Chapter 285 Full-scale deployment, a sign of the revival of spiritual energy!
As the light and shadow shifted, Zhou Jue, Chief Zhang, and Commander Qi reappeared in the base's conference room.
"Xiao Jue, carry it out." Chief Zhang's voice carried a calm and settled tone.
"yes."
Zhou Jue no longer hesitated. She walked to the center of the room, closed her eyes, and cupped her hands in her palms.
The radiant [Planet Barrier] card reappeared.
"Brother Tong, use it, start it."
[Instructions received. Initiate the deployment procedure for the Planetary Barrier.]
[Connecting to the planetary data core... Connection successful.]
[Information concealment layer construction begins... Estimated time: 3 minutes.]
In the conference room, everyone held their breath and waited quietly.
Those three minutes felt longer than three centuries.
Chief Zhang sat in his chair with his eyes closed, his fingers tapping unconsciously on the table.
Commander Qi stood not far from Zhou Jue, his eyes fixed on the card in her palm that was constantly changing light.
finally.
[Ding!]
The information concealment layer is complete; Earth has been separated from the macroscopic cosmic network.
Current status: Information silo.
Zhou Jue suddenly opened his eyes, and the card in his palm turned into specks of light and dissipated into the air.
She let out a long breath.
"It's done."
"call--"
In the meeting room, the two elderly people simultaneously let out a sigh of relief.
Commander Zhang stood up and walked to the window: "From this moment on, the war truly begins."
"A war in which we race against ourselves and against time."
With the matter temporarily resolved, the leaders threw themselves into the intense follow-up work.
Zhou Jue returned to his room, feeling somewhat tired, but unable to fall asleep.
She turned on her personal terminal and connected to the external network.
On the screen, a deluge of news pop-ups instantly appeared.
[The United States has announced that its 'Defender' missile system has been fully deployed throughout Japan!]
The Grizzly Nation strongly condemned this and announced that it would hold a large-scale nuclear weapons exercise codenamed "Siberian Fury" on its eastern border.
The European Parliament held emergency consultations to discuss whether to restart Project Bastion in response to escalating international tensions.
[The US president is about to visit South Korea; will it be to deploy new weapons or to reach new trade agreements?]
The EU's use of frozen resources from Ukraine to support the country has completely severed ties between Ukraine and the EU.
[Alarm sounds! The US, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines have formed a so-called alliance, launching a challenge to China's sovereignty from three directions.]
Pictures and videos.
Armed soldiers, slowly moving missile launchers, and an aircraft carrier battle group assembled in the port.
The whole world is like a powder keg with a lit fuse, and the air is filled with the smell of gunpowder.
Zhou Jue silently turned off the screen.
She was even more grateful for everyone's decision.
In this context, talking about "alien threats" is tantamount to throwing another torch into a powder keg.
Human beings often perish from internal suspicion and fear before they can destroy external enemies.
She stood up and decided to go and see the two newly built "shields".
With a thought, her figure vanished instantly.
The next second, she appeared atop the majestic Kunlun Mountains.
This is the central hub of the "Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" scroll.
A semi-concealed underground base has been completed.
When Zhou Jue appeared, the dozens of young cadets and soldiers stationed there were all stunned.
Immediately, an uncontrollable commotion erupted.
"It's...it's Major General Zhou!"
"Oh my god! I saw one alive!"
"Attention! Salute!" The officer in charge was the first to react, shouting.
Whoosh!
Everyone straightened their backs and saluted her with perfect form, their eyes filled with undisguised excitement and admiration.
Zhou Jue returned the greeting with a smile and a wave.
"Thank you for your hard work, everyone."
She walked to the core of the massive array and carefully examined the energy flow in every array pattern.
Everything was smooth and orderly.
She nodded in satisfaction, then took out ten top-grade spirit stones and embedded them into the reserved backup energy interface.
"This is..." The officer in charge was somewhat puzzled.
"Just in case," Zhou Jue explained, "If your spiritual power is interrupted for some reason, they can ensure that the core of the array operates at a minimum power."
After doing all this, she didn't leave immediately. Instead, she spent more than an hour answering many of the questions these young array masters encountered in practice.
"Principal Zhou, you are our idol! We all embarked on this path after reading your textbooks!" a young student with a still-childish face said, mustering his courage.
Zhou Jue looked at him, then at the energetic faces around him.
She smiled and said earnestly, "No, you are the heroes."
"This great formation protects the land beneath our feet, and protects our hundreds of millions of compatriots and their families."
“Every minute you spend here is forging the strongest shield for this country.”
"What you are doing is the most glorious thing in the world."
These words brought tears to the eyes of all the young people present, and they stood even taller.
After bidding farewell to the guardians of Kunlun, Zhou Jue went to several key locations, including Mount Tai, the mouth of the Yangtze River, and islands and reefs in the South China Sea.
She checked the operation of the formation one by one, left behind spare spirit stones, and also brought encouragement to the personnel stationed there.
By the time she finished all her inspections and returned to the base, it was already late at night.
She was just about to rest when Cheng Gan knocked on the door and came in, looking serious.
"Xiao Jue, this is an urgent report I just received."
"In the heart of the Qinling Mountains, a geological exploration team reported the discovery of a strange phenomenon."
Half an hour later, a silent, stealth transport plane hovered over a valley deep in the Qinling Mountains.
Zhou Jue, Cheng Gan, and several fully armed soldiers rappelled down the ropes.
Upon landing, an extremely fresh scent of grass and trees wafted towards me.
Zhou Jue's eyes narrowed.
There's a spiritual energy in this air!
Although extremely faint, it was as clear to her as a firefly in the dark night, even though she was in the Nascent Soul stage.
"Alert!" Cheng Gan gave the order, and the team members immediately spread out in combat formation, vigilantly observing their surroundings.
Following the source of the spiritual energy, Zhou Jue slowly walked into the depths of the valley.
After passing through a dense jungle, the view suddenly opened up before us.
In the center of the valley, there is a clearing no more than a hundred meters in diameter.
In the very center of the open space, there grew a strange little tree, about the height of a person, which I had never seen before.
On the tree, there were three fist-sized fruits, all red, with shimmering light on their surface, emitting an enticing fragrance and faint spiritual energy fluctuations.
And under that small tree, curled up... a big, fat, tan-colored cat?
No, looking at the pattern, it looks more like a plump leopard cat.
It was staring intently at the fruit on the tree, making gurgling sounds in its throat, and its saliva was almost dripping onto the ground.
It seems to be waiting for the fruit to fully ripen.
The appearance of Zhou Jue and others clearly alarmed it.
The leopard cat's fur bristled instantly, and it turned its head sharply, baring its sharp teeth and letting out a threatening growl.
"What's going on? The spiritual energy in this place..." Zhou Jue was incredulous, and she immediately called on the system in her mind.
"Brother Tongzi, what's going on? How come there's spiritual energy on Earth now?"
[Host, the situation may be somewhat different from what you guessed.]
[The Earth is not devoid of spiritual energy; rather, it has entered the final stage of its depletion.]
Based on data analysis, it is entering a new era...
The signs of the spiritual energy revival have already appeared.
Zhou Jue was deeply shocked.
Is the spiritual energy revival coming so soon?
That was so sudden!
Yes, this valley should be a node of a small spiritual vein, which is why it was the first to show signs of revival. This tree and these fruits are the first products nourished by spiritual energy.
“Then this leopard cat…” Zhou Jue looked at the animal that looked fierce but was actually cowardly.
It was just an ordinary wild beast. Perhaps it had gained intelligence through the nourishment of spiritual energy, or perhaps it was instinctively drawn to it, thinking you were there to steal its opportunity.
Sure enough, although the leopard cat looked extremely fierce, Zhou Jue could sense that it was actually terrified, with its two hind legs trembling incessantly.
Zhou Jue immediately put on the Fang of Listening to the Sea, and his thoughts came through.
"You bunch of two-legged beasts! Get out of here!"
"This is mine! I found it first!"
"Once I eat it, I'll become the most powerful cat in the mountains!"
"Waaaaah... Don't come any closer... I... I'm going to bite you!"
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