While Medusa was dismantling the bomb, Deng Huailing passed the wall made of cabinets and stepped onto the stairs at the end of the black wall.The marble staircase turned and extended upwards. After Deng Huailing ran across the platform for the third time, he came to the vicinity of the dome of the temple. Going up the stairs, he entered the fire exit and was closed by a door.The double doors block.

Panting, he stopped in front of the door, grabbed the handle and shook it. The door was locked.As soon as he stopped, the hazy hallucination surrounded him again, the fire and the warm blanket loomed in the darkness, and the withered leaves of the locust tree fell in the snow. He held the handle and pressed his forehead against the door, and opened his mouthBreathing heavily, sweet and fishy blood kept gushing from his throat.

Deng Huailing wanted to find out the miniature explosives stuck to the door lock, but his fingers were cold and numb, and he couldn't find the explosives and detonators from his pockets full of items.The door in front of him is still the same as it was more than ten years ago, and the lock is just a simple and ancient tumbler lock with a physical key. As usual, he can pry it open by inserting a wire into the keyhole.

But now his fingertips were so numb that he couldn't hold the wire, so he had to take two steps back and roughly kicked the door lock.The door lock shook twice with great force, but failed to open, but the sound of snake scales scraping the ground came from the bottom of the stairs. Medusa dismantled the nuclear bomb in just a short moment, and the open suitcase was crushed.Throwing it on the ground, she cruised towards the direction of the stairs.

"Hurry up," Deng Huailing desperately resisted the warm and drowsy drowsiness in the hallucination, and lifted his knee vigorously again, and the sole of his boot hit the door lock.He gritted his teeth and whispered, "I need a chance, just one chance..."

Medusa was already three stories high, and when she stood upright, she was only a short distance away from the top of the stairs. Her head came over the winding stairs, her eyes rolled and stared at Deng Huailing, as if observing antsGiants.She stretched out her big hand to grab this prey who was trying to escape, and her sharp nails were about to grab Deng Huailing's back.

At this moment, the door of the fire escape opened, and Deng Huailing dodged into the door at a critical moment, and slipped away from her palm.A dark green indicator light lights up on the edge of the wall near the ground, and the arrow extends obliquely along the edge of the stairs. Deng Huailing broke into the dark passage, and climbed up the steps in three steps at a time.

The fire exit was so narrow that only two people could walk side by side. Medusa could not squeeze in through the exit while maintaining its complete shape.Deng Huailing grabbed the handrail and staggered up. Although his center of gravity was unstable due to the neurotoxin, he still ran fast and passed two floors in a blink of an eye.

He looked towards the gap in the stairs while he was running, and the cold and silver surging liquid was like a counter-flowing tide, covering the steps and rushing upwards. Medusa gave up her solid form and turned into a liquid to chase him. The pursuit speed was faster than that of a solid.slowed down slightly.

Sure enough, she did not force her huge body into the fire exit, but adapted to the width of the passage. The reason is that the floors separated by a wall are crowded with cabinets. If she destroys the walls on both sides of the passage, it is likely to be destroyed.Damage the cabinet.

However, the marble staircase couldn't bear the weight of Medusa. With the rumbling surge of the silver liquid, the staircase shattered and collapsed step by step, and the bricks and stones fell amidst the smoke and dust.The steps of the entire passageway were shaking frantically, and Deng Huailing felt the tremor under his feet, and the tremor was getting bigger and bigger, which showed that the distance between Medusa and him was shortening.

His steps became heavier and heavier, and the neurotoxin weakened the perception of the left half of his body, and he almost tripped over the steps several times.The internal bleeding caused by the broken rib made his eyes black, and the blood he coughed up dripped from the corner of his mouth, soaking the front of the windbreaker, leaving deep bloodstains where the leather boots stepped.

From time to time, there will be doors connected to the fire escape, and the door leads to other floors.He flung himself at the doorknobs, hoping to open one of them and gain access to the floor lined with cabinets, but they were all locked tightly.

In the desperate chase he had no time to kick the door, so he continued up the stairs, but each time he tried the next door with anticipation, the result was still the same.

After trying it, his consciousness gradually blurred, and the repeated disappointments made him exhausted.He couldn't see the way ahead, but forced himself to lift his heavy steps, holding on to the railing with his left hand, and climbing on the edge of the steps with a box in his right hand, climbing up in embarrassment like this.A voice kept repeating "sleep" in his ear, as if as long as he gave up struggling, all the pain would go away from him.

Can't give up, Deng Huailing muttered to himself, he hasn't helped Rosie win yet, absolutely can't give up.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the long passage, just like the dark passage that Rosie escorted him into during Scarlet Christmas. At that time, he also fled with panic like this, chasing a ray of hope with an erratic end point.They have been on the run for ten years until today, and now, they are only one step away from that distant ideal.

On that snowy day ten years ago, both his and Rosie's fates fell to the lowest point. It was Rosie who handed him a small, weak fire.The flustered face of the bionic man on a rainy night.He supported the monarch in distress to walk step by step, from the small apartment with nothing to the wider world outside the main city.

He watched as Rosie regained her place, took a seat in front of Robert's chessboard, and sought victory with careful planning and wise decisions.He guards Rosie like a loyal knight, always charging for the king at the back end of the line between the black and white chessboards.

And the knight's only wish is to witness the king he supports climb to the peak of power and wear the crown of bright pearls amidst the cheers of the crowd.If he has to be eaten, dropped off the board and shattered to dust, let him trade his life for the best possible future for Rosie.

No matter which god it is, please give me a chance.Deng Huailing prayed silently in her heart, don't let my life be burnt out meaninglessly, if I am destined to die here, please let me complete my task and help Rosie realize his ideal.

After passing through an unknown number of floors, the stairs finally reached the end. His coat was already stained with blood, and his whole body was covered with bruises and scratches.After trying all the way, all the fire doors were locked without exception, and only the door on the top floor remained in front of him. It was also closed tightly like the other doors, and it was impossible to tell whether it was locked or not.

The sound of Medusa advancing at full speed can be heard faintly from below, and the silver tide quickly chases after it.Deng Huailing had no choice, he stopped in front of the last fire door, breathed rapidly, restrained his rapid heartbeat, twisted the doorknob, and pushed in——the door opened.

It was as if God heard his prayer and left an unlocked door for him.Deng Huailing unconsciously raised his lips, pushed the door and entered, locked the door behind him, and pressed the button at hand.The light poured down, illuminating the rows of cabinets placed in the top space. As Deng Huailing expected, they were very close to each other, with only a narrow gap for people to pass through.

He finally came to a site suitable for detonating a nuclear bomb. Although a locked door couldn't stop Medusa, these cabinets could.Medusa's program does not allow her to damage the cabinet. Even if she can turn into a liquid and attack him through the gaps, the power will not be as strong as before. As long as he is careful, he can protect the suitcase from being snatched during the countdown.

Deng Huailing pressed the keyboard to set the detonation countdown, and his mood calmed down a little. As long as he persisted for another five minutes, he could blow up the building and hand over the final victory to Rosie.Maybe he might not survive, but this is already the best ending he can choose.

He was about to press the red confirmation button, but he felt dizzy, and a sudden dizziness hit him.As if all his strength was pulled away in an instant, he plopped and knelt on the ground, the box fell to the ground, Deng Huailing coughed heart-piercingly, the blood splashed on the ground and gathered into a scarlet pool, the deep redMixed with a few traces of darkness.

After all, the toxin spread to the whole body, consuming his life together with the ruptured organs.He had lost a lot of blood, as if he was imprisoned in place by an invisible force, trembling, he couldn't carry a knife, and he couldn't reach the box that was just a short distance away, and the whispers that made people fall asleep echoed in his mind, like a mysterious and distant spell.

The door behind was smashed open with a loud bang, and debris flew everywhere.Medusa's head squeezed into the door. Due to the narrow space, her body did not condense into a solid body, but remained outside the door in the form of water flow. The snake hair on her head stretched rapidly, screaming towards Deng.Huai Ling attacked.

Deng Huailing knelt on the ground and didn't move. Just resisting the illusion exhausted his remaining willpower, and he no longer had the energy to block it.He could feel the snake's hair approaching, but he couldn't move his scarred body. When the vicious alpha wolf was on the verge of death, he would be slaughtered like a humble wild dog.

Is it over?He thought in a daze, after finally getting to this step, is it still a little bit short?

The approaching snake's head suddenly froze in mid-air, and then retracted into Medusa's hair as if upside down.This monster-like killing machine showed a bewildered expression at this moment, her dozens of snake eyes turned in different directions, as if being pulled by two opposing forces, she stood there silent for a while, and melted from head to toeThe whole body turned into a silver tide and flowed into the door.

A thick giant snake rose from this silvery water flow. It seemed to be driven by some kind of consciousness, and it ran over the cabinet regardless, and crawled to the corner of this floor. The black cabinet collapsed like quicksand.Then the giant snake raised its head, and the head of the snake hit a corner of the ceiling on the top floor with all its strength, with one heavy blow, another, and sand and stones fell like rain.

Deng Huailing slightly turned her head to look at the bewildered Medusa, she was destroying the parasitic building like crazy, cracks appeared on the explosion-proof roof under her brute force, multiple cracksThey are superimposed to form a deep hole, and the hole faintly reveals light.

He didn't understand why Medusa didn't kill him, but wreaked havoc on the roof of the building, but the female voice that exploded in the earphones immediately made him realize that it was Rose shouting:

"Mr. Deng, run! The consciousness of Poseidon and Medusa are not closely connected. I can only control her for a few tens of seconds. The connection between them will be cut off immediately. Forget about the nuclear bomb in your hand, hurry up."Escape from the roof!"

The giant snake slammed into the deep hole fiercely again, and there was a "crash", the ceiling on the top floor was completely shattered, and a big hole was opened in a corner of the roof. The heavy rain and skylight invaded at the same time, and the fresh and cold wind washed away the dull air., The rain is dripping like a bead curtain.

Deng Huailing's throat was filled with blood, and he needed a lot of effort to make a hoarse voice: "Why... why? I remember that your degree of fusion is not too deep, even if the consciousness of Medusa and Poseidon...It's a symbiotic relationship, how could you obtain her control authority?"

"Mr. Deng, it's a pleasure to meet you." Rose smiled irresponsibly, and said in an extremely gentle voice, "Very few people treat AI as a real person, let alone treat us as friends.I'm not the human girl that ever was, but I think I'm a human in your eyes, and I'm really, really, really grateful for that."

"You..." Deng Huailing suddenly realized what happened, Rose was saying goodbye to him.On the train when she came, she explained that when the fusion progress exceeded half, her memory would go backwards to before she first met him.

At the cost of accelerating the fusion process, Rose invaded the connection path between Medusa and Poseidon, and briefly affected Medusa's consciousness, helping him escape.

—that is, Rose will not remember him any more soon, nor will she answer his questions.

"No, listen to me, Rose," Deng Huailing's eyes showed panic, "You don't need to do this, I've made up my mind to stay here..."

"Goodbye, Mr. Deng, Rosie is still waiting for you to go back, you are dying." The artificial intelligence girl smiled softly, "Also, thank you."

"Rose...Rose!" Deng Huailing shouted in a hurry.But no one was responding at the other end, and the call disappeared into the void.

Fusion progress, 51%.