The Frenzied Savior - Chapter 38

Bizarre spiders, piercing alarms, and eerie noises.

Everything was pushing the family members watching behind the cameras to their breaking point. Screams erupted, only to be desperately muffled by their own hands. Eyes filled with a mix of terror and anxiety were fixed on the hall.

“Head of State, should we deploy the armed police units for support?” The commander of the armed police stood behind the leader, his expression solemn.

Clearly, the entities appearing in the hall had exceeded his expectations, instilling a profound sense of crisis.

However, Huo Zhimin raised a hand to stop him. “Since young Comrade Fu said he can handle it, we should grant him equal trust.”

“But…” The commander hesitated.

No matter how monstrously talented the boy was, he was still just an eighteen-year-old. How could they let him face such a dangerous scene alone? As long as they were still standing, it shouldn’t have come to the point where a child had to step up.

Huo Zhimin’s eyes darkened slightly, though his voice remained steady. “To him, this might not actually be a threat.” He paused, looking back at the commander. “However, if Comrade Fu falls into true danger, I authorize you to act without further orders.”

Logic told him that Fu Qingya was not someone to act on impulse, and this event might have been within his calculations. But emotionally, as a healthy middle-aged man, how could he stand by and watch a child face such a threat? Even if the child insisted on doing so, they had to ensure his safety. They would be Fu Qingya’s strongest shield.

Fu Qingya, the focus of everyone’s attention, let out a soft chuckle in this critical moment. The scalpel dancing between his fingertips reflected a dazzling silver glow under the lights.

“Using the same trick multiple times just makes it stale.”

“This is nothing more than a ‘Blacklist’ created by some bottom-feeder. It’s meaningless to me.”

The scalpel finally stopped spinning. His well-defined fingers gripped the silver blade, and for a fleeting moment, a superfluid coating seemed to ripple across the metal like flowing light. Purple-gold electrical arcs flickered along the blade, ionizing the air and releasing the sharp, ozone scent of electricity, followed by a faint burnt smell that reached Fu Qingya’s nose.

Clatter, clatter—

The mechanical spiders surrounding him began to fall one after another beneath his blade. Sensing they were no match for him, the countless spiders scurried rapidly, arranging themselves into a mysterious “Ю” shape.

“The Tscherpo Spiral Array? That’s an ancient algorithm.”

Fu Qingya sliced through the core energy source of a mechanical spider dangling behind his neck. With his hand clad in a fingerless glove, he grabbed the spider’s head and crushed it. With a mere squeeze of two fingers, he shattered the spider’s body, which was durable enough to withstand bullets without a scratch.

He didn’t stop. With light, agile steps, he followed a bizarre trajectory, dodging one energy wave after another.

Luo Mingyuan and the armed police team had already retreated several steps while carrying the terrified patients, eventually huddling near the entrance of the hall. They couldn’t stay in the center and hinder Fu Qingya’s movements, but they also couldn’t open the doors and risk the mechanical spiders escaping the hall.

Luo Mingyuan couldn’t even draw his gun to shoot the spiders, fearing they would switch targets and attack the patients behind him. Once again, he felt the crushing weight of helplessness.

His gaze remained locked onto Fu Qingya. Perhaps even he hadn’t noticed that since meeting the boy, his eyes had never wandered elsewhere. Joy, anger, sorrow, and even frustration—all of it now stemmed from him.

In Luo Mingyuan’s eyes, the youth with the delicate features appeared both manic and remarkably reliable. His frame was slender, moving with the grace of a dragon or a phoenix. Even in such a tense, life-threatening situation, he whispered strings of data in a voice as clear as jade, incomprehensible to anyone else.

Every time he spoke, the mechanical spiders’ coordination faltered, descending into chaos. Aside from reciting data, Fu Qingya went as far as to arrogantly provoke the mastermind.

“Perhaps you need me to update the algorithms for these little guys on the spot?”

Fu Qingya’s scalpel moved with the precision of the golden ratio, slicing the dense mechanical symbols into pieces. The eerie, organized formation instantly collapsed into a disorganized mess.

[Beep, beep, beep, beep]

Scarlet light flared in the mechanical compound eyes. Eight legs made of specialized graphene sprouted flying spikes, which shot toward Fu Qingya at speeds approaching light waves.

Fu Qingya tilted his head. The graphene spike smashed a deep crater into the smooth floor. The commander, who hadn’t even tracked the spike’s trajectory, felt his pupils contract as he stared at the black barb embedded in the shattered stone once the dust settled.

“0.002 seconds. For an outdated algorithm like yours, that’s a decent speed.”

Fu Qingya drove his blade through a mechanical spider’s armor. A flash of blue light flickered in his obsidian eyes. He effortlessly evaded spikes that moved too fast for the human eye to track, the silver superfluid coating on his dancing scalpel growing increasingly brilliant.

Crack—

Having pre-emptively dodged another shot, Fu Qingya finally pierced the spider acting as the eye of the “Tscherpo Spiral Array.”

Golden sparks crackled and hissed. The self-healing energy core was cleanly severed by the silver-shining scalpel, and the transmission of invisible ultra-brainwave data came to an abrupt halt.

[Warning! Warning! Warning!]

[Core Array Node has been neutralized]

[Data collapsing, Master, please restart]

[Data collapsing, Master, please restart immediately]

Fu Qingya picked up the core mechanical spider, its eight legs twitching violently.

“Disarm and you shall be spared.”

He grabbed one of the mechanical legs and snapped it off with a sharp click. The scarlet glow in the spider’s compound eyes became so intense it looked as if blood-red tears were about to spill out.

Click, click, click—

The mechanical spiders on the floor turned their compound eyes mechanically, red light scanning back and forth across the core spider. Their legs were still twitching wildly, a result of the mental agony caused by the forced disconnection of the brainwave transmission. Yet, the eyes on their oversized heads held only cold, calculated measurements.

To a vanguard soldier, these mechanical lives were nothing more than disposable pawns. Their core algorithms were so obsolete that they didn’t even qualify for an emotional system unique to living beings.

“One, two, three… forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one.”

Fu Qingya’s gaze swept across the spiders he hadn’t yet sliced. The scalpel lodged inside the core spider suddenly erupted with a purple-gold arc of light. As the arc sliced through the thin film of space-time, it pierced into the three-dimensional void.

A piercing mechanical shriek rang out as a golden mechanical spider appeared out of thin air. Fu Qingya caught it precisely before it could fall, his thumb brushing over its bulging abdomen.

His physical body let out a silent groan, and a slight tremor was forcefully suppressed. In his ear, the cold warning of an AI rang out: “High-dimensional intelligence possesses the ability to deceive carbon-based eyes. Never trust your own vision in the presence of high-dimensional intelligence.”

Clatter, clatter—

The sound of multiple objects hitting the floor echoed. Suddenly, a blinding flash of light and shadow shot toward Fu Qingya from an inconspicuous mechanical spider on the ground.

The speed far exceeded the predictive capabilities of his prosthetic eye system. Even Fu Qingya could not dodge it.

“Fu Qingya!”

Support