The Man Standing on Top of the Food Chain Volume 2 Chapter 16

City Center, Rose Hotel Lobby.

This old five-star hotel in Zhongdu City has been operating for 60 years since it was first opened. Although it was no longer the star rating it once had amidst the current forest of high-rise buildings in Zhongdu City, owing to its superior service and user-friendly equipment, it was still well received by the public, becoming the top choice of many visitors, be it for work, vacation, or family visiting.

At this point within the lobby, Li Anping was half lying down on the sofa with his head lying on one arm.

Opposite him, was the hotel’s elevators, around 6 in total. He had been waiting here since 8 in the morning, staring at the crowd going in and out, n.o.body knew what he was thinking.

‘Ding!’, another lift door opened as 3 men walked out.

Li Anping’s gazed fixed tightly on them but he quickly looked away in an instant.

‘Do not stare at them. If they are ability users who are constantly fighting on the front lines, you’ll attract their attention easily. Use your peripheral vision to look at them to confirm their ident.i.ties.’

Owing to Black’s reminder, Li Anping looked at them from the corner of his eye, two were white people while one was yellow skin. One had many braids, another wore spectacles and the last one had a neatly combed gold hair.

‘It should be them no doubt.’ Li Anping followed them inconspicuously.

Wester and the other two walked together towards the exit of the hotel.

Wester looked at the Great Xia citizens and pouted: “What a disgusting country, to think that they are still under the imperial system, Quick Gun, how much longer do we have to stay here?”

Quick Gun said expressionlessly: “One or two years perhaps, by then Shang Zheng Hai would be the official Branch Head of the overseas branch, he’ll find people to replace us. I think we have someone trailing us?”

Brian at the side said plainly: “I could sense it while coming down on the lift, but he hides well. Let’s pretend we didn’t notice anything.”

“Yeah, drive to a place with little people, and if we can find him, let’s get rid of him.” Wester replied nonchalantly.

Saying so, the three left through the front door, the valet had already driven their car over, and handed the car keys to Ryan.

Seeing the three get on their car, Li Anping also left the hotel. Using his outstanding hearing, he could hear the three’s conversation even though they were very soft, thus allowing him to confirm their ident.i.ties.

‘How is it, Black?’

‘Nothing outstanding, this kind of observation only gives me an overview, their strength and agility stats do not surpa.s.s you. After all they aren’t a mutation series that strengthens the body. But to be on the safe side, it’s better for us to see them in action.’

‘Understood.’ Li Anping strolled out of the hotel and turned into an alley. After that he climbed up a building and on the rooftop, took out a cooking gas tank from underneath a wooden board. Next, he jumped from building to building, chasing after the three.

‘Hehe, going to take action?’ Black sounded slightly excited, as if his salivating sound could be heard.

Li Anping was already used to Black’s excitement, every time it involved killing people and absorbing souls, he would always get excited and happy. With his right hand holding on to the tank, Li Anping’s fixed his sight on the car they were in.

‘According to the plan, now that we are 300m away from them, they should not be able to find my location. Once they are in a location with fewer people I’ll take action, in case of hurting the innocent.’

300m distance was the description Li Anping had gotten from J, and was decided after some trial and error by Li Anping. At this distance, the other party should not be able to find his location or attack him. But his enhanced sight and hearing could easily catch up to them.

‘Hehehe, three ability users!’ Black’s tone got more and more enthusiastic.

Half an hour later, the traffic started to disperse, and soon after, there was no other cars or pedestrians within the vicinity of a hundred metres.

Ryan who is driving said: “I haven’t been sensing any hostility since a while ago, there are no longer any cars near us but I still feel a sense of supervision on us.”

Wester nodded: “He’s not on a car, a flying ability user? Or some sort of special ability? No, he does not even know basic stealth movement and I can’t sense his thought energy, but the killing intent is so obvious, it should not be an ability user. Was it a misperception? But all three of us can’t be wrong together……”

300 metres away, the three had no idea that their words were all heard by Li Anping who possesses enhanced hearing. Li Anping muttered strangely: “Soundwave guy’s ability, he should not be able to sense me, but why does it seem like all three of them can sense me following them? Maybe someone else is following them? Also, killing intent, thought energy, and such, what do they mean?”

Black: “Don’t hesitate anymore, strike now. The souls we consumed these few days, I’ve saved them to prepare for healing. Even if we fail, we can definitely escape.”

Li Anping looked the car in silence: ‘With my current body const.i.tution, I can’t hit them with the gas tank at 300m distance. If I want to strike, I’ll have to enter Soundwave guy’s perceptive range. Once I enter his perceptive range, and throw the gas tank on their car triggering an explosion, it’ll take roughly 2 to 3 seconds.’

‘It should work.’

Li Anping mentally prepared himself, and his body inflated instantly, to a two metre giant.

The next instant, Ryan’s expression changed: “Something’s flying over here.”

Within a second, Ryan and Quick Gun both knocked away the car door and jump down from a car travelling at 80km/h.

The next second, a black shadow smashed on the car’s engine, Wester only snickered and allowed himself to be within the range of the explosion and fire.

Quick Gun rolled a bit on the ground while covering his head with his hands, and immediately stabilized his body in a half kneeling position soon after, without hesitation he took out his handgun and fired three shots at Li Anping who was jumping down the building, aiming at his temple, neck and heart positions.

The force of the bullets exceeded a normal handgun as Li Anping’s body was splattered in a mist of blood. But it was unable to stop him from landing by the car’s remains.

Seeing the corpse that fell towards the fire, Ryan walked behind Quick Gun and said with lingering fear: “This method, is he from a terrorist organisation? Is he a henchman of those Ancient series ability users?”

Quick Gun frowned, looking at the burning car: “Why isn’t Wester out yet, he’s only iron skin, not Ironman, in this temperature, he’d still be burnt.

“Maybe he found out something?” Ryan let out an ultrasound wave to probe, and suddenly shouted: “No, he’s not dead, Wester is……”

Before Ryan finished his words, within the car came Wester’s furious growling, but if one paid close attention to it, they’d hear that his screaming was filled with endless pain and suffering.

Quick Gun and Ryan looked at each other.

Within the car, Wester was tightly hugged by Li Anping, all around his body were flames, his entire body was covered by a thin black colour, seeing Li Anping who was b.l.o.o.d.y all over he screamed: “Crazy! You’re insane, do you want to die together? We’ll be burnt to death!!!”

The pain of the flames caused Li Anping’s face to distort. His skin fell off piece by piece and became charred black, revealing his naked flesh. Compared to Wester, his pain was more intense. Wester was only equivalent to being heated within a metal box but Li Anping’s entire body was burning, slowly turning into ashes.

Seeing the frantically struggling Wester, Li Anping only gripped him tightly, ignoring his words.

‘I was right, this guy has too much metallic content in his body, his speed is too slow and he couldn’t escape in a few seconds. At first he could rush out using his metal skin, at most he’d get a burn, but now that I’ve caught him, he can be prepared to turn to ashes.’

Li Anping was glad that his opponent’s reaction was as he expected, although he had back up plans even if the other party managed to escape, but being able to kill the strongest person from the start will make the remainder much easier.

Only to see that within the flames, Wester continued to struggle with increasing force, his body slowly emitting green gas, Li Anping holding onto his body felt like he was holding a furnace.

“You mad man, you mad man!!!” Wester felt that no matter how much he struggled he could not escape, after frantically screaming, suddenly he looked towards Li Anping’s face.

Only to see that at the place where originally the skin which had been burnt off from his face, new tender flesh had started to grow, although in an instant they were charred by the flames again.

“Ahhh!!!” Screaming loudly, Wester realized at this point that the other party had a super regeneration ability. In this fire, the only one who would die was himself. But no matter how much strength he used, he could not get Li Anping to loosen his grip. He used his knee to continuously kick at Li Anping’s leg, but he was unmoved.

Ever since he started using his ability to train, Li Anping had died multiple times within the short time period, countless injuries and pain were no longer his obstacle. Pain only serves to stimulate his potential.

After failing to break free once more, seeing Li Anping’s regrown face and his numb expression. Wester finally revealed a look of despair, he no longer struggled but instead screamed: “Super speed regeneration!!!”

Li Anping expression changed: ‘He’s transmitting information to his friends.’

“Super stre—-urgh urgh.” Wester continue howling but midway, he was stopped by Li Anping.

At this point, the car exploded once more, drowning all the sounds of screaming and fighting.

Thought Energy : The raw here uses 念气, it is something like cultivation Qi. If anyone has a good name for it, please let me know in the comments!