Infinity, The Arcade Age-Chapter 344: A Contest of Skill and Strength

Speed! Absolute speed!

The Dr. Scourge, having undergone another mutation, now displayed unparalleled agility.

With terrifying base attributes and the Shadow Shift ability allowing rapid movement, Qin Ming found himself completely unable to keep up. In an instant, he was entirely on the defensive, forced to take hit after hit.

As the Dr. Scourge flickered around, his claws continuously slashed at Qin Ming's body, leaving wound after wound.

To penetrate Qin Ming's formidable defense, the Dr. Scourge had evolved claws specialized for armor-piercing.

However, Qin Ming's defense did not stem from his own resilience but rather from his damage immunity skill.

As a result, the painstakingly evolved armor-piercing claws were utterly useless. Any damage that should have been dealt was nullified all the same. This was the primary reason why Qin Ming could endure for so long.

Another dodge, another claw strike, more blood spurting from his back—Qin Ming, who had been keeping his hands up in a defensive stance, suddenly narrowed his eyes.

In the next instant, he spun around and delivered a powerful counterpunch straight into the Dr. Scourge's neck.

But this wasn't just Qin Ming hitting him—it was the Dr. Scourge himself, moving at high speed, who ran headfirst into Qin Ming's swinging arm!

Speed aside, at the end of the day, the Dr. Scourge was still just a scientist. He had never trained in combat techniques.

And someone without proper combat training would inevitably follow their instincts, making their attacks highly predictable.

After taking hit after hit, Qin Ming had already figured out the Dr. Scourge's movement patterns!

This sudden counterpunch was both fast and vicious. The high-speed collision sent the Dr. Scourge spinning through the air, his eyes bulging in shock.

Before he could recover from the searing pain in his neck, Qin Ming grabbed hold of his arm and spun himself upward, executing a basic yet brutally effective combat technique—Strangulation!

Headlock! Arm restraint! Joint lock!

Dangling entirely off the Dr. Scourge's body, Qin Ming used himself as a fulcrum, exerting all his strength to twist his opponent's arm until a sickening crack echoed through the air.

The excruciating pain caused the Dr. Scourge to let out a miserable scream. He struggled to stand, thrashing his arm violently in an attempt to shake Qin Ming off.

But no matter how much force he used, Qin Ming refused to let go. Instead, he continued applying various military joint-lock and strangulation techniques, relentlessly destroying the Dr. Scourge's joints.

High attributes? No matter how high one's stats were, without proper technique, it was impossible to unleash their full combat potential. Against a trained fighter, raw power alone would never be enough.

After all, martial arts were developed precisely to allow the weak to overcome the strong.

And Qin Ming, armed with A-rank combat skills, could rightfully be called a true martial arts master!

He didn't avoid using technique in his fights because he couldn't—he simply never needed to.

Why bother with elaborate techniques when a couple of punches were enough to end a fight?

A lion only exerts itself when facing a tiger. Would it ever bother using strategy against a mere wolf?

With a furious roar, Qin Ming delivered a vicious side kick to the Dr. Scourge's knee, forcing him down onto one knee.

Taking advantage of this opening, Qin Ming latched onto his opponent's head like a helmet, clinging onto him relentlessly.

This left the Dr. Scourge flailing in desperation, his claws wildly slashing at Qin Ming's back, leaving deep, bloody gashes.

Seeing that he couldn't shake Qin Ming off, he finally abandoned all reason and charged forward at full speed, dragging Qin Ming along with him.

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A deafening series of crashes followed as they smashed through walls, barreling through anything in their path. Soldiers, dinosaurs—nothing could stop them. They plowed through over a dozen walls before finally bursting out of the laboratory.

Having endured repeated high-speed impacts, Qin Ming could no longer hold on. His grip weakened, and he was finally flung off.

Meanwhile, the Dr. Scourge, now free at last, collapsed to his knees, clutching his throat and coughing violently.

He had been strangled for over two whole minutes—he was nearly choked to death!

Planting his hands on the ground, he struggled to his feet, his face twisted in rage. He looked up, glaring viciously at Qin Ming, only to find that his opponent had already sprung back onto his feet with a swift kip-up.

The moment their eyes met, Qin Ming swiftly ducked behind a tree, peeking out just enough to observe his enemy, his gaze cold and calculating.

The Dr. Scourge's mutation abilities had completely exceeded Qin Ming's expectations.

In the original game storyline, his transformations had never been this absurd!

This mutated version of the Dr. Scourge was undoubtedly far stronger than his normal counterpart.

Qin Ming had initially prepared to fight a brute-force, fire-breathing two-headed dinosaur, yet he had been caught completely off guard.

Because he never expected that this enemy would not only excel in strength but also in the speed that troubled him the most.

Although the situation exceeded expectations, it was still within controllable bounds.

The steel-like defensive body combined with the sustained recovery from blood absorption gave Qin Ming an extremely high margin for error.

Unless one encounters an enemy that completely counters his style, any flaw in the opponent can be exploited by Qin Ming's rugged resilience.

The Dr. Scourge before him was exactly like that—regardless of which form he took, his power was terrifying, and Qin Ming was completely outmatched in a head-on confrontation.

But the Dr. Scourge's weakness was his lack of fighting skill—a shortfall that became his fatal flaw and repeatedly served as the breakthrough for Qin Ming to cripple him.

Now, it wasn't about who was stronger—it was about who had fewer weaknesses!

Or rather, when Qin Ming fought others, he always relied on exposing his opponents' shortcomings!

Apart from that one punch which nearly killed him—a blow that left even a martial arts master with no chance to spar—the majority of fighters employing his "ruffian" style end up being countered.

Staring at his enemy, who hid behind a tree trunk and glared at him with cold eyes, the Dr. Scourge's eyes began to tremble wildly.

As a genetic researcher, he had never encountered a so-called martial arts master. In his eyes, these masters were nothing but a bunch of feeble ragdolls.

"You say you're skilled? If you're so skilled, why don't you go wrestle a Tyrannosaurus? Let's see if it can handle your joint locks!"

In short, the Dr. Scourge had never given martial arts any real respect; he always believed that enhancing the body was the true path to supremacy.

But today! Living in the age of genes, he had clashed with someone from another world—someone whose combat prowess was defined by the era of fighting mastery!

Transformed into a dinosaur, the Dr. Scourge was nearly rendered speechless by Qin Ming's lightning-fast five-whip combo, and even now he couldn't fathom why, despite being faster and stronger, he ended up beaten so badly.

Strength! Yes! It must be that my genetic power isn't sufficiently reinforced yet!

If I can continue to mutate, if I can keep evolving—evolving until a single punch can kill the opponent, evolving until I can completely ignore any attack—then this flea before me will have no choice but to be crushed!

With red light flashing in his eyes and his expression gradually turning maniacal, the Dr. Scourge suddenly produced a large number of potions from his belt and fiercely injected them into his neck.

As the potions entered his body, his surface veins bulged and liquid uncontrollably flowed from his mouth.

"Genetic evolution is the ultimate path for humanity! Just watch—watch as you, doomed fool destined for obsolescence, witness the perfect power of the New Human!"

Potion injections! Forcibly stimulating gene enhancement!

Dinosaur genes! Initiating the third stage of enhanced mutation!

Amid roars, the Dr. Scourge's body began to swell rapidly. If earlier he was half-dragon, half-human, still retaining human contours, now he had completely lost any human appearance, transforming utterly into a monster.

And as Qin Ming looked on at the rapidly mutating Dr. Scourge, a twitch appeared at the corner of his mouth. Without hesitation, he pulled out his ultimate trump card, preparing to use it.

And what is this ultimate trump card? It isn't some do-or-die super weapon that can reverse fate, but rather General Modern's flying backpack!

Fight? What's the point of fighting when there's endless mutation! Surely one of these mutations will eventually counter him! Continuing the fight would just be courting death!

Qin Ming had planned this simple, brutal strategy from the moment he arrived.

See the Dr. Scourge and start pounding him! Kasamoto Eri transforms into a demolition expert, and I become the blood vacuum! We attack together!

If we can smash him to death, all the better; if not, it wouldn't be a loss.

At worst, we can use the backpack to fly away. Besides, I'm sure the Dr. Scourge would never dare to fly after me!

One could say that Qin Ming challenged the final boss not because he was certain of victory, but because he was 100% confident he could escape.

If you can't beat him, why not bet on a run? After all, losing the bet comes with no real loss!

Now, seeing that he still couldn't kill the Dr. Scourge, Qin Ming prepared to retreat.

As for Wild Wolf? Well, in a life-or-death moment, everyone meets their fate. Given that kid's cowardly nature, Qin Ming believed his life-saving gadgets far outnumbered his own.

Just as Qin Ming, proficiently donning his backpack, prepared to take flight and escape, an unexpected change occurred on the side of the rapidly mutating Dr. Scourge.

Amid a flurry of mutations, the raging Dr. Scourge suddenly emitted a miserable scream.

In the very next moment, to Qin Ming's shock, the part of the Dr. Scourge's body that had been hanging on his chest—seemingly his weakness but actually incredibly resilient—began to separate from his body.

Dr. Scourge! It's splitting open!

No—rather, it isn't that he's splitting open; it's that the human part of Dr. Scourge is being peeled away!

As his body continued to mutate, Dr. Scourge's flesh became increasingly perfected—but no one had ever stipulated that his human part must remain in the perfect category forever.

After reaching a certain level of mutation, his flesh actually treated the human portion of his body as a burden—discarding it!

(End of Chapter)