The alarm in the laboratory was still buzzing, and Mou Xuan's temple was throbbing.

The miniature defense matrix formed by the blood beads in Expert Xing's palm was rotating on the holographic platform, and the sound of the gears meshing as precise as a clock oozes out the smell of rust.

"Twenty hours." Expert Xing tapped his mechanical eye with the bloody tip of his bayonet. "For every hour of advance, three more units of liquid helium will be consumed - provided that Engineer Duan can drive the liquid nitrogen truck to the west wall alive."

Just as Mou Xuan was about to speak, a ball of sparks suddenly exploded on the operating table.

Chen Yao's dagger accurately cut off the short circuit line, and the sparks raised by the blade illuminated her frosted eyelashes: "Three minutes ago, the patrol team discovered a heat source reaction under the ice in Area D." She turned the dagger over, and on the holographic map that popped up in the secret compartment, seven red dots were penetrating the three-hundred-meter-thick permafrost.

When resource allocator Shao pushed open the door, a gust of wind with a smell of iron came in.

The middle-aged man with dark circles under his eyes slapped the electronic board on the blood-soaked gauze. His ten knuckles were purple and red from frostbite. "Two-thirds of the liquid helium quota was taken away by the medical cabin. They said that seventeen core members with superpowers were frozen in the cryogenic chamber."

Mou Xuan's fingertips brushed across the newly cracked ice pattern behind his ear, and tiny ice crystals fell into the energy circuit that Expert Xing had just drawn.

He suddenly grabbed half a bottle of medical alcohol and poured it on the resource allocation table. The light blue flames licked the repeatedly modified data, reflecting the frightened pupils of Shao, the resource allocator, into a beating dark blue.

"Notify Duan Gong to drive the liquid nitrogen truck into the medical area." Mou Xuan tore off the bloody bandage and wrapped it around the operating lever. Ice cracks crawled up his cheekbones along his neck. "Let those runaways frozen in the jar serve as temporary refrigerants. The runaway temperature of their superpowers is minus 195.8 degrees Celsius, which just matches the boiling point of liquid nitrogen."

Chen Yao suddenly pressed down his bandaged hand.

The light golden potion that popped out of the secret compartment of the dagger handle swayed between the two people's overlapping palm lines. The old scar on her ring finger brushed across Mou Xuan's newly scabbed knuckles: "This is the last time stabilizer." Her breath swept across the ice patterns behind his ears, and those fine cracks suddenly oozed out star-like light spots.

When the injection was pushed to the bottom, the snowflakes suspended on the roof of the transport vehicle suddenly accelerated.

Each piece of ice crystal reflects the resource allocation plan of a different timeline - Expert Xing used a bayonet to dig out his own mechanical eye as a backup energy source in a certain time fragment; Duan Gong's liquid nitrogen truck crashed through the ice wall in another timeline, and the bodies of seven enemy scouts were frozen in the nitrogen mist sprayed from the rear of the vehicle.

"The crystal body on the west wall will undergo a second mutation at 3:17 in the morning." Mou Xuan pulled off his burnt cuffs and wrapped them around the exposed wires on the console. The blood-soaked bandages left a winding trail on the control panel. "Director Shao, go to warehouse B13 and pull out the heating pipes that were scrapped last year."

"But those pipes are corroded by acid rain—"

"Have the mechanical team fill the corroded parts with liquid nitrogen and freeze them into temporary superconductors." Mou Xuan suddenly coughed violently, and the blood that flowed from his fingers condensed into ice beads on the operating table. "Tell Expert Xing that I will use the Watchtower particle resonator to transform the entire base into a cryogenic capacitor."

Chen Yao's dagger made a buzzing sound at this time.

She suddenly spun around and cut off the flying sparks. The arc raised by the tip of the knife illuminated the secret compartment at the bottom of the operating table. In the safe that was supposed to contain the base's master control key, there lay half a piece of the defense core component fragment printed with a black market totem.

The snowflakes floating outside the window suddenly exploded collectively.

The fragments of ice crystals formed a real-time monitoring screen on the bulletproof glass - the self-repairing track prints on the snow field three kilometers away were now oozing dark green mucus at a certain resonant frequency, very much like the failed biolubricant sample in Expert Xing's laboratory.

Mou Xuan tore off the last piece of the watch strap and wrapped it around the vibrating control rod. The leather strap left deep marks on the metal rod.

The ice pattern behind his ear suddenly burst into burning pain, and he saw his reflection in the bulletproof glass slowly cracking, with the bloody dawn of a different timeline flashing in each crack.

(Continuation)

The red dot on the holographic map suddenly twisted into a vortex, and when Mou Xuan opened his collar, a series of ice crystals bursting made a sound.

He pressed his index finger against the bleeding ice pattern behind his ear, and a fingernail-sized space-time rift tore open on his retina - the image of Expert Xing gouging out the mechanical prosthetic eye and the image of Engineer Duan crashing through the ice wall were superimposed on the operating table at the same time.

"Time flow rate 37.2%!" A spiral pattern of light suddenly appeared on the handle of Chen Yao's dagger, and she split the bubbles of time and space in the snowflakes floating in the sky. "Director Shao's transport vehicle is stuck in the ventilation duct of Area B!"

Six resource allocation plans from different timelines flashed across Mou Xuan’s pupils.

He kicked open the control console that was emitting sparks, and the blood-stained bandage drew three intersecting time coordinates in the void: "Tell Duan Gong that it will take three more minutes to take a detour to the freezer in the medical area - tell him to adjust the temperature of the front of the car to minus 204 degrees Celsius!"

Resource allocator Shao's electronic board suddenly emitted a blinding red light.

His fingers, stained with frostbite cream, grabbed five data streams in the void: "It takes seventeen tons of pressure to fill the corrosion pipeline with nitrogen, but the mechanical group's air pump was removed yesterday to be converted into a defensive turret!"

"Use the particle resonator in Expert Xing's laboratory." Mou Xuan suddenly grabbed the semi-solidified blood ice and smashed it towards the holographic projection. The moment the ice slag touched the red dot vortex, it vaporized into light purple smoke. "Adjust the resonance frequency to 2.33 GHz, which is just enough to stimulate the superconducting properties of the corrosion layer."

A sudden groan of metal fatigue came from under the operating table.

Chen Yao turned around and used a dagger to block the bracket that was about to collapse. The blade reflected that Expert Xing was using a bayonet to pry open the energy cabin of his mechanical prosthetic eye.

Light blue arcs of electricity followed the dagger patterns all over her forearm, and those jumping electric lights suddenly condensed into countdown numbers on her wrist.

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