Gu Ya, too excited, did not hear the words of the aged elder.
The metal cocoon continued to contract upwards in an orderly fashion until Bai Ying's beautiful yet emotionless face was revealed. Only then did Gu Ya heave a long sigh of relief.
"I'm coming to save you! Ying!!"
"Delusion!" The Grand Tutor stood up from his wheelchair!
The black robe on his body suddenly swelled, as if hundreds of tentacles were surging within the clothing!
Gu Ya paid no mind to this, casually summoning five metal blades from the air. With a few "thwips," they pierced the Grand Tutor's body, pinning him firmly in place.
The experimental medical personnel around continued their work as if they had seen nothing.
The Grand Tutor suddenly let out a roar!
His body split at the waist, dividing into upper and lower halves. The lower half emerged from the robe, revealing a dwarf that looked like a five or six-year-old child.
However, this dwarf had an extremely horrifying mechanical face!
The dwarf leaped up, pulled out the metal blades, and hurled them forcefully at Gu Ya!
Gu Ya had not expected the old man to be so formidable. Just as the metal blades were about to strike him, he quickly retreated into his Dimensional Space. The next moment, he appeared in the operating room.
"Ying, let's go!!"
Gu Ya reached out to grab Bai Ying, intending to conjure a mechanical exoskeleton for her and place her inside his Dimensional Space.
But things did not go as planned! The Grand Tutor's upper half broke through the window and instantly appeared before Gu Ya. Three mechanical arms extended from his back, firmly gripping Gu Ya's wrists.
"Who are you, and why do you use 'Yong Meng'?" the Grand Tutor asked sternly.
Gu Ya glared, his eyes cold, and said chillingly, "You dare to stop me from saving her, you die!"
He instantly manifested an exoskeleton, pushed with all his might, and the two of them fell into the Dimensional Space.
With a wider space to display his skills, Gu Ya no longer held back.
He instantly replaced his standard exoskeleton with the Thunderstorm Nova Exoskeleton Armor. A "crackling" lightning network was unleashed from his left arm, and thousands of light energy bullets were fired from his entire armor.
All attacks were directed at the Grand Tutor!
The Grand Tutor's expression suddenly froze. Countless fissures appeared on his skin. Just as Gu Ya's attack was about to hit him, the Grand Tutor suddenly fractured into thousands upon thousands of pieces.
It was as if a pile of pixels had suddenly crumbled and scattered, easily dodging the lightning and light energy bullets!
But the next second, he re-condensed, his arms bulging. He suddenly projected two arm blades, resembling new moons attached to his arms.
With a surge of energy from his waist, he lunged at Gu Ya!
"You have this move too!" Gu Ya was startled, not expecting the old man to have modified his body so drastically!
After retreating a couple of steps, Gu Ya's eyes widened, and he roared, "All skills activated!"
As his voice faded, his true form appeared behind the Grand Tutor.
But bizarrely, the Grand Tutor was not killed by Gu Ya's strike; instead, he flew away unharmed.
The two stood firm, several meters apart.
The brief exchanges were merely probes of each other's capabilities.
The probing phase was now over, and both knew that the real battle was about to begin.
The Grand Tutor chuckled and said, "Hehehe, who did I think it was? It turns out to be a Divine Power user! We parted ways in Huiye City, and I trust you've been well."
Gu Ya instantly understood the other party's identity and said coldly, "So you're from the Huiye family!"
The Grand Tutor quickly tore off the obstructing robe, revealing half of his mechanical body.
The mechanical body began to writhe, slowly growing lower limbs.
"Ai Li Mi went missing because of you, and Mi Jin was killed by you. My External Technology Department lost two key figures because of your appearance!"
Gu Ya sneered and said, "So you're the Minister of the External Technology Department! No wonder you can resist 'Yong Meng' with such inconceivable bodily modification techniques."
"Hehehehe, body? That word is an insult to my research! I am no longer human!!"
Gu Ya said angrily, "I can see that, you inhuman thing!"
Time was up. Gu Ya instantly activated all his skills and vanished again, turning into an afterimage!
The Grand Tutor easily blocked with his five arms, confident that he could stop Gu Ya's attack.
But Gu Ya did not attack directly; instead, he appeared beside the Grand Tutor!
The next moment, layers upon layers of sturdy silver cages appeared around the Grand Tutor, trapping him firmly within the silver blocks. The number of silver cage layers increased, eventually forming a massive lead sphere tens of meters in diameter!
Immediately after, several soaring torrents of fire shot towards the lead sphere from all directions.
"Crackling" lightning shot through the gaps between the flames.
The excellent conductivity of the silver metal could instantly paralyze the Grand Tutor, while the flames reaching over a thousand degrees could melt the silver instantly.
After the high-voltage electricity and immense fire, the large lead sphere turned into a golden-yellow, paste-like mass!
No matter who or what was trapped inside, even an extraterrestrial being, there was no possibility of survival!
"You shall be trash in this rift of space!" Gu Ya said in a low voice, opened the door to his Dimensional Space, and walked out.
As soon as he stepped out of the Dimensional Space, Gu Ya froze.
It was still pitch black ahead! He had not exited the Dimensional Space at all!
"No!"
Gu Ya let out a low growl, and when he looked back, the Dimensional Space door behind him had vanished.
"Hahahahahaha!!!" The Grand Tutor's arrogant laughter echoed from all directions!
"Amateurish youth, you thought you could trap me? You shall forever languish in your ridiculous technology!"
As his voice fell, the entire world became exceptionally quiet!!
Gu Ya roared, but his voice disappeared.
Not only that, but Gu Ya felt countless tiny tentacles scratching at him.
Even the holographic lights he emitted could not illuminate the darkness!
"This is bad! I've fallen into a trap!!"
...
The Grand Tutor walked out of the Dimensional Space, stepped on and shattered the device that opened the Dimensional Space, and calmly returned to his wheelchair.
The mechanical dwarf burrowed back into the Grand Tutor's lower body.
After a series of transformations, he resumed his original appearance. With a slight flip of his hands, he dispelled everyone's "Yong Meng."
Huang Li, Wei, and everyone in the control room looked around in astonishment.
Huang Li asked, "Grand Tutor! What happened just now? Why was the control room destroyed so quickly?"
The Grand Tutor said calmly, "Nothing much, just a rat got in. I have eliminated it."
"Do not delay, continue with the extraction experiment! Hehehehe, I am increasingly optimistic about experimental subject number 37."
With the Grand Tutor's words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and returned to their seats.
Huang Li and Wei also personally assisted the Grand Tutor.
With the combined efforts of three great scientists, the experiment was soon restarted!
The humanoid metal cocoon re-enveloped Bai Ying, and the instruments at the bottom re-secured the metal cocoon, connecting the interfaces.
A new, thick protective glass rose from the floor, separating the operating room from the control room.
The gravity within the operating room began to change.
The subtle, pleasant electronic hum and data transmission sounds resumed.
And Bai Ying, inside the metal cocoon, once again felt that invisible external force, as if peeling away silk, drawing her out piece by piece.
Bai Ying could not determine where the extracted parts had gone.
Her body felt as if it were being gnawed by thousands of ants, becoming riddled with holes, and the gnawing speed was increasing!
If she didn't find a solution soon, not only she, but Ye Ying and Gu Ya would also be killed by them!
Bai Ying's calm eyes slowly firmed, and a never-before-felt obsession to survive began to emerge!
With this obsession, Bai Ying suddenly understood what she could not comprehend before.
Since the dawn of humanity, they had been striving for this innate characteristic hidden within their genes!
"The instinct for survival," Bai Ying said faintly. "This is humanity."
"If that's the case, then I'll take a risk."