HLnovel Chapter 190 What do you want?
Chapter 190 What do you want?
"What exactly do you want?" Qi Tongwei lowered his head weakly, his voice hoarse.
"It's simple. Surrender or die." Lin Yao walked up to him and looked down at him with a cold light in her eyes. "The choice is yours."
"I..." Qi Tongwei opened his mouth, but found that he could not make any sound. He looked at Lin Yao's beautiful and cold face, and Liang Lu's soulless body, and his heart was filled with despair and anger.
At this moment, the lights in the metal room suddenly began to flicker, and a shrill alarm sounded throughout the space.
"What's going on?" Lin Yao's face changed and asked sternly.
"Report! External energy fluctuations detected, data abnormalities!" A cold electronic synthesized voice sounded, "The energy source comes from...'Garden of Eden'!"
Lin Yao's face changed drastically. She turned around suddenly and looked at the hibernation capsule behind her. She saw Liang Lu's body began to tremble violently. A powerful energy wave burst out from her body, shattering the metal shell of the hibernation capsule.
"No! This is impossible!" Lin Yao exclaimed and stepped back repeatedly, her eyes filled with fear and disbelief.
In the dazzling white light, Liang Lu slowly opened her eyes, and a strange red light flickered in her eyes...
The piercing alarm echoed in the empty metal room, and the red and blue lights flickered, shining on Qi Tongwei's face full of shock and confusion. He stared at Liang Lu blankly, watching her slowly stand up from the hibernation capsule, like witnessing a corpse coming back to life, but even more weird and creepy than that.
"How...how is this possible..." Lin Yao stepped back uncontrollably, her usually calm and elegant face full of disbelief, "She...she should have been completely formatted...how is it possible..."
"Format?" Qi Tongwei turned his head suddenly, grabbed Lin Yao's arm, his eyes wide open, as if he wanted to see the answer from her face, "What did you do to her?!"
Lin Yao shook off Qi Tongwei's hand with force, a trace of disgust and panic flashed in her eyes, "You don't need to know! Catch her! Quick!"
She was answered with silence. The mechanical arms that had been obedient to her seemed to have lost control, hanging in the air in a daze, and the flashing red light reflected Lin Yao's increasingly pale face.
Liang Lu slowly raised her head, her hollow eyes glowing red as she stared at Lin Yao, a strange smile on her lips. She opened her mouth and said in an emotionless electronic voice: "Garden of Eden... Protocol... Start... Clear... Program..."
"No! Impossible!" Lin Yao stepped back in horror and turned around to escape from the metal room. However, the metal door behind her slammed shut, trapping her in this small space.
"You...what do you want to do?" Lin Yao's voice was trembling, and she shouted at Liang Lu in a timid manner, "I am one of the twelve main gods of the Garden of Eden! How dare you touch me?"
Liang Lu ignored Lin Yao's shouting. She walked towards Qi Tongwei step by step. Every step seemed to be stepping on Qi Tongwei's heart, making him feel an inexplicable fear.
"What...what are you going to do?" Qi Tongwei stepped back subconsciously, but found himself forced into a corner.
Liang Lu walked up to him, stretched out her cold hand, and gently stroked his cheek. Red light flickered in her empty eyes, as if she was reading his memory, his soul.
"Don't... don't touch me!" Qi Tongwei felt a strong sense of nausea and fear. He wanted to dodge, but he couldn't move. He could only watch the cold hand touching his cheek, Liang Lu's emotionless voice echoing in his ears.
"Qi...Tong...Wei...my...love..."
"Lover?!" Qi Tongwei looked at the woman in front of him who was like a walking corpse in disbelief. The image of the gentle and considerate Liang Lu appeared in his mind. The contrast between her and the cold and weird woman in front of him was sharp, filling his heart with absurdity and fear.
Liang Lu's hand slowly moved and stopped at Qi Tongwei's neck. The cold touch made him feel suffocated. He saw a bright red light in Liang Lu's hollow eyes, and a powerful energy wave burst out from her body, enveloping him completely...
"Ah!" Qi Tongwei screamed in pain, feeling his consciousness gradually blurring and his body as if it was about to be torn apart. He didn't know what was waiting for him, death, or a fate more terrible than death...
A sharp pain exploded from the depths of his mind, and Qi Tongwei groaned in pain, as if ten thousand needles were piercing his brain. He wanted to open his eyes, but his eyelids felt as heavy as a thousand pounds. In a daze, he heard a cold mechanical synthesized voice in his ear: "Synchronization rate...decreased...brain waves...abnormal...activate...emergency plan..."
Immediately afterwards, another wave of severe pain came, and Qi Tongwei could no longer bear it and fainted.
After an unknown amount of time, Qi Tongwei slowly woke up and found himself lying on the cold metal floor. He struggled to sit up and looked around. It was still the sci-fi metal room.
"Are you awake?"
A familiar voice was heard, Qi Tongwei turned his head suddenly, and saw Liang Lu standing not far away, still with that cold expression, and red light flashing in her empty eyes, like a ghost.
"What...what did you do to me?" Qi Tongwei asked with gritted teeth, covering his aching head.
"Me? I just woke you up." Liang Lu's voice was still emotionless, as if she was narrating something insignificant. "You were supposed to be the master of the 'Garden of Eden', but she imprisoned you here and made you her puppet."
"Garden of Eden? Master? What nonsense are you talking about?!" Qi Tongwei endured the severe pain in his head and glared at Liang Lu.
"You don't remember?" Liang Lu's eyes flashed red. "You were the creator of the Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden is your masterpiece, a perfect world controlled by you. And she, Lin Yao, stole your work and imprisoned you here, trying to replace you and become the master of the Garden of Eden."
"What nonsense!" Qi Tongwei roared, "I don't know any 'Garden of Eden' or Lin Yao at all!"
"Really?" Liang Lu raised a strange smile, "Then why is your memory so incomplete? Why are you here? Why do you look so familiar to me?"
Qi Tongwei was suddenly speechless. He tried hard to recall the past, but found that his mind was blank. There were only scattered fragments of memory, which were as illusory as flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water. He couldn't piece together a complete picture at all.
Liang Lu approached Qi Tongwei step by step, with a strange light flashing in her empty eyes, as if she could see through everything about him.
"Look at me, Qi Tongwei," Liang Lu's voice echoed in Qi Tongwei's ears like hypnosis, "Look into my eyes, and you will remember everything..."
Qi Tongwei instinctively wanted to dodge, but found himself as if restrained by an invisible force, unable to move. He could only stare at Liang Lu's eyes filled with strange light, feeling his consciousness gradually blurring...
"No!" Qi Tongwei roared in his heart. He tried desperately to get rid of the feeling of being controlled, but to no avail.
At this moment, the door of the metal room suddenly opened, and dazzling light shone in. Qi Tongwei closed his eyes instinctively, and a cold and majestic voice came to his ears: "Stop!"
Qi Tongwei tried to open his eyes and saw a woman wearing a black windbreaker and sunglasses standing at the door. She was tall and slender, with a cold temperament, like a sword drawn from its sheath, exuding a dangerous aura.
"Lin Yao!" Liang Lu turned around suddenly, her eyes glowed red, and she spat out two words through gritted teeth.
"How dare you betray me!" Lin Yao looked at Liang Lu coldly, with a hint of murderous intent in her eyes.
"Betrayal?" Liang Lu laughed out loud as if she had heard a joke. "I have never been your puppet! I am only carrying out the will of the Garden of Eden!"
"How dare you!" Lin Yao shouted angrily. She flashed in front of Liang Lu and chopped at her neck with a knife.
Liang Lu was prepared. She dodged Lin Yao's attack by leaning sideways and punched Lin Yao in the chest at the same time.
"boom!"
With a dull thud, two powerful energies collided in the narrow space, bursting out with dazzling light, illuminating the entire metal room like daylight.
Qi Tongwei was stunned by this sudden change. He stared at the scene in front of him in amazement, as if he was watching a science fiction movie, but it felt extremely real.
"You...you guys..." Qi Tongwei pointed at Lin Yao and Liang Lu, wanting to say something but didn't know where to start.
Lin Yao and Liang Lu turned to look at Qi Tongwei at the same time, with a complicated look in their eyes.
"Qi Tongwei," Lin Yao spoke first, her voice cold and majestic, "You should make a choice. Do you choose to believe me or this traitor?"
"Choose?" Qi Tongwei was stunned for a moment, looking at the two women in front of him, one cold and noble, the other cold and weird. What exactly is the "Garden of Eden" they are talking about? And who is he?
Just as Qi Tongwei was lost and confused, the lights in the metal room suddenly flickered, and the piercing alarm sounded again. A cold mechanical synthesized voice echoed in the room: "Warning! Warning! System failure! Self-destruction program activated..."
The shrill alarm sounded in Qi Tongwei's ears, but he did not feel the slightest fear, but instead felt an inexplicable excitement. He was like a wild animal that had been imprisoned for too long and finally smelled the scent of freedom.
"Choose? Hahaha..." Qi Tongwei suddenly burst into laughter, his laughter full of sarcasm and disdain, "Who do you think you are? God? You asked me to choose between two crazy women?"
Lin Yao and Liang Lu were both shocked by Qi Tongwei's sudden arrogance. They had never seen such an arrogant experimental subject.