"Shi Fei! No!!!" Lu Chen's eyes were bloodshot as he lunged towards the center of the destructive energy storm without hesitation! The violent energy turbulence instantly engulfed him! His armor was torn apart like paper, and his skin felt a burning and tearing pain! But all he could see was Wen Shi Fei on the verge of collapse!

He understood instantly! Wen Shifei wasn't the "key," she was another "container"! A container about to burst! There was only one way to save her—to divert this destructive energy! Use another "container"!

"Look at me! Shi Fei! Give me the power...!!!" Lu Cheneng roared deafeningly amidst the energy storm! He no longer resisted, but instead completely released the restraints of his brain chip, maximizing the attraction of his awakening power! At the same time, he gripped the rusted knife, which was buzzing to the extreme, in his right hand and fiercely stabbed it into his left arm! The blade directly contacted his blood and the surging energy!

Buzz——!!!

The rusty knife erupted with an unprecedented dark light! Like a greedy black hole! The dark blue energy surging uncontrollably within Wen Shifei's body seemed to have found a closer, more attractive outlet. Instantly, it was forcibly pulled, like a flood bursting through a dam, madly rushing towards Lu Cheneng! More precisely, it rushed towards the rusty knife in his hand and the chip core he had actively opened!

“Ugh, ahh ...

He was using his body and soul to forcibly release the flood for Wen Shifei! He was exchanging his life for her chance of survival!

The energy beams and arcs surrounding Wen Shifei weakened and dissipated at a visible speed. The blue flame in her eyes died, and her body fell heavily to the ground from its suspended state, falling into a deep coma. However, the cracks on her body and the violent light disappeared, and her breathing, though weak, became steady.

Lu Cheneng, on the other hand, became the new eye of the storm! He half-knelt on the ground, his left arm and right hand, gripping the rusty knife, completely enveloped in a rich, dark blue light. His body trembled violently, like a furnace about to burst! The rusty knife frantically absorbed energy, and large flakes of rust peeled off, revealing a dark, night-sky-like metal body covered in mysterious silver lines! The bone portion of the hilt emitted a warm white light, counteracting the dark blue energy.

"Found...you..." A cold, slippery, and mentally disturbing voice sounded at the broken laboratory door.

"Venom Fang" Victor, accompanied by five powerful "Snake Kiss" elite warriors with obvious signs of body modification, blocked the only exit! Victor looked at the mess in the laboratory and Lu Cheneng, who was being tortured by the violent energy, his eyes flashing with greed and cruelty. "Tsk tsk, what a touching self-sacrifice. It's a pity that you and that treasure... are all in the hands of the Black Snake Gang! Go! Break his limbs! Take that woman and the glowing crystal away!"

Five "Snake Kiss" warriors pounced like ghosts! Their speed far surpassed that of ordinary humans, their movements coordinated with inhumanity! Two went straight for the unconscious Wen Shifei and Shuijing, while three wielded alloy claws and concussion weapons, with sharp whistles that ripped through the air, attacking the nearly immobilized Lu Cheneng, who was struggling with the destructive energy within his body!

Life and death are just a matter of a moment!

Lu Chensheng suddenly looked up! His eyes were bloodshot from the energy shock and the intense pain, even the edges of his pupils were tinged with a faint blue! But deep in his eyes, a near-mad, desperate determination burned! To protect his unconscious lover behind him, and for the clues his sister had sacrificed her life for, he had to... survive!

"Get out!!" A roar, filled with endless pain, rage, and the violent energy he had just swallowed, resounded like thunder! Amidst the excruciating pain of the energy backlash, Lu Cheneng forcibly swung the rusted knife, now humming with energy (or, at that moment, more like a demonic blade woven with dark blue and silver veins)!

No tricks! Just the most primal power!

A twisted, fan-shaped shock wave composed of dark blue energy and the rusty knife's own strange force field swept out violently like the god of death's scythe!

The two Snake Kiss warriors at the front didn't even have time to scream as their bodies were torn apart, decomposed, and carbonized in an instant, as if thrown into a crusher! Even the alloy weapons in their hands melted into molten iron!

The remaining three warriors and Victor paled in horror! The shockwave, still with undiminished force, slammed fiercely into the thick walls of the laboratory!

Boom——!!!

A huge gap was blasted into the wall! Smoke and dust filled the air!

Lu Cheneng spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with visceral fragments, his left arm drooping limply, as if crippled. The backlash from his forced energy release nearly destroyed him! But he used the recoil, exhausting his last bit of strength, to throw himself over to Wen Shifei. He lifted her up with one hand and grabbed the blue crystal from the ground with the other. He leaped towards the breach in the wall, into the deeper darkness and ruins outside!

"Chase! They can't run far! He's dying!" Victor's angry roar came from behind.

Lu Cheneng, carrying Wen Shifei on his back, stumbled and fled through the ruins. Every breath was tinged with the smell of blood, and every step was accompanied by a piercing pain that tore through his body. His left arm was completely numb, and the alarm in his brain chip was like a death knell. Wen Shifei lay unconscious on his back, but her breathing was steady, and the destructive energy within her body had temporarily subsided.

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