24: I'll take you back first.

A zombie stumbled onto the rooftop, its skin displaying a grayish-black metallic sheen, and its eyes glowing with a faint green light.

This zombie's skin had completely transformed into metal, evolving more fully than the one Tian Ming had encountered before.

Director Han immediately recognized it; this was the zombie that had killed her companion.

Director Han raised her pistol, and with two bangs, sparks flew from the zombie's head. The bullets simply could not penetrate the zombie's skull.

"Take Xiao Yi and go first, I'll hold it off!" Director Han shouted to Tian Ming.

Tian Ming smiled calmly. At that moment, the zombie roared and charged directly at them.

Swish! In an instant, two carbon fiber pillars suddenly rose, with several nano-filaments appearing between them, stretched taut like violin strings.

The Metal Zombie charged through the strings, its body sliced into several sections as if it were tofu, by the sharp filaments. The zombie's body scattered across the ground like collapsed building blocks.

No metal was effective against nano-level filaments.

After the cutting was complete, the carbon fiber pillars and filaments instantly vanished.

Tian Ming would not leave these things on the rooftop; they were as harmful to people as they were to zombies.

Director Han stared at the scene before her, looking at Tian Ming with shock. She only saw two black pillars appear on either side of the zombie, and when the zombie passed between them, it shattered onto the ground.

The nano-filaments were invisible to the naked eye, so to anyone other than Tian Ming, it looked as if the zombie had been eliminated out of thin air.

Tian Ming crouched down and picked up Xiao Yi. The little boy was still grieving the loss of his father.

Tian Ming put a lollipop into the child's hand, then carried him downstairs.

"Thank you, Uncle!" Xiao Yi said choked up, sobbing as he put the lollipop into his mouth.

He was just a child; the pain of losing a loved one would be soothed by time, but it would leave scars.

Director Han, holding her gun, followed behind Tian Ming. Her professional habit kept her on high alert. Even if the man in front of her could use magic and special abilities, she did not let her guard down in the slightest.

"The explosion I heard earlier, that was caused by you, right?" Director Han asked.

"Mhm!" Tian Ming nodded, offering no explanation, as none was needed.

"You brought bombs?" Director Han tried to understand Tian Ming's superpower.

The three of them had reached the car. By now, many zombies had swarmed the perimeter of the mall.

"Looks like we have a bit of trouble!" Tian Ming looked at the zombies outside; these creatures had already blocked the road ahead.

"Director Han, help me look after Xiao Yi. I'll go clear them out." He gently put Xiao Yi down and then walked to one side of the mall.

Director Han nodded slightly: "Be careful!"

Tian Ming smiled calmly: "It's fine, small-scale stuff."

A small metal ball appeared in his hand. It was a hollow metal sphere filled with high-energy gunpowder.

The bomb Tian Ming made casually had a simple structure, without a detonating fuse. The outer layer was high explosive, and the center contained a small amount of nitroglycerin.

It would explode violently upon encountering a strong vibration. Making such an unstable bomb allowed him to bypass the six-meter limitation.

Because Tian Ming's control range was only six meters, an explosion at six meters would be too much for him to handle. Although he had protective measures, it was still too close.

He tossed it gently, and the metal ball arced through the air, landing directly into a horde of zombies twenty meters away.

Clang, the metal ball struck a zombie's head.

The internal nitroglycerin acted as a detonator, and upon impact, it caused the entire metal ball to burst open.

With a loud boom, a large cloud of blood mist erupted.

The bomb's power was immense. Although he was twenty meters away, Tian Ming still used an air-created shield to protect himself, but he was still shocked by the explosion before him.

High-energy gunpowder, the higher the nitrogen content, the greater the power. Although Tian Ming had mixed in some other elements like carbon, the explosive power still far exceeded his expectations.

Tian Ming returned to Xiao Yi and Director Han. Both of them were stunned; the ringing in their ears from the explosion had not yet subsided.

"Alright, we can go now."

Tian Ming opened the car door and let Xiao Yi get in. Director Han looked at Tian Ming as if he were a monster.

The pickup truck slowly started and drove away from the mall, heading towards the Shelter outside the city.

He would drop them off first; after all, it was only a half-hour drive to the Shelter outside the city.

"Are you Superman?" Although Director Han believed in science, everything she had witnessed today had surpassed her understanding.

"No, I just have some special abilities. I can manipulate matter!"

At this, Director Han was stunned.

"Does that mean you can kill zombies out of thin air? Turn them directly into a pile of dust?"

Tian Ming smiled and shook his head: "I can't do that. Living matter is not within my control range."

A hint of doubt flickered in Director Han's eyes, but she did not press further.

Upon reaching the city outskirts, the two passed a Clinic. The Clinic's door was open, and the interior was a mess.

Tian Ming stopped the car and said: "Stay in the car, don't move. I'm going down to get some things."

Upon entering the Clinic, he found many medicines. These were exactly what was needed. Tian Ming reformed a large box and loaded all the medicines and equipment into it.

Then, he replicated the entire box of medicine as a single sample. This way, he collected hundreds of samples of medicine at once.

With so many samples flooding into his mind, Tian Ming felt a throbbing pain.

While using his ability, he seemed to become smarter. Especially his memory, which was now comparable to a computer.

With just a thought, everything he had replicated would appear in his mind, every detail perfectly clear.

Tian Ming was secretly surprised. If this continued, he feared he would become a supreme evolutionary being.

Human memories are imprecise and prone to error. But Tian Ming had clearly noticed that his memory had not only become extremely strong but also extremely precise.

He moved the medicines into the car. At this time, Director Han was also on alert around the car. A few zombies approached and were dispatched by a single headshot from her gun.

"Why are you getting so much medicine? Can't you manipulate everything? Couldn't you just create it?" Director Han didn't quite understand. With such an awesome ability, he theoretically shouldn't need to collect supplies anymore.

Tian Ming smiled faintly and said: "If I could create anything, I would just create a medicine that kills the virus. To manipulate everything, I also need to know what everything looks like, right? If I give you a pile of bricks and tell you to build a building, you'd first need to know how to build it, wouldn't you?"

Just the alkanes, which are combinations of carbon and hydrogen atoms, have 6 types, and their isomers are countless.

Every grain of sand is unique, let alone the countless ways various substances can combine. It's basically infinite.

Combining things randomly? Who knows what strange stuff might come out. Tian Ming wouldn't combine substances blindly; that risk was too great!

After getting into the car and just starting the engine, they heard someone shouting from behind: "Wait, wait for me!"

Tian Ming stuck his head out the window and saw a figure running from a distance, followed by a zombie missing a leg.