Lu Cheneng was dragged into the Hive Laboratory by the Executioner and became a melting pot of the "virus".
Wen Shifei dragged Ajie to the garbage dump for his life, and the green light tracker was like a leech.
Zero fell to the edge of the lower city with Qingyi in his arms, and the cold will in his silver eyes was like a sword hanging overhead.
The hound of "Old Gun" tore through the darkness, but the muzzle of the gun was aimed at Wen Shifei: "Woman, you have brought a storm of destruction!"
Cold.
The biting cold that penetrated into the bone marrow, mixed with the pungent smell of disinfectant, blood, and high-voltage electric current burning metal, was the only "existence" that Lu Chen's chaotic consciousness could perceive.
Severe pain.
Like billions of red-hot steel needles, they relentlessly and mercilessly pierced every nerve ending in his body, especially the severed left shoulder. It felt like a furnace connecting to hell, where boiling magma mixed with icy venom poured endlessly into his veins, corroding his bones and incinerating his soul. Every heartbeat was like a tiny bomb detonating, pumping even more intense pain through every limb.
His consciousness sank and tore apart in the boundless abyss of pain. Countless broken and distorted images, like venomous snakes, bit at his remaining sanity.
—The cold metal restraints cut into my flesh... Dark blue arcs of electricity danced across my skin...The inhuman screams still seemed to echo in my ears...
—A dark purple, viscous substance, wriggling like a living thing, frantically drilled into the cracks in the mithril's left arm. With a cold hunger, it greedily gnawed at something dormant deep within the metal...
Dr. Heisen's crazed, twisted face swayed outside the reinforced glass, his icy blue eyes burning with morbid excitement: "Burn! Suffer! Let the will of the 'worm' and the power of the 'legacy' grow in your body! Be born! My 'virus'!"
——"Ark...Engine...New Era..." Vincent K's gentle yet soul-chilling voice was like the final judgment...
"Uh...ah..." A faint, beast-like groan escaped Lu Chen's cracked and blistered lips. He struggled and slowly opened his only remaining right eye.
His vision blurred and shaky, as if through a layer of cracked, blood-stained frosted glass. He found himself pinned to a cold metal platform, his body stretched out in a cross-like position. His wrists, ankles, waist, and even his neck were tightly bound by thick alloy restraints, the cold metal digging deep into his flesh. His left Mithril arm was propped up, exposed to the pale shadowless light. The cracks on his arm grew deeper and more terrifying. Dark purple veins, like living blood vessels, squirmed and spread wildly across the silvery-white metal base, emitting a faint, heart-pounding radiation. Countless hair-thin nerve probes and infusion catheters, like parasitic vines, penetrated deep into the cracks in his arm and throughout his body, connecting to complex instruments that shimmered with a cold light.
Every weak breath was accompanied by excruciating pain that tore through his body. He tried to struggle, but it felt as if every bone in his body had been drained out, making even moving a finger impossible. Only the pervasive pain, piercing his soul, was undeniably real. He could feel the cold, chaotic will deep within Mithril's left arm, filled with an endless desire for destruction. Catalyzed by the violent protoplasmic factor of the "Bury Worm," it was becoming increasingly active, increasingly...hungry. Like a forcibly awakened, malevolent parasite, it greedily absorbed his pain and vitality, thriving.
"Target consciousness...partially recovered...neural link strength...increased to 85%...'Worm' protoplasm fusion rate...32%...'Legacy' activity fluctuations...intensified..." A cold electronic synthesized voice sounded not far away, reporting without any emotion.
Lu Cheneng struggled to move his eyes. At the edge of his vision, he saw Dr. Heisen's face, twisted with excitement. He stood before a massive holographic console, his hands twitching across the virtual interface like a trance. His icy blue eyes were fixed on the frantically jumping data and the real-time scan of Mithril's left arm on the screen, and he let out an uncontrollable "ho ho" laugh.
"Yes! That's it! Stay awake! Lu Cheneng! Feel the pain! Feel the throbbing of this power brewing in your body!" Haisen's voice was sharp and piercing, full of sadistic pleasure. "Your body is the most perfect melting pot! Use your despair and pain to sacrifice for the birth of the 'virus'! Soon... soon you will be able to feel... the great power... that will tear apart all the old order!"
Despair, like an icy tide, completely overwhelmed Lu Cheneng. He closed his eyes, his teeth sinking deep into his lower lip, tasting the rich taste of blood. Qingyi…Ajie…Shifei…where are you…? Did you escape? He would rather die now than become the furnace that breeds monsters in the hands of the chaebol! He even more refused to…become a monster that had lost its self, only possessed by the desire for destruction!
At this moment, an even stronger, colder force of will struck like an invisible hammer, slamming into the depths of his chaotic consciousness! It didn't come from any external instrument, but from... the awakening "thing" deep within Mithril's left arm!
"Ugh!!" Lu Chen's body suddenly arched upward! The veins on his neck, tightly bound by the restraints, bulged, and his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets! Worse than the physical pain was the horrifying feeling of his soul being forcibly torn apart, being brutally spied on and controlled by some icy will!
The firewood in the furnace was being ignited, emitting a final, silent wail. And the fire was becoming increasingly eerie and fierce.
stench.
The smell of extremely decayed organic matter, mixed with rusted metal, acrid chemicals, and the pervasive aroma of radioactive dust, clung to Wen Shifei's mouth, nose, and lungs like a sticky, poisonous glue. Every breath felt like swallowing a scalding blade, sending piercing, tearing pain through her ribs and arms, a reminder of this hellish reality.
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