Lu Chen's heart sank to the bottom. Lu Qiming… he had already prepared a backup plan! Once this node was fully activated or connected to the network…
Just then!
Bang! The warehouse door was violently kicked open!
"Hahaha! The chaebol's lackeys, and that glowing chick! I finally caught you!" A group of thugs wearing filthy leather armor and sporting ferocious black snake tattoos rushed in! Leading the charge was a bald giant nearly two meters tall, his muscles as gnarled as rock. His arms had been transformed into gleaming alloy claws! Behind him followed several "Snake Kiss" warriors, each exuding a similarly ferocious aura, their bodies bearing clear signs of mechanical or biochemical modification!
The Black Snake Gang! And they are the most elite cyborg fighters!
"Hand over that glowing girl and the chaebol's young master! The boss said that the bounty will be doubled if they are alive!" The bald giant licked his alloy claws and stared greedily at the weak Wen Shifei and the blood-soaked Lu Chenentang.
Lu Chenheng protected Wen Shifei behind him, holding the bloodstained rusty knife in front of him, his eyes as cold as ice for ten thousand years: "You want her? Step over my dead body."
"Looking for death!" The bald giant grinned, and his alloy claws roared with a sharp sound that tore through the air as he rushed straight towards Lu Cheneng! The "Snake Kiss" warrior behind him also launched at the same time, with incredible speed!
Lu Cheneng, severely wounded, moved slowly, barely managing to parry the fatal claw attack with his rusty knife. However, the immense force sent him reeling back, his wounds bursting open and blood gushing out! A "Snake Kiss" warrior, like a ghost, circled around to the side and stabbed Wen Shifei with a poisoned dagger!
"Shi Fei, be careful!" Lu Chenshang's eyes were bloodshot, and he wanted to go back for help but it was too late!
The dagger was about to hit!
"Don't touch him!!!" Wen Shifei let out a shrill scream, as if completely stimulated by Lu Chen's blood! The blue flames in her eyes ignited again! This time, the power was no longer invisible! Several twisted energy tentacles, dancing with dark blue arcs, suddenly burst from her palms, like dancing venomous snakes, fiercely lashing out at the "Snake Kiss" warrior!
Swish——!
The warrior didn't even scream as his body was instantly torn apart and carbonized by the violent blue energy! He turned into a charred wreckage!
This terrifying scene shocked all the Black Snake Gang members! Even the bald giant stopped in his tracks in shock!
After Wen Shifei's attack, the blue flames in his eyes quickly went out, his body fell limp, blood gushed out of his mouth, and the faint blue light under his skin ran wildly. It was obvious that his power was out of control again and backfired!
"Let's go!" Lu Cheneng seized this fleeting opportunity, picked up Wen Shifei, and gave up the fight! His eyes swept across the corner of the warehouse—there was a heavy armored off-road vehicle covered in dustproof cloth, but the tires were intact, and the words "Chuangsheng Technology - Internal Transport" were printed on the body of the vehicle!
He rushed to the SUV, ripped off the dust cover, opened the door, and stuffed Wen Shifei into the passenger seat! He then got into the driver's seat and, with the instincts of a chaebol heir, quickly found the ignition! The engine roared and started!
"Stop them!" The bald giant reacted and rushed over with a roar!
Lu Cheneng slammed on the accelerator! The heavy off-road vehicle roared like a steel behemoth awakening, ramming aside the Black Snake Gang members and discarded debris blocking its path, crushing the rotten warehouse door, and charging into the deeper darkness of the Silent Zone!
Outside the car window, the silent ruins rapidly receded. Lu Cheneng drove with a tense nerve, glancing at Wen Shifei, who lay unconscious, still convulsing in pain, a faint blue light flickering beneath her skin. Her power... the price of losing control was too high!
Suddenly, he slammed on the brakes!
Ahead... no longer ruins!
In the deepest reaches of the Silent Zone, a massive pillar of light, tens of meters in diameter and composed purely of dark blue genetic chain energy, shot up violently from the depths of the earth like a giant pillar supporting heaven and earth! It pierced the center of the massive, slowly rotating seven-pointed star in the sky! The space around the pillar of light violently distorted! A pressure far more terrifying and primordial than that of the backup matrix device permeated the air! It was as if some ancient being, dormant for countless ages, was being awakened!
The backup mother node device inside the car seemed to be inspired by the main light column. The core blue crystal shone brightly and emitted a higher frequency hum! Wen Shifei's body also twitched violently, and the blue light under his skin was dazzling!
Lu Chenheng's knuckles turned white from the strain of his grip on the steering wheel. He stared at the terrifying beam of light that pierced the heavens and earth, then glanced at his suffering lover and the humming mother node beside him. An unprecedented chill enveloped him.
The Silent Zone...isn't a refuge at all! This is...the source of a new disaster!
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