320: Chapter 320 It's hopeless

Lin Fan wasn't sure if he could succeed, but this was the only method available right now.

He couldn't beat him, couldn't run away, and the opponent didn't seem to want to talk either. Now, he had to lock that man down.

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Even for a few seconds.

A few seconds would be enough time for Su Qingxue to trigger her ability.

Lin Fan took a deep breath, and his entire body's muscles tightened up again.

Not being able to beat him didn't mean he couldn't touch him.

The opponent's speed was overwhelmingly crushing, but he was squatting right now.

Squatting in front of Zhou Kai, his attention focused entirely on Zhou Kai.

This was the only window of opportunity.

Lin Fan didn't hesitate.

He lunged directly at the man, not seeking to harm him, but only aiming to grab hold of him.

Seeing Lin Fan's posture as he rushed out, Yang Ningcong almost bit through his own hand.

If Lin Fan was done for, he wouldn't have any hope left either.

Charging at full speed with Triple Enhancement, the man's reaction was still ridiculously fast.

Sensing the change in airflow behind him, he exerted force with his legs, preparing to get up and dodge.

At the exact moment the man prepared to stand up, Zhou Kai used up the very last ounce of strength in his entire body and tightly grabbed the man's right leg with both hands.

"Damn it... What are you running for?!"

Zhou Kai's entire face was bruised and purple, and his broken ribs were grinding against his internal organs inside, causing pain that made him almost pass out.

The man's rising motion was slowed down by a fraction of a second.

Lin Fan's body had already slammed into him.

The moment Lin Fan's arms closed in...

However, he grabbed only empty air.

The man turned his body slightly, and one hand had already caught Zhou Kai's back collar, lifting him just like a chicken.

Zhou Kai was hoisted up entirely, his broken ribs rubbing violently inside his body, and a muffled groan squeezed out from his throat.

The man didn't pause.

With his toes touching the ground, he swept toward the platform carrying Zhou Kai.

Dragging the weight of a person, that eerie, high-speed lateral movement finally showed a trajectory that could be tracked by the naked eye.

Lin Fan immediately chased after him. Reaching his hand forward, his fingertips were about to touch Zhou Kai's ankle when the man's right hand scooped up a fist-sized piece of crushed stone from his waist and flicked his wrist.

The direction the stone flew was toward Su Qingxue.

At that speed and angle, if it hit Su Qingxue's head, she definitely wouldn't survive.

Lin Fan's footsteps nailed to the spot; if something happened to Su Qingxue and his ability deteriorated, he would be even less of a match for these things.

His body rushed toward the flight trajectory of the stone.

The dynamic vision provided by Triple Enhancement saw the route of that shattered stone clearly. His hand opened in mid-air and his five fingers clenched shut.

Slap.

The stone was firmly grasped in his hand, and the impact sent a numbing vibration through the web of his thumb and forefinger.

Su Qingxue was standing less than a meter behind him, stunned for half a beat.

If Lin Fan had been half a second later... but nobody had the time to think about ifs.

Because on the other side of the platform, Zhou Kai's miserable scream had already torn through the air.

"Ah... Ah...!" That was not a cry that a human could emit.

Lin Fan turned his head, and the scene before him made his temples twitch violently.

The man knelt on one knee on the ground, pressing Zhou Kai against the rock face with his left hand, while the short blade in his right hand had already sliced open Zhou Kai's abdomen.

Blood gushed to both sides, and skin and flesh rolled back on either flank.

The man's movements didn't stop.

The short blade continued to widen the gap, stretching the wound even larger and deeper.

Zhou Kai's body arched on the ground, his limbs convulsing, and the miserable screams in his mouth lost tune, turning into a broken, intermittent sob.

Yang Ningcong watched in a daze.

His entire body was frozen there, his legs trembling like willow leaves in the wind, his mouth wide open without being able to squeeze out a single word.

Only a single thought was spinning in his mind.

That was a living person.

That was a living person!

That man was cutting open a living person's belly.

The moment Song Ya poked her head out from behind Yang Ningcong, the color on her face completely drained away.

"No... Don't...!"

She screamed, tightly covering her face with both hands as her body shrank backward, colliding against the stone wall.

The man didn't raise his head.

His attention was entirely focused inside Zhou Kai's abdominal cavity.

Throwing the knife aside, that hand reached directly inside.

"Ugh...!"

Zhou Kai's body jerked, and a mouthful of blood spewed from his mouth, splashing half of the man's sleeve.

That hand rummaged around inside his belly, fingers brushing past the slippery intestinal wall, parting the writhing internal organs, and feeling toward the direction of the stomach.

Zhou Kai could no longer scream.

His entire face was distorted to the limit, the veins on his forehead bulging out completely, his body twitching on the ground stroke by stroke, and his two hands unconsciously scratching the ground.

The man's hand suddenly paused, and then he pulled that hand out of Zhou Kai's abdominal cavity.

Between his five fingers, a transparent soft tube about the thickness of a thumb was pinched.

The tube wall was smeared with sticky gastric juice and blood, and the dark purple liquid inside had become mostly murky.

The stopper was gone.

The tube opening was wide open, and the originally sealed liquid was mixing with stomach acid and blood. Filamentous objects struggled and writhed in the murky mixture, their activity visibly decaying to the naked eye.

The man raised the tube in front of him and looked at it for two seconds.

Lin Fan let out a roar and sprinted wildly in that direction.

All the explosive power of Triple Enhancement was compressed into this short distance of just over ten meters.

But the man had already stood up.

Clutching the tube in his hand, he glanced at Lin Fan.

Then his figure disappeared from the edge of the platform.

With a few leaps, he swept past the slope and dropped into the dense forest at the edge of the beach. The treetops shook twice and fell back into silence.

When Lin Fan ran to Zhou Kai's side, there was blood everywhere, and the entire rock face was dyed red.

Blood was still gushing out from that terrifying incision. Zhou Kai's abdominal cavity lay open, exposing the pink intestines and convulsing internal organs inside.

Zhou Kai lay in a pool of blood, his eyes half-open, his pupils already beginning to dilate, but his lips were still moving.

"Brother... Brother Fan..."

When the words were squeezed out of his mouth, they carried blood foam and bubbles.

Lin Fan squatted down.

His hand hovered above Zhou Kai's wound, not daring to let it fall.

Where to touch? Where to press? That incision was too big—so big that even both his hands couldn't cover it.

"Zhixia!"

Lin Fan roared toward the direction of the Karst Cave.

"Come over here! Hurry up and take a look!"

When Xu Zhixia rushed out of the cave entrance, her steps staggered slightly.

She saw Zhou Kai lying flat on the ground, his abdomen completely slashed open from his left rib to his right hip. Dark red blood was still oozing out, and a section of his intestines had slipped out, resting on the edge of the incision.

The neatness of that wound sent a chill down her spine.

Xu Zhixia ran over and knelt beside Zhou Kai. She reached her hand out, instinctively wanting to inspect the wound.

But when her fingertips touched the flesh at the edge of the incision, her entire body froze.

The abdominal cavity was open.

Not only were the skin and muscle layers sliced open, but the peritoneum had also been completely breached.

The intestinal loops were exposed to the air, the edges of the liver were visible, and also...

And the stomach.

There was an irregular tear on the stomach wall, caused by that man reaching in bare-handed.

Stomach acid and semi-digested food residue mixed with blood flowed throughout the entire abdominal cavity.

Xu Zhixia had practiced clinically for many years. During her emergency room rotations, she had seen car accident crush injuries, high-altitude falls, and knife-stab intestinal perforations.

But she had never seen a conscious person being brutally disemboweled alive.

Her throat swallowed hard.

Her hand was still resting beside Zhou Kai's wound, her fingertips trembling slightly—out of fear, and even more so, out of anger.

That man was simply a fierce ghost wearing human skin. She could imagine how much pain Zhou Kai must be in.

"Zhixia!"

Lin Fan's shout exploded beside her ear.

Xu Zhixia snapped back to her senses, lifting her head to look at Lin Fan.

She wanted to speak, but her throat choked up for a moment.

"Brother... Brother Fan..." Zhou Kai was still making sounds.

Blood foam bubbled from the corners of his mouth, popping out word by word. Every time a word popped out, his abdominal cavity shuddered along with it.

"I... didn't let... them take it away..."

Lin Fan squatted in front of him, his entire face taut and rigid.

His gaze swept from Zhou Kai's face to that terrifying incision, and then back to Zhou Kai's face.

Zhou Kai smiled.

His mouth, missing three teeth, split open. His entire mouth was full of blood, and his smile looked extremely ugly.

"Although... it was still gouged out... but that stopper, hehe..."

He panted heavily twice.

"The stopper was dissolved by stomach acid... The things inside... mixed with my blood and stomach acid..."

"Even if they take it back... it's no longer clean... I'm afraid... I'm afraid it's useless now..."

After finishing these words, Zhou Kai's body convulsed.

A surge of fresh blood gushed out from the incision, in a frighteningly large volume.

"Zhixia!" Lin Fan looked at Xu Zhixia again, "What are you standing there stunned for?! Save him! Save him!"

Xu Zhixia's hand was still resting on the edge of the wound.

She lowered her head: the stomach wall was torn, the edge of the liver was bruised, and the colon might be damaged.

The abdominal cavity was severely contaminated, mixing with stomach acid, food residue, and blood.

From the time he was sliced open until now, the amount of blood on the ground was conservatively estimated to have already exceeded one thousand milliliters.

One thousand milliliters.

The total blood volume of an adult male was approximately five thousand milliliters.

Losing more than two thousand would cause shock, and exceeding three thousand meant death.

At this rate of bleeding, he would enter irreversible shock within minutes.

Even if there were an operating room right now.

With shadowless lamps, a full set of laparotomy instruments, an anesthesiologist, and a massive blood supply.

She still wouldn't dare guarantee she could push this person alive off the operating table.

And what kind of place was this?

A Deserted Island without even a name.

Right now she didn't even have a single suture thread in her hand—how was she supposed to save him? With what could she save him?

Xu Zhixia raised her head and met Lin Fan's gaze. Her mouth opened, and then closed again.

Watching that movement from her, the blood vessels in Lin Fan's temples throbbed even more fiercely.

"Zhixia..." From his eyes, Xu Zhixia saw urgency for the first time.

After struggling mentally for a moment, she still spoke up, "Lin Fan... He... He's beyond saving."

When those few words came out of Xu Zhixia's mouth, her voice was so soft that it was almost drowned out by the sea breeze.

"The abdominal cavity has a full-thickness penetration, the stomach wall is torn, and the peritoneum has been burned by stomach acid. The contamination area is simply too large. Even if we sent him to a Grade 3 Class A operating room right now, with exploratory laparotomy plus repair plus irrigation plus drainage, postoperative complications would still include abdominal infection, sepsis, multiple organ failure..."

She paused for a moment, "The success rate is less than twenty percent."

"And here..."

Xu Zhixia didn't finish the last half of her sentence.

She didn't need to say it; Lin Fan understood.

Here, the success rate was zero.

Lin Fan's knees slammed into the pool of blood. He lowered his head to look at Zhou Kai, and Zhou Kai was also looking at him.

"Brother Fan... Don't... don't make that expression..."

"You... should be happy, that... that thing is useless now."

"This can be considered me... buying a bit more bargaining chips for you guys to survive..."