The tenth Lan Nuo appeared. Facing the sweeping laser, he did an iron bridge, then a backflip as the laser swept over his stomach, narrowly dodging the laser's return strike. He then rolled forward, avoiding the second laser that ambushed him from behind. Unfortunately, his ankle was severed by the third laser sweeping from top to bottom, making movement difficult, and he was instantly killed by the three lasers' combined attack.
The fiftieth Lan Nuo continuously dodged, enduring the encirclement of seven lasers before he could no longer evade and was dismembered.
"Damn it! Constantly dodging isn't a solution. I must counterattack! This laser clearly has AI control; it chases and tries to kill me as soon as I dodge!"
The seventieth Lan Nuo dodged the pincer attack of two lasers. As the third laser was just forming, he fired a shot. Although the laser corridor was made of bulletproof glass, it was riddled with cracks, and the laser, being refracted, immediately lost its power, creating a small laser-free zone.
Unfortunately, bullets could not destroy the laser emitters outside the corridor. Even though he could create small laser-free zones, Lan Nuo only lasted until the eleventh laser before his pistol was hit, losing his weapon, and ultimately dying tragically. However, he also observed that the laser corridor eventually became sluggish, indicating that Kaplan was also working hard to decipher the laser corridor.
The one hundred and seventh Lan Nuo had his limbs severed. Just as a laser was about to decapitate him, his eyes suddenly became blank. Following his survival instinct, he flailed on the ground, narrowly dodging the laser. At the same time, the laser corridor completely shut down. He became the first Lan Nuo to survive, but was immediately followed by immense, intense pain, and due to excessive blood loss, he ultimately could not hold on.
However, that feeling of his eyes going blank and his survival instinct exploding was remembered by Lan Nuo. That was the characteristic of unlocking the Gene Lock, and in the infinite terror world, it was the most important setting besides the Main God.
Humans, in the process of struggling to survive, can often unleash power beyond their physical limits. For example, a frail woman lifting a car with her bare hands to save her child. This kind of situation, exceeding human physical limits, is called unlocking the Gene Lock.
Lan Nuo was not a person of great fortune like Zheng Zha, so his first one hundred and six death struggles failed to unlock the Gene Lock. However, his will to survive, compared to most people, was by no means low. Perhaps in everyday life, he might be quite laid-back, like an ordinary passerby.
But once their lives were threatened, the Lan Nuos would erupt with an immense sense of crisis, fighting with all their might for that individual. So, after over a hundred death struggles, Lan Nuo finally unlocked the Gene Lock on his one hundred and seventh attempt.
This efficiency was naturally trash-tier compared to the monsters of the Central Continent Team, but among the vast majority of ordinary people, especially in America where demons and monsters ran rampant, it was already an excellent performance.
On the one hundred and eighth attempt, facing the encirclement of eleven lasers, Lan Nuo found the feeling and successfully unlocked the Gene Lock again. His eyes went blank, and at the cost of losing an arm, he held on until the laser corridor was deciphered, only to immediately collapse in pain afterward.
Unlocking the Gene Lock has side effects, similar to the side effects after a large release of adrenaline, but even more painful. Without Main God's repair, most people would find it difficult to endure. The longer the Gene Lock is activated, the stronger the backlash.
Although every Lan Nuo held a strong will to survive and persevered through the pain, the one hundred and eighth Lan Nuo still could not hold on.
"Damn it! This is more painful than being dismembered! The future me, you must minimize the time you activate the Gene Lock! We'll figure out how to activate it when we get to the Main God Space!" After instructing his next self to take over, the one hundred and eighth Lan Nuo also left the body of Lan Nuo 1926.
The one hundred and thirty-first Lan Nuo activated the Gene Lock for twenty-one seconds, successfully endured the backlash, but became paralyzed and was carried back by the protagonist group. This time, Lan Nuo also tested the maximum time he could explore: each summoned self could exist for a maximum of three minutes. After three minutes, no matter what happened, the next person would take over.
The one hundred and sixty-third Lan Nuo activated the Gene Lock for thirteen seconds, successfully endured the backlash, but became weak and was helped out of the laser corridor by Zheng Zha.
The two hundred and seventy-seventh Lan Nuo activated the Gene Lock for seven seconds, successfully endured the backlash, and walked out of the laser corridor on his own, but Matthew Addison died.
The three hundred and fifty-first Lan Nuo activated the Gene Lock for three seconds; the backlash was negligible, his condition remained perfect, and Matthew Addison was severely injured.
The four hundred and thirteenth Lan Nuo activated the Gene Lock for 2.7 seconds; the backlash was negligible, his condition remained perfect, and Matthew Addison was unharmed. From this Lan Nuo onwards, the remaining Lan Nuos were constantly familiarizing themselves with the movements. It seemed that no matter how impatient Lan Nuo was, all ten thousand of his selves had to take turns before this process of death struggle could end.
Although it was incredibly monotonous, considering that each review could increase his survival rate, as later Lan Nuos were not without incidents where they had their hands and feet cut off, Lan Nuo patiently memorized every movement of himself.
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After nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rehearsals... Lan Nuo 1926 personally faced the laser corridor. Under the horrified gazes of everyone, he performed a Nio bullet-time move, dodging the first laser. Immediately after, he quickly stood up, taking a leisurely step backward, and the returning laser just passed him. At the same time, he flicked his pistol upwards, and the bullet created spiderweb-like cracks on the ceiling glass, perfectly blocking the second laser's ambush.
The mercenary captain, Matthew Addison, cursed, "Firing in such a small space! Do you want to die?!"
However, Lan Nuo ignored him, and the ricocheting bullet did not hit anyone. The third laser struck, and Lan Nuo gracefully spun in place, as if dancing, passing through the gap between the two lasers.
The mercenary captain was stunned by this scene, even forgetting that a laser was heading towards him. Just as he thought he was doomed, Lan Nuo fired another shot at the glass on the left, and the laser, like light shining on a disco ball, refracted into several beams. Though hot, it couldn't even ignite clothes.
Matthew Addison, who had narrowly escaped death, didn't even have time to feel relieved before Lan Nuo kicked him in the butt, sending him sprawling forward. A laser grazed his scalp, and he felt his head burning, while the others saw that Lan Nuo was now standing on one foot, with the other foot raised, perfectly supporting the mercenary captain's upper body, preventing him from falling and saving him from being decapitated by the laser in front of him. Lan Nuo then fired four more shots in quick succession, perfectly blocking the four lasers that were besieging him.
Ricocheting bullets bounced wildly in the corridor, even flying past Lan Nuo's face, yet not hitting anyone. At this point, everyone was looking at Lan Nuo with the gaze one would reserve for a deity.
And Lan Nuo's evasion seemed to have been targeted by the AI. It seemed to have calculated that Lan Nuo's gun was out of bullets; eighteen lasers, ignoring everyone else, came from all directions, like a fence, to shred Lan Nuo. There was no time for a normal reload or dodge.
But Lan Nuo showed no panic. With a slight flick of his finger, the empty magazine fell out. He twitched his upper body, and a magazine from his tactical vest popped out, perfectly sliding into the pistol. Simultaneously, Lan Nuo leaped, his body twisting horizontally in mid-air like a gymnast. Facing the laser grid, he continuously fired his pistol, creating two bullet holes on the left and right walls. Then, using a pistol he had somehow acquired from Matthew Addison, he fired both guns at the upper and lower glass panels in a circular motion.
Out of eighteen lasers, ten were silenced, and the remaining eight just grazed Lan Nuo's horizontally positioned body, not missing by an inch. Lan Nuo landed steadily, and everyone present, including Zheng Zha, was already standing frozen in place.
The less than two seconds Lan Nuo spent firing in mid-air was the time he unlocked the Gene Lock. Even Zhang Jie didn't notice that Lan Nuo had actually unlocked the Gene Lock, but that kind of skill still made him frown involuntarily.
When Lan Nuo landed and dodged the last laser unscathed, Kaplan finally deciphered the laser corridor, ending this terrifying laser death trap.
After a brief moment of stunned silence, the mercenaries seemed to finally remember they could breathe and immediately let out a cheer. Matthew Addison even gave Lan Nuo a bear hug.
"Thank you! Brother, you're amazing! Was that Chinese Kung Fu just now?"
At the same time, Lan Nuo also heard the Main God's prompt: obtained one B-rank side quest, rewarded 4000 points.
【To be continued】
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