Chapter 225: Battle for the Throne

"I knew you would come here."

Su Wanqing raised her head suddenly. The scene she saw almost froze the blood in her body.

Night was floating above the core. He was no longer a pure blue energy body, but was perfectly integrated with countless sophisticated mechanical parts, forming a biomechanical armor with smooth lines and full of power.

A pair of huge wings made of pure energy stretched out behind him, and there was an unfathomable blue light in his eyes.

What made her scalp tingle was that there was another core embedded in the middle of his breastplate. That core should have been in the hands of the military or Xiao Ran.

He had already managed to capture one.

"Night" slowly descended, and his feet landed steadily on the throne woven by countless vines.

He glanced at Su Wanqing, then looked at Lin Che who was dying in her arms, and the corners of his mouth curled up in a cold arc.

"This is my place. And you, Su Wanqing, may have misunderstood something."

Night looked down from above, his voice echoing in the empty square: "You think I'm going to open a portal and bring destruction to this world? Wrong." He spread his hands, "What I'm going to do is to repair the 'Time Loom', but not to save you fragile humans, but to create a truly eternal new order dominated by me.

The three cores represent the past, present and future. Only by controlling them at the same time can we fully master time. "

His gaze turned to Lin Che, and at that moment, he looked at it as if he was looking at a worn-out tool.

"He is a failure, a temporary container I created to retrieve the core. Now that his mission is complete, he should be eliminated."

Then, his eyes were fixed on Su Wanqing again. "And you, Su Wanqing, your role is far more important than you think. You are the last piece of the puzzle, the only perfect 'anchor' that the 'loom' has selected after countless reincarnations. Only you can activate its full functions."

As soon as he finished speaking, he gently raised his arm. In response, the throne beneath him and the entire plant network around him began to wriggle and expand rhythmically, as if they were an extension of his body.

Everything here has long been completely under his control.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Lin Che's body in his arms was as cold as a stone.

Su Wanqing is facing an unsolvable dead end.

"I can save him." "Ye" unexpectedly made a suggestion and broke the deadlock.

"The condition is that you hand over yourself and the core in front of you to me."

He looked at the jade bracelet on Su Wanqing's wrist and explained, "Do you know why its energy is exhausted? Because it is part of the core, and it is the 'gift' I gave you in my first reincarnation.

Rather than watching him die in vain, it is better to make a deal - your cooperation in exchange for his life.

It's very simple, I just need you to stand on this throne, resonate with the core, and trigger the final program.

After this is done, Lin Che will return to normal, I promise."

Su Wanqing dug her nails deep into her palm. Save Lin Che, or...

"Don't believe him!" Lu Zhao's roar suddenly came from the distance on the second floor. He was struggling to break free from several awakened vines. "He needs you to be the living connector of the core! Once the program is started, your consciousness will be completely integrated with the core, and you will become a part of the 'Time Loom' forever, a slave without your own thoughts!"

Before he finished speaking, "Ye" frowned slightly, he didn't even look back, just waved casually.

On the ground, countless vines suddenly attacked Lu Zhao like a group of giant black pythons, and instantly wrapped him tightly, hanging him high up and making him unable to move.

Just when Su Wanqing's will was about to be completely crushed and she was about to nod and agree to "Ye's" conditions, a weak force grabbed her hand.

She lowered her head and saw that Lin Che had opened his eyes slightly without her noticing, and a trace of clarity flashed in his eyes that had exhausted all his strength.

He used up the last of his life force and spoke with difficulty and intermittently: "Wanqing... don't... believe... him..."

His lips moved, and he uttered a weak voice: "I... am not important... the core is... listen to me... activate three cores at the same time... not for the portal... nor for repair... but for... resetting..."

"The jade bracelet... is not just a tool... it is... a key... you are... the real owner..."

After saying these words, Lin Che's head tilted and he fell into a complete coma again. Even his weak breathing almost stopped.

When Ye heard Lin Che's words, the expression on his blue face made of energy was obviously distorted.

His calm demeanor disappeared, and the blue energy in his entire body was fluctuating violently, showing unprecedented anger.

"That's enough! He's lying! Time's up!"

Following his angry shout, the plant network in the entire shopping mall went into complete turmoil, and countless vines as thick as millstones came from all directions at the same time towards where Su Wanqing and Lin Che were.

At the same time, a loud explosion was heard outside the shopping mall in the distance, followed by the faint shouts of Xiao Ran and the "Monk".

Reinforcements seemed to be arriving, but it was too late.

At the critical moment, facing the overwhelming death, Su Wanqing made a move that no one expected - she did not push Lin Che to the core, but raised her wrist and resolutely pressed the dull jade bracelet on the purple core in front of her.

In an instant, a dazzling pure white light burst out from the place where the jade bracelet touched the core.

"No!" Night shouted in horror, "That will cause the system to reboot!"

"Ye"'s terrified voice was completely swallowed up by a pure white light.

With the contact point between Su Wanqing's jade bracelet and the purple core as the center, an indescribable energy suddenly erupted, instantly expanding a huge energy hemisphere, covering the entire central square.

"Ye" tried to stop it, but his movements seemed extremely slow in front of the light. He was severely knocked back by the powerful shock wave and crashed into the vine throne in the distance. The biomechanical armor on his body made a harsh metallic groaning sound.

A strange chain reaction occurred. In Su Wanqing's arms, the remaining blue lines on Lin Che's body suddenly lit up like a ignited fuse, resonating with the pure white light flowing in the hemisphere.

At the edge of the hideous wound on his chest, granulation tissue began to wriggle and heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His almost stopped pulse also resumed its weak but powerful rhythm.

On the second floor, the shock wave swept across the place where Lu Zhao was trapped. The tough vines that held him up high seemed to have been drained of all their vitality. They instantly became dry, charred, and broke off one after another.

Lu Zhao fell heavily to the ground, but he ignored the pain and immediately got up and rushed towards Su Wanqing in the center of the square.

The energy hemisphere did not dissipate, but stabilized, and the light and shadow inside began to distort and reorganize.

When the core and the jade bracelet are fused, holographic images are projected onto the inner wall of the hemisphere, showing a dusty memory of the past.

The picture shows a large and sophisticated laboratory. Several scientists in white research suits are surrounding three cores suspended in special containers, nervously recording data.

The young face among them made Xiao Ran and the "monk" who had just arrived stop in their tracks - that was the "monk" who had looked much younger.

Standing in front of everyone, directing the entire project, was a man with an elegant face and gold-rimmed glasses. His appearance was almost exactly the same as the face of "Night" made of energy.

The chief scientist in the video explained to his team: "Everyone, the ultimate goal of the Orion Project is not to manufacture weapons. Our real goal is to create an unprecedented time defense system.

According to the last information we received, a civilization called 'The Weavers' is about to arrive, and their very existence will cause irreversible damage to our space-time continuum.

We must find a suitable 'anchor point', a special individual that can resonate perfectly with the three cores. Only in this way can we stabilize the huge energy of the cores and create a time barrier strong enough to resist them."

The memory continues to flow, and the scene switches to the day when the project got out of control.

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The laboratory alarm sounded and the red light flashed, and the first virus spread began.

Before the devastating energy storm swept everything, the chief scientist calmly walked to the main console and uploaded his consciousness into the core of the system.

At that moment, "Night" was born.

The scene jumped again, and a young man with tubes and wires all over his body appeared on the experimental table. It was Lin Che.

He was forcibly injected with a modified version of the Hunter Sequence with only one purpose - to become a temporary container and tool for "Night" to return to the physical world.

An even more chilling truth emerges: the destruction of the entire world and the endless cycle of time are not accidents.

This itself is a huge experimental field carefully designed by "Night", a cruel screening program.

He used repeated resets to eliminate all unqualified variables, just to find the only perfect "anchor point" among the countless survivors that could withstand the full force of the core.

And Su Wanqing is the final answer to this grand experiment.

"That's enough! You mortals simply cannot comprehend the grand blueprint that I carry!"

A roar interrupted the memory projection. "Ye" had recovered from the shock, and the core of the subway on his chest glowed brightly, and a destructive blue energy beam came straight towards Su Wanqing.

Lu Zhao just rushed in front of Su Wanqing. Without thinking, he immediately activated an inconspicuous device on his wrist.

A weak energy shield unfolded in front of him, but was torn apart the moment it came into contact with the blue energy beam.

Lu Zhao was knocked flying by the huge force and hit the wreckage a few meters away.

Meanwhile, the network of plants throughout the mall rioted once again.

But this time, a strange split occurred. Some vines still responded to the command of "Night", turning into countless black whips, lashing at Su Wanqing frantically; while the other part, those plants closer to the second core, seemed to be given a new will, growing and interweaving spontaneously, forming a green, protective barrier in front of Su Wanqing.

Amidst the chaos, the long-lost system sound suddenly rang in Su Wanqing's mind.

[System reset completed...Reconnected to 'Prototype Core-02'...Energy conduction efficiency of the jade bracelet restored to 85%. ][Warning: Unstable oscillation between cores detected. Suggestion: Synchronize the three cores as soon as possible, or isolate them at a safe distance. ]At this moment, at the broken door of the shopping mall, Xiao Ran finally rushed in with a dozen members of the Dawn Organization.

Seeing the chaotic situation in front of him, he immediately gave orders on the radio: "Everyone on alert! Target 'Night'! Priority mission, escort Su Wanqing and Lin Che to evacuate! 'Monk', please help stabilize the core energy!"

Lieutenant Cui's anxious voice suddenly connected to Xiao Ran's public channel: "Xiao Ran! Unknown energy fluctuations have appeared in the industrial area and underground tracks, and the scope is expanding! We suspect that there is a resonance between the cores! Report the situation on the scene immediately!"

The "monk" did not participate in the battle. He walked forward slowly, made a complex seal with his hands, and began to chant an ancient spell that others could not understand.

The air around him began to distort due to the fluctuation of energy. His eyes fell on the interrupted core projection, looking at the younger self, and whispered with a complicated expression: "I thought that history would not repeat itself in the same way. It seems that all of us underestimated the adaptability of the Orion Sequence."

He turned his head and his voice became extremely solemn. He shouted to Su Wanqing, "Child! Hold on to Lin Che and the core! The two cores are so close that they have begun to cause a larger range of space-time shocks. I will create an evacuation channel for you, but you must act immediately! This place is about to collapse!"

The voice of the "monk" was like a loud bell, clearly transmitted to everyone's ears in the chaotic energy field.

Before he finished speaking, the complex seal formed by his hands suddenly pushed forward.

The air ahead was twisted violently. The madly whipping vines and chaotic energy flows seemed to be pushed aside by an invisible giant hand, clearing out a narrow passage that was only wide enough for a few people to pass through.

"Go!" Xiao Ran roared, commanding the members of the Dawn Organization to cover the flanks.

Lu Zhao no longer hesitated and pulled Su Wanqing up. Su Wanqing hugged Lin Che, who was still recovering, and the purple core tightly.

The moment they stepped into the passage, the ground beneath their feet shook violently.

This was not an impact from the battle, but a precursor to the collapse of the entire shopping mall structure.

Huge cracks spread rapidly from the ground of the central square like black lightning, extending all the way upwards to the crumbling ceiling.

The surrounding plant network grew madly, and countless vines tried to wrap around the broken beams, but only made a futile sound of tightening and breaking.

While running, Su Wanqing took out a special metal container from her backpack, carefully placed the purple core that was still connected to the jade bracelet by energy threads into it, and quickly locked it.

A new prompt immediately popped up on the system interface in her mind. [Core is stabilizing]

[Warning: Another core is detected locking the current position, it is recommended to leave the open area immediately]

(End of this chapter)