The cold mechanical sound was like a poisoned ice cone, fiercely piercing the brief silence in the experimental chamber.
"High priority target...'Source Blood' mark... detection confirmed..."
"Execute... Final Recovery Protocol!"
Xu Shuangyao lay flat on the cold lab table. Her eyes, which had just shed their daze and regained a touch of life, suddenly shrank to the size of a needlepoint the moment the last byte fell. The remaining crimson, like a fading ember, was violently covered and devoured by an even colder, more absolute, dark blue light! That light carried no trace of Xu Shuangyao's emotions, only a programmed scan and lock, like the crimson eye of a Zero, fixed fixedly on Pei Du, who was so close at hand!
As soon as she finished speaking, her body was suddenly pulled by an invisible force, and in a completely rigid posture that completely violated human mechanics, she instantly bounced off the experimental table! Her arm, covered with traces of light gold and dark green clashing, rose up like lightning, and her five fingers were pressed together like knives. The fingertips were not condensed into sharp blades of energy, but... several sharp probes that flashed with a cold blue light, as if condensed from liquid metal, instantly pierced out from under the skin! With a sharp whistle that tore through the air, they pierced Pei Du's chest covered with dark gold lines with unparalleled precision! The target was directly at the core of the drop of "Star Core Blood" in his body!
Recycling! Cradle will directly recycle the "source blood" in his body!
Pei Du's molten-gold pupils shrank to dangerous pinpoints the instant the mechanical sound rang out! His body's instinctive reaction was even faster than his mind! The moment Xu Shuangyao (or rather, the body possessed by the program) sprang up, his left arm, covered in dark gold patterns, lifted up to block, as if anticipating it!
Ding! Ding! Ding!
A few sharp clashes of metal and steel clashed! The dark blue liquid metal probe fiercely pierced Pei Du's blocking left arm, exploding with dazzling energy sparks! The immense impact, mixed with a cold, slippery energy with a strong sense of logical corrosion, spread up his arm, attempting to disrupt the circulation of his star core blood!
Although it failed to penetrate the defense, Pei Du's heart sank! This power... was more concentrated and precise than the previous transformed attack! It carried the icy will of the Cradle System's highest authority! Even more terrifying was the sight of Xu Shuangyao's azure-covered eyes, the aura of "Xu Shuangyao" flickering and struggling like a firefly cast into the deep sea, amidst the torrent of azure commands, conveying silent, soul-rending pain!
"Shuangyao! Hold on!" Pei Du let out a low roar filled with suppressed rage. He exerted force with his blocking left arm, trying to push away the stabbing arm. At the same time, his right hand, as fast as lightning, grabbed Xu Shuangyao's wrist, trying to imprison her again!
However, the body, powered by the "Final Recovery Protocol," erupted with combat effectiveness far exceeding its previous capabilities! Xu Shuangyao's body, like a weightless phantom, unexpectedly slid back half a step at a strange, completely unhuman angle at the moment Pei Du exerted force! At the same time, the arm that had been blocked instantly transformed from thorns into a lock. The liquid metal probe twisted and entangled like a living thing, unexpectedly twisting back towards Pei Du's grasping wrist! The speed of the movement, the smooth transition, carried an inhuman, suffocating beauty of killing!
Attack and defense switched instantly! Pei Du was forced to change his grip into a palm, and his palm covered with dark gold lines slammed down on the entwined liquid metal with an aura of annihilation!
Bang! Swish!
The muffled thud of energy annihilation mingled with the piercing sound of metal being forcibly melted! Pei Du shattered the entangled liquid metal probe with a single palm strike, melting it apart! The splattering blue metal droplets, seemingly possessing life, attempted to cling and corrode, but were instantly vaporized by the dark golden lines that lit up on Pei Du's skin in response!
But just as Pei Du shattered the probe, Xu Shuangyao's free hand, like a venomous snake spitting its tongue, instantly cracked at the fingertips, revealing five miniature, dark blue firing holes! Five beams of extremely condensed, dark blue light, emitting an aura of space-freezing, shot out silently at extremely tricky angles, instantly blocking all space for Pei Du to dodge. Their targets weren't his vital points, but rather his limb joints and spinal cords!
Paralysis! The cradle doesn't want to kill, but to completely paralyze and recycle!
A deadly chill instantly gripped Pei Du's heart! He had just forcefully blocked and counterattacked, but his old strength was gone, and new strength had yet to emerge! The dark golden lines covering his body dimmed noticeably after the continuous bursts! Facing these five millisecond-precise dark blue beams, powerful enough to freeze his movements, he... had no way to avoid them!
A critical moment!
“Ughh ...
A roar, a mixture of extreme pain, fury, and destructive urges, like the roar of a wounded star core, suddenly exploded from the depths of Pei Du's throat! This roar was no longer a physical sound wave, but a fusion of his desperate will to protect, his deep hatred for Cradle, and the violent resonance of the thoroughly enraged star core blood within his body!
Buzz——!!!
With Pei Du at its center, a terrifying, invisible force field, imbued with the dual attributes of absolute annihilation and entanglement, erupted like a volcano dormant for eons! The force field didn't spread spherically, but rather resembled countless invisible, destructive pythons woven from dark gold and dark green thorns. It violently strangled and devoured everything in all directions, especially the five incoming dark blue beams!
The Kingship of Thorns! In the desperate situation of life and death, and under the ultimate stimulation of the coveted Star Core Blood, Pei Du, for the first time... actively, recklessly... unleashed his full force on this newly acquired, crude yet powerful power!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Five muffled, annihilating roars erupted almost simultaneously! Those five dark blue beams, powerful enough to freeze space, were violently strangled by the dark gold thorn field, like ice crystals thrown into a furnace, instantly annihilated and devoured! Not even a ripple could form!
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