That cold outer shell, completely shattered by the deadly threat! He was still himself! The boy who had refused to surrender in the lab cage, the boy she had rescued from near death in the sewers! The man who, to protect her and Gaia, dared to strike the most terrifying existence in the universe!
A warm current mixed with heartache, pride and a stronger will to protect instantly broke through the fear in Xu Shuangyao's heart!
"Gaia... is with you...!"
Xu Shuangyao struggled, using all her strength to press her bloodstained hands down on the huge core root beneath her! The golden flame mark between her eyebrows burst into an unprecedented light!
Buzz——!!!
With the infusion of her will and life energy, the entire network of golden veins, which had been trembling violently deep within the Earth's core, seemed to have found its backbone! The dim golden light, as if injected with a stimulant, instantly became bright and stable again! Countless extinguished points of light, the hallmarks of life, were rekindled! Under the guidance of the guardian, the vast and majestic will of the planet's origin, no longer merely filled with fear, but erupted with a deep, heavy, earth-like power that carried and protected everything! This power flowed madly into Xu Shuangyao's body along the golden veins, and was then guided by her unreservedly, transforming into a tenacious and warm golden light stream, like a protective cloak, wrapping around Pei Du's figure, erupting in a storm of annihilation!
The protective power of the planet's will and the destructive fighting spirit of the Thorn Star Core are perfectly integrated at this moment!
Pei Du's body shook violently! Deep within the burning thorn vortex of his left eye, the light of stardust order seemed to become even purer and more resolute! A thick, warm golden halo quietly merged into the violent annihilation storm on his body, becoming more stable and restrained, yet containing even more terrifying explosive power!
He felt it! He felt the unconditional support from the planet behind him, from her! This support was like lighting the only beacon for him in the cold battlefield of the universe!
"Wait for me!" Pei Du's icy voice echoed through the Earth's core, carrying an unquestionable resolve. Before he finished speaking, his figure, shrouded in tricolor energy circuits, suddenly blurred, transforming into a meteor shrouded in gray-black annihilation and pale golden protective light. Ignoring the thick crustal rock layers, it instantly tore through space and shot towards the source of the will scan, beyond Gaia!
In the cold deep space, outside the orbit of Gaia.
The wreckage of the battlefield where the Gravekeeper Fleet had been destroyed not long ago still floated, silently telling of the tragedy. At this moment, this airspace was shrouded in a deeper, suffocating oppression.
Pei Du's figure suddenly appeared in the void like lightning tearing through the night sky. He hovered, his body, covered in tricolor energy circuits, emanating a steady and terrifying pressure. The burning vortex of thorns in his left eye coldly scanned the profound darkness. The crimson data stream in his right eye whirled efficiently: [Analyzing residual fluctuations of the deep space will scan source... Locking direction... Deducing dimensional coordinates...]
However, at the moment when he was trying his best to track down the source of that distant will——
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Three narrow, dimensional cracks, their edges gleaming with an unstable, dark blue light, suddenly appeared without warning in three different locations less than 100,000 kilometers from Pei Du! Within the cracks, there was no violent turbulence, but rather a viscous, cold, silver-gray energy swirling like liquid metal!
Immediately afterwards, three aircraft with hideous shapes and a heart-pounding sense of technology slid out silently from the cracks like bloodthirsty sharks!
They were not the sharp, angular warships of the Gravekeepers, but rather a streamlined form, a perfect fusion of a water droplet and a blade. Their bodies were covered in smooth, seamless silver-gray armor, its surface crisscrossed with vibrant, blue energy circuits. There were no discernible engine nozzles or turrets, only a massive, blue crystal embedded in the bow, like a cold, compound eye. Within the crystal, countless tiny, ever-shifting geometric structures emerged and vanished, emanating a pure, cold aura of logic and destruction.
Reaper Scout Body!
They were small, each one only about the size of a human destroyer, but the energy fluctuations and law-distorting sensations they emitted far surpassed those of the Gravekeepers' main battleships! They were like three unsheathed death blades tempered by the laws of the universe!
The moment they appeared, a cold, locking feeling far more concrete and substantial than the previous scanning will, like three invisible steel needles, fiercely pierced Pei Du's core of consciousness! At the same time, three invisible force fields, containing powerful spatial confinement and information disturbance, like invisible spider webs, instantly enveloped the airspace where Pei Du was!
[Alert! High-dimensional space lock-on force field detected! Information disturbance force field! Source: Unknown technological artifact (Reaper scout)! Number: Three! Threat Level: High Planetary Level!]
[Spatial movement restricted! Information transmission blocked! Analysis: Target is a high-level reconnaissance/hunting unit! Recommendation: Eliminate first!]
The scarlet data stream in the right eye suddenly burst out with a glaring warning!
"Bugs... Clearance order..." A cold, emotionless fragment of thought, like a mixture of billions of metals rubbing against each other, ignored the information disturbance field and was directly transmitted to Pei Du's consciousness between the flashing blue compound eyes of the three reconnaissance ships.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
The enormous, dark blue compound eyes atop the bows of the three Reaper reconnaissance vessels suddenly lit up! Three intensely concentrated, spiraling blue energy beams, ignoring the barriers of distance, reached Pei Du the instant their eyes illuminated! These beams were more than pure energy shockwaves; at their core, they contained powerful laws of matter decomposition and a spatial cutting force field. Wherever they passed, even the void was left with three fleeting, pitch-black, cutting marks!
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