Xu Shuangyao lay on the cold, metal-smeared ground, her vision blurry and her entire body aching. She struggled to even lift a finger. She stared at the spinning drill bit approaching like the maw of hell, listening to the eardrum-tearing shriek, and her consciousness began to fade.
Is it...over?
No!
Just when the drill was about to touch her body!
boom--!!!
A dark golden figure suddenly rushed out from the smoke and molten metal rain of the explosion like a violent thunder tearing through the smoke!
It’s Pei Du!
His entire body was covered in a flowing, dark-gold energy armor that resembled living thorns! The shadow of the crown between his brows had never been so solid and blazing, like a burning sun! His eyes burned with pure, cold golden flames, devoid of pain or confusion, only the most primal, thoroughly enraged will to destroy!
The ground where he was just now was burned by molten metal, leaving a big hole, but the thorn armor on his body was intact, even isolating the splashing molten metal!
"ROAR!!!!" Pei Du let out a soul-shattering roar. It wasn't a human voice, more like the roar of some ancient beast! He ignored the drill bit piercing Xu Shuangyao, his body transformed into a dark golden lightning that ripped through space. With a determination to die together, he slammed into the giant Eradicator captain, whose barrel was damaged and still being recalibrated!
Too fast! Too strong!
Boom—Crack!!!
Like the collision of two metal mountains! Pei Du's thorn-armored shoulders and elbows, like battering rams, slammed fiercely into the thick, overgrown armor on the giant Eradicator captain's chest! The tumor-like growths instantly collapsed inward and exploded! Viscous, dark-red blood mixed with shattered armor fragments gushed out like a fountain!
The giant Eradicator captain's massive body was unexpectedly knocked off the ground by this violent collision! He slammed hard into the pipe-lined wall behind him! The heavy impact made the entire laboratory tremble!
The giant drill that was stabbing at Xu Shuangyao suddenly stopped less than half a meter away from her body!
Because its operator—the giant Eradicator—was severely swept by the violent energy shockwave caused by Pei Du's knocking the captain away. Its huge body stumbled, and the drill bit grazed Xu Shuangyao's body and pierced deeply into the metal ground beside her! Gravel flew everywhere!
Chance!
On the brink of life and death, Xu Shuangyao unleashed her final strength! She endured the excruciating pain as if her entire body was falling apart, and rolled over violently! At the same time, her hand, stained with her own blood and dust, once again pressed hard against the base of Qingluo's massive roots!
"Qingluo! Send him away! Send him to the place in memory! That location!" Xu Shuangyao roared in his consciousness, and madly transmitted the specific location where the mycelium figure had pierced in Pei Du's memory surgery scene just now - the coordinates of the limbic brain area behind the cervical nerve interface, which controls primitive instincts and emotional feedback - through the connection!
"Understood!" Qingluo's ethereal voice was filled with determination! The giant emerald green roots suddenly erupted with a dazzling silver-white light! Countless tiny "roots" composed of pure silver-white energy instantly shot out, not attacking, but like the most sophisticated probes, ignoring the violent thorn energy field on Pei Du's body, and piercing the back of his neck with incredible precision, the spot locked by Xu Shuangyao and deeply buried with the dark seed!
"Ahhhh!!!" Pei Du let out a short and painful groan, and the light of the thorn armor covering his body suddenly stopped!
Next second!
Silver-white energy roots erupted with a powerful pulling force! Pei Du's thorn-armored body, along with the pulsating crown shadow between his brows, was violently pulled off the ground by this force! As if grabbed by an invisible giant hand, he was hurled fiercely towards the large hole in the laboratory wall melted by the shotgun shell, and towards the deeper, darker unknown space behind!
The dark golden figure instantly disappeared into the darkness behind the lava cave!
"Target Alpha carrier disengaged! Lock failed! Switching target: Omega carrier! Top priority!" The knocked-away Eradicator captain struggled to his feet from the dent in the wall, his chest armor shattered, sticky blood gushing out, and the electronic voice was filled with a furious hoarseness. It and the other two giant Eradicators, three pairs of scarlet electronic eyes, like six searchlights from hell, instantly locked onto the helpless Xu Shuangyao lying on the ground!
The high-speed rotating drill, the twisted and deformed shotgun muzzle, and the heavy footsteps that carried the power to crush all will, were like three moving meat grinders, crushing towards Xu Shuangyao!
Xu Shuangyao lay on the cold ground, watching the three terrifying figures that obscured the sky approach, feeling the shriek of drills tearing through the air and the hum of energy cannons charging. The teeth marks on the side of her neck burned, the mycelium in her pocket burned, and the backlash from forcing her mental energy just now made her brain ache as if it were being pulverized.
She slowly closed her eyes. Not giving up, but gathering her last bit of strength. Her fingertips unconsciously touched the wound on the side of her neck that bore the scent of Pei Du.
The antidote... is also a weapon... the final weapon...
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