"Formatting progress... 78%... 90%..." Dr. Qin, under the cover of the soldiers, shouted the numbers, his voice filled with ecstasy and urgency. "Hurry! Hold on!"
At that moment, a terrifying main tentacle, thicker than the others, covered in heavy metal armor and cracked at the tip like a yawning abyss, suddenly burst forth from the core of the matrix! It didn't attack the others, but with a space-shattering scream, it aimed directly at the core of the purification matrix's light column! It wanted to interrupt the formatting! Save the "weapon" that was about to be purified!
"No!" Wen Shifei stared at the devastating main tentacle, then at Lu Cheneng's pained eyes, which gradually regained clarity within the beam of light. Despair gripped her instantly! Too close! Too fast! Li Shuo was entangled by several other tentacles! Yun Zhan was flung away! Dr. Qin was too busy to take care of himself!
No one can withstand this blow!
Could it be... that all efforts were in vain?
In this desperate moment of a split second, the azure stream of consciousness in Wen Shifei's mind, which had always supported her and belonged to Wen Yuan's backup, suddenly burst out with its final and most dazzling brilliance! A command beyond authority and logic, with a resolute, self-destructive will, followed the connection and rushed back into the core database of Pandora's mother body "Zero"!
That was not an attack command, but a... wake-up command!
Buzz——!
The pulsating core of the giant mother body, which was in a violent attack, suddenly stopped!
Then, across the entire inner wall of the space, within the tens of thousands of seething incubators, all the dormant, imprisoned consciousnesses, as if summoned by some supreme being, simultaneously opened their "eyes"! Those were not physical eyes, but the radiance of pure consciousness! Tens of thousands of faint rays of consciousness, yet imbued with an unyielding will, instantly rose from the incubators in all directions, like a reverse meteor shower!
They didn't attack anyone.
They have only one target - the most terrifying main tentacle that is about to destroy the purifying light column!
Tens of thousands of faint rays of consciousness, at the critical moment, converged into an indescribably brilliant torrent composed purely of unyielding will! Like the first ray of light at the dawn of the universe, and like the final mournful song and roar of billions of lives, it fiercely crashed into the tentacle of destruction!
There were no earth-shattering explosions.
There was only a silent wail and a sound of shattering that seemed to come from the depths of the soul.
That pure torrent of will, formed by the convergence of tens of thousands of imprisoned consciousnesses, crashed into the main tentacle just before it was about to strike the beam of light! There was no physical impact, only the purest annihilation of consciousness!
The incomparably thick main tentacle, coated in heavy metal, began to disintegrate and dissipate silently from the tip, like ice and snow thrown into the scorching sun! Not shattered, not destroyed, but completely wiped out from existence by the impact of the simultaneous explosion of tens of thousands of unyielding wills!
The shockwave of this detonation swept across the entire space! All the waving tentacles seemed to have been paused, frozen in mid-air! The mother body "Zero" let out a earth-shattering silent scream mixed with pain and anger! The vibration of the entire spherical space reached its peak!
In the light column of the purification matrix, the last trace of cold light was completely annihilated.
[Formatting complete! Pollution source cleared!] The prompt on Dr. Qin's instrument lit up glaringly!
The beam of light suddenly converged.
Lu Cheneng's figure fell from mid-air, landing heavily on the cold purification platform. His eyes were closed, his face pale as paper, but his brow was no longer furrowed. The inhuman coldness and distortion on his face had completely disappeared, leaving only a kind of almost exhausted calmness.
"Chen En!" Wen Shifei rushed over desperately, hugged his cold body tightly, felt his weak but steady heartbeat, and tears burst out like a dam breaking.
But the crisis wasn't over! Although the mother body, "Zero," had suffered heavy damage, a massive hole in its core where the main tentacle had been removed, emanating a constant stream of chaotic energy, remained undestroyed! Instead, the remaining structure, convulsed by intense pain and rage, plunged into even greater chaos! Countless ruptured nerve bundles danced wildly, indiscriminately attacking everything within the space! The entire spherical structure groaned under the strain, and massive cracks spread across the walls and ceiling!
"The self-destruct sequence was prematurely activated by the torrent of consciousness!" Dr. Qin looked at the frantically ticking countdown on the instrument, his face pale. "Three minutes at most! This place is about to collapse! Go!"
"Take Chen En with you! Let's go!" Li Shuo used brute force to break off several smaller tentacles wrapped around his body, rushed to the edge of the platform, and together with Wen Shifei, lifted up the unconscious Lu Chen En.
Yun Zhan covered his bleeding chest and blended into the shadows again, clearing a path ahead. The dark blue arc of light cut through the broken tentacles blocking the way.
The passageway that had been so perilous the first time they'd arrived had, in the chaos of the Matrix losing control and the base self-destructing, become a relatively safe escape route. Walls were crumbling, pipes spewed scorching steam and sparks, and alarms wailed shrilly.
They tried their best to rush out at the fastest speed! Behind them, there were loud noises of continuous collapse and the mother body emitting a wail like a planet breaking apart.
When they finally rushed out of the last twisted and deformed alloy gate and stepped into a relatively safe area, an extremely dull and extremely loud sound came from behind them, as if the heart of the earth had stopped beating!
Boom boom boom——!
The entire underground space was shaking violently! The direction of Pandora's core area was completely buried by collapsed rock and twisted metal! A shockwave mixed with dust and residual energy swept out, knocking everyone to the ground!
The air was filled with dust.
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