You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

"Lin Chen...you win."

Prajna's voice was muffled, and dark purple blood was bubbling in his mouth.

"But before I die... I can at least take everyone around you with me."

He struggled to lift his left hand from the pit, and in that fractured and deformed hand, he clutched a round remote control the size of an egg.

There is a red button on it.

His thumb had already pressed down.

Instantly, a muffled, continuous buzzing sound came from deep within the walls of the entire base.

The emergency lights on the ceiling suddenly switched to red.

The alarm blared, piercingly, filling every corridor and every room.

A large screen above the laboratory's main control console lit up automatically, displaying a line of large red text and a set of numbers that were jumping around.

"SELF-DESTRUCT INITIATED"

"02:59"

"02:58"

"02:57"

three minutes.

Prajna lay on the ground and spoke her last words in a voice that was almost inaudible.

"At the bottom of the base... six underground levels... ten tons of RDX high explosives were pre-buried... the explosive yield is equivalent to one-tenth of a tactical nuclear bomb... enough to flatten everything within a radius of 500 meters in this area..."

He smiled.

That smile held the final pleasure of a dying madman.

"Your SWAT team members... your forensic pathologist... your Su Qingge... they're all in the base... three minutes... can you manage to get everyone out of here?"

Su Qingge's voice came through the communicator.

"Lin Chen! The base has fully activated its self-destruct program! Three minutes left! The bomb disposal team is still on the perimeter and can't get in at all! I've already ordered a retreat, but the passageway is too long; three minutes isn't enough for everyone to evacuate!"

Her voice was steady, but Lin Chen could hear the anxiety she was trying so hard to suppress beneath that calm surface.

More than 200 special police officers were scattered throughout the base to carry out the clearing operation. The closest passage from the deepest laboratory to the ground exit was more than 300 meters away.

three minutes.

The armored special police can run at full speed at approximately five meters per second.

It takes 60 seconds to run 300 meters.

However, the passage still contains a large number of obstacles that have not yet been cleared, the corpses of killed mercenaries, and possible booby traps.

The actual evacuation time is at least five to six minutes.

There's no escaping it.

Lin Chen looked down at Prajna.

Prajna was also watching him, her blood-red eyes, which were beginning to become cloudy, waiting to see a look of despair appear on his face.

He didn't wait.

Lin Chen's expression remained unchanged from beginning to end.

He turned and walked toward the control panel in the laboratory.

This main control computer is the nerve center of the entire Skynet base; the initiation, execution, and termination instructions of the self-destruct program are all controlled through it.

Although the EMP destroyed all the equipment in the hall, the laboratory, located in the deepest part of the base with its own independent power supply and control console with its own Faraday cage shielding, was unaffected.

Lin Chen sat in front of the control panel.

The countdown on the screen is ticking.

"02:31"

His fingers landed on the keyboard.

The self-destruct program designed by Prajna is not a simple countdown bomb.

It employs a six-layer nested dynamic encryption algorithm.

The key for each layer changes randomly in milliseconds, and the six layers are interconnected. A decryption error in any layer will trigger an "accelerated detonation" mechanism, which will skip the remaining time.

Conventional hacking methods, even with ten people and ten supercomputers, might not be able to crack it in an hour.

Lin Chen has two minutes and thirty-one seconds.

[God-level hacking skills], unleashing full power.

His brain entered an unprecedented state of high-speed operation at that moment.

The sense of time at the level of consciousness was stretched to an extreme degree, and all sounds and images in the external world became slowed down. Only the rapidly scrolling stream of code on the screen in front of him maintained a normal speed in his field of vision.

His fingers moved across the keyboard at a speed that broke the theoretical limit of human finger movement frequency.

The zero-latency neural synchronization of the "God-level Magic Hand Speed" makes every keystroke of every finger precise to the sub-millisecond level.

The sound of the keyboard was no longer the discrete "tap-tap" of typing, but a continuous "hissing" sound, similar to tearing cloth.

First layer of encryption, cracked in nine seconds.

Second layer, twelve seconds.

The third level gets really weird.

Prajna used an adaptive adversarial algorithm that Lin Chen had never seen before in this layer. Whenever the decryption process gets close to the correct key, the encryption system will immediately sense the threat and regenerate a completely new key matrix.

"01:47"

Lin Chen's fingers did not stop.

He did not follow the conventional decryption path.

[God-level Physics Mastery] was invoked in an unorthodox way at this moment.

The essence of encryption algorithms is mathematics, the essence of mathematics is logic, the essence of logic is the arrangement and combination of information, and the physical carrier of information is the quantum state distribution of electrons in the chip gate.

He wasn't "cracking" the password.

He "saw through" the computational trajectory of the password generator at a physical level, and then intercepted it directly within the nanosecond-level time window before the key was fully generated.

The third layer: cracking.

The fourth and fifth floors collapsed in quick succession within the next forty seconds.

"00:38"

The last layer.

Prajna added a final layer of protection that Lin Chen had anticipated—a physically isolated, independent encryption module that could only be deactivated by manually entering a 32-digit alphanumeric password.

This code exists only in the mind of Prajna.

Lin Chen turned around and glanced at Banruo, who was lying in the pit and had almost stopped breathing.

He didn't waste time asking for the password.

A madman so arrogant that he holds the self-destruct button in his hand is unlikely to reveal his final trump card before he dies.

But the human brain is not a safe haven.

[God-level hypnosis].

Lin Chen's gaze pierced through the ten-meter distance and landed on Prajna's pupils, which were already fading.

Even though Prajna's consciousness was extremely blurred at this moment, hypnosis could still bypass his conscious defenses and directly extract information from his subconscious memory bank.

0.7 seconds.

The thirty-two-digit code floated up from the deepest part of Prajna's mind like a bubble, and was precisely intercepted by Lin Chen's hypnosis.

He turned around and typed the password with his ten fingers.

"00:05"

Press Enter.

The red countdown on the screen stopped at "00:04".

It flickered twice.

Then it turned green.

"SELF-DESTRUCT CANCELLED"

The alarm stopped abruptly.

The red emergency light switched back to normal white illumination.

The buzzing from deep within the walls ceased, and the colossal beast from the earth sank back into slumber.

Lin Chen lifted his fingers off the keyboard.

Su Qingge's voice came through the communicator, containing only two words.

"Is it off?"

"It's off."

There was a three-second silence on the other end of the communicator.

Then he heard a very faint sob, barely suppressed by tightly clenched lips.

Only one sound.

Then Su Qingge's voice regained its cold, iron-like calmness and strength.

"Attention all personnel, self-destruct mechanism deactivated! Continue the clearing operation! Search every area thoroughly, leave no survivors!"

Lin Chen turned off the communicator and sat on the chair in front of the control panel for five seconds.

His back was wet.

A body with ten times the strength sweated in those three minutes.

He stood up and walked towards Prajna.

Prajna's eyes were already closed.

The 40-minute time limit of the "God's Gene" had reached its 30th minute. His body was rapidly collapsing due to the backlash from overexertion, and his heartbeat was getting weaker and slower.

But he is still alive.

They won't die for now.

Lin Chen squatted down and looked at the face that had aged twenty years.

"You will stand trial alive."

He said.

"Death is too cheap for you."

Prajna's lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to say something.

In the end, he didn't say anything.