Like an oracle, like a death knell, the cold electronic broadcast echoed through the crumbling ruins with an overwhelming pressure: "Detecting signals from fragments of the Ancient Covenant and the Living Key. Executing supreme recovery orders: Suppress the area, clear extraneous contamination, and recover the target. Any resistance will be killed without mercy."
Before the sound was finished, destruction had already arrived.
Overhead, the "sky," obscured by the outline of a massive starship, suddenly lit up with dozens of dazzling points of light! The next second, dense, rain-like streams of pale white light tore through the dust cloud, like a spear of punishment cast by a god, precisely covering the entire core area of the ruins and its periphery!
Not an explosion, but... decomposition!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Wherever the pale beam struck, whether it was charred metal debris, cracked glazed ground, or scattered fragments of fungus beasts, they instantly decomposed and vaporized silently like ice and snow thrown into strong acid! There was no fire, no smoke, only the teeth-grinding "sizzling" sound of matter being forcibly reduced to elementary particles and the rising pale steam! The beam swept through, leaving behind a deep pit on the ground as smooth as a mirror, with molten edges!
This is a thorough and indiscriminate regional cleansing! Just to remove all obstacles that may hinder "recycling"!
"Ugh!" A short scream echoed from afar! It was the sentry who had been severely injured by Pei Du and embedded in the glazed protrusion! A pale beam of light, as if with eyes, accurately hit the area where he (she) was hiding! A large piece of the solid glazed protrusion was instantly disintegrated! The figure of the sentry was violently thrown out by the explosive decomposition energy and fell heavily to the ground. The already tattered armor was instantly covered with scorch marks and cracks, and the compound eye helmet was completely extinguished. It was unknown whether he was alive or dead!
The moment the beam descended, Xu Shuangyao felt a chill of death enveloping her soul! She subconsciously wanted to throw herself at Pei Du and block it with her broken body!
However, the one who moved faster than her was Pei Du!
"Hmph!" A low roar of suppressed pain! Pei Du's right arm, covered in black cracks and seemingly about to collapse, suddenly raised up, his five fingers spread out, facing the pale beam of light pouring down from above his head!
Buzz!
It was no longer a violent energy surge, but a translucent, dark curtain of light that instantly unfolded! This curtain was composed of countless fine, dark golden lines, woven with flowing stardust light, like a barrier from the universe itself! At its edge, the faint glint of mysterious patterns, the same origin as that on the ancient stone tablet, could be seen!
Chichichi--!!!
Dozens of pale, decomposing beams slammed fiercely into the Stardust light curtain! There was no earth-shattering explosion, only the piercing sound of energy annihilation, like billions of steel needles scraping against glass! The light curtain violently trembled and rippled like a spider web in a gust of wind! With each impact, Pei Du's massive body trembled violently, and the black cracks on Stardust's right arm spread and deepened like a living thing! Dark golden blood oozed from his clenched teeth and the corners of his mouth!
His body, kneeling on one knee, was crushed by the immense force, sinking further and further, the glazed floor beneath his feet cracking inch by inch! But his arm, supporting the light curtain, remained as steady as a rock! In his left eye, a vortex of stardust, eroded by dark purple pollution, its edges twisted wildly, attempting to erode the faint starlight will at its center, but was held firmly in check by an even more powerful, protective obsession!
"Pei Du!" Xu Shuangyao was shielded by the light curtain, unharmed. She watched Pei Du, like a towering peak, endure the devastating disaster alone. Seeing the black cracks spreading across his arms and his face twitching in pain, her heart ached! The plant network's thoughts were filled with urgency: [Stardust... shield... depletion... severe... pollution... erosion... intensifying... he... can't hold out... much longer...]
At this moment, another mutation occurred!
The ancient stone tablet, standing quietly and dimly, seemed to sense the power of the rules that Pei Du had summoned, originating from its own essence. It also sensed his will to protect it and its impending collapse. The mysterious patterns on the stone tablet's surface once again lit up with a faint stardust light, which flowed and finally converged on the top of the stone tablet - the groove that had previously been embedded in the stardust thorn, now smooth as before.
Buzz!
An extremely fine yet pure stream of stardust light flowed out from the groove at the top of the stone tablet like a trickle, ignoring the spatial distance and instantly sinking into Pei Du's stardust right arm that was supporting the light curtain!
It’s like a downpour after a long drought!
Pei Du's entire body trembled! The black cracks spreading across Stardust's right arm were instantly suppressed and partially repaired by the pure Stardust power injected into them! The dim light solidified once again! The pressure supporting the light curtain seemed to ease for a moment! The starlight in his eyes, which was being frantically attacked by the dark purple, suddenly brightened!
The stone tablet...is helping him!
However, this brief boost was like a drop in the bucket. The starship's decomposition beam attack showed no sign of stopping, but instead became more intense! The light curtain was shaking more and more violently!
Even more terrifying, the cold electronic broadcast sounded again, this time directly locking onto the target: "Anomalous energy interaction detected between the high-energy rule shield and the Living Key. Judgment: The target 'Living Key' is at risk of loss of control and deep contamination. Executing secondary instructions: Utilize a 'static force field' to capture the 'Living Key' and forcibly sever its connection to the 'Covenant Fragment'!"
Before he finished speaking!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Three energy beams emitting a faint blue light, which were completely different from the decomposition beams, were like precise scalpels. They instantly penetrated the dense rain of pale beams, ignoring the obstruction of the Stardust Light Curtain (the light curtain seemed to have greatly reduced its defense effect against this kind of energy beams), and aimed directly at Pei Du who was kneeling on one knee in the center of the light curtain!
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