112: Chapter 112 Life Crystal

He walked through room after room like a hungry beast.

He killed everyone he saw, and drained everyone he saw.

People from the Miracle Company, the Circus, the Night Watchers, the Twelve Zodiacs, the Holy Court, and those small factions whose names he couldn't recall.

He didn't care who they were; he only needed their blood.

Ten, twenty, thirty.

His body was changing, like a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon.

His skin became whiter, his eyes deeper, his nails longer, and his wings larger.

His aura slowly climbed...

A powerful force surged from his dantian, like a river that had been suppressed for too long finally bursting its banks.

Power rushed through his veins, pulsed in his muscles, and sang in his bones.

The corners of his mouth slowly curled up; that smile was cold, very cold.

"LV6... I've finally reached LV6..."

He raised his hand and looked at his palm, where a dark red light swirled at his fingertips.

"Wang Lin... just you wait... I'm coming..."

He turned and walked toward the depths of the corridor.

...

On the other side, Wang Lin and the other two continued walking deeper into the temple.

At this moment, a huge iron door appeared in front of them.

Wang Lin pushed open the iron door, and a thick smell of blood rushed toward them.

Behind the door was a huge circular hall.

Rows of glass jars were embedded in the walls, but they were empty; there was nothing inside.

In the center of the hall was a massive circular blood pool, at least twenty meters in diameter, resembling a giant bowl.

Some things were floating on the surface of the blood pool: bones, hair, pieces of flesh...

Some had already rotted, leaving only white bones, while others were covered in maggots.

In the center of the blood pool floated a glowing red crystal core, flickering like a beating heart.

Su Wan walked to the edge of the blood pool, looked down at the floating bones and flesh, and her face turned even paler.

"What kind of hellhole is this..."

Shen Yuan looked at the glowing red crystal core in the center of the blood pool and asked: "What... is that thing..."

Wang Lin looked around and found several yellowed experimental record sheets pasted on the walls.

The edges were curled and the handwriting was blurry, but the general meaning could still be made out.

Wang Lin walked over and looked down at the records:

"Life Crystal Extraction Project, Day 2047"

"Success rate: 0.003%"

"Each crystal core requires the sacrifice of 10,000 living people"

"Crystal core effect: Resurrection, but the user must sacrifice the same number of living people within one minute, otherwise the crystal core will backlash and drain the user dry."

Wang Lin's pupils constricted.

Ten thousand living people to extract one crystal core?

Resurrection, but it requires sacrificing another ten thousand living people?

This isn't a life-saving item; this is a murder weapon.

"As expected of the Umbrella Corporation. In their eyes, human life is just a number."

Su Wan also read the experimental records, her face turning even paler: "Ten thousand people... to extract just one... this is too..."

Shen Yuan's eyes were still fixed on the glowing red crystal core in the center of the blood pool:

"Young Master Wang, this thing... if we take it out and sell it... how much would it be worth..."

Wang Lin was silent for a moment and said calmly: "It should be worth a lot, a lot of money."

"After all, life is priceless... especially the lives of those rich people."

Shen Yuan said excitedly: "Then wouldn't we be making a fortune?"

Wang Lin glanced at them: "No. We must destroy it."

Shen Yuan was stunned: "Why? Young Master Wang, how much is this thing worth..."

Wang Lin said calmly: "To sacrifice ten thousand lives for the sake of one person's life. Tell me, is it worth it?"

Wang Lin didn't wait for his answer and continued: "Perhaps, for some people, it is worth it."

"Because on this wasteland, human life is the cheapest thing."

"A crystal core, a weapon, a bottle of potion, or even a bite of food can be traded for a life."

"But for me, whether it's a poor person or a rich person, there is no distinction between high or low value in human life."

"Using ten thousand lives to trade for one person's life is not worth it."

"Therefore, this thing must be destroyed."

Cyan light swirled at Wang Lin's fingertips, and [Wind Ability] was activated.

A Wind Blade shot toward the crystal core in the center of the blood pool.

Just as it was about to touch the crystal core, the blood in the pool suddenly rose.

The dark red blood plasma condensed in front of the crystal core, forming a wall of red water.

The Wind Blade struck the water wall; the wall was cut open, but the power of the Wind Blade was also consumed.

The blood returned to the pool, as if nothing had ever happened.

Wang Lin frowned and raised his right hand again.

This time, a purple arc of electricity struck toward the crystal core, moving even faster.

But the blood in the pool rose again, forming another wall of red water.

The electric arc struck the water wall; the wall surged from the electricity but did not break.

The electric arc disappeared, and the blood returned to the pool.

Su Wan's voice came: "Young Master Wang! The blood pool is protecting the crystal core!"

Wang Lin didn't answer, because he had already seen it.

At this moment, the surface of the blood pool began to churn, like a pot of boiling water.

Countless hands reached out from the dark red blood plasma; they were blood hands condensed from the plasma,

dark red, translucent, like jelly.

They reached out from the surface of the blood pool and grabbed at the three of them.

Su Wan's short blade flipped in her hand, and cyan Wind Blades flew from the edge of the blade, one after another.

She cut off one after another.

But there were too many blood hands; she cut off one, and ten more came;

she cut off ten, and a hundred more came.

Su Wan's breathing became increasingly rapid, and her arms began to ache.

A blood hand reached out from behind her and grabbed her shoulder.

Su Wan's eyes widened suddenly; she felt the blood hand burrowing into her flesh.

The fingertips of the blood hand pierced into her skin; she gritted her teeth, swung her short blade backhanded, and cut off the blood hand.

The blood hand fell to the ground and turned into a pool of blood,

but five deep finger marks were left on her shoulder, staining her clothes red.

Shen Yuan's situation was no better.

He raised both hands, and two balls of blue light condensed in his palms: [Ice Explosion].

His Ice Ability had a miraculous effect on the blood hands; once frozen and shattered, they would not re-condense.

But his energy was limited.

He exploded ten, twenty, thirty of them, but his palms began to darken, and the blue light began to fade.

His breathing became more rapid, his heartbeat faster, and sweat poured down from his forehead.

A blood hand reached out from beneath his feet and grabbed his ankle.

Shen Yuan's body stiffened suddenly, and the blood hand also burrowed into his flesh.

He looked down at his ankle, condensed [Ice Explosion] in his palms, and blew the blood hand apart.

Wang Lin was not idle either; more than a dozen Tentacles erupted from behind him and lashed out at the blood hands.