"Roar—"
A roar that didn't sound like it could come from human vocal cords exploded within the narrow tunnel.
The sound waves carried a visible Impact, making the gravel and glass shards on the ground tremble.
Alice was currently in Kato Megumi's state of thinned presence, clinging like a gecko to the shadows of the maintenance catwalk at the top of the tunnel, clutching the cryogenic storage box in her arms.
She looked down at the scene below.
Even with her extensive experience traveling through worlds and having seen the giant beasts of Skull Island, she couldn't help but feel a wave of physiological discomfort at this moment.
Alexei, the Russian mob boss who had been wearing a leather jacket and was full of bravado, had now turned into a mass of frantically proliferating flesh.
That original version of the Prometheus Serum was like a violent genetic key, forcibly unlocking all the restriction valves in his body while simultaneously destroying the braking system.
His height had surged to nearly three meters. His original skin had been torn apart, hanging off him like a tattered bodysuit, revealing the violently squirming muscle fibers beneath.
The most terrifying part was his skeleton.
To support this sudden explosion of muscle mass, his bones had undergone malformed hyperplasia.
His spine pierced through the muscles of his back, exposed to the air like a row of stark white shark fins.
Phalanges burst through his fingertips, turning into ten half-meter-long bony claws.
His face was completely unrecognizable as human; his features were squeezed and displaced, and his jaw hung open as if dislocated, revealing a mouth full of jagged fangs. Green saliva dripped from the corners of his mouth, making a sizzling corrosive sound as it hit the concrete floor.
"Simply a monster driven mad by genetic collapse, a walking mass of cancer cells."
Alice commented coldly in her heart.
By now, Alexei had completely lost his mind.
"Roar!"
He began to swing his massive claws, frantically attacking everything around him.
Boom!
The Osborn armored transport vehicle, weighing several tons, was flipped over by him with one hand as if it were a toy car.
The thick bulletproof steel plates were as fragile as cardboard before his bone claws, easily torn open.
Several mob lackeys who had been hit by the neurotoxin and were lying on the ground, not yet fully dead, became the first sacrifices.
Alexei grabbed a twitching subordinate and crushed him like a tomato, blood splattering everywhere.
He seemed to be craving blood to cool the high temperature inside his body, which felt like a nuclear reactor.
Alice narrowed her eyes.
"System, load Character Card—Ai Haibara."
Although this would cause her to temporarily lose her stealth state, in this dim and chaotic tunnel, she should be safe as long as she kept her distance.
As the scientist's perspective opened, various physiological indicators of the monster below surfaced in her mind.
[Target Analysis: Out-of-control Genetic Recombination Subject.]
[Metabolic Rate: 300 times that of a normal human.]
[Body Surface Temperature: 65 degrees Celsius, and continuing to rise.]
[Weakness Scan: Spinal hyperplasia at the back of the neck, exposed ganglia; heart is overloaded and at a critical point where it could stop at any time.]
To rush the schedule, Norman Osborn had clearly omitted the most important stabilizer phase.
While this serum could instantly grant a biological organism terrifying power, the price was burning through life force and causing irreversible brain damage.
A typical semi-finished product.
However, if this thing got out, even a single vial would create a biochemical disaster.
"Fortunately, the rest are in my hands."
Just then, Alexei below seemed to have finished venting his rage on inanimate objects.
His eyes, emitting a faint green glow, darted around in the darkness, and his nostrils twitched violently as if he were sniffing for something.
Suddenly, he snapped his head around and looked toward the tunnel exit.
That way lay Forest Hills, the residential area of Queens.
There were tens of thousands of living people there, countless fresh flesh and blood. To the extremely hungry and berserk Alexei, it was a massive buffet.
"Roar!"
Alexei let out an excited roar and dropped to all fours, looking like a giant mutated lizard as he sprinted toward the tunnel mouth, bringing a gust of rank wind with him.
With every step he took, the ground trembled.
Alice's expression changed.
"Damn it."
Her original plan was just to rob the robbers and stop the gang from getting the serum.
But she hadn't counted on a madman like Alexei injecting himself, nor had she anticipated that the side effects of the drug would turn a person into such a killing machine.
If he were allowed to rush into the residential area, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The Police?
A standard Glock pistol probably wouldn't even scratch the skin of this monster.
"Is this what they call the butterfly effect?"
Alice sighed.
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