Chapter 232 Pentagram Array
The destructive torrent of energy had not yet reached the center, but the remains of the viaduct were already wailing in the violent vibrations.
Lu Zhao was the first to react. He almost dragged Xiao Ling and placed her in the due north position marked in the holographic projection.
"Quick! Get in position!" he roared.
Su Wanqing did not hesitate and took a step towards the east, which represented the "anchor point".
Lin Che endured the severe pain in his body and moved to the "container" position in the northwest.
Lu Zhao himself quickly took the position of "Guardian" in the southeast.
Finally, "Night" curled his lips, but still obeyed the arrangement. His figure flashed and appeared at the "Retrograde" node in the southwest.
The five people stood still, and the formation seemed to be activated by an invisible force. The three purple, blue, and silver cores suspended in the center instantly glowed brightly, and the energy flows between them began to rotate at high speed, forming a deep energy vortex visible to the naked eye.
Su Wanqing raised her arm wearing a jade bracelet, and the bracelet on her wrist projected five slender golden threads, precisely connecting to everyone's chest.
"This will change each of us," her voice was transmitted directly to the consciousness of the other four people through the golden thread, "When I count to three, we will connect our consciousness to the core at the same time! Once we start, we can't stop!"
The Weaver Vanguard had obviously noticed their plan. The silver substance in its body flowed rapidly, splitting into dozens of sharp energy tentacles, which rushed towards the five nodes of the pentagram at the same time like a living thing.
"You don't understand what you are doing!" The voice of the Forerunner was no longer cold, but carried a deafening warning, "This barrier will cause a time fault! You will be trapped on the edge of time forever, belonging neither to reality nor to eternity!"
“At least we chose our own destiny!” Lin Che stepped forward and blocked the energy tentacles heading towards the northwest.
The Orion Sequence in his body was stimulated to the extreme, and after a flash of blue light, his entire right arm completely turned into a pure blue crystal structure.
He pushed forward with his crystallized arm, and a blue energy barrier instantly unfolded.
Several energy tentacles hit the barrier, making a harsh friction sound before being bounced off.
But the price Lin Che paid was equally huge. Spider-web-like cracks appeared on the surface of his body, and strands of blue energy were constantly seeping out from the cracks.
"three!"
"two!"
"one!"
Following Su Wanqing's final countdown, five people stretched out their hands at the same time, as if trying to touch the unreachable core energy field.
Their consciousness followed the golden thread and plunged into the vortex in the center without hesitation.
A shocking scene happened.
Su Wanqing's body began to change first. Her flesh and blood quickly became illusory, and her whole body turned into a translucent golden energy body.
Her outline constantly switches between stability and blur, as if she exists at every moment in the past, present and future simultaneously.
Lin Che's body was completely devoured by the blue energy. Blue crystals began to spread from his right arm and quickly covered his entire body.
He was no longer in human form, but a crystalline creature with a humanoid outline, similar to the Orion life.
On Lu Zhao's skin, countless complex emerald green symbols emerged from thin air and flowed across his body.
The pupils of his eyes disappeared, replaced by a constantly rolling, waterfall-like stream of data.
Xiao Ling's transformation was the most thorough and the most peaceful. She completely transformed into an exquisitely crafted amethyst statue, with every facet of her body reflecting light, as if a real starry sky was hidden inside, with countless tiny stars slowly flowing through it.
And "Night" turned into a rolling ball of black and blue chaotic energy, surrounded by several micro time vortexes that were constantly being born and dying, exuding a contradictory yet unified atmosphere.
At this moment, their consciousnesses merged in a torrent of core energy.
Without language or barriers, they can clearly perceive each other's deepest memories and truest emotional fluctuations - Su Wanqing's protection, Lin Che's struggle, Lu Zhao's responsibility, Xiaoling's guidance, and even "Ye"'s regret and ambition from Dr. Morris.
Outside the viaduct, Xiao Ran led a team of members of the Dawn Organization and took advantage of the chaos on the military front to finally break through the blockade. The special equipment they carried was immediately deployed after arriving at the scene.
"Oh my god..." Xiao Ran looked at the five energy bodies of different shapes on the bridge and muttered to himself, "Is this the 'third way' that Lu Zhao mentioned?"
He was stunned for a moment, then immediately came to his senses and shouted an order: "Quick! Set up jammers! Suppress the technological influence of other weavers around the city! Cover them! The barrier needs time to stabilize!"
The team members acted quickly and several disc-shaped jammers were activated, forming an invisible temporary protective net around the viaduct.
At this moment, a beam of energy shot from a distance and accurately hit the edge of the barrier that had not yet taken shape, causing a violent energy fluctuation.
Xiao Ran and others immediately looked over vigilantly and discovered that a team of military soldiers led by Lieutenant Cui were approaching quickly.
However, an unexpected scene occurred. Lieutenant Cui did not order an attack, but stopped at a safe distance, picked up the megaphone and announced loudly: "The military has decided to support the barrier plan! The 'Monk' has confirmed that this is the only viable plan!"
He waved his hand, and his soldiers immediately dispersed and built a second line of defense outside.
Lieutenant Cui turned to Xiao Ran and nodded vigorously: "We will buy time to complete the barrier!"
Xiao Ran was a little surprised, but he just responded with a standard military salute.
At this moment, the two organizations, which once had opposing positions, achieved a brief unity for a common goal.
On the bridge, the three cores were spinning faster and faster under the pull of five completely different energies, and finally collided and merged, forming a high-speed rotating energy ball with gold, blue and purple interwoven.
Immediately, the sphere burst out with a blinding light that was impossible to look directly at, and suddenly expanded outwards, forming a huge hemispherical energy barrier that instantly enveloped the entire wreckage of the viaduct.
The subsequent attacks launched by the Weaver Vanguard hit the surface of the barrier and were easily decomposed and absorbed like a stone thrown into the sea.
The all-consuming time collapse phenomenon around the viaduct was also firmly blocked by this barrier.
The barrier continued to expand slowly but steadily. The Forerunner seemed unwilling to accept defeat, and it converted all the remaining matter into energy, trying to disrupt the formation process of the barrier.
At this most critical moment, Xiaoling, who had transformed into a purple crystal life form, suddenly spoke.
Her voice was no longer the clear voice of a girl, but a resonance with an ancient rhythm that resounded directly in the consciousness of the other four people:
"The final step...we must fully integrate ourselves into the barrier's infrastructure...become a permanent anchor..."
She "looked" at the other four people and delivered the final message.
"This means giving up our current form and becoming a being between humans and energy bodies... Are you ready?"
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