"What...what is that?" A young technician was the first to wake up from numbness, pointing at the core area of the destructive nebula outside the observation window, his voice trembling with disbelief.
Owen's heart leaped, nearly bursting out of his throat! He fiercely wiped the blood stains from the observation window, his cloudy old eyes flashing with a last ray of sharp light, casting it towards the core filled with the light of death!
In the center of the violently boiling nebula vortex, deep in the silver-white energy turbulence that is powerful enough to melt the core of a star, a faint but incredibly tenacious light struggled to penetrate the curtain of destruction and came into everyone's sight!
Not one o'clock, but two o'clock!
A glimmer of light, warm and restrained, like a newly lit candle, emanated a faint, dark golden hue that seemed to hold the mysteries of an endless nebula. It wasn't bright, but it carried a new, quiet resilience.
Another point of light, clear and tranquil, like the core of eternal polar ice, emanated a pure icy blue. It flickered faintly, yet revealed a rock-hard determination to protect it to the end.
Two points of light, one dark gold, the other icy blue, like the loneliest yet most steadfast twin stars in the universe, clinging to each other tightly in the frenzy of destruction, surrounding each other and jointly supporting an extremely tiny, extremely fragile spherical energy bubble that seemed as if it would be torn apart by the surrounding violent energy in the next second!
"Energy bubble! It's an energy shield!" Owen's voice was hoarse and out of tune, with an almost crazy ecstasy and disbelief, "They're still alive! Lin Mo! Shuangyao! They're still alive! In there!"
The dead silence within the ship instantly ignited! Everyone rushed to the observation windows, their hearts pounding, staring intently at the miracle in the eye of the storm! Tears flowed uncontrollably, washing away the blood and dust on their faces.
The core of the destructive nebula, inside the energy bubble.
This place, shielded from the terrifying energy storms that could rip stars apart, was no paradise. The space was cramped and oppressive, filled with the inextricably rich embers of star-level energy and the pungent aroma of decomposed planetary matter. Every time the violent external energy streams collided with the energy bubble's walls, the entire space trembled and twisted violently, groaning under the weight, as if it would collapse at any moment.
Xu Shuangyao knelt in the center of the energy bubble, her icy blue hair devoid of all luster, draped like withered seaweed, stained with dark golden stardust and congealed blood. Her once cold and beautiful face was now pale, almost transparent. Dried, blackened blood clung to the corners of her mouth. A deep crack slashed across her smooth forehead, crossing her brow bone. The icy blue blood had long since congealed. Her Star Flame Armor was covered in spiderweb-like cracks, and there was even a terrifying penetrating wound on her right shoulder, the ice crystals at the edge emitting an ominous purple-black hue.
Her arms were tightly wrapped around Lin Mo with an almost embedding strength.
Lin Mo's state could only be described as "shattered." The dark gold crystals covering his body had almost completely crumbled and peeled off, revealing a bizarre structure beneath, shimmering with a dark gold sheen and seemingly composed of liquid nebula. Countless cracks so deep they reached the bone, like shattering porcelain. A large portion of his left face had completely crystallized and disintegrated, revealing a slowly rotating, dimly glowing dark gold vortex within—the manifestation of his star core. The crimson stain in his right eye had been suppressed to a minimum, leaving only a few stubborn streaks of blood in the white of his eye. His left eye was tightly closed, the dark gold glow beneath its lids as faint as a candle in the wind. His breath was extremely weak, each breath accompanied by a crackling noise, as if it would be extinguished completely at any moment.
Xu Shuangyao lowered her head, her icy blue eyes reflecting Lin Mo's shattered face. There was no joy in them, only bottomless exhaustion, excruciating pain, and a rock-hard will to protect her, even at the cost of her very life force. Her slender fingers, imbued with incredible strength, carefully brushed the crumbling edge of Lin Mo's left cheek, her movements as gentle as if touching the most fragile glass.
"Don't sleep..." Her voice was as hoarse as sandpaper, and every word was exhausted, but with a kind of tenderness that penetrated the soul and an unquestionable persistence, it clearly entered the depths of Lin Mo's consciousness that was on the verge of silence, "Did you hear me? Lin Mo... Don't sleep..."
She raised her gaze with difficulty, looking over Lin Mo's shoulder, towards the chaotic and violent core of the nebula beyond the energy bubble. There, countless violent energy currents and molten stellar core matter were being pulled by an invisible will of order that remained after the explosion of the Star Seed. Slowly but steadily, they swirled and condensed! A hazy outline, emitting a soft silver-white halo, was struggling to take shape in the embers of destruction—it was the core of a new star, being nurtured on the corpse of Dawn Star!
"Look..." Xu Shuangyao's voice became softer, with a strange hope, guiding Lin Mo's wandering consciousness, "Our sacrifice... has not been in vain... It is reborn... That new star core... It is waiting for us... to name it..."
She lowered her head, and her cold lips, scented with blood and stardust, gently pressed against Lin Mo's cold, cracked forehead. The movement strained her wounds, and the excruciating pain made her body tremble violently. Icy blue blood oozed from the corners of her mouth and the wounds on her shoulder. But she paid no heed, simply hugging the cold, heavy body in her arms even tighter, as if to channel all her remaining vitality into it.
"Live... for it... and for... all those who are still alive..." The whispered words echoed in the small energy bubble like a sigh.
Just then!
A cold, resentful will, like a dormant venomous snake, suddenly erupted from the swirling purple nebula debris outside the energy bubble! It was the last remaining source of malevolent contamination from the Observer civilization after the "Gate" was destroyed and the energy channel was backfired! It seemed to possess life, capturing the two extremely weak life signals within the energy bubble!
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