Buzz——!
A surge of energy far more powerful and violent than the previous "siphon" burst forth from the box! The dark blue lines on the box's surface instantly became blindingly blinding, as if on fire! Shen Qingli's body trembled slightly, and beneath her dark gray uniform, a subtle blue light, like an overloaded circuit, flashed along the veins of her arm! Deep within her silver-gray pupils, a point of pure, icy blue light suddenly ignited!
"Command override! Core protocol: 'Deep Cold Barrier'! Activate!" Her voice was no longer as clear and steady as before, but carried a strange humming sound like metallic resonance!
boom!
On the main screen, a massive barrier, composed entirely of countless rapidly spinning, combined, deep blue ice-crystal data modules, instantly appeared in front of the purple-black turbulence representing backlash! It collided head-on with the destructive purple-black pulse!
A silent collision erupted at the data level! A blinding, turbulent stream of energy burst across the screen!
The lights throughout the lab flickered wildly, and the massive server array groaned under the strain! Everyone was shaken to the point of being unsteady by this invisible shockwave!
The light faded.
On the screen, the status icon representing the Ark's core array flashed red, but... it wasn't completely black! Though cracked and dimmed, the deep blue ice barrier stubbornly stood firm, temporarily blocking the onslaught of the purple-black turbulence! And the deep blue vortex representing the "Siphon" protocol, though shrunken considerably and its edges blurred, remained intact!
Shen Qingli's body swayed, her face instantly turning as pale as the walls of the laboratory. A tiny trace of liquid with a light blue fluorescent color slowly seeped out from the corner of her mouth. She forced herself to steady herself, her hands still pressed tightly against the violently vibrating black box, her knuckles turning white from the force.
"The pulse... has weakened!" The technician's voice trembled with the feeling of having survived a disaster.
"Counterattack source...energy output is decreasing!" another technician shouted.
The crisis seems to have been contained for the time being?
Lin Mo's tense nerves didn't relax at all. He rushed to the main screen and stared at the image of the ruins of Hawkeye III. The energy sphere on top of the device that released the purple-black pulse was indeed shrinking, and the light was becoming dim and unstable, as if the previous explosion had exhausted most of its energy.
At that moment, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a massive, twisted, alloy armor plating, blown away by the explosion and tumbling into the corner of the ruins, at the edge of the frame. Something seemed to be pressing down on it, and in the afterglow of the device's pulse, it reflected a faint, yet strangely familiar...emerald green light?
Lin Mo's heart suddenly stopped beating! A cold electric current instantly ran through his body!
He rushed to the control panel, his fingers trembling with excitement as he frantically zoomed in on the image in that corner! The image was shaking violently and blurry due to the interference, but after several zooms and image enhancements...
finally!
The picture is clear!
It was a palm-sized piece of metal, its edges charred black. It looked like a fragment of the chest armor of some small mechanical beast. Embedded within the twisted cracks of the fragment was a fingernail-sized biochip, already riddled with cracks, yet still faintly and tenaciously flickering with an emerald green light.
The shape of the chip! That unique emerald green coded light!
Lin Mo's blood rushed to his head and froze instantly! He turned his head sharply and looked at Su Mu, who was also staring at the screen, his face instantly turned pale and his body was shaky!
Su Mu's lips trembled violently, her eyes widening to the limit as she stared intently at the emerald green chip on the screen, as if she had witnessed the most terrifying sight in the world! Her body shook violently like a leaf in the wind, and in the next second, it seemed as if she would completely collapse!
"No... Impossible..." Su Mu's voice was so weak that it sounded like a whisper, filled with the excruciating pain of a torn soul and unbelievable horror. "That's... That's... Mom's... 'Tree of Life'... Neural Connection Chip!!"
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