But every minute, there are flower branches ready to evolve back into black clouds of meat. Whenever it starts to change, the black rose will immediately drive other flower branches to mince that part of itself. This kind of self-flagellation never stops, it hurts. The gasps weaved into a painful chant over the swamp. Sometimes dozens or hundreds of flower branches evolve simultaneously, and before they have time to be crushed, sharp scratches suddenly protrude from under the pieces of meat - as if a sharp claw penetrates the tissue from the inside, and is mixed with a large ball of sludge. The rose flower liquid was spilled, and that part slowly changed back to the rose form.
Black Rose is cruel and decisive, but wrapped in rich pain.
Lumen whispered: "You can't come back, can you."
Qin Zhilu frowned and thought: "Although he has the upper hand, he is also passive. He has no way to clean up the black goat. He can only bite the black goat's trap again and again, eliminate its infection, and endure self-destruction." pain of."
As soon as he finished speaking, the thickest flower stem extending from the central flower root suddenly turned into a large cluster of black lumps of meat like lumps. Then, fierce and sharp claw marks were pushed out from under the meat, and with a series of explosions, Thousands of flower branches extending from the flower stem were broken, and the flower buds fell off one by one. The lower flower branches proliferated rapidly, sending them back to the sky again.
Every time the rose branch is rebuilt, it will grow several times more branches and buds. During this repeated evolution, the black rose becomes larger and larger, and more and more traitors are born. Yan's pain was shocking, but he had lost the ability to call for help, and could only self-destruct again and again in front of everyone. Amidst the heavy breathing, he gradually became restless and rough, and something under the swamp spread toward him like a wire. , even though he retained his will, he had to continue to absorb the energy of the nearby Bai City.
"Why can't the eradication be completed..." Lu Ming's eyes looked crazy, as if they were about to bleed, "Do we want him to continue like this?!"
Qin Zhilu stared at Black Rose's movements in silence. After a moment, he turned to look at An Yu. An Yu happened to look towards him and whispered: "Mo Li."
Qin Zhilu nodded slightly, and they thought of the AI girl who had disappeared for a long time in a tacit understanding.
Lumen frowned: "That program that has been destroyed?"
"Remember the dilemma Mo Li set for humans at that time - she hid the nuclear code in an absolutely safe AI. Even if humans wiped out her and everything on Yun Island, she could use the nuclear code to replicate and be reborn." An As he spoke, Su raised his head and examined the intertwined flower branches, "I guess the black goat also cut off a part of himself and hid it in a certain bud on a certain branch of the black rose, just like the mole. Unless we Find that thing, or it will always be with the flames.”
"Did Yan leave any clues?" Qin Zhilu asked.
Lu Ming remained silent. He stared at the wriggling flower branches and whispered for a long time: "Then I understand."
Apart from the words of peace, Jin Xuyan didn't have time to leave any words. But before he stepped into the swamp, he said that the black goat was not very intelligent.
"The black goat doesn't play counter-logic and won't compete with us, so when it chooses a traitor flower branch, it will purely choose the one that it thinks Jin Xuyan will least suspect."
"Then maybe I know which one it is."
It was the one that he had murmured to soothe his pain.
The one that passed through the fog and sent him out of the swamp regardless of being wrapped in mud.
"Its features should be very prominent..." Lumen's eyes quickly passed over the thousands of swaying and wriggling flower branches. After more than ten minutes, he shook his head blankly, "But it's not here... It was there two months ago. When I was sent out, the mud had already reached the end, and it might have completely turned into a mud whip.
Qin Zhilu shook his head decisively, "This is not possible. Two months have passed. Yan must have wiped out all the mud whips at that time. The mud whips you see now were all reborn from the roses through the traitorous branches. "
Lu Ming was stunned for a moment, "Why are you so sure?"
"This is my basic understanding of Yan's ability." Qin Zhilu nodded slightly, "Of course, it is also based on my understanding of his temper. With your life and human will on the line, you cannot expect him to be gentle to the black goat."
"Gentle..." Lu Ming repeated those two words, somewhat lost in thought.
After a moment, he frowned and stared at Black Rose.
"Then, let's try again."
"Everything has a memory of sound. Even if you rebel, you will still remember the comfort you received."
He whispered and stepped forward step by step. Thousands of flower branches passed in front of him and surrounded him. He quietly stepped into the rose cage full of thorns until the central flower root appeared in front of him.
The black rose was still whipping the alien body, but the painful breathing gradually became lighter, as if it was deliberately suppressed, but the roots of the flower were rising and falling more and more painfully.
"Don't you want to show weakness in front of me?" Lu Ming stretched out his hand and put it on the flower root. His smooth white fingers were immediately pricked by the rough thorns, and the blood soaked into the flower root. He whispered: "But I am already standing here, look. You've been looking embarrassed for a long time."
He looked up, looking through the lush cloud-like branches above his head, staring at the black rose buds blooming at the top, and unzipped his collar.
The red lips opened and closed softly and quickly, which was a sound wave that An Yu could not detect, but from his side, he saw that the metal patterns on Lu Ming's cheeks were undulating, pulling at the skin and quickly spreading a scarlet color, which was enough to see the sound waves. powerful.
The frequency of sound waves exceeds the range that the human ear can receive, and the words hidden in them cannot be heard.
An Yu stood aside quietly, as if he had never seen Lu Ming's eyes like this before. He was as arrogant and stubborn as ever, but yet as gentle as an illusion.
He subconsciously looked at Qin Zhilu, who was also staring at the figure behind Lu Meng, not knowing what he was thinking. An Yu instinctively approached, and Qin Zhilu took off another glove he had just put on, and gently held his hand.
Time passed quietly. I don’t know how long it took, but finally, a strange shadow slowly emerged from the depths of thousands of lingering flower branches.
An Yu was about to make a move, but Qin Zhilu suddenly tightened his grip on his fingers, "Don't startle the snake."
A desolate smile flashed across Lu Ming's eyes, but his lips opened and closed more quickly, as if urging, as if he was just pouring out something. Soon, the flower branch stretched longer and longer, and the flower buds on it were so dense that even the thorns on it were bent down by the flower buds. When stretching outwards, other equally slender branches have been evolved by the black goat several times, but its shape is very stable.
Lumen suddenly stopped.
"Cunning traitor," he whispered.
The surrounding air was slowly fluctuating, An Yu's golden eyes were focused, and he was about to use the space to tear the thing into pieces in an instant.
But when he was about to attack the space, the flower branch suddenly shrank a lot.
"Don't move." Qin Zhilu squeezed him again and whispered, "It is very sensitive to murderous intent."
Lumen started talking again, and after a long time, the flower branch tentatively extended back to him.
It trusted Lumen very much, but it was also very vigilant. This time, it extended a few meters in front of Lumen and stopped moving. Lumen strengthened the sound wave interference, but it had a faint intention of retracting.
Lumen suddenly smiled.
He stopped talking completely, pulled up his collar to cover the two red lips, then stretched out his hands, wrists together, towards the flower branches.
An Yu was stunned when he saw that the flower branch finally started to move again. It quickly circled and extended in front of Lu Ming. In an instant, it clung to his wrist and wrapped tightly around the pair of slender wrists. Then it suddenly raised, pulling Lumen high into the sky.
An Yu suddenly had a very bad feeling. He wanted to step forward, but was pulled back by Qin Zhilu again.
"We can't help." Qin Zhilu whispered: "We are destined to be spectators in the swamp."
An Yu didn't understand the officer's words. He saw Lu Ming being hung higher and higher, the flower branches still being twisted tightly in circles, the thorns deeply piercing the wrists, and dripping blood dripping from the sky. The genes of the black rose seemed to have been infected with Lumen, and fine rose buds bloomed from under his skin along his neck, but those rose buds were bright red, just like the clothes swaying in the wind.
Lumen must be very painful, An Yu thought.
But the posture of the man who was hung up was calm. The tighter the flower branches were, the harder and weaker his breathing became, while the limbs in the air became more relaxed and elegant.
Until the boy was motionless, only the red clothes were still swaying high in the air.
What dripped from the sky was not only blood, but also the traces of black mud mixed with the blood.
A thin and sharp blade slipped from Lu Ming's closed palm, and a small black rose bud fell with it.
After falling to the ground, it completely transformed into a mass of black mud that looked like a lump of meat.
It was the traitorous bud chosen by the black goat, and at the last moment, it was finally cut off without defense.
The young man in red who cut it off has been hanged to death in the sky with a smile.
The proud and rich fragrance of roses enveloped the swamp, overpowering the faint lingering smell of water lilies, making people unable to recall the wetness here before.
An Yu lowered his eyes and mourned in silence amidst the fragrance of flowers.
"Sir, I never thought Lumen would take the initiative to extend his arms."
Qin Zhilu said "hmm" in a low voice and squeezed his hand tighter.
"I never imagined that someone would put a gun to his forehead.
“The growth of the people under supervision often exceeds the expectations of the superiors. The senior management always thinks that they know them well enough, so they are shocked time and time again.
"It's just that this kind of growth may not be what they want to see."
After the words fell, before An Yu had time to react, the familiar giant wings suddenly spread out, and in the strong air flow, Qin Zhilu led him back suddenly.
The black rose began to surround itself, cutting off its connection with the underground roots, and gradually spiraling and converging until the branches and buds were no longer distinct, converging into a vague black cloud.
"We haven't seen how a controlled chaotic reaction ends." Qin Zhilu said to An Yu amidst the whistling airflow: "Yan will probably minimize the impact of self-destruction, but you should be careful."
The black cloud continued to spin, faster and faster, until at a certain moment, it suddenly stopped.
It was as if time and space had frozen at one point, and then, the intense bright light almost blinded An Yu instantly. His mind was buzzing, and when he regained his sight, there was nothing in front of him.
The black roses that reached the sky no longer existed, and the black goat was no longer visible, leaving only the chaotic red light fluctuating high in the sky.
The moment heat death occurred, there was only a dazzling bright light, but there was no sound and burning as imagined with the explosion. It happened so quietly, and even the bright light seemed to be just to cover the eyes of others, making them I can't see him going to destruction.
Qin Zhilu slowly retracted his wings and stared at the center of the swamp with his dark eyes.
"Thank you." He closed his eyes and lowered his head, expressing condolences to the center of the swamp, "Thank you for your hard work, Xu Yan."
"Sir-" An Yu hesitated and pulled his finger.
In the center of the swamp, where heat death occurred, the mud has dried up.
But there was a pile of withered and blackened rose leaves left there, which should have perished with the heat death, but abnormally remained.
The flowers and leaves are piled high, like a slightly swollen hill. An Yu stepped forward and gently brushed off the top layer.
Lu Ming slept quietly under the charred rose leaves. His face was pale, his exposed skin was covered with blood marks, and his two wrists had been pierced until they were bloody.
But his chest was still rising and falling, as if he was falling into a long sleep.
"he--"
"He's back." Qin Zhilu said.
An Yu nodded, "The chaotic reaction can be controlled to this extent..."
Before he finished speaking, Qin Zhilu handed over the terminal and said, "I mean, he is back. Lumen - no, still, human beings are still back."
While An Yu was stunned, his heart suddenly trembled - he looked at the gene entropy test on the terminal in disbelief. Lumen's gene entropy at this moment was only 6.2, returning to the human category.
"Is this entropy decreasing?" he asked in confusion.
"Yes, but no." Qin Zhilu slowly raised his head and looked thoughtfully at the undulating and collapsing red lights in the sky. "This is the absorption of the same kind. He absorbed the chaos in Zhaoran."
As soon as he finished speaking, the cluster of red light suddenly flashed across, like a shooting star, towards them, and then dissipated in an instant.
Just as An Yu was about to say something, the terminal in his hand vibrated again.
[Gene entropy has reached the upper limit of measurement! 】
"What's the upper limit?" An Yu frowned, "Did it automatically test you?"
Qin Zhilu lowered his eyes and glanced at the screen, "Yeah."
"Isn't this your terminal?" An Yu frowned and handed the terminal back to Qin Zhilu, "My terminal usually doesn't automatically test me."
"Yes, usually not." Qin Zhilu rubbed the shell of the terminal with his fingers. After a long time, he put it back into his pocket. He glanced at the sky with his dark eyes and whispered: "The terminal usually only works under one condition. Automatically measure the owner's gene entropy - that is, when it senses changes in the opponent's gene entropy, it will trigger a refresh."
"But you haven't always been -" An Yufan suddenly woke up and looked up in disbelief.
The sky is clean, and the chaotic red light left by the heat death of the black rose seems to have never existed.
"Let's go." Qin Zhilu looked away calmly, "Take Zhaoran back to the main city."
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