Longzang

Chapter 1106 In the Cage
Ji Liuli was suddenly attacked and was shot dozens of times in an instant.

The security guards then realized what was happening and immediately drew their weapons, engaging the monster in battle.

A monster, untouched by the security guards, pounced directly on Ji Liuli. As it pounced, its body continued to mutate; its flesh, skin, and even bones creaked and groaned, expanding and twisting, looking like a writhing mass of flesh, desperately trying to devour Ji Liuli alive.

The monster attached itself directly to Ji Liuli's body. The blood and slime oozing from its body were extremely corrosive, and smoke immediately rose from the places it touched. Even the top-quality work uniform that Ji Liuli was wearing was corroded in large areas.

But suddenly, a brilliant light erupted from Ji Liuli's body, and he grabbed the monster, tearing it in two!

At the same time, starlight appeared on her hands, and wherever she touched, all life was extinguished. The monster's wildly growing flesh and blood instantly turned gray and black, devoid of any life.

Ji Liuli opened the drawer, took out an astonishingly large pistol, and pulled the trigger.

This .30 caliber pistol was considered extremely powerful even by Qingming's standards. Moreover, Umbrella Corporation's gunpowder technology was two or three generations more advanced than Qingming's, so with one shot, the monster was blasted to pieces.

Ji Liuli's gun has a special bullet; when it touches the monster's hard body, it immediately explodes, tearing the monster apart in the process.

In an instant, more than a dozen monsters turned into corpses, and in that short time, only about forty of the more than one hundred security guards remained alive. Even more than half of the dozen or so powerful superhumans were killed or wounded.

Ji Liuli's military uniform had large holes, and his left shoulder was completely exposed, revealing large blisters on his skin that were rapidly swelling and then bursting, spraying out thick yellow liquid.

Starlight flowed continuously across Ji Liuli's body, suppressing the restless flesh and blood. She then walked through the room, reaching out to stroke each piece of the monster's shattered flesh. Wherever her fingers touched, the monster's flesh and blood would lose their life force. No matter how many pieces a monster was broken into, once more than a certain proportion of its flesh and blood had been touched by Ji Liuli, the entire monster would immediately lose its life force.

Ji Liuli quickly finished processing all the monster's flesh and blood, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

At this moment, the strongest of the surviving superhumans had his left arm corroded down to the bone, and he had a deep wound on his chest. He barely managed to prop himself up and crawl toward a walkie-talkie that still looked intact, intending to call for help.

But just as he pressed the distress button, a loud bang rang out, and a bullet whistled through the air, shattering the communicator. The superhuman turned around in astonishment and saw that the gunpowder smoke in Ji Liuli's hand had not yet dissipated.

"Boss?" The superhuman was confused and had just asked a question when the next bullet shattered his skull.

Ji Liuli was breathing heavily and looked very tired. He said, "No one is allowed to call for help! Everyone stay put and rest. Only after an hour, if there are no mutations, can we call for help."

All the security guards were ingrained in their obedience to orders, and immediately sat down against the wall to rest and tend to their injuries. Ji Liuli, on the other hand, sat down behind his desk, pushed the microphone aside, picked up a photo frame, and stared at the picture inside, becoming increasingly lost in thought.

From the camera angle, the content of the photo cannot be seen, but you can see Ji Liuli's left hand hanging down under the table, scribbling a few words on a sticky note, and then quietly sticking it under the desk.

But a corner of the table obscured the movement of her fingers, so Wei Yuan couldn't see whether she was writing "save me" or "kill me".

A suffocating silence fell over the office area in the video. Ji Liuli placed the photo face down on the table, adjusted her breathing, and closed her eyes to rest. Wei Yuan's gaze lingered on the microphone for a moment, sensing that something was amiss.

Ji Liuli's entire office area is decorated in a modern minimalist style, complemented by artworks, paintings, and lighting. However, the retro-style microphone clashes with the overall aesthetic of the office. Moreover, given the advanced technology of Umbrella Corporation, why would they use such an old and primitive device?
The security guards sat quietly, occasionally showing expressions of pain.

However, Wei Yuan's eyes narrowed as he noticed that one of the people had his eyes half-closed, but his two eyeballs were moving in different directions, which looked extremely strange.

Before he could even observe his surroundings, a bullet whistled through the air and blew his head off!
The scattered pieces of flesh and brains froze for a moment, then suddenly began to scatter in all directions. But a giant hand had already pressed down from above, and starlight rose from where it landed, turning all the flesh and blood into ashes.

Despair was evident in the eyes of many security guards. Two of them suddenly pressed their guns against their chins and pulled the triggers. But another man pointed his gun at Ji Liuli. Before he could pull the trigger, a large hand gripped his pistol and head together!
When the hand opened, beneath it was a body as black and gray as charcoal.

Ji Liuli was about to return to his desk when suddenly a security guard opened his mouth to the side and let out an extremely sharp sound!

When the sound in the video rang out, Wei Yuan's expression changed. He felt that the sound was tearing apart the tiny structures within many cells of his body, and then they began to mutate!
The sound in surveillance footage can also be a trap!

Wei Yuan's reaction was close to that of an immortal, much faster than that of a mortal. He immediately reached out and scratched the metal tabletop with his fingernails, producing a piercing sound that perfectly neutralized the part of the image and sound that could evoke a sense of resonance in flesh and blood.

This scratching technique is quite sophisticated; it's not something you can just do randomly.

In the video, Ji Liuli heard the scream, froze, and then shot the security guard in the head. However, all the surviving security guards were affected by the scream and began to show signs of mutation.

Ji Liuli's face was icy cold as he began to pick off his team members one by one with his gun, seemingly intending to kill them all.

Some security guards waited numbly for their deaths, while others fought back fiercely, but they were no match for Ji Liuli. With speed far exceeding human limits, Ji Liuli fired eight shots in quick succession, killing eight people, then calmly changed magazines and killed eight more.

The two rounds of firing, plus the magazine reload, took only 0.1 seconds; the surveillance cameras barely captured her movements. Just as all the survivors were about to be killed, the floor-to-ceiling windows suddenly shattered, and several six-legged monsters crashed through the bulletproof glass curtain wall and stormed into the office area!
These monsters are enormous, incredibly strong, and move like the wind. They can glide and float through the air, and the scenery around them is visibly distorted. Whenever Ji Liuli gets close, he shows obvious signs of pain.

At that moment, a monster approached the camera, and the image instantly became noticeably distorted before disappearing. Clearly, the camera had been damaged by the force field surrounding the monsters.

This is the last camera, and the last piece of footage that has been preserved.

Upon seeing this, for some reason, Wei Yuan suddenly recalled a passage he had read in the system data a long time ago:

"The flesh and blood of the devil is not the breeding ground of that gene, but more like the chains that bind it."

Perhaps the primordial demon lurks deep within that segment of the gene. We used to think of genes as carriers of life's information, but now I feel they might be a prison. ...I even suspect that organic matter itself is a cage designed by the universe to divide and bind it.

For some reason, these words kept echoing in Wei Yuan's mind. He even had an absurd thought: those words written by that researcher back then were written for his present self.

Wei Yuan stepped out of the secret room and stood before the floor-to-ceiling window, gazing outside. The Umbrella Corporation headquarters building stood thousands of meters tall; from there, the clouds seemed to be at his feet.

Wei Yuan looked up at the sky and earth, and a thought struck him as he caught a faint glimpse of the flow of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. Originally, Wei Yuan's body was entirely a product of this world, perfectly in harmony with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. He should not have been able to perceive the existence of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth at all, and would have been just an ordinary person.

However, there is currently a Heavenly Demon within Wei Yuan's sea of ​​consciousness. The existence of a Heavenly Demon is impossible to replicate. To this strange world, the Heavenly Demon is an unrecognizable error, thus causing Wei Yuan to drift outside of this world and occasionally be displaced from it, thereby temporarily escaping the Great Dao of this world.

This world is like a faulty program, occasionally appearing as chaotic mosaics in Wei Yuan's eyes.

When another error occurred and obvious gibberish appeared in the surrounding air, Wei Yuan seized the moment and a three-faced human head suddenly appeared vaguely above his head. However, the human head was extremely blurry and only one eye was open.

Although only one eye was open, the Eye of the Six Realms still revealed terrifying power, its gaze illuminating the heavens and earth in an instant! Wei Yuan instantly saw the world between reality and illusion, a world filled with countless chaotic and disordered streams of light, without any pattern and impossible to perceive.

Time traveled in chaos!?
The sudden realization almost made Wei Yuan break out in a cold sweat. Originally, he was not panicked about returning to the outer world, after all, he was already very familiar with this world and had the memories of his previous life in this place, so he should be able to get through it without any surprises.

Now we see that the distance between reality and illusion is so vast, and that it is all a chaotic flow of time. If one accidentally falls into it, it is equivalent to being hit by countless twilights on the path of immortality. Moreover, the flow of time in different parts of the body will become different. Some parts may become younger, while others will age and die instantly. In the end, Wei Yuan will be completely swallowed by time.

Wei Yuan originally thought he was already very vigilant, but he did not expect that the dangers of this world would even exceed his worst expectations.

However, after successfully unleashing the Eye of the Six Realms and seeing through some of the illusions of this world, Wei Yuan regained some of his strength and was able to draw upon a portion of his original power. Without hesitation, Wei Yuan instinctively borrowed a bit of the power of the Pure Land of Bliss from his own body.

A faint golden light suddenly appeared on Wei Yuan's body, and a hint of majesty and solemnity appeared between his brows.

He looked out the window again, then suddenly jumped out and fell into the sea of ​​clouds!

As soon as you enter the sea of ​​clouds, the surroundings instantly change, revealing scene after scene.

Covered in blood, Ji Liuli was battling countless monsters. These monsters kept leaping out from the depths of the sea of ​​clouds, seemingly endless. Ji Liuli quickly ran out of bullets, so he simply threw away his pistol, took off his belt, wrapped it around his fist, and used it as a makeshift weapon to begin a desperate hand-to-hand fight with the monsters!

A glimmer of incense smoke appeared in Wei Yuan's eyes, and in its flickering light, he saw through the illusion of the sea of ​​clouds.

The sea of ​​clouds is not actually clouds, but rather a defect and error in this world. In Wei Yuan's eyes, who is a mortal, it appears as an unfathomable sea of ​​clouds. In reality, however, this is a gap in the world, through which countless monsters are rushing into this world!

If this enormous Ji Liuli is indeed Ji Liuli, then these monsters might be the Void Demons that Wei Yuan saw in the Dream Eater Kingdom, Void Demons that have been relentlessly hunting Ji Liuli in a certain dimension since childhood.

However, Ji Liuli's appearance in the fragments of the outer world last time could be explained, since she went to explore the fragments of the world with Wei Yuan and was reborn in the illusion at the same time.

But what about Ji Liuli in this world?

Wei Yuan floated in the sea of ​​clouds, watching Ji Liuli's wounds multiply. Finally, Ji Liuli threw out something that exploded, sending up a burst of pure silver light that nearly pushed Wei Yuan into the depths of the sea of ​​clouds.

The lower half of the Umbrella Corporation wasn't hidden deep within the sea of ​​clouds; instead, countless perilous voids concealed itself. It seemed that the portion of this world beneath the clouds had been completely shattered and dissolved into the void.

With a thought, Wei Yuan left the void and returned to the sea of ​​clouds.

Ji Liuli used a special flashbang to repel the monster and leaped back to the office area. The monster in the sea of ​​clouds seemed unable to break through the cloud boundary and did not give chase.

Returning to the building, Ji Liuli staggered, blood flowing uncontrollably from every wound on her body. She staggered to the desk, carefully picked up the photo frame, opened the hidden safe in the wall, and placed the photo frame inside.

The moment the photo frame was placed in the safe, Wei Yuan finally saw what was on it: it was a girl of about ten years old, leaning forward, hugging a boy of seven or eight years old, smiling brightly and sunnyly.

The girl was none other than Ji Liuli in her youth, and the boy looked exactly like Wei Yuan when he was a child!
The moment Wei Yuan saw the photo, he immediately felt a sense of confusion. His memories and reality intertwined and became chaotic, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether this world was real or not.

The photograph was quite old, faded, and the frame was old-fashioned, seemingly a product from a hundred years ago.

Wei Yuan knew that the images he was seeing were past events he had witnessed, thanks to the Eye of the Six Realms and the power of the Pure Land of Bliss that allowed him to travel through time. But now he was unsure whether what he was seeing was real.

Ji Liuli carefully put away the photo frame, locked the safe, and then examined the wounds on her body. The wounds had begun to show obvious signs of mutation, and even the starlight could no longer suppress them.

Ji Liuli arrived at a control terminal, entered the self-destruct countdown, then looked at the corpses scattered all over the ground and muttered to himself, "Destroy with me, you won't be able to escape from here!"

After saying that, Ji Liuli dragged his heavy body to the French window, jumped down, and leaped out!
Wei Yuan was startled and rushed to the window. But as he ran, he suddenly felt a noticeable acceleration in the flow of time, and then he saw Ji Liuli jump back in from outside the window!
But by this time, her skin had turned bluish-black, her face was distorted, and she had clearly transformed into something inhuman.

She first shut down the self-destruct system, then sat down at her desk, pulled up the microphone, and said in Ji Liuli's voice, "The system has malfunctioned. Please send reinforcements immediately! I repeat, please send reinforcements immediately!"

Looking at the dark blue monster sitting at the desk, Wei Yuan knew that once the rescuers opened the office area door, it would all be over.

(End of this chapter)