"Bang!" With a dull thud, the medical worker hit the cold metal wall hard, slid down softly, and completely lost consciousness.
At this moment, the technician whose throat she had grabbed was struggling weakly, and his face turned from purple to ashen.
"Qingyi! Stop! It's me! Xiaolin! Look at me!" Xiaolin cried, desperately rushing forward, clutching Lu Qingyi's arm that was strangling the technician, and using all her strength to pry it apart. Tears blurred her vision, and overwhelming fear and heartache made her whole body tremble violently. "Please... wake up... that's not you... that's not what you wanted to do!"
Lu Qingyi's movements seemed to freeze for a fraction of a second, at the sudden proximity and her cries. The fingers gripping the technician's throat, their suffocating force, seemed to loosen ever so slightly. Deep within her hollow eyes, the dark purple glow seemed to have been dropped, as if a stone had been dropped into it. It trembled ever so slightly, a fleeting, almost ethereal ripple passing through it.
However, this ripple was fleeting. At the chip interface on the back of the neck, the dark purple light under the skin suddenly flashed, and the brightness suddenly increased!
"Interference identified...Threat level increased." The cold, inhumane mechanical voice sounded again, with a programmed, cold and decisive tone, "Clearance...Priority increased."
The fingers gripping the technician's throat didn't loosen, but instead tightened with even more terrifying force! At the same time, Lu Qingyi's right leg shot out silently like a steel whip, fiercely kicking Xiaolin in the abdomen with a sharp whistle that tore through the air!
"Xiao Lin! Get out of the way!" The only medical staff member who was still able to move next to the console screamed a warning.
Xiaolin saw the kick coming towards her. It was so fast! So fast that she had no time to dodge effectively! She only had time to subconsciously cross her arms in front of her.
"Bang!"
A dull crash echoed through the isolation room. Xiaolin felt as if she had been hit head-on by a high-speed hovercraft! Her arms felt a sharp pain as if her bones were shattering. She flew backward uncontrollably, slamming heavily onto a metal cart piled high with medicine.
Crash——!
The cart was knocked over by the immense force of the impact, shattering glass bottles and metal instruments across the floor. Xiaolin fell between the cold metal fragments and the sticky liquid. The excruciating pain made her vision black out, and a sweet, fishy, hot liquid surged up her throat. She curled up, each breath aching with a stabbing pain in her chest and abdomen. Her vision was blurred by tears, sweat, and the blood from the bruised forehead.
Lu Qingyi let go of her hand.
The strangled technician collapsed to the ground like a piece of rotten wood without support, leaving shocking purple fingerprints on his neck. It was unknown whether he was dead or alive.
Lu Qingyi stood there, her head tilted slightly. Her empty gaze, tinged with a strange purple light, slowly scanned the shabby isolation room like a scanner. She seemed to be reassessing the environmental threat, her cold gaze finally settling on Xiaolin, who lay on the ground, panting heavily, almost unable to fight.
"Target...clearance completion...fifty percent." The cold announcement echoed again, "Continue executing the clearing order."
She took a step, her movements still moving with inhuman precision and efficiency, stepping over scattered glass shards and flowing liquid medicine, step by step, approaching Xiaolin, who was struggling to get up. The piercing alarms and frantic beeps of the equipment in the isolation room became the cold background sound of her approaching steps.
Xiaolin looked at the lifeless pair of eyes that were getting closer and closer, and despair flooded her like a cold tide.
"Rotten Sewer" Inside Pumping Station No. 13.
The thick, indissoluble smell of blood, the burnt smell of energy overload, and the sickening sweet and rotten stench of monster body fluids, mixed with the strong stench of the sewage itself, formed a breath of death that was enough to rust steel, weighing heavily on everyone's lungs.
Lu Cheneng panted heavily, each breath like inhaling scalding sand. His left mithril arm hung heavily at his side, the lines on its surface, once shimmering with mercury, now unusually dim. In some places, tiny energy cracks, like cracks in porcelain, appeared, and wisps of visible, scorching white air slowly emanated from them. He gripped the demon blade tightly in his hand, the tip pointing diagonally toward the ground. Sticky, dark purple blood flowed down the mercury-cold blade, dripping drop by drop into the sloppy, blood-stain and mucus-soaked water beneath his feet, making a soft, "splattering" sound.
Inside his brain, the cold chip core felt like a branding iron in a furnace. Waves of persistent, sharp, burning pain assaulted his nerves, each one stronger than the last. Every heartbeat felt like a tiny bomb exploding within his skull. Sweat, mixed with the monster's stained blood, trickled down his tense jawline.
Wen Shifei, enduring the excruciating pain from her bandaged hands and the dizziness from mental exhaustion, quickly rushed to the scattered lead boxes. Not daring to touch them directly, she quickly pulled out a pair of specially designed, contamination-resistant tweezers and a portable scanner from her tactical belt. The tip of the tweezers carefully grasped an injection that glowed with an eerie, ominous dark purple light. The scanner's pale blue beam swept across the surface of the injection, emitting a rapid, beeping sound.
"How's it going?" Applejack's voice was breathless and lingering with anger. He gripped the sawed-off shotgun tightly, his eyes warily scanning the dark corners and twisting pipes of the pumping station, never lowering the muzzle. The gray rat's escape had left him frustrated and wary. Who knew if there were other ambushes in this damned place?
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