great-warnovel Chapter 323 Their Last Will and Testament
Chapter 323 Their Last Will and Testament
The strange tide inexplicably turned around.
The monsters rushing towards the wounded evacuation line stopped advancing.
They dragged blood bags, organ boxes, and human skin files as they retreated toward the old city hospital.
Just as Zhao Leiguang's shield absorbed the force, a multi-legged beast carrying a whole box of culture medium ran past his feet.
"Moving?"
Zhao Leiguang kicked the empty blood bag.
"Move it back."
Shen Xinglin put away his lance.
"Where are you moving to?"
"Six underground floors."
Lu Yan's voice came from the channel.
The red dots on the tactical board converged and pressed towards the old city hospital.
"Old Zhao, you and Old Shen guard the bridge."
"We couldn't stop them; all the materials were sent into the great formation."
Zhao Leiguang fastened his double shields again.
"Okay, I'll be the doorman."
"Do security guards receive a subsidy?"
Shen Xinglin did not respond.
The lance was sliced into armor-piercing cones and aimed at the dark figure on the other side of the bridge arch.
Lu Yan led Wen Yue, Qin Wuyi, and Xiao Qianyu around the outer wall's blood membrane and crawled into the western sewage pipe.
Su Yunqing stayed at the medical station to monitor the heart rates of three thousand children.
Qin Wuyi attached the array plate to the inner wall of the pipe.
As the main coordinates are explored downwards, the underground structure diagram unfolds layer by layer.
The first five floors match the construction drawings.
By the sixth floor, the coordinates had shifted.
"wrong."
Qin Wuyi suppressed the main board.
There is still space below the sixth floor.
"It's not on the blueprints."
Wen Yue held the crossbow and swept it across the vein patterns on the tube wall.
"The flesh and blood array is pulling downwards."
"The foundation has been torn apart."
Qin Wuyi's fingers traced across the plate.
The newly opened blank area extends outwards, with all coordinates pointing to floors six and below.
Lu Yan's Void Disc adhered to the tube wall.
The energy flowed out from the crack, converging into a platinum-gold line.
One end of the line is connected to the divine core.
The other end is connected to a door.
Lin Chuxue sat on the ground, her back against the corner of the wall.
The ceiling was painted with faded suns and clouds.
There was a small wooden horse in the corner, half of the paint was chipped off, and one of the wheels was missing.
The ground is covered with veins, climbing up the wall and crawling into old light bulbs.
The pool of blood, filled with wails, was locked inside a transparent isolation cabinet.
The blood-red patterns on the staff were too dark to be seen.
The man stood in front of the door, clutching a string of children's name tags in his hand.
The doorplates collided, making a very soft sound.
"You are not my father."
Lin Chuxue's voice was very low.
The man did not answer.
It placed the doorplate on the low cabinet and took a half step back.
The electronic screen in the corridor was still lit up.
Platinum-gold energy-generating patterns spread along the wall, indicating that the core energy has arrived.
Lin Xi sat on the windowsill, the rusty chain on her ankle fastened again, the chain rings embedded in her flesh.
"elder sister."
"That door, only you can open it."
Lin Chuxue stared at the doorplate on the low cabinet.
The plastic casing is yellowed and the edges are worn and frayed.
Each number corresponds to a child in the incubation chamber.
"What happens after the door is opened?"
"The core will come in."
Lin Xi spoke in a very flat tone.
"It replaced the life support system's power supply."
"Then a maintainer won't be needed here."
Lin Chuxue walked to the isolation cabinet.
[The Blood Mage's mark is locked; contact with outsiders is prohibited.]
She placed her hand on the counter.
The staff inside the cabinet remained completely still.
"They locked my cane."
"Locking your staff is locking up those three thousand children."
Lin Chuxue withdrew her hand and walked to the door with the family photo on it.
In the photo, two little girls are standing in front of a cake, with only half a candle remaining.
The door had no lock and no handle.
There was only a narrow slit, through which a platinum-gold light shone.
My father once taught me a saying.
Lin Chuxue's hand stopped at the crack in the door.
He said, "If a door can't be opened, don't force it."
"But you have to open it now."
Linxi jumped down from the windowsill, the rusty chain dragging across the floor tiles.
"We've reached the core."
"If you don't activate it, the system will trade those three thousand lives for it."
Lin Chuxue pressed her palm against the crack in the door.
Platinum light spilled out and clung to her skin.
It's warm.
She gave it a push.
The door didn't move.
"Use a mark."
Lin Xi said.
Lin Chuxue looked down at her palm.
The Blood Mage's mark emerged from beneath the skin, dark red lines creeping up the wrist.
She pressed her palm back against the crack in the door.
The patterns on the mark merged with the light filtering through the crack in the door.
The door moved.
At the end of the pipe was a concrete wall.
The vein patterns on the wall converge at a single point—a rusty iron door, from which a platinum-colored light seeps.
Lu Yan stopped in front of the door.
The coordinates on the Void Disk jumped.
"She opened the door."
Wen Yue picked up the crossbow.
"To fight or not to fight?"
"wait."
Lu Yan pressed down on the crossbow.
"First, take a good look at what's inside."
Qin Wuyi's array plate slipped on the tube wall three times.
The underground space is still expanding, and the coordinates shift every few seconds.
"I locked the coordinates behind her door."
"No matter how the space changes, the location of the door won't change."
Lu Yan nodded.
A low tremor came from behind the iron gate.
Platinum light seeped out from the crack in the door, illuminating the inner walls of the pipes.
The light was mixed with another color—dark red.
The color of the Blood Mage.
Wen Yue took a half step back and aimed the crossbow at the crack in the door.
"Two energies are colliding."
"Press the core inward, and push her mark outward."
Lu Yan looked at the readings on the Void Disc.
The two energies locked together at the door seam, neither giving way.
"She's in a tug-of-war with the core."
The light filtering through the crack in the door became even brighter.
The iron gate hinges rattled, and rusted pieces peeled off the door frame.
Qin Wuyi retreated to Lu Yan's side.
"The door is about to open."
Lu Yan grasped the Void Disc.
"Get ready to go in."
The iron gate split in the middle.
A mixture of platinum and dark red light poured out from the crack, filling the entire pipe.
After the light faded, a small room was revealed behind the door.
The ceiling was painted with faded suns and clouds.
A small wooden horse sits in the corner.
Lin Chuxue stood in the center of the room, with her back to the door.
Before her was an even bigger door.
A family photo is pasted on the door.
The platinum core, embedded in the door panel, is still pulsating.
Each time it jumps, another crack appears on the door panel.
Lin Chuxue's Blood Mage Mark extended from her wrist to the surface of the door panel.
Dark red patterns and white gold are intertwined.
She didn't turn around.
"team leader."
"I can't stop this door."
Lu Yan entered the room.
The void plate is aligned with the door panel.
The data on the screen jumped three lines, all highlighted in red.
"The key is to use her mark as a key."
What's behind the door?
Wen Yue asked.
Lu Yan looked at the structural diagram that had been disassembled from the plate.
Behind the door was an old living room.
There was a three-seater sofa in the living room, and a half-cut cake on the coffee table.
The candles on the cake were still lit.
Lu Yan recognized the living room.
Lin Jianguo's home.
The house that burned down ten years ago.
"It rebuilt a home with its core."
Lu Yan's voice was very flat.
"It wants Lin Chuxue to go home."
Another crack appeared on the door panel.
The core is beating faster.
The dark red mark began to recede from the door panel, retreating towards Lin Chuxue's wrist.
She was being pulled away from the core.
Lin Chuxue's knees bent slightly.
Su Yunqing's voice squeezed in from the channel.
"The heart rates of three thousand children are rising."
"Energy supply is being shifted."
Lu Yan raised the Void Plate.
Black lotus patterns crawl out from the edge of the plate and adhere to the door panel.
"Wen Yue, blow up the door frame."
"Qin Wuyi, lock down her coordinates."
"We can't let the core drag her into this."
Wen Yue pulled the crossbow string.
The high-explosive grenade was driven into the left side of the door frame.
Qin Wuyi slammed the main plate onto the ground, and the array patterns gripped the floor tiles beneath Lin Chuxue's feet.
The crack in the door panel paused for a moment.
The core pulse paused for a moment.
Platinum light burst forth from the crack, striking the black lotus pattern.
The two forces locked together on the door panel.
Lin Chuxue turned around.
Her eyes were fixed on that little wooden pony missing a wheel.
"team leader."
"It wants me to go back."
Lu Yan pressed the Void Disc onto the door panel.
The black lotus pattern seeped into the crack in the door.
The core pulse paused for a moment.
A voice came from behind the door.
Lin Jianguo's voice.
"go home."