A heavily armored off-road vehicle raced through the deadly streets, the roar of its engine ripping through the suffocating silence. Inside the vehicle, the atmosphere was oppressive to the extreme.
Lu Cheneng gripped the steering wheel tightly, his knuckles white from the strain. His eyes, sharp as a knife, scanned the rearview mirror and the twisted ruins on either side. In the passenger seat, Wen Shifei was in dire straits! She curled up, her body convulsing uncontrollably, each twitch accompanied by a muffled groan of pain. Beneath her skin, the faint blue seven-pointed starlight no longer flickered faintly; it pulsed and flickered like boiling lava! Her body temperature was alarmingly high, and sweat soaked through her clothes, then instantly evaporated by the abnormally high heat radiating from her body, condensing into an eerie white mist on the car window. Even more terrifying, the rusty knife she clutched was now emitting a low humming sound. Its blade heated up dramatically, and the dark red rust seemed to come alive, gleaming with a subtle glow, creating an intense, indescribable resonance and tug at the energy within Wen Shifei's body!
"Ugh… Shen Entropy… It's… burning me… My head… is full of… voices…" Wen Shifei's voice was broken, her pupils sometimes dilated, sometimes erupting with blinding blue flames. The remaining fragments of her vision were filled with the shadow of the celestial light column and the twisted wails of the First Generation Fusion Form. She felt her consciousness being torn apart by the violent energy and chaotic mental echoes!
"Hold on! Shi Fei! Look at me!" Lu Chen's voice was hoarse but filled with undeniable strength. He freed one hand and grasped her burning, trembling hand tightly, trying to convey his will. "Control it! Just like we did in the warehouse! Push it back!" He glanced at the humming rusty knife in her hand. It seemed to absorb the escaping energy, but it also exacerbated her pain.
However, the changes in the Silent Zone captivated more than just them. In the rearview mirror, several glaring headlights, like bloodthirsty eyes, pierced through the dense dust, rapidly approaching! The roar of the engines mingled with inhuman roars and wild cries—it was the Black Snake Gang! A pursuit squad equipped with modified vehicles and composed of elite "Snake Kiss" warriors! In the passenger seat of the lead vehicle, a bald, muscular man ("Venomous Fang" Victor) with a tattoo of blood-drenched fangs on his face, held a telescope, greedily locking his gaze on their SUV.
"Target found! The light on that woman... is a treasure! Capture her alive!" Victor's sinister grin came through the loudspeaker, carrying a buzzing sound of mental pollution, causing the chip in Lu Chen's brain to sting.
"Hold on!" Lu Chen's eyes glared, and he swerved the steering wheel! The heavy off-road vehicle did a violent tailspin, its tires screeching as they scraped against the ground, before crashing into a narrow alleyway filled with abandoned containers!
Boom! Crash!
The container was displaced and deformed! The Black Snake Gang's modified car, chasing ahead, was caught off guard and crashed head-on into the deformed container, instantly crippling it! But the vehicles behind them quickly dispersed and outflanked!
Dadadada——!
The dense stream of bullets pounded the SUV's armor like hail, sending up countless sparks and creating spiderweb-like cracks in the bulletproof glass!
"Ugh!" Wen Shifei was stimulated by the violent jolt and the gunfire, and the energy in her body ran wild again! Several uncontrollable blue arcs burst out from her palms, crackling and hitting the roof and dashboard. The lights inside the car flashed wildly, and the electronic equipment wailed!
"Shi Fei! Control it!" Lu Cheneng growled anxiously as he maneuvered the car through a narrow alleyway, performing a thrilling evasive drift. He noticed that whenever an arc of electricity threatened to strike Wen Shi Fei or cause further damage, the buzzing rusty knife in her hand would flash with a faint light, forcibly absorbing most of the dissipated energy like a black hole. This in turn caused Wen Shi Fei to scream even more painfully, as if her soul was being torn apart! Was this knife... protecting her? Or... draining her?
call out--!
A rocket with a green fluorescent light and a trail of flame shot from the side of the roof! It was the Black Snake Gang's RPG!
Lu Chen's pupils shrank! In the nick of time, he slammed on the brakes and swerved wildly! The SUV narrowly avoided the collision, nearly flipping over! The rocket grazed the rear of the vehicle, exploding into a sky-high burst of flames and thick smoke in the ruins behind!
The shockwave shook the vehicle violently! Wen Shifei finally gave up, spitting out a mouthful of blood stained with faint blue light! The blue flame in his eyes instantly died, and he collapsed, his breath weak, but the light beneath his skin surged even more violently, as if ready to burst out of his body at any moment!
"Shi Fei!" Lu Chen's heart pounded! He slammed on the accelerator, and the SUV roared out of the alley like a wounded beast, temporarily leaving the pursuers at a distance. He had to find a place to stabilize her injuries immediately! Otherwise, the Black Snake Gang wouldn't have to do anything, she would be destroyed by the power within herself!
The old town! The abandoned hospital! Where my sister Lu Qingyi left her last clue! Maybe there's a solution there!
Relying on hazy memories and a hunch about danger, Lu Chenentang piloted his battered SUV, weaving like a ghost through the old city's increasingly dilapidated, maze-like streets. The stench of blood and decay grew stronger. Finally, a building resembling a gigantic tombstone appeared at the end of his sight—the abandoned Santa Maria Hospital. Its windows were like empty eye sockets, its walls covered in giant claw marks and spurts of dried, eerie, dark purple blood. The air was thick with the stench of disinfectant, decaying flesh, and... a deeper, oppressive despair.
The hospital gate had already shattered. Lu Cheneng parked the car roughly in the shadow of the gate and picked up Wen Shifei, who was still convulsing in pain and scalding hot, like a precious treasure about to shatter. He rushed into the ominous building.
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