They traveled through time at the same time, but the villainous scientist

Chapter 494 Death is Gaia

Screams from nurses and patients' families echoed down the corridor, their voices twisted into piercing shrills by fear, as if they could already foresee the carnage of flesh and blood being torn apart.

However, at the heart of this chaos, all sounds and movements seemed to have crashed into an invisible dam.

Chu Xuan stood still, not even glancing up at the chandelier above him.

He simply stood there calmly, without moving or speaking, but the air around him seemed to undergo an indescribable distortion.

That was neither wind nor heat, but a more fundamental force that governs all things.

The deep, almost imperceptible humming sound spread out.

The scalpels, hemostats, and injection needles, which tumbled and danced in mid-air, gleaming with a chilling light, suddenly came to a stop less than half a meter away from the three people.

They seemed to be gripped by an invisible giant hand, all their kinetic energy was instantly stripped away, and their sharp tips trembled slightly in the air, but could no longer move forward even an inch.

The last screw securing the enormous crystal chandelier overhead finally snapped, and it crashed down with tremendous force.

However, when it was halfway down, its speed began to slow down sharply in a way that violated the laws of physics.

On the ground, the rapidly spreading water stain that was about to reach the power socket in the corner seemed to encounter an invisible chasm just centimeters before reaching the socket. The water flowed strangely to both sides, perfectly bypassing that fatal point.

Just as Chu Xuan took control of the situation, Zhang started.

He put his arm around Claire's shoulder and pulled her steadily behind him, away from the deadly weapons hovering in the air.

"Don't be afraid, we are here."

His voice was steady and powerful, like a reassuring pill, striking precisely into Claire's turbulent heart.

“I…I…” Ke
Lyle's body was still trembling uncontrollably, his mind blank from the extreme fear he had just experienced and the surreal scene before him.

She instinctively clutched the warm jade pendant to her chest; the lingering warmth from when it stopped the bullet was the only reality she could grasp at that moment.

"I...it's okay..."

She squeezed out a few dry syllables from her throat, her voice trembling uncontrollably.

"Let's go!" Zhang Qi shouted in a low voice.

Chu Xuan deactivated the electromagnetic field and then followed Zhang Qi.

"Clang! Clang!"

The surgical instruments and the enormous chandelier, both suspended in mid-air, lost their invisible support and crashed to the ground amidst a piercing sound of shattering metal and glass.

The loud noise finally brought the stunned crowd back to their senses. They stared at the three departing figures, their faces filled with shock and disbelief, and some had already begun to pull out their phones.

Can't stay here any longer.

Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan exchanged a glance, then without further hesitation, they flanked the dazed Claire on either side, quickly made their way through the chaotic crowd, rushed out of the sanatorium gate, and swiftly got into a black sedan parked by the roadside.

With a low growl, the car merged into traffic, quickly leaving the building, filled with an atmosphere of oppression and death, behind.

The atmosphere inside the carriage became somewhat somber for a moment.

Claire leaned back in the seat, panting heavily, her face as pale as paper, but a glimmer of hope for survival finally ignited in her empty eyes.

She looked at Chu Xuan driving in front and Zhang Qi in the passenger seat, her lips moving, but she didn't know what to say.

However, they underestimated the Grim Reaper's tenacity.

The car had just crossed an intersection and hadn't gone far.

“Gah—chih!”

A screeching sound, loud enough to tear eardrums, came from the side and behind.

A massive 18-wheeled heavy truck, loaded with steel, came hurtling towards the side of their car at a mad angle, like a runaway steel beast!

The enormous shadow instantly enveloped the entire vehicle, and the truck driver's face, contorted with terror, flashed briefly in the cab.

This time, the "accident" was not based on any foreshadowing or coincidence, but was a pure, unreasonable, and absolute force!

Claire, sitting in the back, let out a short scream and was once again gripped by the fear of being speechless.

"Sit tight!"

Chu Xuan's voice remained icy. He abruptly turned the steering wheel, and at the same time, the invisible electromagnetic field erupted once more.

This time, he didn't try to stop the truck, but instead used his power on his own car. The entire car seemed to be violently shoved to the side by a giant hand, the wheels leaving four charred marks on the ground.

The car narrowly missed the front of the truck with an almost impossible drift.

In the instant the two vehicles passed each other, you could even see the sparks flying off the truck's body due to the collision.

However, this was only the beginning.

The real killer move was revealed after the truck passed them.

Due to the violent turning and bumping, the chains used to secure the cargo on the truck flatbed snapped!
Several huge steel coils, bound together with steel cables, tumbled and fell from the vehicle like cannonballs.

These steel coils gleamed with a heavy, cold luster in the sunlight; each one was over two meters in diameter and weighed tens of tons.

They rolled on the asphalt road, carrying unparalleled kinetic energy, blocking all the car's routes of movement and evasion from different angles!
Zhang Qi's pupils suddenly contracted. The C-level defensive jade pendant on Claire's chest could only withstand these behemoths for a moment at most before being crushed to pieces like an eggshell.

Without a second thought, just as the heavy steel coil was about to strike the front of the car, Zhang Qi moved.

"[Colonial Costume]!"

A low drink.

Layers of black bio-armor plates snapped together, muscle fiber bundles instantly expanded, and grotesque bone spurs sprouted from his back. A grotesque helmet, full of biological and technological feel, covered his face, leaving only a pair of compound eyes flashing red light.

[Bio-Bio Armor]!
The transformation is completed in 0.1 seconds.

Without pausing, Zhang Qi suddenly opened his chest, which was covered by bio-armor, revealing the crystal-like particle cannon inside.

High concentrations of energy converge within it, emitting a heart-pounding hum.

The next moment, a beam of blazing white light, carrying a temperature high enough to melt everything, shot out fiercely!
The torrent of particles precisely struck the foremost rolling steel coil.

The massive steel object, weighing several tons, melted and vaporized silently from its center the moment it came into contact with the particle cannon, just like butter thrown into a furnace.

The blazing white beam of light was unstoppable, piercing through the first steel coil and then engulfing the second, third, and so on that followed.

However, just as the light from the particle cannon faded, another anomaly occurred!

The enormous stress generated inside the steel coils that are heated to their limits in an instant during the rolling process is released the moment the structure is destroyed!
"Boom——!"

The half-melted steel coil, like a detonated bomb, exploded violently in all directions. Countless steel sheets and bars, sharp and hardened by the high temperature, rained down on the car like a shower of flowers or a deadly storm of blades!

Each fragment possessed terrifying cutting power; its density and coverage were even more lethal than the array of scalpels used in the hospital!
Death actually used Zhang Qi's attack to complete its second fatal blow!

"Humph."

Chu Xuan, in the driver's seat, let out a cold snort. He didn't even turn around; he simply rested one hand on the car window.

An invisible repulsive field once again spread out from the car body.

"Ding ding ding ding ding—!"

The rain of fragments, enough to instantly slice a car into scrap metal, was deflected and spun away within centimeters of the vehicle, scattering across the ground with a clanging sound.

The acrid smell of gunpowder and molten metal permeated the streets, which were littered with debris.

Vehicles in the distance braked suddenly, and more screams rose and fell.

Inside the carriage, Claire, sitting in the back, rolled her eyes and finally succumbed to the series of terrifying shocks, completely losing consciousness.

"The Grim Reaper's attack power has increased by more than one level."

Chu Xuan looked at the street in the rearview mirror, which resembled a battlefield ruin, and said,

"Did the main god determine that we had intervened too deeply in the plot and increased the difficulty?"
Or is it... because we gave Claire this amulet, making it harder for Death to kill her?

"These two things might be the same thing."

Zhang Qi's voice came from under the bio-armor helmet, carrying a metallic quality.

He deactivated his bio-armor, which receded back into his body like a tide. In his hand, the crystal globe model had appeared unnoticed.

At this moment, the once crystal-clear globe is now illuminated by a clearly visible, flickering light, like breathing.

The fact that a reaction occurs when Death attacks is enough to prove that Death's attack is indeed related to the Gaia's will in this world...

(End of this chapter)