When a few prisoners surrounded the door and met Lin Sanjiu's eyes through the small window, Lin Sanjiu took a few steps back and used J7 to support her body. Then, she kicked the door with all her might. With her full strength, the door swung open with a bang, crashing down on the prisoners.
Enduring the pain, Lin Sanjiu pulled J7 along, "Run!"
The automaton knew that the situation was critical, so it didn't say a word. It spun around and rushed out with Lin Sanjiu.
However, in just a short period of time, the prison building was already crowded with prisoners. As soon as the two of them rushed into the corridor, they looked to their left and right and found that they were blocked by the orange-red crowd. There was an endless stream of prisoners rushing towards them from afar. The prisoners closest to them were now behind them, groaning as they got up from the ground. Not only that, even the heavy machine gun on the other side slowly turned its angle and aimed at the two of them.
"Where do we go?" J7 asked.
The answer was, there was nowhere to run.
A minute later, the two of them, who were badly mutilated as if they had been bitten by dogs, returned to their cell. This time, they let go of their hands because they had no other choice.
Since their escape had alerted the entire prison building, their cell had been completely changed. As soon as they were thrown into the new cell, people started working outside the steel door. Lin Sanjiu was stunned when she looked out of the window. The people outside were working very fast. In the blink of an eye, it was already dark outside the window.
They had built a wall on top of the door, completely covering it with bricks and cement.
"Isn't this just a game?" Lin Sanjiu lay on the ground, dejected. "Why is it so difficult?"
"Because it is a very difficult game," J7 answered.
Lin Sanjiu was speechless.
"How are we going to get out of here? Everything is blocked." While Lin Sanjiu was talking, the last bit of light in the cell gradually faded away. When she looked up, she found that they had sealed the ventilation window from the outside. This was the last source of light in the cell. Lin Sanjiu had had enough of the darkness. She sighed and said to J7, "Turn on the light."
"No."
"… And why is that?"
"I'm now in the form of Consciousness. 'Illumination' and 'Bullets' are both applications of my Willpower after I transform." In the darkness, J7 said calmly, "My Higher Consciousness has been greatly damaged. Every bit of it is precious. I have to use it sparingly."
"So, what do you think we should do now?" Lin Sanjiu hugged her head, feeling a headache coming on.
"In addition to bullets, I can also fire sub-caliber shells and super-caliber shells of 20mm and above, such as armor-piercing shells and rocket armor-piercing shells. Breaking this door and this wall won't be a problem. " In Lin Sanjiu's ears, J7's robotic, synthetic voice was like a heavenly melody. Her eyes lit up as she said, "That's great —"
"But," the word interrupted Lin Sanjiu's joy, "they consume a lot of Higher Consciousness, especially for me now. I can't afford it."
"You can't even hit one?"
J7 paused for a second. Obviously, it was very reluctant, but it had to answer honestly, "I can shoot one out."
"Isn't that enough? What are you worried about? "
"Because if I shoot one out, I won't have any energy left." J7 thought for a moment and said calmly, "With all due respect, I don't think your Higher Consciousness is of much use. Once the door is blown open, there will be countless prisoners … No, this time, even the prison guards will appear. If I don't have any energy left, I'm afraid I'll be caught again before I can go far with you. In terms of efficiency, it doesn't make sense to do this. "
Lin Sanjiu felt her face heating up. She tried to defend herself in a low voice, "I haven't reached the stage where I can enter the Astral Plane."
"I didn't expect that you haven't even mastered the 'attachment condition'."
"What does' attachment condition 'mean? I've heard this term a few times … When Bohemia used a house to trap me, she said that the house was her 'attachment condition'. "
"For example, my bullets are one of the applications of my Higher Consciousness. That's the 'attachment condition'."
"So that's what it means." Lin Sanjiu suddenly understood. She thought about it carefully and asked, "When I was in the real world, I developed a lot of uses for my Higher Consciousness. Can I use them here? "
"Those are the foundation of the 'attachment condition'. Some of them can be used in the galaxy, but some can't. Overall, they are not on the same level as the 'attachment condition'."
In other words, the abilities that she developed in the real world, such as [Higher Consciousness Mimicry], [Perceptive Sense], and [Defense Forcefield], were used to increase her combat power and pave the way for the attachment condition after she entered the Astral Plane.
However, Lin Sanjiu's Higher Consciousness hadn't reached the highest level yet. Even if she understood these theories, it wouldn't help her at all.
However, she couldn't just wait here like an idiot. Bohemia might have hidden their bodies, but the grand prize was still struggling in the Salvation of God alone, and his combat power was so low …
The human and the machine sat in the dark for a while. Neither of them had a good idea. Since neither of them could come up with a solution, they decided to rest for a while and let their Higher Consciousness slowly recover. Lin Sanjiu reached out her hand and touched her leg. She felt that her leg was no longer crippled. It was flat again.
However, her right wrist was still empty …
"Huh?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help asking.
J7 didn't reply. To a mechanical being, such exclamations and tone words were just noises, since they didn't contain any valid information.
Lin Sanjiu frowned and thought for a moment. Then, she asked, "That prisoner cut off my arm and your tail …"
"Yes."
"What about the Higher Consciousness that was cut off? Where did it go? "
After a few seconds of silence, the buzzing sound of the Dynamo Core rang out. Lin Sanjiu felt J7 gliding toward her and stopped not far away. Then, a white light shone, and J7's stapler-shaped head emerged from the darkness once again.
"I've never thought about this before," J7 replied as it turned its head around a few times. "Logically speaking, even if the Higher Consciousness has been cut off, it should still be there. Look."
As it spoke, J7 demonstrated its idea to Lin Sanjiu. Its head quivered a few times before it finally separated from its body and flew toward Lin Sanjiu. In the darkness, it looked like it was haunted.
"Okay, okay, I got it." Lin Sanjiu suddenly thought of Kisaragi Station. She quickly waved her hand and asked J7 to retract its head.
"Even if we are separated, it won't disappear." J7 retracted its head. "But when we went out for the second time, we didn't see any Higher Consciousness falling down."
Lin Sanjiu fell into deep thought.
The last time she was in Bohemia's house, she had collected Syphilis's Potential Growth Value. As soon as the Potential Growth Value was extracted, Syphilis's body, which was also his Higher Consciousness, disappeared without a trace.
In the Astral Plane, Potential Growth Value and Higher Consciousness could be said to be of the same origin. If that was the case, was it possible that their Higher Consciousness had also been absorbed by the prisoner?
Lin Sanjiu had a vague feeling that there was something she could use to her advantage. She leaped up and asked J7, "Can I attack you a little?"
"Of course not."
"I just want to do an experiment …"
"You can't."
"I won't hurt you …"
"I don't believe you."
Lin Sanjiu heaved a sigh of frustration. "This is just a way to get out of here. How about this, you choose one. Either you blow the door open, or you let me attack you gently and painlessly. "
Before Lin Sanjiu could finish her sentence, she saw a ball of fiery light erupt in the darkness. Following that, there was a loud boom, and the entire cell shook. The shockwave, the bricks, and the fire almost threw Lin Sanjiu to the wall. She felt dizzy from the impact. She coughed in the thick smoke and asked loudly, "Didn't you say that this is inefficient?"
As the alarm in the prison building blared, J7 said calmly, "After comparing the two options, I think this is the better option."
Lin Sanjiu knew that this was a precious opportunity, so she didn't have time to say anything. She quickly asked J7 to hold her waist and ran out of the cell. J7 was right. After it fired the cannonball, its body had shrunk dramatically. Right now, it was only the size of a cat. J7 stretched out its "arm" to hold Lin Sanjiu. J7 hung beside her thigh and swayed as she ran.
"Let me ask you a question," J7 said calmly. Even though it was swung up and down in the air, its voice was not affected at all, "What solution did you come up with so that I wouldn't waste my cannonball?"
"I — I didn't expect you to really choose the cannonball …"
"So?"
Lin Sanjiu couldn't bring herself to say "So I don't have a solution". She paused for a moment and suddenly came up with an idea, "There is a path that we didn't go through just now!"
Even though the lights outside were not turned on and it was still pitch black, Lin Sanjiu already had a good understanding of the terrain after her previous two escapes. Lin Sanjiu rushed out of the cell and headed straight for the guardrail in the corridor. The lights in the prison building flickered a few times and then lit up one after another.
When all the lights were on and every corner of the building was illuminated by the white light, Lin Sanjiu had already jumped over the guardrail with J7 and jumped down from the floor.
The wind whistled past their ears. Below them was a row of heavy machine guns mounted on the floor. Lin Sanjiu stepped on one of the machine guns and dashed downwards. Sensing the presence of the fugitives, the row of machine guns on the opposite side immediately turned and aimed at the two of them. The machine guns spat out a hail of bullets that blotted out the sun and the sky.
The moment Lin Sanjiu jumped down, the gunfire rained down on the spot where she had just been standing. The blast pushed her down, and another wave of bullets rained down on Lin Sanjiu's back as if they were chasing after her. Lin Sanjiu flipped and jumped between the barrels of the machine guns. She managed to avoid the bullets from the other side by a hair's breadth. She was like a monkey in a forest of vines. Her skin was burning as the bullets hit her, and she felt like she was about to burst into flames.
J7, which was hanging on her waist, was thrown into the air. It was still calculating the current situation. "With your speed, it's a little risky for you to avoid the bullets. So, I'll let you go if you get hit once. You better be careful … "
Amidst the deafening roar of the gunfire, Lin Sanjiu did not hear what it said. She was so focused that she could only see her next support point. Everything else, including the bullets, slowed down as if they had been frozen.
It was only a short ten seconds, but it felt like hours. When Lin Sanjiu finally landed on the ground floor with a loud thud, she felt her heart pounding furiously. It was as if she had just realized how frightening it was for the first time.
There were no machine guns installed on the ground floor, and she was out of the firing range of the machine guns upstairs. As soon as her feet touched the ground, all the gunfire stopped.
The alarm stopped, and the prison building suddenly became quiet.
Lin Sanjiu panted heavily. She scanned her surroundings and realized that there were no prisoners this time.
There were no cells on the ground floor. It was a spacious hall with a metal door at one end and a few tables and chairs at the other end. The hall was surrounded by a circle of shadows from the upper floors. There was only an empty space in the middle of the hall that was illuminated by the light. Lin Sanjiu stuck close to the wall and took a few cautious steps in the shadows. Suddenly, she heard a click. It seemed like the door had been unlocked.
It was obvious that there was more than one person walking in from behind the door.
"The fugitive is on the first floor," an unfamiliar male voice said to his companion, "Be careful."
It sounded like a prison guard. Lin Sanjiu glanced at J7, who was hanging quietly on her waist.
"I know," a woman replied impatiently. "Trust me, I'm more anxious to finish this game than you are. I thought I'm in the right place."
Lin Sanjiu was taken aback. She was hiding behind a pillar, so the two players, who were playing the roles of prison guards, had yet to discover her. She held her breath and did not dare to make a sound. She peeked around quietly.
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