68: Chapter 68 The Living Map Awakens, the New King of Cloud Top Takes Over with a Headshot

"It's not critical condition."

Lin Yuan dropped the sentence, and the living room immediately went silent.

"It's genetic recombination."

Su Muxue had already grabbed the medical kit and snatched the walkie-talkie.

"Past medical history? Medication records? What's the intracranial pressure? How low did the blood oxygen drop? How long have the convulsions lasted?"

In the walkie-talkie, Lu Yan's voice trembled.

"Xixi is bleeding! She hasn't stopped shaking!"

Lin Yuan turned around.

"Follow me."

Su Muxue still wanted to ask more.

But she glanced at Wang Ya and remembered the corpses at the entrance of the Central Hospital.

The words on the tip of her tongue were forcibly swallowed back.

Tang Qiqi held her potato chips and wanted to follow.

Qin Yumo grabbed her by the back of her collar.

"Don't go join the excitement."

Tang Qiqi puffed up her cheeks.

Smack.

Qin Yumo slapped her on the rear.

Tang Qiqi immediately covered her mouth, eyes welling up with tears.

"Violent woman!"

Lin Yuan ignored her.

He took Su Muxue into the elevator and went straight to the second basement level.

The elevator door opened.

The underground garage passage was lit with cold white lights.

This place was originally the internal parking garage of Tiangong No. 1, and half of it had been converted by Lu Yan into a secure passage.

Steel plates, blast-proof sandbags, and spare diesel drums were piled against the walls.

Gun cases were lined up in a row.

Water purification pipes and surveillance lines were laid along the walls, all protected by metal troughs.

Su Muxue's footsteps slowed for a half-beat.

She finally understood.

Lin Yuan wasn't just hoarding supplies.

He had built a survival system based on wartime standards.

Lin Yuan pressed the walkie-talkie as he walked.

"Villa 13, seal all exterior windows."

"If you encounter suspicious personnel, kill them on the spot."

Tank's voice came through.

"Understood!"

Two minutes later.

At the end of the underground corridor of Villa 13, Tank stood guard at the door.

His expression was grim.

"Boss."

Lin Yuan pushed the door open and entered.

Inside the medical room, the alarm sound was piercing.

Lu Xixi lay in the white light inside the mobile monitoring pod.

There were traces of blood in her nostrils and ear canals.

Her thin, small body convulsed repeatedly.

Lu Yan knelt beside the monitoring pod, his eyes bloodshot.

Seeing Lin Yuan, he jerked his head up.

"You said you would save her!"

His voice was hoarse.

"You said that as long as she survived three months, she wouldn't die!"

The room fell silent.

Tank lowered his head.

After Lu Yan finished speaking, he himself froze.

He knew he had crossed the line.

But that was his daughter.

Lin Yuan didn't get angry.

He walked up to the monitoring pod.

"Step back."

Lu Yan gritted his teeth and moved back a step.

Su Muxue immediately stepped forward to check.

"Intracranial pressure is rising, heart rate is abnormal, neural discharge frequency is too high."

She stared at the screen, her brows furrowing tighter and tighter.

"But muscle response is strengthening."

"Bone density values are also changing."

"This doesn't fit any pathological model..."

She picked up the sedative.

"We must suppress the convulsions first, otherwise it might cause brain damage."

Lin Yuan reached out to stop her.

"If you give her an injection now, you might interrupt her awakening."

Su Muxue looked up.

"If we let the intracranial pressure rise unchecked, she will die."

Lin Yuan looked at Lu Xixi.

"High fever, she is repairing old lesions, consciousness is briefly detached from physical perception."

"The sedative in your hand will only cause her repair to fail."

Su Muxue's hand stopped in mid-air.

Lin Yuan leaned over to look at Lu Xixi's pupils.

In his past life, he only knew that Lu Xixi was not a combat-type Esper.

But he didn't know exactly what she was.

Five minutes later.

Lu Xixi opened her eyes.

A light golden grid appeared in her pupils.

She didn't look at the people in the room.

Instead, she looked outside the wall.

Her voice was very soft.

"Outside... behind the flower bed... there are three dots."

"Two are white."

"And one more... is turning gray."

Tank immediately checked the surveillance.

On the screen, the location of the flower bed was blocked by a corner of the wall.

Tank frowned and drew the dagger from his leg.

"I'll go take a look."

Three minutes later.

The walkie-talkie sounded.

"Boss, caught them."

Tank's voice suppressed his shock.

"Three servants from Villa 15 tried to sneak in to steal things during the chaos."

"One of them was bitten and is currently running a fever."

Lu Yan stood where he was, his body trembling.

He looked at his daughter in the monitoring pod, his expression shifting from fear to confusion, and then to uncontrollable shock.

Lu Xixi took a few breaths.

She continued to speak.

"I can see... many lines and dots."

"The outlines of the villas, the underground pipes."

"Over at Tiangong No. 1..."

She paused for a moment.

"There is a very bright cluster of blue dots, but it's mixed with dark purple."

Lin Yuan's eyes flickered.

Wang Ya.

Su Muxue held the recording board, her pen tip paused for half a second, then she recorded rapidly.

This was the first time she had witnessed a complete awakening process with her own eyes.

That time with Wang Ya, she only got the results.

This time, everything from intracranial pressure, neural response, and blood oxygen to bone density changes was right before her eyes.

The alarm sound began to weaken.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

The red warning on the monitoring pod gradually disappeared.

Color returned to Lu Xixi's face.

She raised her hand, clenched it into a fist, then released it.

Then, she held onto the pod wall and slowly sat up.

Lu Yan couldn't hold on any longer.

Thud.

He knelt on the ground, his forehead slamming against the floor.

"Boss."

"I was rude just now."

Tank's Adam's apple bobbed, he didn't dare to speak.

Lu Xixi also held the pod wall, wanting to kneel.

Su Muxue hurriedly supported her.

"Your body is still weak, don't move around."

Lu Xixi still bowed her waist.

"Thank you, Uncle Lin."

Her voice was very soft.

But it was very steady.

Lin Yuan looked at her.

"As long as you're alive."

"From today on, report the life distribution map around Cloud Top Palace to me at a fixed time every day."

"Can you handle it?"

Lu Xixi nodded.

"Yes."

Lin Yuan looked at Su Muxue.

"Tentatively classified as a B-grade [Map-type] Superpower."

"No direct lethality, but high strategic value."

Su Muxue nodded.

"For the next few days, I will perform examinations on her every day."

"Blood, bone density, neural response, cardiopulmonary function, and physical load after using the Superpower."

Lin Yuan turned around.

"As you wish."

He paused.

"Remember to close the passage door."

Su Muxue understood.

This was tacit permission.

She lowered her head to attach electrode pads to Lu Xixi.

Her finger movements were very steady.

But her gaze still fell on Lin Yuan's retreating back.

"Ding! Target Su Muxue (Appearance 90), Favorability +1%! Current Favorability: 20%!"

"Favorability broke the critical threshold, obtained 50% of target's base attribute bonus! (Target Constitution: 8, Spirit: 14)"

"Host: Lin Yuan"

"Constitution: 44 (+4)"

"Spirit: 66 (+7)"

"Superpower: A-grade [Dimensional Space] / S-grade [Sky Torrent]"

A cool sensation flooded into Lin Yuan's mind.

His spirit became clearer.

Within his field of vision, instrument data, personnel positions, and passage structures were almost simultaneously broken down into usable pieces of information.

Lin Yuan suddenly turned his head and met Su Muxue's gaze.

"From now on, you also count as my strategic resource."

Su Muxue's movements paused.

She wanted to retort.

In the end, she just lowered her head and tore open the electrode pad packaging.

Her ear tips were a bit red.

"The patient is still here, stop talking nonsense."

Lin Yuan smiled.

At the same time.

Cloud Top Palace main entrance plaza.

Zhang Qidong was covered in blood, stepping on the corpses of elite zombies, holding a megaphone.

"Everyone!"

"From now on, Cloud Top Palace must establish self-governance rules!"

"All supplies must be registered uniformly!"

"All men are to be organized into patrol teams!"

"Women are responsible for logistics and medical care!"

"No one is allowed to hoard weapons privately!"

The more he spoke, the smoother he got.

"In a while, the patrol team and I will go together to crusade against that coward at Tiangong No. 1!"

That piece of paper with the rules just written on it rustled in the wind.

The next second.

The bodyguard behind him raised his gun.

Bang!

Blood splattered onto the megaphone.

Zhang Qidong fell straight down.

The rule paper was stained red.

The plaza exploded instantly.

Screams, cries, and sounds of retreat merged into a mess.

That bodyguard stepped on Zhang Qidong's corpse and picked up the shotgun.

"My name is A-Bao."

"From now on, this area listens to me."

A-Bao pointed at a few homeowners, telling them to drag Zhang Qidong's corpse away.

A rope was thrown over a lamppost.

The corpse was hung up.

Blood dripped down the pant legs to the ground.

...

In the living room of Tiangong No. 1.

The potato chips in Tang Qiqi's hand fell to the ground.

"The 'King of Cloud Top Palace' trial card really was too short."

Qin Yumo didn't laugh.

She stared at the screen.

The old world talked about status and rules.

Now there's only one word left.

Tough.

Su Xiaonuan immediately reported the situation to Lin Yuan via the walkie-talkie.

"Mr. Lin, this A-Bao is more dangerous than Zhang Qidong."

"Zhang Qidong loved to act, cared about face, and still needed the support of the homeowners."

"This person doesn't care about propriety, he's not easy to control."

Lin Yuan looked at Lu Yan beside him.

"Xixi's first combat field test."

"Mark all personnel in the plaza."

In the depths of Lu Xixi's eyes, the light golden grid appeared again.

"On the plaza... seventy-eight white dots."

"And two gray dots."

Lu Xixi's face suddenly turned pale.

She held onto the edge of the monitoring pod.

"Uncle Lin..."

"There are dozens of gray-black dots at the entrance of the residential complex."

"They are moving towards the plaza."