bioinnovel Chapter 108 If anyone dares to touch you, I'll melt their hand.
Chapter 108 If anyone dares to touch you, I'll melt their hand.
Li Jianguo has passed away.
They left in such a hurry that they didn't even have time to sweep the dust off the ground. The bodies of the mercenaries on the outer perimeter had to be cleaned up before dawn, and the new security deployment needed to be completely overhauled.
The expensive underground laboratory was currently operating at full capacity with its air purification system, humming as it worked hard to remove the pungent burnt smell and ozone odor.
The charred hole in the wall, still emitting wisps of smoke, resembled the open mouth of a monster, silently testifying to the terrifying power of the energy beam that had just struck.
Su Wanqing stood at the doorway, taking a few deep breaths to try and suppress the lingering fear in her heart. She glanced down at the now-cold braised pork on the tray, then turned and walked towards the small microwave in the rest area.
Two minutes later, carrying the steaming hot food, she walked back to the core area in her high heels.
"Sizzle—"
Inside the core area, the silver-white miniature industrial machine machine once again emitted a faint sound of operation.
Bai Che was squatting in front of the machine, holding a handful of palladium shavings left over from cutting the reactor shell, and casually throwing them into the feed inlet like trash.
Next to him were scattered blueprints and discarded parts. The priceless reactor core was casually placed among a pile of cables, glowing with a faint blue light, like a decorative item that could be found anywhere.
"eat!"
Su Wanqing walked to the desk and slammed the tray down on it with a loud "bang".
With her beautiful, aloof face stern, arms crossed, and phoenix eyes gleaming with menace, she looked every bit the shrew about to unleash her fury: "Bai Che, do you know how dangerous that was? Uncle Li said if it had been just half an inch off course, that beam of light would have pierced the supporting pillar, and we'd both be buried alive as fossils!"
"Also, the power company just called and started yelling at us, saying there were abnormal voltage fluctuations in the western part of the city, and asking if we were carrying out a terrorist attack!"
Su Wanqing grew angrier as she spoke, her chest heaving slightly. That bastard! The world outside is in chaos, and he's still playing with this broken machine.
Bai Che squatted on the ground without turning his head, only waving his hand perfunctorily: "Calm down. They're all within range... oh no, all within calculations."
"Calculate my ass!" Su Wanqing couldn't help but swear. "Come and eat! If it gets cold, I'll feed it to the dogs!"
Bai Che finally dusted off the metal powder on his hands and stood up.
But instead of walking to his desk, he stood still and lightly snapped his fingers at the lunchbox on the desk.
"come over."
hum-
The two stainless steel chopsticks placed beside Su Wanqing trembled without warning.
Immediately afterward, to Su Wanqing's astonishment, the two chopsticks seemed to be guided by an invisible hand, rising steadily into the air and drawing a graceful silver arc before landing precisely in Bai Che's hand three meters away.
Snapped.
Bai Che firmly gripped the chopsticks, picked up a piece of braised pork that was suspended in the magnetic field, and put it in his mouth. It was as if the piece of pork had flown over.
"Mmm, it's hot this time, and it tastes good." Bai Che chewed, looking satisfied.
Su Wanqing opened her mouth wide, and the anger she had been building up suddenly got stuck in her throat. The words she wanted to say as scolding her turned into gurgling sounds in her throat.
Looking at Bai Che's matter-of-fact attitude, she felt her worldview crack open again.
Magnetic levitation technology.
This is a cutting-edge research topic that the whole world is working on, and it's the technology to build maglev trains and electromagnetic catapults for aircraft carriers.
So this thing... was used to lazily pick up food?
"You..." Su Wanqing pointed at him, her finger trembling slightly, "You're using this kind of skill... for eating?"
"Is there a problem?" Bai Che swallowed the braised pork, looking completely innocent. "Since you can control charged particles, isn't controlling two iron chopsticks basic operation? That's called life wisdom."
Su Wanqing weakly held her forehead.
At that moment, she deeply felt what it meant to "play music to a cow" and what it meant to "lack of technological understanding".
Bai Che finished his food in a few bites, and his earlier frivolous behavior subsided somewhat.
"Those people just now were also after me." Bai Che toyed with the chopsticks in his hand. Although his tone was still nonchalant, a faint, almost imperceptible glint of coldness flashed deep in his eyes. "Two hundred million US dollars can indeed drive people crazy."
Su Wanqing remained silent.
The deafening gunshots and the fear of brushing past death surged into my mind again.
In this real world filled with scheming and killing, her business acumen and negotiation skills, which she was so proud of, proved as fragile as a sheet of paper in the face of absolute violence.
Without Li Jianguo and Bai Che's endless stream of cutting-edge technologies, she might not even know how she died.
"Am I... pretty useless?" Su Wanqing lowered her head, her voice a little hoarse. "Besides helping you with the accounts, I can't help at all at times like this, and I'm even a burden."
"bite."
A crisp notification sound interrupted her self-pity.
That's when the industrial machine tool completed the processing procedure.
Bai Che casually tossed the chopsticks aside (of course, they didn't fall to the ground, but instead stuck firmly to the magnetic knife holder), turned around and took out a small object from the discharge port.
He walked up to Su Wanqing and extended his hand: "Give me your hand."
Su Wanqing subconsciously opened her palm.
A small, cold object landed in her hand.
It was a hexagonal silver crystal pendant, only the size of a fingernail, with countless intricate facets cut into its surface, refracting a mesmerizing color under the light.
Below the pendant is a thin, flowing silver chain.
Very beautiful.
It's so beautiful it doesn't look like an industrial product; it's more like an artistic gem from outer space.
"This is..." Su Wanqing was stunned, her heart skipped a beat.
The previous low mood was instantly thrown to the winds, replaced by a surge of warmth rushing to my cheeks.
What is this?
A token of love?
Although it was made from those scrap materials, it was designed and made by him personally...
Two blushes visibly rose on Su Wanqing's usually icy beauty face. She clutched the pendant tightly, her eyes darting around, yet also revealing a barely suppressed glee: "Why...why did you suddenly give me this? It's not like I don't have jewelry..."
"Those are scraps left over from cutting earlier, it's a shame to throw them away." Bai Che shrugged. "Don't overthink it, it's just... well, consider it an employee perk."
Su Wanqing bit her lip, cursing the straight man in her heart, but she couldn't suppress the smile on her lips.
Just as she was about to hold up this "employee benefit" to her neck...
Bai Che suddenly moved.
He turned around and picked up a freshly sterilized, gleaming alloy scalpel from the shelf next to him on the lab bench.
"By the way, since you've given out perks, could you also help me with some data?"
Bai Che's voice remained calm, even carrying a hint of amusement.
next second.
Under Su Wanqing's horrified gaze, he gripped the scalpel tightly and, without any warning or hesitation, plunged it fiercely into Su Wanqing's fair and slender neck!
Lightning fast!
"ah--!"
Su Wanqing's pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, and she let out a short scream.
She wanted to back away, to dodge, but her body wouldn't obey her commands due to extreme fear, and she could only watch helplessly as the sharp blade rapidly magnified in her vision.
crazy!
Is he insane?!
however.
Just as the tip of the knife was less than three centimeters from her skin, and she could even feel the chill of the blade.
hum!
The hexagonal pendant she was clutching tightly in her hand suddenly burst forth with a dazzling blue light.
A visible ripple seemed to spread through the air.
A pale blue, semi-transparent light shield composed of countless miniature hexagonal honeycomb gratings instantly opened in front of her.
clang!
A crisp, metallic clang rang out.
The scalpel in Bai Che's hand felt like it had pierced the hardest wall in the world.
The enormous recoil force traveled back along the handle of the scalpel, making Bai Che's hand go numb. The scalpel, made of special alloy, flew out of his hand, spun a few times in the air, and landed on the floor some distance away with a "clang".
Su Wanqing, on the other hand, was completely unharmed.
Not even a single hair behind that light shield moved.
A deathly silence fell over the laboratory.
Su Wanqing remained frozen in place, her posture one of terror.
She stared blankly at the pale blue light shield in front of her, which was slowly fading and eventually disappearing into the air. Her mind went blank, and she even forgot to breathe.
What is this...?
magic?
Or a miracle?
Bai Che shook his numb wrist, bent down to pick up the scalpel from the ground, looked at the slightly dull blade tip, and nodded in satisfaction.
"Reaction speed of 0.01 seconds, phase deflection rate of 100%, and perfect kinetic energy absorption."
He walked back behind Su Wanqing, who was still in a daze, took the pendant from her hand that was still glowing with a faint blue light, and gently put it around her neck.
The cool, liquid metal chain clung to her skin, and the hexagonal pendant rested perfectly between her collarbones.
"This thing is called a 'portable phase deflection shield'."
Bai Che leaned close to her ear, his voice deep and warm, carrying a reassuring warmth: "Of course, on Earth, you can call it—'anti-wolf device'."
"Although each charge only blocks three fatal attacks, whether it's a sniper bullet or that surgical knife just now, I think in this country, no one should let you use up all three chances."
Su Wanqing raised her hand and touched the pendant on her chest with trembling hands.
It was still slightly warm, as if it had come to life.
That unprecedented, all-encompassing sense of absolute security instantly shattered all her strength and pretense.
What business tycoon? What security team?
Compared to this tiny pendant, all the protection efforts in the world seem so superfluous.
"An anti-wolf device..." Su Wanqing murmured to herself, her eyes reddening slightly.
Whose self-defense device can stop a sniper rifle?
This is clearly putting a life on her neck.
"If anyone dares to touch you again," Bai Che looked at her slightly reddened ears, his eyes revealing a rare ruthlessness and tenderness, "I'll melt their hand."