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Chapter 17 Player Passage, 11:45 pm
Tang stared at Rosie warily. The wound on his arm was bleeding profusely, but he didn't even feel the pain. The oppressive feeling around the person in front of him was like a heavy stone falling on his heart.He had so much to say, and he wanted to ask "Are bionics human?", but he was speechless, unable to utter a single syllable.
Deng Huailing got rid of the shackles of the thorns, kicked Tang's waist, and followed up with a quick and fierce punch, causing the latter to shrink back in pain and gain a little space.Rosie's condition appeared unstable, with bandages soaked in blood and breathing disordered.
It's neurotoxins at work.He couldn't help but hold Rosie's wrist on his chest, inspecting the injury, "How do you feel, is there any other injury? Do you feel suffocation?"
"Mr. Deng," Rosie forced a weak smile, "is this the way you care about people?"
"It doesn't count." Deng Huailing said.He grabbed Rosie's wrist with his right hand, pulled her forward half a step, wrapped his left hand around her shoulder, and whispered in his ear, "That's what counts. Thank you."
Rosie's reflexes were extremely fast, but this time he didn't react—because such behavior was not what the program expected.Deng Huailing had already left him like a superficial touch, making him doubt the authenticity of this little hug.
"Leave Tang to me. Keep an eye on the thorns, just delay that bionic man's footsteps." Deng Huailing turned his head and said, "Sorry, I need you to hold on for a while."
"Eight minutes." Rosie was referring to the onset of the neurotoxin.
Deng Huailing understood.He abandoned the daze when he was questioned by Tang, and slowly reconstructed something firm in his eyes.He is not unwavering, and sometimes he is at a loss, but he has a little advantage, always holding reason and calmness in his hands.
—and Rosie was right, he wasn't alone anymore.
On the opposite side, Tang and Thorn adjusted and prepared for the next round of attacks.Seeing that Deng Huailing's team suddenly changed tactics, Tang didn't take it too seriously, so he simply let Thorn deal with the difficult Rosie, and he competed with Deng Huailing himself.
He chopped out the blade of his right arm, and the cold light lit up in the octagonal cage again, and the blade hit Deng Huailing's cheek, drawing arcs.
It was a knife technique that was not sloppy at all. The deflection angle, force position, and on-the-spot changes were tricky and quick, faster than the torrential rain after the thunderstorms, all of which showed the attacker's seasoned combat experience.The auditorium erupted, and the host shouted in the chaos:
"After seven minutes of probing each other, Tang finally couldn't hold back and wanted to end the game! Here Rosie held back the thorn, and the thorn was stuck in the corner and couldn't use the long whip, trying to rush out of space with the bone spur! ButThe humans in the group still don't have the upper hand, Deng Huailing has no weapons, and seems to be cornered!"
"Deng, don't you admit defeat yet?" Tang asked loudly while chopping quickly, with a victor's smile already on his face.
"Don't you think you're too impatient?" Deng Huailing sideways avoided another knife, the clean ground of the octagonal cage was full of scars, he estimated and dodged at a higher speed, watching for the opportunity to counterattack, "After all, there is something that I am much better at than you..."
The physical strength of both of them was declining, but neither of them reached their limit.But Tang Jiu missed the attack, his mentality gradually became unbalanced, his arms were a little unsteady, and his breathing couldn't maintain the rhythm.In such a fast confrontation, small deviations will be infinitely magnified, eventually resulting in fatal mistakes.
"Deng Huailing's situation is very bad. Could it be that tonight's laurel crown is about to happen?...Oh, wait, suddenly there is a serious empty knife, and Tang can't adjust it immediately! Deng Huailing bullied him,Throw a punch! Tang wanted to block it! But Deng Huailing pressed the back of the knife with his other hand in advance, and the knife could not be lifted!!"
"What a power this is! Tang has been transformed into a human body. Even his metal skeleton can't lift this knife! Now it's Deng Huailing's turn to fight back. His arm is like a knife, breaking through all defenses, consecutive hits in Don's ribs! Oh my God! Don looks in so much pain that he can't get up again - broken ribs, referee!"
The referee made a gesture from a distance, indicating that Tang hadn't taken the initiative to admit defeat, and the game was still going on.Tang fell to the ground, and the back of Deng Huailing's hand was covered in blood. He had just integrated sword skills into his fighting skills, causing sudden damage.
"When I started practicing this thing," Deng Huailing panted, restraining Tang to prevent him from moving, his forehead hair was soaked with sweat and blood, hanging down in the air, "you were still crying in the arms of the domestic androidWoolen cloth."
Tang took a deep breath, and the severe pain of broken ribs made him temporarily lose consciousness.The referee squatted down to check and count the seconds: "1, 2, 3, ..."
The thorns on the other side wanted to rush forward, but were always blocked by Rosie.
"...9, 10!" The referee crossed his hands and waved them sharply.As he gave the signal, the cheers exploded in an instant, sweeping the entire venue.
"Then the champion of the second half tonight is—" the host shouted hoarsely, with tears almost flying out of his eyes, "Deng Huailing, and his bionic Rosie! They won the ultimate prize of 10 million credits and a bionic prosthesis of the same value, and their names will hang in the golden corridors of the Fire Loop!"
Amidst the applause that shook the world, someone quietly pulled the bolt of the gun.The crosshair moved to the No. 7 octagonal cage, and behind the scope was a face with winding scars.
Like a high-altitude eagle staring at its prey, retracting its wings and swooping down through the clouds and mist, he squeezed the trigger, and the bullets whirled out of the barrel, drawing a straight line!
The gunfire engulfed the din of the crowd all the way, and hit Deng Huailing in the octagonal cage.Deng Huailing didn't turn his head when he heard the sound, and subconsciously wanted to dodge - he could have avoided it, but Tang was losing his ability to move under him. If he lost the barrier, it would be Tang who was hit by the sniper rifle.
At the critical moment, Deng Huailing grabbed Tang and rolled him sideways, and at the same time quickly raised the blade on the opponent's right arm to block.He only heard the gunshots and judged the approximate location of the sniper, but he didn't know the exact point where the bullet landed; like a gambler without fear, he bet that the bullet landed on his head before he could take Tang away completely..
Something slammed into the knife made of special material, and the violent friction made a sharp metal sound.The surface of the blade bloomed like a flower bud, but the stamen was just embedded in the bullet, reducing its kinetic energy to zero.
The smell of gunpowder permeated the air, and the knife modified by Tang's right arm was made of hard alloy, and a scorched hole was pierced out of the polycrystalline diamond, which was emitting smoke.If the shooting distance was closer, even this ultra-hard knife would not be able to block the bullet, and Deng Huailing and Tang would have to face the fate of being headshot.
Some spectators stood up in panic and rushed out of the venue.The person who shot the gun was at the height of the auditorium, but no one knew when he appeared, and how he set up the gun and installed the scope without anyone noticing.
Time did not allow them to be in a state of shock, Deng Huailing immediately turned his head and said to Thorn: "It's Shu who sent people to intercept and kill them. Take your administrator and walk through the player tunnel. We will be in charge of adjourning and meet at the doctor's shop. Be careful,It’s not just the sniper who came.”
"Be careful yourself..." Tang said hoarsely. He resisted the pain of broken ribs, and managed to make a sound, "'Shu' is aimed at you, and he is not interested in people like me."
"Say less." Deng Huailing patted him on the shoulder, "Be careful not to pierce your lungs."
Thorn put away the bone spurs all over his body, and carried Tang on his back.As expected by Deng Huailing, a group of rebels wearing white armbands suddenly appeared in the auditorium. They sneaked into the fighting arena in a low-key manner, assembled their guns after the first shot, loaded the ammunition, and fired at the octagonal cage at the bottom of the fighting arena.Surround me.
On the high place, Scarface hummed a little song, and pulled the bolt again.He is the person in charge of this operation. Victor, the acting leader of the "Surgery", gave him the task of assassinating Rosie, and promised to elect him as an alternate adjudicator as long as he brought back the body of the bionic man.
Although I don't know why Victor is interested in an android, but this is a great opportunity for promotion.He is a newcomer, and he has only been in the "Surgery" for two years, but Victor did not entrust this important task to other veterans, clearly implying that he should express himself.
"They want to go through the player channel. A team of people will go there and block the exit of the channel." Scarface's eyes were dark, while he was thinking about Victor's appointment, he commanded the rebels in the channel in a deep voice.
"...Now you can't escape with your wings. I didn't want to mobilize the crowd, but you forced me," he turned off the communication and said to himself, recalling the fear of being strangled by the bionic man, and trembling all over, "Damn it, really damn it!"
Chaos broke out in the Fire Loop, the audience and staff fled in all directions, and the few guards could not resist for long."Shu" came this time with the idea of eradicating Rosie completely, and dispatched powerful soldiers. Gunshots rang out intensively, splashing blood on the guards.
There were bloodstains all over the octagonal cage, and there was no one inside.Everyone on the field retreated into the player passage, and human voices echoed in the dark passage.
Deng Huailing took Rosie into the waiting room, opened the storage box with the ID chip, and retrieved the knife and black ring stored before the game.Rosie only has three minutes of waking time left, and they have to evacuate the damned place within three minutes.
The door of the lounge was ajar after they came in. Deng Huailing had just grasped the doorknob with his left hand when a burst of footsteps came from far to near, heavy and powerful, as if he was carrying something like a gun.He put his finger on his lips, beckoning Rosie to keep quiet, and dragged her to hide behind the locker.
The door was knocked open in a second, and the white light of the tactical light pierced the darkness, shaking everywhere in the lounge.The rebels walked in with their guns in hand, and went around the lockers to search for targets."There's no one here," a subordinate reported.
"Look at the other side." Scarface's voice came.The end of the tunnel has been guarded by "Surge" people. Since there is no news from the exit, the bionic person they are looking for must still be in the tunnel.
"Yes!" The footsteps changed direction and moved towards the locker where the two were hiding.Rosie suddenly felt her fingers being touched, and Deng Huailing tapped his finger bones rhythmically, three, two,...
The tactical lights swept over, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at them.
one!
Deng Huailing and Rosie rushed out at the same time, and the black ring manipulated the magnetic field in the air to instantly decelerate the bullets exiting the muzzle of the gun. The huge sonic boom filled the room, and then returned to silence in an instant.
Cooperating with Deng Huailing, Rosie hit the fragile back of the rebel's neck with one blow, and then threw him aside.
All of this happened in milliseconds. Scarface was guarding the door, and when he saw a black figure appearing behind the locker, he immediately raised his gun to aim.But his finger slipped off the retainer because Rosie suddenly appeared, punched him on the bridge of the nose, and snatched the gun away.
The two had no intention of fighting, but rushed out of the door and ran all the way along the tunnel.Rosie only has one last minute left. If she can't get out of the tunnel during this time, Deng Huailing will carry the comatose bionic man on her back, and the difficulty of combat will increase significantly.
There was a faint light at the end of the tunnel, and Rosie turned her head to aim and knock out a few pursuers.However, when he turned around, he found that "Shu" had already deployed manpower at the exit, and Jing Ji and Tang failed to escape smoothly, and were entangled with the rebels, and there were loud gunshots in the narrow passage.
"Mr. Deng, I can still hold on." The sticky blue blood flowed everywhere, and Rosie's hands trembled slightly, and she could hardly hold the weapon, the gun body was covered with blood, "Don't worry about the time limit, just get out... get outThat's it."
The pursuers led by Scarface arrived again, and the rebels surrounded like locusts, and they fell into a bitter battle.Thorn relied on the slender whip in his hand to keep the rebels out, while Deng Huailing hovered the bullets to deal with the occasional miscellaneous fish that came close to him, barely maintaining the situation.
But they all knew in their hearts that as the number of rebels increased, the deadlock would be broken.Besides, Deng Huailing had just gone through the whole night of the game, so he didn't have much energy left.More and more stray bullets passed by, and the gap for maneuvering gradually narrowed.
Finally, the wind barrier was disintegrated by the bullets, and the long whip of thorns also shattered.Seeing the momentum, the rebels came up, and the first one had pointed a gun at Rosie's forehead. Deng Huailing desperately slashed his knife diagonally and cut the man's throat.
But more people gathered around, ready to shoot.Scarface raised his hand, signaling his subordinates to back off, he must take the credit for killing Rosie with his own hands.
Taking advantage of Deng Huailing and Thorn being unable to get away, he glared triumphantly at the bionic man and raised his gun: "It's just a bionic man, what kind of storm can it cause. As I said you will die, you have to—"
His voice stopped abruptly, and the last word swallowed in his throat.Scarface rolled his eyes in disbelief, staring at the blood dripping from his forehead, where a small scalpel was inserted, shining in the dark.
Someone stood against the light at the passage exit.In an instant, the man threw a whirling blade and hit the scarred face's eyebrows firmly.
The man spoke, he had a frivolous voice, and said lazily, "Oh, Ro... no, Rosie. This is the first time I've seen you deflated."
"This is really," the killer brushed back his fiery red curly hair, the scalpel whirled like a silver butterfly between his fingers, and then stopped with a groan, "It's too rare."