Chapter 6 Life-saving grace 2
There was a flurry of footsteps coming from the stairwell, and the landlord's roar shook the dust off the wall: "That woman must have at least 20 pounds of meat in her bag!"

Listening to the sounds in the stairwell, Su Wanqing took out an infrared detector and stuck it on the wall. The screen showed three red dots climbing to the seventh floor.

Lin Che's back suddenly arched into a shrimp shape, and the protrusion on his spine pushed open the scabbed wound, revealing half of the metal device.

The system pops up a holographic anatomy diagram: [Remaining validity period of central nervous system inhibitor: 39 days and 23 hours].

Su Wanqing approached the boy, used a dagger to pry open his collar, and saw the dense needle holes on his shoulder blades.

Suddenly, a scream broke out from downstairs, as if someone had their arm torn off alive.

"Did those old guys at the research institute give you three insurance policies?" She unzipped Lin Che's school uniform and pressed her fingertips on the chip implant scar on her sternum.

The boy suddenly convulsed violently, his pupils shrinking to the size of pinpoints. Data streams began to flash across his retina: [Gene Lock Cracking Progress 62%78%]

When Lin Che opened his mouth to bite Su Wanqing's wrist, the howling of wild dogs in the corridor had already approached the corner of the fifth floor.

She shoved the tactical glove between his teeth and heard the sound of leather tearing.

The boy's stomach began to rumble at a high frequency, and the temperature of his skin soared to a level that could boil an egg.

"Listen." Su Wanqing grabbed his sweaty purple hair in front of his forehead, "I can remove the bomb in your spine, but only if you become my dog."

The building suddenly tilted, and the accumulated water, carrying broken glass, rushed to the northwest corner.

Lin Che was hung by the climbing rope and bumped into the wall, causing a dull thud on the back of his head.

Su Wanqing took the opportunity to press the bulge on the back of his neck and dug her nails into the festering wound.

The boy howled like a dying beast, and half of the sharp barbs popped out from the metal device on his spine.

The system warning box turned blood red: [Self-destruction program activated! ]

Su Wanqing took out a hydraulic shear from the space and clamped the barb, then stepped on Lin Che's kicking calf.

"One last chance." She pressed the blade of the hydraulic shears against the boy's Adam's apple. "Be my dog, or become zombie shit."

Lin Che suddenly stopped struggling, and her blood-stained eyelashes trembled twice.

Su Wanqing felt the temperature of the skin under her palm begin to drop, and the system popped up a prompt: [Gene lock cracked].

The dark blue blood vessels on the boy's neck gradually faded, and the moment his pupils refocused, he opened his mouth and bit the cookie crumbs she handed him.

The footsteps in the corridor suddenly stopped outside the fire door on the eighth floor. The landlord's breathing sounded like a broken bellows: "That bitch must be on the roof!"

Su Wanqing tugged on the climbing rope and dragged Lin Che to the back of the ventilation duct. She saw the metal device in his back wound slowly being removed from his body. "Swallow it." She slapped the last half of the compressed biscuit into the boy's mouth.

When Lin Che's Adam's apple rolled, a crisp sound of metal falling to the ground could be heard from his spine.

The system prompt sounded in my ears: [Obtain permanent binding rights for S-level water-based mutants].

Su Wanqing stuck to the corner, listening to the dull thud of something heavy falling to the ground downstairs, followed by the sticky sound of wild dogs gnawing on internal organs.

She took out a silenced pistol and loaded it, then caught a glimpse of Lin Che wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth with the sleeve of his school uniform.

The boy suddenly grabbed her trouser leg and said in a breathy French voice, "There are seven more test subjects in the basement."

The thief-proof door was slammed so hard that dust fell off the ceiling. The landlord's roar was bloody: "Catch that bitch and feed her to the dogs!"

Su Wanqing pulled Lin Che in front of her, holding the dagger across his neck. "Now tell me, what are those seven things?"

The boy suddenly coughed violently, and vomited blood mixed with metal fragments.

The system anatomy diagram showed that the micro-bomb in his chest cavity had failed. Su Wanqing used the tip of her shoe to fiddle with the metal device stained with cerebrospinal fluid and saw the words "Destruction procedure No. 0927 completed" engraved on the bottom.

"They're all failed samples." Lin Che's pupils began to dilate again, and he dug his fingers into the cracks in the ground. "They ate the ones from Lab Number Three."

Before he could finish his words, the entire building suddenly sank half a meter vertically, and spider-web-like cracks appeared in the load-bearing walls.

Su Wanqing dragged Lin Che towards the safe passage and heard the crisp sound of human bones being chewed downstairs.

The boy lay on her back, panting, his hot breath spraying on her neck: "There is a backup generator underground."

Su Wanqing pressed the new skin on the back of his neck with her backhand, which now felt like a cooling steel ingot.

As the prompt box of [Supernatural Power Guidance Completed] danced on her retina, she suddenly laughed: "You smell like a moldy lemon pie right now."

Before Lin Che could react, she was thrown towards the shaky fire door.

Su Wanqing watched as the young man broke open the door like a sack, and the landlord's screams and the excited howls of wild dogs were suddenly heard downstairs.

She stood at the corner of the stairs and lit a block of alcohol. The flames reflected the splattered blood on the wall.

"It's time to pay the rent, Mr. Landlord."

(End of this chapter)

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