It's still there! Gaia's Seed! It wasn't destroyed! It was simply buried deep within the blast wave and the collapsed debris, becoming incredibly weak!
Hope reignited! Xu Shuangyao struggled, struggling and crawling towards the ashes, not knowing where she got the strength from. She ignored the gravel that scratched her palms, ignored the excruciating pain of the wounds bursting, and used her bloodstained hands to frantically dig away the ashes and mycelium fragments covering her!
finally!
A fist-sized seed, crystal clear like jade, its surface covered in mysterious natural patterns, appeared before her eyes! It emanated a faint, yet incredibly pure breath of life, like a newborn star. However, its light was extremely dim, as if it would go out at any moment. A few broken, pale mycelium strands, like burnt roots, still lingered on the seed's surface, testifying to the suffering it had endured at the hands of greedy exploitation.
Xu Shuangyao trembled as she carefully held the jade-like yet incredibly heavy Gaia Seed in her palm. Tears dripped onto the seed's smooth surface like beads from a broken string.
"I...found you..." She choked, as if holding the hope of the whole world.
Gravekeeper Fleet. Stasis Chamber.
On the cold metal platform, two massive stasis coffins stood silently like black tombstones. A dark blue binding force field slowly flowed across their surfaces, exuding an aura of absolute confinement.
Inside a coffin, there is an ancient stone tablet with dim light and dark patterns.
In another coffin, Pei Du was imprisoned, his body completely devoid of stardust, deeply polluted, and his vital signs dead.
The cabin was dead silent, with only the low hum of the energy circuit.
Suddenly, the hatch slid open silently.
A figure clad in thick black armor, covered in intricate energy patterns, stepped in. The armor was similar in style to the Sentinel's, but thicker and more imposing. The helmet's design was also more complex, its compound lenses gleaming a cold red. On the breastplate, an insignia depicting a tightly closed eye was clearly visible—Gravekeeper High-ranking Executor.
He (it) walked straight to the stasis coffin that Pei Du was imprisoned in. A cold red light swept over Pei Du's charred, cracked body, which looked like a dead beast.
"Target 'Living Key', vital signs reduced to zero, mental field annihilated. Deep contamination index: 99.8%, reaching the critical point of irreversible distortion." The executor's cold electronic voice echoed within the cabin. "Assessment: Loss of recovery value, risk of contamination leakage: extremely high. Executing final disposal protocol: Place in the 'Void Furnace' for complete decontamination."
He (it) raised an armored hand and pressed it against the control panel on the side of the stasis coffin.
Buzz!
Beneath the stasis coffin, a circular platform lit up with a complex teleportation matrix! The light quickly enveloped the stasis coffin!
However, just as the transmission was about to start—
Buzz...!
Inside the stagnant coffin, deep within Pei Du's chest, which was like charcoal and devoid of any breath of life... the core area that was almost completely covered by dark purple pollution and only had a faint spark left... beat extremely, extremely weakly!
Like the first sound of a star core that has been sleeping for billions of years... fetal movement.
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