Chapter 137: The End of the World For the future of mankind, I must go there...
As soon as Zhao Cheng finished speaking, the entire army entered combat mode, and the sound of weapons clashing rang out one after another.
The air on the battlefield froze instantly.
The fluctuations of the Wen clan's supernatural powers and the military's accumulated firepower formed a delicate balance, and both sides remained motionless.
Gu Yifeng gently let go of Wen Yi, took a step forward alone, and stood still in the smoke.
"General Zhao." He raised his hand and pointed at the wormhole's core. "Do you know what the current energy level means?"
The dark blue vortex in the air is slowly expanding, and dangerous energy is constantly bursting out from the edge.
"The wormhole has entered its latter stages of development, with its current energy equivalent to 30 million tons of TNT. If it is forcibly closed, this mountain range, and everything within a hundred miles, will be destroyed by the wormhole."
His voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard by everyone.
"But I can close the wormhole harmlessly."
On the battlefield, the muzzles of all guns remained pointed, but the fingers on the triggers had slightly loosened. Faced with the devastating disaster, everyone's fighting spirit waned. The atmosphere remained tense, but the atmosphere had lessened.
Zhao Cheng raised his hand and gestured, the dense gun barrels lowering slightly. The soldiers retreated twenty meters to establish a cordon. He led two technical officers toward Gu Yifeng. Seeing this, Gu Yifeng, Wen Yi, and Wen Chi stepped forward, and the two sides confronted each other in the open space in front of the battle line.
"Specific plan," Zhao Cheng said straight to the point. "I want to know the success rate."
Gu Yifeng said, "To close the wormhole, we can't use a stronger force to collide, but rather we need to create 'anti-phase resonance.' The only way at the moment is to use my equipment to create a decoherence field, guiding the orderly release of energy from the outside. At the same time, Wen Yi needs to cooperate in entering the wormhole core and unlocking the stabilization device from the inside. It's like two people turning the key simultaneously from the inside and outside of a door—she unlocks it from the inside, and I close it from the outside—to successfully close the wormhole."
As for the success rate, no one can accurately predict it. But there is no doubt that her strength and my skills are indispensable.
A technical officer couldn't help but interject, "That's too idealistic! We don't even understand the internal structure of a wormhole. How is she going to get into it? Is it even possible? Any object would be torn apart the moment it enters."
"I can." Wen Yi interrupted him calmly, "In fact, I have traveled through wormholes many times."
"……Grass!"
Gu Yifeng nodded in confirmation: "Yes, ordinary wormholes are fatal to humans, but this wormhole was opened because of her, and the internal environment is highly compatible with her biological characteristics. Therefore, she is the only one who can actively and safely enter."
Another technical officer pointed out the key problem: "Your portable quantum decoherence device is too weak to form a silent field that can cover the entire wormhole."
Gu Yifeng nodded calmly: "Yes, a single device is indeed not enough, but what if we combine multiple devices into a ring array to achieve energy field superposition?"
The technical officers exchanged shocked glances.
"The remaining equipment is on its way. We need to work with the military to urgently build a large decoherence array and complete its deployment and commissioning."
Zhao Cheng looked at him for a long time: "I want to ensure that the plan goes smoothly. If I don't see any real progress within twelve hours..."
"There is enough time. As long as we each do our job." Gu Yifeng said firmly.
Under Zhao Cheng's command, the military engineering corps cleared a site with astonishing efficiency, and a massive power truck roared in. Soldiers carried the newly delivered quantum decoherence device and, under his command, began constructing a large circular array.
Gu Yifeng shuttled between various devices, debugging modules with military technical officers.
The Wen clan members monitored the energy flow in the entire area from the periphery, maintaining a clear boundary with the military.
The wormhole coldly overlooks this fragile alliance from above. It rotates and expands silently, unmoved by external affairs or objects, silently counting down to the end.
"Yiyi, do you want to rest for a while?"
Wen Yi suddenly withdrew her gaze, looked at her parents and Wen Chi in front of her, and quickly lowered her head to hide the emotions surging in her eyes.
"No need." Her strength gradually returned, and she didn't feel tired at all. She paused and spoke again, a hint of sob in her voice, "Let me stay with you for a while."
The mother suddenly turned her head, quickly wiped away the tears from the corner of her eyes, and tried to maintain a decent smile. She raised her hand and touched Wen Yi's head as she did when they were children. "Okay, then let's stay together as a family for a while."
After waiting for so long, this moment finally arrived. Wen Yi's heart was unusually calm, but she only regretted that time passed so quickly and the warmth of family reunion was gone in a flash. Wen Chi, who was always quiet, just stayed by her side in silence.
After a while, it was his father Wen Yunzhi who spoke first: "Yiyi, have you thought clearly about entering the wormhole?"
Wen Yi looked up in confusion: "Is there any other way?"
"We don't have to defend to the death. We just want to rescue you."
“Huh?!”
Wen Yunzhi gazed at the green mountains in the distance. "If the Wen family wants to escape from Qingluan Mountain unscathed, they have an 80% to 90% chance of success. But if you enter the wormhole, what are your chances of returning..."
Wen Chi continued without hesitation: "Are you sure you want to bet your life on Gu Yifeng? What if his plan fails?"
Wen Yi was speechless for a moment.
The mother's eyes were red, and her tone was pleading: "Yiyi, think about it carefully. I don't support you taking risks."
"...I understand what you mean. But if we can leave, what about the others?" Wen Yi looked at the soldiers guarding here, and Gu Yifeng, who was debugging the equipment with a focused look.
Wen Chi tutted impatiently: "At worst, I can find a way to get rid of him as well."
In silence, Wen Yi looked up and gazed at the starlight deep in the wormhole that did not belong to this world, feeling the power in her body that faintly resonated with it gradually awakening.
The night when Wen Chi showed her the "starry sky" suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.
"Brother," she suddenly said, "We may be able to leave today and escape the fate of destruction, but what then? The alien invasion will not stop. In the future, more ordinary people, more people with special abilities, will die in the battle for civilization... We can't escape forever."
"Behind the wormhole, there may be a certain death, but it may also be hope, the answer we have been searching for for a hundred years." She looked at Wen Chi and said word by word,
"You once told me that every member of your tribe who passed away is a star. Even if they turn into dark matter, they will still exist eternally in this starry sky. And I have always been the key to unlocking this starry sky."
The confusion in Wen Yi's heart was completely washed away, and there seemed to be stars flowing in her eyes.
"Then now is the time to insert the key into the lock." Her gaze fixed on the spinning wormhole. "For the Wen family, and for the future of mankind, I must reach that starry sky."
After a long while, Wen Yunzhi sighed softly: "Since that's the case, I won't interfere with your life or death anymore. It's all up to you."
Wen Yuran turned his face away suddenly. Wen Yi's heart tightened. Before she could say "Don't worry", Gu Yifeng's clear voice came from a distance: "The decoherence array is ready!"
Wen Yi took a last look at her family, tied her long hair up high, and turned around to face the final battle.
The decoherence array activated simultaneously, and several beams of faint blue light converged at the wormhole, interweaving into a dazzling circle of light. The air instantly became sticky, and the space around Wen Yi began to slightly distort.
In the dazzling light, Wen Yi subconsciously raised her hands to cover her eyes. She saw the familiar figure through her fingers, and her eyes met Gu Yifeng's.
It was like going back in time to the day we met at the ice cream truck, and meeting those deep eyes again.
She couldn't see Gu Yifeng's expression at the moment, she just smiled slightly in his direction.
No need to say goodbye.
We will see each other again.
There was a sudden flash of light, and the next second, Wen Yi silently sank into the rotating wormhole.
Wen Yi's consciousness re-condensed in that void.
She returned to the familiar light cube, with countless light cones extending quietly around her.
Next, should that ball of light appear?
Sure enough, the next second, a gentle but cold voice sounded from the depths of her consciousness:
"You're back."
Wen Yi stopped playing coy with it and asked directly, "Stop trying to get close to me. Who are you? Why are you invading my world like this?"
The ball of light flickered subtly.
"We are not invading, but looking for the possibility of continuing the end of civilization."
"Wait!" Wen Yi interrupted rudely, "You've opened your door to someone else's, and you call that a guest? Stop flattering yourself."
The light ball's tone remained steady: "We...are seeking coexistence. How can something that allows for common development be considered an invasion?"
"Coexistence? Last time you lied to me about some high-dimensional civilization, but it turns out you were just talking nonsense." Wen Yi's consciousness conveyed a strong resistance. "Tell me, where did you come from? If you keep making up nonsense this time, I'm really leaving."
The ball of light dimmed a bit, and when it "spoke" again, its calm voice seemed to carry a hint of helplessness:
"...As a descendant of our bloodline, your intelligence and understanding really put us...in a difficult position."
Wen Yi was almost laughing out of anger: "You want to hurt each other, right? Fine, you guys are so smart and so capable, how come you guys are ruining yourselves?"
As if stung by these words, the ball of light suddenly fell silent, mired in an indescribable sadness. The resonance of energy sent a shudder through Wen Yi's body, as if her consciousness were being drawn into a distant and vast empathy.
In the vast picture of her consciousness, she "saw" an unfamiliar star field. It was a planet that was once extremely glorious. Countless glittering cities were suspended in the clouds, like palaces of gods. A child pointed casually, and the roadside trees instantly sprouted branches, bloomed, and bore fruit. The cycle of life was completed gracefully in a breath. The psychic network that enveloped the entire planet allowed thoughts and knowledge to be shared instantly across time and space.
Those cutting-edge technologies that she couldn't understand were just everyday sights here.
The voice of the ball of light sounded again, but with an imperceptible wave hidden in it: "We come from a distant galaxy and once established a civilization spanning the sea of stars." It seemed to be recounting a past that had nothing to do with itself.
"Our civilization can reach the deepest mysteries of time and space. The supernatural powers that you treasure on this planet are just ordinary tricks in our homeland. The technology that your planet is proud of is indeed primitive in our eyes."
Wen Yi was immersed in great shock: "If that's the case, why... did you end up like this?"
"Precisely because we have touched upon so many mysteries, the closer civilization approaches eternity, the easier it is to get lost in the light. We have long foreseen our own end, and so we seek here the possibility of rewriting our destiny."
Wen Yi was suspended in this cube of light, feeling that something dormant in her body was awakening. Those once unfamiliar fragments of alien memories now made her feel an indescribable throbbing.
"I am a member of the human race, and the last of your bloodline." Her words were filled with genuine compassion. "I understand your desire to survive, but a forced invasion will only lead to the destruction of both civilizations. It would be better for us to find a new path together."
The moment she finished speaking, she felt the complex emotions conveyed by the ball of light - billions of years of loneliness, unwillingness to disappear, and a slight wavering feeling after being understood.
At this moment——
The entire light cube shook violently! The void was struck by some violent energy, and Wen Yi's consciousness seemed to be struck, becoming blurry and unstable in an instant. The connection she had just established with her alien compatriots fluctuated violently, as if it would break at any moment.
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Outside the wormhole
"Close the wormhole immediately, no matter the cost!"
Zhao Cheng gave the order, completely severing the fragile temporary alliance. Command had classified the wormhole as a top-level alien invasion, authorizing him to use all means to eliminate the threat.
Several soldiers instantly controlled Gu Yifeng and his assistant.
"What are you doing? Stop it!" Gu Yifeng roared and struggled frantically.
"Back off! Otherwise it will be considered a hostile act!" The soldier raised his gun and warned sternly.
When the soldiers raised their guns, Wen immediately rose up to resist and refused to give in.
The war is about to break out!
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