Lin Mo saw this and felt a sharp pain in his heart. He subconsciously took a half step forward, as if trying to give Su Mu some support.

The moment he moved, Shen Qingli's eyes, like the most sophisticated radar, instantly captured his movements. She turned her head ever so slightly, and her silver-gray eyes, like two beams of cold searchlights, fell accurately and unobstructed on Lin Mo's face.

That look!

It is no longer a pure scrutiny or cold evaluation as before!

Beneath that deep, inhuman silver-gray, an extremely complex, intensely blazing light suddenly emerged! It was like lava, suppressed for eons beneath the ice, finding a crack to vent! There was exploration, an intense, almost greedy interest, and... a kind of excitement, as if finding a long-lost, crucial puzzle piece! This fervor formed an extremely strange contrast with the icy aura emanating from her, giving Lin Mo a chilling feeling, as if he were being targeted by an ancient predator!

This look... was so familiar! So familiar that it sent a chill down his spine! It was exactly the same as the fleeting heat in her eyes when she first looked at him in the conference room just now! Only now, it was even more naked, even more undisguised!

What was she looking at? Did she know me? Or was there something about me that was some kind of "data" she desperately wanted?

Lin Mo's back was instantly covered in cold sweat. Shen Qingli brought not only powerful technology and a highly toxic antidote, but also a bottomless mystery that tightly entangled him!

At this moment, on the main screen of the laboratory, the edge of the dark blue vortex icon representing the operating status of the "Siphon" protocol suddenly flashed a dazzling scarlet halo without any warning, representing an external high-threat alarm!

Woo-woo-woo!

The sharp and piercing alarm instantly tore through the buzzing of the laboratory!

"Warning! Warning!" a cold electronic synthesized voice rang out rapidly. "The 'Siphon' protocol is encountering a countermeasure from an external high-intensity directional information flow! Countermeasure source coordinates: The ruins of Hawkeye Outpost No. 3! Countermeasure mode: Data annihilation pulse!"

What? !

Everyone in the lab's faces changed drastically! The ruins of Hawkeye III?! Wasn't that just destroyed?

The main screen instantly switched. It was still the live feed of Hawkeye Outpost 3: charred ruins, twisted metal, and lingering flames... However, right in the center of the devastation, a previously undiscovered, half-buried columnar device, seemingly forcibly welded from countless sharp metal fragments, was emitting intense energy fluctuations! At its summit, a highly concentrated, unstable purple-black sphere of energy was spinning and expanding wildly!

"That's it!" Lei Gang's voice exploded across the communication channel, filled with shock and anger. "It's something left behind by the mechanical beast that attacked the outpost! Is it attacking 'Siphon'?!"

"The counter-pulse intensity is surging! Overload is imminent!" the technician shouted in horror.

"Dr. Shen! Cut off the connection quickly!" the old professor cried out in shock.

Shen Qingli turned her head abruptly, and for the first time, her silver-gray eyes clearly reflected the scene on the screen. There was no longer pure coldness in them, but a flash of extremely sharp light, as if she had discovered a deadly threat! Her fingers drew a residual shadow on the operating table!

However, at the moment she made the move, the purple-black energy sphere in the ruins suddenly exploded!

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a silent, pure, purple-black pulse that seemed to devour all light, spreading out instantly at a speed beyond visual detection! The main screen of the laboratory distorted and flickered violently, as if the signal was being strangled by an invisible hand!

Buzz——!

The thick cables connecting the core array of the "Pillar of Creation" and the black metal box suddenly stretched straight as if struck by a high-voltage electric shock! Dazzling sparks flashed wildly at the connectors! An indescribable turbulent flow of data, carrying a strong aura of destruction, like a black flood bursting through a dam, flowed along the cables, backlashing towards the core of the "Pillar of Creation" and the black box in front of Shen Qingli!

"The core firewall has been penetrated!" The technician screamed.

"Data annihilation! It's erasing us!" The old professor's voice was filled with despair.

Shen Qingli's hands moved at breakneck speed, blurring into a blur of light and shadow on the console, attempting to construct a defensive line to intercept the devastating data turbulence. Her silver-gray pupils reflected the screen's frantically flickering purple-black light and the deep blue area representing the erosion and dissolution of the "Siphon" protocol's core module. For the first time, a subtle, solemn crack appeared on her icy face.

Lin Mo's heart sank. This was a trap! Attack the outpost, destroy the platform, lure the Ark into a desperate situation, and then use Shen Qingli's "siphon" as a bridge to launch this fatal backlash! The goal... was to completely destroy the Ark's data core!

"Su Mu! Activate the highest level of physical isolation! Cut off all external connections!" Lin Mo roared into the communicator, and at the same time, his body pounced on the operating table like a cheetah, trying to manually unplug the data cables that were flashing sparks crazily!

Su Mu's face was pale, but his reaction was just as quick, his fingers operating frantically on the isolated control panel next to him!

Chaos! The aura of destruction instantly enveloped the entire Deep Dive laboratory!

At this critical moment, Shen Qingli's eyes flashed fiercely, as if she had made an extremely dangerous decision! She suddenly pressed both hands simultaneously on the surface of the black metal box with crazily flashing blue energy patterns!

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