Zero carefully laid Lu Qingyi flat on the cold metal bed. Her face was almost transparently pale, her breathing shallow and rapid, and her long eyelashes cast a fragile shadow beneath her eyelids. At the chip interface on the back of her neck, the dark purple light, though dim, still flickered faintly beneath her skin like an ominous mark.
Zero's crimson electronic compound eyes, like the most sophisticated scanner, meticulously examined Lu Qingyi's condition. His robotic arm moved to the console, his fingers rapidly manipulating the virtual keyboard. The console's main screen lit up, revealing a complex physiological parameter monitoring interface. Simultaneously, a real-time energy map of Lu Qingyi's internal chip was displayed alongside it.
On the diagram, the dark purple lines representing the energy of the "source material" reagent were still active, coiling around the core instruction set like entangled venomous snakes. But at this moment, these lines were not stable and controlled, but instead exhibited abnormal, intermittent and violent fluctuations! Each violent fluctuation peak corresponded to an unconscious slight twitch in Lu Qingyi's body, and her brows would frown in pain.
"'Inducing command factor'...abnormal activity..." A cold electronic voice echoed through the cramped space, hinting at data analysis. Zero pulled up the remote command logs received by the chip. The logs clearly showed that, not long ago, a specially coded inducing signal from the core of the hive had been forcibly injected into the chip.
"Target... 'Bury Worm'..." Zero's electronic compound eyes turned to the safe house's wall. The wall was made of thick alloy, but he seemed to be able to penetrate it, sensing the increasingly distinct, heavy, drum-like throbbing coming from deep within the sealed B-7 area! With each throbbing, the dark purple energy lines on Lu Qingyi's chip map fluctuated more violently! As if there was some invisible, deadly resonance between the two!
Just then!
Buzz——!!!
Lu Qingyi's body suddenly arched up! As if struck by an invisible electric current! Her eyes, which had been tightly closed, suddenly opened!
But this time, the depths of her eyes weren't the empty, programmed purple glow they'd been before! Instead, they were filled with utter confusion, pain, and a bottomless fear! Dark purple light flickered and danced wildly in her pupils, like a lamp about to go out in a storm!
“No… don’t come over here… get out of here!” She screamed hoarsely and tearfully, her hands scratching the cold metal bed unconsciously. Her nails scraped against the metal, making a harsh scraping sound! Her body struggled violently, as if fighting an invisible demon! “It’s so dark… so cold… brother… save me… it’s calling me… it’s eating me… ah——!!!”
The shrill screams echoed in the small safe house, filled with heartbreaking despair.
Zero's crimson electronic compound eyes instantly locked onto Lu Qingyi's state. A mechanical arm extended with lightning speed, precisely restraining her struggling arms to prevent her from injuring herself. Simultaneously, on the console, the chip's energy monitoring graph instantly shot red! Dark purple energy lines twisted and entangled like a raging dragon out of control, assaulting the chip's stability threshold! The waveform representing the Burial Worm's mental radiation interference almost perfectly overlapped with the chip's energy fluctuations!
"'Induced command factor'... accelerated resonance... mental contamination... critical point..." For the first time, Zero's electronic voice took on a perceptible urgency! He quickly entered commands on the console, attempting to isolate the external mental radiation through the safe house's shielding force field, while simultaneously injecting a trace of nerve tranquilizer.
The sedative was injected, and Lu Qingyi's violent convulsions subsided slightly, but the fear and confusion in her eyes remained unchanged. Like a frightened animal, tears silently slid down her pale cheeks. She stared blankly at the cold metal ceiling of the safe house, her lips moving silently as she murmured a few broken words over and over again:
"Mom... White Tower... Key... It hurts..."
Zero held down Lu Qingyi's robotic arm, his movements seemingly frozen for a fraction of a second. His crimson electronic compound eyes stared intently at Lu Qingyi's unfocused pupils and the few words she muttered unconsciously. The electronic synthesizer beneath the mask fell silent, leaving only the low hum of the equipment and Lu Qingyi's suppressed, intermittent sobs echoing through the space.
The crimson light of the electronic eyepiece lingered on Lu Qingyi's pale, pained face for several seconds, as if performing some complex calculation. Finally, Zero's black-armored mechanical arm slowly lifted, releasing its grip on Lu Qingyi and reaching for a hidden silver metal refrigerator beside the console, which required multiple levels of authorization to open.
The refrigerator slid open silently, filling the air with cold air. Inside, neatly arranged were several exquisitely shaped syringes, gleaming with an icy blue light. The liquid within the syringes wasn't the purple reagent I'd seen before, but a deep, steady hue like liquid sapphire.
Zero pulled out one of the ice-blue syringes. The cold metal tip gleamed with a deadly icy light under the dim blue light of the safe house.
His electronic compound eyes turned once again to the metal bed, where Lu Qingyi was trapped in a deep abyss of mental confusion and pain. The ice-blue injection slowly aimed at the pale skin on the side of her neck.
In the core area of the fortress hive, the circular light table of the Seven-member Council.
The giant holographic projection remained suspended, clearly segmenting the surveillance footage of each area. But at this moment, the atmosphere of the meeting was no longer as cold and controlling as before, but instead had a subtle stagnation and undercurrent.
At the center, Lu Qingyi's chip energy model was magnified to its maximum. On the model, the dark red lines representing the "inducing command factor" and the deep purple waveforms representing the "burial worm"'s mental radiation intertwined and resonated wildly, forming a turbulent flow of energy that was constantly twisting and on the verge of collapse! The physiological parameters fluctuating nearby were even more alarming: irregular heartbeats, extremely disordered brain waves, and uncontrolled neurotransmitter secretion! Harsh red alarm boxes kept popping up!
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