A hopeless situation! A truly hopeless situation with no chance of survival!
Wen Shifei could even feel the icy breath of death emanating from the muzzle of the Gauss pistol behind her. Her fingers trembled slightly as they hovered over the activation button for the decryption key. Accessing the system took time; even a few seconds would be enough for the bullets behind her or the destructive energy of the mother body in front of her to completely tear her apart.
Time seemed to stretch infinitely. Drops of blood hit the cold metal platform, making a faint click. Ahead, the outline of a humanoid figure condensed from liquid metal grew clearer, its crimson glow threatening to pierce the darkness. Behind him, the muffled, deadly sound of the Gauss pistol charging.
A drop of warm liquid fell on Wen Shifei's blood-stained neck without warning.
It wasn't water. It had a faint, rusty, salty smell.
Her body suddenly stiffened.
Then, the second drop. The third drop.
Dripping on her hair and shoulders.
Wen Shifei turned his head slowly and with great difficulty.
The scene that came into her eyes made her heart feel as if it was being gripped by an ice-cold hand, and it stopped beating instantly!
Lu Cheneng still stood there, his Gauss pistol pointed steadily at her back. But his face… was twisting violently! His left eye, cold and completely dominated by a dark blue, was now flashing wildly! Like a light bulb with unstable voltage! And his right eye, which belonged to a human… had actually opened again!
There was no pupil dilation, only a dead silence, a deep pool of darkness. But at this moment, two lines of thick, crimson tears, like a broken dam, gushed out uncontrollably from that pitch-black right eye! Like a crimson stream, they continued to drip down his cheek!
His mouth opened and closed silently, without making any sound, but Wen Shifei seemed to hear the silent cry and... farewell from the deepest part of his soul, which was suppressed by the chip!
His eyes, passing over Wen Shifei's shoulder, stared intently at the cracking key in her hand that was inserted into the interface! His eyes were filled with unspeakable pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, yet with an almost sacred, pleading determination!
—Now! Format me! Trade my life... for hers! For the end of all this!
Wen Shifei understood. Tears immediately streamed down her face.
No more hesitation! No more retreat!
"ah--!!!"
Wen Shifei let out a heart-wrenching cry, a mixture of endless grief and determination! She no longer cared about the gun behind her, nor the destructive energy that was about to erupt in front of her! Her left hand, using the last of her strength, fiercely and resolutely pressed the final activation button on the cracking key!
[Highest authority command confirmed - Target: Implant serial number: LX-00... Execution: Forced formatting and physical annihilation!]
The moment the command is issued!
"Bang!"
The Gauss pistol behind him spewed out deadly flames from its muzzle! The sound of gunfire was deafening in the enclosed space!
Time froze at the moment Wen Shifei pressed the button, the gunshot rang out, and the liquid metal humanoid condensed from the "Zero" mother body in front of him erupted with a devastating torrent of scarlet energy.
Then, there was silent annihilation.
With Lu Chenentropy as the center, an invisible force that seemed to be able to erase all existence suddenly erupted!
First, the implant site at the back of his neck, gleaming with a frantic, dark blue light. Instead of extinguishing, the light instantly collapsed inward, vanishing as if thrown into a black hole! Then, as if wiped by an invisible eraser, the area where the light had vanished, flesh, bone, and even the damned chip itself, began to silently disintegrate and dissipate, transforming into the tiniest, shimmering dust!
This annihilation spread like a plague! Lu Chenen's gun-holding arm, shoulder, chest... his entire body, centered around the implant point, was irreversibly decomposed and erased by the ultimate power derived from the formatting command! Like a sand castle collapsing in the tide!
His right eye, shed with blood and tears, stared intently and deeply at Wen Shifei in the final moment of his body's annihilation. There was no pain or struggle in that look, only a calmness that was almost liberated, and an indescribable attachment as deep as the sea.
In the last frame before his lips completely dissipated into nothingness, they seemed to move ever so slightly, leaving behind a silent, eternal outline.
--Walk.
Bang!
The bullet from the Gauss pistol passed through the glowing void dust left behind after Lu Cheneng's body was annihilated, and shot into the air behind Wen Shifei.
at the same time!
The liquid metal humanoid condensed from the "Zero" mother body, that devastating crimson energy torrent burst out! Like a roaring river of blood, it instantly devoured the dust area left after Lu Chen's entropic annihilation, and then swept towards Wen Shifei and the entire platform without stopping!
Destruction is at hand!
However, just when this crimson torrent was about to swallow Wen Shifei in a thousandth of a second—
Buzz!
An invisible ripple suddenly spread out with the location where Lu Chen's entropy was annihilated as the core!
This ripple wasn't a physical shock, but a pure storm of informational annihilation! Like the most efficient formatting program, wherever it passed, all the still-functioning electronic devices, server arrays, and energy nodes in the core area of Pandora Labs... their screens instantly went black! Smoke erupted! Short-circuited! Countless tiny sparks flickered wildly in the darkness, then extinguished like dying fireflies!
The "Zero" mother figure, composed of liquid metal and releasing destructive energy, suddenly froze! The crimson light surging wildly within it flickered like a light bulb with poor contact, flickering erratically! Large patches of gray, rust-like patches began to appear on the surface of the liquid metal that made up its body, and they spread rapidly!
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