Control of the body wavered violently. The cold will of "Entropy" frantically calculated the probability of survival, attempting to take over this carrier and optimize the evasion. Meanwhile, the instinct of "Lin Xi," like a dying beast, only wanted to keep Jiang Li and the others alive!
"The carrier...strongly resists...the survival instinct...which conflicts with the logically optimal solution..." The voice inside the head carried a barely perceptible hint of "confusion".
"Captain Jiang!!" The surviving team member looked out the window in despair at the massive black wall that swallowed up the world, then looked at Jiang Li and I in a stalemate, and screamed in despair, "There's no time!!"
Jiang Li's chest heaved violently as he stared into my eyes. A storm brewed within those bloodshot eyes—murderous intent, suspicion, struggle, and even a trace of... a faint, deeply buried trust? Time seemed stretched out, every second stretching like a century.
In the end, all the emotions in his eyes were replaced by an almost solidified, cold determination.
He didn't shoot.
But he suddenly retracted the gun pointed at my forehead, his movements as fast as lightning! At the same time, his left hand, stained with blood and sweat, like an iron clamp, fiercely grasped my right wrist, which was rising uncontrollably, and my fingertips were trembling slightly!
"Follow me!" His voice was low and hoarse, but it carried an unquestionable, iron-like will that slammed into my consciousness. "If you want to die, you must die in my hands! Not now! Not while being controlled by that thing!"
His strength was so astonishing that it nearly crushed my wrist bones! This rough contact was like dropping cold water into boiling oil!
Boom——!!!
An unimaginable, violent, icy-cold energy stream rushed into my body along the point where Jiang Li grabbed my wrist! No, it wasn't rushing into my body, it was more like... activating some dormant switch!
"External high-energy contact... triggered... Deep Defense Protocol... the logic core... was impacted..."
For the first time, the cold sound inside the skull showed a sharp fluctuation similar to an "alarm"!
And within me, that something belonging to Lin Xi, forcibly suppressed and nearly extinguished by the will of entropy—those warm golden threads I had sensed in the data torrent—seemed to be instantly ignited by Jiang Li's contact with his intense will and life energy! It was like a dormant volcano exploding!
“Uh ...
I let out a shrill, inhuman scream! My body suddenly arched upward, as if pulled by an invisible force! The eerie golden lines on the back of my neck suddenly erupted with an unprecedented, blinding golden light! The light was like a living thing, instantly spreading and outlining my blood vessels and nerves, radiating wildly throughout my limbs and bones! Beneath my skin, it felt like billions of golden streams of light were surging and roaring!
An indescribably vast, cold, ancient will, filled with a raging rage of being offended, like a giant star beast that had slumbered for billions of years, completely awakened within me! It was no longer merely parasitic, it was... asserting its sovereignty!
"Low-dimensional life forms...interference...the core of entropy...logic...unacceptable!" The voice inside his head grew immensely louder and colder, each word carrying a tangible weight of spiritual pressure, as if the laws of the entire universe were declaring a verdict. "Eliminate...the source of interference...highest priority!"
My right hand, the one Jiang Li had grasped so tightly, suddenly stretched its five fingers to their limit! The fingertips were no longer the color of human flesh, but were covered with a flowing substance like liquid gold! An invisible, terrifying repulsive force field, centered on my palm, erupted like an invisible nuclear shockwave!
Boom——!!!
Jiang Li felt like he was struck head-on by an invisible, 10,000-ton hammer! He groaned, and the hand that was grabbing my wrist was instantly repelled. He flew backward like a kite with a broken string! He slammed hard into the twisted remains of the control console behind him! The alloy console groaned under the weight and sank deeply! Jiang Li spit out a mouthful of blood, his eyes filled with unbelievable horror!
"Captain Jiang!!" The team members shouted in despair.
And after unleashing that terrifying repulsive force, my body strangely levitated! Half a meter off the ground, suspended in a thick cloud of smoke and a bleak green light! The golden lines on my neck glowed like a living circuit totem, covering most of my face and extending all the way to my temples! My long hair fluttered wildly behind me without a breeze! Deep in my pupils, all human emotion vanished, leaving only two cold, burning golden flames, like miniature stars!
I (or rather, "entropy") slowly and rigidly turned my neck, the movement imbued with an inhuman, mechanical quality, like an ancient puppet newly empowered. A golden, emotionless gaze pierced through the dense smoke and dust, the twisted alloy walls, disregarding physical distance, its fixed gaze fixed on the city's eastern side, the hundred-meter-long black wall that was destroying everything, representing the ultimate destructive force of the laws of physics!
"Destructive-level physical impact... source... coordinates locked... logical judgment... threat... must... be eliminated!" A cold and grand voice roared in the cranial cavity, carrying an absolute and unquestionable will.
Clear? Clear that massive wall that held billions of tons of seawater and represented a natural disaster?
This idea is absolutely absurd! It's like trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm!
However, the core logic of "entropy" seems to have no understanding of the meaning of "absurdity." It only has cold judgments and the highest priority instructions based on its own existence: survive! Eliminate threats!
Buzz——!!!
Suspended in mid-air, "I" slowly raised my arms. My fingers spread wide, palms facing upward. The liquid, gold-like substance coating my fingertips quickly spread across my palms and forearms! The golden light beneath my skin surged to its peak, emitting a low, terrifying hum! It was as if an endless amount of energy was compressing, gathering within this tiny human body, waiting to be released!
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