As soon as he stepped into the hospital lobby, the feeling of mental oppression instantly intensified tenfold! It was as if countless painful and frantic whispers drilled directly into his mind! The chip in Lu Chen's brain rang with a sharp alarm, and the scene before him even briefly distorted! Wen Shifei trembled violently in his arms, and the faint blue light under her skin flickered wildly, resonating strongly with a certain existence deep within the hospital!
The floor was covered in thick dust and sticky, dried blood that had long since turned a dark purple, forming a series of shocking "paths." The walls were covered with deep, inhuman claw marks and twisted, frantic symbols and words smeared in blood (or something similar). The doors of some rooms had been violently broken open, revealing shredded protective suits and scattered skeletal remains stained with a dark brown substance. The air was filled with the smell of formaldehyde mixed with the stench of extreme decay, forming a sickening, soul-piercing stench.
This isn't a hospital, it's the antechamber of hell! A forbidden zone for spiritual pollution!
"Qingyi... what on earth... did you do here..." Lu Chencheng endured the mental discomfort and the stinging pain from his chip, holding Wen Shifei, and trudged forward in the direction with the heaviest bloodstains and the strongest sense of mental oppression. Wen Shifei's breathing was weak, but each exhale carried a scorching airflow and a tiny speck of faint blue light. Her vitality was rapidly fading.
They arrived at an isolated area sealed off by a heavy alloy door. The door was covered in claw marks and dents from impact, and the central biometric lock screen was shattered, though a faint energy response remained. Wen Shifei seemed to sense something and unconsciously raised his hand, pointing to the door lock.
Lu Chen entropy steeled himself, carefully placing Wen Shifei against the wall and pulling out the still-hot, humming, rusted knife. He placed the tip of the knife against the damaged identification area, concentrating his mind and attempting to channel the awakened power within him into the blade.
Buzz——!
The rusted knife erupted with an unprecedented cold light! The rust on the blade flowed like a living thing! A cold energy, imbued with a strong will of "veto," flowed along the tip of the knife and injected into the identification lock!
Swish! Bang!
A large burst of sparks erupted from within the identification lock, and the heavy alloy door uttered a teeth-grinding metallic groan as it slowly opened, a gap barely wide enough for one person to pass through! An even colder smell, a mixture of extreme preservatives and a strange, bloody odor, assaulted my face!
Inside the door lay a vast laboratory, resembling an ice cellar. In the center sat a battered cylindrical life support pod, connected by countless thick biological tubes. The pod was completely empty, but the walls were covered in horrific scratches and dents from impact, from the inside out! All around the lab lay a variety of violently damaged precision instruments, and scattered documents were covered with frantically scribbled notes and disturbing anatomical diagrams.
What caught Lu Chen's attention most was the metal lab table facing the hatch. Scattered across it were surgical instruments stained with dark brown. In the center of the table, a diamond-shaped crystal the size of a pigeon egg, its interior oozing with a faint, liquid blue light, lay quietly. Next to the crystal, a lab journal with blood-stained edges, lay.
Lu Cheneng rushed over and picked up the diary. He flipped to the first page and was shocked by the familiar, elegant handwriting—it was Lu Qingyi's! But the words were filled with pain, struggle, and a near-insane determination!
"...The fusion experiment has a 99.7% failure rate... The 'Zero' gene chain is absolutely exclusive and aggressive... Father lied to me! He didn't give me a stabilizer, he gave me a catalyst! He didn't want a solution, he wanted... the ultimate weapon!"
"…My body is falling apart…My cells are devouring each other…But I feel it! The 'key' is right on the edge of collapse! It's not control, it's…resonance! It's acceptance!"
"...Brother...if you see this...go find the 'Ark'...the coordinates are...in the crystal...only the 'key' can open it...it is our...last hope...and also...a prison..."
“…I can’t hold on any longer…The chip is backfiring…They’re…coming out…Lock me up…”
In the second half of the journal, the handwriting became extremely twisted and frantic, filled with inhuman symbols and painful scratches. The last few pages even contained a warning written in congealed dark purple blood: "Don't come near! Don't wake up! It's watching me!"
Lu Chen's heart sank into an icy valley! His sister wasn't conducting research; she was using herself as a test subject! Trying to "resonate" with her body, even "accept" Gene Zero! To find the so-called "key" and "ark"! And the price... was to become the monster described in the log? Scratches in the life support pod...
He trembled as he picked up the dark blue crystal. It felt cold to the touch, yet the light flowing within seemed alive. The moment he touched the crystal, a faint but distinct mental imprint of Lu Qingyi flooded into his mind, carrying with it endless longing, pain, warnings, and a vague fragment of star coordinates! At the same time, the chip in his brain pulsed with a violent, longing throb!
"Qingyi..." Lu Chenshang's voice was choked with sobs.
Just then!
"Ugh—!!!" Wen Shifei, leaning against the door, let out a shrill, agonizing scream! The seven-pointed star energy within her body, upon coming into contact with Lu Qingyi's powerful mental imprint and the Zero contamination left in the lab, completely lost control and ran amok! Dazzling, dark blue light burst from every pore of her body! A twisted beam of energy shot straight up the lab ceiling! Countless dark blue arcs danced wildly around her, tearing through the air! The wreckage of the lab's instruments was lifted, twisted, and shattered by the invisible force field!
Her body levitated, her long hair dancing wildly in the turbulent energy. Her eyes were completely consumed by pure, dark blue flames! From her mouth emanated an inhuman roar, a mixture of pain and a desire for destruction! Spiderweb-like cracks began to form on her skin, and dark blue light shone through the cracks! She was being torn apart from the inside out by the power within her!
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