Chapter 545 Large-Scale Invasion

The shrill alarm rang out across all floors almost instantly, and under the massive shadow cast by Blackstone Station, the entire city fell into chaos.

Now, everyone could see an astonishing space megastructure covering the sky when they looked up. The huge disk-shaped shell of Blackstone Station looked like an upside-down steel land when viewed from the ground. Countless shell ancillary buildings and large and small weapon turrets, enhancement equipment and shield generators appeared rugged and terrifying in the shadows.

At the same time as Blackstone Station appeared, an invisible force dispersed the surrounding clouds and tore apart large areas of space. The starlight in the distant universe spread across the sky like a broken mirror, and its scale was even expanding.

The crowds on the surface began to flee in panic, traffic on the city streets instantly fell into chaos, alarms rang throughout the area, and the fear, instability, and collective mental shock brought about by bathing in external starlight began to spread throughout the entire boundary city like a plague.

Junction, depth L-1.

A large area of ​​lavender mist rose from the edge of the city. It seemed as if something was constantly collapsing and falling from the sky in the mist. The illusion that was difficult to distinguish between reality and falsehood first rose from the "suburbs" outside the city and gradually swallowed the city inward. The illusion was filled with disturbing silhouettes - dragons, giants, behemoths covered in thunder, and kings wearing crowns.

Junction, depth L-2.

Jagged and twisted obsidian pillars began to grow from all over the city, as if the earth were turning over. The skeletons buried in the old world heard the trumpets of the city-states and mistakenly thought they were still in this world.

Junction, depth L-3.

But at this moment, a strange, low roar suddenly spread throughout the border area.

It sounded like an infinitely stretched horn sound, continuously sweeping across the entire city.

The horn sounded from the magnificent and mysterious tower in the center of the city - the silver-white Director's Tower was coated with a layer of floating light and shadow at some point, and the long horn sound echoed from the top of the tower throughout the four directions.

The lavender mist at the edge of the city began to dissipate rapidly. The old army that attacked in the mist woke up in reality and fell back into dreams. The obsidian pillars that invaded the city collapsed and disintegrated. Under the rapidly dissipating obsidian "snowflakes", the crowd seemed to be affected by an invisible force. In a daze, they gradually ignored the abnormalities around them and began to move subconsciously towards the nearest shelter.

Baili Qing stared intently at the Directorate Tower as a subordinate's hurried report reached her side: "Director, the Directorate Tower has activated 'Requiem'. The entire area is currently maintaining a depth of L-1... but we don't know how long it will last."

Baili Qing's face was filled with gloom. "Where's the space station?"

"There's no sign of further descent," the subordinate replied quickly. "It's hovering three hundred meters above the Council Tower, but we can't accurately measure its mass... It doesn't look like it's truly 'reached' the border, but rather that the two spaces are overlapping."

"Overlapping?" Baili Qing turned around abruptly. "You mean... similar to those cracks in the corridor?"

"Yes, yes," the subordinate swallowed nervously, "but the scale of this incident is obviously very large."

Baili Qing looked out the window again. A misty and thick shield had appeared above the boundary city, with the Director Tower as the center and countless hidden shield generators on the edge of the boundary city as nodes. Theoretically, its strength was even enough to withstand the fall of the space station - if it really "fell down".

But what is more terrifying than the space station falling directly is its current state of violating the laws of physics and floating steadily above the city in overlapping space.

This means that the large-scale anomaly is still ongoing - an event outside the boundaries of sanity is still approaching reality.

As if to confirm Baili Qing's terrible prediction, just when the giant space station was still hovering steadily above the Council Tower and many people felt that at least at this moment things had stabilized, a disturbing sound of breaking suddenly reached everyone's ears.

It sounded like a giant mirror shattering.

Song Cheng leaned against the windowsill and looked up at the sky in astonishment.

He saw that the starlight around the "Black Stone Space Station" was distorting.

It was as if the universe itself was being "folded", and the starry sky background near Blackstone Station slowly turned into a huge vortex structure. Then the starlight stagnated on the outer wall of the vortex, and something spread from deep space and gradually emerged from the bottom of Blackstone Station as an irregular shadow.

He saw it clearly.

It was a rugged, ancient, dark tower shrouded in mystery. It hung down from the starry sky and penetrated directly into the core area of ​​the Blackstone Space Station. The tower stretched and extended infinitely in the deep space of the universe. One end was invisible to the naked eye, while the other end continued to "grow" towards the boundary city after penetrating the space station.

Slowly, but steadily.

"Oh my god... I'm afraid this one will be hard to beat..."

Song Cheng heard someone exclaim next to him, turned around and saw that it was Xu Jiali.

Next to Xu Jiali was the psychic servant who had fallen into a dazed and motionless state.

Baili Qing heard a noise coming from the earrings, but it didn't seem to be interference, but something in the environment was leaking, exploding and burning.

In between, there were also the faint sounds of Irene cursing and Luo's exclamations.

"The lab is gone! The entire lab is gone!" After another burst of noise, an exasperated voice came from the earrings, someone who couldn't tell whether it was the culprit or just the unlucky one. "A black 'wall' came crashing down from above, piercing the entire core area—right in front of me! If I hadn't sensed something was wrong and warned us in advance, we would all have been smashed in... Hey, hey? Are you listening, you face paralysis?"

Baili Qing's face was gloomy, and she struggled to keep her voice steady: "It doesn't matter whether you live or die—where is Yu Sheng?"

"Yu Sheng was just thrown into that big hole by his men. I thought it was outrageous, but this puppet named Irene said it was normal," Luo said with a slight breath in his voice. "He hasn't come back yet. Irene said there was some interference over there, so she can't hear Yu Sheng clearly. I can only confirm that he's okay... I can't see what's going on outside, so what's going on now?"

"...The boundary bridge has appeared. It's the black 'wall' you mentioned." Baili Qing pursed her lips and spoke in a low voice, "It's connecting the border areas."

"……ah?!"

Hearing the exclamation coming from the earrings, Baili Qing was in no mood to continue talking to Luo. Instead, she looked out the window again, staring at the "bridge" hanging from the stars and still slowly "growing".

Yu Sheng has not returned yet. He may still be trying hard to end the crisis, or he may have failed.

The Secret Service and the Council have many "disaster plans". As a force that already has an "unstable home", their disaster plans even include the extreme situation of the destruction of the entire border area. However, in such extreme situations, all security measures have only a very slim success rate.

Do you venture into the shattered tower in search of life? Risk it and free the ancient spirits within the Pale Library? Shatter the Dome and abandon a part of your "homeland" forever?

Baili Qing's mind was racing with plans one after another. He stared at the inverted tower outside the window and subconsciously clenched his fists.

Fine scales with a texture like crystal quietly appeared on her arms and neck, and her light gray eyes reflected countless rapidly switching possibilities about the future and the past.

At this moment, the surface of the tower that penetrated the Black Stone Space Station and was slowly extending towards the border area underwent new changes.

Many strange "branches" suddenly grew out from the layered structure of the tower and turned into continuously extending cracks.

Chaos surged within those cracks, and then—shadows as thick as mud began to drip from the end of each crack.

The sticky shadow fell on the large shield above the boundary city, and thick smoke quickly billowed out. Then it began to slowly penetrate into the city. The shield originally designed to resist various real and surreal invasions was unable to completely withstand these "erosions". Many tiny "droplets" actually penetrated the barrier with difficulty and fell all over the city.

Song Cheng took a breath of cold air instantly.

"Director!" He turned his head sharply to look at Baili Qing, "That's down there..."

"Immediately activate the 'Spirit Fox' node in Fog City," Baili Qing ordered instantly. "Execute in sections - only 'flip' the invaded blocks."

Song Cheng was startled and spoke subconsciously: "But this system has not been very stable in previous tests. Once the pressure exceeds..."

"It's better than letting civilian areas be contaminated. The effects of 'Requiem' are limited. Once there are large-scale casualties or people are awakened, the mass mental pollution will easily break through the Requiem defenses. By then, there will be no more border crossings or secret services."

"I...Okay, I understand!"

"Very good," Baili Qing nodded. "I'll arrange for the third and fourth teams to work with you. Once the contaminated blocks are 'flipped', you will immediately enter the corresponding areas and eliminate those 'shadows' as quickly as possible. The purified blocks must be reset immediately - as you said, that system can't withstand too much pressure."

Song Cheng left quickly, and Baili Qing immediately took out her phone and began to make the next arrangements:

"Xiao Su, arrange for the mobile team to go out and eliminate those shadows that have already fallen into the city... Remember, if fog sets in the streets, evacuate immediately. If you really can't evacuate in time, build a defense line on the spot and hold out until the deep-sea divers arrive..."

Outside the window, the sticky shadow seeping out from around the boundary bridge was still dripping onto the large shield. Amidst the surging smoke and hissing sounds, tiny droplets were falling into the city from several leakage points at the same time.

Thanks to the "Requiem" system of the Council Tower, most civilians have been moved to shelters.

The blind shadows of the invasion lingered in the dead streets until the silence was shattered by the gunfire of the mobile unit operators.

But the number of leaks on the shield is still increasing.

A pair of giant eyes appeared on the outer wall of the Secret Service building, observing the situation in the city.

A moment later, a thin mist began to quietly fill every block in the city.

A new leak appeared on the large shield—a sticky shadow gathered into a ball and dripped down from above the city.

But with a "hum" sound, the entire block below the shadow suddenly "vibrated" like bubbles in water, and then mist rose and the space turned over -

The experimental "Spirit Fox" system was activated.

Part of the city in the fog suddenly rose up, replacing the real block that was about to become a battlefield.

The invading shadow fell into the thick fog, and in front of the soulless creatures wandering blindly was a fully armed deep-sea diving force.

(End of this chapter)