The instinct for survival and the obsession to protect, like a beacon in the darkness, dispelled the confusion and weakness in his consciousness. Lin Mo began to concentrate all his remaining mental strength, trying to perceive the structure of this chaotic space, looking for any possible, relatively stable "exit" or "weak point."
The process was like a blind man groping in a minefield, difficult and dangerous. Every outpouring of his spiritual power was like exposing himself to a violent turbulence, causing immense exhaustion and pain. He carefully avoided the areas of turbulence with the brightest colors and the most violent currents, extending his perception like tentacles to those fragments of space that seemed relatively "solid" and dull in color.
Time (chaotic) passes in the painful exploration.
Sudden!
When Lin Mo's perception carefully passed over a huge piece of space fragment that looked like solidified black amber, an extremely weak but extremely familiar energy fluctuation, like a stone thrown into a stagnant pool, instantly caused a violent resonance in the core of his consciousness!
This fluctuation... cold... dead silence... carries an essence of absolute "order" and "erasure"...
Is it... the lingering aura of the Purifier? !
Lin Mo's spirit tensed instantly! He suppressed the strong discomfort and hostility aroused by the cold breath and focused his perception more closely on the black space fragment.
Inside the fragment, the scene wasn't completely solidified. At its core, a tiny, almost purplish dot of light blended seamlessly into the darkness, flickering slowly, like breathing. Around this dot of light, a few minute energy traces remained, formed from the pure law of "erasure"...
This trace... is very fresh! The remaining aura is highly consistent with the Purifier who took away Frost Medicine and Chenxing!
This... was the space node the Purifiers briefly passed through when they returned to the Observer Fleet, carrying the sealed Chenxing and the formatted "caretaker" Xu Shuangyao? This was the space track they left behind...?!
This discovery exploded like thunder in Lin Mo's consciousness! In the darkness of despair, a crack suddenly appeared!
Track it!
Following this remaining track, we might be able to find the whereabouts of the Observer Fleet! Find Frost Medicine and Morning Star!
The impact of this immense hope nearly shook Lin Mo's spirit again! He forced himself to suppress his turbulent thoughts and, like the most patient hunter, began to concentrate all his energy, analyzing, capturing, and memorizing every trace of the Purifier's aura and the fluctuating characteristics of its spatial trajectory remaining within the fragment!
This process was incredibly draining, like trying to thread a hair through a needle in a raging storm. Each time he deepened his perception, it felt like he was facing the icy pressure of the Purifier, piercing Lin Mo's consciousness like an ice spike. But he persevered, carving those subtle fluctuations like a brand into the deepest recesses of his remaining mark.
An unknown amount of time passed before Lin Mo, having captured and memorized the last shred of useful information, had nearly exhausted all his strength. His mental image was dim and shimmering, as if it would completely extinguish at any moment.
But the spark of hope has been ignited.
He took one last "look" at the black fragment that still held the Purifier's aura, as if to memorize it. Then, he retracted all perception, sinking his consciousness into the very core of the mark, as if entering the deepest abyss of sleep, absorbing the extremely thin, free energy in this chaotic space and time with all his might, struggling to recover, waiting...
Waiting for a bit of strength to recover, waiting for an opportunity to leave this desolate place, waiting to follow this vague path bought with sacrifice and despair, and embark on the road of hunting and redemption that is destined to be full of thorns and unknowns.
Just as Lin Mo's consciousness sank into the restored silence, and this chaotic and broken alien rift was about to be dominated by eternal chaos and deathly silence again -
Buzz!
An extremely weak thought wave, yet with indescribable penetrating power, like ripples caused by a stone thrown into a calm lake, suddenly... swept across this chaotic void!
This fluctuation didn't originate from the outside world, but rather... from this chaotic space itself! It was invisible and intangible, yet it carried with it an unimaginably ancient, cold "gaze" that seemed to have existed since the beginning of the universe!
Lin Mo's spiritual shadow, sinking into recovery, trembled ever so slightly, as if struck by an invisible electric current! An extreme chill, stemming from the instinct of life, instantly seized upon the core of his newly condensed consciousness!
Then, deep within the endless, shattered, and twisted void, behind countless broken spatial folds and chaotic space-time turbulence...
A little "light" slowly "lit up".
That wasn't light in the usual sense, but rather a point where the structure of space had been forcibly "flattened," revealing a state of absolute "emptiness"! Like a black hole forcibly created by an eraser on a perfect canvas!
In the center of this point of "nothingness", a huge "eye" made of pure "nothingness" slowly...opened!
It has no pupils, no irises, only an all-consuming, absolute nothingness! But this nothingness itself clearly conveys a cold, indifferent, ant-looking... "observing" will!
This will transcended the chaotic space and time, and instantly locked onto Lin Mo's spiritual imprint that was as tiny as dust!
An idea that transcended language, transcended thought, and directly affected the essence of existence, like a declaration of the laws of the universe, coldly and emotionlessly... was imprinted deep within Lin Mo's newly awakened consciousness:
"An error... exists..."
"Mark...Cleanup program...Start..."
"The countdown... begins..."
As this thought descended, the already violent and chaotic spacetime turbulence surrounding Lin Mo seemed to be injected with a violent catalyst, instantly becoming extremely violent! The colorful turbulence frantically converged and compressed, transforming into destructive spacetime blades capable of tearing through the essence of the stars. With an icy, locked will, like a school of sharks smelling blood, they came from all directions... towards the small, cracked dark golden shadow... strangling it!
This garbage dump of the universe is not a no-man's land.
It has long been "watched" by an older, more terrifying existence.
Lin Mo's escape has not even really begun, but it has already attracted... the "scavengers" of deep space itself, far beyond the observers.
The cold and grand countdown, like a death knell, sounded silently in this shattered void.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com