30. What is a human being (15)
The girl's face was full of delightful, endearing smiles.
The smile bathed in blood and violence seemed calm, almost intoxicating.
Like a saint who is about to ascend to the altar to be martyred;
It's like a group of crazy believers, even if they are crushed and desperate to throw themselves into the idol.
Valrhona smiled briskly, straight, straight, like a light splitting through the darkness and rushing towards Li Lin.
Generally speaking, it will be considered a self-defeating jade smash charge, or an attempt to overwhelm the opponent with momentum, and the side that bears this decisive assault will either sprinkle a dense network of firepower to intercept the enemy, or it will be difficult to withstand the huge mental pressure, and immediately turn around and flee, or have a nervous breakdown on the spot.
Li Lin knows very well that when human beings are desperate for their lives, there must be something planned behind it.
This tactic is known as "striking the west".
"Remarkable. β
An admiration of unknown meaning rang out, and at the same time golden ripples bloomed in front and to the left. At the other end of the wall, where even the gods could only sigh, in addition to Valrhona, who gritted her teeth, there was also a girl covered in carapace, with six pairs of arthropods growing from the waist down, and carrying a giant V-2 missile in both hands, glaring at her viciously. Under the roaring light of the rocket's tail flame, on the only face that could still distinguish human features, the three pairs of newly added compound eyes distributed next to the original eyes were releasing a fierce gaze comparable to flames.
"To be able to achieve results beyond expectations in something that I have already anticipated, you are really a very good mother, and if you can successfully conceive, you will definitely be able to give birth to an excellent experimental body. β
Valrhona and the spider predicted Li Lin's behavior pattern, and Li Lin even predicted this, and planned it, guiding the situation to his desired situation in one go.
"It's still too difficult to capture and operate without damaging the body's organs. β
Even if you have a lot of power, most of the time you can't do everything you want. This is true in the face of complex changes in the situation, and the same is true when trying to catch a beast that could hurt or even kill you.
Valrhona's only trump card that could turn the tide is to die together.
Anticipate your opponent's movements, deliberately provoke, sustain attacks, and finally launch a decisive assault β all to cover up the smoke of a surprise attack from the flank by a spider holding a missile. In their minds, as long as Valrhona closes the distance in one go, even if there is no way to neutralize the "Wall of Sighs" at the extreme distance, with the thrust of the V-2 missile level, it is not impossible to tear apart the "Wall of Sighs". Faced with the risk of possibly losing Roland, Li Lin will definitely judge that "letting go" is the best choice, and then they will be able to successfully save Roland.
Extremely bold and subtle tactics, at first glance you might think of yourself as self-defeating, but in fact they are extremely reasonable. If there were no surprises, they could even save Roland without sacrificing a single person.
Yet accidents do exist, and they have existed since the beginning.
That is, Li Lin's specifications that cannot be generalized with common sense, and cannot be described by even the most daring imagination.
Neutralize Valrhona's Wall of Sighs while attacking on the other, and have the energy to open multiple Walls of Sighs to defend against attacks from both directions.
All the chips in the girls' hands have been thrown, and they have no chance to do it again, Li Lin only needs to wait for them to collapse with all their strength, and then they can obtain the raw materials for mass production of experimental bodies step by step.
"You've done really well, but that's the end of it. β
β...... Monster!!"
Spiders really can't think of any other adjectives other than that.
Compared to the spider who has advanced to the fifth stage and has almost no human features in appearance, Li Lin, who has a humanoid appearance, obviously fits the definition of "monster" better.
It's just that.
"Human-like monsters, monster-like humans, which side is more in line with the standard of 'monster'?"
The question between taunt and curse rolls through the sparkling space, the firelight illuminating the girls' faces that are more distorted by the central matter.
Despite the "reasonable" prefix, Valrhona and the spider make a choice that falls within the realm of "madness".
In order to keep taking the attack and attracting the attention of the opponent, while at the same time leaving the strength to charge at the last time, Valrhona constantly used the strengthening technique "Flesh Repair" to compete with Li Lin's high-pressure air finger bullets. Constant wounds and blood loss, constant repair of wounded flesh β this kind of thing can never last.
Wound healing, reattachment of torn tissues β these are not achieved by turning back time to the time before the injury, but by speeding up the metabolism and allowing cells to divide, combine, and die at an unprecedented rate to shorten the healing time. It is conceivable that this kind of tactics based on the premise of overdrawing the future will inevitably accelerate the speed of physical aging and damage, and ordinary adults will age at the age of thirty as long as they persist for one minute, and at most one and a half minutes will cause the collective death of cells in the whole body due to excessive aging and turn into a pile of dust. The dragon clan is originally a long-lived race, and it still persists for a while, but this raises another question.
"Rapidly regenerating cells induce the activation of immune mechanisms, and even though they are good cells, the immune system mistakes them for foreign bodies or cancer cells that have invaded the body. In this way, the regenerated cells will be culled with all their might, and in severe cases, the regenerated flesh tissue will be unable to assimilate with the body, resulting in necrosis. β
This can also be said to be the limit of magic for body repair. Otherwise, whether it is the countries or the churches, they will use this technique to develop immortal soldiers for a long time, and the battlefield will be completely subverted.
Repeatedly enduring the process of rebirth and injury, Valrhona's face was full of anger and could not hide the exhaustion and pain.
But compared to spiders, this price is not worth mentioning at all.
In the fifth stage of the Arachnid test subject, complete cell fusion was achieved by abandoning the human form, so as to create the ultimate biological weapon that combines the functions of exoskeleton creatures with the ability of human judgment and recognition. Not only can it carry objects hundreds of times the mass of the body, but it also moves so fast that it is almost impossible to catch with the naked eye, and the strength of the threads shot out is also unmatched before. It can be said that this is the ultimate goal of the entire Arachnid project.
However, turning into this form means saying goodbye to the appearance of a human being completely, and spending the rest of your life as a monster, and most importantly-
"Stage 5 is not capable of reproduction, you are no longer able to become a mother, and your child will be stillborn due to drastic physical transformation. The future you had hoped for β to conceive Roland's child and increase your worth β could no longer be realized. It's all just a stupid choice made on the spur of the moment, it's-"
The tone of the voice, intentionally or unintentionally, resembles that of a judge announcing a verdict, announcing the death sentence to the guilty.
"Incorrigible waste. β
It's not stupid, it's not stupid, it's just a waste, a useless scrap.
A fluttering sentence negates the insults, torture, pain, suffering, and choices that the spider has suffered so far, and it has been completely denied just because of one sentence. If it is a spider in the past, it may be depressed because it cannot bear the blow, and even choose to commit suicide to end a meaningless life.
But.
"Yes, in your eyes, we're really incorrigible, stupid shit. β
Under a single and clear value, the only way to measure the benchmark value of people and things is whether they can contribute to the system or organization, and whether they can play their due role like a part.
This is not a mistake, each participant has to serve and contribute to the organization, and the organization provides the corresponding protection and interests for each participant, and closely connects the individual and the organization in a way that is in solidarity, so as to maintain the operation of the organization, maintain cohesion, and ensure the survival of the individual and the organization.
It's just that when this becomes the only criterion for judging things, then a living person is nothing more than a part with a heartbeat and a breath.
Originally, the spider was supposed to be a cog in the huge body of the "Empire", and like many other cogs, the only criterion was "whether it can contribute to the organization", and there was nothing else to see in its eyes except itself and the organization.
However, she was exposed to things that she should not have touched, and how could she return to the cage of the past after learning that there were other ways of life and values in the world besides being "useful cogs for the empire".
Soβ
"Tell you, agent of the god who thinks you can do anything! What you do is not right! You are not a god! You are only the right slave! Always the right monster! Monsters will never be able to defeat humans, no matter how many times you defeat humans, humans will stand up again and defeat you!!"
At the roar of the spider, Valrhona's fist tore open the neutralized "wall of sighs", bathed in the sparks of conflicting energy, and the hands that held open the cracks were constantly burned and restored, and the powerful claws held open the passage. The blood-covered face bit down on the third barrier that had just been generated, and its fangy lips spat out gasps and unruly words.
"Death-"
The atoms in the air began to disintegrate, and lightning bolts cleaved Valrhona's face, tearing it apart, burning muscles, and bursting eyeballs.
For girls, beauty is their life.
While enduring the pain of boiling and cooking in my brain, I felt the beauty I was proud of fall apart little by little...... Even the worst of purgatory, presumably, is nothing more than that.
Even so, Valrhona did not let go.
The clear eyes reflected Roland who was roaring something, and in an instant, anger and hatred disappeared from his eyes, and pure warmth filled the eyes that had been covered with a white film after regeneration. In the next second, the incomparably firm determination burned again in the amber pupils.
"βto be able to live after birth. β
The spider who took over the words burst into a poignant smile, and his gaze moved down to his slightly bulging lower abdomen, and then to his own hands.
Night after night, with the hope and expectation of the future, the hands that knit new clothes for the unborn child are now strangling the unborn life with their own hands. As a woman, as a mother, she committed unforgivable crimes with her own hands. But even so, even if she falls into hell with the resentment of her child, even if she can never become a human again, even if she can never become a mother again, she still has something that she is willing to give everything to protect.
- Roland.
- For our sake and for our children's sake.
- Stay alive.
The girls' voices overlapped, and Valrhona tore through the last barrier with all her strength, and the missile that lost its hindrance smashed headlong on Li Lin.
Pure white.
It was as if the primordial light that appeared when the gods said "Let there be light" at the moment of the birth of the world engulfed everything, and the four figures disappeared into pure and immaculate white.
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