Chapter 533 Approaching the Border
The strange invader was torn to pieces almost instantly by a hail of bullets - the broken body flew a short distance in the air due to inertia, and finally landed only two or three meters in front of Zolda Black Stone and the blond elf.
The gunshots stopped and the hall became quiet for a while.
Just beat him to death like that? So quick?
"I thought this was some invulnerable monster..." a security soldier couldn't help but mutter, "How can it be killed with a gun?"
"Don't let your guard down!" a commander-like figure quickly warned, "There's something fishy about this intruder! You two, go check the body."
"yes!"
The soldiers began to handle the scene cautiously, while the blond elf standing next to the Zolda Black Stone seemed a little dazed.
A slight tingling and dizziness was swirling deep in her mind. Part of this was directly caused by the "Black Stone", but this time the "aftereffects" were different from usual. A kind of... disharmonious "noise" mixed into her consciousness, and when the invader jumped and rushed over just now, the noise in her mind was inexplicably amplified a lot, and it has not completely subsided until now.
The blonde elf shook her head vigorously, and her vision suddenly became clear, and then it seemed to be covered by layers of black gauze, with strange black threads appearing in her sight from time to time - after a moment, a sudden sense of uneasiness made her wake up all of a sudden.
That was the innate spiritual intuition of a high-level astrologer. Although she had abandoned the identity of "astrologer" many years ago, she was still an Algrader blessed by the stars.
She suddenly looked down at the ground and saw a pool of blood slowly expanding under the invader's body. The blood separated into thin streams and spread little by little towards the Zolda Black Stone and the ground under her feet.
When people are injured, they bleed and blood flows. This should be a normal phenomenon.
But as she looked at the slowly flowing and spreading blood, she suddenly felt a strong sense of disobedience and alertness - an uncontrollable sense of fear rose from the bottom of her heart, as if she was looking at something ancient and indescribable.
The blonde elf's eyes suddenly changed, and her wheel-like mechanical feet slid backwards in an instant. At the same time, she raised her hand and pointed at the ground. A blazing fireball of mental power formed at her fingertips in the blink of an eye.
The fireball flew towards the blood, but before the two came into contact, the flowing blood suddenly stopped and quickly transformed into a line of text in the sight of the blond elf -
"Oh, you found me."
"laugh--"
The blood was instantly evaporated by the mental fireball, leaving only a radial charred mark on the ground.
A slight chill spread through the depths of his heart. The blond elf stood there, doubting for a moment whether he had truly vanquished that strange enemy. Had the blood truly evaporated? Or had it melted into the Zolda Black Stone's imprisonment device at the last moment? Had he truly seen clearly?
Then she lowered her head again and began to check herself quickly to see if there were any blood drops on her.
The nearby Black Spot soldiers had already noticed the anomaly. They quickly gathered the intruder's body into a body bag and began burning the ground around it with flamethrowers. A commander quickly said, "Send the body to the incinerator..."
"No," the blonde elf interrupted the commander on the scene. She stared at the body bag on the ground, her forehead throbbing with pain from the danger warning brought by her spiritual intuition. As she thought quickly, her brows were tightly furrowed. "No, we can't continue to make contact, and we can't stay in the space station... Stuff this thing into the catapult and launch it into space at the fastest speed. Then, add a 'Falling Star' missile and burn it in space - go!"
“Yes, yes!”
…
In the global early warning monitoring hall of the Secret Service headquarters building, Baili Qing, who had hurried over, frowned as he looked at the images displayed on the holographic projection of the main monitoring system.
On the huge map symbolizing the entire border area, countless unstable points in time and space are flashing one after another - they include foreign lands all over the boundary city, as well as various space channels and shortcut networks leading to distant places. And around many of the flashing unstable points, there are red spots of light representing various levels of abnormal conditions flickering.
The last time someone in the monitoring center made a sharp explosion was the night when someone opened a door and pierced the space-time structure of the entire intersection, triggering the Secret Service's highest security alert.
Baili Qing rubbed his brows and tried hard to get rid of the bad memories in his heart.
The head of the monitoring center stood beside her, beads of sweat glistening on his sparsely haired head from nervousness. "The first wave of anomalies started about an hour ago. There's no pattern. Some invisible force randomly sweeps through unstable points of space and time throughout the territory. The intensity isn't actually very high—compared to Yu Sheng's initial 'opening of the door,' but it's very strange..."
"A large number of affected alien worlds experienced brief depth drifts. Several operators and deep diver teams operating in these alien worlds reported observing projections of alien space and time—strange architectural structures and phantoms of people appearing out of thin air in these alien worlds, appearing suddenly and disappearing just as quickly...
"Most of the projections didn't make contact with the witnesses, but two of the human phantoms appeared to have observed our operators, reacting with surprise and nervousness...
"Yes, all Algradians."
The head of the monitoring center paused briefly, observing Baili Qing's reaction, and continued, "The peak of the anomaly has passed. The frequency and intensity of abnormal outbreaks have decreased, but they still occur occasionally throughout the territory. Also, just fifteen minutes ago, a team of deep divers reported that they observed suspicious spider silk threading through the entire alien realm at the 'Windmill'. This is the third reported sighting of spider silk in other alien realms, in addition to the 'Mist City' and 'Dark Alley'.
"They all appeared intensively in the last hour."
Baili Qing crossed her arms, tapping her arms slowly with her fingers. After a moment, she broke the silence: "What about the real dimension?"
"The real world remains stable. That invisible force seems unable to penetrate the L-0 depth boundary—at least for now," the person in charge said quickly. "However... we have received several reports from alien residents in the city, all of them Algrads or Gypros—they say they sensed 'a revelation of impending danger' and unstable psychic changes.
"Given the Algradians and Gypros' keen talents in the psychic realm, I'm afraid that 'power' has begun to have an impact on the real world."
Baili Qing listened silently. After a few seconds of oppressive silence, she nodded gently. "I understand—continue monitoring. Also, focus on monitoring the Wutong Road area and the Directors' Tower. Report any unusual activity to me immediately."
"clear."
After leaving the monitoring center, Baili Qing did not return to his office, but took the elevator to a special floor - the N floor.
On this special floor where no one would disturb her, she breathed a sigh of relief, then took off one of her earrings and activated a secret channel again.
The call was repeated several times before the call was finally connected. The voice on the other end sounded clearly tired, impatient, and resistant: "Listen, I'm very busy right now. The 'relationship' between us shouldn't be enough for a big shot like you to have time to chat with me..."
"I've received clear intelligence that a laboratory within the Black Spot Group is researching a sacred artifact that may have come from an 'alien god'. Its internal name is the 'Zolda Black Stone' - is this your project?"
Baili Qing's blunt and forceful opening question seemed to have caught the other party off guard. There was silence for several seconds before a response came: "We're missing a soldier, and it seems he's in your hands—but the surveillance footage at the time showed that it was clearly an 'artificial saint' who captured him. Your Secret Service calls us extremists, yet when did you become associated with those true lunatics of the Priory..."
"We have no cooperation with the Priory of Saints, and these minor issues have nothing to do with the current topic," Baili Qing interrupted. "Luo, listen, considering we have collaborated several times before and you have never backstabbed me, I am giving you a friendly warning now - your project is very likely out of control, and the abnormal situation on your side can be observed at the intersection. You are different from your 'colleagues'. I don't understand why you would do such a dangerous thing..."
"My project is going smoothly—everything is under control," an impatient voice came from the earring. "There may be some 'leaks' within the margin of error, but they're minor inconveniences... As long as you stop sending a bunch of weirdos to mess with me, everything will be back on track soon. Do you understand? I don't want to cause trouble for anyone, and I don't want anyone to cause trouble for me—let me do my research in peace..."
The sound in the earring suddenly stopped, followed by some chaotic background noises.
Baili Qing frowned slightly: "What's going on over there?"
After two or three seconds, a response came from the other end of the communication channel: "For some reason, someone suddenly launched a missile into space - it might be an error, it has nothing to do with you. Listen, I've said everything I want to say, and I'm really busy now - and frankly, I don't trust you and your Secret Service. The trade losses you've caused me over the years far exceed any of my experimental accidents, so goodbye."
After a brief noise, the holographic projection above the earring disappeared.
Baili Qing looked at the extinguished crystal earrings expressionlessly, her eyes a little cold.
After a moment, she picked up the earrings and slowly exerted force in her hands.
With a slight creaking sound, she crushed the crystals on the earrings into powder and the metal into a ball of red-hot waste.
"I may have been too polite to her," she said lightly.
A pair of huge eyes floated quietly behind her.
"The mouse hid so well that it thought it was invincible," Baili Xue's voice sounded slowly, "Sooner or later, I'll give her two ships of soldiers..."
"Her laboratory is located in an illegal area..." Baili Qing rubbed his forehead. "Forget it. The most important thing now is to reconstruct the space-time protection of the border area - there are still a lot of things to do."
She breathed a sigh of relief, her gaze falling on the remains of the earring in the palm of her right hand.
As she watched, the dust re-condensed and the damaged metal structure began to repair itself as if time was turning back.
Baili Qing sighed and put the earrings back on her ears.
"So, sister, you can be angry, but why did you pinch it just now? If you break it, you have to fix it yourself..."
"Shut up."
"oh."
(End of this chapter)
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