Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz—

As his words of command fell,

Beneath the dark, cloud-covered sky, endless ripples suddenly appeared in the oppressive space.

It was as if some force was breaking through the barrier of the clouds, with one after another emerging from the ripples.

Soon, the spatial ripples became increasingly violent, until one after another alloy steel ships emerged from them.

One? No, it's an entire fleet.

Ripples appeared across almost the entire hundred-mile-long sky.

Countless technological fleets emerged suddenly from the ripples like phantoms, densely covering the entire sky.

Each ship gleamed with technological brilliance, its turrets twisting and turning as they moved.

The ship's surface activated a series of mechanisms, and heavy particle machine guns extended from the bottom, all aimed at the enormous creature below.

Moreover, the surfaces of these spaceships were covered by a clearly visible pale blue energy barrier.

It appears to be much stronger than the barriers worn by the researchers below.

They seemed to appear out of the void, traversing time and space.

Judging by sight alone, there are no fewer than several thousand spaceships in the entire sky.

In fact, the number is still increasing.

Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz—

The fleets converged from all directions, quickly filling the entire sky and spreading throughout the world.

"Great, fantastic! Our reinforcements have arrived!"

"We've won! We've won!"

Upon seeing these ships appear, the researchers who had been in grave danger breathed a sigh of relief, their voices trembling with excitement.

That's right, these massive technologically advanced armed forces have always been their trump card.

Their original plan was to have researchers act as pioneers, first surveying the past world and testing the [Hasta virus].

Once the time is right, they will call in the support of technologically advanced armed forces and directly occupy the entire world.

At this moment, the team leader below was gazing at the spaceship that stretched across the sky, his eyes filled with anticipation and longing.

Although energy resources may be depleted in the future, it won't be to the point where we can't organize a large army.

Millions of people, tens of thousands of spaceships capable of traversing space.

If they so choose, the world of the past is more than enough for them to completely control.

And he can truly become a god in this world!

Swoosh—

But suddenly,

A strange black light, like a paintbrush, lightly and swiftly drew a line from the sky above.

Then, the entire sky seemed to be paused.

The ripples in the air seemed to freeze in place.

The spaceships that had been painted in the sky no longer moved forward.

At that moment, even the team leader's gaze froze.

Did he just see something?

A black line?

Then what?

But why did he feel a sense of foreboding?

Why did that black color, in particular, feel somewhat...familiar to him?

The next second, his premonition came true.

He had expected the fleet in the sky to explode, turning the sky into a sea of ​​fire.

But it didn't happen.

It was as if, the moment the black paintbrush drew a line across the sky,

Suddenly, a crack appeared in the already pitch-black sky.

Then, the fleets seemed to transform into pictures painted on a curtain, twisted and shrunken by an invisible giant hand.

Then, it disappeared into the curtain of the sky.

Even contact with them was completely severed.

Immediately afterwards, a man appeared at the very top of the sky curtain.

From a distance, he didn't look like a human; he looked more like a humanoid creature wearing a trench coat.

At that moment, everyone present who saw this man felt a sense of suffocation.

Unable to breathe.

Every cell in their body seemed to be consumed by fear; the intense dread and the urge to flee rendered them immobile.

In that instant, the team leader realized it.

That eerie sense of familiarity finally became clear.

He gazed at the dark, yet strangely human-like creature in the sky, his throat bobbing slightly.

Subconsciously, he almost blurted out that name.

"ha……"

Peng!

Suddenly, all sorts of chaotic tentacles shot out from the trench coat behind Victor.

It streaked through the air in a dark line before crashing violently into the people in front of it.

The moment the eerie, writhing tentacles touched the mountainside where the team leader was located...

The surface of the mountains has been eroded by the uncertain chaos, turning into a series of winding, jagged, deep craters.

However, it did not directly contact the team leader.

This move was clearly a threat.

The team leader was so terrified that he dared not utter another word.

He could only look up at the sky with trembling eyes, staring at the humanoid creature in the shape of a trench coat.

Trembling, I awaited his words.

"What did you just say...huh?"

The man's voice was very calm.

Beneath that calm lay an undeniable threat.

"Think it through before you speak,"

"After all, I don't have a habit of stealing."

Behind him, there was still a pitch-black curtain, as if the entire sky and his trench coat had merged into one.

Although everything seemed calm, a sense of hidden danger always lingered.

Then, the black sky seemed to isolate the entire world.

This prevents the other person from ever seeing the outside world again.

In the entire world, only the team leader and the virus in front of him were left staring at each other.

But his hands and feet were already ice-cold, and he stood there motionless.

It felt as if my feet were directly touching rock, the cold air was unbearable, and my body trembled uncontrollably.

Fear welled up in his eyes, and his breathing became increasingly rapid.

Clearly, he had already recognized the virus.

But he dared not say it, nor could he say it.

Once that name is uttered, he will absolutely...

They will definitely become victims of the virus.

So this time, his throat trembled, his brain raced, and he finally came up with a feasible alternative name.

"Ha... Habika."

Hastur, Habika.

A simple change in name has dramatically altered the meaning of the entire virus.

Viktor, standing in front of him, smiled upon hearing this.

"That's right, it's Habika."

"I don't know what the Hasta virus is, and from now on, you won't know what the Hasta virus is either."

"Because this is a name you specifically chose."

He wasn't actually laughing, but the black curtain behind him seemed to be grinning as if it had opened a wide, horrifying mouth, and was laughing eerily.

A series of deep, resonant, and indistinct laughs drifted from the horizon.

And it let out a low, despairing murmur.

"Remember it, and then replace it in your memory."

"It is an evil god—"

"【Harbourka】"