Those runes flickered endlessly in their rotation!
One line lit up, then another dimmed!
[>> invokeFatal_Error(target.core_thread) ON (timeline == designated.TTL)]
And the collar itself…
Was constantly expanding and contracting in the flicker of code!
Expanding again, then contracting again!
Those dense, packed symbols and letters slid past his vision at high speed!
Line after line!
[>> if(intervention.detected == TRUE) reroute_causality(seed = random)]
[>> if(reroute_limit < 3) retry]
[>> else override_safety_protocol()]
Fang Qi felt…
His eyes were unbearably dry!
For some reason…
Those codes were incredibly clear to his eyes!
Even as they flew past at lightning speed, he could still see them!
But…
What the hell was all this?!
He could see them…
But he couldn’t understand them!
Those glowing runes swirled around the necks of the two women in a slow, circling motion!
With each contraction, the collar tightened again around their throats!
Making An Lian’s brow furrow deeper, and Lin Xiaoyou’s lips press even whiter!
With each expansion, the collar swelled until it almost detached from their skin, giving him a fleeting glimpse of the faint red marks left on their throats.
[[LOG] Incident_#445_AnLian: fallback_activated = TRUE]
[[LOG] Incident_#450_LinYou: fallback_activated = TRUE]
This…?!
“Mmph…!”
Suddenly, a stifled groan came from Liguang beside him!
…?!
Fang Qi whipped his head around!
“Shhh…”
Above the silver-haired girl’s head, a wisp of white smoke had once again appeared!
That thin, white vapor rose from the gaps between her silver strands!
Thicker and more urgent than the last time!
But in her amber eyes, the blue glow didn’t weaken—it blazed even brighter!
She was pushing harder!
In an instant, the amber pupils flared with intense light!
Once again, they suppressed the collars around the two women’s necks!
His wife was working hard…!
Then he couldn’t…!
Fang Qi spun his head back sharply, staring at Lin Xiaoyou and An Lian again!
Lin Xiaoyou seemed…
Pretty relaxed.
She had her eyes half-closed, her head slightly lowered.
At that moment, her neck was circled by glowing blue code.
But there wasn’t a trace of fear in her almond-shaped eyes.
She was lightly raising an eyebrow, gazing at the blue collar around her neck as it kept contracting and expanding.
Her expression…
Was almost a little serious?
She even tilted her head slightly, squinting as she observed.
Fang Qi’s mouth twitched involuntarily!
This girl…!
On the other side, An Lian was completely different!
She saw it too!
Saw the code that had suddenly appeared and was spinning around her neck!
Those usually cold, grey eyes were now wider than ever before!
Shaken so badly that her pupils trembled faintly!
Her lips parted as if she wanted to say something, but it was clear she couldn’t make a sound!
The blue collar tightening around her neck was preventing her from speaking!
Her body was frozen stiff!
She trembled slightly, as if wanting to struggle, but…
She was pinned to the spot, unable even to lift her hand!
Only her eyes were still alive, staring in disbelief at the blue runes coiled around her neck!
Watching them…
Spin round and round.
Flicker on and off.
Fang Qi’s breathing grew heavy.
So…
What now…?!
He couldn’t read those codes.
Really couldn’t!
A mess—what even was this?!
These bizarre scribbles were like a foreign language to him!
He was just a guy who played galgames, not a programmer!
But…
He forced his breathing steady!
One thing he knew very clearly:
These codes formed that collar!
And right now, they were still wrapped around An Lian and Lin Xiaoyou’s necks!
Contracting!
Expanding!
Fighting against the blue glow in Liguang’s amber eyes!
And Liguang was battling it!
His wife’s head was steaming, her core overloaded, buying him a chance to act!
And him…
Ah!
His eyelids twitched.
That feeling grew stronger.
A certainty surged from the deepest, lowest layer of his consciousness!
A long-buried memory fragment suddenly surfaced in his mind!
…He could do it.
He knew with absolute clarity…
He… could… do… it!
He stared hard at that stream of data expanding and contracting in midair!
Contract, expand, contract, expand…!
The whole space flickered with blue light!
The collar, held back by the blue glow in Liguang’s amber eyes, was being forced outward!
The narrow ring that had been tight against their throats expanded wider and wider…
Gradually becoming a blue halo floating just above their skin!
Ten centimeters…
Fifteen centimeters…!
Beside him, the silver-haired girl was trembling slightly!
It was Liguang!
It was his wife working hard!
Using her power to force the collar open!
And that circling stream of blue code, at that moment…
Spread apart even further!
Grew looser still!
…N—ow!!
Fang Qi’s pupils contracted!
His hands shot out in an instant!!
Straight toward those two blue data-stream rings, now expanded to their maximum…
He grabbed them directly!
That’s right—he reached out and grabbed!
“COME OUT!!!”
Another fierce shout rang out!
At the same time, the blue light beside him flared intensely for a split second!
In the corner of his vision, Liguang’s previously calm expression flashed with obvious panic!
“A—!”
Her slender hand shot up from her side!
Instinctively, she moved to stop him!
To grab his hands back!
But her movements were just a half-beat too slow.
Her core was fully focused on suppressing the two collars.
Most of her processing power was locked in combat with the code collars!
Her physical reactions were delayed by a fraction of a second.
Her outstretched hand brushed past Fang Qi’s wrist, her fingertips grazing the skin there…
She missed!
And Fang Qi’s hands…
Grabbed hold!
He seized both blue data-stream collars!
In that instant, he felt an incredibly strange, spine-tingling sensation!
A very peculiar feeling.
He didn’t know how to describe it.
It was like…
Fingers passing through a layer of warm water?
Or like…
Touching a magnetic field that was faintly vibrating?
Whatever it was…
He… had… caught… them!
Both hands had caught them!
He confirmed it with absolute clarity!
There was something solid, real, right in his palms!
Yes, his feeling wasn’t wrong.
The threads of fate…
So it could be touched after all!!
His arms suddenly exerted force!
All ten fingers tightened at once!
He gripped the two still-expanding data stream rings tightly…
“Give it…”
He yanked them back with all his might!!
“Come out!!!”
He let out a low growl!!
“Ugh…!”
“Ah…!”
An Lian and Lin Xiaoyou both let out muffled grunts!
An Lian’s entire body shook violently!
Her feet, which had been frozen in place, finally regained movement!
She stumbled half a step backward!
Lin Xiaoyou, meanwhile, threw her head back sharply!
Her ponytail whipped fiercely behind her, her almond eyes wide open!
“—!”
Fang Qi seemed to hear something.
Like the sound of something… breaking?
And then, the next second—
A dazzling dark blue light burst forth again!
But this time, it erupted from the two women’s necks!
Those two data stream collars…
Shattered under his fingers!!
They broke apart, scattering everywhere!
Dark blue light fragments flew in all directions!
Code shards, transformed into countless tiny glowing threads, exploded outward from around the two women’s necks!
Like two shattered dark blue fireworks, flickering and fading in midair!
Fang Qi instantly held his breath!
His heart pounded for a moment!
…Shattered!
Really shattered!
Success…?!
“Ahhh—!!”
Lin Xiaoyou suddenly threw her head back sharply!!
Her ponytail swung wildly behind her!
Her almond eyes shot wide open, pupils trembling violently!
Fang Qi: “?!”
“Ugh—!”
An Lian also trembled violently all over!
Her shoulders jerked suddenly, her entire body stiffening as if hit by an electric current, and then…
Her usually cold gray eyes now showed unprecedented horror!
Her lips trembled, and her hands instinctively rose, trying to grasp something…!
The next second—
Dark blue light also burst from both women’s eyes!
Fang Qi: “?!”
What?!
How are you two like Liguang too…
Then, his heart suddenly stopped!
No…!
He saw…
A thread of dark blue light trickled from the corner of An Lian’s left eye!
Like a glowing teardrop, it drifted out, transforming into dense rows of dark blue characters!
Lin Xiaoyou was the same!
Her almond eyes were now wide, and dark blue light threads also drifted from the corners of her eyes!
No…
No!!
Fang Qi’s pupils contracted!
It wasn’t just their eyes!
From both women’s eyes, mouths, noses…
Dark blue code began to overflow!!
More light threads seeped out from under their noses and the edges of their mouths!
Thread after thread, wisp after wisp…
Forming an increasingly dense code storm between them!
This was…!
“Aqi…!”
Beside him, Liguang’s slightly trembling voice suddenly rang out!
Fang Qi jolted!
He turned his head sharply!
…?!
Liguang wasn’t looking at him.
She was still staring at An Lian and Lin Xiaoyou, the dark blue light in her amber eyes growing brighter!
The white smoke above her head grew thicker too!
“They…!”
But she still struggled to speak!
One hand gripped the hem of his clothes tightly!
“Their ‘souls’ are being pulled out too…!!!”
Fang Qi: “…?!”
Souls…
Wait…
Souls?!
He jerked his head around!
Staring at the dark blue curtain of light surging from the two women’s faces!
Indeed!
These were souls being pulled out!
Just like… Gu Xi’s situation?
Ah…
His gaze froze.
Gu Xi’s situation…?
…I’m familiar with this.
This I damn well am familiar with!!
If the soul’s out, then…
His body moved before his mind, taking a deep breath!
His chest expanded to its limit!
He sucked in air until his lungs ached!
Then—
“All of you, get—!”
“Back inside!!!!!”
He roared again!!
Stop it now!!
Stop running!
Go back!!
Fang Qi glared at the curtain of light!!
Then…
One eyelid twitched sharply!
That dark blue curtain of light, still surging from the two women’s faces…
Froze instantly!!
It stopped!
Sure enough, his shout had halted it!
The dark blue code threads that were spilling out, swirling, and interweaving, all froze in the air!
The glowing tear track flowing from An Lian’s eye still hung on her cheek.
Lin Xiaoyou’s face, the spinning code storm around her, also held its last pose.
The entire space…
Seemed frozen in time.
Then the next second—
A blinding flash burst again before his eyes!
Fang Qi squinted, momentarily dazzled by the glare!
He saw them all surge back wildly in their original direction!!
Into the two women’s lips, eye corners, and sides of noses—a frantic rush back!
Everything…
Took less than half a second.
In the air, not even a trace of dark blue light remained.
Fang Qi held his breath.
Did it… work?
He looked at An Lian unsteadily.
An Lian’s gray eyes, in the instant the code rushed back…
Lost their focus.
Her body swayed, and then…
She crumpled softly backward.
Fang Qi: “…!”
He watched as An Lian slumped silently onto the cold floor; his eyes unfocused for a moment!
Lin Xiaoyou was the same.
She stumbled forward, her knees hitting the floor first…
Then her body collapsed softly.
Her unbound ponytail spread across the ground.
Meanwhile, a flash of silver tilted to the side!
“Liguang…!”
He whirled around!
Stretching out both hands, he caught her just as she was about to fall, pulling her into his arms!
The silver-haired girl’s body was as soft as a cotton ball without any bones.
The dazzling dark blue in her amber eyes was fading rapidly!
Her suppressed red pupils twitched faintly a couple of times.
She looked up at him slightly, lips parted, her gaze somewhat…
Gentle?
“Beep.”
A soft sound.
[Power depleted]
Fang Qi stared at her blankly, holding her.
Her eyes slowly closed, her lashes trembling one last time…
Then she fell completely still in his arms.
On her earlobe, the little plastic star quietly rested against his wrist.
The corridor fell silent.
An Lian was collapsed against the wall not far away.
Lin Xiaoyou lay face down on the floor in front of the gene lock door.
Fang Qi knelt in this stillness, holding the sleeping silver-haired girl in his arms.
Staring at her in a daze.
Everyone had fallen.
Only he was still awake.
But…
Huh?
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
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