I get stronger by sunbathing, just like Superman.

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Chapter Thirty-Six: Beams

"Max, are you alright?"

Just like that day a year ago, Max was brutally beaten by Dick at the entrance of the garbage room, and almost met his maker due to an asthma attack.

Upon hearing these words, he felt as if Lei was standing right in front of him again.

But all he could see was a starry sky.

Hallucination?

Just as Max was losing consciousness... a thunderous sound rang in his mind again.

"Max..."

"Can you stand up?"

The calm tone… a familiar cadence. Max’s eyes widened.

This wasn't a hallucination! The thunderous sound really appeared in his mind!

But... how is that possible?

"Lei? Is it really you?"

Max asked himself.

"Max, listen..."

That officer... you have to save him...

Then try to stay away from the monsters…

"Leave the rest to me..."

Upon hearing this, Max turned around with difficulty and looked up at the police officer.

He was so terrified by the monster that Rusvan had transformed that he collapsed to the ground... still holding a gun without bullets in a daze.

Meanwhile, Rusvan, with his back to Max, slowly extended his two enormous claws, seemingly preparing to crush the officer...

"Max...!"

Save him!

Hearing the voice in his mind... Max finally moved!

He endured the excruciating pain coursing through his body, as if using all his strength... and spat out the foul blood from his mouth! Then, he clenched his fists... and slowly floated from the ground into the air!

His bloodshot eyes were fixed intently on what was in front of him!

"what!!!"

He unleashed the fastest speed he had ever experienced in his life! He vanished from his spot like a bolt of lightning!

Hearing the angry roar behind him, Rusfan seemed to be drawn to it, and his movements slowed down slightly...

It was that tiny gap that allowed Max to instantly slip under the monster's armpit, hoist the officer onto his shoulder, and continue flying forward!

"Just a death throes..."

A mocking smile appeared on Rusfan's twisted face, and then he spread his wings... and his huge body took off into the air!

Max, without looking back, carried the officer and flew forward as fast as he could! He didn't dare look back at all...

However, Connie, who was lying on the other side of the battlefield, suddenly looked up at the sky...

In the pitch-black sky…

No… in the far reaches of the universe, a dazzling star suddenly appeared!

But soon...

She discovered that it wasn't a star.

Instead, they were two golden beams of light!

As Rusvan leaped into the air, about to pursue Max, suddenly! A strange shadow of death surged into his mind!

boom! ! ! !

Two golden beams, each as thick as a gasoline can, descended from the sky! They slammed Rusfan, who was in mid-air, into the ground, creating a tremendous roar!

Zhi! ! !

The golden beam of light, upon landing, showed no sign of diminishing power! It blasted a large hole in the spot where it had landed, shooting straight into the ground!

The golden beam of light brought terrifying heat that instantly reduced everything in the area to ashes, and the air itself was scorched and the light was distorted!

Even Connie, who was far away, found it hard to bear the scorching heat that felt like the surface of the sun!

In the distance, Max, who had just placed the unconscious police officer in a safe area, looked back at the golden beam of light descending from the sky.

Further back, the crowd outside the cordon and the Los Angeles police maintaining order... even the residents of the city several kilometers away, all saw those two beams of light that almost illuminated half the sky!

Several seconds later, the golden beam of light gradually faded and finally disappeared completely, and the sky returned to its usual darkness.

Connie staggered to her feet, struggling to get up from the ground, and slowly moved towards the spot where the beam of light had struck.

There appeared a pit the size of a swimming pool, extending all the way down into the ground, its depth unknown.

The giant bat monster that Rusvan had transformed into had long since been completely annihilated in the beam of light, leaving not a single hair behind…

Max slowly landed beside Connie and spat a mouthful of bloody saliva into the large hole:

"Go ahead and resurrect one more, you bitch!"

Connie looked up at the dark night sky, but only felt a sense of tranquility.

"Was this... made by Lei?"

Max nodded. "Who else could it be but him..."

"But...why isn't he showing up? Where is he?"

Connie pressed for answers, but Max, unusually, remained silent. She turned her head and looked...

Only then did they realize that Max had closed his eyes and was falling straight backward...

He was too badly injured and had exhausted his body at the last moment, so he only fainted now.

A moment later, the sound of sirens filled the air, and Connie, covered in wounds, finally collapsed to the ground...

Unbeknownst to them, in space 800 kilometers above the Earth, a gaze was watching them...

Above Earth's satellite orbit, Lei Ming silently floated in space, his gaze spanning millions of feet... looking at a certain point on the blue planet before him.

The golden light within the pupils was slowly fading…

Behind them, radiating endless heat, was the sun, a star.

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If Max's thoughts hadn't been detected by his telepathy... it would probably have been too late by the time he realized it...

His super hearing is ineffective in the vacuum of space, and his super vision cannot monitor the Earth at all times.

Fortunately, he had mastered the new ability of telepathy over the past year, which enabled him to provide timely support using his thermal vision.

He didn't know the limit of telepathy, but near Earth's satellite orbit... he could hear the deepest voices in the hearts of everyone on Earth...

This is one of the main reasons why he disappeared from everyone's sight over the past year.

When his telepathic abilities first appeared, everything was normal at first, but as time went on... he discovered that he couldn't control this ability as easily as he could control his hearing!

From initially overhearing Anke's inner thoughts by chance, to hearing the inner thoughts of some strangers, then the voices became more numerous and the languages ​​more and more varied...

Finally, it became 24/7, and his mind was filled with the voices of people from all over the world…

Men, women, the elderly, children...

The content includes prayers, curses, love, complaints…

In short, all sorts of different languages ​​and emotional expressions were mixed together and kept talking in his mind. Even if he were a superman, he couldn't withstand this kind of mental torment.

Eventually, he couldn't take it anymore... He escaped into space, found a suitable distance... and began to adapt to and practice the ability, while absorbing stellar energy at close range, rarely returning to Earth.

In addition to telepathy, he also unexpectedly discovered that he possessed another ability. He was unsure whether it was also related to the explosion of the solar crystal, but he was certain that this ability allowed him to reach a new level.

The story begins a year ago…

After destroying the base that had tortured Anko, he returned to the United States to monitor Anko's surgery in order to prevent any accidents.

The surgery was fraught with difficulties... causing immense suffering for the group of world-renowned surgical experts...

Anke's basic physical condition is five times that of a human, and after absorbing stellar energy, it is more than a hundred times stronger than that of an ordinary person. Ordinary doses of anesthesia have no effect on her at all.

Lei Ming didn't dare to let her undergo surgery directly, because there was still Anna inside her who could cause trouble at any time.

So the medical team worked through the night to produce an ultra-high concentration of anesthetic, the effect of which was more than fifty times that of a normal dose with just one injection.

Because Anke's skin and muscles are so dense, ordinary surgical instruments are completely ineffective; only laser scalpels can be used for surgery. However, Anke's body is protected by stellar energy, which prevents even a single hair on her body from being burned away...

Finally, after much difficulty and painstaking effort, a small incision was made... and the wound healed in less than a few seconds...