Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'
Chapter 107 - 085. Gravity, death, to you are synonyms

Chapter 107: 085. Gravity, death, to you are synonyms

She had just left when Nodley, lying on the ICU operating table, suddenly spoke:

"...Stop tending to me."

Her tone was weaker than it had ever been, devoid of her usual strength and composure, as light and flimsy as a piece of paper in the wind.

"Head Nurse Nodley? We’ve already administered the anesthesia—are you too disturbed by your Qi Energy for the drugs to hold you?"

"Anna... She has it tough."

Nodley’s tone was filled with sorrow:

"Someone like me should just die, I’ve committed so many sins, now is my time for atonement..."

"What are you saying—you’ve saved so many lives, without you, all of us would have died long ago."

The lead surgeon’s nose tingled with emotion; after all, Nodley was a colleague and friend they had worked with for years, defending their peace with martial force.

"...No matter how much water you add to a bottle of ink, it will never become clear. The wrong things I’ve done can never be washed away."

Nodley struggled, attempting to reach out and pull out the breathing tube:

"Just let me die, I should have died a long time ago—"

Bang!

The ICU door was kicked open with a thud, and a nurse immediately shouted, "We’re in surgery, outsiders aren’t allowed in—"

Before she could finish, her cheeks flushed red as a tall figure in a yellow-black trench coat whisked past her, pushing her aside with an effortless gesture.

Even though it was just for a moment, the handsome, flawless face quickened her heartbeat, leaving her helplessly infatuated.

"Truly rare, I only left for three days, and now I’m considered an outsider?"

The strikingly handsome man spread his arms, innocently asking:

"Don’t you recognize me? Doctors. You’ve even taken bone marrow and blood from me. Truly heartless women you are, tsk tsk."

He seemed to have a magnetic presence, capturing the attention of everyone in the room, who then found themselves entranced under the gaze of his grey eyes.

"You are... Mr. Leoz?"

The lead surgeon recognized him, and amidst her surprise, she shook her head:

"It’s a pleasure to see you alive and back, but we are in the middle of a surgery, and your presence here could affect us—"

Snap!

Leoz carelessly tossed a box of medicine, which landed in the surgeon’s arms. Looking down at the words ’Zunisidine,’ she nearly screamed.

"Zunisidine—truly, it’s the life-saving drug! Head Nurse Nodley, you’re saved."

She quickly opened the package, mixed the medicine in the optimal ratio, and administered the arterial injection directly.

Leoz leaned against the door, watching the surgery with great interest.

After a flurry of activity, Nodley’s vital signs gradually returned to normal, her breathing stabilized, and the effects of the anesthesia began to take hold again as her body recovered.

The lead surgeon breathed a sigh of relief; after stitch up the chest wound, it would take less than two hours for Nodley to get back to normal.

A heartfelt gratitude welled up inside her. She had a nurse wipe her sweat, sewed up the wound, and turned around to bow respectfully to Leoz.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Leoz! If not for your help, Head Nurse Nodley might have had to undergo dialysis, which would have caused almost irreversible damage to her body."

"Oh, it’s nothing, it’s the least I could do. No need to thank me."

Leoz chuckled, then casually locked the ICU door and approached.

"You must accept my gratitude, Head Nurse Nodley has saved many people, she’s always protected our lives... Here in Mingji, she is like our guardian angel."

The lead surgeon remained bowed, tears streaming down her face.

"Stand up," Leoz said. "Head Nurse Nodley is a good person, I don’t deny that. You don’t need to thank me."

The lead surgeon, clearly emotional and overwhelmed, bowed even lower, expressing her immense gratitude:

"No! You must accept our thanks, whatever you wish, just ask."

"Look up."

Leoz said impatiently.

"I told you to look up, are you deaf?"

"If you won’t allow me to show my gratitude, I will not look up—"

Before the lead surgeon could finish, the cold barrel of a gun emitting the scent of gunpowder was forced into her open mouth. She vaguely recognized it as similar to the large caliber pistol wielded by the leader of White Fang when they invaded Mingji.

Click.

Leoz pulled the trigger.

Bang!

The head of the lead surgeon expanded instantly, blood spraying onto the ceiling, splattering the smiling and grateful faces of the nurses beside her.

The surgeon’s body knelt, and Leoz, with disgust, dropped the saliva- and blood-covered gun barrel to the ground.

He disliked this type of weapon partly because he didn’t know how to use it, and moreover, because guns killed too quickly, devoid of feeling.

The heavy sensation and dazzling visual impact of crushing a life beneath one’s hands with a cold weapon was something fire weapons could never match.

"Lift your head when I tell you to, what’s with the backtalk?"

He turned his head, looking at the other Mingji nurses and doctors, shrugging his shoulders innocuously:

"Folks, don’t you think she’s being a bit disobedient?"

As he spoke, he flung off the antimicrobial cloth on the operating table, revealing the pale-faced Nodley, as thin as a mummy, her pupils reflecting Aozi’s crazed smile.

Her lips quivered, eyes filled with alarm:

’Stop... please...’

Ding-ling——

In her eyes of despair, chains dangled from Aozi’s arms, as he dragged the iron chain across the floor, slowly approaching the four Mingji physicians in the operating room.

’Spare... them...’

"Such sweet pleading, Head Nurse,"

Aozi turned his head, revealing a sunny smile:

"When Xeno’s brain was being removed, would you have pleaded for her like this?"

Nodley’s pupils contracted, the shadows of the past overwhelming her heart in a flash.

The next moment, Aozi swiftly swung the chains at the female Mingji medical staff.

"Ah!"

The chains whipped, breaking bones and slicing tendons.

"My leg—stop it, stop it! Woohoo—"

Gravity pressed down, suffocating and choking.

"Help, save me, my neck is so heavy... ah, Mom, Mom, I can’t breathe..."

Life extracted, Severing Life.

"Spare me, please, I didn’t do anything, it was Mingji who deceived me—no, ah! What have you done to me, my skin, my face is aging, I... stop..."

Nodley watched the brutality unfold before her eyes, as Aozi kept repeating the words ’ZX-102’, ’Xeno’, ’baby’, and the seriously wounded her felt the world spin around her, as if it was pressing down upon her.

’Stop... stop...’

She cried out inwardly, yet never dared to utter out loud ’Come at me, they are innocent.’

Such an against-the-grain statement, even the demons would scoff at it.

Bang!

Aozi diverted gravity, cleanly grabbing the head and then stomping on the ground, the amplified gravity smashing the other’s head like a watermelon.

He beckoned, and a woman with crushed legs crawled frantically toward the door, her body suddenly lightened, crashing into Aozi’s hands.

"Oh, God!"

She cried out, tearing open her physician’s coat, tears streaking her face, putting on a brave smile, and pleading, "Hey, have a quick moment of joy with me, let me go, do whatever to them, just spare me—"

Crack!

Aozi’s hand grabbed around her neck, puncturing her artery with a spinal shard, then kicked her away.

Her blood jetted wildly, splattering walls and the operating table with droplets everywhere, leaving her face frozen in horror and panic.

The remaining two were not lucky either, as Aozi swung gravity up and down, back and forth.

With a flick of his wrist, he turned the chains into a long spear and impaled the last one through the collarbone and out through the buttocks, nailing her to the ground, where she stiffened and did not move again.

Aozi walked forward, slowly pulling out the chains hooked with shattered parts, deftly throwing them in front of Head Nurse Nodley.

"You are a good person, Head Nurse Nodley, after all, not many are willing to admit their wrongdoing and seek redemption,"

Aozi stepped on the head of her bed and said calmly:

"But I am not. It’s hard to say if I’ll still be an individual later— but I’m sure I can’t be a good person."

’Why... why do this...’

"I am voracious, cold-blooded, arrogant, and grandiose, and it’s no exaggeration to say that I’ve killed possibly a hundred million times more people than Mingji, so I never believed in karma—otherwise, I should have died long ago."

Dr. Chen Siqi had said that entering the underground required the iris recognition of Nodley and Doctor Anna.

Aozi looked around.

’Why don’t you kill me... Why?’

"You are still useful to me, and since you want to atone, don’t die so easily, it’s too cheap for your crimes—I will cut your veins open, pierce your ’Qi Sea,’ and let you slowly feel the fade of life."

Aozi picked up a scalpel from the operating table:

"Even me, full of flaws, have something remarkable—I am liked by babies, their innocent smiles and thoughts can have an endless future and also bring healing to my heart."

"Every time I see those little babies, I realize that there should be lines that shouldn’t be crossed, that life has a sacred dignity. My life shouldn’t just be for profit, I should have my own bottom lines and beliefs..."

He turned his head, pried open Nodley’s left eye, and placed the gleaming scalpel against her eyelid:

"And I have only one bottom line: don’t mess with the babies!"

As he said this, he plunged the scalpel into Nodley’s eyeball.