Lin Mo endured the dizziness and severe pain, struggled to get up, and relying on his vague memory of the substructure of the mining ship - that was an area he was forced to be familiar with when he was a "scavenger" in order to find valuable parts or hide from pursuit - he stumbled into a narrow maintenance passage covered with oil and almost blocked by collapsed materials.
Darkness. Absolute darkness. Only the occasional beam of light from the distant pursuers' flashlights swept across the entrance of the passage, bringing a brief, terrifying flicker of light.
He huddled behind a pile of cold, discarded parts deep in the tunnel, panting like a wounded beast, each breath carrying the scent of rust and blood. The excruciating pain and weakness within his body washed over his consciousness like a tide, and the chilling countdown chime of the Star Core echoed in his mind like a death knell. Energy level: 0.75%… and still falling.
"Damn it, that brat must have gotten in! Split up and look for him! He's seriously injured and can't get far!" A gruff voice rang out at the entrance of the passage, filled with cruel excitement. "Scarface Johnny and his gang are gone. The 'legacy' in this ship, and the treasures that brat found, all belong to our 'Rust Brotherhood'!"
The footsteps separated, heading deeper into different forks. The heavy, murderous footsteps seemed to be stepping on Lin Mo's heart.
Despair, like a cold vine, wrapped around his neck, tightening ever tighter. He couldn't run anymore... he truly couldn't... his body had reached its limit. Was he going to die at the hands of these garbage dump hyenas, having just survived that devastating explosion? Like a rat being trampled to death? Scrapped and sold for parts? Pei Du... The heavy sorrow and shattered fragments of his all-consuming will, brought on by that name, once again surged uncontrollably through his chaotic mind. Why? Why must I die like this?!
A mixture of resentment, anger, and the most primitive hatred for this damn fate, like a suppressed volcano, suddenly erupted from the depths of his consciousness on the verge of collapse! This emotion was so strong, so violent, that it even temporarily overwhelmed the severe pain and weakness in his body!
Buzz——!!!
At the left eye, the fading liquid dark gold light suddenly erupted with an unprecedentedly dazzling light, as if doused with boiling oil! This light was not warm, but rather carried a cold, all-consuming aura of destruction!
[Warning! Extreme emotional fluctuations detected in the carrier... Intensity: Critical!]
[Unknown Will Brand (Deep Silence)…Activity abnormally increased! ]
[Energy core...forced overload activated! ]
[Entropy horizon...deep activation!]
The cold prompt sound was instantly drowned out by the roar of a higher-pitched and colder law!
Lin Mo's perspective changed completely!
The walls of the maintenance tunnel, the twisted pipes, the piled-up parts... all the material shells instantly "melted" and "peeled off"! Only the purest energy flow and law structure remained in sight!
The wall was no longer solid, but composed of countless slowly flowing dark green energy lines that represented the stability of the underlying metal structure;
What is flowing in the pipes is a chaotic and mixed flow of waste energy, swirling like sewage;
The stacked parts emit a pale gray light as dead as ash, representing the end point of material entropy growth;
At the corner of the passage, a humanoid energy silhouette emitting a scorching red light, representing powerful life heat and high-intensity malice, was holding a kinetic shotgun with a simple structure, but the core energy nodes emitted orange highlights (representing the weapon's activated state), grinning, and approaching the corner where he was hiding step by step!
In this world of energy and laws, malice burned like a torch in the darkness, blindingly clear! Every movement of the human figure, the energy accumulating in its muscles, the intent of its finger pressing on the trigger... all were like slow-motion images, clearly reflected in Lin Mo's perception! He could even "see" the instantaneous energy flow from the shotgun's interior as it was transferred to the firing pin, detonating the gunpowder and igniting the projectile!
"I found you, little mouse!" The sinister laugh was close at hand!
Fear was completely replaced by a cold, almost inhuman rage! That fragment of willpower, emanating from Pei Du's brand and burning with all intent, fueled by a fierce desire to survive and extreme hatred, for the first time resonated violently with Lin Mo's own will! No need to think! No need to understand! Driven by instinct, his body suddenly threw itself to the side a billionth of a second before the fatal shotgun was ejected!
boom!!!
A torrent of scorching, dense metal pellets, with a piercing shriek, slammed fiercely into the pile of discarded parts where he had just hidden! Countless parts were instantly shredded, melted, and blasted everywhere! The hot metal fragments grazed his scalp and back, leaving behind a searing pain!
"Fuck! He's quite good at dodging!" The pursuer obviously didn't expect that the dying kid could have such a reaction. He pulled the bolt of the gun while cursing, ready to shoot again.
Now is the time!
The moment Lin Mo fell to the ground, the icy, vast, starry torrent within his body seemed to be forcibly stirred by his extreme sense of crisis and violent will! A stream of cold energy, so weak as to be almost negligible, yet imbued with the attributes of absolute order, followed his instinct for survival. Like an invisible tentacle, it fiercely stabbed at the pile of bombarded parts in his field of vision—one of which was a twisted, heavy alloy plate, its internal structure on the verge of collapse from the explosion and the previous bombardment!
[Energy Guidance: Overload the target material structure stability node...]
The cold command flashed through his consciousness.
Buzz!
Inside the thick alloy plate, the dark green energy lines representing structural stability suddenly vibrated and twisted violently, like a spider web thrown into a boulder! Countless fine cracks spread wildly across the law level!
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