The aftermath of the underground purification has not yet dissipated, but the tranquility at the top of the tower has been completely torn apart.
Without warning, a piercing alarm blasted, its shrill cry like the wailing of a dying beast, instantly shattering the newly regained peace of the City of Thorns. On the transparent barrier of giant golden-veined leaves that covered the entire city dome, countless crimson points of light flickered wildly, outlining a terrifying trajectory of destruction!
"Alert! Alert! High-dimensional orbital strike locked! Energy level exceeds threshold! Source unknown! Repeat, source unknown! The strike will come in thirty seconds! The highest defense in the entire city is activated!!" The harsh electronic synthesized sound screamed directly into the consciousness of every survivor through the plant vein network throughout the city!
At the tower's control center, a massive platform naturally formed by tangled roots, the plant veins that once glowed with a gentle green light were instantly drowned out by a glaring red glow! Several survivor representatives, temporarily selected to monitor the city's energy nodes, turned pale as paper, their bodies trembling violently with extreme fear, nearly collapsing to the ground.
"Heaven...heavenly punishment is coming again?!"
"Gravekeepers! It must be those damn gravekeepers!"
"It's over...we just..."
Before the desperate howls could fully erupt, Pei Du's icy voice swept through the entire control center like a cold current, suppressing all the chaos:
"Shut up! Coordinates!"
His molten-gold pupils instantly contracted, piercing the plant barrier of the city dome like a needle tip, fixed their gaze fixed on the cold, dark orbit of deep space beyond Gaia! There, a suffocatingly vast, destructive energy, imbued with an utterly cold logic, was frantically gathering like an awakened world-destroying beast! Its energy signature… was utterly different from the cold reapers of his memory! More ancient! More pure! It carried… an icy, absolute, controlling will that looked down upon an ant!
Cradle! It's Cradle's minions!
"Coordinates locked! Energy conduction peak exceeds critical point! Attack type: kinetic and energy mixed annihilation strike! Estimated landing point...city center square! Countdown twenty seconds!" A slightly calmer technician roared out the data, his voice distorted by fear.
Xu Shuangyao stepped forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with Pei Du. Her clear eyes no longer held the gentleness they once had. Instead, they were filled with the rage and supreme majesty of a planet whose will had been violated! The golden flame mark between her eyebrows burned fiercely, as if igniting the void!
"I'll do it!" Her voice was resolute, carrying undeniable strength. The City of Thorns was her child, the new heart of Gaia! She would never allow it to be destroyed again!
Before she finished speaking, she suddenly raised her hands high, her fingers seeming to hold up the sky! The light of the golden flame mark between her eyebrows instantly became extremely blazing!
"rise--!!!"
Accompanied by her roar that was like the will of the planet itself, the entire City of Thorns let out a roar that shook the heavens and the earth!
Boom——!!!
On the edge of the city, the thousand-meter-tall war banyan trees, their aerial roots cascading like waterfalls of life, suddenly erupted with emerald green beams that shot skyward! Their tangled roots, like awakened dragons, frantically took root, piercing deeper into Gaia's earth veins! Vast energies were forcibly drawn from the earth's veins, surging upward along their immensely thick trunks!
At the same time, the massive golden roots that formed the city's skeleton, the golden veins and leaves that covered the dome, even the vine-woven frames of every house... all the lifeblood that made up the City of Thorns was completely activated at this moment! Countless fine streams of golden light surged and converged within the city, like billions of luminous streams flowing into the sea!
The target is the thickest core roots in the city center that are intertwined to form the central square platform!
Buzz!!!
Infused with boundless energy, several core roots erupted with unprecedented brilliance! Like divine spines infused with life, they began to grow frantically, twisting and transforming! Tough vines, like the most skillful craftsmen, instantly weaved, covered, and reinforced the roots!
Just a few seconds!
A massive energy shield, thousands of meters tall, constructed of pure life energy, its surface crisscrossed with thick golden veins, its summit resembling a gigantic emerald crown. With those core roots as its foundation, it rose boldly from the ground! The shield's edge almost touched the interior of the city dome, its immense shadow instantly enveloping most of the City of Thorns! The energy coursing through its surface was thick and condensed, emanating an aura of indestructibility and protection! This was the ultimate form of the City of Thorns' defense matrix—the Emerald Dome Wall!
boom--!!!
At the moment when the wall of the Emerald Dome was taking shape, a devastating blow from deep space orbit came!
No light, no sound, only pure, soul-freezing will to destruction!
A huge "spear" with a diameter of more than 100 meters, composed of ultra-high-density alloy and pure annihilation energy, tore through the thin atmosphere of Gaia. Like a spear of judgment thrown by a god, it ignored the barriers of space and slammed into the top of the newly risen emerald dome wall with the power to destroy everything!
Boom——!!!
An indescribably terrifying roar! Like two worlds colliding! The entire City of Thorns shook violently, like a sieve of chaff! The city's dome's secondary barrier, composed of tough vines and leaves, shattered inch by inch under the shockwave! Countless giant leaves peeled off like a torrential rain! The blinding energy light instantly swallowed up all vision!
The massive emerald crown atop the Emerald Dome erupted with a sun-like radiance at the point of impact! Thick, condensed life energy circulated frantically, counteracting the devastating impact! The golden veins coursing through the tower shield's surface, like overloaded blood vessels, instantly became dazzling, even beginning to show tiny cracks in some places! The core roots forming the tower shield's base trembled violently, groaning under the weight!
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