The alarm blared so sharply it seemed to pierce eardrums, and the red light flashed wildly, casting flickering light on and off everyone's faces, like a hellish disco.

Just as Brother Rat was scrambling and crawling, Little Butterfly was on high alert, and Black Wolf was still "digesting internally," the damned spatial rift was about to close completely, and the supernatural creature's last unwilling roar was forcibly suppressed.

But no one expected that Lin Shuang, this woman, would suddenly break free from Black Wolf's grasp like she'd been injected with chicken blood, and rush towards the core of the sizzling device that could explode at any moment!

Her hair was disheveled, and her eyes held a despair and madness that had burned away all reason: "If order cannot be restored, then let everything be destroyed!"

"What the hell! Are you crazy?!" Lu Zhaoming was the closest, and almost instinctively, he rushed forward and grabbed her arm with such force that he almost dislocated it.

But just as he grabbed Lin Shuang, his fingertips touched a cold, hard little thing.

Lu Zhaoming looked down and his pupils suddenly contracted—that was a small but absolutely deadly detonator!

The red indicator light was still flashing, like the blink of death.

"Damn!" Lu Zhaoming's heart skipped a beat, and a chilling cold instantly shot from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

He gripped Lin Shuang's wrist tightly as she held the detonator, feeling her frantic struggles and the increasingly intense heat and unstable energy fluctuations emanating from the device's core.

His brows furrowed, and a strong sense of unease welled up inside him.

This has really gone too far!

Lu Zhaoming took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down, his brain working at lightning speed.

Time seemed to stretch out again at this moment, and the surrounding chaos became a mere backdrop.

He looked at Lin Shuang's face, a mixture of pain, madness, and determination, and then glanced at the small bomb that could be detonated at any moment.

“Now is not the time to hesitate,” he said in a low voice, his tone leaving no room for doubt. “We have to take a gamble.”

"Do you really think this will solve the problem? Your family wouldn't want to see you like this." Lu Zhaoming's eyes were piercing, trying to awaken the last vestige of humanity within her.

Upon hearing this, a hint of pain flashed across Lin Shuang's previously crazed eyes, but it was quickly replaced by an even stronger hatred.

She sneered, her voice hoarse like a broken bellows: "Stop pretending! You have no idea how much pain I'm going through! You'll never understand what it feels like to watch hope crumble and your loved ones die a horrible death!" Her emotions were clearly on the verge of collapse; the veins on her hand gripping the detonator bulged, her fingers poised to press the button that would decide life or death at any moment.

In order to calm Lin Shuang down, who was like a ticking time bomb, Lu Zhaoming deliberately softened his tone, trying to evoke the last remaining beautiful memories in her heart.

His voice was low, tinged with a barely perceptible nostalgia: "Do you remember, Lin Shuang? Back then, you were a mechanic covered in grease, and your greatest joy every day was scavenging for spare parts from the ruins. You once repaired a discarded mechanical arm, helping survivors in the wasteland regain hope for survival. Back then, there was light in your eyes."

He tried to use those past shining moments to awaken the kindness that had not yet been extinguished deep within Lin Shuang's heart.

These words were like a key, gently unlocking the long-sealed door to Lin Shuang's memories.

Her hand trembled slightly, and the grip on the detonator seemed to loosen a little, but she still did not let go of the small detonator.

Seeing this, Xiaodie disregarded her own safety and quickly stepped forward, gently advising, "Sister, don't do this! I know you're upset, but... but we still have other paths to take! Didn't you say you wanted to rebuild a new world without oppression and exploitation? If we give up now, won't everything we've done before be in vain?"

Xiaodie's voice was choked with sobs as she gripped Lin Shuang's clothes tightly, fearing she might do something irreversible.

Just as the atmosphere eased slightly and Lu Zhaoming thought there might still be a chance for things to turn around, the device's self-destruct program mercilessly entered its final countdown.

"Beep! Beep! Beep!"

The piercing alarm sounded like a death knell, putting everyone's nerves on edge.

The red warning lights flashed even more intensely, as if an explosion was imminent.

Lu Zhaoming knew that there was no time to waste now.

He decisively activated the energy shield built into the "Doomsday Judgment System," and a semi-transparent blue light curtain instantly opened, tightly protecting Lin Shuang and Xiao Die behind him to prevent the shock wave from the explosion from harming them.

At the same time, without turning his head, he roared at Rat and Black Wolf, "Rat! Black Wolf! Take your men and evacuate to a safe area immediately! Hurry!"

Although Brother Mouse was afraid of death, he also knew the importance and urgency of things.

He scrambled along with his underlings, running as fast as he could towards the laboratory exit.

Black Wolf, on the other hand, appeared more composed.

He gave Lu Zhaoming a deep look, then made a gesture to the assassins behind him before quickly disappearing into the darkness.

Lu Zhaoming didn't have time to pay attention to their actions.

He stared intently at the detonator, his mind racing, trying to find a way to decipher it.

He calmly analyzed the current situation.

Judging from the current situation, the risk of forcibly seizing the detonator is simply too great.

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