Chapter 160 The Cleanup Begins
“Share?” The young man sneered. “What the Shen family wants is the method to cure Shen Yao and the ‘key’ itself. As for the ‘Origin’ data, you can divide it however you like.”
“Young Master Shen, you’re being too polite,” the smooth voice said. “The core secret of ‘Origin’ might just be hidden in the ‘key.’ Being too clear-cut won’t benefit anyone. Besides, although Director Feng has temporarily lost power, the research foundation and connections he left behind are still indispensable…”
Ruan Ning's eyes were icy. Just as I expected.
She didn't wait any longer, placing her palm on the airtight lock. A chilling frost instantly filled the air, freezing and brittleing the electronic lock's internal structure. Then, with a gentle surge of mental energy—
“哢”.
A faint cracking sound came from inside the lock cylinder.
She opened the door and went inside.
Inside the door is a space of about 200 square meters, which may have originally been the factory's control room, but has now been transformed into a temporary laboratory and conference room.
A long table was placed in the center, surrounded by various instruments and screens.
Three people were sitting at the table: a researcher in a white lab coat, a well-dressed young man whose face resembled Shen Yao by about 50-60%, and a slightly overweight middle-aged man in a silk Tang suit.
There were seven or eight armed guards standing on both sides.
Everyone was stunned when Ruan Ning suddenly appeared.
"You..." The young man was the first to react, his expression changing drastically, "How did you get in?!"
Eight armed guards on both sides simultaneously raised their guns and locked them in place.
Ruan Ning's gaze swept over the necklace energy diagram and the "Source-07 Carrier Analysis Report" on the table, landing on the device covered with a black cloth in the corner. She didn't speak, but simply raised her right hand, palm down, and made a light press.
"Kneel down."
The sixth-order spiritual power transformed into an invisible mountain, crashing down with a deafening roar!
Before the eight guards could even scream, their heads exploded like watermelons! The bodies stood frozen for a moment, then froze with a crackling sound, covered in frost, and fell straight to the ground.
The expressions on the faces of the three leaders froze instantly.
The institute director was the first to react, rushing towards the black cloth device in the corner!
But Nguyen Ninh was faster than him.
With his left hand, fingers spread wide, he grabbed at him in mid-air!
"Blood boils."
The supervisor's forward momentum abruptly halted, his eyes bulging, and a strange "hoarse" sound emanated from his throat. Beneath his exposed skin, the veins bulged and twisted like writhing earthworms, and then—
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Fine blood mist shot out from every pore of his body! The moment the blood left his body, it was drawn and compressed by an invisible force, condensing into dozens of crimson ice needles in the air. The needles were reversed and hovered in mid-air, aimed at the remaining two people.
The supervisor's shriveled body lay limp on the ground, like an empty sack.
“Monster…monster!” The man in the Tang suit who was in charge of the ‘Business Alliance’ turned pale and slumped to the ground, his crotch soaked.
The Shen family representative was trembling all over, but he forced himself to shout, "Activate the suppressor! Quickly!"
The man in the Tang suit trembled as he reached for the button under the table.
Ruan Ning's eyes were indifferent as she lightly flicked her right index finger.
A line of azure water appeared out of nowhere, as thin as a hair and as fast as lightning, grazing the wrist of the man in the Tang suit.
The wrist was severed cleanly at the root, the cut as smooth as a mirror, before blood gushed out a second later. The severed hand landed on the button, twitching limply.
"Ah—!" The shrill scream was cut short by an even more horrifying sight.
The blood gushing from his wound did not fall to the ground; instead, it defied gravity and flowed upwards, merging with the blood-red ice needles suspended in the air. It expanded in size and transformed into a ferocious, writhing blood whip!
At the tip of the blood whip, Ruan Ning's five fingers twitched slightly.
The whip flashed.
The man in the Tang suit had his head flown high into the air, his face frozen in extreme terror. Blood gushed from the headless corpse's neck like a fountain, only to be greedily absorbed and fused by the blood whip, making the whip itself even more viscous and scarlet.
In the blink of an eye, two of the three were gone, leaving only the Shen family representative.
He leaned against the ice wall, his teeth chattering, his fierce words masking his inner weakness: "I...I am a direct descendant of the Shen family! If you dare kill me, the Shen family will fight you to the death!"
Ruan Ning approached step by step, the blood whip slowly moving around her side as if it were alive.
"The Shen family?" Her voice was terrifyingly calm. "After tonight, the Shen family will have no place in the Northwest."
Before she could finish speaking, a bright silver light shone in her eyes!
The Shen family representative felt a brutal and icy mental force violently crash into his mind, tearing through all defenses and frantically searching through his memories!
The father's face was grim: "At all costs, obtain the carrier sample of 'Origin-07' and Ruan Ning. Shen Yao needs her to rebuild his spiritual origin."
The secret agreement with the 'Business Alliance': "The Shen family will receive 60% of the resources from the Northwest Base. The data copy of 'Origin' will belong to you."
The remnants of the research institute promised: "As long as we capture Ruan Ning, we'll extract her crystal core, and combined with Young Master Shen Yao's genes, we have at least a 70% chance of completing the neural grafting..."
"Ughhhhhh—!" The Shen family representative screamed in agony, clutching his head, black blood seeping from his seven orifices, his eyes rolling back, his consciousness shattered by violence, and memories flooding into Ruan Ning's mind uncontrollably.
In that very instant!
Suddenly, the device covered in black cloth in the corner shone brightly red. The black cloth was torn apart by an invisible force, revealing a hemispherical machine covered with coils and energy crystals! A dark red beam of light burst forth, not aimed at Ruan Ning, but directly enveloping the Shen family representative!
The remaining consciousness of the Shen family representative let out a final, mournful howl. His flesh and blood withered and dissolved at a visible speed, turning into a stream of scarlet energy that was devoured by the machine! In the center of the machine, an irregular dark red crystal core rapidly condensed and took shape!
“Blood sacrifice for power…you even sacrifice your own people.” Ruan Ning’s eyes turned completely icy cold.
The machine emitted a shriek, the dark red light screen expanded, and a powerful suction force came. The necklace around Ruan Ning's neck became intensely hot, and her mental energy and supernatural abilities felt sluggish.
At the same time, the other two hidden doors in the conference room suddenly opened, and more enemies poured out! They were no longer ordinary guards, but six ability users: two fourth-tier elementalists, three third-tier enhancement users, and a fifth-tier mental disruptor wearing a special helmet and wielding a strange long staff!
Clearly, this was the final ambush.
"She's already suppressed by the 'Primordial Separator'! Attack together, capture her alive!" The fifth-tier mental disruptor slammed his staff on the ground, and distorted mental ripples spread out, doing his best to disrupt Ruan Ning's mental field.
Two fourth-tier elementalists attacked simultaneously! A giant fire python and a giant rock fist attacked from both sides! Three enhancement-types, their muscles bulging, charged fiercely from the front!
Ruan Ning was at the center of the energy stripper's suppression, her mental power was interfered with, and she was attacked from all sides.
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