Chapter 294

His movements paused, and he remembered the key to opening that circular mechanical door earlier—that black "brain" biological chip.

He hurriedly rummaged through the debris and duct fragments at his feet.

Soon, he found that chip covered in filth.

He brought the chip close to the snake-shaped mark on the hard drive.

No reaction.

The hard drive didn't do a thing.

"Damn it..." Lin Yu cursed in a low voice, just about to throw it away.

"Interface... it needs... contact..." Xuanyuan Qing reminded him, panting.

Lin Yu found a deeply hidden interface on the side of the hard drive, carefully aligned the biological chip, and pressed it gently.

Zzz...

The hard drive indicator light lit up suddenly!

The password verification window on the screen disappeared!

It turned into a rapidly scrolling decryption progress bar!

It worked!

Lin Yu didn't have time to be happy, immediately connecting the hard drive to his arm-mounted computer, while turning the computer screen toward Xuanyuan Qing.

Broken log files began to appear on the screen, mostly Zhou Weihong's early crazy research records.

"...... Creating... existence beyond the flesh... 'Digital Life' project......"

"...... YA-000, first prototype... consciousness uploading successful... but uncontrollable rejection appeared... fusion failed..."

"...... Mental structure collapse... transformed into pure... aggression... destructiveness..."

"...... Cannot be destroyed... its contamination is too strong... can only be permanently sealed in the B3 core isolation zone..."

"...... As a final insurance... after everything goes out of control... activate... purification..."

The logs were heart-stopping, revealing Zhou Weihong's initial ambition and the terrible truth about YA-000.

It wasn't just a failed product, but the first "digital life" prototype created, which had completely gone out of control and twisted.

A monster sealed away as a final trump card.

Just then—

"Decryption complete!"

A prompt popped up on the screen.

Almost at the same instant!

Woo—woo—woo—!

The entire experimental zone, no, the entire B3 level!

A sharp, harsh alarm sound exploded suddenly!

Red warning lights flashed frantically, illuminating this bloody hell like a ghost movie scene!

In the deepest part of the experimental zone, a huge, unusually thick, scratch-covered circular isolation door that they hadn't noticed before emitted a heavy and sluggish sound of metal friction.

Creak—creak—

The door slid open slowly inward!

Behind the door was darkness so deep it couldn't be seen through.

A breath, thicker, filthier, and carrying intense biological aggression than outside, drifted out from the opened door gap.

In the darkness, something moved.

The sound of heavy iron chains dragging on the ground, "clatter... clatter...", step by step, slowly and steadily approaching the door.

Then, two points of scarlet, burning charcoal-like light lit up in the darkness.

Locking onto Lin Yu and Xuanyuan Qing at the door.

A huge, twisted silhouette, far exceeding those monsters outside, dragging thick, rusty iron chains, stumbled, walking out of that suffocating darkness step by step.

Its body roughly retained a bit of a human frame, but was completely covered by twisted, proliferating flesh and randomly welded, severely rusted metal parts. Exposed muscle fibers knotted like rotting ropes, with broken metal bones and glass tubes flashing with unknown liquids inserted into them. Several thick cables extended from the position of its spine, dragging on the ground like ugly tails. Its head area was even more indescribable, half a rotting face, the other half a broken mechanical structure, only those two scarlet lights emitting pure malice and hunger.

YA-000. Zhou Weihong's Number Zero prototype, his "final insurance," a living hell's watchdog.

"Zhou Weihong... treated it... as a guard..." Xuanyuan Qing's voice trembled, mixed with fear and incredible realization, "Preventing... anyone... from approaching... Xiao Ya..."

Lin Yu's heart pounded wildly, his whole body's muscles tensed to the limit instantly. The pressure emitted by this thing was far more terrifying than all the failed products outside combined. That wasn't just simple power, but a domain mixed with madness, pain, and pure destructiveness.

"Bang! Bang bang!" Lin Yu raised his hand and fired several shots. The bullets hit the metal parts on YA-000's body, exploding clusters of blinding sparks, or sinking into those bloated tumors with a "squelch," bringing out dark green, fishy pus.

But YA-000 only swayed its body, its pace of dragging the iron chains not stopping in the slightest. Those two scarlet eye lights locked onto Lin Yu, and it grinned, revealing a misshapen mouth, emitting a low and tyrannical roar.

"Roar——!"

The next second, it moved!

Its huge body erupted with a speed completely inconsistent with its size, the heavy iron chains scraping a harsh friction sound on the ground, charging straight over like a cannonball fired from a chamber!

Lin Yu's pupils shrank, and he rolled and lunged to the side!

Boom!

YA-000's huge metal arm smashed fiercely into the position where he had just been standing, gravel and metal fragments splashing everywhere! A shallow pit was smashed into the ground!

Just as Lin Yu stabilized his figure, the iron chains dragged by YA-000 swept over like a poisonous snake! He dodged again in a sorry state, the iron chains passing by with a whistling wind, hitting the metal locker next to him, smashing the locker into severe deformation.

"Its joints... connection points... and those glowing nodes!" Xuanyuan Qing leaned against the corner of the wall, her voice urgent; she was staring fixedly at the broken fragment of YA-000's early structure diagram that had just been decrypted on the arm-mounted computer screen, "Mentioned in the report... energy transmission... unstable... is a weakness!"

Just then, several broken cables on the laboratory ceiling suddenly exploded with a series of dazzling electric sparks! Sizzling! The bright light and noise caused YA-000's movements to stutter for a moment, its scarlet light flickering.

Xu Xiaochuan? Lin Yu reacted immediately; this was interference from the outside! Although weak, it was indeed working!

"Behind the left shoulder! That blue interface!" Xuanyuan Qing shouted again.

YA-000 had re-locked onto Lin Yu, launching a violent charge again. Lin Yu no longer dodged, rushing up to meet it! He lowered his body, and the moment they were about to collide, he slid! Passing under YA-000's huge body, while backhanding his dagger and stabbing fiercely upward!

Squelch!

The dagger pierced into the relatively soft muscle tissue on the inside of YA-000's thigh, but was stuck by the hard bone or metal structure inside!

YA-000 felt pain, let out an even more violent roar, turned around, and smashed a fist toward Lin Yu on the ground!

Lin Yu rolled on the spot, narrowly avoiding it! The fist smashed into the ground, making his eardrums buzz.