Boom! Sizzle!
A thick, dark purple energy beam passed over Lu Chenen and Wen Shifei's heads, slamming fiercely into the metal core debris behind them, exploding a fiery plasma! A rapidly spinning chainsaw sword slashed the ground half a meter away from them, plowing a deep, smoking furrow!
The fatal attack was once again narrowly avoided by his companions with their courage to fight for their lives!
"Monkey! Monkey, where the hell have you been?! Bring someone in! Brother Lu is dying!" Ajie fired frantically to attract fire while screaming into the communicator. He knew that the monkey guarding the entrance must have heard the noise here!
Inside the control room, a mixture of gunpowder smoke, blood, the smell of burning metal, and despair mingled. Wen Shifei's hands were stained with Lu Chenen's scalding blood. Trembling, she injected the last vial of powerful coagulant into a vein in his neck, then bandaged the horrific wound of his severed arm with a first aid bandage. The bleeding had temporarily stagnated due to the physical pressure, but the curve on Lu Chenen's vital signs monitor (if it still existed) was plummeting. His breathing was barely perceptible, his pupils were completely dilated, and his body temperature was rapidly dropping.
"Wake up... Lu Cheneng... look at me... don't sleep... please don't sleep..." Wen Shifei's voice was filled with tears, a plea of spiritual power, calling his name over and over again, trying to pull his consciousness back from the abyss of death. She could feel that the magic blade was still unconsciously grasped in his only remaining right hand, the purple lightning on the blade flickering weakly, as if it was also sucking the last of its owner's life force, revealing a greedy and eerie deathly silence.
Just then—
Buzz...ziz...ziz...
In the control room, the instrument screens that were completely extinguished due to core overload damage, one of the main console screens that was full of cracks and covered with thick dust, flickered a few times without warning, and a chaotic snowflake noise appeared!
Then, an extremely weak, intermittent voice, like the noise of an electric current with a poor signal, came out from the worn-out speaker. It had an inhuman electronic texture, but strangely revealed a familiar gentleness and eagerness that belonged to Wen Yuan:
[Xiao… Fei… heard… you…?]
[Data…link…unstable…]
[He...is...almost...dying...use...my...power...]
Wen Shifei's head shot up, bloodshot and tear-filled eyes fixed on the flickering screen! Brother?! Is this his remaining consciousness?! At this moment when the core is severely damaged and the factory is on the verge of destruction, he's still here?!
"Brother...Brother?!" Wen Shifei's voice was hoarse and trembling.
[Leave…me…alone…] Wen Yuan's voice seemed even more urgent. [Look…at…the…red…emergency…interface…at…the…bottom…of…the…control…console…]
[Use…your…hand…directly…touch…]
[Connect...factory...ground floor...energy...array...]
[I… channel… my energy… to save him… but time is running out…]
The snow noise on the screen became more intense, and Wen Yuan's voice was like a candle in the wind, which could go out at any time.
Wen Shifei didn't hesitate! Her unconditional trust in her brother overwhelmed everything! She rushed to the control console, ignoring the sharp metal burrs and dust, and frantically dug out the broken cables and shattered instrument casings with her hands! Soon, at the very bottom of the console, in a corner covered in thick grime, she saw a round metal interface the size of a bowl, flickering a faint red light! Intricate, long-faded circuit patterns were engraved around the interface!
That's it!
Wen Shifei took a deep breath and looked at her hands, stained with Lu Chen's blood. No time to find insulated tools, no time to consider the consequences! A flash of determination flashed in her eyes, and she suddenly pressed her palms hard on the emergency interface that emitted an ominous red light!
“Ugh—!!!”
An unimaginable, utterly violent torrent of energy, like a high-voltage current of tens of millions of volts mixed with boiling steel, instantly surged through the joints into her arms! Excruciating pain! Indescribable pain! It felt as if every nerve, every cell was being torn apart, burned, and forcefully ruptured! Her body instantly lit up with a blinding red light, like an overloaded lightbulb. The blood vessels beneath her skin bulged, emitting an abnormally bright, searing glow! Her hair stood on end in the invisible energy field!
This wasn't the gentle, orderly blue energy of Brother Wen Yuan! This was the violent, unpurified, primordial energy left from the factory's underlying energy array! Filled with destructive power and chaos! Wen Yuan's consciousness was simply channeling this destructive torrent, attempting to transform it into life-saving vitality!
"Sister Wen!" Ajie's heart was broken when he saw the terrifying energy light erupting from Wen Shifei's body and the twisted and painful expression!
Wen Shifei's vision was instantly filled with a searing white light and piercing pain! She felt as if her soul was being ripped apart by this violent energy! But her hands seemed to be welded to their sockets, unable to break free! In her mind, her brother's extremely weak consciousness was like a beacon in the storm, guiding the way: [Hold on... Xiaofei... guide it... towards... him...]
Towards Lu Chenent!
This thought was like the final anchor, firmly pinning down Wen Shifei's consciousness, which was about to collapse! She ignored the pain of her body being torn apart, ignored the torment of her soul being burned, and all her willpower, all her mental strength, and all her desire to survive turned into one obsession - to direct this violent energy towards the man whose life was about to be extinguished!
She whipped her head around, her bloodshot eyes fixed on the dying Lu Cheneng lying on the ground! She roared like a wild beast, her bloodstained hands pressing firmly against the connector, using all her soul's strength to forcibly direct and redirect the torrent of violent energy that was pouring into her body, enough to incinerate her instantly!
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