His eyes instantly locked onto the side and rear of the shelter, a narrow maintenance passage covered in dust and cobwebs, half-hidden by a collapsed control console! That was the only way out!

Without the slightest hesitation! Lin Mo used up all the strength he had just recovered, like a trapped beast lunging for life, violently slamming aside the metal debris blocking his path and using both hands and feet to dive into the dark, cramped passage! Behind him, the massive shadow of the Observer seemed to recover from a brief "downtime," its dark blue gaze once again sharp and cold, as new, even more deadly attack commands were rapidly generated within its icy logic core!

The Ark of Humanity, "Heart of Gaia".

Star Dome Network Coordination Center.

The highest-level orange alarm light swirled like a never-ending blood-red vortex, intensifying the pent-up tension within the center like solidified magma. On the main screen, a star map representing the Gould Belt's garbage graveyard area was magnified to its maximum. A massive, flickering red halo marked the location of the junk planet "Rusted Heart." Next to it, a cascading stream of data refreshed frantically:

[Entropy Sea Rift Monitoring Node 'Watcher-7' Signal Lost Point: Entropy Penetration Rate ↑0.18%! Rift Stability Index ↓0.85%! Unknown High-Dimensional Submarine Track Locked: Pointing to the "Rusted Heart"!]

[The 9th and 13th Fleets of the "Insight" Sequence: Arrived in low-Earth orbit around the "Rusted Heart"! Activating the highest covert protocol, "Deep Dive"! Passive monitoring mode activated! Abnormal high-energy reactions on the planet's surface (mythical-level fluctuations in the origin of order) and... the energy signature of an unknown higher-dimensional being (the Observer) have been detected!]

[Blood Blade Pirates' main fleet coordinates updated: Breaking through the outer garbage dump barrier! Approaching the "Rusted Heart" at high speed! Estimated contact time: 1.7 standard hours!]

Final Report on the "World Tree" Core Resonance Analysis: Confirmed external mythical energy source and core origin! Purity and antiquity... exceed the limits of existing databases! Speculated to be the lost spark of the primordial order! Correlation: Highly consistent in time and space with Major General Pei Du's final information flow! Confidence: 98.7%!

"General! Latest deep space passive scan data!" an operator's voice cracked with excitement. "Target locked! Exact coordinates of the energy source: garbage planet 'Rusted Heart', Eastern Hemisphere, approximately 3.7 kilometers underground, near the crash site of the old-era 'Pioneer VII' research vessel! Energy signature: Highly ordered origin! Weak but stable! Also detected: an ultra-high-dimensional energy reaction from the observer! Signs of... a brief, high-intensity energy interaction between the two sides!"

General Raymond Custer stood like a reef in the center of a storm, every wrinkle on his resolute face etched with solemnity. He had finally waited! The lost spark! The being that might have been inextricably linked to Pei Du's sacrifice! But at the same time... the Observer had arrived! And the Blood Blade Pirates were following closely behind! These three forces, like three deadly meteorites, were about to collide with a bang on the abscess of the universe, the garbage planet!

"The target individual's life signal?" Raymond's voice was low and rapid.

"Extremely weak! On the verge of death!" the operator responded quickly, "But... miraculously it's stabilized! Energy levels are showing a slight recovery! I speculate... perhaps it's receiving external energy supplements? The source is unknown!"

External reinforcement? Under the watchers' noses? Raymond's eyes flashed with a sharp light. Was it the interference from the rift in the Sea of ​​Entropy? Pei Du...was that your backup plan?

"Order!" Raymond's voice was like a sharp sword drawn from its sheath, severing the dead silence of the command center. "'Insight' Fleets 9 and 13, immediately release 'deep submergence'! Activate Level 1 combat deployment! Energy shields at full power! Charge main guns! Target: Lock onto the Observer's submerged trajectory! Conduct deterrent illumination! Force it to surface! Buy time for the ground target!"

"General! This is too risky!" the adjutant couldn't help but exclaim, "The Observer is a cosmic being! An active attack could lead to unpredictable consequences!"

"Execute the order!" Raymond's gaze remained unwavering, like burning steel. "We have no choice! The Spark is out there! Between the Observers and the Pirates! We must prove to it that the flame of order is not isolated and helpless! Even if it's just a firefly, the Ark is willing to burn with it! At the same time, order the 'Rescuer' sequence 'Falcon' class high-speed assault ship 'Light Chaser' to detach from the fleet sequence and activate the 'Shadow' intrusion protocol! Target: Surface of the garbage planet, coordinate point! No matter the cost, bring back the target individual! Authorize the use of the highest authority of the 'Spark Guardian Protocol'! Repeat, no matter the cost!"

"Yes! General!" The order was conveyed quickly with a will to die.

The atmosphere in the coordination center instantly reached a fever pitch! On the main screen, the light points representing the two Insight heavy cruisers instantly shifted from a deep blue, representing concealment, to a glaring battle crimson! The massive ships cast off their optical and energy camouflage in the void, their menacing turrets swiveling, their main guns blazing with a terrifying, charged light! They locked onto that seemingly empty patch of space in the void, emanating a deadly, icy energy!

A near-suicidal deterrent operation by the Human Ark against cosmic observers has been launched!

Deep in the Ark, Academy of Life Sciences, Stasis Monitoring Center.

Inside the icy life support chamber, Xu Shuangyao floated in a pale blue nutrient solution, like an ice spirit slumbering in the amber of time. The curve on the EEG monitor remained a lifeless straight line. The vital signs readings seemed frozen at absolute zero.

However.

At the same moment that General Raymond at the coordination center issued the order to "bring back the spark at all costs," the two "Insight" cruisers brazenly lifted their concealment and charged their main guns to intimidate the observers—

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