Chapter 360 The Beautiful Professor's Love and Career 23
Chapter 360 The Beautiful Professor's Love and Career 23
Inside the medical ward, the strong smell of disinfectant felt like sharp needles, pricking Yun Suisi's temples and causing a throbbing sensation.
He slowly opened his eyes to the monotonous and disturbing buzzing of the heart monitor.
As soon as my gaze focused, it met Jun Lique's figure leaning against the door, as if he had returned from hell.
Jun Li Que's military uniform jacket was covered with ice shards, like a layer of frost. His chin was covered with bluish-gray stubble, making him look particularly weathered. The electronic eye covering his left eye was still bleeding. He looked like a demon that had crawled out of the polar abyss, exuding a chilling aura.
"You're still alive."
Jun Sui's cold voice came from the next bed. His finger had already quietly pressed on the hidden pulse gun, his whole body tense and full of vigilance.
Jun Lique seemed oblivious, the laser blade on the robotic arm still dripping blue blood droplets.
He casually flicked his wrist, the movement conveying a sense of nonchalance yet revealing an overwhelming weariness.
"When the self-destruct sequence of the Antarctic underground city had seven minutes left, I hacked into the Ark's main control console."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and activated the holographic projection. In an instant, countless green dots filled the entire ward, like twinkling stars in the night sky.
"All 321 people will be recalled according to the last list you uploaded."
Upon hearing this, Yun Suisi abruptly sat up, the IV tubing leaving deep, bloody marks on his pale skin, but he paid no heed, his voice urgent and trembling:
"Ran Cang's biocode has been added to the final list!"
No matching signal was detected.
Jun Li Que's prosthetic eye flashed with a string of complex code. He frowned slightly, his tone revealing doubt.
"unless......"
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly froze. The mechanical arm tightened instinctively, crushing the metal door frame with a creaking sound.
"You used the quantum entanglement protocol?"
Upon hearing this, Jun Sui abruptly raised his gun, pointing it directly at Jun Lique, his eyes filled with scrutiny and questioning:
"You implanted a neural chip in Ran Cang?"
"It was the old man who did it!"
Jun Li Que was excited. He ripped open his collar, revealing the chip slot with scorch marks on his collarbone.
"Three years ago, during her surgery on the chromosomal glands, they implanted a locator in her medulla oblongata!"
As he spoke, his mechanical fingers suddenly pierced his cervical spine with a fierce motion, pulling out half of a charred chip, which still had some black paste on it.
"But I cut off all [the escape routes] before I detonated Antarctica..."
As Yun Suisi listened to their conversation, a sudden, sharp pain shot through his head, as if it were about to explode.
A golden gene chain slowly appeared on his retina; it was the same image he had captured last night when he etched the DNA pattern of the stained blue into the quantum cloud.
Memories flooded back; a second before the incubation chamber exploded, the girl mouthed words to him through the bulletproof glass:
"Brother, let me be the key."
"It's not a locator..."
Yun Suisi suddenly realized what was happening, staggered towards the control panel, and frantically operated the controls, pulling up the last images from the Arctic monitoring station.
Amidst the blizzard, the protective suit, shrouded in clouds, was quantizing, becoming ethereal and elusive.
The virus culture dish she held in her hand reflected the outline of the stargate, dreamlike yet shrouded in endless danger.
"It's a jump beacon! They used Rancang as an anchor point to activate it..."
Before the words were finished, the ward suddenly plunged into darkness, so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
Jun Li Que's mechanical eyes emitted arcs of electricity that flickered in the darkness.
At the same time, a rumbling tremor came from the direction of Antarctica, as if the earth was roaring angrily.
Everyone looked out the window and saw the aurora borealis twisting into a double helix in the sky, both eerie and magnificent.
Jun Sui's gaze slowly shifted to the glowing gene suture scar on Yun Suisi's chest, his voice low but filled with shock:
"Your heart rate is resonating with the stargate—Ran Cang is using his life to maintain the passage!"
Jun Sui's gaze remained fixed on Yun Suisi's chest.
The icy touch felt like it was piercing straight through his chest, making Yun Suisi's heart clench.
Just when the tension was at its peak, the holographic projection in the ward started automatically without warning.
In an instant, a blinding light illuminated the entire ward.
The father's face twisted and deformed in the quantum ripples, like a demon from the abyss, exuding an indescribable eeriness and sinister aura.
Behind him, a huge gene-editing chamber could be vaguely seen. Inside, the lights were dim, and hundreds of clones that resembled Yun Suisi floated in nutrient solution, their limbs swaying slightly, as if they were about to wake up at any moment. The scene was chilling.
"The game is over."
The voice of the sovereign came from the projection, cold and arrogant. His fingertips tapped lightly on the glass of the incubation chamber, making a "tap-tap" sound, like sharp fingernails scratching a blackboard, which made one's teeth ache.
"If I don't see you kneeling at the gate of the Jun family manor within three hours, I will upload all the genetic data of the 'Ark Project' to satellites around the world."
He paused, a cold smile playing on his lips.
"Including Yun Suisi's cloning map, and..."
His hands moved quickly across the control panel, and the screen switched to the monitoring feed.
Yun Rancang, whose body was covered in tubes, was being quantized in the blue light of the star gate. Her body became illusory and transparent, with flickering light and shadow, and her face was full of pain and struggle.
Upon seeing this scene, Yun Suisi's eyes instantly turned bloodshot, and his eye sockets almost burst open.
Suddenly, golden arcs of electricity burst from the gene suture scar, crackling and popping.
The electronic equipment in the entire medical pod was overloaded by the powerful current, emitting a sharp alarm and flashing lights as if the end of the world was imminent.
Jun Li Que's mechanical eyes flashed a dangerous red light. He clenched his teeth, and the muscles on his face were tense with anger.
He suddenly plunged the virus sampler into his carotid artery, and blood flowed down his neck, dripping onto the ground.
"That old bastard has implanted a countermeasure program in my spine, you guys get out!"
He roared, his voice hoarse with pain and anger.
"late."
Jun Sui smiled bitterly, his smile filled with helplessness and sorrow.
He suddenly ripped open the lining of his suit, revealing a dense array of biochips embedded in his skin, shimmering with an eerie light.
“From the moment we receive the gene stitching, every cell becomes his monitor.”
He spoke slowly, grasping Yun Suisi's trembling hand, turning the gun towards his own temple with a gentle yet resolute gesture.
"But some protocols cannot be cracked even by quantum computers."
His gaze was firm and fervent as he looked at Yun Suisi, as if conveying some silent conviction.
"We cannot let him succeed, even if it costs us our lives."
Thick rain poured down like a torrential downpour. Under the Baroque archway of the Jun family manor, Yun Suisi stood, his soaked white coat clinging to his body, raindrops dripping from the hem and splashing on the ground.
His gaze was fixed on the bronze gene chain sculpture in the center of the fountain, his eyes filled with doubt and shock.
As his gaze focused, he suddenly discovered that countless miniature cryogenic chambers were densely embedded within those intertwined double helixes.
Through the transparent hull, a boy who looked just like him was sleeping inside each hull.
Their faces were serene, as if they had simply fallen into a deep sleep, yet were imprisoned in this cold cabin, exuding an indescribable eeriness.
"Where exactly is this place, and what are all these things?"
Yun Suisi murmured softly, his voice muffled by the sound of rain, but unable to conceal his inner unease.
"Welcome home."
A soft yet chilling voice came from behind.
Yun Suisi turned around abruptly and saw a woman in a dark red cheongsam gracefully walking out from the rose bushes.
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