bioinnovel Chapter 452 The Queen's Resolve!
Chapter 452 The Queen's Resolve!
Nie Qingcheng looked at the beating heart rate on the screen.
Forty-two.
The number flashed and then dropped to forty.
She clenched her fist tightly, and a slight stinging sensation came from her palm.
Qin Xiao's anxious announcement came through the phone.
"The armor crack has extended to the root of the left wing, the shield is dented more deeply, and the overload timeout has two minutes and twelve seconds remaining."
Only two minutes left.
She stood up.
The living room lights were blinding, a tablet computer with a travel guide to Lake Toya was scattered on the sofa, and the cup of tea on the coffee table next to it had long since gone cold.
The room was eerily quiet, completely oblivious to the collapsing world outside.
"Qin Xiao".
"sister in law."
"How long can he hold on at most?"
There was a brief silence on the other end of the communicator.
"At the current decay rate, the shield will be breached in one minute and forty seconds."
Qin Xiao's voice sounded dry and hoarse.
One minute and forty seconds.
Nie Qingcheng disconnected the communication and went to the entrance to change her shoes.
She moved with lightning speed, without the slightest hesitation.
The way she grabbed the car keys was practiced and efficient, just like when she would touch up her makeup in a mirror.
The door to the underground laboratory was wide open. She ran down the stairs and took out the defense module that Zhang Yan had left for her from the sealed cabinet.
The roar of the engine immediately tore through the darkness outside.
It normally takes forty minutes to drive from the villa to the military helicopter landing pad on the outskirts of Shennongjia.
It only took her twelve minutes.
The helicopter rotor generated tremendous wind pressure, and the ground control personnel watched the sports car hurtling towards them, not even having time to press the button on their walkie-talkies.
Nie Qingcheng had already pushed open the car door and stepped out.
"Miss Nie."
"Get out of the way."
She only uttered those two words.
The soldiers outside the cordon exchanged glances and then silently made way for each other.
She bent down and crawled into the cabin, forcefully slapping the back of the pilot's seat.
"take off."
The helicopter landed in the target area of Shennongjia seven minutes later.
Guan Xing and his men were already waiting at the cave entrance.
When Nie Qingcheng landed, Guan Xing also came out of the passage to greet her, his face gloomy.
"I've seen his data."
Nie Qingcheng strode forward.
"Take me down."
"You can't go down."
The stargazer reached out and blocked the entrance to the passage.
"Your body cannot withstand the pressure change at a depth of 1,200 meters."
"Get out of the way."
These two words are still the same, but the sense of oppression they convey is much heavier.
Guan Xing met Nie Qingcheng's gaze.
There was not a trace of panic or pleading in those beautiful eyes, only a kind of resolute determination that had never been recorded in the organization's archives for three hundred years.
That was the expression on a woman's face as she prepared to die.
That's not actually correct either.
She was clearly there to save people, and didn't care what price she had to pay.
"What can you do down there?"
Guan Xing asked a question.
Nie Qingcheng reached into her pocket and pulled out a metal object.
That was the defense module that Zhang Yan left for her.
She flipped the metal block over to reveal the interface on the back, where the custom-made groove and the compatibility port of the Azure Dragon Stabilizing Field fit together perfectly.
"Compatibility protocol".
Nie Qingcheng explained.
"Last time when Zhang Yan was working with the locksmith at the sixth door, I saw the data. The key and lock are compatible, and the lock and door are also interchangeable."
She paused for a moment.
"My bloodline can activate the compatibility layer of the gate. Last time, when the first gate was repaired, my body data showed a slight resonance, which Zhang Yan thought I hadn't noticed."
Guan Xing's eyelids twitched.
"You need to use your blood to activate the gate's passive damage-sharing mechanism."
"right."
"Do you know what the cost is? That mechanism has never been tested on ordinary humans."
"I don't care."
Nie Qingcheng brushed past her shoulder and walked inside, her steps quick. She gripped the defense module tightly in her palm, the metal edge pressing into her palm and leaving red marks.
"One minute has passed."
Her urging drifted from the depths of the passage.
Are you coming or not?
Guan Xing closed his eyes and sighed.
She still lifted her leg and followed.
The black scorpion stopped at the bottom of the shaft.
Without hesitation, Nie Qingcheng sat in the cockpit. Faced with the permission warning that popped up on the control interface, she skillfully entered the emergency authorization code given by Zhang Yan.
The drill bit at the front of the Black Scorpion began to spin rapidly, carrying the machine downwards.
A depth of 1,200 meters was compressed into four minutes under high-speed drilling.
Nie Qingcheng endured drastic pressure changes in the decompression chamber, her eardrums throbbing with pain, but she gritted her teeth and didn't make a sound.
A vast spherical space suddenly opened up before them, with the black sphere suspended in the center—the first gate.
The runes on the surface of the door emitted a halo, and the delay field nodes embedded in the inner wall operated stably.
Nie Qingcheng jumped out of the Black Scorpion and stepped barefoot onto the cold metal ground.
She walked straight to the door.
The black sphere's surface shimmered with the unique sheen of liquid metal, reflecting her slightly distorted figure.
"Compatibility protocol".
She moved her lips and uttered those four words.
Then she raised her right hand.
The skin on that wrist was fair, and the bluish veins were clearly visible beneath the skin.
Guan Xing stood five meters behind her, his lips moving several times before he finally remained silent.
Nie Qingcheng picked up the defense module and used its sharp metal edge to cut her wrist.
The wound wasn't deep, just enough to allow the blood to gush out.
Dark red blood beads slid down his fingertips and dripped onto the surface of the door.
The moment the first drop of blood made contact with the door, the entire spherical space trembled slightly.
The runes shone brightly.
Nie Qingcheng sensed a tremendous force surging back from the depths of the door, flowing back into her body along with her blood. A burning sensation came from inside her blood vessels, and the torment of her flesh being torn apart and reassembled made her breathless.
She pressed her entire palm against the door.
Blood seeped from between his fingers, smearing a large area on the surface of the black sphere. The runes followed the bloodstains and began to move again, outlining a new array pattern.
System Panel
This was not the interface Zhang Yan was familiar with, but rather some kind of ancient interactive projection that came with the door itself, directly displayed on Nie Qingcheng's retina.
It was a line of complex runes.
She didn't recognize the words, but her mind automatically grasped their meaning.
[Compatibility protocol activated. Non-holder lineage detected. Original resonance conditions confirmed. Connect to sharing channel?]
Nie Qingcheng gritted her teeth.
"Access".
Bright light shone brightly within the spherical space.
It was a deep energy that transcended the appearance of runes. A golden-white beam of light burst forth from the core of the gate, piercing through 1,200 meters of rock and soil, and soaring straight into the sky.
Inside the ground command post, Qin Xiao received a piercing alarm from the military's sensors.
"What's going on? There's an abnormal energy release at the Shennongjia coordinates. Wait, this is coming from inside the gate."
He hurriedly switched to Nie Qingcheng's communication channel, but there was only a dial tone.
He immediately switched to the stargazing channel.
"Guanxing, where is my sister-in-law? Where is she?"
The sound of stargazing came from 1,200 meters underground, with a noticeable tremor in the voice.
"She activated the load sharing channel of the compatibility protocol in front of the door."
Qin Xiao stopped what he was doing.
"What do you mean?"
"It means that she is using her physical body to take the impact of the Void Spear for Zhang Yan."
High in the air, 20,000 kilometers away.
Zhang Yan's vision began to blur.
The shield's energy cone had caved in to its limit, and cracks in the armor climbed up the outer wall of the cockpit along the left wing.
System warnings blared, and the overload countdown for the Heavenly Craftsman's Heart dropped to forty-seven seconds.
The spear was still advancing.
The silvery-white swirling vortex relentlessly pounded against the frontal defenses, constantly eroding its remaining barrier.
Followed by.
The stress has been relieved.
Thirty percent of that pressure was relieved in an instant.
Zhang Yan's collapsing consciousness was forcibly pulled back to reality.
The data on the system panel fluctuated rapidly, and the load on the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart dropped from 150% to 108%.
What's going on?
He looked down at the Earth.
On the surface of the blue planet, a golden-white beam of light shot into the sky from that familiar coordinate, piercing the atmosphere and extending all the way to his altitude.
Shennongjia.
The first door.
The energy frequency of the pillar of light was perfectly synchronized with the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship, and it was sharing the burden of the Void Spear.
There was something else mixed in with that frequency.
Although faint, Zhang Yan heard it clearly.
That was the sound of a heartbeat.
It is the heartbeat of a human being, not the pulse of a pore.
That was Nie Qingcheng's heartbeat.
Zhang Yan's eyes instantly became bloodshot and red.
His vital signs spiked wildly at that moment, his heart rate jumped from 40 to 130, his blood pressure rose, adrenaline surged, and his chest was filled with rage.
The depth underground caused a complete loss of communication channels, and he couldn't contact her at all.
He knew exactly what she was doing.
"Nie Qingcheng".
The roar could not penetrate the vacuum environment of 20,000 kilometers.
The system panel displays new data.
[Nie Qingcheng's damage-dealing channel is maintaining stable output; the effective pressure on the Void Spear has decreased by 32%. Her vital signs are rapidly deteriorating; her heart rate is unstable, and her body temperature is dropping.]
A mortal body withstands the impact of a higher dimension.
Zhang Yan gritted his teeth, his mouth filled with the taste of blood.
"You dare to die."
He gripped the joystick tightly.
"I'll smash this world, lock and all."