305: Creation Appears

Faced with the Researcher's increasingly frenzied declaration of his "ideal," Lu Jianchuan and Shen Mingyuan had no desire to engage in further debate.

Lu Jianchuan simply took a step forward, his armor emitting a faint friction sound. His voice was cold and resolute: "With someone like you, extra words are just a waste. We're not here to attend a philosophy seminar."

Beside him, Shen Mingyuan already had his twin pistols in hand, his red visor locking onto the target. His tone was flat yet carried undeniable force:

"We're just here to stop you. As for debating your right or wrong? Unnecessary. We only follow what our hearts deem right."

This attitude of refusing to engage and directly declaring action instead left the Researcher stunned, the fanaticism on his face replaced by a hint of panic:

"Wh-what? You... After hearing such a grand ideal, shouldn't you delve into a deep discussion with me, examining its possibilities?

Haven't you yourselves ever experienced heart-wrenching regret or inescapable despair? In my world, all of that can be corrected! Even the departed can be perfectly recreated in consciousness and reunited with you!"

"So what?" Lu Jianchuan's voice suddenly rose, cutting off the other's temptation. His words carried the weight of having experienced loss and pain, along with even firmer resolve,

"My heart has long understood that the departed cannot truly return, and mistakes made cannot be erased out of thin air. Facing past errors head-on, bearing the weight they bring, then striving to make amends in future life without repeating them—that is the right path!

The past cannot be changed, but the future can be shaped starting from this moment! I admit the mistakes I've made, but I will never be trapped by them, much less hide in the false illusions you weave!"

Before his words faded, Lu Jianchuan's figure was already in motion. His silver-white armor transformed into a streak of speed, charging straight toward the Researcher whose expression drastically changed!

"No! You can't!" the Researcher screamed in terror, frantically rummaging in his white coat pocket and pulling out an inconspicuous, old bell-like black object, shaking it desperately!

"Clang-clang-clang—!"

A peculiar fluctuation, not entirely a physical sound, spread out with the shaking of the bell.

Almost simultaneously, the heavy metal door in the direction they came from burst open with a roar. Accompanied by chaotic, heavy footsteps and ferocious roars, several Dinosaur Person guards, noticeably more robust and with brighter red eyes than those encountered before, rushed out, targeting Lu Jianchuan's back!

"Behind!" Shen Mingyuan's maintained vigilance instantly peaked, his reaction swift as lightning. He had no time to fully turn around; relying solely on sonar and dynamic visual capture, his upper body twisted with astonishing flexibility, his arms crossing as he raised them. The "twin stars" pistols spat out short, deadly tongues of fire!

Bang-bang-bang! Bang-bang!

The precise shots weren't aimed at killing but at obstruction and disrupting balance. The knees or ankles of the two Dinosaur Persons at the front instantly burst with blood, howling as they fell forward, becoming obstacles for their following companions.

Meanwhile, facing the threat from the Researcher ahead and the rear, Lu Jianchuan remained calm under pressure.

His forward momentum didn't diminish. His right foot stomped hard on the ground, the already rough rock surface cracking under his deliberate force. Several fist-sized, sharp-edged rubble pieces were shaken loose and bounced up.

His left hand shot out like lightning, grabbing the two largest pieces mid-air. Using the momentum, his waist spun urgently, hurling the rubble backward as if throwing a hammer!

The stones whistled through the air. One smashed into the face of a Dinosaur Person about to pounce, breaking its head and leaving it dazed; the other struck another Dinosaur Person in the chest. Though not causing serious injury, it successfully interrupted its pouncing momentum.

In an instant of confrontation, Shen Mingyuan's long-range suppression and Lu Jianchuan's emergency counterattack tacit agreemently resolved this wave of ambush, without even needing eye contact between the two. Lu Jianchuan's charging speed was barely affected, and he had now closed in on the Researcher, whose face was pale and still futilely shaking the bell!

Lu Jianchuan closed in, his silver-white gauntlet gripping the Researcher's throat, lifting him into the air, forcibly interrupting the annoying bell sound.

"Make them stop!" Lu Jianchuan's voice, coming through his visor, carried undeniable pressure. "You're useless now."

On the other side, Shen Mingyuan's shooting rhythm was precise and efficient. He didn't aim for instant kills but instead targeted the legs or joints of the front-row Dinosaur Persons, creating obstacles and chaos to delay their encirclement.

However, these summoned Dinosaur Persons were even more ferocious. Some directly trampled over fallen companions to continue charging, while others even lowered their heads to bite injured comrades to clear a path, completely disregarding casualties.

The Researcher, throat gripped, face flushed red, yet his eyes burned with even crazier flames. He rasped out intermittent cold laughter:

"Heh... heh... You think... death can make me yield? No... you're wrong! Even if you kill me, as long as my creation remains, as long as I merge into it, I will be reborn in that perfect world of consciousness!

What you see is just a node in the inevitable future! This is the necessity of history! An era where consciousness ultimately unifies will surely arrive!

Killing me, destroying this place—at most, it'll just... slow the pendulum's swing by an insignificant moment!"

With difficulty, he rolled his eyes toward the pulsating darkness deep in the cavern, erupting with final fervor: "And... the time has come... he should awaken..."

As if to confirm his words, the continuous low "thump... thump..." heartbeat sound suddenly intensified without warning!

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The sound became like drumbeats, heavy and rapid, causing the entire cavern to tremble slightly. More heart-stopping was that the source of the heartbeat seemed to be rapidly approaching!

The ferociously Siege Dinosaur Person guards froze in unison.

The madness in their crimson eyes was quickly replaced by a kind of instinctual fear. They let out uneasy growls, actually starting to retreat regardless of orders, even pushing each other, just wanting to get away from the direction of the heartbeat.

The next second!

"Boom—!!"

At the far end of the cavern, at the edge of the thick darkness, a figure violently burst through what seemed like a tough, dark-red flesh membrane wall, shooting out like a cannonball and landing lightly on the ground not far from everyone, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Shen Mingyuan's red visor instantly locked onto the newcomer, and his heart also tightened.

It was a Boy who looked only seven or eight years old, wearing simple clothes, with a immature face. It was precisely the Child he had glimpsed on the commercial street and had been desperately searching for!

But now, the aura emanating from this Boy was completely different. His eyes were empty and indifferent, as if not focused on anything specific.

And most striking and discomforting—from his back, at the position of his spine, extended a thick, "umbilical cord"-like structure, entangled from dark-red flesh and semi-transparent membrane tubes, connecting all the way back into the darkness he had just burst from.