"Ugh!" The excruciating pain caused her to scream miserably. A flash of clarity flashed through her chaotic eyes. She raised her bloodstained right hand, pointing it at her own bleeding chest, then at Pei Du, then at Xu Shuangyao falling into the abyss, and finally, at a cold metal column covered in intricate patterns, half-buried by metal debris deep within the platform! Her eyes were filled with eagerness, pleading, and a kind of... determination to entrust everything to him!
"Give...her...the...key...and...leave!" She used up her last bit of strength and let out a broken, metallic roar! Every syllable was laced with blood foam!
Pei Du's golden eyes instantly caught her movements and gaze! Key? Give it to her? Leave?!
There was no time to think! No time to hesitate! Xu Shuangyao's falling figure was already close to the edge of the spatial turbulence!
Pei Du's right hand, covered in dark gold lines, suddenly stretched out, activating the Gravitational Field of the End to its fullest extent, locking onto Xu Shuangyao! At the same time, he pressed the five fingers of his left hand together, condensing the violent power of the End, and fiercely grasped the cold metal pillar that the silver-haired woman was pointing at!
boom!
The debris surrounding the metal column was forcibly torn apart and annihilated by the power of the End! This revealed a concave circular interface on the column's surface, filled with complex energy circuits! At the center of the interface, a faint blue light flickered, emitting the same icy aura as the silver-haired woman!
Pei Du didn't hesitate at all! His left hand, covered with dark gold patterns, suddenly pressed towards the interface!
Just when his palm was about to touch the interface!
Buzz——!!!
Like a cosmic death knell, a massive, icy wave of space, imbued with an absolute will of destruction, suddenly descended from the icy deep-space orbit of Gaia, beyond the Rift City Abyss. It instantly locked onto the entire City of Thorns! Especially... this Rift City Abyss, which was furiously tearing apart space!
It was the Cradle! The source of that cold logic! It had finally taken action! This wave of energy was so powerful it far surpassed the previous orbital strikes and the hunters! It carried an absolute will to obliterate everything!
"The charging of ultra-high-dimensional annihilation bombardment has been detected! Target locked: the coordinates of the abyss of the Rift City! The energy level... is immeasurable! The attack will arrive in ten seconds!!" The remaining defense system of the City of Thorns screamed in despair!
Ten seconds! Only ten seconds! Once the annihilation bombardment arrives, the entire Rift City Abyss, along with all existence within it, will be completely wiped out from the physical plane!
Pei Du's palm finally pressed heavily on the cold metal interface!
boom--!!!
A massive, pure, icy-cold torrent of energy, yet imbued with a strange sense of "order," surged from the socket like glacial meltwater suppressed for eons, cascading down Pei Du's arm, etched with dark gold patterns, and fiercely plunging into his body. This energy was icy and piercing, nearly freezing his soul, yet the fragments of information contained within it washed over his core consciousness like a torrent!
Coordinates! Incredibly accurate coordinates of the Cradle's internal structure! Energy node distribution maps! Defense weaknesses! Even... an extremely hidden spatial path marked "Emergency Escape Route"! And... a cold codename—[Origin Key·G-7]!
This wasn't a key at all! This was the silver-haired woman—Source Key G-7—whose fragment, after being forcibly stripped and formatted by the Cradle, had been embedded deep within her soul... a fragment of the Cradle's core database! It was proof of her status as the "Key," but also the source of her pain and hatred! At this moment, in her final moments, she forcibly stripped away this last, only weapon against the Cradle and handed it to Pei Du!
"Ugh—!" Source Key G-7 let out a final, shrill scream! The moment she forcibly stripped away the core data fragments and injected them into the interface, the already chaotic and fragile energy balance within her body was completely shattered! The icy energy that comprised her body, the embedded metal structure, and the remaining vital tissue, like a ignited barrel of explosives, instantly underwent a terrifying annihilation reaction!
A blinding blue light erupted from her body! It instantly engulfed her entire body! Wherever the light passed, her flesh, bones, metal structure... everything silently decomposed, dissipated, and transformed into the most basic particles of dust! Even her silver hair, which had lost all its luster, drifted away like burnt ashes in the blue flames!
There was no explosion, only complete annihilation! Like being erased from a canvas by an eraser! All that remained was a continuously collapsing, dark blue ball of light several meters in diameter, emitting a heart-pounding aura of destruction!
She completed the final gift and revenge with her complete demise!
"Origin Key..." Pei Du's molten-gold pupils reflected the fading blue light. Deep within his icy gaze, for the first time, he clearly captured the face of the silver-haired woman struggling desperately within her icy cage. Codenamed G-7, "Origin Key," she was never a weapon; she was a sacrifice forged into a key. Her hatred, her destruction, ultimately became a sharp blade pointed at the heart of "Cradle"!
"Go!!!" The last scream of thought before the Source Key was annihilated, like the last war drum, exploded in the core of Pei Du's consciousness!
Pei Du's eyes flashed with molten gold! All emotions were instantly suppressed, leaving only cold determination and execution! He exerted force with his arm, covered in dark gold patterns! With the help of the vast icy energy transmitted by the interface and the extremely clear spatial coordinate information of the "cradle", his will, like the most sophisticated navigator, instantly locked onto the marked "emergency escape route" in the Source Key memory fragment!
At the same time, his End of the World gravitational field, which locked onto Xu Shuangyao's falling figure, mixed with the cold order energy belonging to the "Cradle" space coordinates that he had just received, and the breath of Xu Shuangyao's life coordinates transmitted from the depths of the thorn mark. In an incredible way, the three were forcibly integrated under Pei Du's highly concentrated will!
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