Volume 4: Shadows Under the Neon Lights Chapter 219: The Dying Man
But just when Victoria was about to touch the "Iron Maiden" in mid-air, a powerful shock wave spread out directly with the "Iron Maiden" as the center. Even Ke Lan, who was dozens of meters away, was pushed back several steps by the shock wave, not to mention Victoria, who was closest to the source of the shock wave - her body suddenly lost balance and fell heavily to the ground!
The headless Zi Yan drew his sword from its sheath and walked towards her step by step...
"Be careful! It's coming towards you!" Ke Lan shouted loudly, running forward and pulling the trigger... but he forgot for a moment that he was holding the modified Type 01. The recoil of this gun was originally incredibly large, and there was no accuracy at all when shooting while moving quickly. The bullets fired were almost two meters away from the headless purple flame, and the closest one was about two meters away.
Victoria got up with some difficulty. As soon as she raised her head, she saw the headless corpse walk up to her and stand still, holding the samurai sword high in both hands.
Just as the sharp blade fell, the part of Victoria's right prosthetic leg below the knee suddenly exploded. With the help of the reaction force generated by the explosion, she managed to create some distance between herself and Zi Yan, causing the opponent's knife to hit empty space.
But Victoria, who had lost one leg, could no longer maintain her balance and fell to the ground again.
Both her biological and mechanical bodies were already on the verge of limits. Especially after being injected with the blocker, she could only rely on the preset instructions in the control chip to control her prosthetic limbs, which was much worse than the original control method using neural signals... At this moment, even wanting to stand up again had become extremely difficult.
Ke Lan was still more than twenty meters away from Zi Yan, while Zi Yan was less than three meters away from Victoria who was struggling on the ground.
The magazine of the modified 01 type was empty. Ke Lan put the rifle aside, pulled out his pistol and fired continuously. However, the bullets hit Zi Yan's body and only made a few blood holes the size of teacups. These blood holes began to heal as soon as they appeared. The granulation tissue that grew wildly on the torn wounds was enough to make people's scalp tingle just by looking at it.
"Zi Yan! I'm shooting at you! Turn around and look at me!" Ke Lan roared, but the other party had no intention of paying attention to him. Instead, he reached out, grabbed Victoria's head, and lifted her body up from the ground.
“Puff!”
The sharp knife pierced through Victoria's chest cavity, and even the hard artificial heart was shredded by the blade...
But Ke Lan saw that for the first time, an expression appeared on Victoria's face - she was laughing, she was laughing triumphantly!
Her only remaining left arm turned into four tough alloy chains, tightly binding Zi Yan's body and the arm holding the knife together!
“Hahahaha…hiss…hahaha…I…hiss…successfully…hahahaha…quickly…cut it off…”
Victoria's laughter stopped abruptly... Zi Yan's other hand, which was free to move, had already released her head and instead dug out her two eyeballs.
Victoria's eyes were not replaced with prosthetic ones. Along with her eyeballs, several tendons covered in blood were also pulled out...
Ke Lan finally ran behind Zi Yan. He threw away his pistol and pulled out the two thermal energy blades he picked up from Er Zang's body from his back.
Although Victoria didn't finish her words, Ke Lan already understood what she meant.
“Swish!”
With a flick of the knife, Ke Lan cut off all the fleshy tubes inserted into Zi Yan's back!
A black viscous liquid like petroleum gushed out from the tubes, and a mixture of blood and black liquid spurted out from Zi Yan's body.
Zi Yan's body began to twitch, and huge blood blisters appeared under his skin. As these blood blisters expanded and burst, his skin and muscles were rapidly dissolving... Soon, only a headless skeleton was left.
The alloy chain loosened from the skeleton, and Victoria, who lost her support, slowly slid down. She was kneeling on the ground, with a nearly half-meter-long blade sticking out from behind her spine.
Ke Lan looked up at the "Iron Maiden" still hanging in the air. Although Zi Yan had been killed, this thing was not something he could deal with - the powerful shock wave alone made it impossible for Ke Lan to get close to the iron coffin, not to mention that it might have other defensive means.
Although the thing inside did not show any hostility towards Ke Lan, it did not mean that it would not resist when Ke Lan wanted to kill it.
Unless, the "Holy Word" is used again ...
"No, absolutely not." As soon as this thought came to his mind, Ke Lan immediately rejected it. He didn't even dare to think about anything related to it, for fear of attracting the gaze of that distant existence again.
That sight was much more terrifying than the thing in the iron coffin in front of him. The two were completely not on the same level... What's more, Ke Lan was not sure what the price he would have to pay for using the "Holy Word" was - even if it was not vitality, it must be something whose value could be equated with life.
Not discovering something does not mean that it does not exist. After using the Holy Word once, Ke Lan felt that some indescribable things had undergone slight changes. That was the "price" he paid.
As for the contents of this iron coffin, let's leave it to the Security Bureau and the garrison to deal with...
Ke Lan kicked the headless skeleton away and dragged Victoria outside the flesh dome. He subconsciously put his fingers on the other's neck to check the pulse, but the next second he realized that Victoria's artificial heart had been crushed...
"It looks like she's dead..." Ke Lan shook his head with some regret. He had an indescribable feeling about Victoria... If she were a friend, then she certainly wasn't one, and if she were an enemy, that was even more wrong - although Ke Lan had had several frictions with her before, at least on the East Ninth District incident, they were on the same front.
But no matter what, she is a respectable warrior, a warrior who is willing to die for her ideals and beliefs.
Victoria's torso had begun to show signs of decay; those tissues had already died when she was injected with the blocker... In fact, when she was fighting with Zi Yan, she had been dragging half of her "corpse" around, and now, the vitality in the other half of her body had been completely drained.
