Mark was the first to rush into the dense smoke and dust!
The golden-red gaze instantly locked onto the center of the laboratory!
The huge space was filled with Vitrum instruments and broken culture tanks that flashed with strange light.
In the center of the laboratory, a huge cylindrical container made of dark purple crystals and energy pipes has been broken into pieces!
The madly squirming mass of dark purple old flesh imprisoned inside was now extending countless sticky tentacles, connecting to the body of a figure next to the container!
It's Alan!?
Didn't he return to the league?!
He was like a pathetic marionette, nailed to a Vitrum restraint frame.
Half of its body was covered in cold Vitrum alloy armor, but the armor was covered with dark purple veins, like parasitic vines.
The other half of the body was almost completely swallowed and fused by the dark purple, pulsating biological tissue!
His head was the most terrifying. Vitrum's helmet was forcibly torn, revealing half of his face. His eye was filled with extreme pain and a faint trace of clarity that belonged to Allen.
The other half of the face was completely replaced by a wriggling dark purple tumor covered with compound eyes!
Countless tentacles stretched out from behind the tumor and the restraint frame, connecting the broken container and the old pieces of meat inside!
He is the core node of the entire laboratory infection!
A planetary-scale source of pollution!
"Alan!!" Eve screamed heartbreakingly.
"Grayson..."
Alan's lips moved with difficulty on the half of his face that belonged to him, making a sound so weak that it was almost inaudible. His painful eyes stared at Mark, full of despair for help.
The tumorous compound eyes that occupied the other half of the face flashed with pure madness and hunger, and let out an inhuman scream mixed with Alan's voice.
"…Energy…Fusion…Evolution…Devouring!!!"
The countless dark purple tentacles connected to Allen suddenly tightened, and the spatial distortion in the laboratory instantly intensified! The ground shook violently!
The entire infected planet seemed to be trembling with the anger of the core!
More dark purple substances gushed out from the broken containers and cracks in the walls, pouncing on the intruders like living creatures!
The laboratory itself is the biggest infector!
"We must sever his connection to the old hunk of flesh! The core is... the fusion point between his head and chest!"
The robot shouted hurriedly. The scanning data was still chaotic, but physical observation and energy flow analysis could still be carried out.
Mark's eyes flashed with coldness, he saw it!
The connection between the tumor on Allen's head and the remaining brain, as well as the madly beating fusion core of the chest armor and biological tissue!
Those are two key nodes!
But if the attack is not careful, it may completely kill the remaining consciousness of Allen!
"Eve! Rudy! Clear out the miscellaneous soldiers! Give me three seconds!"
Mark's voice was as firm as steel.
"Leave it to me!"
Eve slammed her hands down on the ground, and the alloy floor of the laboratory seemed to come alive. Several twisted metal barriers rose up instantly, temporarily blocking the torrent of dark purple matter pouring in from all directions!
"Look at me!"
Rudy threw all the remaining high-powered bombs in his backpack towards the area where the flesh was most concentrated. A series of violent explosions temporarily cleared an area!
Three seconds! That's enough!
Mark's figure turned into a flash of light that tore through the air!
He ignored the dizziness caused by the spatial distortion, locked onto the two fatal nodes with his super senses, and instantly appeared beside Allen!
The five fingers of his left hand were like hooks, and he concentrated his strength to the extreme at his fingertips. Covered with high-frequency oscillating energy, he grabbed at the weakest fascia connecting the wildly pulsating tumor on Allen's head and the skull as fast as lightning!
Puff! Sizzle!
The high-frequency vibrating fingertips were like the sharpest scalpel, precisely cutting into the tough biological fascia, and dark purple mucus and broken tissues splattered!
Mark's arm muscles bulged and his strength burst out, forcibly severing most of the main nerve bundles and energy transmission tubes connecting the tumor and the old flesh!
"Ahhhh!!!"
Alan let out a scream so shrill that the entire laboratory shook!
At the moment when the sarcoma attack was hit, Mark's right fist was fully charged!
A blow that condenses all the strength, speed and quality of the whole body!
Go straight for the fusion core in Allen's chest that is beating wildly like a heart!
But he was not aiming at the core itself, but at the core edge, the ring structure where the armor and biological tissue were physically connected most tightly and most fragile!
Boom!!!!
Mark's fist, like a hammer from God, slammed hard on the key connecting ring, and the power poured in like a tsunami!
The Vitrum alloy ring twisted, deformed, and cracked in an instant, and the joints of the forcibly fused biological tissues were like rotten wood hit by a sledgehammer, instantly torn and shattered!
Sizzle——Boom!!!
The connecting ring completely shattered, and the fusion core lost its physical fixation and main energy input and output channels. The pulsating tumor core in Alan's chest instantly dimmed and shrank.
Countless dark purple tentacles connecting his body and the old pieces of flesh drooped and broke like cables that had lost power!
"Well…"
Alan's half of his face twitched in pain, and the eye filled with pain instantly lost all its luster and became empty, but the madness and pollution in it also faded away.
His broken body was like a puppet with its strings completely cut, slumped on the restraint frame, with only intermittent breaths of life remaining.
The old piece of flesh lost the connection to its core node, emitting a more manic but weak scream, and the tentacles that emerged became chaotic and disordered.
"It succeeded! But Alan..." Eve choked up as she looked at Alan's miserable condition.
"Medical Bay! Now!"
Mark's voice was filled with unquestionable urgency. He tore off the lock of the restraint frame and picked up Alan's broken and almost weightless body.
What was within reach was cold, broken metal, hot, sticky, necrotic tissue, and a heartbeat so faint it was almost imperceptible.
"Walk!"
Mark held Allen and rushed towards the entrance like a golden lightning!
Eve and Rudy followed closely behind, using their last bit of strength to stop the pursuers.
Boom boom boom!!!
The moment they rushed out of the laboratory, the explosives preset by Rudy were detonated remotely, and violent flames and energy shock waves gushed upwards along the huge ventilation duct!
The entire experimental area planet was like a lit powder keg, with chain explosions occurring one after another. The honeycomb-shaped alloy structure on the planet's surface was twisted and collapsed in the explosion!
The suffocating malicious whispers that permeated the entire planet were finally torn open in the explosion that destroyed the core!
The Ark had long since escaped the planet's gravity and was suspended at a safe distance, watching the completely infected planet gradually disintegrate and collapse in the flames of self-destruction.
The atmosphere in the bridge was solemn.
Alan was immediately placed in the medical cabin in the core of the ship, which was flashing with soft blue light. Countless tiny nano-robotic arms and energy conduits were connected to his broken body, and the life support system was running at full capacity.
A powerful biological gel was injected into the wound, low-temperature hibernation was forced into action, the neural inhibition field was at maximum power to stabilize the consciousness on the verge of collapse, and the physical filtration system frantically removed necrotic tissue and residual dark purple contaminated mucus.
"Vital signs... are extremely weak. The Vitrum energy reactor core is damaged, with over 85% of biological tissue necrosis. The nervous system has suffered deep erosion and physical damage."
"The medical bay's life support system is being physically sealed in its current state... The probability of reversal... is less than 0.7%."
The robot's cold report was like a verdict.
"Hold on to his life! As long as he's still breathing!"
Mark looked at the body in the medical cabin that looked like a broken porcelain doll, his voice low and firm.
His battle suit was torn, and his body was stained with dark purple stains and monster blood, but his eyes were still as sharp as a knife.
"Commander," the robot continued.
"Before the lab exploded, I forcibly downloaded some uncontaminated core data fragments through a physical interface. These included fragments of experimental logs, fragments of Vitrum's old research archive, and...key information on Nolan Grayson's whereabouts."
"He arrived 15 Vitrum days ago, took away the core experimental data and a sample codenamed 'Stellar Core Fragment-7', and left!"
"The destination is Vitrum Prime! In addition, the data fragment contains an emergency alert. The uncontrolled infection in the experimental area... may not be an isolated case."
"Old pollution has strong environmental adaptability and cross-species transmission, especially in areas with resonances of stellar core fragments or high-energy war trauma."
Nolan, the home planet of Vitrum!
"Star Core Fragment-7"!
New crisis warning!
Mark's gaze turned to the cold and powerful Vitrum main star in the star map, then to Allen who was in the medical cabin, relying only on technology to maintain a trace of life, and finally fell on the image of the earth.
"Send the Old Day Node model, infection alert data, Allen's physiological data and contamination samples, with the highest level of encryption, to Samson and the GDA."
Mark's voice was filled with iron-blooded determination.
"Order the Earth Guard to prioritize locating and monitoring all potential Old Ones nodes and establish an energy suppression field!"
"Highest alert level, to prevent an outbreak similar to the one in the Vitrum test area! At the same time, mobilize all resources to study Allen's data! Find a treatment plan! The rear must not collapse until we resolve the source!"
"Understood. The data and samples have been sent."
"Now."
Mark's eyes were like a hawk locking onto its prey, firmly fixed on the main star of Vitrum.
"Target, Vitrum Prime, let's put an end to this! Find Nolan! Find the 'stellar core fragment'! And find a little hope for Allen's survival!"
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