Tendon Splitting and Bone Breaking (Part 2)

  "The guard squad is out of tact."

  Assistant Anna said in a deep voice:

  "The life signals of security teams A-12 and C-03 have also disappeared. Even the guards with military equipment have been wiped out, which shows that the enemy is ing with determination to root out our humanitarian anization... Should we tinue? If we retreat now—"

  "No! We 't trahe patients again. Many are bedridden and will die on the way."

  The professor shook her head:

  "How is Nurse Nordley doing?"

  "The White Fang gang has a special Level 4 ied who released a shadow impact that destroyed nearby eleic equipment... Currently, we don't have specific details."

  "That's really uling... Anna, do we have any spare forces left without calling up the third floor?"

  "Almost none." Assistant Anna checked the information and gave a pessimisticlusion: "The White Fang gang has too many people. If it weren't for their reluce to destroy the shelter's facilities with heavy firepower, theoretically, we should have fallen 20 minutes ago."

  During their versation, there was an urgent kno the office dain:

  "Professor, the first floor is about to fall! Please transfer quickly—Argh! Ugh—"

  The sound of a bde peing flesh abruptly stopped the urging voice, followed by the dull thud of blunt force trauma and the shattering of bones, apanied by cursing and maniacal ughter.

  The office fell silent.

  Despite the enemy being at the door, Assistant Anna saw no trace of pani the professor's ageless face.

  "Hmph... how pathetic."

  The professor was silent for a moment, then couldn't help but ugh:

  "I thought they would e for my life. To kill me—at least it should be a college graduate, right? But now, Anna, it seems I might die at the hands of a bunch of illiterates and scum."

  "Professor, we still have time to leave, and the third floor —"

  "I won't leave, nor will I activate anything ohird floor. That is... humanity's treasure. I absolutely ot let it be ruined by a bunch of filthy, insidious bottom-dwellers. If I am to die, then it means the so-called gods have allowed these secrets to be buried with me forever."

  The professor opened a drawer and took out a handgun. She removed the magazine and, in front of Assistant Anna, loaded two bullets. She hahe gun to Assistant Anna:

  "I don't have the ce to end myself... Anna, if they break in, I'll leave it to you."

  Assistant Anna's gaze was plicated. As she instinctively took the gun, she realized how heavy this cold on was.

  For a person's wrist, it was a one-pound iron block, but for a life, it seemed overly light, because it was a one-pound iron block.

  "I won't shoot... Professor." Anna didn't realize her voice was trembling, her vision blurring slightly: "And I 't possibly shoot you... I'm just a doctor."

  "Anna, do you remember the teags from your training?"

  The professaze softened as she pced her hand on Anna's crystalline hand, gently saying:

  "This world doesn't just have humans; there are viruses, bacteria, parasites, beasts carrying pathogens, patient zero... Sometimes you have no choice. To prevent disaster, just like tumor removal and ial surgery, you must bring great pain to the patient, even beyond their limit, to remove the disease."

  "If you want to save a life, you must be prepared to take another."

  Bang!

  The door was heavily struck, and the White Fang gang members were trying to break through this st line of defense.

  Assistant Anna trembled untrolbly, no longer maintaining her usual ess, instead gazing at the professor with tearful eyes, like a child, her lips trembling:

  "Will you always remember me, Professor?"

  Thud!

  The White Fang gang shouted outside the door:

  "Set up the posite explosives, damn it, blow the door open!"

  Anna g to the professor's warm hand like a frightened you.

  "I will."

  The professor brushed Anna's hair, gently saying:

  "Those who dedicate themselves to humanitarianism will be remembered by civilization."

  Outside, the gang members shouted:

  "Prepare for the bst, clear the area—three!"

  Anna murmured: "…forever."

  The professor buried her head in Anna's embrace, the wri her eyes slowly smoothing out. She closed her eyes, gently strokiudent's hair.

  "Two!"

  "Who! Who's there?"

  Anna, seemingly resolute, stood up, unlocked the safety, and aimed the gun at the professor's forehead, her finger slowly resting origger. The professor, full of passion, quietly awaited the upis.

  "One! Argh—what the hell is this! I 't stand!"

  At the moment the detonation button ressed, the gang members experienced an unpreted impact.

  Beep beep beep—boom!

  Electrodes activated the detonators, and the pstic-ed pound rapidly expanded, releasing a sweeping bst of gas a. The powerful kiiergy instantly tore apart the door structure, melting and dist it in the high temperature.

  Time seemed to slow down tless times at this moment. Before the gang members could react, a figure fell with the explosion's sound wave. Flying wood chips, iron scraps, and human bodies had a uniform dire—upwards!

  Gravitational Inversion!

  In his gray eyes, golden rings shone as Li Aozi nded heavily. He silently released the ied gravitational field, using the explosion's momentum to send all the White Fang gang members smashing into the ceiling. Their heads struck the steel dome, necks like swords pierg their skulls or ly breaking.

  Many lost their bat effectiveness instantly, but Li Aozi didn't pn to let go of these experience bags.

  His psychic power wasn't enough for the remaining kills, so he threw three bdes, theracted the gravitational field. Twelve gang members fell instantly; three of them had their carotid arteries sliced, blood spraying like broken faucets, dreng the walls.

  "Argh—what kind of devil are you!"

  The White Fang gang members, disoriented and horrified, looked at Li Aozi.

  Li Aozi couldn't be bothered to ahe weak don't deserve a voice. He used the st of his psychic power to re-release the gravitational field, causing the gang members to lose bance again, being sucked into the abyss of the hallway.

  Gravitational Defle.

  Li Aozi stood calmly, watg the gang members desperately grab railings, walls, aal ets but still being dragged down the hallway.

  This hallway wasn't long, only about 30 meters.

  "Help!"

  "Save me!"

  Their screams just started before they crashed into the wall and door at the end. Thanks to their high levels ah, many didn't die on the spot.

  "Ha... I'm alive?"

  A gang member leaned against the wall, struggling to find his baer the gravity fluctuations. His arms were fractured, his body bruised and battered. He grihinking he was safe, calling to his remaining rades:

  "He's out of power, haha, now's the time, get him—"

  Bang!

  "Hahaha—who stop Lord Nomi now!"

  Before he fihe door behind him was kicked open. Nomi, swinging her wrench, ughed wildly as she knocked down the gang members, kig one and smashing another's skull with the wrench. White and red spttered like tofu with chili oil.

  g!

  "e oher it's those humanitarian scum or outside bandits, I'll crush you all, smash you to pieces!"

  Red and white covered her patient uniform, and the bandages couldn't hide her twisted, manic smile. The girl's wrench, drenched in the mix, lifted from the skull, her purple eye turning red-bck.

  Just like the ominous sky.