No strange things are allowed to evolve!

But soon they realized something was wrong.

The soldiers were certain that their scopes were aimed at the charging live targets, and that they had pulled the triggers themselves; the muzzle flashes were the sign that the bullets had been fired.

But for some reason, the person in the scope didn't fall.

They paused only slightly before continuing their charge towards us.

This scene sent chills down the soldiers' spines.

"Blank...blank round?!"

"Who replaced our bullets with blanks?!"

"Quartermaster, you son of a bitch, get us the stuff properly!!"

In fact, their bullets were not blanks, but every single one of them was a full-power bullet.

Although the Yamato people have many flaws, they are at least very meticulous in terms of rigor. Moreover, the laboratory is not like the Beiyang Fleet, and it will never cut military spending or even emasculate the soldiers' weapons.

Their shots were ineffective simply because conventional weapons could no longer harm these enemies.

Yes, they would rather suspect the bullets were defective than believe that it was because these troops, who were originally inferior to them in overall quality, had all become superhumans.

This is mainly due to the new abilities Jiang Shuxin has acquired.

Although the description of the [Numbness] ability mentions its effects, it only provides a concept without a clear and specific description, so Jiang Shu had tested its effects beforehand.

The test results were very encouraging.

Jiang Shu shot the volunteer in the back and then asked him how he felt. The volunteer said he was ready.

Jiang Shu then understood that "greatly reducing the damage" meant that it was almost negligible, while "greatly eliminating the negative effects of fear, pain, and fatigue" meant that they were completely absent.

The only downside is that the so-called greatly enhanced combat power refers to becoming stronger because one is unaffected by these factors, but it does not mean that the ability to inflict damage has increased.

In simpler terms, it means unlimited health and constant damage.

But this is still quite abnormal.

Even if your damage output isn't high enough, as long as you're tanky enough, you can grind your opponent down to death.

Although the ability is written as numb, Jiang Shuyuan calls it the Iron Curtain.

After realizing that conventional weapons were ineffective, the superhumans who had been overseeing the battle from behind the lines finally took action.

They didn't care whether they would hurt their own people; they just launched an indiscriminate attack.

This sudden attack was indeed effective at first.

Although the resistance fighters had maxed out their physical resistance, superpowered individuals were still superpowered individuals, and they also had magical attacks. While they couldn't defeat the resistance fighters all at once, stopping them and dealing with them slowly was not a problem.

Since conventional weapons were also ineffective against them, the rebels were unable to defeat them.

Just when the defenders had finally regained their confidence and thought they could slowly boil the frog in water, Jiang Shu's backup plan came into play.

When a mind control expert suddenly realized that his ability had failed, or more accurately, been neutralized, he immediately understood what was happening and shouted, "The intelligence was wrong! There is more than one mind control expert among them!"

The superpowered individuals from the lower classes began to target and intercept the superpowered individuals from the upper classes. Due to the information gap, the superpowered individuals from the upper classes were caught off guard.

Even though their superpowers were more fully developed than those of the lower-level superpowered individuals, Jiang Shu had also enhanced them, making up for the gap.

In the process of actually using their superpowers, they continued to improve and become more skilled, which enabled the superpowered rebels who initially only resisted to soon be able to fight back.

Now, even protecting themselves has become a problem for the upper-class superpowered individuals.

The defenders were horrified to discover that the zombie-like monsters that had stopped moving earlier had started moving again.

But the enemies who had gained mass immortality were not what terrified the defenders the most.

What made them even more desperate was that they also discovered that what the captain said was complete nonsense.

The speed at which people get on and off the elevator shaft is not as slow as he claims.

The smoke and dust were so thick that no one could see clearly. Only after the smoke cleared did everyone realize that the people below hadn't slowly climbed up, but had flown up.

That was a true catapult takeoff, flying out of the elevator shaft, crashing to the ground, and then nonchalantly getting up and starting the charge.

By this time, the tinnitus caused by the explosion had almost completely subsided.

Only then could they clearly discern that, hidden within the sounds of gunfire were intermittent, rhythmic explosions originating from the lower levels, outside the battlefield.

And every time there was an explosion, someone would fly up from below.

They couldn't understand this phenomenon.

In fact, even their enemies, the resistance fighters who withstood machine gun fire in front of them, could not understand it unless they witnessed it with their own eyes or even experienced it firsthand.

"Ready...fire!"

boom!

Another group of determined-looking professional soldiers took off from in front of Jiang Shu and flew out of the elevator shaft.

Meanwhile, the researchers who remained in place had formed a close-knit group.

Smoke was rising from the area they were surrounding.

It turned out that the researchers, who had also been enhanced, had banded together and formed a human cannon, using explosions to blast the soldiers into the air!

Jiang Shu felt very gratified to see fewer and fewer pilots failing to fly out of the elevator entrance due to insufficient accuracy, instead crashing into the elevator shaft and falling down to join the next batch of takeoffs.

"You guys are really highly educated, your accuracy is getting better and better!"

The researchers, who were praised in front of the field, immediately stood at attention and said, "It's all thanks to our mentor's excellent guidance!"

Jiang Shu nodded in satisfaction.

Originally, he intended for the researchers, who were not good at combat, to form a human ladder so that the combat personnel could quickly run up on them. That's why he had previously calculated the number of researchers.

However, when they actually tried to put it into practice, they found that the elevator shaft was a vertical cuboid, not wide enough to allow people to run up and build a human ladder, so they had no choice but to give up.

Having just tested his new ability and still having plenty of hand-made explosives left, Jiang Shu came up with this ingenious idea.

As it turns out, the effect was very good.

The only downside is that people are fine if they get blown up, but their clothes will be damaged.

Even if researchers had clothes to change into, it would be impossible to change clothes every time a launch took place. Not only would it waste time, but the clothes would also be destroyed in the next launch, so there was really no need for it.

This resulted in the fact that, apart from the first group of people who went up, the rest of the people were launched into the air surrounded by a group of naked men.

That's very unseemly.

It's supposed to be a war, but it feels like a money party.

What's worse is that this has also led to people taking advantage of the situation.

"Tadokoro! I just saw you deliberately reach for the elevator shaft! You failed four times in a row because you still wanted to be hugged like this, right? Do you even understand that we're at war? If you keep wasting resources like this, I'm really going to fire you!"

Jiang Shu sternly reprimanded a familiar face that had appeared in the cannon barrel for the fifth time.

Upon hearing this, Tadokoro lowered his head in shame: "I'm sorry, mentor, I promise I'll succeed this time!"

Jiang Shu gave him a chance, and this time, he finally made it up.

While the male researchers were acting as cannon fodder, the female researchers, who were not supposed to be present to witness this scene, were not idle either.

Although they were actually quite interested in watching, not everyone is as incapable of prioritizing things as the pleasure-seeking Tadokoro.

At this moment, under Saeko's guidance, they were hand-crafting explosives in the laboratory and then continuously sending them to the front line.

While working against the clock, Saeko also kept boosting morale.

"Let's all work hard! Our mentor said that women can hold up half the sky too. Although we couldn't go to the front lines, logistics are just as important. As long as we ensure good logistics, the battle at the front will go more smoothly."

"Yes!"

Soon, only the researchers remained on the lower level.

Professional soldiers and experimental subjects with superpowers have all been successfully launched.

"Judging from the sound, the area around the elevator shaft above is completely safe. I'll go up first, and everyone else can slowly climb up."

Jiang Shu, who was surrounded by a group of female researchers in the center of the cannon, explained.

"Roger that!"

boom!

Jiang Shu also flew up.

then.

"Hmph~ Hmph~ Hmph~ Ahhhhhhh"

Jiang Shu collapsed to the ground like a dead dog, his whole body wracked with pain.

He suddenly realized that the effect of [Numbness] was to enhance the combat power of friendly forces, and what are friendly forces? They are his own helpers.

So, would I consider myself my own helper?

It shouldn't count.

If Jiang Shu's stats hadn't been so high, and his physical strength hadn't been so outrageously exaggerated, he would have been killed by the fall even if he hadn't been blown up.

Even so, he was still smoking all over, and his skin was red, looking like a dead pig that had been scalded with boiling water.

He struggled to his feet, looked around, and noticed that only corpses remained on the ground.

Unsurprisingly, none of the corpses belonged to friendly forces; only those of the defending soldiers.

The sound came from further ahead; it seemed that friendly forces had already advanced to the front.

"I need to hurry over there; maybe I can rush straight to the next floor in one go."

After recovering, Jiang Shu quickly set off.

Just then, he suddenly noticed something among the pile of corpses and was startled.

"Tadokoro! The enemy won't do either!"

The burly man, Tadokoro, got up in shame and put on his clothes.

"A private Marseille!"

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My family arranged a blind date for me today. I'm out of options. Wish me luck, guys!

Chapter 270 Bear Tank

Jiang Shu quickly arrived at the front line.

At this moment, the superhumans in the defending army were exhausted and were protecting the few surviving soldiers in front of them, trying to buy themselves some time to catch their breath.

Unlike ordinary soldiers, superpowered individuals are not easily defeated in battles, but they are not easily killed. Therefore, so far, no superpowered individuals on the defending side have died.

To Jiang Shu's surprise, although they had already witnessed the strength of the resistance army and were now heavily surrounded and in dire straits, they showed no intention of surrendering.

He just kept saying things like "Imperial Banzai!" "Fight to the last moment, commit seppuku to die!" "Will next year's cherry blossoms... be as beautiful as this year's?"—things Jiang Shu couldn't understand.

In short, these superhumans are more like regular soldiers than regular soldiers.

But they had never received systematic training, and before being brought to the laboratory, most of them were just ordinary people. Logically speaking, they shouldn't have such will and awareness.

It could even be argued that they should not only not support the empire so much, but should hate it instead.

The only possibility Jiang Shu could think of in this situation was that they had indeed been completely brainwashed by the laboratory, and that the brainwashing had been very successful.

Jiang Shu didn't really want to kill them, because their true strength was above that of the rebels' still-developing superpowered individuals. It was only because Jiang Shu had cast an Iron Curtain that they were no match for him.

If they can be recruited as allies, then with the Iron Curtain's enhancement, they should be able to play a greater role than existing superpowered individuals.

The problem is, if they have all been thoroughly reformed, their minds are deeply ingrained, and they naturally distrust the resistance, then it's probably not something that Saeko, the psychological counselor, can handle with her ideological education courses.

How to do this?

At the same time, both sides in the standoff noticed Jiang Shu's arrival.

The rebels suddenly had a leader, and their already upright posture became even straighter.

"Mentor! All the bandits have been captured and are awaiting your orders!"

As for the garrison, although they did not produce a photo of experimental subject 369 for comparison, they also learned of Jiang Shu's identity through the resistance's attitude.

They became even more vigilant.

The information clearly states that the escaped subject, No. 369, was assessed as a high-risk experimental subject even before he awakened, and was a genuine master of his craft.