Tomb raider: You're going to extract my alien bloodline?

Chapter 65 The Queen Mother of the West Dies

The Queen Mother of the West let out a shrill howl that was so mournful it was inhuman. Her body trembled violently, and her snake tail struggled wildly, but she could not immediately break free from Qin Yuan's grip.

Qin Yuan struck hard and showed no mercy. He twisted his right hand, which was piercing the opponent's chest, while his tail on his back swung violently at the same time!

boom!

The Queen Mother of the West was violently thrown back by the immense force, crashing heavily against a distant stone wall before sliding down and collapsing to the ground. A horrifying bloody hole gushed from her chest, and her serpentine tail lay limply outstretched. She struggled a few times but couldn't immediately rise. She raised her head, her vertical pupils fixed intently on Qin Yuan's inhuman form…

She opened her mouth, her throat making gurgling sounds, and after struggling for a long time, she finally managed to squeeze out a few hoarse, broken syllables using her vocal cords, which hadn't been used for thousands of years.

"You...are also...a test subject?"

The voice was unpleasant and harsh, with some indistinct syllables, but it was barely understandable.

A morbid light, a mixture of fanaticism and jealousy, suddenly flashed in her cloudy, vertical pupils as she stared intently at Qin Yuan: "How...perfect! Who?...Who successfully created you?!"

Qin Yuan: "..." He retracted his tail and bio-armor, shook the blood off his hands, and felt a sense of absurdity and disgust.

An experiment? Perfect? ​​This woman has truly gone mad. Using this monstrous form—neither human nor snake, clinging to life for thousands of years thanks to the energy of the meteorite—does she really think she's Nuwa, the creator goddess? Immersed in the delusion of immortality and transformation, she's long forgotten that she was originally a human being.

Although Qin Yuan couldn't help but wonder if the Queen Mother of the West's human-snake symbiosis experiment was the prototype of the bloodline fusion given by the system? It's just that she chose to live in symbiosis with snakes, while he was an alien.

But he was too lazy to waste his breath arguing with a madwoman, and even less inclined to discuss such matters with her. The system's mission objective was the core of the database, and clearing obstacles was part of that mission.

Qin Yuan walked forward expressionlessly. The Queen Mother of the West seemed to want to say something and tried to resist, but she was too badly injured to do anything about it.

He reached out and grabbed the woman's slender neck.

"Click."

Those murky, fanatical snake eyes instantly lost all their luster, becoming utterly dim. Thousands of years of obsession, madness, and the pursuit of immortality vanished into nothingness at this moment, with the end of life.

Qin Yuan released his grip, letting the strange body slump to the ground. He didn't even glance at it again, turning and walking towards the central stone pillar.

This time, there were no obstacles. He reached out and carefully grasped the crystalline core that shimmered with light. It was icy to the touch, and countless streams of information seemed to be flowing within it.

A system notification immediately sounded: [Ding! Successfully retrieved the core module of the 'Life Blueprint Database'.]

[The three core modules have been assembled, and the prerequisites for the ultimate shutdown program have been met. Please proceed to the Bronze Gate as soon as possible to complete the main quest and shut down the ultimate program.]

Qin Yuan stored the crystal core into his system space. After doing all this, he looked around the laboratory once more, a place filled with traces of the Queen Mother of the West's insane experiments. The ancient vessels and tools, the lingering distorted energy field in the air, and the half-human, half-snake corpse on the ground... none of it needed to exist anymore.

He took out several bundled detonators and a matching timer detonator from the system space. These were originally prepared for Fatty, but he never expected them to be used here.

He set the timer, placed the detonators at several support points and in locations with strong energy reactions in the room, and then stuffed a bundle of them under the body of the Queen Mother of the West.

Then, without lingering, he turned around and quickly returned to the passage he had come from.

As he passed by the body of the Queen Mother of the West, he paused, bent down, and picked up the jeweled crown from her head, casually tossing it into his system space. It might have some research value, or he could give it to Fatty; after all, it was worn by the Queen Mother of the West, so it was valuable.

He quickly climbed down the passage, getting further and further away from the center of the meteorite. When Qin Yuan's figure reappeared in the empty space below the meteorite, what awaited him was Qin Jiu, who was sitting obediently on a rock with a spicy snack in his mouth.

When the little guy saw him, he dropped the snacks he was holding and tried to pounce on him.

Qin Yuan caught him and held him in his arms. He glanced at the entrance to the meteorite jade above and whispered, "Cover your ears."

Although Qin Jiu didn't understand, he obeyed Qin Yuan's words completely, immediately covering his ears and burying his face in Qin Yuan's shoulder.

"boom--!!!!"

A muffled yet highly penetrating explosion resounded from deep within the meteorite, shaking the entire underground space! Above, the meteorite emitted a muffled thud as if its structure was collapsing; the pale green light on its outer layer flickered violently a few times before quickly dimming, becoming lifeless.

Large amounts of dust and debris fell from the holes in the meteorite.

Qin Yuan, carrying Qin Jiu, walked back through the passage they had come from without looking back.

Let the madness of the Queen Mother of the West, her forbidden experiments based on alien technology, and this twisted laboratory be buried forever beneath the ruins of this meteorite.

Qin Yuan, carrying Qin Jiu, had just turned a corner when they bumped into a group of people rushing towards them. It was Wu Xie and his group, followed by a gloomy-looking mop and several shaken employees.

The two groups met face to face and were both taken aback for a moment.

"Little Blackie? Are you alright? That commotion just now... was it you who caused it? Is my nephew alright?" The fat man was the first to shout when he saw Qin Yuan. He was awake now and looked quite energetic. Behind him was a woman he had never seen before, who should be Chen Wenjin.

Wu Xie breathed a sigh of relief: "Where did you go? You scared us to death! We heard a huge explosion!"

Qin Yuan remained expressionless and said succinctly, "It's nothing. I went inside the meteorite, took some things, and incidentally... collapsed it."

"Oh, it's alright, the meteorite collapsed... collapsed?!?" The fat man repeated subconsciously, then realized halfway through his sentence, his eyes widening in shock. "You collapsed that thing?! My goodness! That's the Queen Mother of the West's lair! I wanted to go in and see if there was anything valuable there!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Wenjin, who had been silent all along, trembled and stared intently at Qin Yuan: "What did you say?! The meteorite... collapsed?!"

Qin Yuan glanced at her and nodded.

Chen Wenjin's face turned deathly pale in an instant, even her lips lost all color. She staggered and rushed quickly towards the meteorite.

"Aunt Wenjin!" Wuxie was startled and quickly chased after her. Zhang Qiling frowned slightly and followed. Fatty, Hei Xiazi, and the others exchanged glances and followed as well.

Qin Yuan carried Qin Jiu and walked at the back at a leisurely pace.

When they returned to the empty underground space, they saw Chen Wenjin kneeling in front of the meteorite jade, which had completely lost its luster and was covered with cracks, looking utterly dejected.

She tilted her head back, seemingly oblivious to the presence of those around her, only murmuring over and over again:

"It's gone...it's really gone...how could this be...I don't have time...I...I don't have time..."

Wu Xie stood behind her, opening his mouth but unsure how to comfort her. The fat man scratched his head, looking at Qin Yuan with a complex expression. Hei Xiazi and Xie Yuchen remained silent. Zhang Qiling's gaze fell on Chen Wenjin, then slowly shifted to the collapsed meteorite jade, his eyes holding a light no one could understand.

Qin Yuan held Qin Jiu, watching this scene unfold. He knew what Chen Wenjin was despairing about; the energy field of the meteorite jade was the key to her maintaining this bizarre immortality and delaying her zombification. Now that he had taken the core of the meteorite jade, the energy field had dissipated, and the antidote she relied on to prolong her life was gone.

Her time is indeed running out.

But this ending might be a relief for her, and for the Queen Mother of the West who had been trapped in the body of a snake for thousands of years.

The mad pursuit of immortality, the twisted pursuit of eternal life, is ultimately nothing but an empty dream.