Chapter 307: Survival in a Desperate Situation

He tore open the first-aid kit and took out the disinfectant spray.

And... a few thin, long silver needles?

Xu Xiaochuan's brain went "buzz," and he was stunned.

Lin Yu didn't even look at him, using the disinfectant spray to simply spray Xuanyuan Qing's neck and chest, then pinched a silver needle.

His fingers were unbelievably steady.

Without hesitation, the needle tip pierced into a spot on the back of Xuanyuan Qing's neck.

He twisted and pushed it deep.

The second, the third...

In the blink of an eye, seven or eight silver needles were inserted into several spots on Xuanyuan Qing's upper body, the needle tails trembling lightly.

Xu Xiaochuan didn't dare to breathe, watching Lin Yu's fingers flicking and twisting rapidly on those silver needles, his movements possessing an indescribable rhythm.

He even felt that, following Lin Yu's movements, Xuanyuan Qing's originally rapid and chaotic breathing seemed... to stabilize just a little bit?

This... what the hell is this situation?

The Lin Shu he knew, that quiet person, a somewhat unreliable base guard, how could he know this?

These hands, just minutes ago, were twisting off people's arms, but now they could pinch thin needles so steadily?

"Temporarily suppressed the poison, buying some time." Lin Yu pulled off the antibiotic needle cap and cleanly injected it into Xuanyuan Qing.

"Must find a place to treat her immediately; her internal organs are severely injured, and she's lost too much blood. This place won't do."

He stood up and walked toward the armless pursuer captain who was twisting and groaning on the ground.

The captain was curled up, shivering all over from pain, his helmet tilted to one side, his face distorted in agony.

Lin Yu looked down at him, his face devoid of any expression.

"Who sent you? What do you want?"

The captain's teeth chattered, a rattling sound coming from his throat, but he remained silent.

Lin Yu bent down, picked up the pistol the captain had dropped, removed the magazine, took a look, and then pressed the muzzle against the captain's uninjured eye.

The cold metal touch made the captain shudder violently.

"I don't have time." Lin Yu's voice was terrifyingly flat, more chilling than the muzzle, "YA-001 data core, and that 'mark', how much do you know?"

Fear overcame the pain, and the captain shivered even more violently.

"It's... it's the Security Department... directly under Ouroboros... the order is to recover the core... clear all... related personnel..." he said intermittently, his voice changer broken, his voice hoarse and unpleasant.

"The mark... is the key left by the Doctor... the organization... has been looking for it..."

"What about the Ark Project?" Lin Yu pursued, the muzzle pressing slightly.

"Top secret... only the top brass... knows..." the captain gasped for air, "I... I'm just following orders... let me go..."

Lin Yu withdrew the gun and stood straight.

Xu Xiaochuan listened from the side, his heart pounding; the name "Ouroboros" was like a cold venomous snake, wrapping around his heart.

Recover the core, clear the personnel, the mark is the key... what kind of trap did his old man set?

"Lin Shu," Xu Xiaochuan struggled to speak, his throat dry and burning, "My dad... he left information... in a backup communication room... and a coordinate... he said the 'Ark' project has been initiated, Xiao Ya's consciousness backup upload was successful..." He quickly recounted what he had seen in the communication room.

Lin Yu listened and was silent for a few seconds.

He walked to the passage entrance, looked out, and then walked back.

"The coordinate location is very likely a trap. Xu Jianhua is the kind of person who never walks a path to a dead end." His analysis was chillingly calm, "But it might also be our only chance to find Xiao Ya, or to find the truth."

He glanced at the groaning captain on the ground and the other pursuers who weren't quite dead yet.

"No survivors can be left here."

Xu Xiaochuan opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but finally held it back.

There was a logic and coldness in Lin Yu's decision that he couldn't understand.

Lin Yu didn't waste any more words, quickly dealing with the people on the ground.

No shots were fired, only a few muffled sounds of breaking bones and suffocated whimpers.

He did it cleanly and neatly, even carefully dragging the bodies into the shadows deep in the passage and covering them with gravel.

Then he began to check the equipment left behind by the pursuers.

"This vehicle is not bad, modified, should be able to handle the road outside." Lin Yu pointed to the end of the passage, where a dark, heavy off-road vehicle was parked, clearly driven in by the pursuers, "The energy is still sufficient."

He walked over, easily pulled open the car door, and checked the operating system.

"Let's go." Lin Yu returned to Xu Xiaochuan's side, carefully picked up the still-unconscious Xuanyuan Qing, and placed her in the back seat of the off-road vehicle.

Then he looked at Xu Xiaochuan, "Can you still walk?"

Xu Xiaochuan gritted his teeth, leaned against the wall, and stood up; every movement of his right leg was agonizing, but he still nodded.

Lin Yu didn't say anything more and started the off-road vehicle.

The engine roared low, buzzing and echoing in the narrow underground passage.

He drove the car, smashing through the obstacles blocking the passage entrance, rushed out of the suffocating underground, and drove into a forgotten ruin.

The car bumped along; Xu Xiaochuan looked back at the underground entrance getting further and further away, then looked at Lin Yu, who was closing his eyes in the passenger seat, wondering what he was thinking, and then at Xuanyuan Qing in the back seat, whose life or death was uncertain.

The heavy off-road vehicle's engine emitted a beast-like low roar, tires grinding over gravel and rubble, the car body bumping violently, every jump feeling like it would shake his internal organs out. Xu Xiaochuan gripped the passenger seat handle tightly, the excruciating pain in his right leg almost making him lose consciousness. He turned his head to look at the driver's seat; Lin Yu's hands on the steering wheel were as steady as a rock, weaving at high speed between twisted and deformed abandoned steel bars and collapsed roadbeds, his movements so precise they didn't seem human, but rather like a machine fused with this iron beast. This driving skill, this calmness, completely overturned his impression of that base guard.

From the back seat came Xuanyuan Qing's suppressed, intermittent groans, every one of them like a needle prick in Xu Xiaochuan's heart. He turned his head with difficulty to look; in the dim light, Xuanyuan Qing's cheeks were flushed with an abnormal heat, her lips dry and cracked, the silver needles inserted into her neck and chest trembling slightly, but the effect of temporarily suppressing the toxins was clearly weakening. The heat of her body could be felt even through the seat.

"Lin Shu... that coordinate..." Xu Xiaochuan endured the pain, his voice hoarse, "The place my dad left... are we not going there?"

Lin Yu didn't even turn his head, his gaze fixed on the complex road conditions ahead. "The coordinate is bait, or just a peripheral point." His voice came through the roar of the engine, cold and hard, devoid of emotion, "Xu Jianhua never leaves a dead end, nor will he give anyone a straight path. Going there now is just suicide."

"Then where are we going? She... she can't hold on!" Xu Xiaochuan became anxious.

Lin Yu slammed the steering wheel, the car narrowly grazing a collapsed signal tower wreck, kicking up a cloud of rusted iron filings. "Haicheng." He spat out two words, the car turning, rushing toward a direction completely opposite to the coordinate indication, "Several dozen kilometers away. Only there are things that can save her. And only there... is it chaotic enough to hide us temporarily."

Haicheng? A large city? Xu Xiaochuan's brain was even more chaotic. Isn't going to a crowded place more dangerous? How powerful can Ouroboros be? He watched Lin Yu's fingers tap rapidly on the modified center console screen, a few lines of complex code flashing on the screen, and then the few tiny light spots that had been following from a distance in the rearview mirror suddenly disappeared. ===== CHAPTER 308 =====