"Warning...Warning! Ultra-high-intensity mental field resonance detected! Source...Target stele!" The operator monitoring the energy disturbances suddenly raised his voice, a barely perceptible tremor. On the screen before him, the curve representing the mental impact instantly soared, breaking through all preset safety thresholds and turning a glaring scarlet!

Almost at the same time the warning was issued!

“Ughh ...

The operator who had just given the start command suddenly froze! The interior of his helmet, covered in sensor crystals, was instantly filled with a surge of pure, overbearing emerald green light! The light penetrated the slits in the helmet and burst out like a living being! He let out a shrill, inhuman scream, and his metal-armored body convulsed violently as if it were electrified by high voltage!

Snap! Snap!

The teeth-grinding sound of flesh and bones being forcibly torn and reshaped could be heard clearly!

He pressed his metal palm against the console, and his skin and muscles cracked and peeled away like rotting bark! What was exposed was no longer metal skeletons or wiring, but rather madly wriggling and growing... dark brown plant roots with the scent of moist earth! These roots greedily absorbed the burning energy and cold metallic aura that permeated the air, growing thick and gnarled at a visible speed!

The roots spread at an astonishing speed! They surged upward along his arms, instantly devouring his shoulders and neck! His helmet was deformed and shattered by the surging roots within! Amidst the scattering debris, a face completely inhuman was revealed—skin torn, muscle fibers stretched and woody, eye sockets filled with thick roots, like two bottomless tree holes! His mouth gaped, but no human voice emanated, only the numbing, rustling sound of the roots rubbing against each other! From within his chest came a dense, crackling sound, as if his entire internal organs were instantly transformed and reshaped into a tangled, wooden structure!

In just a few seconds, a living gravekeeper operator, under the cold gaze of all his colleagues, was twisted and transformed by the backlash of the stone tablet's will into a humanoid tree stump that was still twitching slightly, with new buds constantly popping out from the cracks of its woody torso!

Phew!

A thick, dark brown root with an exceptionally sharp tip suddenly pierced through the center of his woody chest, dripping with a dark green liquid as thick as sap as it fiercely pierced the cold alloy ground! The root wriggled greedily, as if sucking nutrients from the earth.

Dead silence!

A deathly silence, even heavier than before, enveloped the control center. Only the root that pierced the operator's remains and the alloy ground continued to emit a subtle sucking sound, and the low humming sound, like the heartbeat of the ancient earth, still echoed in the depths of every gravekeeper's consciousness.

The two faint blue points of light beneath the commander's hood pulsated violently, like a candle in the wind. For the first time, his metallic voice carried a hint of uncontrollable fear and rage: "Stop... the probes! Now!" He raised his hand abruptly, and a powerful invisible force field instantly imprisoned the three probes, forcibly cutting off their energy output.

The probe's dark blue light quickly dimmed and retracted.

However, it was too late.

The Covenant Stele, whose attack was forcibly interrupted, had a seemingly inconspicuous ancient thorn-like scratch on its surface, as if activated by the brutal probe energy and the gravekeeper's surging fear and anger.

Buzz!

An extremely faint ray of stardust light, like a last glimpse before falling asleep, passed quickly across the thorn marks.

puff!

There was a soft sound, like dewdrops falling.

A drop of a strange, viscous liquid, faintly shimmering with starlight and a deep red, verging on black, defied the powerful constraints of the stasis field and penetrated the thick walls of the stasis coffin. As if possessed of life, it slowly dripped down, finally hovering several inches above the cold control room floor. This drop of liquid exuded an extremely faint, yet inherently ancient, aura, like the solidified blood of a planet, saturated with the dust of billions of years.

It hovered there quietly, becoming an even more bizarre and unfathomable footnote in this bloody and horrific scene.

Shattered Star Abyss.

There was no direction, no up or down, only eternal chaos and fragmentation. The raging spatial turbulence was like billions of invisible, high-speed razors, slicing and howling through the void. The torn fragments of space reflected a bizarre and distorted scene, like a shattered kaleidoscope. Vast stellar debris, like the gnawed skeletons of giant beasts, tumbled and collided helplessly in the turbulence. Each collision erupted in a silent flash of energy, only to be swallowed up by a deeper darkness. Beyond, strange matter leaking from other dimensions clung to the edges of the spatial rifts like abscesses, emitting a sickening and ominous aura.

In the center of this dimensional garbage dump, where even existence itself seemed fragile, a dark shadow hovered. As the violent spatial turbulence cut through him, it was as if it had hit an invisible, slippery barrier, silently deflecting and sliding away, or simply annihilating into a more basic point of light, unable to stir even a ripple.

Pei Du, or rather, the newly born void star core, slowly opened his eyes.

In his left eye, a deep, slowly swirling dark vortex formed. At its core, the vortex radiated the icy, purest light of stardust order, like an eternal, unchanging cosmic beacon. Meanwhile, at its outer edges, a thick, cold, dark purple void energy, filled with an endlessly devouring desire, flowed and entwined, like a greedy nebula accretion disk. These two diametrically opposed forces achieved a dangerous and majestic dynamic balance within the vortex.

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