The light penetrated the biofilm and the pale blue nutrient solution, forming a faint but incomparably firm beam of light within the life support chamber! At the top of the beam, dark gold and dark red flames intertwined and rose!
The light wasn't blinding, but it held an indescribable majesty and warmth. It ignored the energy tides of the World Tree's roots, ignored Xu Shuangyao's uncontrolled frost field, and like a weary bird returning to its nest, like a lost star finding its magnetic pole, it shot with uncanny precision...toward the figure curled up in endless sorrow and pain in the nearby life support pod—Xu Shuangyao!
The beam of light instantly crossed the barrier of the life support cabin and gently... enveloped Xu Shuangyao!
"Well?!"
Xu Shuangyao's heart-wrenching cry came to an abrupt halt, as if the pause button had been pressed!
The raging, uncontrolled mental storm and icy force field instantly solidified! Her curled-up body suddenly stiffened! Those eyes, burning with icy flames and endless pain, suddenly extinguished like ice melted by warm sunlight the moment they came into contact with the interwoven light of dark gold and crimson. In their place, she was filled with boundless shock, bewilderment... and a hint of... disbelief... a throbbing sensation.
That light...
That feeling...
Beneath the icy shell, the core of perception belonging to "Xu Shuangyao", which was eternally frozen and deeply engraved with that name, was like being thrown into a boiling furnace when touched by this light that was so familiar that even the soul trembled!
Pei Du!
It’s Pei Du’s light!
It was when he ignited the embers...the light that consumed itself!
It is his last will to protect!
This light has no words.
But it seems to be saying silently:
"Frost medicine..."
"Survive..."
"Watch this fire for me..."
"Woo..." A suppressed sob, a mixture of endless sorrow and the immense grievance of loss and recovery, escaped from Xu Shuangyao's tightly clenched lips and teeth. Scalding tears flowed out again like pearls from a broken string, but they were no longer a glacial river of pain and despair, but boiling, warm human tears.
The raging mental storm and the uncontrolled frost field receded like a tide. The boiling heat within the life support chamber subsided, and the temperature rose. She no longer curled up, her body trembling slightly as she slowly relaxed. Her icy blue eyes, still filled with tears, no longer burned with icy flames. Instead, they stared blankly, vacantly... at the faint yet all-too-familiar interweaving of dark gold and crimson light that enveloped her. She gazed at the source of that light... the sleeping boy.
The energy tides in the roots of the World Tree also subsided, and began to flow gently again.
Inside the temple, the piercing alarms gradually died down. Only the regular ticking of the instruments remained, and... Xu Shuangyao's stifled, intermittent sobs, like a lost child finally finding its way home...
General Raymond and Dr. Owen stood at the observation window, watching the scene in shock. They looked at the faint yet resilient bridge of light, a crisscross of dark gold and crimson, connecting the two life support pods.
"General..." Dr. Owen's voice trembled with excitement. "Resonance... This is the resonance of the original will of the starry sky! What Major General Pei Du left behind... is not just the fire... but also his protective will! This will... is calling out to Frost! It's connecting them!"
Raymond let out a long, slow breath, his clenched fists gradually loosening. He looked at Xu Shuangyao, who was silently weeping like a wounded animal in the light, and then at the sleeping Lin Mo at the source of the light. The boy's broken body, enveloped by the light, seemed to repair itself even faster. The dark golden light in the hollow of his left eye flickered steadily, like a breath.
"The spark... has been connected." Raymond's voice was low and firm, like a steel oath, echoing in the silent temple.
"Send a message to all Ark ships."
"From today onwards, the highest alert status has been lifted and changed to 'watch'."
"Course Alignment: Rift in the Sea of Entropy."
"Let's... go pick up Pei Du and take him home."
Simulated daylight gently streamed down from the temple's dome. The shadow of a gigantic world tree swayed silently, its roots entwined around the life support pods, flowing with the glow of life. A faint yet unquenchable dark gold and crimson light, connecting past and future, sacrifice and rebirth, flowed quietly between the pods, like the first ray of dawn in the dark universe... the starry sky's morning light.
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