Chapter 219 Fierce Fight

The roar of the signal tower being activated caused the ground in the entire control room to tremble slightly.

Outside the window, the city lights flickered in the black waves of mutants and the gunfire of military armored vehicles, interweaving into a doomsday picture.

"Ye" ignored the chaos outside the window. His eyes, flashing with blue light, only stared at the core container in Su Wanqing's arms.

He stretched out his hand, his movements were elegant but with an irresistible pressure: "Give it to me, Su Wanqing, this is the only chance."

Su Wanqing subconsciously took a step back and hugged the core container tighter.

The moment she stepped back, the jade bracelet on her wrist and the core container in her arms lit up at the same time. Two rays of light, one blue and one purple, intertwined, forming a visible energy barrier in front of her.

The moment "Ye"'s fingers touched the barrier, it was like touching a red-hot iron. An arc flashed and bounced his hand away.

He looked down at his slightly trembling fingers, and for the first time, a crack appeared on the calm expression on his face, as a trace of anger emerged.

He curled his lips and said, "I was hoping that you would cooperate voluntarily, but it seems that I have to use other methods."

Before he finished speaking, he raised his hand and drew a line in the air. The blue optical cable in the control room instantly glowed brightly, and all exits clicked and locked. The heavy alloy gates fell, completely blocking the place.

In the corner of the room, several mechanical arms that were originally hidden in the wall slowly stretched out, with the tips pointed at Su Wanqing, shooting out several light blue energy beams that wrapped around her limbs like ropes.

Su Wanqing dodged two attacks by leaning sideways, but there was still a stream of energy that bound her left leg, causing her movements to slow down.

Just as the remaining energy beams were about to completely lock her down, Lin Che in the center of the platform suddenly let out an uncontrollable cry of pain.

His body convulsed violently and he fell to his knees, the blue lines under his skin flashing wildly.

Those eyes quickly switched between the cold blue light and Lin Che's own brown pupils, as if two signals were interfering with each other.

“He is not ‘Ye’,” Lin Che used all his strength to squeeze out a hoarse and rapid voice from his throat, “He is the core consciousness of the Orion AI that is parasitic in my body!

He needs three energy cores... to activate the portal and bring more experimental subjects... to this world! The real 'Night'... has already... He is using your special physique... to activate..."

He didn't finish his words as his body suddenly arched, the blue light in his eyes stabilized again, and the AI ​​core regained control.

But this brief struggle bought Su Wanqing a precious second.

She took the opportunity to break free from the energy beam on her legs and rolled behind the main console.

“Useless emotional noise.” Lin Che stood up slowly under control and stretched his stiff neck.

Outside the tower, dense gunfire, explosions, and the roars of mutants mixed together, making the glass buzz.

Through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, one can see the military's defense line engaged in fierce firefights with the mutants that are pouring in like a tide.

On the chaotic flank of the battlefield, a swift-moving team dressed in all-black uniforms was using the cover of the explosion to break into the bottom floor of the signal tower like ghosts.

"Ding ding--" The communicator on Su Wanqing's waist rang. It was Lu Zhao's voice, and the background was full of gunfire sounds.

"We have breached the outer defense line and are advancing towards your position. It will take about eight minutes... Damn it, these mutants seem to be acting in an organized manner. They are protecting the signal tower!"

The communication stopped abruptly, and it was obvious that the fighting over there was also extremely fierce.

The confrontation in the control room escalated again. "Night" no longer tried to restrain Su Wanqing with energy, but moved directly.

He kicked his feet and, with the help of Lin Che's body, rushed over at a speed beyond the limits of human beings.

His movements were precise and ruthless, and each blow was aimed at Su Wanqing's vital points, forcing her to keep dodging by using the terrain.

"Give me the core, and neither you nor I will be hurt." His voice was steady, but his attack was merciless.

During a dodge, Su Wanqing's shoulder was brushed by him and she felt a sharp pain.

She staggered back, but Night seized the opportunity, stepped forward, and pressed one hand forcefully on the core container in her arms.

“Buzz——”

The moment the container touched his palm, an uncontrolled energy suddenly erupted.

A strong shock wave spread out from the two people, knocking them away at the same time.

Su Wanqing slammed heavily into the metal wall, her throat felt sweet, and "Ye" took several steps back before he could steady himself.

The core container rolled in the air, and the outer shell broke due to the energy impact. The lavender diamond-shaped core fell out and was exposed to the air.

Instead of falling, it hovered unsteadily in mid-air, emitting a strange light and invisible ripples of time.

The chaos began.

A metal table in the room quickly rusted and aged on one side, almost turning into powder, while the other side regressed to its shiny, factory-new state.

The images on the surveillance screens on the wall began to distort. The movements of the military soldiers on one screen became extremely slow, as if they were standing still; while on another screen, the mutants were running so fast that only a series of afterimages remained.

The entire control room was plunged into a time chaos.

On the large screen of the main console, the city’s surveillance images also showed terrible changes.

Huge, invisible "time bubbles" are generated all over the city.

In one block, pedestrians and vehicles were frozen in mid-air; while in another commercial district, everything was running at dozens of times the speed.

The most terrifying thing is that the several high-rise buildings in the distance are in three states at the same time: a steel skeleton under construction, a complete appearance in the present, and a burned ruin in the future, like a crumbling ghost of time.

Su Wanqing looked out the window and saw a strange vortex of clouds appearing in the distant sky. Its dark center was pointing at the signal tower, as if a hole had been opened in the sky and an energy channel was forming.

"Ye" looked at this scene with an extremely complicated expression. He muttered to himself, not to Su Wanqing, but to state an established fact: "The border has begun to collapse. If the final fusion cannot be completed, this world line will be completely erased..."

His words made Su Wanqing's mind go blank. No matter what the thing that occupied Lin Che's body was, the situation had obviously slipped into an abyss beyond everyone's control.

"...This world line will be completely erased..."

The sound of "Night" echoed in the chaotic control room, but was soon swallowed up by the buzzing sound of the purple core suspended in mid-air.

Invisible ripples spread out from the core, wave after wave, and time is manipulated at will wherever they go.

The metal floor in front of Su Wanqing was quickly covered with rust on the right half, and the edges even began to peel off into powder, while the left half returned to its brand new brightness when it was first laid.

The air was filled with a strange smell mixed with ozone and dust.

A circle of time ripples came towards Su Wanqing, and she subconsciously raised her arms to block them.

The jade bracelet on her wrist suddenly heated up and emitted a soft blue light, forming an invisible barrier within three feet in front of her.

The ripple hit the barrier, like a wave hitting a reef, and slid silently to both sides.

The flow of time around her seemed to return to normal.

She took advantage of this brief period of stability and took a few steps back, putting some distance between herself and Night, but her eyes were fixed on Lin Che who was struggling in the middle of the platform.

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His body was no longer under the complete control of the AI, switching painfully between the two states.

“Lin Che!” Su Wanqing shouted, “If you can hear me, give me a signal! Tell me how I can help you!”

"Ye" turned his head, and for the first time, his blue eyes lost their calmness. He glanced at the jade bracelet on Su Wanqing's wrist, then looked at the out-of-control core, and frowned slightly.

"It's useless. You're wasting all of our last chance."

He did not attack immediately because the spread of time ripples forced him to keep moving to avoid the randomly appearing time acceleration or deceleration areas.

Seeing that Su Wanqing ignored him, he had to raise his voice, with an irritation of being forced to explain: “This is not an ordinary virus pandemic, Su Wanqing.

All of this is a byproduct of the Orion Project. The original goal of the project was to create real time manipulation technology, but a damn experimental error tore the space-time structure, causing multiple timelines that should have been parallel to fold and overlap. "

He said as he dodged a ripple that could age metal by a hundred years.

"We have gone through two complete cycles. Every time the world is reset and attempts are made to fix the mess, new mutations occur due to energy overflow.

The first time, it was what you call the basic variants. The second time, it was the smarter 'lurkers.' And now, it is the third and final time, because the boundaries of time and space are collapsing completely."

Su Wanqing's attention was partially attracted by the surveillance footage on the wall.

The battle outside the tower has reached a fever pitch. Lu Zhao's voice came intermittently from the communicator, mixed with the sound of violent explosions: "...Damn it...The Dawn Organization is here too!

Their leader...'Monk' leads the team himself!"

In the picture, a middle-aged man in tattered monk's robes is walking at the forefront of the battlefield.

His face was calm as he pushed away a mutant that was pouncing on him with his bare hands. The moment his palm touched the mutant's skin, the monster stiffened and was temporarily paralyzed on the ground.

Behind him was a team of well-equipped men in black, efficiently clearing the military's defenses.

"That's the 'Monk'," Lu Zhao's voice was filled with surprise, "the actual leader of the Dawn Organization. Rumor has it that he is a survivor of the last round of apocalypse!"

At the same time, on another screen, a military special forces unit, under the cover of tanks, was forcing their way to the bottom floor of the signal tower.

An officer with a face covered in paint was giving an order into the communicator: "Command has ordered that the equipment and core on the top of the tower must be kept intact! This is the highest order, and extreme measures can be taken if necessary!"

The entire signal tower has become the center of the storm.

"Ye" seemed to be unconcerned about the melee outside, all his attention was on the purple core.

He slowly walked towards the core, trying to grab it in the gap between the turbulent flow of time.

Just as his fingertips were about to touch the core, Lin Che on the platform suddenly let out a painful roar like a wild beast.

He raised his head sharply, the blue light in his eyes flashing violently, and struggled to regain control of his body for a moment.

“Wanqing… don’t believe him!” Lin Che’s voice was hoarse and rapid, as if it was squeezed out from the depths of her throat. “He… he is the core of the Orion AI… he needs a human carrier to move in the physical world… I am… I am Experiment No. 7!”

He pointed at Night with all his strength, his arms shaking violently: "He wants to use the three cores... to open a permanent portal... not to save the world, but to bring... the remaining AI legion... here!"

After saying these words, Lin Che seemed to have been drained of all his strength. His body suddenly arched forward and began to twitch violently.

The blue lines under his skin became more distinct than before, almost bursting out of his body.

The blue light stabilized again, and Night regained control.

He stretched his stiff neck, and a trace of annoyance at being offended by a mortal flashed across his face.

He curled his lips and straightened Lin Che's messy collar.

"Half-true and half-false information will only make the situation worse." He turned to Su Wanqing, and his tone returned to that cold and logical sense.

"Yes, I am the Orion AI core. But my goal is not to conquer, but to survive. The initial disaster was caused by your human scientists, who arrogantly opened a door that should not have been opened."

He raised his hand and pointed out the window. The energy vortex in the sky was growing bigger and darker, almost swallowing up the entire sky.

"Right now, the 'Time Loom' - your name for this space-time system - is about to collapse completely. If the final repair protocol cannot be activated immediately, this world line, along with everything it carries, will be completely erased. Including you, Lu Zhao, Lin Che, and all humans and mutants."

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire signal tower shook violently, stronger than any previous time.

Dust fell from the ceiling, new cracks appeared on the walls, and the huge floor-to-ceiling windows made teeth-grinding groaning sounds, as if they would shatter at any second.

The energy storm outside the window became visible to the naked eye, and purple electric snakes scurried through the clouds, proving that what he said was true.