Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 974: Fire in Water (Part )

The support carrying Zhou Wenxing began to sink again, preparing to distance the two. Zhou Wenxing bent his knees, as if he was going to pounce on the old support that was deformed by the impact. Li Li had been retrieving it after the impact, but the parts inside the support must have been damaged. The upper half of the support was shaking and twitching like a dislocated arm, and it couldn't be retracted. Luo Binhan raised his left hand to signal her to stop the attack. The support stopped sinking, and Zhou Wenxing stood still.

In the blink of an eye, his appearance had returned to normal. The miserable face of the frozen dead was gone, and even the bullet marks that Luo Binhan had left on him were gone. This skill was somewhat similar to Jing Huang, only more clumsy and slower. However, Jing Huang's dual faces were fire and light, and there was never another terrible dead face. This made Luo Binhan finally understand why some forms of immortality could only be called curses.

Curse. Or call it a wish. There is some kind of transcendental power preventing his enemy from dying. This unknown will does not want him to return to the mortal world, and brings him back to the mortal world over and over again. The hand that transcends life and death erases the facts under the iceberg, replaces them with the impressions in memory, or simply turns back time... The specific principle of fulfilling wishes is still unknown, but only one conclusion has become a fact: people who cannot be killed by poison, guns and lasers cannot kill them either. Now he has finally verified this process with his own eyes, and understands that things are developing in the worst case scenario that he and Li Li estimated. The things he complained about Li Li's reluctance to use before were in vain. Long-range anti-material snipers, heavy machine guns, explosive bombs, tabun or sarin - these things will not be more effective than a simple flamethrower.

He stood frozen on the platform. The sea seemed to be dead silent for a moment. The waves and the wind were silent. Time and his thoughts stopped at the same time. Then Zhou Wenxing spoke. The distance between them at this time could be connected into a steep upward slope of about fifty meters. He saw Zhou Wenxing's lips moving, but the voice simulated by Li Li came from the headset. The voice asked: "Do I look scary?"

Luo Binhan pressed the speaker button on his headset. "That's all." His voice floated up from the ground, as loud and deep as if the island itself was speaking. "As the saying goes, there are only wrong names, not wrong nicknames. I should have known that they were not just saying you were cold-blooded."

"So, are you going to stop?"

"Ah, that won't do." Luo Binhan pointed to the coast. The motorboat driven by Zhou Wenxing had already become scrap metal, because Li Li had sprayed chemical incendiary agents all over the coastline when the tower just started to spew fire. "I know you can still leave, maybe you can even walk directly back to the city from the bottom of the sea. But the good show you just performed has been recorded. As long as you leave this island, we will upload it to the Internet. Then I will hunt you down in front of the crowd. I don't care how many people are accidentally injured or killed in the process, until someone shoots me. What if I can't find you? I will go directly to the government to turn myself in and tell them that I have done at least 10,000 illegal things on this island."

"You really want to fight it out here."

"Yes," said Robin Han, "Today only one of us will be able to return to land safely. At most only one."

Zhou Wenxing blinked. "Okay." He said, "Any words you want to leave for others?"

"Just one question. No need to tell anyone else, it's for you."

"what is it then?"

"I've been thinking about this a lot over the last month," Robinson said. "What do you think the world looks like in the mind of a person born blind?"

He stared at the calm face below, trying to see if his words could make a splash on the well surface. Zhou Wenxing lowered his head quietly, then kicked the support hard, like a leopard leaping from the treetops, swooping down on its prey. Luo Binhan's landing platform was too far away from him, so he crossed a distance of more than ten meters and landed on the damaged support that had been twitching continuously after the collision. He grabbed the end of the support and climbed onto the top platform, then swung towards the support where Luo Binhan was.

In a blink of an eye, they were no more than ten meters apart, and Luo Binhan fired a shot at his arm as he was clinging to the platform. The laser only grazed his skin, leaving a shallow dent. He no longer tried to shoot, but bent his knees slightly to stabilize his posture, allowing Li Li to tilt the platform under his feet outward, and then suddenly raised it up.

They began to use the second mode of movement of the mobile platform - they could throw a living person like a pinball machine, throwing him to the new platform ten meters away. With the shockproof boots to reduce damage, a single landing would not cause too much burden. He even had the energy to observe how Zhou Wenxing snaked around the old bracket that he had just escaped from a second ago. As soon as the bracket fell into the clutches of the devil, it immediately turned black like light-absorbing paint, and then the upper half began to twitch uncontrollably.

Li Li continued to eject him far away, and at the same time dispatched two flamethrowers to chase after Zhou Wenxing. Several meters long flames brushed Zhou Wenxing's back several times, leaving charred marks and a few wisps of green smoke. But perhaps the resurrected people did not feel pain, Zhou Wenxing's movements were not affected at all. He followed closely behind Luo Binhan's retreat. The slow efficiency of the platform's retraction was far from lowering his horizontal height, and each bracket he grasped was stained with that dark color, and then the pipes and joints connected to it were broken, slowly tilting and tilting. The platforms at the top were drooping and twitching due to loss of control. Not only can the upper half of these brackets no longer be used, but they can't even be retracted. They are likely to trip up the movement paths of other normal brackets in the same area.

Luo Binhan fired two more shots, but neither hit the target, because he was bounced away almost as soon as his feet touched the ground, and was thrown into the air most of the time. The opponent was chasing him more and more, not giving them any chance to breathe. He was ejected more than twenty times in less than half a minute. This was already beyond their training level. The accumulated shock should have made a normal person dizzy and weak, and he didn't feel much better. His knees, which had been hit, would spasm involuntarily every time he landed. His vision was narrow and dim at high speed, and he could only barely keep an eye on the figure of the pursuer. He looked up and saw that the damaged supports along the way were standing crookedly, forming a row of slender but uneven columns. Starting from the pseudo-tower trap, it extended about two hundred meters in the direction he retreated.

He had probably retreated to the middle of East 35th District and East 45th District, more than halfway to the eastern coastline. At that time, Li Li would have to change the direction of the ejection, and Zhou Wenxing would have a good chance to intercept him, and he could also take the opportunity to climb up the high-altitude brackets used for reconnaissance and dismantle Li Li's observation eyes. That meant that there would be an inevitable blind spot in the mobile response, and the reconnaissance bracket was much higher than the mobile bracket, enough for Zhou Wenxing to use the height difference to pursue. They couldn't be forced to the edge.

Another ejection. Zhou Wenxing could almost catch his toes when he caught up with the stand. Luo Binhan shot him at a nearby location, and touched his numb ear with his left hand to confirm that the earphone was still in place.

"Descend," he said. "Put me down!"

  He was a little worried that Li Li would not do it, because this was not part of the original plan. They had wanted to increase the distance and height difference when the pseudo-tower trap was activated, and they did not expect Zhou Wenxing to be so efficient in destroying and paralyzing the bracket. But now there was no choice, because they could not get rid of him, and the speed of the moving flamethrower could not catch up. Now they had to go down together. No matter what, this thing had to land. He yelled at Li Li in his heart, leave me alone!

Another catapulting, but the time he stayed in the air was slightly longer than before. The platform that supported him was intentionally lowered by five meters, so that his line of sight could be level with Zhou Wenxing who was climbing the scaffold. He saw a little surprise in the other party's eyes, and then the monster also adjusted its direction and pounced on the platform where he was standing.

He was ejected in time, but Zhou Wenxing had already stood on a higher inclined platform than him. Now the thing's hands were free, and its feet had the most suitable leverage points. Luo Binhan knew that the other party would catch him the next time he landed. He was still in a parabolic state, with no way to change direction, so he could only shoot Zhou Wenxing in the head again, hoping that the fatal wound would buy some time. This was a wrong judgment. Zhou Wenxing avoided it by slightly tilting his neck. It would be safer to shoot in the chest.

He began to fall. This time the receiving platform was lowered by ten meters. Li Li realized that there was no time to slow down the descent, and would rather let him suffer some shock. Zhou Wenxing also jumped off the platform, trying to intercept him before the next ejection. Luo Binhan looked up at him while inserting his left hand into the hanging bag on his back. Just as he was about to prepare for close combat, another support suddenly rose up, and the top platform stood vertically like a square target, just blocking him and Zhou Wenxing.

Zhou Wenxing had no choice but to grab the obstacle and swing himself to the other side. At this moment, Luo Binhan had successfully landed and catapulted to a new lower platform. Now they had dropped to a height of less than 20 meters from the ground. Luo Binhan turned his head and saw a dark green plastic box in the garbage dump 30 steps behind him. It should be the shockproof shell of high-energy explosives. It can be detonated by Li Li's remote signal, and it will explode if he uses a laser gun.

But he couldn't do it yet. Li Li told him that the effective killing range of a single explosion point was 20 meters in radius, but that was not a lethal radius, let alone a crushing radius. He memorized the location of the exposed detonation point and entered a new round of falling ejection.

Zhou Wenxing was too late to catch up with him before landing - just as he had this thought, he found that the other party did not chase him again, but slid down through two brackets in advance. This monster had already seen where their pursuit was going to end, so it descended to a height of 15 meters above the ground earlier than Luo Binhan, and then stepped on the bracket sideways, running towards him almost in a straight line. Li Li still wanted to intercept him with the platform's rapid ejection, but the height was not enough - in order to ensure that the ejection response at high altitude is timely enough, the platform cannot make an instant stop when it is at a low level. Her first interception platform was late, and the second platform that was ejected early was avoided by Zhou Wenxing from below.

Luo Binhan landed again. At this time, he was still about fifteen meters from the ground, and the horizontal distance between him and the detonation point was only more than five meters. Another ejection would make him miss this point, and he would not have time to complete a complete set of safe slow descents. He no longer bent his knees to prepare for ejection, but took the initiative to jump back at the moment of contact with the platform, jumping out from the half-meter square platform. In the moment before falling, time seemed to stop. He clearly saw Zhou Wenxing jumping from the last support to the platform he had just left, only half an arm's length away from each other - then gravity pulled him down violently, rushing from the height of the five-story building to the dirty and chaotic earth. Less than two seconds later, he crashed into the boiling mud of garbage leachate.

He closed his eyes tightly, not wanting the poisonous swamp fluid to ruin his vision. His sense of balance was replaced by the pain of the collision. He couldn't tell whether he was standing or lying down, so he could only roll and crawl to the side to dodge. Another heavy object also crashed down from the sky, splashing mud on him. He threw himself down in the direction of the splashing mud, and something like a sharp blade scraped his back, but it didn't cut the bone.

This half-meter deep garbage swamp may have saved his life. He risked opening his eyes, and there was no leachate mixed with fuel and corrosive agents flowing into his eye sockets. The dark green shockproof explosion box was ten steps in front of his left. He raised his right hand, ready to fire a single shot after lying down, and then he saw that his right wrist was actually red. His weak and curled palm was empty. He didn't know where the gun was lost.

A metal bar as thick as a chopstick pierced his wrist. This should not have appeared on the battlefield, because Li Li had already discussed with him the types of garbage suitable for camouflage. The complete and solid heavy garbage would sink to the bottom quickly after the wind and water cooling system was activated, and the cardboard boxes and other soft objects could provide a minimum cushion for landing - they made so much preparation and put in so much effort. However, it seems that fate is not on their side.

  The metal bar that crippled his right hand had a unique silver-grey texture, which was the material of the fixing rod inside the movable bracket. He understood it at a glance - it must be a part that fell out when Zhou Wenxing destroyed the bracket, and it happened to fall to this position under the influence of wind and warm water flow... How strange, what is the probability of such a thing happening?

He stared at the metal strip that passed through his right wrist and was stunned for a moment. In fact, it was only a blink of an eye, but the rolling undercurrent of thoughts had already rushed through his heart, dragging him into an irreversible abyss... He seemed to have said that he would take responsibility... and promises... He thought in a daze. A sharp blade had already pierced his back, and he turned around and grabbed the arm tightly. Then he shouted loudly, and the sour and corrosive liquid dripped onto his tongue, and his voice was tearing his soul apart.

"Explode!" he roared, "Explode! Explode! Li Li!"

He felt his arm loosen, or simply be torn off, and a huge force threw him in the direction of the detonation point. Then something exploded beside his ear, and he turned and flew upwards again. His body was as light as mist, no longer trapped by the gravity of the planet, and he went lightly and smoothly towards the blue sky. He felt that he would rise all the way to the sky, becoming a floating dust in the atmosphere and the sky pool; or he would fall down soon, like a grain of sand being gently blown off from the world.

But suddenly, he stopped, neither going up nor down, stuck somewhere between heaven and earth. His body had weight again, and because of the tilt and shaking of the ground, he rolled forward. The pain made his eyes go black and he almost fainted, and in his nose there was a ball of hot fire with an extremely pungent smell, as if someone had used a red-hot barbecue skewer to poke his nostrils and all the way out of the back of his head. He spasmed in pain, and then he saw where he was. It was a movable platform. At least nine movable brackets were put together to form a square platform, holding him up in the air. But they all seemed to be a little out of control at this moment, swaying from east to west and going crazy, and they might break apart at any time.

  Luo Binhan put his face in the gap between the two platforms and looked down. He first saw densely packed supports and platforms extending from the ground, all of which were severely damaged. Thick smoke poured out from the gaps between the supports, and a raging fire was raging on the dark and turbid ground. After several seconds, he roughly understood what had happened:

It must have been Li Li who did it. She had ejected all the available platforms in the entire block just before the shockproof box exploded. First, the closest platform stopped him in the air and lifted him up into the air away from the explosion point. The other platforms formed the second, third, and even fourth protective barriers, bearing most of the impact of the explosion for him from below. Needless to say, these platforms were almost completely scrapped.

He reached out and touched his left ear. The outer ear was probably torn, and it felt bloody, but the earphones were still clamped on. It was a lifesaver. He would never complain about the pain of wearing this thing again.

"Li Li." he called.

Li Li's voice sounded very far away, like the sound of a speaker being soaked in a pool of water. It was unclear whether the headphones were broken or his hearing was failing. "How are you?"

"Alive."

"Can you move?"

"Fight for it."

"The East 45th platform is severely damaged. You need to get out as soon as possible."

Luo Binhan put his face close to the surface of the platform and took a look. It was indeed East 45th District, but the inscription was in italics. He turned his head to look at the edge of the platform, which should have been straight, and found that everything he saw was crooked and narrow. It turned out that it was not a problem of smoke and dizziness. He could only see with one eye.

"gentlemen?"

"Nothing," Robinham said. "Where is he?"

"The target is missing."

"Maybe it was blown to pieces?"

Li Li did not change her usual tone, but her speed betrayed her urgency. "You must move to East 44th immediately to get on an available platform."

Luo Binhan glanced down painfully. He estimated that he was now more than ten meters above the ground, and there was a raging flame everywhere below him. The flames were as high as two people, and the thick smoke and scorching air made it impossible for him to see anything. He was about to ask Li Li if he could just be ejected, when the hidden nozzle in the ground stretched out and shot out billowing white powder smoke and water arrows in a straight line.

This was the composite fire extinguisher she had prepared, enough to carve out a way out of the hellfire that was a mixture of more than a dozen types of oil and chemical combustion products. The fan system was also restarted after adjustment, trying its best to blow the thick smoke to the left and right sides of the road. The platform supporting him was violently shaking and descending, and it was not until it was five meters above the ground that it was completely stuck, shaking endlessly as if it was on the verge of disintegration.

Luo Binhan couldn't help but laugh in despair. He didn't have Zhou Wenxing's ability to grab the high-voltage transmission pipes with his bare hands. If any of these brackets leaked electricity, he would be doomed.

"Must I go down?"

"We are only one step away."

"That thing is dead," he said wishfully. "It was burned to ashes."

"Sir, a journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step."

She was right. Of course she was right. They had come this far, and they had to keep going even if the sky fell. He struggled and rolled down the platform, falling into a hot mud pit covered with fire extinguisher foam. This road to hell was straight, there was no such thing as getting lost, and his heat-insulated suit also helped a lot, allowing him to keep moving forward along the walls of fire on both sides. It couldn't even be considered walking, it was just stumbling and crawling on three legs, his right hand was completely useless, either the tendon or the nerve was injured.

East 44th District is only fifty steps away. Come on, he said to himself. If he wasn't almost falling apart, it would take less than ten seconds to cover this distance. They have reached the last step, this is the decisive moment, the final match point. What's the point of stopping now? Even Yu Xiaorong would laugh at him if she knew. He has paid a lot now: his right hand may be permanently disabled, one eye is probably blind, he doesn't know if his ear has fallen off, the extent of his disfigurement is not yet known... Alas, this is the result of his fooling around with Jing Huang. He also broke an important moral principle.

The wall of fire was gradually approaching again. Li Li released a small amount of fire extinguishing agent in front of him, urging him to move forward as quickly as possible. The wall of fire was not without its benefits. At least now he didn't have to worry about Zhou Wenxing suddenly jumping out from the left and right sides. But he still had to hurry up and get on a good platform to go to the end. He finally fell at the end of the Ash Road, and several edge platforms in the East 44th District popped out, pulling him up from the fiery hell and sending him quickly to the center of the island. He lay on his side on the platform and looked to the west, only to see that a platform also rose to the west, carrying a narrow metal box like a coffin towards him. Their final trap was about to be activated.

　This chapter is an extra chapter for a special event. I wish @暗滅是把菜刀 book friend and his team a great victory in the 2024FSAE (please be sure to take a look at the rear wing of their team's vehicle)

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