Chapter 229 Three-Party Confrontation
The viaduct has become a strange exhibition hall, displaying frozen time.
The center of the bridge is the absolute domain of the pioneer, where everything is still; the outer area is a viscous transition zone, where movement is slow; further out, time gradually resumes its flow.
The three forces formed an unstable triangle in this area of different flow rates.
The pioneer stood in the center, motionless. Night was suspended in midair, and the first purple core was slowly rotating above his palm, emitting an ominous light.
Su Wanqing and Lu Zhao dragged the second core and hid behind a concrete mixer truck that was broken into two pieces.
Lin Che was protecting Xiao Ling and the third core he had just obtained, and was trying to move out of the battlefield along the edge of the transition zone.
A voice sounded out of nowhere, not coming from any direction, but echoing directly in everyone's mind, like hundreds of people with different tones speaking at the same time, without any emotion.
“The three samples must be returned to the main network. Please stop the meaningless resistance. This is not destruction, but eternal preservation.”
"Ye" suddenly sneered, and the laughter sounded particularly harsh above the viaduct.
"I know who you are and what you want! But I have learned the true use of the core!"
He arrogantly raised the core, and purple light shone brightly. "This is not just a time sample, it is the key to rewrite reality. I can transform this world into what I want. Your collection plan will fail!"
The silver halo on the Pioneer's head flickered a few times, as if evaluating the truthfulness of what "Ye" said.
During this brief confrontation, Lin Che made a move that no one expected.
He suddenly pushed Xiaoling and the third core in her arms towards Su Wanqing.
"Catch her!"
He turned around and rushed towards the "night" in mid-air like an arrow.
The Orion Sequence in his body was stimulated to the extreme, and his entire right arm quickly changed from flesh and blood to a translucent blue crystal, with arcs of energy jumping on it.
“You don’t understand what you’re doing!” Lin Che’s voice was filled with a roar, “You will destroy everyone!”
A melee broke out instantly.
Facing the oncoming Lin Che, Ye casually waved his hand, and an overwhelming blue energy wave surged towards Lin Che.
The car wreckage on the ground was touched by this energy wave and turned into powder in an instant.
At the same time, the forerunner in the center of the bridge also moved. It ignored the two people fighting, but stretched out its hands.
Dozens of pure silver energy tentacles stretched out from behind it, like living things, pulling towards the first suspended core, the second core where Su Wanqing was, and the third core that had just been pushed halfway.
Lin Che's crystal arm collided with the energy wave of "Night", making a dull sound.
He was shocked and took a few steps back, but he did not collapse. The power used by the two came from the same source, but Lin Che's seemed more wild and unstable, while "Ye"'s was precise and deadly.
In the interval between the energy clashes, Lin Che seized the opportunity. He looked directly at the face of "Ye" that was very similar to his own.
“I remember now… You are not Dr. Morris, you are just a flawed replica that was created when he uploaded his consciousness… The real him regretted it a long time ago, so he made a backup plan before uploading…” Every word Lin Che said was like a hammer, “I am that backup plan!”
There was an almost imperceptible pause in Night's offensive.
On the other side, Su Wanqing successfully caught the small bell and the third core that were pushed over.
The moment the third core entered her side, the distance between the three cores was suddenly shortened.
“Buzz——”
A resonance occurred that could not be heard by the ears but made the soul tremble.
The entire viaduct area shook violently, and the time deceleration field was like a water surface with a stone thrown into it, causing violent ripples.
In the originally still area, the alarm lights of a car began to flash wildly; in the originally slow transition zone, the body of a passerby suddenly accelerated to return to normal, and then solidified in an instant; even more bizarrely, some of the debris and dust that were blown away began to violate the laws of physics and slowly flowed backwards into the sky.
Even the forerunner at the center of the bridge seemed to be disturbed by this resonance, and its movements became slow and stiff.
The jade bracelet on Su Wanqing's wrist vibrated violently, and the Guardian AI's warning popped up in blood red on her system interface.
[Warning: The resonance of the three cores has begun! Time stability has dropped to 30%! The cores must be synchronized or completely separated immediately, otherwise the entire city area will fall into time collapse! ]
Su Wanqing wanted to combine the three cores, but found that she had no idea how to do it.
In the midst of this chaos, Xiaoling's body began to tremble violently.
Lu Zhao was about to support her when he saw that her eyes had completely turned into deep purple crystals.
She opened her mouth, but the words that came out were not her own voice, but a strange combination of the voices of men, women, young and old, and several unknown languages.
"There are three paths... The first one is that 'Night' obtains all the cores, and the world will be rewritten into his utopia, but the reality structure will completely collapse within three days..."
"Second, if the Weaver obtains the core, our time will be preserved forever, but we will be forever frozen in a moment..."
Her words suddenly stopped, and her purple eyes looked straight at Su Wanqing.
"The third rule... The third rule is only known by the anchor point, and you must discover it yourself..."
While protecting Xiao Ling, Lu Zhao recorded her words on the tactical terminal.
He suddenly noticed that some complex runes similar to those on the core were emerging on Xiaoling's bare arms, and those runes were still slowly changing on their own.
He subconsciously reached out to touch her, and as soon as his fingertips touched Xiaoling's skin, a picture flashed through his mind -
In a core laboratory of the military, several researchers in white coats were gathered around a report, their faces filled with shock.
The report shows that the experimental subject code-named "Xiao Ling" has a special element in his blood that can resonate directly with the core.
She is one of the few humans who can survive direct contact with the core, a natural "translator".
Lu Zhao suddenly came back to his senses and looked at the little girl in front of him who was still mumbling to herself.
Not only can she hear the Core, she may be the key to understanding the Weaver's language!
That's why she can see possible futures!
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