Castle Escape, The Wolf and His Lover Begin a New Chapter

The vibrations from deep below carried an eerie frequency, and Bo Yu felt his ribs hum in resonance.Tang Yao's starry birthmark on her neck had turned into a strange purple-red hue. Silver strands, like fine threads of hair, wove around her body into an energy net, but it was being eroded by the dark red substance seeping from the rift below."The dimensional anchor points have been severed." Tang Yao bit her lip, blood dripping from her fingers as they pressed onto the altar. "They don't want mutual destruction; they want to exile us to a shattered space-time!"Before she could finish, the entire western wall suddenly vanished as if erased by an eraser.Through the gap, Bo Yu could see the starry sky outside the castle twisting, the stars being stretched into pale, thread-like streaks.His pupils constricted into vertical slits, and he sensed an even more dangerous aura—something beyond physical rules of annihilation was closing in.Zhao's manic laughter came from above, and thirty-two holographic projections appeared in the circular dome. "The bloodline of the Silver Wolf King should rot in the quantum graveyard!" His true form hid in the folded space, and his voice scraped with a metallic screech. "Do you know why you were chosen as the sacrifice? Because your genetic sequence..."The sound of something tearing through the air interrupted his words.Bo Yu leaped, holding Tang Yao, and the place they had stood was now a pitch-black void.The dark red patterns wriggled like living creatures, devouring even the light that passed through."Hold on!" Bo Yu growled, the voice of a beast rumbling in his throat.His right-hand nails elongated into sharp claws, digging into the quantumizing stone pillar.Tang Yao's silver hair suddenly stiffened, and dozens of strands pierced into his wrist veins, a cold awareness flowing through their nerves in an instant.The world seemed to slow down in Bo Yu's eyes.He could clearly see the coordinates where Zhao's true form was hiding, three hundred meters away—half of his body was embedded in the castle's main control room's phase barrier, his left hand pressing a holographic interface resembling a star map.The werewolf bloodline surged within Bo Yu's veins.He felt something growing at the end of his spine, but he couldn't focus on it now.Using the energy thread transmitted by Tang Yao, he shot forward like a bullet, the rifts in space-time he passed through being forcibly sealed by the ethereal blue arcs surrounding him."Impossible!" Zhao's frantic retreat knocked over the control console.He watched as Bo Yu tore through the phase barrier with his bare hands. The dimension fragments that could cut through diamonds made a metallic clashing sound when they touched Bo Yu's skin.Bo Yu's right eye had completely turned into amber beast pupils.He grabbed Zhao's neck and lifted him just as the entire castle suddenly tilted ninety degrees.Through the porthole, Bo Yu could see the foundation collapsing into a black hole, with countless building fragments being sucked in and turned into quantum dust."The core engine is overloaded!" Tang Yao's voice crackled through the communicator, distorted by electromagnetic interference. "In two minutes and seventeen seconds, it will—"A deafening sound drowned out her last words.Secretary Liu's quantum avatar had somehow broken through the starlight cage, and her real body, along with seven other avatars, pounced toward Tang Yao.But Bo Yu was faster. As he moved, three afterimages followed him, and his claws tore apart the shockwave generated by the spatial rip, shattering all the avatars into dust.Zhao seized the chance to pull out the dark matter dagger but was caught by Bo Yu's wrist the moment it was thrust.The agonizing sound of bone breaking echoed as the weapon, capable of cutting atoms, was turned back on its owner and plunged into Zhao's quantum stabilizer."No!" Zhao screamed, his body flickering like a malfunctioning hologram, his expensive suit peeling off in quantum tides. "You can't... The Silver Wolf King also..."Bo Yu dragged him toward the crumbling observation tower.Moonlight pierced through the quantum clouds, casting light on Bo Yu's side profile, and the wolf hair that faintly appeared on his back shimmered with a metallic glow. "Let me tell you a secret," he whispered in Zhao's ear, his voice full of predator's pleasure. "I awakened more than just my bloodline."Zhao's last consciousness was frozen the moment the weightless sensation hit him.As he fell from three hundred meters, he saw Bo Yu leaping in the opposite direction, holding Tang Yao—Bo Yu's back to the collapsing castle, the girl's silver hair unfurling like a star map in the moonlight, and the space-time rifts chasing them, bending into protective arches as they touched the blue arcs surrounding the two.Tang Yao's fingertips still held the burning remnants of the quantum shield, but as they touched Bo Yu's palm, a cool force gently smoothed it out.She looked at his side profile, now bathed in silver moonlight, with wolf fur gently swaying in the night wind, like the shadow of some ancient totem."Southeast, ventilation duct." Bo Yu suddenly spoke, his amber beast pupils scanning the twisted and deformed columns.He tore off his tie, binding Tang Yao's bleeding wrist, his rough hands avoiding her pulsing artery with precision. "Stay three steps behind me."Amid the rumbling collapse, Tang Yao heard the strange resonance between her rapid heartbeat and his breathing.When Bo Yu tore open the alloy gate with his bare hands, she noticed the ethereal blue arcs wrapping around his forearm, devouring the metal debris—just like a hungry wolf pack tearing into its prey.The escape route unfolded in Bo Yu's mind in vivid detail.As he pulled Tang Yao's waist and leaped toward the ventilation shaft, the three-story floors above them suddenly collapsed.Concrete debris froze in midair just three inches from them before being pulverized by some invisible force."They're still activating the earth core nodes." Tang Yao suddenly pressed her hand to her chest, her starry birthmark faintly glowing in the dark. "Three hundred meters southeast, there's a living energy source!"Bo Yu chuckled lowly, the heels of his boots crushing the surveillance camera at the corner.The dark red warning lights illuminated half his face, and the abrasion from his brow to his jaw was visibly healing. "Perfect, we need a ride."As they crashed through the final blast-proof glass, moonlight poured down like a waterfall.Tang Yao's silver hair spread out in the night wind, the ends brushing across Bo Yu's neck, sparking tiny electrical flames.Behind them, the castle's main tower was collapsing inward in a way that defied physics, the crumbling bricks disintegrating into shimmering quantum dust mid-air."Hold on!" Bo Yu suddenly surged forward.At the moment the weightlessness hit, Tang Yao tightened her arms around him, the sharp sound of breaking air rushing past their ears—Bo Yu leaped over the collapsing moat, landing on the engine hood of a pitch-black nightmare war vehicle.The mournful creak of metal deformed as Bo Yu pressed his palm on the vehicle's onboard computer interface.The ethereal blue arcs surged into the system through the data cables, and the previously silent dashboard suddenly began to flash wildly.As the war vehicle roared out of the ruins, the rearview mirror reflected the final moment of the entire castle sinking into the quantum abyss: the gothic spires shattered like cookies crushed by a child's hand, breaking into a million light spots in the ripples of dimensional collapse.Heavy rain began to pour down ten minutes later.Tang Yao curled up in the passenger seat, watching Bo Yu's white shirt soaked by the rain, the faint golden patterns from overuse of his bloodline power beginning to show through.She reached out to touch his fevered forehead, but her fingertip was gently grasped before it could reach."Don't touch." Bo Yu's voice was much deeper than usual, and as his throat moved, the remaining wolf hair was faintly visible. "The backlash energy field will burn..."The screeching sound of brakes interrupted his words.Twelve bright headlights suddenly lit up from all directions, surrounding their war vehicle in the center of the rainstorm.Bo Yu's pupils instantly contracted into vertical slits, but upon recognizing the newcomers, his muscles relaxed—the silver star map insignia on their black combat suits was the same as the mysterious organization that had warned him three days ago in the bar district."Mr. Bo, Miss Tang," the woman at the forefront opened the car door, the dark purple umbrella blooming in the rain.Her mechanical eye on her neck emitted a faint hum as it rotated, scanning Bo Yu's hand where the wolf claw marks had not yet faded. "We are the 'Starfire' special operations group, here to assist you in clearing quantum contamination."Tang Yao suddenly tightened Bo Yu's shirt sleeve.Her birthmark was now glowing with icy blue light in the shadow cast by the umbrella, and the mysterious symbols formed by those light spots perfectly matched the patterns on the woman's chest badge.As the rain washed away the scent of scorched earth, Bo Yu's heightened senses detected more complex pheromones.These so-called rescuers had a smell of sedatives from Zhao's laboratory mixed in with them.He casually brushed against the woman's umbrella handle, feeling the energy fluctuation that sent chills down his spine—the material wasn't metal but a liquid dark matter constrainer."The coastal base has prepared a medical chamber." The woman smiled and handed over an electronic map. The nano projection sketched the outline of a small town at dusk in the rain. "Dr. Lin said, you must be interested in the 'Silver Wolf King's Genetic Map'."Bo Yu's tongue pressed against his canine teeth, swallowing the sarcastic laugh that was about to escape his lips.The moment Tang Yao's birthmark's glow suddenly surged, he saw the woman's umbrella tip subtly change direction, and the quantum annihilation projectiles hidden in the umbrella's frame began to heat up."Lead the way." He tugged open his collar, revealing the golden pattern spreading from under his collarbone, seeing the woman's pupils shrink as expected—this was the sign of bloodline power breaking the threshold.When the war vehicle's engine roared to life again, Bo Yu's thumb traced Morse code on Tang Yao's palm: The wolf has awakened.