novelraw Chapter 701 [119] The Triumph of Idealism
Chapter 701 [119] The Triumph of Idealism
Chapter 701 [119] The Triumph of Idealism
The ecological tower has three floors, and the central hospital is located there.
The red warning light is spinning wildly.
Stretchers poured out of the elevator entrance, and the injured piled up one on top of another, filling the corridor.
Severed limbs, burns, and abdominal cavities torn by claws—these are everywhere.
Dr. Li was not present, and his apprentices were shouting, "Give me biochemical bandages!" "Not enough oxygen!" "We've run out of reserve plasma!"
"Hang in there! Just a little longer!"
Nurse Su Xiao's voice was hoarse as she bent down to apply pressure to a worker with a severed arm to stop the bleeding. Her uniform was soaked in blood and turned dark red.
The pregnant woman lying next to him was groaning weaker and weaker.
At the entrance to the vertical farm not far away, gunshots, shouts, and the clanging of metal created a chaotic scene.
Su Yue led a security team to build a defensive line using sandbags.
The mechanical ninja's green eyes flickered like will-o'-the-wisps in the darkness, and his Phantom Substitution Technique caused most of the bullets to miss.
"Go to hell, you bastard!"
Su Yue blew one ninja's head off with a hot melt gun, and before the gun had even cooled down, another one charged up from the flank.
"Guard the passage! Don't let them get in an inch!"
Su Yue smashed the ninja over with the butt of his gun, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the artificial light source in the farm begin to flicker.
Old Zhao stood at the forefront of the defensive line, his Chinese butler's uniform torn in several places by the claws, revealing his lean but muscular body underneath.
His hands flew, his palms flashing, each move accompanied by a hissing sound like a snake.
Swift as lightning!
Old Zhao smashed a ninja's mask with a single palm strike, the force penetrating the back of his head, causing white brain matter mixed with engine oil to spurt out. With another palm strike, he sliced off half of another ninja's shoulder blade, blood gushing from the cut.
Ah Fei, watching from behind, was terrified. He protected Brother Chouyun and several engineers, crouching behind the planting rack.
Old Zhao turned around and glared at him; the electronic sound from the loudspeaker was particularly jarring amidst the gunshots.
"See that? That's the power of the Serpent Sunflower Hand! Want to learn it? You can learn it by castrating yourself!"
Ah Fei turned pale with fright: "But... to learn it, you have to castrate yourself!"
"A man who doesn't even dare to castrate himself is no man at all!"
"After castrating myself, I'm no longer a man!!"
Afei's wails were swallowed by an explosion. Another wave of ninjas poured out from the subspace rift.
Su Yue's defensive line began to retreat. Old Zhao stopped wasting words, his hands moving rapidly, his inner force surging, and a serpentine energy exploded among the ninjas, sending blood and flesh flying. He protected Jiang Chouyun and A Fei as they retreated deeper into the ninja territory.
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The corridor was filled with the pungent smell of blood and ozone.
Qin Jiandan activated his time vision, and the three twisted, grafted time trees of T-013 were hidden in the shadows at the end of the corridor.
"Got you!"
With a push of both palms, Xuanbing True Qi burst forth from his palms, condensing into several ice walls in the corridor.
Ice walls cut the entire space into a maze, precisely blocking the paths to the central hospital and the vertical farm.
"Don't even think about running, I'm your opponent!"
While the T-units can certainly use the subspace to escape, their subspace is not a superpower but rather a device-driven system, and each use consumes a significant amount of energy.
Ibash once told Qin Jiandan that the T forces' warp capabilities were copied from the clown, and the accuracy was not as good as the original.
In other words, if T-013 wants to destroy the central hospital and the vertical farm, it must get past Qin Jiandan; otherwise, it will waste even more time.
Besides, the T unit was originally tasked with assassinating the young master of the Night Dragon Society!
A red light flashed in the cross-shaped observation window of the T-013, and a gravitational storm was suddenly activated!
Qin Jiandan's feet left the ground, his body lost its balance, and he was pulled towards the ceiling. The enemy seized the opportunity, their shoulder-mounted machine guns roaring, armor-piercing rounds trailing orange-red flames as they hurtled towards him.
"Steel Armor Breathing Technique!"
Qin Jiandan crossed his arms to protect his head and chest. The bullet exploded on the surface of the conceptual defense. He used the rebound force to twist his body in the air, and gathered the Nine Heavens Thunderfire at his fingertips, blasting it with all his might towards T-013!
Blue-purple lightning illuminated the entire corridor. T-013 dared not be negligent and quickly deployed a psionic barrier in front of him. The lightning collided with the barrier, sparks flying everywhere. T-013 took a half step back, his movements slightly slowed, but he still raised his right hand, using a gravitational storm to keep Qin Jiandan floating in mid-air.
Qin Jiandan suddenly chuckled.
"Did Dr. Chen ever tell you that the Steel Armor Breathing Technique is a conceptual defense? In other words, it's a kind of idealistic martial art. As long as I think something is harmful to me, the Steel Armor Breathing Technique can defend against it."
With a thud, Qin Jiandan landed smoothly.
T-013 was utterly shocked. He had been continuously releasing his Gravitational Storm ability, but it had no effect on Qin Jiandan, as if it were being neutralized by some kind of void. Qin Jiandan's conceptual defense faintly glowed with black light, and he slowly walked towards T-013. T-013 remained in the posture of releasing his ability, his whole body stiff, as if he were the one being captured by gravity.
"You have three brains in your body. I now know that your first two powers are Gravitational Storm and Psionic Barrier. What is the third power? Perhaps I overestimated you. Could it be the Sinful Purification Flame that everyone else possesses?"
Qin Jiandan stopped three meters away, no longer moving forward, a smile appearing on her lips.
"The weakness of the Steel Armor Breathing Technique is that you can't breathe while using it. This is widely known, you should already know that. So your chance to counterattack is to gamble on how long I can hold my breath... Have you been mentally timing it?"
The red light flashing on the cross-shaped observation window of the T-013 seemed to be analyzing the meaning of this sentence.
The red light suddenly intensified, like a red moon exploding above T-013's head.
The red-bladed crystal sword slashed down from behind, shattering the white armor and splitting T-013's head vertically in two!
Without hesitation, Qin Jiandan, with the Xuanbing Battle Blade in hand, and Granny Qianxing, one after the other, stabbed T-013 repeatedly, piercing through all of his vital points, determined to destroy his hidden backup brain.
T-013 let out an inhuman howl, its limbs twitching as it collapsed heavily to the ground.
"Hoo..." Qin Jiandan let out a long breath, and casually flicked out the Undying Spiritual Flame, burning the wreckage of T-013 into a silent white fireball.
The cat-woman's short stature made her perfect for ambushes. Qin Jiandan had already spotted her, which was why he deliberately distracted T-013.
Qin Jiandan didn't mind giving up her head to Granny Qianxing and getting an assist herself.
"Where are those three T units outside?" he asked Granny Qianxing.
"She's entered the subspace." The cat-woman sheathed her sword, her cat ears twitching slightly. "She could reappear inside the tower at any time. Be careful."
Qin Jiandan nodded, her gaze sweeping towards the still-burning flames at the end of the corridor.
"The more people come to kill me, the fewer will appear on Mu Yue and Lin Lin's side. Bring it on, I'm not done yet!"
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Old Zhao escorted Jiang Chouyun and Afei through rows of planting racks, their steps quick.
The automatic irrigation system overhead was still spraying water, and droplets mixed with the smell of gunpowder and blood hit my face.
"I've been wanting to ask this for a while now," Old Zhao glanced back at Brother Chouyun, his electronic voice from the loudspeaker clearly displeased, "Don't you have your Four Heavenly Kings with you? You didn't bring any of them with you today?"
Brother Chouyun was panting heavily, his beard stained with blood of unknown origin.
“I’ve sent Li Yan and Yu Shiying to guard the headquarters… Mingming, the fourth of the Four Great Vajras, has arrived, but he was in seclusion and is a bit unfamiliar with the terrain, so he got separated from us.”
As Ah Fei ran, he chimed in, "You mean that guy who's called the 'reincarnated spirit child'? Remember that bearded guy from your past life? I remember he went to the bathroom."
A loud cracking sound came from behind. It seemed that T-014 had failed to use subspace for precise positioning and had teleported itself to the back of the freezer, so it had to break out of the freezer.
One of the guards, perhaps having triggered his passive ability to make sarcastic remarks, shouted, "The T-unit has come out!"
Shards of ice still clung to the white armor of the T-014, and the red light from its cross-shaped observation window locked onto the crowd ahead. Mechanical ninjas surged forth from behind it like a tide.
Su Yue led the security team in a desperate resistance at the last line of defense.
His left arm was severed at the elbow, with exposed wires and crackling sparks; most of the mechanical joints of his right leg were shattered, and each step he took was accompanied by a metallic scraping sound. But he was still standing, holding a thermoforming gun in his right hand, firing shot by shot.
"Retreat...retreat! Retreat inwards!" Su Yue's voice was as hoarse as sandpaper.
T-014 raised its arm, and the Razor Chain whistled out. Su Yue dodged to the side, the chain grazing his severed arm and taking away a piece of armor. He staggered backward, crashing into the planting rack, tomato seedlings falling to the ground.
"It's over... we can't hold them off..." The remaining members of the security team began to flee.
Just then, a figure leaped down from above the planting rack.
"With my reincarnated spirit child here, there's nothing to fear!"
The man landed on his feet, splashing water everywhere. He was at least two meters tall, with a broad back and a thick beard like a lion's mane, revealing only a pair of large, round eyes.
His gray monk's robe was stretched taut by his muscles. He held a string of shiny Buddhist prayer beads in his left hand and a heavy special steel rod upside down in his right.
Its momentum was overwhelming. It was as if a celestial being had descended to earth.
Brother Chouyun was overjoyed: "Fourth Brother! You've finally found us—"
Before he could finish speaking...
T-014's Razor Chain was swung out again, a flash of silver light, and the reincarnated child's chest was instantly pierced.
"Uh-"
The reincarnated child looked down at the blood gushing from his chest. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but only spat out a mouthful of blood mist. Then he crossed his legs, formed a mudra with his hands, and remained in that seated posture—passing away on the spot.
The long stick fell to the ground, smashing a row of flowerpots.
The entire vertical farm fell silent for a moment.
Ah Fei's eyes widened, his mouth formed an "O" shape, and it took him a while to stammer out, "Passing...passing away in an instant! Just one such fleeting spirit child!"
Brother Chouyun slapped Afei on the back of the head: "Shut up! Run!"
(End of this chapter)