Chapter 63 Rescue Plan

An island drifts in the vast ocean, and on that island lies an animal testing facility. Although it's called animal testing, human specimens are indispensable, since the final products are used on humans.

A new shipment of goods was unloaded from the plane.

The tall guard robot hooked onto the boxcar and rumbled across the concrete.

Drag to the designated location.

Bang! — The door to the cold storage slammed shut.

The brightness of the lighting was reduced by half.

A wisp of cold mist swirled around the newly arrived mobile van.

In the silence, the sound of prying open the door could be heard.

Clang! The carriage door slowly opened. First, a woman with long black hair stepped out, followed closely by a girl with short silver hair. Both of them were filthy, covered in black blood and a yellowish-brown fluid mixed with rotting tissue.

Lin Jingru disgustedly wiped the dirt off her face and glared impatiently at Qi Shuihan: "What's next?"

Qi Shuihan looked at Lin Jingru's disheveled state with a wicked grin and smiled slightly: "Let's catch a little robot first."

Lin Jingru understood what she meant. "You want the little robot to lead the way? Are you an idiot? All the robots here are programmed from the factory and only obey Ji Fenglan's commands."

“Just change its commands.” Qi Shuihan raised her silver fingertip. “I’ve received professional training; I haven’t been idle during my time here.”

Lin Jingru stared at the other person's fingertips.

...

When the two-person team, which had been formed on the spot, set off separately, Lin Jingru suddenly suggested switching targets.

"Go find the panda."

Qi Shuihan raised an eyebrow. "Oh my, going straight for the high difficulty. Do you think this is a game, little sister?"

"You said that I was her unfinished goal."

Qi Shuihan raised an eyebrow, indicating that she was listening and would continue.

“I think that as long as I get close enough, she will definitely come to me on her own. Even if Ji Fenglan’s restraint device is powerful enough, it can’t stop Li Nai from coming to me.”

Qi Shuihan gave a light hum, his fox-like eyes revealing a smile, and without any objection, readily agreed to the exchange.

According to the robot's brain chip, a week ago, for some unknown reason, Ji Fenglan separated Li Nai and the panda for supervision.

The place where the pandas are kept is just a nursery. The door is equipped with an electronic lock, and a dedicated robot patrols the room 24 hours a day, checking on the pandas every three hours. There are cameras inside with no blind spots. According to Qi Shuihan's plan, none of this is a problem.

Lin Jingru reached up to her waist and found a ring of explosive grenades hidden under her clothes; there were eight hard, uncomfortable grenades.

If she can't summon Li Nai, she'll blow a big hole in the door of the detention cell.

The place where Li Nai was imprisoned was the base's Iron Prison, a place specifically for detaining out-of-control test subjects, which happened to be a place familiar to Qi Shuihan.

The plan was predetermined from the outset, with each person supposed to go to which place.

Having successfully evaded the towering robotic prison guards, Lin Jingru walked along the path leading to Li Nai's cell. The further she walked, the stranger it seemed, even somewhat unreal.

There were no robot prison guards patrolling the passageway at all.

It seems that Ji Fenglan doesn't believe anyone can rescue Li Nai, or that Li Nai can escape alive.

Lin Jingru was hesitant and doubtful, but she couldn't hide her sneer at Ji Fenglan's confidence.

Looking towards the end of the passage, a large black iron gate was tightly closed, with no other way to pass through. The gate was painted with letters and numbers, as well as yellow danger warnings.

She did not approach the door any further. According to Qi Shuihan, she silently called out Li Nai's name, attempting to use some kind of telepathy to locate Li Nai's presence.

A few minutes.

The door in front of me hadn't changed, and the passageway was still as cold and damp as ever.

As for sensing, there was not a trace of it.

Lin Jingru frowned. She decided to trust again.

Another 5 minutes.

"Damn Qi Shuihan!"

Lin Jingru's face flushed instantly, and the anger of being mocked in her eyes almost burst forth.

He lifted his shirt and drew two explosive bullets from his waist.

The explosive grenade was thrown towards the gate, and one side of it adhered firmly to the iron gate.

Boom! —

Dust flew everywhere, and pieces of debris clattered and clanged against the iron wall.

Lin Jingru released her crouching position and walked out to a recessed corner of the passage.

Observe the target for a few seconds.

With such a commotion, the robot prison guards must be on their way.

She quickly placed four explosive bombs in several locations on the corridor wall to delay the robot guards. After finishing, she covered her nose and rushed in.

"Li Nai! Li Nai!" she shouted in the dissipating dust.

The beam of light from the ground, covered in a layer of dirt and dust, gradually brightened, and the person standing in the light became clear as well.

Li Nai stood ramrod straight, her head bowed, her much thinner body completely naked. The edge of the one-meter-diameter halo beneath her feet rippled like waves at times.

"Li Nai!" Lin Jingru tried to wake him. "Wake up and come with me."

There was no response; it was as quiet as if it were dead.

Time waits for no one. Lin Jingru hurriedly approached, stopping just as her hand was about to enter the circle of light.

She picked up a stone and tentatively threw it into the aperture.

The stone was instantly sliced ​​into thin slices.

The hairs on the back of my head stood on end. Thank goodness I didn't reach out rashly.

Lin Jingru searched around but couldn't find the switch panel. Meanwhile, two explosive bombs exploded outside.

Her phoenix eyes burned with desire. She called out "Li Nai" several times, and finally thought of touching the halo with her own hand to provoke a reaction from "Li Nai".

He raised his hand. Inch by inch, he drew closer. His fingers trembled uncontrollably.

Near the edge of danger, his finger froze. He took a deep breath.

"ah!--"

A scream.

Lin Jingru held her bleeding finger, cold sweat pouring down her forehead. Looking down, she saw that the tip of her middle finger had been cut into pieces of flesh that were stuck together, with dense vertical blood lines on the nail, and her finger was constantly throbbing with excruciating pain.

Looking up at the aperture of "Li Nai" again, it remained completely still.

She stared at him, utterly bewildered.

"Li Nai, Li Nai..." The intense pain made his speech incoherent.

Bang!

Another explosive bomb.

The hissing and gasping for air gradually subsided.

She glanced at "Li Nai" with her phoenix eyes, then turned her gaze firmly to the invisible cage.

He raised his hand again.

Don't hesitate for a moment, reach out decisively.

Snap!

A hand reached out from the aperture and tightly gripped Lin Jingru's wrist.

She blinked her phoenix eyes, then looked at "Li Nai" with delight.

The other person kept their head down and didn't utter a sound.

The two of them remained still, their hands clasped together.

Lin Jingru noticed that the halo had no effect on "Li Nai". Her phoenix eyes lit up and she reached out with her other hand to grab "Li Nai's" wrist without hesitation, trying to pull him out of the halo.

But the other party didn't budge.

Boom! The last explosive bomb exploded.

"Li Nai! Come out quickly, let's go together!"

While speaking, he threw a blasting grenade towards the entrance behind him.

Blood gushed from Li Nai's fingertips, staining her wrist. The blood snaked down her arm and dripped onto the ground.

"Why are you insisting that I go with you?"

A emotionless voice rang out.

Phoenix Eyes was suddenly shocked. It could talk? She glanced uncertainly at the other's wrist, which was stuck at the edge of the light circle—completely unharmed. Her doubts vanished. It was it.

Li Nai raised her face, and their eyes met.

Lin Jingru suddenly snorted coldly and asked, "Why won't you come with me?"

Li Nai remained silent, lowered his head again, and released Lin Jingru's hand. He was about to pull his arm back when he was stopped by a force.

But how can ants shake a tree?

Apply half the force with your arm.

Lin Jingru's face turned a deep purplish-red, and she could hardly stop her wrists from slowly retracting.

"Don't you want to... complete the mission?" Lin Jingru gritted her teeth.

Li Nai lowered his head and remained silent.

Her phoenix eyes suddenly flickered, and cold sweat poured down her back. Her hand was about to touch the edge of danger!

One hand quickly rotated and gripped "Li Nai's" palm, while the other hand followed suit.

“If you come out, I’ll let you complete the mission.” Lin Jingru’s tongue trembled, her face contorted with rage.

The pulling force remained undiminished, and the person in the aperture raised their head again.

His empty, dark pupils stared at Lin Jingru, and he uttered a bolt from the blue.

"Your mission is already complete."

Phoenix eyes paused for a moment, half of the palms in her hands slipped away, and one hand managed to grab the other's remaining four fingers in time.

"Li Nai" seemed to lose patience and pulled harder.

"Aaaaaaaahhhhh!"

Lin Jingru looked up and screamed in agony.

*Thud!* Several pieces of finger were smashed into thin slices.

Lin Jingru fell to her knees with a thud, her back hunched, clutching her arms and crying out in pain. Large patches of blood had seeped through her light-colored clothes around her abdomen.

Boom! The explosive bomb at the entrance exploded.

They were too close, and shrapnel from the bullets pierced Lin Jingru's back. She groaned in pain.

A few seconds later, she slowly straightened up, then looked up at the person in the halo, "Li Nai" who seemed to have descended from heaven.

"You promised me. You promised me."

Li Nai's indifferent face was like that of a deity.

*Pfft.* Lin Jingru vomited a mouthful of blood—shrapnel had pierced her internal organs.

"You promised me you wouldn't leave." Zhang He's lips were bright red.

Whether it was the pain of the severed finger or the pain in his internal organs, tears welled up silently in his eyes.

Li Nai remained unmoved. In her dark pupils, she looked like an ant.

In everyone's eyes, she was just an insignificant ant.

Why? Is it so hard to find someone to keep you company?

My chest ached, and a strange laugh welled up in my throat.

The girl with short, silver-white hair opened her mouth and laughed, the blood in her mouth rising higher and higher with each laugh.

At the end of the laughter, she held her head high, her laughter stopped, and her throat ceased to tremble.

Behind us, at the entrance, came the rumbling sound of wheels grinding against the concrete.

A pair of phoenix eyes stared at a point on the roof.

With hands behind his back, he pressed down on the last explosive grenade.

"If you won't leave, I'll take you with me!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he tossed the explosive grenade, which then adhered to the ceiling.

Two seconds later, a large firework exploded on the roof.

The room was filled with smoke.

Lin Jingru squatted in the corner, covering her mouth and nose with her hands, her phoenix eyes probing into a thick cloud of choking dust.

The robot's wheels rolled across the ground. As soon as it entered the room, a fierce barrage of bullets rang out. Gunfire illuminated the dust, and a series of bullets hitting the walls created even more smoke and dust.

Lin Jingru didn't hear Li Nai's voice. She tightened her grip on her mouth and nose.

Cough cough!

An unusual pain shot through my chest. I lowered my head, and the cough intensified, with spurts of blood gushing from between my fingers.

Just as she was coughing so hard she was about to choke, the gunfire suddenly stopped.

The surroundings were eerily quiet.

Take a deep breath to stop coughing, then look up and search for something.

A figure emerged from the dust and mist and stood still in front.

His eyes, looking down from above, were like ice caves.

"You look a lot like her."

A robot's gun-loading arm lay in front of it, sparks flying from the broken wires.

Lin Jingru glanced at it, a look of confusion on her face. She wondered who "Li Nai" was referring to.

The other person didn't answer who it was, but said to themselves, "You all easily get caught up in self-righteous emotions."

"Who are you talking about?" Lin Jingru hated riddles.

Li Nai turned and left.

At this moment, a thin layer of smoke dissipated. Lin Jingru, supporting her injured body, staggered after them.

Robotic prison guards blocked the entrance, their severed heads and weaponized arms emitting black smoke and sparks. She was secretly astonished by Li Nai's skill; he had managed to take down more than a dozen robots in such a short time.

He squeezed past the robot's body and the door. "Li Nai" was no longer visible in the passageway.

Lin Jingru first took slow breaths, her phoenix eyes deep in thought.

What is Li Nai in such a hurry to do?

His eyes lit up. A panda!