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"Am I really that brave?"
"You've always been brave."
Kitahara Iori, who had run back, said that he felt safe again after avoiding the limelight.
"And you even passed out, it looks like you're about to die."
Kitahara Iori also subtly mocked Imamura Kohei.
"If you're going to get a lunchbox, it'll be right after you."
Kohei Imamura retorted without hesitation.
"See? I believe I won't just give up so easily."
After finishing his sentence, Kohei Imamura was too lazy to argue with Iori Kitahara anymore. He was more concerned about whether he would die from the failed experiment or survive and make the experiment a success.
"Hmm, did I pass out?" Kohei Imamura groggily woke up, not knowing how much time had passed. The next second, as if realizing something, he looked at his severed arm.
[At this point, the severed arm was covered with a large circle of greenish-yellow calluses.]
Kohei Imamura excitedly tore open the greenish-yellow cocoon with his hands, revealing an arm covered in slime, as white and tender as a newborn's.
Kohei Imamura, trembling with excitement, placed his hand in front of his eyes and examined it confidently.
"I did it! I did it!" Kohei Imamura shouted excitedly.
Although the newly grown arm was immature and weak, it was a genuine regeneration of his severed limb.
"I knew it. I knew I would be the greatest scientist of this year, no, of the next few decades. I've given disabled people the chance to become normal again." Kohei Imamura stood up and went to get the phone to share his joy with his friend Iori Kitahara.
"If his physical abilities could become as strong as Shinnosuke Nohara's, would there be another Lizard Man?"
Yuu Otosaka said with some curiosity, "Although Kohei Imamura may have been a researcher with poor physical fitness before, wasn't Shinnosuke Nohara also a student who was bitten by a spider and became Spider-Man?"
"Hmm, if Kohei Imamura's physical abilities could really be greatly improved to the level of Shinnosuke Nohara, then there might actually be a Lizard Man."
Yamashiro Takeshiro pushed up his glasses and said with an expression that said, "I knew it."
Meanwhile, Kohei Imamura looked at Iori Kitahara with a smug expression and said...
"See? I knew I wouldn't die so early. And look, I succeeded."
Kohei Imamura emphasized the last few words as if to stress them out.
"Okay, okay, you're so great, alright?"
Kitahara Iori said that Imamura Kohei was about to say something, but the next second he saw the content on the screen and he was speechless.
"Hmm." Imamura Kohei felt something was wrong with his body as soon as he picked up the phone to make the call.
["Thud." Suddenly, his body went limp, and Kohei Imamura collapsed to the ground, his phone slipping from his hand and falling to the ground. Just then, Iori Kitahara answered the call on the other end.]
"Hello, hello, Kohei, hello?" Kitahara Iori said on the other end of the phone, but at that moment, Imamura Kohei was struggling to crawl over while lying on the ground, but his body was suddenly too weak. The next second, Imamura Kohei looked at his hands in horror.
At this moment, his hands no longer resembled anything human; they were covered in dark green scales, and his sharp fingertips seemed capable of easily tearing through steel.
"My...my voice." Turning to look at herself in the mirror, she saw that most of her skin had begun to grow dark green scales, just like those on her arms, and her eyes were no longer round human pupils but vertical pupils.
[When I opened my mouth, I found my voice had become hoarse.]
"Ughhh!" His body began to swell, and Kohei Imamura felt as if his body was being brutally torn apart by an invisible giant hand. The unbearable pain made him scream, a cry that alarmed Iori Kitahara on the other end of the phone.
"Hey, hey, Kohei, are you alright? Hey!"
"I...cough cough."
"Kouhei, why does your voice sound like that? Are you sick? Wait for me, I'll be right there." Kitahara Iori said, intending to come over immediately.
"Ahem, nothing serious, no need to come over." Kohei Imamura had just received his phone.
"Are you sick? Do you need me to go to the hospital with you?"
"No, no, I just wanted to call and say goodbye." Kohei Imamura said, looking at himself in the mirror. At this moment, he no longer resembled a human at all, but a lizard-man, though still in the process of transformation.
"Goodbye, did something happen? Did the experiment fail? Hey, Kohei, don't do anything stupid, hey!" Kitahara Iori, on the other end of the phone, sensed that Imamura Kohei wanted her to find out and hurriedly said.
"I might die. The experiment failed. Oh well. If I'm lucky enough to see Kohei Ikari and Tokita Nobuori again, please give them my regards." Kohei Imamura then hung up the phone.
Looking at himself in the mirror, he realized he had completely transformed into a lizard. Then, feeling something strange in his tailbone, Kohei Imamura turned around and saw his tail sprouting out like a newly emerged bamboo shoot.
Fortunately, instead of feeling weak, my body suddenly became unusually strong.
I donned an oversized black cape, something I bought back when I was in the diving club for Halloween. I never thought it would come in handy now.
63: Dr. Lizard
Kohei Imamura, wearing a cloak, ran out and hailed a taxi.
"Where to?" the taxi driver asked, turning around. He didn't seem to care much about Kohei Imamura, who was wearing a black cloak. These days, strange outfits weren't uncommon. A few years ago, he might have been surprised, but now he was a seasoned veteran; as long as you paid, he didn't care what you looked like.
"Go to the eastern outskirts of the city," Kohei Imamura said in a low voice. He felt his body changing rapidly, and he needed to find a secluded place to hide immediately.
"Okay." The taxi driver didn't ask any further questions and immediately stepped on the gas, heading towards the eastern suburbs of the city.
"Did you see today's news? I heard that Zhuge Cong, the famous boss of the Zhuge Group, has been found in the desert." The taxi driver, who was still some distance from the east side of the city, naturally struck up a conversation with Kohei Imamura.
"I wasn't paying attention," Kohei Imamura said softly, looking at his shoes, which were now bulging from the growth of his mutated feet, looking as if they would break at any moment.
"To be honest, it's too unbelievable that someone could be found after being missing for two months. It feels like they deliberately hid for fun, and then got bored and just popped out."
"Otherwise, do you think it's possible for a perfectly healthy adult to disappear for two months without dying, still with all limbs intact and no major mental trauma?" The taxi driver, oblivious to Imamura Kohei's increasingly strange behavior, continued to ramble on about his opinions.
"And did you see the crazy things Zhuge Cong did when he came back? He actually shut down his weapons department," the taxi driver said, his tone becoming somewhat agitated.
"Could you please be a little quieter?" Kohei Imamura's voice trembled slightly. He felt his body temperature rising rapidly, and his shoes had completely burst open, revealing a pair of dark green lizard claws.
"I just... are you alright? You look really unwell." The taxi driver turned around, wanting to say something, but saw Imamura Kohei lying on the back seat, his black cloak obscuring his face.
But judging from how much the cloak was shaking, it couldn't be that he was doing handicrafts in a taxi.
"It's alright, just drive," Kohei Imamura said to the taxi driver.
"Okay then." The taxi driver didn't say much and continued driving, but quietly changed direction and headed towards the hospital.
[Firstly, if something happens to this young man, the police might trace it back to him, and if the car is stopped, that would be even more terrifying.]
[Secondly, what if I happened to take him to the hospital and save his life? I might not even have made it to the trending topics.]
A taxi driver rescued a young man late at night; the young man is now out of danger.
Thinking this, the taxi driver sped up and headed towards the nearest hospital.
"This taxi driver really has some ideas."
Yoruichi felt there was something fishy about the taxi driver's actions, but unfortunately, he didn't know that the passenger he was carrying wasn't an ordinary person, but a guy who was transforming into a lizardman.
"This isn't the road to the eastern suburbs; this is the road to the hospital." Kohei Imamura looked up at the buildings outside the window and realized that this wasn't the road to the eastern suburbs, but the road to the hospital.
[Kouhei Imamura himself is unaware of the rapid improvement in his dynamic vision, which is subtly influencing his thinking during his transformation into a lizardman.]
"Ah, this is the road to the east of the city. The road we just took is under construction, so we have to take a detour."
"I've been driving here for years, why would I lie to you? There's no benefit in it for me."
The taxi driver, who was questioned by Kohei Imamura, immediately replied.
"No, there's no repair shop there. You can't fool me. Stop the car now." Feeling the rapid changes in his body, Kohei Imamura felt he couldn't hold on any longer. By the time the taxi drove into the suburbs, his spine was already pressed against the roof of the car.
[If this taxi driver hadn't gone crazy and taken him to the hospital, he wouldn't have been forced to get out of the car here. Thinking of this, a savage glint flashed in Kohei Imamura's eyes, who was infected by the lizard. He then raised his sharp claws, intending to tear apart the taxi driver who had delayed him.]
The next second, Kohei Imamura's consciousness suddenly cleared. Looking at his own claws, he knew that if he stayed any longer, the taxi driver might be killed by his own violent side again.
"Unlike Shinnosuke Nohara's mutation, Kohei Imamura's lizard mutation not only drastically changes a person's appearance, but also severely affects their mind."
Looking at Kohei Imamura, who was about to burst into violence and kill people on the screen, and the taxi driver who was unaware that he had just escaped death, Minami Oyama, sitting in the laboratory, thought to herself.
Although her main focus is on the human body, her research in biology does not hinder her interest in other areas of biotechnology.
Spider-Man and Dr. Lizard were quite attractive to her, as were Orochimaru's gradual research and Sasori's human-modified mechanical ascension.
"We're on the street. If you insist on getting out, you'll have to wait until I pull over," the taxi driver said, looking at Kohei Imamura, whose figure had inexplicably grown much larger in the rearview mirror.
[It can only be said that the black cloak prevented him from seeing Kohei Imamura clearly; otherwise, he might have been so frightened that he immediately abandoned the vehicle and fled.]
["Bang!" Kohei Imamura didn't care about anything else at this point. He kicked open the taxi door and jumped out, tumbling over. Just then, a car crashed into him.]
The high-speed collision only caused Kohei Imamura to stagger and take a few steps back, but a large dent appeared in the front of the car.
The black cloak that had been draped over Kohei Imamura was now caught under the tires of the car, completely revealing the full form of Dr. Imamura to the world.
64: Kazuma Sato: You're going to be making cameo appearances again, that's great!
Its towering body appeared much taller than the car, its dark green skin looked particularly eerie under the streetlights, and its long tail was as long as a person. Its massive size suggested that a single, gentle swipe could swat a person away like a fly.
The sharp claws seemed impenetrable even to steel, and the pale yellow vertical pupils staring at it made one's legs go weak, as if being watched by a superior hunter, and one instinctively wanted to turn and run.
The appearance of Dr. Lizard instantly threw drivers and pedestrians on the road into panic; they had never seen such a monster before.
The car that had previously hit Kohei Imamura lurched forward due to the rear-end collision, directly striking Imamura's knee.
Kohei Imamura looked down at the car that had hit his knee.