death of hope

Chapter 1062 "Psionic Storm" (135) A Desperate Struggle

Ruriko Higashiyama truly deserves her GOAT (Goal of the Class) status among corporate warriors, and her executive-level salary is well-deserved.

Facing the ever-mutating undead monsters, she remained fearless, activating the serrated switch on her tactical longsword to continuously sever the attacking tentacles, resisting the storm-like onslaught and covering her subordinates' firepower output.

Since the monster lost Joseph's human consciousness, its intelligence has decreased, but its survival instinct has become more than a hundred times stronger.
The numerous squads it had previously devoured became the source of its mutated energy. Each time its body suffered a severe blow, it would become stronger, its bone plates would grow thicker and thicker, and its tentacles would break off more and more.

Faced with the primitive and barbaric attack, the well-equipped and well-trained corporate warriors gradually lost ground and suffered continuous losses.

Boris!

Victor!
No!"

Two more corporate warriors were swept away by the tentacles; one was stuffed into the abyss's gaping maw and chewed up, while the other was hung on the calcified spikes of the proliferating exoskeleton and displayed like a trophy.

"Damn it... this can't go on..."

Even someone as formidable as Higashiyama Ruriko, an eighth-dan swordsman, was tormented to the point of groaning in agony:
(No... this thing is impossible to kill... if this continues, we'll be finished once we run out of stamina...)
In just a few seconds, several more corporate warriors perished, sent flying like baseball home runs, crashing into the wall with broken bones and torn limbs, their tissue fluid and brain matter sticking to the wall and slowly sliding down.

The thickest tentacle struck with such force that it carved a large hole in the wall, leading to the adjacent maintenance room. Upon seeing this, Dr. Ryan immediately jumped in and ran away.

Having made up her mind, Liulizi gave the following orders to her remaining subordinates:

"We have a way out! I'll hold off the attack, you guys fight and retreat! Kill that kid! Protect Dr. Ryan! Retrieve Zero!"

"Yes, boss!"

·
At this moment, Li Ang picked up Yuna and was about to escape through the large hole carved out by the tentacles when he was caught red-handed by this sudden attack.

"You brat! Trying to run away?!"

The corporate soldier raised his gun and fired. With his superb aiming and marksmanship, several bullets struck Li Ang directly in the back of the head.
Just as their brains were about to splatter, the bullets seemed to hit an invisible wall, shattering and falling apart.

"That's... a psionic shield?!"

The corporate warriors were horrified, recalling the strange sights they had witnessed when they fired at Eldar witches while serving in the Terran Legion.

Li Ang was completely unaware that he had just almost had his head blown off; he was simply using his long legs to run for his life.
Suddenly noticing the intense gaze, he looked down and saw Yuna Jinguji gazing at him with deep affection.

"Tetsuya-kun..."

Due to the overuse of her psionic energy, her already weakened body could no longer withstand the strain, and she was bleeding from all seven orifices.

·
(It seems it's already broad daylight outside. She only woke up after the anesthetic wore off. According to the original plan, we should have already boarded an interstellar flight and flown far away by this time...)
Li Ang ran wildly, panting heavily, and said:

"Idiot! Stop using your powers! You'll die..."

Yuna didn't answer, focusing only on maintaining the strength of her psionic shield, completely disregarding her own life or death.

Only after Li Ang ran out of rifle range and, relying on his familiarity with the B14 area, zigzagged around to shake off his pursuers and hid in a secluded warehouse, did Yuna finally feel relieved enough to put away her shield.

Li Ang knelt down and coughed violently.
He hadn't slept all night, was under a lot of stress, and was also exhausted from carrying Yuna, who was tall and heavy.

Yuna was so weak that her whole body went limp. Countless anatomical experiments and radiation tests had ravaged her already frail body to the point of near death.
The psionic energy she used to block those bullets almost cost her her life.

After hiding for a while and not hearing any pursuers, I was temporarily safe.

Gunshots and screams echoed in the distance as the corporate warriors continued their fierce battle against the monster.

·
Li Ang could finally stop and catch his breath.
Thinking of the five good people who sacrificed themselves to help him, he burst into tears. Looking down at his half-dead lover, he dejectedly began to confess:

"I'm sorry, Ms. Yuna, I've been lying to you. This isn't a hospital, it's a psychic research institute."

Joseph and Lane aren't doctors, they're psionicists. They're using psionicists like you as guinea pigs, and I... have been assisting these devils all along...

Only recently have I made up my mind to stop doing bad things and to be an upright person. I'm not some saint...

I did all this simply because…

I love you…

I secretly carried out this dangerous plan, wanting to elope with you, deciding your fate without your consent...

I... I'm such a terrible man... And I messed it up...

I messed everything up...

I wasted this one and only chance...

I'm such a useless piece of trash... I can't even save the one I love most...

The company still has a large workforce available... that monster won't last long...

In the end, we still...

Unable to escape the company's clutches...

"

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Leon Vilnius's tears of remorse fell onto her sickly, pale cheeks.
Yuna forced her eyelids open and smiled at him:
"Tetsuya-kun, you've said so much all at once, I don't quite understand... I'm a silly girl... but I know... it's all for my own good~"
No matter what, we're together, hand in hand, and that's enough...

I am terminally ill; every second I live is pure torture…

Please…

Just give me a quick death...

Tetsuya-kun…

"

·
"Well…

Um…"

With a heavy heart, Li Ang drew his automatic pistol.
Those were picked up from the corpse of the corporate soldier before I fled. I pulled out the magazine and saw it was full.

Kill Yuna, then shoot yourself; then both of them will be free...

But when he looked directly into Yuna's eyes, into those loving eyes, his finger on the trigger gave way.

He wiped away his tears, switched off the safety, put the gun away, picked her up, and continued running.

"Tetsuya-kun? What's wrong with you...?"

Li Ang smiled through his tears: "I promised you, Miss Yuna, how could I go back on my word?"
Once you recover and get into university, we'll go to Disneyland, Universal Studios, and the Millennium Tower to see the night view.
We went to Duishan Park to see the cherry blossoms…

We went to Sundance and tried a hundred different kinds of ice cream…

We went to Europa to see the frozen sea...

We still have to go…

Li Ang choked up again and couldn't continue.

The more I talked about it, the more inadequate I felt, like a fraudster.

Even though he had absolutely no chance, the warrior genes within him were still driving him forward.
go ahead…

At this point, the Trojan virus deployed by the cybersecurity engineer began to exert its effects.

Li Ang's employee card could unlock all the security doors in the research institute. He went to the restricted area and began to open the cages that imprisoned the psionicists one by one, unlocking the shackles and straps.

Yuna vaguely understood Li Ang's actions. Because she hadn't taken suppressants for a long time, her psychic abilities were no longer restricted. Her powerful sensory abilities allowed her to instantly perceive the emotions of other psychics, including the despair of the lab rats in the cage.

She wasn't stupid; she was just too kind. She knew that crying wouldn't save a psionicist, and that forbearance would only invite more brutal trampling from the abuser…

At this moment, her tears had almost dried up, and her sorrow gradually turned into anger.

Yuna Jinguji nodded and said to Li Ang:

"Tetsuya-kun, put me down."
I can still...
fighting…"