

Judging from the ID tag, she and Yu Hang might have been in the same Research Institute and even crossed paths.

After placing the ID tag in her space, Chen Xing glanced at the scorched earth.

She realized the powers awakened within all these ”lab rats” were devastatingly lethal.

The destructive potential of each one was staggering.

If the Research Institute managed to control all these people, the entire world would fall under Xu Anguo’s dominion.

Xu Anguo’s ambition had never been just the Lu Family!

The Lu Family was merely a stepping stone for him.

Pushing aside the grief of losing another companion, Chen Xing got in her vehicle and drove off.

She was in no mood to linger in the area.

Braving the scorching heat, she drove south for an entire afternoon.

As night approached, the vehicle was suddenly snagged. The force of the jolt nearly threw her out the window.

But she was wearing her seatbelt, so she was mostly fine.

Meng Hu had it a little worse.

It was flung from the middle of the RV all the way to the gearshift up front.

It whimpered in pain, looking at Chen Xing with a pitiful, aggrieved expression.

Chen Xing had no time to coddle it. A glance in the rearview mirror showed long vines already scrambling up the vehicle’s body, poised to engulf the entire RV.

She leaped out of the vehicle and took a heavy swing at the long vine with her machete.

The vine recoiled instantly, only to strike at the RV’s body from another direction.

Chen Xing had no choice but to run to the other side and slash away that vine as well.

But then another vine appeared on a different side and attacked the vehicle.

Chen Xing: ”...”

’This is just insulting!’

She could have just hidden in the Jiezhi Space, but not anymore!

’I’m going to rip this thing out by the roots.’

She stored the RV away to prevent it from taking any more damage.

With only Meng Hu by her side, she followed the retracting vine in pursuit.

As the vine retreated deep into the mountains, Chen Xing noticed it was much darker here than outside, so dark she could hardly see a thing.

Meng Hu, nearly blind in the dark, almost crashed into trees several times.

It couldn’t be helped.

Chen Xing had no choice but to store Meng Hu in her space for now.

Alone, she followed the vine all the way to the base of a large tree.

It was pitch-black here, as if ink had been spilled across the world.

Even Chen Xing’s eyes, exceptionally adapted to the dark, were nearly useless here.

However, she had already felt her way to the tree trunk.

The trunk was incredibly rough and coated with a sticky liquid.

Not wanting to waste time, Chen Xing pulled out a grenade and blasted the base of the tree.

In the instant the grenade detonated, Chen Xing saw it.

Embedded in the trunk she had just touched were human faces, all seemingly squeezed together.

The faces were disturbingly vivid, their eyes appearing to move.

As the explosion tore into the tree’s roots, the faces twitched in agony.

Chen Xing felt her skin crawl.

The blast had lit up the base of the tree, blowing away a small portion of it.

But what flowed out wasn’t green sap. It was crimson blood.

’So...’

She aimed a spotlight at the tree trunk.

’Are these... real human faces?’

’Were they absorbed by the tree, becoming one with it?’

Heavily damaged, the great tree furiously lashed out at Chen Xing with several vines at once.

Chen Xing dodged several attacks in a row, but one vine finally managed to wrap around her ankle.

Having caught its prey, the vine retracted rapidly, trying to pull her in and merge her with the great tree.

The other vines immediately moved in to support it, attempting to pin Chen Xing down.

The vines seemed to have a mind of their own, coordinating their attack perfectly.

’Is it because it has merged with human intelligence?’

’If I don’t get rid of this tree, it will remain a scourge!’

As she was dragged toward the trunk, Chen Xing immediately tossed out another grenade.

At the same time, she vanished from the vine’s grasp and into the Jiezhi Space.

Every time she had to hide from danger, Chen Xing felt especially grateful to nightingale.

Without the Jiezhi Space, she would have died countless times by now.

The tree really did seem to have a mind of its own. Seeing Chen Xing vanish, its vines stopped moving.

After the explosion, the great tree was on the verge of collapse.

The human faces on its trunk were also fading away one by one.

Chen Xing didn’t even bother to come out. Instead, she tossed another grenade at the base of the tree from within her space.

That grenade was the final blow. The upper part of the great tree withered completely, and the faces rapidly dissipated.

It took Chen Xing some time to walk out of the pitch-black mountains and back to the main road.

But this area, too, was plunged into darkness.

Chen Xing looked up at the sky, but couldn’t see any stars at all.

As far as she could see, the sky above was blotted out by a dense canopy of trees, obscuring any light.

She was now surrounded by great trees, trapped on all sides—front, back, left, right, and even above.

’Unbelievable!’

Chen Xing realized she had underestimated this forest.

This thing was clearly highly intelligent.

But she wasn’t worried.

She entered the Jiezhi Space to check her special attributes.

Hmm.

She had a special Wood Attribute superpower.

This power could control all trees and plants.

Chen Xing immediately used her Wood Attribute to try and control the trees.

Most of the trees showed signs of falling under her control, but some remained completely unaffected.

’Could it be? Have some of the plants here evolved to a level higher than the Wood Attribute superpower I absorbed?’

Soon, Chen Xing discovered that even the trees and plants she had just brought under her influence were no longer in her grasp.

They had been wrested away by a plant monster whose power surpassed her own.

This forest was a veritable Devil Mountain.

’Wouldn’t any ordinary person who wandered in here be doomed to die?’

Chen Xing tried to move forward, but the forest seemed intent on wearing her down. It no longer attacked, but simply moved with her, its canopy shifting to keep her trapped.

She was like someone trapped under a massive umbrella, completely unable to break free.

Front, back, left, right, above—not a single direction offered an escape.

’Fine!’

Chen Xing’s fighting spirit was ignited.

’Well, I’ve got nothing better to do. Let’s see who can outlast who.’

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