Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 1019 The World is a Garden of Life and Death (Part )

Li Li threw the gloves she had taken off into the space between them. "Sir," she said calmly, "Final warning."

Luo Binhan tapped the things she had thrown away with his toes. "What's the point of catching me?" he asked, "What about Feng Chuxing?"

"I regret to tell you this: I have studied how the Wuyuan people tortured people since I came online. Most of the time, they don't need the subjects to speak, and sometimes they don't need the subjects to be alive. They even tried to force the reading of the brain activity of the original host, and 0206 is particularly good at this. The first paper he published after completing primary education was related to this."

"Ah, so what if I surrender now? What do you want me to do?"

"Please tell me where Feng is, and hand over everything you took from his basement, especially the spare core of the traction well - since you asked me for the wellhead, I assume you have already obtained one from Feng."

"What if I don't give it to you? Are you going to smash my head with a laser right now?"

"I try to start with traditionally non-lethal areas."

Luo Binhan looked up at the sky. "It would be better if it was a dense foggy day today." He said, and jumped up from the wooden box, "But the electromagnetic bomb is more effective."

He definitely did not touch the wooden box he had been sitting in, but the woven cloth covering it slipped off. Unlike the VIP seat where he had invited his guests to sit, the box he was sitting in was not empty inside, but contained a black box; the top cover of the box had just been opened, revealing the white card inside.

Li Li kept her arms raised and stood still. Her originally wooden face stared straight ahead. Luo Binhan took two tentative steps to the side, and his black hole-like eyes did not follow her, still staring blankly at the cornfield burned by the laser. There were rustling sounds in the bushes, as if many shadows were lurking. Luo Binhan rubbed the part of his face burned by the laser with his hand, and circled closer to her.

He walked behind Li Li, deliberately using her to block the view in the direction of the beekeeping forest, and tried to press the laser arm raised in the air. A strong electric current pierced him from the coat that looked like it was made of tweed. His body spasmed uncontrollably, but his palms were stuck to the fabric. Li Li's right arm suddenly bent and swung horizontally, hitting his face fiercely. The sharp metal spikes under the fabric pierced his nose and forehead, and some kind of cold and corrosive liquid was injected into his skin. In less than a second, his entire face lost consciousness.

She grabbed his neck with her cold, hard left hand, threw him into the bushes, and punched him twice in the forehead. The fake body was not big, but the impact he received was like being hit by an overturned truck. His body slowly sank into the solid mud, and his bones creaked. On both sides of his head, the electronic eyes were not affected by electromagnetic interference at all, and they were ruthlessly evaluating his expression and reaction; the right hand pressing on his chest continued to increase its force, like a slowly starting hydraulic press that was about to crush the scrapped car into a discus.

He soon became breathless, his chest deflated like a balloon that could burst at any moment. Li Li raised her right arm, trying to hit his carotid artery with the outside of her elbow—there was also an injection device hidden in that part—but suddenly she saw the machete quietly appearing in his palm, and immediately raised the hand that was pinching his neck forward, throwing him out like a shot put, and he fell into the cornfield where the fire was gradually rising. Then she raised her right arm horizontally and shot out two lasers, using the heat-sensing vision to penetrate the still thin smoke, almost breaking his entire right palm—but she was still a step too slow, and the machete was no longer in his hand.

Li Li stopped firing temporarily to give the laser concentrator enough time to cool down. The two high-precision cameras on her face locked onto the opponent lying in the cornfield, while the auxiliary visual devices hidden in her hair, neck and boots kept observing the grass. She had noticed that the grass in the infrared radiation map was very abnormal, with no signs of any insect or small animal activity. The color temperature map under the grass was as uniform as a blank piece of colored paper.

The cornfield was swaying with smoke and fire, and Luo Binhan stumbled out of it. His face was deformed, and the blood on his neck looked like a purple scarf. He laughed hoarsely, coughed, and spat out purple-red and brown sputum. "I knew it wouldn't be so easy," he covered his mouth with his left hand, trying to stop coughing, "that card..."

"Do you think I won't be on guard against Feng having additional radio wave filtering devices?" Li Li said, "As long as you open the signal isolation box, I can hijack it."

"It can't be remote, right?" Luo Binhan said. His respiratory tract was whirring like a dusty fan, and his bloodshot eyes looked at Li Li's body under his coat. "No wonder you drove a metal rack in front of me."

"No matter how many radio interference or control devices you find in Feng's basement, I can hijack them before they can take effect. Even if you have obtained identity authentication from Feng, it is meaningless - at this distance, my authority is much higher than yours or Feng's."

"Is it worth the risk?"

"He who seeks the best will find the middle," said Li Li.

Luo Binhan began to think that she was a petty person. He closed his eyes, and his whole body felt like it was filled with broken glass from inside to outside. In fairy tales, as long as a small piece of such broken glass falls into a person's eyes, his temperament will become extremely cold. These glass fragments, finer than sand, rushed into his blood vessels and organs. Now he could feel every slightest pain: how the blood impacted the blood vessels, how the skin was stretched tight against the muscles and fat, and how the bones were pressed by the heavy flesh and blood... He knew that the organs in his body were squirming, trying to digest the fierce blow he had just received, but it only brought him a stronger sense of foreign body. These hearts, livers, spleens, and lungs growing in his body did not seem to be his at this moment. They were poison sacs that others had inserted into his body. He wanted to tear off this layer of decaying painted skin on his body, pull out everything that tortured him and throw it away. His consciousness was no longer in control, and he wished he could leave his body immediately and escape to another system that was not at the mercy of matter.

"What did you inject me with?" he asked with difficulty. "What is it that keeps..."

"Highly concentrated anesthetics, and trace amounts of plutonium."

Luo Binhan nodded tiredly: "Are you still thinking about it?"

"Radioactivity can tell me a lot of useful information."

Luo Binhan opened his eyes. In just a few words, he could no longer see anything. Li Li's definition of "trace" might be different from his. Billions of colorful worms rolled before his eyes, and the sound of the wind in the fields and the smoke from the burning disappeared.

He fell into pure darkness, in a sea of ​​silence, with endless tiny noises floating above his head, like millions of worms nibbling at grass leaves tirelessly. These noisy worms not only ate voraciously, but also kept smacking their lips and commenting, some with satisfaction, some with regret, some with resentment, some with suspicion... There was also a sound where he stood, which was closest to him, but compared to the surrounding noises, it was very ambiguous, without a fixed basic melody, and seemed to be led out of tune by other worms at any time.

He had been to this place not long ago. Under the ferocious claws of the bonfire, he had to flee into this dark sea, where the silence and nothingness became a soothing spring, making the horror of the material world invulnerable. Then, he could hear the voice closest to him, and then reweave it according to his own thoughts. This kind of weaving requires extremely delicate skills, but he is still clumsy at this time, with neither experience nor guidance. There is only one most primitive and simple beat that he can play; that tune is completely innate, and he does not need to deliberately conceive it. He listened attentively, turning the sound that had become disordered and weak back into the monotonous old melody, and then floated up again from the dark abyss -

In the fields filled with smoke, Luo Binhan stretched out his intact right hand and pressed his nose. His broken nose had returned to its original position, and the pain in his body quickly dissipated. There was only one bad thing: those scaly membranes with sharp edges and fleshy roots had grown out of his left face again. He reached out and pulled one of them off. It was still a dark blue color that was almost black and green, but the color was lighter than last time. Perhaps he was gradually mastering the scale of shadow changes, but it was a pity that it was no longer useful.

Li Li was still standing opposite him. She still raised her right arm. Luo Binhan guessed that this was a necessary condition for her to fire the laser. The energy collector must be aligned with the firing port when her arm was extended. She did not show any special expression, just looking at his left face. Luo Binhan made a face and threw the film in his hand into the fire.

"See?" he said. The last layer of shadow had just faded from his eyes, and the damp and cold breath of the sea still lingered on his fingertips.

"Impressive," Li Li said. "How did it feel to be reshaped by the shadow?"

"Not very good." Luo Binhan replied, "and it's completely different from what outsiders see... Let's put it this way, it's a bit like the standard backstroke. When you see others swimming, you think you can lie across the Pacific Ocean with it, but when you try it yourself, you find that it's just that simple and doesn't save much energy at all. The most important thing is that you can't see the road ahead while you are swimming. I don't know what Luo De and Cai Ji think, but I don't like it anyway."

"It took you twelve seconds to recover."

"I'm a novice." Luo Binhan said, "But I also have some who are not so slow..."

He bent his fingers and flicked them lightly, as if commanding a trained dog. An unnatural whirlwind swept through the grass, and the burning corn stalks behind him fell down one after another. The flames that fell to the ground also went out one by one, forming a charred and withered fan with him as the center. Luo Binhan opened his arms and gestured twice: "Does it look like a crop circle?"

A laser pierced his left shoulder. Luo Binhan staggered, but took the initiative to walk towards Li Li. "How many rounds can your laser fire?" He asked as he walked, "Are you carrying a nuclear reactor with you? You shouldn't put dangerous objects so close to your box--"

The blue-white light pierced his kneecaps, and he knelt in the dirt, somewhat doubting that the shot was fired at Cid. "Go on," he said, "there is no micro-cooling device like the one used by Yaleliga here. I wonder how long it will take for your laser concentrator to overheat."

The black hair behind Li Li's head flew up violently, reminding people of the wing feathers of a raven being blown by the air flow when flying. It must be the cooling system hidden behind her that was blowing air. The light from her palm hit the left side of his chest, and the red tumor that was beating non-stop behind his sternum and causing him constant pain and anxiety was shattered. Luo Binhan fell straight down, and blood and shadows flowed out of his burnt chest. Twelve seconds later, he sat up calmly, glanced at the noisy and gushing hot wind behind Li Li, and suddenly rushed towards her like a cheetah sprinting. A black hill swelled in the grass between them, and the dark blue blade was bounced out by the shadow and thrown from the ground into his palm.

Li Li still raised her arm, waiting for the laser energy concentrator to drop to a usable temperature. Her prosthesis was heavy, the material was not strong enough, and it was loaded with high-energy weapons, which was not suitable for high-speed maneuvers. Therefore, she remained where she was and only sent an immediate command containing correction parameters to Tell through the internal channel. The wind was whistling, and the brain of the person running towards her suddenly burst. The corpse with a broken head stood staggeringly, and the machete in his hand fell into the grass. After a full half minute, the shadow dissipated from the corpse's head, revealing the familiar face again. At this time, her laser had finished cooling down again.

"It seems," she remarked, "that the head is more difficult for you."

"It's a different place to go," Robin Han replied. "It seems that if you knock off your head, you will be lost deeper."

"Are you willing to surrender now?"

Luo Binhan looked gloomily at the woods on the high slope. "How can they shoot so accurately?"

"I am their field calculator. They don't have to spend too much time calculating wind direction and range, as long as they understand the instructions immediately."

"Don't they have any feelings about what they saw? One of the guys they shot in the head grew his head back on his own."

“I told them you have earthworm genes.”

Luo Binhan tilted his head and looked at her. "You are kidding."

"I'm trying to retrieve you safely." Li Li said, ignoring his expression. "If you refuse to surrender, I will have to continue destroying your brain tissue for the next hour to keep you dead until I can install a high-voltage electric shock device on your heart with an interval of 12.5 seconds."

"Li Li, the dead can't speak."

"As long as the brain tissue is intact - I have studied some dream-related devices and found that they are particularly useful in exploring thoughts and consciousness. And since I can temporarily kill you by continuously damaging your heart, it will not be affected to perform a small amount of dissection and signal access on your brain during this period. If you cooperate, I promise to give you enough anesthetic and will not force you to watch us saw open your skull with your own eyes."

"Is it because I beat up that Xide?" Luo Binhan asked.

"Your losses in the last month are greater than our profits in the past two years," Li said. "The board has doubts about me, and I really want to find someone to be held accountable."

Luo Binhan's eyes wandered around, looking for shelter around him. The damaged cornfield was no longer enough to serve as a shelter, and there were low grass and trees all around him. Before Li Li's palms glowed again, he had to raise his hands and put on a friendly smile again.

"Surrender." He said readily, "Is it not okay for me to surrender?"

"I haven't forgotten to whom you said this last time."

"Last time is last time, how can our relationship be compared to that?" Luo Binhan said, slowly taking a step forward, "We are in the same boat, right?"

A laser beam shot into the ground, brushing past his toes, causing him to take back the step he had just taken. "To show our sincerity," Li Li said, "please surrender your weapons first and maintain our current distance."

"How do you want me to pay for this?"

"I believe you can do it. According to the infrared detection results, your shadow can extend up to fifteen meters. I know it is controlled by you. You can show me another trick."

Luo Binhan glanced at the ground and bent his fingers slightly. The shadow rose up from the bush again, and the edge of the scimitar appeared from the top, like a poisonous snake spitting its tongue into the sky. It slowly swam towards Li Li and stopped several steps away from her. "This is the limit." Luo Binhan said. He flicked his finger and threw the scimitar in front of Li Li.

Li Li did not bend down to pick it up, but just placed her left palm facing the ground. The machete jumped into her palm by itself. "Oh!" Luo Binhan said, "You can do this too?"

"A small application of magnetic field technology." Li Li said. Under Luo Binhan's gaze, she opened her coat and thrust the machete into her side, pushing the handle in. It seemed that the area was originally a storage space, perhaps originally used to store anesthetics. "You can now tell me where Feng is."

"Ah." Luo Binhan said, "Feng Chuxing is in that room."

He pointed to the two-story farmhouse with a courtyard on the side. Just beside the path closest to the field, the courtyard wall planted with crape myrtles and willows stood there indifferently. It was located diagonally in front of Luo Binhan and was fortunately not affected by the laser beam.

Li Li didn't look in the direction he pointed, at least not with his eyes. "There's no sign of life there."

"How can you be sure? The walls are thick, and I have him locked in a lead box in the basement."

"Sir," Li Li said gently, "you can't use the same tricks you used against Xi De to deal with me. I'll give you three more seconds to tell the truth."

Luo Binhan lowered his head and looked at his toes. "In fact, I killed him a long time ago and buried his body in the field." He raised his head again, and dark whiskers were wriggling in the gaps between the scales on his face. Two lasers hit his forehead and chest successively, but this time, his forehead was covered with shadows emanating from the depths of the scales. The laser fell right in the middle of the shadow, and there was no reaction as if it was shot into a black hole. The attack on the chest did not kill him either. Luo Binhan turned and ran towards the courtyard wall, as if he wanted to use the building to block the sniper from above. He only had time to move forward three meters, and the bullet from several kilometers away shattered his right leg. He fell to the ground, his arm moved forward slightly, and there was another bloody hole pierced by the laser on his palm. He lay there motionless, buried his head and cursed loudly. He wished that the damn sniper would be as healthy and long-lived as his best friends. Li Li got angry because of him, and waited until the laser was completely cooled before saying: "You didn't mention that these shadows are also bulletproof."

"Why?" Luo Binhan said, "Do you want me to write a skill list for you?"

"Just curious why you don't just turn yourself into a shadow."

"I would like to, but it's a pity that it would be difficult to change back. Maybe I can change back after a few years or months, but I haven't tried it. I don't like the place I have to go after becoming a shadow."

"If your plan succeeds, I'm afraid you'll be stuck there after tonight."

“No way,” Robinson said angrily. “The High Spiritual Belt is another matter. There won’t be a bunch of people nagging you to do the right thing.”

"Let's wait and see another day." Li Li responded. Her tone was that of a competent kindergarten teacher. "After you get off the operating table, we can continue to explore the high spirit belt phenomenon--"

At this time, Luo Binhan was still more than 20 meters away from the courtyard wall. His blood seeped deeply into the soil and spread along the grass roots. In that brief moment, he was thinking about some definitions of "human body" and "inside the body". The strange thing was that he remembered Zhou Yu once told him that from the perspective of medicine and topology, the human intestines, stomach and lungs are all external environments, which means that gastric acid and intestinal fluid are actually outside the human body; while blood is the real internal environment of the human body. It is the flow of blood that brings about the operation of life, just as the flow of thoughts constitutes the soul in his eyes.

The shadow usually hides in the blood. He can feel it clearly now. When the blood flows out of the body, just like the soul leaves the body, the life force it contains is also gradually dissipating, perhaps because it has withdrawn from the system's circulation. However, at least before the blood flows out and enters another circulation, before it completely cools and deteriorates, the shadow is still in it. The shadow is still connecting the blood and the owner.

In the farmland, under the wall, in the flower bed, he used to use a scraper to cut the blood vessels and water the roots under the earth. Sometimes he didn't grasp the right measure, and when he came back twelve seconds later, there was no shadow in the blood that had been separated from the body, and all his efforts were wasted. It was difficult to grasp the scale, and the time he was given to prepare was too hasty. But he really cherished the pot of crape myrtle and the willow trees. The blood crawled in the soil bit by bit, just like a person trying hard to touch the joystick with the tip of his fingernail.

Li Li had already sent a new instruction through the internal channel. She asked the Tell team to use small shrapnel bombs to continuously shoot at the target's head, shooting every 20 seconds, changing people every three minutes, and adjusting to automatic mode after 10 minutes, just make sure the fine-tuning bracket is not loose. She took two steps back and sent another notice to Lacey and Hai Yaxin, asking them to immediately dispatch the drone and the defibrillator. Once the supplies are transported to the destination, she will directly complete the temporary installation operation here.

The willow branches at the base of the wall swayed twice. At first it seemed to be blown by the wind, and then it rose from the ground, like a straw in a tornado, swinging uncontrollably in the air. The soft green branches looked like a green velvety whisk, but the handle of the whisk was not the hand of a giant or a god, but a narrow shadow wrapped around the tree roots. The willow tree swept across the open space between them, and the sniper bullets exploded on the trunk, splashing sawdust, and the laser beam penetrated the dense branches and hit the blood-soaked land. Their sniper target was no longer there.

Li Li called a halt to the sniper team's actions. She noticed that the infrared image under her feet was changing rapidly, and the entire courtyard wall was shaking and had the tendency to collapse at any time. The second willow tree, which was as thick as a man's embrace, also broke free from the soil, jumped up like a rocket, and then was pulled horizontally in the air. Shadow used the several tons of tree trunks as rolling logs to sweep towards her, as if he also wanted her to taste the feeling of being flattened by a hydraulic press. In an instant, she considered several different strategies: there was a row of high-temperature plasma air knives on the outside of the left arm of the body that could be ejected and expanded to a length of two meters, and a small magnetic field tractor that could pull about five tons of magnetic objects, but both of them were not effective for heavy wood - her opponent obviously deliberately avoided using metal weapons; she could order Walken to fire the pre-prepared shells, using special fragments and white phosphorus to turn this place into a scorched earth, clearing all the shelters that Shadow could use, but in this way her body would also be affected. She was still constantly observing the various characteristics of Shadow and analyzing their ability boundaries. Each strategy could reverse the current situation, but it would also lead to an unknown future. And the result she wanted, or should I say, the result she wanted most, required a risky move.

She cancelled the threshold limit of the energy concentrator and adjusted the laser power to the maximum. High-energy rays as thick as a fist hit the tree trunk violently, breaking the tree in half. The firing port was slightly deformed due to the overheating of the material. She was about to switch to the backup conventional kinetic shooting system when a shadow silently wrapped around the ankle of the body and suddenly pulled her off the ground, hanging upside down in the air. More shadows stretched out from the grass, firmly grasped her right arm, and bent it and tied it behind her back. She increased the power of the power system to try to break free, but the power of the shadow seemed endless. Some of the brittle materials in the body soon reached the upper limit of pressure.

In the internal channel, Tell and Walken almost simultaneously requested permission to fire freely, trying to find a way to help her out. She rejected it. The shadow spread and stretched on the surface of the machine, binding her hands and feet, but ultimately did not hurt her, instead slowly sending her in the direction of the farmhouse. Luo Binhan was leaning against the wall of the courtyard, a blind spot that was difficult for the sniper team to attack. He had obviously figured out the direction of the sniper position when he was shot several times before, and was now using the shadow to grab the feet of the machine and gently shaking the upside-down Li Li in that direction. Tell sent another request to fire. Li Li still rejected it. She had calculated the shooting path and knew that armor-piercing bullets could penetrate a brick wall, but it would be difficult to maintain accuracy after penetrating an entire farmhouse.

The shadow that stretched out from the bushes brought her to the wall of the courtyard, but did not put her down. Instead, she was hung upside down more than two meters above the ground. The arms of the machine were tied behind its back, making it difficult for the laser and plasma knife to work. Luo Binhan used a shadow to tightly wrap around her neck, preventing the machine from turning its head at will. Then, with a wicked smile, he pulled her closer to a distance where they could talk face to face.

"You really shouldn't have come here in person," he said. Several tiny black shadows like tentacles poked out from under the scales and swam happily on his face, as if they were as proud as their owner. Li Li observed calmly. "You seem to use shadows differently from Luo De."

"Maybe. I think it depends on the person. Luo De has also transformed into someone else before. I haven't figured out how he did it yet."

"What does it feel like to control a shadow?" Li Li asked, "What's the heaviest weight you can lift?"

"I don't know myself." Luo Binhan shrugged. "These shadows are not my limbs. They are something with their own thoughts. Their actions do not require me to do anything. I just need to communicate with them and tell them what to do. It feels more like using a joystick to control a robotic arm, or asking a dog to catch a Frisbee."

"But they can't move on their own and require your constant attention?"

"Indeed, and sometimes they are not so obedient. Zhou Yu's mother makes a very strange kind of local tobacco, and every time she lights that kind of tobacco, these shadows become particularly dull."

"Will you tell me that?"

"What does it matter? I told you so that you can be on guard against other shadows. Who knows if there are any fish that slip through the net besides Lot in this world?"

Luo Binhan squatted as high as possible within the blind spot of the sniper and studied the structural details of the machine. "I really didn't expect you to come in person." He said a little tangled, "Even if you guessed that I have a new card, it's a bit too risky to do this, right?"

"So what do you think I'm going to do?"

"Maybe Anti-Pierre will come to me?"

"Ms. Pierre and Mr. Cai Ji disappeared at the same time."

Luo Binhan sighed and said nothing more. "Hand over my knife and your box."

"What if I say no?"

"Don't be like this, Li Li. I promise not to damage your box, and I won't touch Feng Chuxing again. Give the things to me, and then, by tomorrow, our little place will be safe and sound."

"And what about you?"

"I'm already beyond help," Robin Han said. "It's too late anyway. Even if you stop me today and successfully throw me on the operating table, it will be the same as death for me, or maybe even worse. You can't keep me trapped in those twelve seconds forever, and as long as you remove the electric shock device, I will leave immediately and find another way to track that thing. I have begun to understand the logic of that thing's actions, so sooner or later I will find it. Now I stay in the world only for this purpose."

Li Li looked at him quietly, as if considering his confession. Luo Binhan waited for a while, then sighed again: "Well, if you don't want to give it to me, then I'll take it myself. I'll put your box in the isolation box. Feng Chuxing said that thing can completely cut off your contact with the outside world - this little beast seems to really hate you, you have to be more careful of him in the future - in short, I will put you in the isolation box until the old man named Radumos is willing to hand over the wellhead to me."

He still didn't get any response, so he had to hide the disappointment on his face and put on a slightly tangled smirk. A thin and sharp shadow crawled out from his feet. "I really don't want this to seem perverted." He stared at the shadow approaching Li Li's cheek, "You made this machine too much like you. Can you just tell me the exact location of the box? This way we can both be less embarrassed..."

"Do you know why I have to come here in person?"

Robin Han was not distracted to think about anything else. It was much harder to manipulate Shadow to dismantle a precision machine than to swing a tree weighing several tons. He had to cut through the surface panels layer by layer to avoid causing an explosion in the power system or damaging the black box whose location was unknown. This delicate operation was too difficult for him at the moment, like asking a butcher who slaughtered livestock to do the work of a clinician.

The tip of the shadow slowly approached the camera on the face of the machine. Li Li finally said, "The box is in the chest cavity."

"Is it true?" Luo Binhan said. He hesitated for a while, but finally didn't want to destroy the familiar face, so he turned his eyes away slightly, letting the shadow rise a dozen centimeters. "Don't move," he bit his lip with difficulty, "This is not easy for me..."

"I know," Li Li replied, "it's not easy for me either. But sir, I came here in person to save your soul."

Luo Binhan heard a very light "whoosh" sound. At first he did not understand, because the sound did not sound very lethal, not the explosion of gunpowder or the sharp sound of laser, but a sound of breaking wind like a dart being thrown. The shadow between him and Li Li disappeared in an instant. He lowered his head in confusion and saw a dagger with a copper handle stuck in his chest. The thin blade of the dagger was silvery white like porcelain, nailing the shadow firmly to him. Suddenly, he felt that his chest was being torn open alive.

He started screaming before he could react. The dagger pinned him to the shadow, causing him to feel excruciating pain every time he moved. The pain was so intense that it was incomparable to the instantaneous death of a gunshot, and he couldn't even escape by dying on his own. In the blink of an eye, he had fallen against the wall, and he vaguely saw Li Li using one arm to support the ground and nimbly flipping down from mid-air. There was a small hole in the chest of her mech jacket, revealing the tiny ejection hole of the sword blade underneath.

Luo Binhan breathed in vain, and every breath brought a deeper mental tear; he tried to relieve the pain by holding his breath, but he couldn't control the spasms and twitches of his muscles. The small sword was only shallowly inserted into his heart, only two or three centimeters, and it might be fixed on the sternum. He struggled to reach out and pull it out, but Li Li stepped heavily on his thigh with a steel-like foot. He felt that the weight of the pile of mechanical things must have broken his leg bones, but he didn't actually feel it. Anyway, he didn't care about his hands and feet, as long as the severe pain in his chest stopped.

Li Li squatted down and gently grasped the copper hilt of the small sword with her hand. Unfortunately, she did not pull out the dagger, but inserted it another centimeter. Luo Binhan screamed and tried to lean back, but the brick wall used to block the sniper blocked his retreat. After an unknown amount of time, he finally pulled the shadow back from his chest, like an insect specimen pulling itself out from under a nail. Li Li stared at him calmly all the time, that was the look of a real clinical doctor, but unfortunately she did not arrange an anesthesiologist.

"What is this?" Luo Binhan asked exhaustedly. He saw blood flowing from his chest, but there was no shadow in it. The sword made him completely lose control of the shadow, and he could only feel endless tearing and mutilation.

"A weapon designed to fight shadows. I think its name might be 'Mirror Penetrator'."

"Why the hell do you have something like this?"

"After Mr. Zhou Yu passed away, I sent people to check Guns N' Roses." Li Li said, "Back then, in a role-playing game, Mr. Anthony Kent set up a hidden puzzle in his fictional Guns N' Roses bar, requiring players to investigate the largest rose bush in the bar, from which they could find an important clue to pass the level. After Mr. Cai Ji disappeared, I also sent people to investigate, and found this dagger in the bush, as well as a letter left to me by Mr. Zhou Yu, entrusting me to use this dagger in an emergency - after all, he still knew you very well."

"That bitch." Luo Binhan said in pain.

Li Li pushed the blade in another centimeter, this time it must be very close to the heart. He had to put his hand back to the ground after struggling to raise it. "Li Li," he groaned miserably, "this sword is..."

"It will give you a long sleep," Li Li answered. "There will be no pain, just a dreamless sleep. You will not wake up until the sword is pulled out of your heart."

"When are you going to wake me up?"

"Until your resentment is quelled and your heart is at peace. It may take a long time, but I promise you will wake up to a better world."

Robinson laughed hysterically. "Never," he said desperately, "I will never be at peace. You might as well throw me to the bottom of the sea. Maybe the next time I open my eyes, the end of the world will have come."

Li Li silently pushed the hilt forward. Luo Binhan stared at her face blankly, and the resentment in his eyes finally disappeared. "Well," he smiled disheartenedly, "I am just a little unwilling anyway. You guys did it without telling me anything, which is not fair at all... It's up to you! Since the two of you have teamed up to make me leave, then I will leave this world..."

"We don't want you to leave." Li Li said, "Mr. Zhou Yu hopes that you can stay in this world more happily."

Luo Binhan shook his head with difficulty, and there was only sadness in his smile. "Let me take one last look at this world." He begged, turning his head to look at the flower bed beside him. Just at his arm's length, the pot of crape myrtle was still quietly blooming with fragrance. "Zhou Yu's mother built a cenotaph for her daughter, you can bury Zhou Yu there too. This pot of flowers is my gift to them..."

"I'll plant it where you want it."

Luo Binhan stretched out his hand with difficulty and caressing, and touched the slightly dry moss on the flower bed. "Bang," he said.

He pressed the traction bar hidden in the moss. The crape myrtle flowerbed exploded. As early as when he dragged Li Li to the wall, Shadow had quietly adjusted the shooting angle of the "portable multi-mode flow aid" buried under the flowerbed to prevent his opponent from using some trick to escape. He was not worried that this steel pipe-like alien toy would be hijacked by her - except for the activation code of the transmitter, Feng Chuxing basically answered all questions during technical consultation and had already assured him that this thing was completely disconnected from the Internet even by Wuyuanren's standards. Bury it in the flowerbed first, and then add a little anti-radiation coating. Boom! The trouble at hand was solved.

The deadly airflow from the flow aid completely shattered his body at a very close distance, and also knocked the dagger far away. So he died briefly again. Thirty seconds later, he was reborn and looked at his opponent with the joy of a Jedi counterattack. A broken body fell at his feet, and everything from the head to the chest had completely disappeared. The smile he had just revealed suddenly froze, and he let out a heart-wrenching cry from his throat, and rushed over to check the wreckage of the body. Li Li didn't lie to him. The box was really in the chest cavity of the body. He picked it up in panic and checked it. The box was fine. The shell was intact. After all, Wuyuan's artificial cement is stronger than conventional metal.

He regained his composure, carefully lifted the box with a shadow, and brushed off the mud on its surface. "Li Li?" he said anxiously, "Tell me you are okay?"

The phantom of Li Li appeared before him, staring at him silently. "I'm sorry for you, sir." These were the last words she said.

Luo Binhan hid behind the courtyard wall and used a shadow to slowly drag the wooden box on the ridge to his front. He first cleaned Li Li's box and carefully placed it in the isolation box, then re-examined the remains of the body. There was a spare radio device on the inner side of the outer shell of the abdomen of the body. He thought for a while and tentatively brought the microphone-like component to his mouth.

"I have your boss in my hands," he said. "You must hand over No. 206 Dongyun Road before dark tonight."

He closed his eyes, imagining how the red-nosed old man would be filled with shock and anger at this moment, roaring at him on the other end of the channel, just like the howling of the wind in the fields... The frosty sky is high, the reeds are old, the shrike is singing in autumn, and the day of destruction is coming.

(End of this chapter)