Lin Mo suddenly covered his chest! There, as if something was responding to his father's words, a faint but clear throbbing came from it!
"And Shen Qingli..." Lin Zhenyuan's image's tone became heavier. "She is Su Yingxue... your mother... In desperation, she used all the fragments of the 'Siphon' protocol that were contaminated by the 'Reaper' that she could collect, combined with her own powerful mental force field and some of the 'Spark' peripheral technology... to forcibly create... a 'weapon'!"
What?! Shen Qingli…is a weapon…created by her mother?! Lin Mo's breathing instantly stopped!
"Her core is the icy 'Siphon,' a distorted mirror image of the 'Reaper's' power! She exists to fight the 'Reaper,' to protect... or rather... to reclaim the 'Spark'!" Lin Zhenyuan's image flickered, as if his energy was about to run out. "But the 'Siphon''s' essence is devouring and plundering! It and the life-creating nature of the 'Spark'... are fundamentally opposed! They share the same origin... yet repel each other! Child, be careful of her! She is a guardian, but under the erosion of the 'Reaper,' she could become the deadliest hunter! Destroy the 'beacon generator' at the core of the relay station! That's the beacon the 'Reaper' uses to locate this dimension! The coordinates... Delta-9! Right... right..."
The image flickered violently, and Lin Zhenyuan's voice became intermittent. Finally, his gaze seemed to penetrate the image, and with endless attachment and worry, it fell on Lin Mo. His lips moved silently, as if calling his name...
Buzz...
The image completely dissipated. The faint blue light in the center of the screen wall also completely extinguished. The entire core control room fell into a dead silence and darkness again, leaving only the faint, swaying pale beam of the emergency light in Lin Mo's hand.
The huge amount of information was like a tsunami, completely drowning Lin Mo.
Father… Mother… “Spark”… “Siphon”… Shen Qingli… Weapons… Similar origins repel each other… “Reaper”…
The truth! A truth so cruel it's suffocating!
He, Lin Mo, is the carrier of the "fire" that his father protected with his life, and the fire of life of the "Fire of Prometheus"!
Shen Qingli was a cold weapon created by her mother in despair, with "siphon" as its core, to fight against the "reapers"! They had the same origin, but like light and shadow, they were destined to repel each other!
Those coordinates... Delta-9! The beacon generator! Destroy it!
Lin Mo suddenly raised his head, his bloodshot eyes burning with mad flames! He no longer looked at his father's silent body. His gaze, like the sharpest knife, swept across the huge, completely dimmed screen wall behind the console!
Delta-9! Right there! Behind that wall of screens!
He had to destroy it! For his father! For his mother! For Shen Qingli, who was fighting alone against the invasion of the higher dimension outside! For the "Ark"! For the last ray of hope for this damned ruined world!
He dragged his wounded body, burst out with his last strength, raised the high-frequency sword, and rushed towards the huge screen wall!
Just as he was about to hit the screen wall——
Boom!!!!
A loud noise far more terrifying than any previous one, as if the entire underground space was about to be torn apart, suddenly came from the direction of the vertical passage they came in from!
Along with a loud bang, an indescribable terrifying pressure mixed with cold metal, violent energy, and... Shen Qingli's distorted and corroded "siphon" aura, like a destructive hurricane, instantly swept across the entire core area of the relay station!
In the direction of the passage entrance, the hard alloy structure was torn and twisted like paper by the violent force!
A figure slowly stepped into this dead steel cemetery from the broken passage.
It’s Shen Qingli.
But... this is no longer the Shen Qingli that Lin Mo knows.
Her dark gray uniform was shattered, revealing a large, mechanical body coated in the sheen of liquid metal, now covered in hideous purple-black cracks and pulsing arcs of purple electricity. Her right arm—the one that had previously blocked the high-dimensional beams—was completely engulfed and consumed from the shoulder down by a wriggling, multiplying purple-black crystal! Like living creatures, the crystals were spreading frantically along her shoulders and neck, towards her head and torso!
Her left arm was still intact, covered with a dark blue metal glove, but the blue light on the glove's surface was extremely dim, and the energy lingering on her fingertips was no longer pure dark blue, but mixed with ominous purple lightning.
The most terrifying thing is her face.
That face, once as delicate as a jade sculpture, was now half covered in wriggling purple-black crystals, gleaming with an evil light. The other half, though still retaining human skin, was a sickly bluish-gray, and her muscles were as stiff as stone. And her eyes...
One eye was still a deep silver-gray, but deep in the pupil, the icy blue light flickered faintly like a candle in the wind, filled with extreme pain, struggle and... a trace of clarity belonging to "Shen Qingli" that was almost completely submerged!
And the other eye… had been completely replaced by pure, blazing purple-black flames! Icy! Cruel! With an inhuman, indifferent greed, as if looking down upon an ant! That flaming eye was fixed with unwavering precision on Lin Mo, who had just rushed to the screen wall! More precisely, it was locked on his violently heaving chest, on the faint blue "spark" mark that flickered faintly with emotion!
"I...found...you..." A cold, twisted voice, like the friction of countless metal fragments, which did not belong to Shen Qingli at all, came out of her mouth and echoed in the silent core control room.
"Spark...same origin...variable...must...be recovered!"
Following these cold, verdict-like words, Shen Qingli's right arm, covered in purple-black crystals, suddenly raised up! The crystals on his arm squirmed and deformed crazily, instantly condensing into an enormous, sickle-like energy blade burning with purple-black flames!
In her pupil that was burning with purple flames, the light of greed and destruction surged!
Next second!
The huge energy sickle blade covered with purple crystals and electric arcs tore through the air, and with the terrifying power of annihilating everything, it slashed down fiercely towards Lin Mo - towards the "fire" in his chest!
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