However, before Lin Mo could even feel a hint of ecstasy, he saw Su Mu's body suddenly tremble violently! The inhuman concentration on her face was instantly replaced by immense pain! Her eyes widened to their limit, and deep within her pupils, emerald green light and an ominous, cold grayish-white color were madly intertwining and clashing!
"Ahhh!!!!" A shrill, inhuman scream erupted from Su Mu's throat! She clutched her head tightly, her body arching and twitching wildly as if she had been electrocuted! The nerve conduit connected to her body emitted dazzling electric sparks!
"Warning! High-dimensional contamination backlash detected! Source: Deep within the 'Tree of Life' node! Intensity: exponentially increasing!"
"Warning! The master node's consciousness is suffering from severe erosion! Fusion level: 39%... 41%... continues to rise!!"
"Warning! The secondary node (injured) life link is fluctuating! Stability is decreasing!"
On the makeshift surveillance screen, glaring red alerts flashed across the screen like crazy!
The warning of "pollution infiltration" in his mother's message! And the risk of "irreversible fusion of consciousness"! At this moment, it was erupting in Su Mu in the most tragic way!
“Su Mu—!!!” Lin Mo desperately rushed forward, trying to tear off the nerve conduits connected to Su Mu! But the conduits seemed to have grown together with Su Mu’s nerves! The excruciating pain caused by the forced pulling made Su Mu’s screams even more shrill! The emerald green light fluctuated violently, and the entire temporary network began to destabilize!
"Don't... touch me!" Su Mu suddenly raised his head, his eyes fixed on Lin Mo, emerald green and gray-white flashing wildly in his pupils. His voice was twisted and painful, yet it carried an unquestionable determination, "The link... cannot be broken! If it's broken... they will all... die!"
"You will die!!" Lin Mo's eyes were red and he roared!
"Then... die!" Su Mu's face showed an almost crazy expression, a mixture of great pain and strange calmness. "Trading me... for them... is worth it! Mom... made the same choice... back then..."
Her voice suddenly rose, carrying a power that penetrated the soul, like a final declaration, resounding throughout the cold hall:
"Use me... as the root! Use the remains of my body... as the branches!"
"Will...for the web! Life...for the leaves!"
"Above the ruins...the Tree of Life—"
"open!!!"
Following this tearful scream, all the last vitality in her body, along with the forcibly linked "Tree of Life" power from the underground node, which was polluted but still powerful, burst out completely and without reservation!
boom--!!!
An unprecedented, pure, and vast emerald green light, like an erupting torrent of life, instantly filled the entire hall of the Pillar of Creation! Wherever the light passed, frost melted! The chill dissipated! The haphazardly stacked neural connection units erupted with an unprecedentedly bright green light! The energy roots connected to the wounded became more condensed and stable! The pain on the faces of the seriously injured completely disappeared, and they fell into a peaceful slumber that was almost sacred!
Even... in the corner of the hall, the remains of a few foliage plants that had long been frozen to death and dried up, which were transplanted as decorations in the old times, under the shining green light, actually sprouted a little bit... so tiny that it was almost invisible... on the dry branches!
Life! In the absolute silence and severe cold, it was forcibly awakened!
At the center of the light—Su Mu's body—like a glass doll drained of all blood, it instantly lost all color, becoming grayish-white and transparent. The light in her eyes was completely extinguished, the clash of emerald green and gray vanishing, leaving only a hollow, all-seeing calm. The nerve conduit connected to her body dimmed and drooped limply.
Her body swayed, as if she had lost all support, and fell backwards softly.
“No——!!!” Lin Mo let out a desperate wail like a lone wolf crying blood, and suddenly pounced forward, using all his strength to hug Su Mu’s cold, light body that seemed to have no weight tightly in his arms!
Her heartbeat... so weak it was almost imperceptible! Her body temperature... was frighteningly low! Her consciousness... was like a candle in the wind, ready to go out completely at any moment!
She used her own life and consciousness as fuel, igniting the "Tree of Life" that had forcibly blossomed in the ruins! It temporarily protected the wounded, dispelled the bitter cold within the hall, and even...brought forth tiny yet incredibly astonishing new sprouts!
But the price... is her withering!
"Su Mu! Su Mu! Look at me! Look at me!" Lin Mo called out frantically, trying to channel the extremely weak "Fire of Life" power within him, but it was like a drop in the ocean! Su Mu's body was like a completely hollowed-out container, cold and silent.
Just then—
Buzz!
An extremely weak, yet extremely familiar, cold information entropy fluctuation suddenly and abruptly rippled within Su Mu's body in Lin Mo's arms... like a stone thrown into a calm lake!
This fluctuation...is not Su Mu's! It's...
Lin Mo froze suddenly! He lowered his head in disbelief and looked at Su Mu's forehead, which was so pale that it was almost transparent.
An extremely faint, ice-blue light, like a sleeping star that was forcibly disturbed, flickered for a moment... with great difficulty... deep in Su Mu's brow!
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