great-warnovel Chapter 317 Don't let those in the rear get away!
Chapter 317 Don't let those in the rear get away!
With each pulsation of the crimson crystal core, the rusty chain on the girl's ankle pressed deeper into her flesh, and blood dripped from the chain links into the cracks in the floor tiles.
Lin Chuxue stopped in place, holding the staff. The blood explosion array on the staff head flared up twice, but she pressed it back down.
The skin on the doll's chest rose and fell with the crystal core, and thick blood seeped from the stitches. Lin Jianguo's old wound lay across his left shoulder.
"First Snow, come here."
The doll spread its arms, and the iron hooks pulled it forward by its shoulders, dragging the broken military tags on the operating table so that they rattled all over the floor.
The girl huddled behind Wen Yue, her coat wrapped around her shoulders, but the rusty chains on her feet pulled her toward the doll.
The doll pulled out three fleshy ropes from under the operating table, which passed through the table legs and were nailed into the walls on both sides.
The blood trail behind the passage also rolled back, layer upon layer, sealing off the rangefinding arrows left behind when everyone entered.
Shen Xinglin retreated to the back of the column, cut his lance into a locking bar, and wedged the spearhead into a crack in the wall.
The bloodline climbed up the lock bar, touched the armor-piercing pattern on the gun barrel, turned back to the corner, and continued searching for a new exit.
"Leave the rest to me."
Zhao Leiguang moved to the front, closed the two shields together, and pressed the edges of the shields against the iron hooks on the puppet's arms.
The fleshy rope lashed against the shield, pressing several cracks into the rock texture, and Zhao Leiguang's feet sank into the floor tiles.
"The hospital's caregiver fees are really high; you have to give up your life as soon as you walk in."
The puppet dragged the iron hook downwards, and Zhao Lei's shoulder armor slammed into the shield's back, the shield's patterns layer by layer pressing against his health bar.
Xiao Qianyu stood on the right side of the operating table, with the Dragon King Halberd held horizontally in front of the crystal core, the blade not falling.
The rusty chain connecting the crystal core to the girl's ankle will be the first to be injured if anyone makes a mistake in cutting it.
Lu Yan raised the Void Plate and placed its surface against the puppet's chest.
The four sets of data—dermis, sutures, location of old injury, and blood sequence—are displayed one by one on the panel.
The blood sample of Lin Jianguo, which was sealed in the archives, was retrieved, and its serial number was matched with the vascular tissue on the inside of the human skin.
Lu Yan spoke up: "The source of the human skin is Lin Jianguo."
Lin Chuxue stopped holding the staff; the candy was still lying by her boot, untouched.
The Void Disc continued drilling deeper into the crystal core, and the three main power supply lines were exposed.
The first line was connected to the blood gate frame, the second line was locked around the girl's ankle, and the third line was embedded in the blood magic mark remaining on Lin Chuxue's staff.
Residual nerve tissue still clung to the crystal core, with nerve endings wrapped around the inside of the human skin and connected to the blood gate array eye.
The doll lowered its head, and the mouth sewn through the seams opened again.
"First snow, Dad is still here."
"If you bring this up again, I'll nail your head to the wall."
Su Yunqing squatted down beside the girl, and the Gift of Yao Guang descended with two layers of shields to protect the area where the rusted chains were fastened to her flesh.
She pressed the healing beam into the edge of the wound, keeping the blood outside with a shield.
"It can be peeled off."
Su Yunqing looked up and spoke very quickly.
"There are thirteen nerve bundles in total. Each time a bundle is disassembled, the rusted chain will embed two millimeters into the ankle."
"The whole process will take 27 minutes."
She raised her staff; the time runes on the shield were still moving.
"The Blood Gate won't last until the ninth minute; the gate frame will drag people back to the center of the formation first."
Zhao Leiguang cursed under the shield.
"Twenty-seven minutes? This crappy place is too slow even for queuing to register."
Lin Chuxue squatted down, resting her staff on her knees, pressing the back of her hand against the blood-stained patterns on the staff.
The girl looked up through Wen Yue's coat, her lips moved, but she didn't call out "sister" again.
The blood trail in the passage crawled towards the ground, only two floor tiles away from the girl's feet.
Lu Yan entered the countdown into the team's terminal, and the numbers started to drop from eight minutes and fifty-nine seconds.
"Abandon the divestiture."
Su Yunqing gripped the staff, not immediately withdrawing the healing beam.
Lu Yan looked at the crystal core: "First, save the people who are still alive."
The crystal core on the doll's chest throbbed even faster, and the fleshy cord pressed down on Zhao Leiguang's double shields.
Zhao Leiguang kept his head down and held on, the edge of the shield carving two deep grooves into the ground.
"Did you hear that? I lent you my leather jacket for ten years, it's time to settle the debt."
Qin Wuyi lifted the main plate, and all six array plates were tucked into the floor tiles of the passage.
The array plates do not seal the bloodline, nor do they touch the doll's chest; they are specifically designed to block the trajectory of the rusty chains as they swing.
Every time the rusted chain tries to pull back, it hits the same fixed coordinate, and the chain links can only slide along the original path.
"The trajectory is locked."
Qin Wuyi suppressed the main board.
"The chain will rewind three seconds slowly, and after three seconds the array plate will not be able to support it."
Wen Yue drew three armor-piercing arrows from the quiver, pressing the arrowheads against the three power lines respectively.
"Report the landing point to me."
Lu Yan divided the Void Disc into three layers of projection, with a thin line lighting up on the blood gate frame, the girl's ankle, and the doll's chest.
Wen Yue pulled the crossbow string.
The first arrow pierced the power supply slot on the right side of the door frame, and the bloodline was pressed onto the stone surface by the arrow shaft.
The second arrow pierced the outer ring of the rusted chain, jamming the connection point between the chain and the crystal nucleus.
The third arrow flew past Xiao Qianyu's halberd and pierced the nerve bundle below the puppet's chest.
The arrow's tail vibrated, and the three power supply lines were fixed at different coordinates.
The doll's arms were pulled outwards, the iron hooks snapped, trying to lift Xiao Qianyu off the operating table.
Xiao Qianyu stepped into the warp beacon, her halberd spun half a circle, and the shaft pressed down on the puppet's two arms.
The iron hook scraped the outer edge of the halberd, and sparks fell onto the table.
"My hand is pressing down on it."
Shen Xinglin called out from the back of the line.
"The last four health bars are hitting the lock bar, but we can hold on."
Zhao Lei raised his chin towards the operating table.
"Old Lu, hurry up."
Lu Yan walked up to Lin Chuxue and extended his hand.
"Lend me your staff."
Lin Chuxue did not look up.
Blood dripping from the top of the tunnel landed on her shoulder armor, and the shield bounced the blood to the ground.
The doll was still calling her in Lin Jianguo's voice, one call after another, mixed with the pulsation of the crystal core.
Lin Chuxue held the staff horizontally and placed it in Lu Yan's palm.
Lu Yan gripped the staff, and blood patterns appeared on the Void Disc.
The blood magic mark remaining inside the staff was extracted, and the mark trailed out as a thin red line that wound into the edge of the Void Disc.
Blood Gate used Lin Chuxue's professional mark as a key so that the crystal core could suppress the girl and the human skin.
Now that the key has been removed, the power supply to the chain has stopped.
Lu Yan raised his other hand and poured the blood magic mark into the middle section of the rusty chain.
The blood patterns on the chain links changed direction; the energy that was originally drilling into the girl's ankles was diverted to fill the gaps in the chain.
The rusty chain on the girl's ankle stopped at the edge of the wound and was not pressed any further in.
Su Yunqing pressed the shield even tighter, pressing the healing beam against the exposed flesh.
"The power supply chain has been disconnected."
she says.
"How much longer can we hold out?"
"Enough for you to process the crystal nuclei."
Lu Yan handed the staff back to Lin Chuxue and turned to walk towards the operating table.
The crystal core on the doll's chest began to throb erratically, and three fleshy ropes dragged the iron hook back in.
Zhao Lei pushed forward with both shields, forcefully pressing the puppet back to the edge of the stage.
"Old Shen, don't let anyone slip through the back door!"
Shen Xinglin tightened the locking bar, and the other end of the lance pressed against the floor tile.
"You can't escape."
Xiao Qianyu raised her battle halberd, pressing the shaft down on the puppet's arms to create a straight line for the crystal core.
Lu Yan unfolded black lotus patterns in front of his palm.
The black veins crossed the arrow shaft, avoided the nerve bundles and rust chains, and adhered to the center of the crystal core.
The doll called out "Chu Xue" in Lin Jianguo's voice, but the rest of the words were stuck in its throat.
The black lotus penetrated the crystal nucleus.
The crimson crystal core broke in the middle, the outer blood shell peeled off, revealing the tangled parasitic tissue inside.
The doll's chest collapsed, and the iron hook smashed against the edge of the operating table.
The three fleshy ropes lost their tension and fell to the ground one after another.
The bloodstains in the passageway all rolled back into the door frame, and the family photos on the wall faded into blank pieces of paper.
The rusty chain slipped off the girl's ankle and hit the floor tiles with a crisp sound.
Su Yunqing reached out to support the girl, and the shield supported her unsteady body.
Wen Yue bent down and picked up the hem of her coat, covering the girl's knees again.
Lin Chuxue stood still, her staff pressed against the ground, not touching the human skin at the edge of the platform.