Nuobai saw Su Mo pierced through, eyes full of shock, struggling to rush forward.
Alote casually flung the bloody Su Mo away, tossing him aside.
He turned and swung his bone claw, striking directly at Nuobai.
Nuobai flew uncontrollably backward, the blood spurting from her body forming a line, shattering into increasingly tiny blood droplets in the air.
"Boom!" She crashed heavily against the rear wall, the sound of bones fracturing emanating from within her body, the blood splattering from the wound forming a large, spreading stain on the wall.
Her body slid down the wall, leaving a shocking trail of blood, sitting paralyzed, unable to get up again.
"Huff... huff... cough, cough..." Her scattered pupils were half-open, half-closed, blood foam continuously bubbling from her mouth and nose with her coughs and gasps, staining her originally pale skin crimson.
Alote walked over, looking down at the battered Nuobai with a face full of sarcasm.
He sneered, "Should have handed over the person sooner, right? Given you a way out but you insisted on jumping to your death. Look at you now, you look like a fool."
Alote, devoid of any pity, drove his bone claw through Nuobai's waist and abdomen.
"Pshh!" Blood spurted out, staining the wall and ground red.
"Die." Alote's bone claw expanded, ready to rip Nuobai's body apart, completing the final kill.
In this split second of life and death, time seemed infinitely extended, the sound of Nuobai's body tearing apart kept ringing, even the trajectory of the blood spurt became extraordinarily clear.
Just as Alote thought he held all the winning cards, he suddenly noticed something bizarre.
Nuobai clearly couldn't possibly resist him anymore.
Her body was at its limit, let alone continue fighting, she didn't even have the strength to struggle.
She was about to be torn apart.
But who knew, her scattered pupils suddenly focused, coldly staring at him, the deep abyss reflecting in those pitch-black eyes.
Alote, who had served in the Razor Team for so many years, had dealt with dozens, hundreds of enemies, seen too many people facing death.
Some cried, some screamed, others remained silent, some broke down hysterically...
But never had he seen such an extremely cold gaze like Nuobai's.
This wasn't a look facing death...
Those eyes were like a wolf staring at its caught prey, reflecting a chilling fierceness.
This seemed to tell him—you are finished.
Without warning, an unprecedented sense of oppression rose from behind Alote.
"Ding!" Almost simultaneously, before Alote could react, Nuobai reversed the blade to stab back, the Tang Blade piercing through Alote's bone claw and her own body, pinning him firmly against the wall.
Alote was horrified.
She actually still had some strength left!
Alote's only hand was pinned and couldn't move, with no way to escape.
He incredulously looked back and saw a pair of eyes filled with madness.
Su Mo, somehow having rushed over again, with the previously impaled wound in his abdomen having clotted and scabbed, more than halfway healed.
As a Blood Code Carrier of the Hegemony Company, Alote was all too familiar with this kind of recovery power.
This was unmistakably the power of the Crimson Rose Blood Code!
But how was this possible?!
A researcher, how could they have a Blood Code within them??!!
Alote desperately exerted force to withdraw his bone claw, but Nuobai's Tang Blade pinned it too deeply, her hands firmly holding the hilt to prevent its withdrawal, completely constraining him.
"Thump!" A violent heartbeat sounded from inside Su Mo, as the already fused "Ancestral Blood Code" activated.
The black mark on his chest began to roil, countless black tendrils branching out, converging along his arm to form a spiked shape, akin to a bloodthirsty sword.
Alote's eyes reflected the black sword, with nowhere to hide, only able to let out an unwilling roar.
"Psh!!!"
Su Mo's fist thrust upward into Alote's body, piercing between the gaps of his ribs from his waist, the black sword piercing straight through the beating heart.
Su Mo grinned ferociously, returning the previous taunt: "Didn't your mother ever teach you to finish off your downed enemies?!"
This was the plan that Su Mo and Nuobai had discussed.
The two first pretended to disagree, to disrupt Alote's judgment.
Then Su Mo feigned an attack, executing the initial deceptive sneak attack, intentionally failing and getting pierced.
In Alote's eyes, Su Mo was merely a researcher, frail and weak, with his body pierced by the bone claw, impossible to stand up again.
In this way, Alote's attention would be fully focused on Nuobai.
However, in reality, Su Mo's body had long been enhanced by the "Crimson Rose Blood Code," able to barely withstand such an injury, secretly healing while lying on the ground and waiting for the opportunity.
Finally, as long as Nuobai lured Alote to the wall to swing the bone claw, then used the Tang Blade to pin his one remaining hand, stripping away his evasive abilities, Su Mo could execute the second, true sneak attack from behind.
This plan might have had uncontrollable variables, but they no longer mattered now.
In a seemingly certain death situation, the only way was to be reborn from death.
The two of them succeeded.
"Ah!!!!" Alote screamed miserably, the tendrils extending from the black sword wrapping his heart, wreaking havoc within, devouring his flesh.
As the flesh containing genetic fragments was consumed by the Ancestral Blood Code, Su Mo could feel a strange power entering his body.
That was the "Mad Corpse Blood Code"!
Alote's Blood Code had been swallowed into his body!
From this moment on, Su Mo possessed the power of both the Mad Corpse and Crimson Rose Blood Codes within him!
Su Mo certainly didn't want the taunt he'd just thrown out to come back to haunt him, quickly continuing the finishing blow.
He frantically churned his fist within Alote's body, destroying vital organs.
This process wasn't easy, after all, in his previous life, Su Mo was just a gaming enthusiast, and killing in a game isn't the same as doing it in real life.
The sensation of tearing flesh made Su Mo's stomach churn, making him want to vomit, but in the face of survival instincts, he suppressed it all.
While destroying Alote's body, Su Mo suddenly felt something hard.
It was angular, very regular, obviously not a human organ or bone, but some foreign object implanted in the body!
In a flash, Su Mo saw Alote's twisted, deathly crazed eyes.
Su Mo realized with a shock, quickly throwing Alote aside, rushing to Nuobai: "Pull out the blade quickly! There's a bomb inside him!!!"
Nuobai was instantly drenched in cold sweat.
With Su Mo's help, she pulled out both the Tang Blade and bone claw from her body, kicking Alote aside before escaping to a safer distance.
Just as the two reached cover, their vision was immediately covered by a strong light.
"Boom—"
The bomb inside Alote exploded, flames bursting skyward, the immense force causing cracks and chasms in the walls and ceiling, and the entire underground space trembled.
Su Mo hadn't expected Alote to be so insane, implanting a bomb within himself and self-destructing when near death.
He looked at the collapsing ceiling and quickly grabbed the genetic compiling protein beside the cover, pulling Nuobai up: "Run! It's collapsing!!!"