The night before the promotion

Chapter 5 Rejection Reaction
At the moment when the enemy's true face was completely revealed, it seemed as if all the sounds quickly faded away, leaving only a dead silence.

He couldn't tell whether Zhou Si's senses were confused or reality was just distorted.

Luo Yong's condition was far beyond Zhou Si's expectations.

His self-perception had been distorted to an irreversible point. Luo Yong completely regarded himself as a cold and ruthless mechanical body and was filled with deep disgust for his original flesh.

In order to resist the unbearable feeling of rejection, Luo Yong actually took extreme measures and illegally transformed his body, fusing his fragile flesh with metal, as if trying to mend a broken soul.

Luo Yong longed to abandon his original flesh and blood and completely transform himself into an inorganic life form made of steel.

"Why!"

Luo Yong shouted, and along with him, the loudspeaker of the incarnated body also shouted. The two voices intertwined together, forming a strange overlapping sound wave.

Absurd and harmonious.

Faint blue lines appeared under Luo Yong's skin, like a group of snakes swimming in flesh and blood.

This is the neural fiber bionic thread, a technology originally used for neural connection, but now Luo Yong is using it in an unconventional way to closely connect his central nervous system with his avatar body.

There is no need for a mind network or a neural docking helmet, nor is there a need for a thought storage core to nurture the soul.

Under the invasive connection, Luo Yong completely merged with the incarnation's body. He let out a painful roar, and his voice revealed unspeakable torment and joy.

The large system of high walls and thought storage core is a barrier to protect human consciousness.

The direct neural connection brought heavy pressure and irreparable trauma to Luo Yong's consciousness.

However, for a patient with Luo Yong's condition, such pain seemed not worth mentioning at all. He was not afraid at all and drove the mechanical body in an almost crazy state.

A heavy mechanical arm suddenly swept over. Zhou Si reacted quickly, bending down to avoid the fatal blow, grabbing the mechanical arm and using the force to leap backwards.

At this moment, Luo Yong's consciousness awakened in a dual realm - both within the human body and revived in the incarnation shell.

Zhou Si could vaguely guess that strange feeling. When Luo Yong stared at him with his naked eyes, the camera and optical sensors in his mechanical body were also tracking him synchronously, capturing his every movement. The two images intertwined in Luo Yong's mind, turning into a chaotic and cruel picture.

This dual visual input far exceeded Luo Yong's brain's processing capacity, not to mention that he now needed to process more than just visual information.

Luo Yong struggled, trying to control his arm that was integrated with the machine, but no matter how he twisted and tensed his muscles, his arm did not move at all.

On the contrary, the heavy mechanical arm swung repeatedly under the drive of his will, hitting the wall clumsily but powerfully.

In the blink of an eye, a deep crack was chiseled on the wall.

Luo Yong's broken brain was processing the dual information streams from his physical body and mechanical body at the same time, just like an old processor running at an overclocked speed, which could be on the verge of collapse at any time.

There were bursts of sharp sounds, that was the sound of the electromagnetic rifle firing.

Song Qiliang and Xiang Ji noticed something unusual in the alley. They picked up their electromagnetic rifles and shot at the incarnation's body. The bullets hit the mechanical arm, leaving shocking dents and sparks from the shattered bullet.

Song Qiliang yelled, "Doctor Zhou, are you going to continue?"

Just as Zhou Si judged, Luo Yong was no longer a simple patient. He was already in an extremely dangerous condition. Rather than receiving treatment, it would be better for him to stay in the comfort of his own home.

Xiang Ji, who was standing by, said nothing and calmly aimed the crosshairs at Luo Yong's head. During training, Xiang Ji was the shooting champion in the team, and at this distance, he was fully confident that he could kill him with one shot.

Zhou Si did not answer, but responded with action.

The nail gun fired continuously at the exposed parts of the mechanical joints. The hard rivets penetrated the shell inch by inch, leaving it riddled with holes.

Luo Yong screamed and rushed forward. His sturdy mechanical arm overturned the air-conditioning units along the way and crushed the heavy trash can easily. The distance between him and Zhou Si was further shortened, and at this time the sharp sound of firing from the electromagnetic rifle rang out again.

Pull the trigger, non-lethal mode.

The bullets repeatedly and accurately hit the joints of the robotic arm, following Zhou Si's previous attack, completely destroying this part of the mechanical structure. The heavy robotic arm drooped down as if it was broken, seriously slowing down Luo Yong's movements.

Luo Yong blinked hard, blood soaked his pupils and covered them with a layer of red filter. The disordered visual information made it difficult for him to deal with the current situation, let alone control his own body and incarnation shell.

Zhou Si, who was not far away, dropped the nail gun in his hand, lowered his arms, and looked relaxed.

The next moment, Zhou Si, who had been relaxed to the limit, tensed up. He sprinted towards Luo Yong, his white coat fluttering like a ghost or a blazing white lightning.

Luo Yong had a premonition of something, tears welled up in his eyes, and he refused loudly.

"no, do not want."

It is hard to imagine what kind of physical fitness Zhou Si has that allows him to perform such extreme movements. He stomped hard on the wall on one side and slid along the wall like a goat.

The bulky mechanical arms swung up, trying to block Zhou Si's progress, but just before hitting Zhou Si, he jumped high again, passing through the intersecting mechanical arms dangerously but calmly.

In an instant, the tearing sound of the violent friction between metal rang out, like broken strings, piercing everyone's eardrums.

Zhou Si kept raising the axe, and the axe blade turned slightly red due to the rapid cutting.

The robotic arm that tried to close froze straight in mid-air, and long and narrow cracks pierced through the metal casing, as well as the wires and pipes hidden underneath.

Debris flew everywhere, and broken cables danced wildly.

Zhou Si took a deep breath. This attack seemed to have exhausted most of his physical strength, but his left hand still held the axe blade tightly, hanging down at a strange angle, while his right hand clenched into a fist and swung forward without thinking.

Without any fancy moves, a standard right hook hit Luo Yong's vagus nerve, and the nervous fainting immediately interrupted all of Luo Yong's actions.

Zhou Si laughed softly and said, "Classical mechanics still plays a vital role in modern civilization."

He wasn't sure if this was a joke.

While Luo Yong was still recovering, Zhou Si decisively pulled out a tranquilizer and stabbed Luo Yong's neck like a deadly dagger. This was a tranquilizer specially prepared for patients, and it was very effective. In just a few seconds, Luo Yong's struggle completely stopped, like a lifeless corpse, crudely hanging on the incarnation shell.

But Luo Yong still kept his eyes open stubbornly, as if driven by some obsession. He stared at Zhou Si and talked like in a dream.

"Become... become an immortal..."

Zhou Si bent down in confusion. He vaguely heard the word "becoming an immortal", but he was not sure whether this was the nonsense that Luo Yong had said before he lost consciousness.

With a frown on his face, the word "becoming an immortal" seemed to trigger some kind of alertness in Zhou Si's heart, but when he was ready to investigate carefully, Luo Yong had completely lost consciousness.

Seeing Luo Yong fall into coma, Xiang Ji at the alley entrance also put down the electromagnetic rifle in his hand.

After a moment of silence, Xiang Ji rebuked with lingering fear, "Doctor Zhou almost died just now."

"I know."

Hearing this stern voice, Song Qiliang thought Xiang Ji was going to complain about this unruly regulation. Just as he was about to say a few words to defend Zhou Si, he heard Xiang Ji say again.

"I think I can understand why you respect him," Xiang Ji breathed a sigh of relief and touched the electromagnetic rifle in his hand, "We could have just shot him instead of trying every possible way to save him."

Song Qiliang let out a long sigh of relief after realizing that Xiang Ji had joined forces with him. But then Xiang Ji said, "But I still think this is a bit too kind and hypocritical."

Song Qiliang explained patiently, hoping that he could understand, "So usually for this kind of thing, Dr. Zhou is the only one who does it. If something happens to him, we will take over."

He added, "Zhou Si is a doctor who specializes in treating schizophrenia. However, as you know, society does not recognize this disease now. In addition, these patients are often highly aggressive, so Dr. Zhou's work has always been on the edge of the law."

"Then how did this Dr. Zhou become a consultant to our Inspectorate?"

Xiang Ji had just been transferred to Nianyan City not long ago, and he was full of curiosity about everything that happened here.

"This is related to Team Leader Li. Doctor Zhou was invited by Team Leader Li himself," Song Qiliang said as he wiped his gun. "This should have happened three years ago."

Xiang Ji's curiosity was not dispelled by these explanations. He continued to ask, "Since Dr. Zhou is so capable at work, why don't you just let him join our Supervision Bureau?"

If Zhou Si had had a hot-melt weapon from the Supervisory Bureau just now, Xiang Ji believed that he could have knocked down this incarnation within thirty seconds.

"Well..."

Song Qiliang looked troubled, as if he didn't know how to explain this reasonably.

"Team Leader Li proposed it, but Dr. Zhou's resume had issues and failed the review."

"Is your resume not good enough?" Xiang Ji came back to his senses and said, "That's true. The admission standards of the Supervisory Bureau have always been very high. After all, our job is to deal with complex technological crimes."

"No, it's not that it's not good enough," Song Qiliang shook his head, rejecting Xiang Ji's guess, "but his resume is a little too good, and a little too special."

Song Qiliang was just about to continue explaining Zhou Si's origins when the two of them suddenly noticed the changes in Zhou Si in the alley.

After Luo Yong fell down, Zhou Si did not leave immediately, but stood there, staring at the fallen Luo Yong.

A strange smile lingered on Zhou Si's face.

He murmured, "What an uncooperative patient. Fortunately, the preoperative anesthesia went smoothly."

After saying that, Zhou Si hummed a little tune and walked towards the alley entrance. He bent down and opened the medical box at the alley entrance.

Song Qiliang was no longer surprised by what happened next. He turned his eyes slightly to the side, unable to bear to look straight at it. Xiang Ji was still a little confused and didn't understand what Zhou Si was going to do.

A sudden roar was heard.

Zhou Si's medical box was like a treasure bag. He actually took out a high-speed hand saw from it, muttered something like "remove the lesion", and turned to walk towards Luo Yong.

Xiang Ji's thoughts were frozen by this absurd scene. A minute ago, he was still admiring Zhou Si's humanitarian spirit. A minute later, Zhou Si walked towards his patient with a smile like a chainsaw killer.

It was not until large sparks flew in the dim alley and the harsh cutting sounds disturbed everyone's nerves that Xiang Ji reacted.

"What is he doing?" Xiang Ji asked Song Qiliang, "Aren't you going to stop him?"

"Stop? Stop what?" Song Qiliang said indifferently, "Doctor Zhou is just treating the patient."

"Are you sure he's not murdering him?"

Xiang Ji's brows were almost twisted together. The hand saw was not only cutting the incarnation's body, but also cutting Xiang Ji's nerves.

"Don't worry, Dr. Zhou knows what to do."

Song Qiliang completely ignored Zhou Si's brutality and continued, "Where were we just talking about... Oh, by the way, Dr. Zhou's specialness."

"Don't think that Dr. Zhou is a quack. Not to mention the whole world, at least in Yanyan City, he is definitely one of the people who knows the incarnation body best."

"More importantly, Dr. Zhou also suffered from dementia."

This sentence was like a rivet, deeply embedded in Xiang Ji's mind. For a moment, he didn't know what to say, and even the rebuke that was on the tip of his tongue was choked in his mouth.

Song Qiliang added, "But unlike those patients who fell into madness, Dr. Zhou cured himself."

"This should be the first case of Lishi disease since its inception."

In the alley, Zhou Si excitedly waved a handsaw, separating flesh from steel, and dividing illusion from reality.

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