Solving the case: Combining the police dog's olfactory genes at the beginning

He watched as Luo Fei cleanly and efficiently killed Dark Moon Asura, and his shoulders tensed up again in less than two seconds after he relaxed.

Because he saw that incredibly tall figure on the screen—Tenyu Kamakura—standing there calmly, gripping the hilt of his sword, waiting for Luo Fei.

On another screen next to Chen Xuanran, Zhou Xiaobei was sitting on his dormitory bed, holding a tablet computer, with his legs crossed on the sheets.

He was so excited when he saw Luo Fei throw Dark Moon Shura into the tree that he almost jumped out of bed, slapping the mattress so hard that the sheets were crumpled. But when the camera turned to Tianyu Shencang, his hand stopped, his fingers clenching tightly on the sheets.

“Tianyu Shencang,” Zhou Xiaobei’s voice was low, with a seriousness rarely seen in him, “this guy is too strong. Can Brother Luo beat him?”

Yuan Bingyan sat on her sofa at home, the light from her phone screen shining on her face. Her other hand was pressed against her chest, and she could feel her heart pounding rapidly, like a drumbeat.

Her heart was pounding when she saw Luo Fei kill Dark Moon Asura, and now it was beating even faster than before. Her fingers were clenched in her hands, her palms sweaty.

In the lounge of the new training center, the children of the Tianji Group sat around a large screen. The screen displayed Luo Fei's live stream, but the picture quality was choppy due to the large number of comments.

The children huddled together, shoulder to shoulder, knee to knee, but not one of them stepped back. Their eyes were all fixed on the gray figure on the screen.

"It's that person."

A boy of about sixteen or seventeen years old sitting in the front row spoke up. His voice was trembling and his lips were shaking. "At the base, I saw him punch Wen Ziyu and seriously injure him."

When he mentioned Wen Ziyu, the children around him gasped simultaneously. Wen Ziyu was known as "Iron Man" in the Tianji Group; his superpower was a body of steel, capable of instantly increasing his physical hardness to the level of ordinary steel.

If an ordinary superhuman punches him, it is the attacker who breaks the fist.

But in that attack, Tenyu Kamakura only used three punches—the first punch shattered Wen Ziyu's crossed arms defense, the second punch shattered the steel-like skin on his chest, and the third punch sent him flying more than ten meters away, crashing through the concrete wall of the training room.

Wen Ziyu spent two whole weeks in the intensive care unit before she was out of danger.

“I heard,” another child said in a low voice, as if he were talking about something that couldn’t be said out loud, “that the coaches of the Tianji Group later analyzed that Tyson’s punch had a force of about 800 kilograms. That giant’s punch might have been eight tons.”

When he uttered the word "eight tons," the air around him seemed to freeze. Eight tons—that's eight thousand kilograms, ten times the weight of Tyson.

An adult bull weighs about one ton. If an eight-ton force were to strike a bull, it would collapse instantly. If it were to strike a Tyrannosaurus Rex, even the Tyrannosaurus Rex would collapse.

That's power that no human could unleash; it's monstrous power.

"Where is Captain Luo?"

The youngest girl sitting in the corner asked quietly, "How strong is Captain Luo?"

No one answered her. Because no one knew the limits of Luo Fei's strength. They only saw Luo Fei smash Saki Kojiro's face with one punch, but Saki Kojiro's physical abilities were simply not in the same league as Ame no Kamikura.

They saw Luo Fei crack Dark Moon Shura's tiger's mouth with a few punches, but Dark Moon Shura was an agile type of ability user; strength was not his forte. Just how strong Luo Fei was, and whether he could withstand a head-on collision with Tianyu Shencang, remained unknown.

Luo Fei himself didn't know either.

He stood in the center of the square, his right hand hanging down, his fingers spread and then clenched. His knuckles had been slightly scraped when he struck Dark Moon Asura's blade, and tiny beads of blood had seeped from his skin, but he felt no pain at all.

His attention was entirely focused on the tall figure in front of him, his mind rapidly calculating various tactics—a head-on assault? Tianyu's physical attributes might be stronger than his, and a head-on assault might not necessarily be advantageous.

A drawn-out fight? Tianyu's strength and defense are both formidable; dragging this out might leave him exhausted first. Therefore, he can only test the waters first.

Tenyu Kamikura pulled the knife out of the crack in the stone slab. The tip of the knife made a crisp metallic scraping sound as it left the crack, and a few pebbles were kicked out and bounced twice on the stone slab.

He didn't raise the knife, but instead slung it over his shoulder, blade facing upwards. The dark red patterns on the blade looked even more eerie against the backdrop of volcanic ash. He looked at Luo Fei, his smile widening to reveal his upper and lower rows of teeth.

He said another thing.

Luo Fei still couldn't understand, but this time he vaguely guessed what the other person meant—the other person was saying "Come on."

Just then, a huge explosion came from afar.

The explosion was muffled and prolonged, as if something deep underground had been torn apart. The sound came from the direction of Mount Fuji, piercing through the volcanic ash-filled air, and making the pine trees around the plaza tremble.

Then came the second, the third, and a series of explosions that came from all directions of the island nation, some far and some near, some muffled and some sharp, like a group of giant beasts sleeping underground roaring at the same time.

The ground began to shake.

It wasn't the kind of tremor a seismic event, but rather a continuous, low-frequency vibration. The flagstones creaked softly from the vibrations, and the volcanic ash in the cracks between the stones bounced up and down.

The pine tree at the edge of the square, with the corpse of Dark Moon Asura hanging from it, swayed in the tremor, and volcanic ash accumulated on its crown fell down in a flurry.

Dark Moon Asura's corpse swayed slightly on the tree trunk, and a few more drops of dark red blood seeped from his wounds, flowing down the blood groove on the blade.

The chain reaction triggered by the eruption of Mount Fuji began. Stimulated by the eruption, over a hundred active volcanoes across the island nation began to erupt one after another. Some spewed thick smoke, some spewed volcanic ash, and some even spewed lava.

Nagashi Prefecture, being closest to Mount Fuji, was also the most affected. Half of the sky overhead was covered in volcanic ash, making the already gloomy sky even darker, with low-hanging, gray-black clouds that looked as if they might collapse at any moment.

The sky grew darker and darker.

The light in the plaza changed from dim to overcast, and visibility dropped drastically within minutes. The figures of the two Kamikaze members standing at the edge of the plaza had become blurred, and only two black outlines could be seen.

Masako Yamaya stood at the entrance of the teahouse, half of her face hidden in shadow, with only her eye, which was exposed, reflecting the light dancing on the screen.

A whirlwind suddenly swept across the square.

The whirlwind didn't blow downwards, but rather spread outwards from the center of the square. The volcanic ash accumulated on the ground was swept up by the whirlwind, forming a grayish-white vortex in the air.

The double-edged sword hanging from the tree trunk hummed in the wind, a sharp metallic twang emanating from the gap between the blade and the trunk. The surrounding pine trees bent low in the wind, their needles ripped off and swirling in the air. Luo Fei stood rooted to the spot, volcanic ash stinging his face and clothes, but he didn't even squint. He stared at Tianyu Shencang, his blood rushing, his heart pounding harder in his chest.

Tenyu Kamakura looked at Luo Fei, opened his mouth, and let out a shout.

That shout wasn't a shout of anger, nor a shout of fear, but a battle cry that erupted from the depths of his chest. When the sound burst from his throat, the surrounding air trembled, and volcanic ash was pushed outwards by the sound wave.

His body trembled—this "trembled" is not an adjective; his body really did shudder as he shouted, and all the muscles under his kimono tensed up at the same moment, bulging and stretching the fabric of the kimono.

Then he took off.

Tenyu Shencang's feet slammed onto the bluestone slab, and a crack the size of a finger burst open beneath his feet, extending nearly half a meter in length from the point of contact.

His body was propelled up by the reaction force, shooting into the sky like a cannonball. His body rose higher and higher in the air—one meter, two meters, three meters, four meters, five meters.

His body rose to a height of at least five meters above the ground, the hem of his kimono spreading out behind him, standing out against the gray sky.

The viewers in the live stream were completely stunned.

"Jumped five meters high???"

"Am I seeing things? Is this a height a human can jump?"

"The world high jump record is only 2.45 meters, but he jumped 5 meters."

"This is flying, not jumping, right?"

"Is he even human if he's two stories tall?"

"Look, the stone slabs under his feet are cracked."

"This power is terrifying."

Before the barrage of comments could even finish, the scene in the live stream made everyone gasp – Luo Fei jumped up too.

Luo Fei stomped his feet hard on the ground, causing the bluestone slab to crack beneath his feet. His body shot into the sky like a black arrow, reaching a height of four or five meters.

When his body reached its highest point, it faced off against Ameyu Kamikura in mid-air—the two were about three or four meters apart, suspended five meters above the ground, with volcanic ash churning beneath their feet and whirlwinds making their clothes flutter.

The two men threw punches almost at the same moment.

Tianyu Shencang's right fist came out from his waist. His fist was more than twice the size of Luo Fei's fist, and his knuckles bulged out like five small pebbles encased in his flesh.

Luo Fei's right fist also struck out from his side, the speed of the fist was so fast that the air in front of the fist was compressed and produced a sharp sonic boom.

The two men's fists drew two visible shockwaves in the air, trailing grayish-white volcanic ash at the end, like two missiles flying with trails of flame.

The two fists collided.

At the moment of impact, a deafening roar exploded in the air above the square. The sound was no longer that of ordinary fists colliding, but rather like a hand grenade exploding in mid-air.

The loud noise bounced back and forth between the buildings around the square, hit the mountain wall and bounced back, echoing for a full four or five seconds before slowly dissipating.

Yamaya Masako screamed from the loud noise, covering her ears with both hands and shrinking into the doorway of the teahouse. May Ayaka also covered her ears, her face contorted in pain, and she bit her lower lip.

Wen Junjie stood behind the stone tablet, his ears ringing from the loud noise, his eardrums feeling like they had been pricked with needles.

The shockwave generated by the fist spread outward from the point of impact. The shockwave was invisible, but a noticeable distortion of the air could be seen where it passed, like someone throwing a stone into calm water.

The shockwave scattered the volcanic ash falling from the sky, clearing a temporary clean area over the square.

Luo Fei felt as if his fist had smashed into a mountain.

The reaction force was transmitted from the finger joints to the metacarpals, from the metacarpals to the carpal bones, from the carpal bones to the radius and ulna, from the forearm bones to the upper arm bones, from the upper arm bones to the scapula, and from the scapula to the spine—the entire skeletal system endured a terrifying impact in this collision.

His near-steel-like body, enhanced by his godlike physique, came into play at this moment. His bones underwent slight elastic deformation under the impact, and then quickly returned to their original state.

If it weren't for this layer of defense, his arm bone would have been shattered by that punch.

Tenyu Kamakura's punch also took a hit. His punch had the force of ten tons—the children from the Heavenly Mystery Group were right, not eight tons, but ten tons. Ten tons of force could punch a hole through even a concrete wall.

But when his fist collided with Luo Fei's fist, he felt the force he had thrown was pushed back by the opponent's force. The two forces collided at his knuckles, and the resulting reaction force made his finger bones make a slight creaking sound.

He felt as if someone had hit his finger at the joint with a hammer, and the skin on his finger cracked and bled a few times from the impact.

The immense repulsive force propelled both of them away simultaneously.

Tenyu Kamikura's body flew backward, somersaulted halfway in the air, and then landed heavily on the ground. When his feet landed, they left two deep footprints in the ground, and the stone slab under his feet shattered into several pieces.

His body slid back half a step due to inertia, then he stood firmly on his feet. He only took two steps back.

Luo Fei's body flew backward. His body drew an arc in the air, and when he landed, his feet stomped four or five times on the bluestone slab, each step leaving a shallow dent in the stone.

He stumbled back four or five steps before barely regaining his balance, his right foot grinding against the stone slab to stop his retreat.

He stopped and looked down at his right hand—the skin on his knuckles was broken in several places, and beads of blood were seeping from the wounds and running down his fingers.

In their first head-on clash, Luo Fei gained absolutely no advantage. (End of Chapter)