Chapter 2: I Thank You

Weiping Sheng patted his head, his face flushed with frustration.

“That brat, did he just forget everything I said in the car?”

“What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and use the high-pressure water guns to cool down the building!”

The trainee team snapped back to their senses and hurriedly sprayed streams of water at the building.

Weiping Sheng paid no attention to anything else. His mechanical left eye blinked twice, emitting an intense red light as it scanned the structure.

He immediately contacted Ren Jie through the radio earpiece.

“There are four survivors left. The child is by the middle door on the sixth floor. You go rescue him. I’ll handle the rest!”

“Roger that!”

Amidst the blazing inferno of the residential building, a loud “boom” echoed as Ren Jie kicked open the deformed fire exit door, heat waves rushing toward his face.

Even with the fireproof suit protecting him, the heat felt searing, burning painfully, sweat already soaking his cheeks.

Everywhere he looked, flames raged wildly, and scorched corpses littered the scene.

Though Ren Jie had experienced much and was mentally mature beyond his years, he had never witnessed such devastation. His heart trembled slightly.

“This two hundred… won’t be easy to earn, huh?”

Muttering to himself, Ren Jie dashed toward the middle door.

At that moment, a demonic roar mixed with an explosion shook the building. It collapsed with a deafening crash, sending shockwaves visible to the naked eye.

“Boom!”

All the windows shattered. Ren Jie was thrown back by the blast, crashing headfirst through the middle door.

Ignoring the pain, he scrambled up and looked toward the source of the sound.

There, a massive molten lava demon, over three meters tall and resembling a giant toad, crouched atop the rubble. Molten magma oozed from its skin, radiating intense heat.

Black smoke swirled around it like a malevolent mist.

Apart from the grade-A demonic disaster in Jincheng he witnessed at eight years old, this was Ren Jie’s first time seeing a demon up close.

Beneath the molten demon stood a figure—a young girl, small and fragile compared to the demon’s enormous bulk.

Her body was enveloped in dazzling starlight, making her face impossible to discern.

This must be the girl who had been fighting the demon all along.

“Genetic warriors are truly terrifying, huh? Able to battle such monsters…”

Ren Jie thought bleakly. His own chances in life seemed all but gone.

“Wah—Mom! Wah… cough cough!”

Ren Jie turned and pulled out a fire blanket, rushing toward the source of the crying.

Outside, Tian Yu and the others grew anxious. Instructor Wei was already out carrying three people. Why was Ren Jie still silent?

The fire was too fierce—impossible to extinguish!

Weiping Sheng, seeing Ren Jie hadn’t emerged, turned to re-enter the burning building.

At that moment, Ren Jie burst out of the building, carrying a child around eight or nine years old in one arm and clutching a black bag in the other.

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