She curled up, her consciousness surging between the excruciating pain and the icy cold. Fragments of memories belonging to "Xu Shuangyao"—the warmth of sunlight filtering through the lab's glass dome, the feel of her fingertips against the cold petri dishes, the sweet taste of candy handed to her by the young researcher codenamed "Deep Blue," who always wore a gentle smile... These warm, human colors were being washed away, stripped away, and blurred by the frenzied crimson code.
Outside the cage, a chaotic "perception" lurked. It wasn't a sense of sight or hearing, but a more vague, direct projection of consciousness. She could "feel" the icy force of logic that tightly coiled around Pei Du, suppressing him like a million invisible shackles. She could "feel" the agonizing tremors of a dying beast emanating from his thorny body with every struggle. She could "feel" the pure, cold murderous intent projected from those crimson electronic eyes, a desire to completely disintegrate and obliterate them!
Especially... when the rotating muzzle at the end of the scarlet tentacle instantly pierced Pei Du's right arm joint, and blew the thorn whip blade that once protected her and tore through the storm for her into pieces!
"No--!!!"
A silent, shrill scream, emanating from the deepest depths of her soul, erupted within the crimson prison! It wasn't a sound, but the trembling of the most extreme pain and despair within her consciousness! The crimson code chains entwined around her were suddenly tightened and twisted by this sudden, instinctive emotional onslaught!
Pei Du! Pei Du!
That name, like a single star piercing the endless darkness, burned with bloody warmth, fiercely imprinted on the core of her consciousness, which was about to be submerged by cold logic! In the fragments of memory covered by the crimson code, the figure who had dragged his broken body in front of her in the abandoned chamber; the figure who had guarded her with a giant hand of burning thorns in the data storm; the figure who had repeatedly pulled her back from the brink of death in the root frenzy... In an instant, it became extremely clear! Like a red-hot iron, it burned through the cold cage of logic!
He couldn't die! He couldn't fall here! For her, he had shed too much blood and endured too much pain!
An unprecedented, mad, desperate desire, a mixture of despair, rage, and recklessness, erupted from Xu Shuangyao's prison of consciousness like a volcano suppressed for eons! This desire was no longer a struggle of fear, but an active... embrace! Embrace the uncontrolled, cold, destructive force!
Destroy them!
【Destroy everything that hurt him...! 】
[With my blood! With my life! With this damn agreement! Destroy it! ! !]
This crazy idea is like a torch thrown into an oil depot!
Buzz——!!!
The entire crimson cage, along with Xu Shuangyao's imprisoned consciousness, instantly ignited! The icy chains of code that made up the cage were no longer shackles that bound her, but were forcibly commandeered and ignited by her mad will! The crimson light was no longer an uncontrolled burning, but was endowed with the purest and most violent will to destroy!
She no longer resisted the "Scarlet Agreement" running rampant within her, but instead actively and completely… threw herself into the furnace of destruction as fuel! Using her own existence as a fuse, she ignited the crimson storm that could overturn the rules!
boom--!!!
An indescribable, subversive energy wave erupted with Xu Shuangyao's body as its core! This time, it was no longer the unconscious loss of control as before, but a resolute self-destruction that carried the weight of her entire soul!
…
On the metal platform, scarlet tentacles, like icy giant pythons, entangled tightly around Pei Du's shattered, thorn-covered body. A logical suppression field, like millions of steel needles, continuously injected itself, disintegrating his last remaining strength. Dark green life-light and dark blue arcs of electricity flickered and clashed frantically at the wound, yet like frozen flames, they struggled to coalesce. More scarlet tentacles emerged from the shadows, their muzzles swirling. Crimson light converged in their cold electronic eyes, locking onto his unprotected head and chest.
The cold light of death is already piercing to the bone.
In Pei Du's molten-gold pupils, data thorn chains spun frantically, yet they could only illuminate the cold, flawless scarlet armor around him, and the increasingly bright muzzle light that signaled the coming of death. The chill of despair, like icy water at the bottom of the abyss, began to permeate his remaining consciousness.
At the moment when the deadly scarlet beams were about to erupt simultaneously from the muzzles of several guns—
Buzz!!!
A completely different, yet far more violent and resolute, terrifying wave suddenly erupted from Xu Shuangyao's body, which he was holding tightly against his chest!
This time, it’s no longer an out-of-control crimson storm!
But... the rising sun of destruction!
Boom——!!!
With Xu Shuangyao's body at its core, an indescribable crimson ball of light instantly expanded! The ball of light was no longer pure energy, but composed of countless icy geometric codes that whirled, burned, and exploded crazily! Each code contained Xu Shuangyao's resolute, self-destructive will! The ball of light expanded at a speed beyond imagination, instantly engulfing the three crimson tentacles wrapped around Pei Du and swallowing up the surrounding space for dozens of meters!
There was no sound explosion, only an absolute silence as if the space was forcibly torn apart and the rules were completely burned!
The crimson tentacles, engulfed by the ball of light, their thick armor, strong enough to withstand Pei Du's full-strength assault, were like thin ice thrown into the core of a star the moment they came into contact with the crimson ball! Scarlet energy lines flickered frantically, attempting to resist, but under the onslaught of billions of frantically burning codes, they broke and disintegrated like a fragile spider web! The superalloys that comprised the armor melted and vaporized silently like a wax figure under the scorching sun! The mechanical claws and probes embedded in Pei Du's body, along with the continuously infused logic suppression field, instantly vanished under the terrifying code incineration!
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