300: Chapter 300: The Daughter's Cry, Finally, a Beat Stops

The second fetal heartbeat dropped.

The traction curves of the twelve silent wells rose simultaneously.

The next second, the second round of zero-reset pulses swept across the globe.

The crystal core lights outside the delivery room all went out.

The diesel engine speed plummeted.

A row of lights in the corridor went dark.

"Main power interrupted!"

The engineer lunged toward the generator unit, pressing an ear against the casing.

"It's not a malfunction; the power grids of the three regions are being pulled down by the silent wells simultaneously!"

Lin Yuan pressed the landline phone.

"Cut the physically isolated lines."

Tang Qiqi's voice came from B2.

"Already cut!"

Three sets of mechanical knife switches fell.

crystal core lines, urban power grids, and Superpower equipment were completely disconnected.

Tank and Iron Arm King rushed into the flywheel room, each grabbing a set of handles.

The mechanical flywheels weighing several tons rotated slowly.

The first revolution.

The second revolution.

The backup lights lit up.

The mechanical pumps resumed their working sounds.

The entire corridor remained dark, but the surgical lights steadily hovered over Jiang Xiaowan.

Inside the delivery room, Su Muxue reached out.

"Hemostatic forceps."

Xia Qingqiu handed over the instrument.

She had already taken off her Superpower treatment gloves and stepped into the assistant's position.

In the tray, the hemostatic forceps were lined up in a row.

"Placental abruption expanding."

"Blood loss eight hundred milliliters."

"Blood pressure seventy-nine."

The plasma bag was sent to the door along the mechanical slide rail.

The nurse checked the seal and hung it on the stand.

Inside the transfusion tube, the dark red liquid began to descend.

Jiang Xiaowan bit down on the oxygen mask, listening to the two sets of plans reported by Su Muxue.

Extract the fetus first, then stop the bleeding.

If uterotonic drugs and compression sutures are ineffective, immediately remove the uterus to save her life.

The other option shortened the fetus extraction process in advance, but the child's risk of hypoxia was higher.

Jiang Xiaowan raised her hand and pressed the confirmation seal.

The transfusion tube shook along with it.

"Don't choose my method of death for me."

She took a breath.

"Save both. Use everything that can be used."

Su Muxue took the document away.

"Follow the combined plan."

"Xia Qingqiu, start the timer."

"Begin incision."

...

Outside the yellow warning line.

Lin Yuan raised his right hand.

There was no water flow.

[Water Calamity] did not respond.

He lowered his hand and turned to the blood bank registrar.

"Four groups of type O red blood cells, four groups of plasma, two groups of coagulation factors."

"The backup surgical team, stand by on the second floor."

"Clear the mechanical elevator."

The registrar opened the ledger.

"Shanghai applies to transfer a truckload of plasma."

"Denied."

"Zhe City also has wounded—"

"Jiang Xiaowan takes priority."

Lin Yuan personally checked the seals of each plasma box.

Serial number.

Temperature.

Expiration date.

Not a single item was missed.

Before the apocalypse, these tasks wouldn't fall to him.

After the apocalypse, he possessed spatial abilities, Superpowers, and the System, and didn't need to touch these things either.

Now, all shortcuts had been cut off by the end.

All he could do was ensure that every bag of plasma arrived at the door on time.

Su Xiaonuan sat at the master dispatch console, taking the paper tapes from the three regions.

"Shanghai activates independent diesel generator units."

"Zhe City seals off the areas along the silent wells."

"Jiangcheng's twelve Titans split their power supply and are forbidden from connecting to the urban power grid."

She flipped to the medical zone personnel list.

Her own name remained in the first batch evacuation column.

It wasn't crossed out.

Lin Yuan glanced over that line.

"Proceed with execution."

"Yes, Master."

...

Inside the delivery room, the monitor alarm accelerated.

"Fetal heart rate eighty-two."

"Continuing to drop!"

Su Muxue reached out her hand.

"Enlarge the incision."

Instruments collided.

The foot-operated suction device worked continuously.

Xia Qingqiu stared at the mechanical watch.

"Twenty-seven seconds."

"Thirty-one seconds."

Su Muxue reached both hands into the incision.

"Shoulders visible."

"Adjusting fetal position."

"Prepare for delivery."

Jiang Xiaowan's chest rose and fell, the oxygen mask filled entirely with water mist.

She didn't scream.

Her palms pressed against the bed rails, constantly listening to every instruction.

"Forty-three seconds."

"Out!"

Su Muxue cradled the baby girl, handing the umbilical cord over to the assistant to handle.

The child fell into the warm blanket.

There was no crying.

Inside the delivery room, only the sound of the mechanical bag valve mask pressing remained.

Outside the door, the paper tape machine stopped spitting out paper.

The blood bank checklist in Lin Yuan's hand was pressed with a crease.

Xia Qingqiu took the child.

"Airway clearance."

"Heart rate sixty-eight."

"Pressurized oxygen supply."

The mechanical bag fell.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

The baby girl's chest didn't rise or fall.

Jiang Xiaowan turned her head aside.

"Why isn't she crying?"

No one answered.

Xia Qingqiu continued operating.

"Heart rate seventy-four."

"Continue."

Su Muxue didn't look at the child.

She was still dealing with Jiang Xiaowan's bleeding.

"Uterine contraction insufficient."

"Uterotonic drugs."

"Coagulation factors."

"Compression suture preparation."

Blood soaked through the gauze.

A new bag of red blood cells was hung on the stand.

Jiang Xiaowan couldn't see the surgical area and could only stare at the warm blanket in Xia Qingqiu's arms.

The mechanical bag was pressed down again.

The baby girl's chest rose.

Air entered the lungs.

After a brief silence, a cry slammed against the delivery room door.

"Wa—"

In the corridor, all paper tape machines stopped simultaneously.

B2 observation chamber.

The black marks in the zero-reset coffin suddenly shrank back to the bottom of the box.

The twelve etchings went out one by one.

Beneath the Jiangcheng silent wells, the queue of advancing corpses stopped in unison.

Shanghai, Zhe City, Beijing.

The traction waves of the twelve wells returned to zero simultaneously.

The gunner on the outer wall held the bullet belt, looking at the mechanical pointer that had stopped spinning.

"The wells… stopped?"

Tang Qiqi raised the spring-wound camera.

Click.

The photo was ejected.

The black marks crowded at the very bottom of the zero-reset coffin, no longer striking.

"It's not sound."

She stared at the recording curve.

"It's the life cycle formed by the child's first spontaneous breathing."

"This little one gave the end a forced pause right after birth?"

...

Blue light suddenly lit up before Lin Yuan's eyes.

The System, which had been extinguished for a long time, only displayed four lines of text.

[Detection target: Newborn.]

[External System interface: None.]

[Gene structure: Natural closed loop.]

[Rating: Unable to establish.]

Two seconds later, the panel went black again.

Lin Yuan did not recall it.

The sterile door opened.

The nurse took half a step out holding the child.

"Mr. Lin, it's a girl."

"Maternal condition."

The nurse was stunned.

"Dr. Su is still stopping the bleeding."

Lin Yuan didn't take the child.

Inside the delivery room, Su Muxue completed the final set of compression sutures.

The amount of bleeding began to decrease.

Blood pressure crossed ninety again.

She checked twice and took off her blood-stained gloves.

"The mother is out of danger."

Lin Yuan finally reached out.

He cradled the baby girl's back of the neck and lower back.

The movement was not fast.

After the child pressed against his arm, the crying gradually subsided.

Jiang Xiaowan was wheeled out of the surgical area, an oxygen mask still strapped to her face.

She raised her hand and touched the edge of the swaddle.

"You bastard."

The voice was muffled through the mask.

"Hold her steady."

Lin Yuan placed the child in a position where she could see.

"You survived too."

Jiang Xiaowan closed her eyes briefly.

"Nonsense."

"This lady hasn't finished cursing you out yet."

Su Muxue shoved the postoperative record into Lin Yuan's hand.

"Cursing ability is normal."

"Observe for twenty-four hours first."

Someone in the corridor let out a laugh.

No one relaxed their vigilance.

Because the baby girl had stopped crying.

In the direction of B2, the mechanical alarm sounded again.

Tang Qiqi's slip of paper was sent from the stairwell.

[The twelve silent wells have reopened.]

[Traction target changed.]

...

Jiangcheng silent wells.

The first grayish-black humanoid climbed out of the well rim.

It had no crystal core.

No breathing.

Bullets pierced through its chest, only bringing out a puff of black ash.

The second one climbed to the ground against the barrage of bullets.

The third followed closely behind.

They didn't pounce on the nearest defenders.

All heads turned simultaneously.

The direction was consistent.

Cloud Top Palace.

The defenders squeezed the triggers.

Mechanical alarms covered the entire defense line.

The paper tape terminal spat out the first naming record.

[New End unit: Zero-Reset Entity.]

[Action target: Search for lifeforms possessing Superpowers and System interfaces.]

Inside the twelve silent wells.

Tens of thousands of grayish-black humanoids began climbing toward the surface.