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Hundreds of wrecked remains were stitched together with silver pipes, blocking the maintenance passage at the end of the underground hall.

The human leg was inserted into the ribs, the severed hand was gripping the skull, half of the face was in the center of the chest cavity, and the mouth was stuffed with a power supply valve.

His scarlet eyes rose from the gaps in his bones and stared at the four people who had landed.

The mainframe moved half a step, and the ground grid bent downwards, causing all the engine oil accumulated in the gaps to flow to its feet.

"That's truly terrifying."

It touched the inverted human face on its chest.

"I've revised the human records 437 times, but the nose always ends up in the wrong place."

Dozens of mouths opened wide at the same time.

"Tell me, who did this to me?"

Zhao Leiguang overlapped his two shields, with the edges of the shields wedged into the holes of the grid plate.

"Go ask your lab's production line, don't stop me from saving people."

The silver tubing traveled along the back of the main brain, its ends disappearing into the fleshy wall deep inside the hall.

The characters on the pipeline turned scarlet, and the scattered debris twitched and crawled toward the center.

The severed arm dragged its internal organs, and half of the torso flipped over the mesh, even the dried bone fragments were sucked into the flesh and blood.

In less than three seconds, a blood-red wall of flesh and blood, tens of meters high, was erected in front of the hall.

The red wall was covered with faces: wounded soldiers, people in white coats, and children whose faces had been cut off.

Those faces opened their mouths, but did not cry out.

Low-frequency static penetrated the headphones, and the mental pollution markings on the tactical mask crossed the warning line.

Wen Yue tapped the side of her helmet, and a double image appeared in the crossbow scope, with the crosshairs split into seven.

"It's using dead people as megaphones."

The array plate in Qin Wuyi's palm trembled, and all six secondary plates tilted in the same direction.

"There are at least seven master control nodes behind the wall, and their locations are still changing."

The mastermind inserted an arm into the red wall, and the wall pressed forward.

The woman at the very front opened her throat and spat out a grayish-white viscous liquid.

The slime fell onto the mesh plate, corroding the metal holes into honeycomb-like structures, and the stench made one's throat feel dry.

Before Lu Yan could give the order, Zhao Leiguang slammed his two shields into the ground.

The texture of the Earth Pulse Set runs into the floor, and a yellowish-brown stone wall emerges from beneath the broken grid panel.

A stone wall stood in front of the four people, its foundation embedded between the fleshy wall and the steel beam.

The red wall crashed into the stone wall, the outer layer of debris was squeezed into bloody mud, and chunks of flesh were still being added on top.

Zhao Leiguang braced his shoulders against the two shields, his combat boots scraping against the ground and creating two streaks of sparks.

"Old Shen isn't here, so no one's going to fight me for a parking spot today."

"You treat yourself like the engine, while the logistics team treats you like an accident scene," Wen Yue retorted.

"The repair order can wait."

The brutal ramming attack has begun.

Zhao Leiguang, shielded by two shields, crashed into the stone wall, which then moved forward as he advanced.

The wall of earth and the red wall of flesh met at one point, and shattered bones struck the shield, clanging endlessly.

The shield gauge dropped by half, but was pulled back by the Earth Pulse set.

The war trampled down, and fragments rose from the metal floor.

The chunk of flesh that had rushed to the halfway point was shaken off the ground, revealing a slit at the front of the main brain.

Wen Yue's crossbow was already firmly in place, and the magic-breaking arrow pierced through the gap and embedded itself in the power supply tube on the left side of the main brain.

The moment the arrow pierced the flesh, the Void Disc displayed a full page of red warnings.

Lu Yan raised his hand.

Wen Yue released the trigger guard, but did not fire a second arrow.

"Don't hit the main body."

Zhao Leiguang turned half his face away from the red wall.

"It's blocking the door, why keep it around for the New Year?"

On the disk of nothingness, the structure of the mastermind was broken down into thousands of fine lines.

Each fine thread wraps around the body and merges into the hanging silver programmed chain.

The other end of the chain passes through the metal floor and lands on the hatch interface of the hibernation pod below.

Lin Jianguo lay there, the silvery liquid still replacing the blood in his body.

[No independent life entry.]

[100% of the damage taken by the host is transferred to the original donor.]

[Original donor life threshold: 7%]

Zhao Leiguang pressed his shield down an inch, the curse stuck between his teeth.

"It has no health bar." Qin Wuyi stared at the board.

"Hit it, the one lying inside will break first."

The mainframe heard this, and dozens of faces looked up at once.

"This body is damaged, but it can be replaced."

"Lin Jianguo is broken, but Lin Chuxue will create a better vessel for me."

Silver pipes hung down from the top of the red wall, passing over the heads of the four people, and plunged into the hall below.

Rapid breathing and the scraping of metal could be heard over the channel.

Lin Chuxue connected to the communication.

"Captain, don't touch it."

She stood in front of the hibernation pod, the pool of blood wailing across her chest, the tip of her staff pressing against the program chain on the ground.

Seven silver tentacles branched off from the chain, their barbs hanging above her head, less than half a foot from her mask.

Inside the hibernation pod, Lin Jianguo's chest remained still, and only two red lights remained on the monitoring screen.

The mastermind's synthesized words squeezed out from every tentacle.

"Hand over the Blood Mage's mark to become a vessel for energy supply."

"Rejected; the original donor will be ground into culture medium."

Lin Chuxue's hand veins bulged, but her staff did not fall.

She glanced down at the collar of the old military uniform inside the cabin, where an oxidized star insignia was still pressed down.

"When he was alive, he hated it most when others assigned him a job."

"Keep this position for yourself."

The silver tentacles sank half an inch, and a faint cracking sound came from the outer shell of the hibernation pod.

Lin Chuxue did not dodge, and the blood mage mark on her palm was forced to reveal dark red patterns.

Lu Yan turned the Void Disc towards Qin Wuyi.

"Separate the targets."

Qin Wuyi looked up at the blood-red wall, her hand already on the main plate.

"The mainframe?"

"Frame hibernation pod".

Zhao Lei's action of raising his shield paused for a moment.

Wen Yue moved the crossbow muzzle from the red wall to the lower passage.

"Separate it from Uncle Lin?"

Lu Yan tossed the plate in front of Qin Wuyi.

"It transmits harm through chains, and it also uses chains to occupy the consciousness of the donor."

"Lock up three feet around the hibernation pod, and prevent it from touching the coordinates, gravity, or trajectory."

"If it loses its landing point, the return protocol becomes worthless."

Qin Wuyi didn't waste any words.

The six array plates were released from his hand, passed through the half of the field that Zhao Leiguang had created, and landed in the six nodes of the lower hall.

The first nail was driven into the grid on the left front of the hibernation pod.

The second one grazed the silver tentacles and became embedded in the maintenance platform on the right side of the hull.

The remaining four pieces are placed in the front, back, left, and right, forming a circle of three feet.

The mastermind's face turned completely downwards.

"Human, you locked your own father in a box?"

Qin Wuyi pressed his hands onto the main plate, and the array patterns spread downwards along the grid plate.

"My sister defended the fourth line of defense."

"She taught me that formations should first protect the living, then trap the animals."

The boundary between heaven and earth was established.

Six array plates lit up simultaneously, their brass array lines gripping the edge of space.

Within three feet of the hibernation pod, scattered rust remained suspended in mid-air.

A drop of silver liquid falling from the top of the cabin hung suspended halfway, unable to fall any further.

The tentacles struck the boundary, bending the barbs and failing to penetrate even an inch.

One by one, the thin tubes embedded in the hatch interface of the mainframe popped out.

They lose their color once they leave the designated area and turn into grayish-white residue upon landing.

The chain of characters was in complete disarray, the faces in the main brain's chest cavity were biting each other, and even the originally neat synthesized words had fallen apart.

The pace at which the red wall is pushing forward has slowed down.

Zhao Leiguang took the opportunity to push back two steps.

"That's right, patients should be isolated."

"Shut up, or the array plate will crack." Sweat dripped from Qin Wuyi's forehead onto the main plate.

Within the Void Disc, the red line connecting the hibernation pods was severed by the array boundary.

The permission identifiers for the return protocol are extinguished one by one.

The mastermind attempted to rewrite the coordinates, but all the rewritten instructions were forced back into the chain by the Qiankun Demarcation.

It lost Lin Jianguo's sight, lost the tactile sensation of its whiskers, and also lost the life it could use to blackmail Lin Chuxue.

Lin Chuxue raised the Blood Pool and howled, the blood patterns on her staff sweeping along the outer edge of the cabin.

She didn't smash the chain; she just peeled all the barbs off the hibernation pod.

The two red lights on the monitoring screen flickered for a moment, and then the third light came on.

The dozens of faces of the mastermind stopped their grotesque laughter.

Lu Yan raised the Void Plate.

"The cards have been removed."

"Your turn."