Mrs. Shao
Deep within the "God's Skeleton" space station, the biological experiment area, home to the fourth energy node, had become a frozen hell. Shao Wei stepped over frozen corpses and congealed blood, his icy blue eyes scanning the dark red node ahead, enveloped in a thick biological matrix, pulsating like a heart. With a slight movement of his fingertips, the final space beacon nestled precisely.
"The fourth node has been marked." He reported to Guixu through the neural link, his voice not causing a ripple in the dead silence of the passage.
Before Guixu could respond, a far more massive, chaotic, decaying, and insane aura than any previous "bloodline" surged in from the end of the passage like a tangible tide! Wherever it passed, the metal bulkheads groaned under the weight, covered in a sticky, almost living shadow.
"Warning! An extremely high concentration of 'Origin Blood' aggregate reaction has been detected! The energy level... exceeds the defined standard!" The ethereal voice of 'Guixu' was accompanied by rapid fluctuations for the first time.
The darkness at the end of the passage was torn apart like a curtain, and a twisted, huge figure slowly emerged.
It could no longer be called a "human." It seemed to be forcibly assembled from countless wriggling, dark-red chunks of flesh covered in mucus and scales, its body nearly filling the entire cross-section of the passage. Embedded between the chunks were flickering energy cores, as well as fragments of human limbs and faces that hadn't yet fully dissolved. Those faces twisted and wailed silently. At its center, the upper body of an old man in tattered elder's robes could be vaguely seen, but his eyes were only two empty holes burning with dark red flames. From his open mouth emanated an incomprehensible roar, a blend of countless sounds.
Is it the Elders' ultimate weapon? Or is it a monster that relied on "Original Blood" to the extreme and eventually merged with the source of pollution?
Shao Wei's pupils shrank slightly. He could feel that this monster was not just an accumulation of power. Deep in its core, it was connected to the "God's Skeleton" space station itself, and even... connected to the X-7 meteorite core fragment that was kept in strict custody farther away!
"We must fight quickly and decisively." Shao Wei's eyes sharpened, no longer holding back. Unleashing the vast, star-like power of the merged world, an icy blue light erupted from his body like a supernova! The temperature of the entire experimental area plummeted to the brink of absolute zero, even space itself seemed to freeze!
He transformed into an ice-blue lightning that tore through the darkness and pierced straight into the core of the monster!
"roar--!!!"
The monster roared deafeningly, and countless tentacles composed of dark red energy shot out from its flesh like poisonous pythons, carrying a corrosive aura as they wound towards Shao Wei! At the same time, the energy cores embedded in it erupted with a torrent of destructive rays!
Ice and fire, order and chaos, purification and pollution, collide violently in this narrow space!
Shao Wei's figure flickered and weaved through the sea of tentacles and rays, his icy blue trail a painting of death. Wherever he passed, tentacles froze and shattered, rays twisted and annihilated. Every slap of his palms left a rapidly spreading ice zone across the monster's massive form, completely freezing and disintegrating its wriggling flesh!
The monster's recovery speed was astonishing. The frozen and disintegrated parts were quickly replaced by new flesh, and the dark red energy seemed endless. The old man's face at its core emitted a sharp mental attack, trying to disrupt Shao Wei's consciousness!
However, Shao Wei's spirit, protected by both the "Returning Ruins" and the Seal of the Time, remained as steady as a rock. His attacks grew increasingly fierce, his icy blue power like a scalpel, precisely stripping, freezing, and destroying the monsters' energy cores and regeneration nodes one by one!
The battle reached a fever pitch. The entire experimental area crumbled under the collision of energy, and huge metal structures were torn apart and thrown away like pieces of paper!
Just when Shao Wei seized a flaw and his icy blue fingertips were about to pierce through the old man's head at the core of the monster—
Mutation regeneration!
In the old man's hollow eye sockets, dark red flames suddenly erupted! A spiritual force far surpassing the previous one, carrying some ancient evil will, like a sharp cone, ignoring physical and energy defenses, directly piercing the deepest part of Shao Wei's consciousness!
This wasn't an attack, it was more like... assimilation! An erosion that attempted to contaminate and cover his core consciousness!
Shao Wei groaned, his movements momentarily frozen! He felt as if his mind was being dragged into a bloody abyss filled with crazy ravings and endless desires!
At this critical moment——
The protective mark belonging to Siqi, which had been dormant in the depths of his consciousness, suddenly burst out with unprecedented light!
The light wasn't strong, but it carried an absolute, untainted coldness and clarity! It was like the strongest shield, blocking the evil will!
At the same time, Shao Wei seemed to "hear" an extremely faint, yet extremely clear voice, which resounded directly in his soul:
"Hold on... your true heart..."
It was this period! It was the last fragment of consciousness left in that mark!
This sound was like ice water poured over his head, instantly freeing Shao Wei from the assimilation force! A fierce look flashed in his eyes, and without hesitation, he gathered all his strength and fiercely tapped the old man's forehead with one finger!
"Purification!"
The ice-blue light penetrated instantly like a sharp sword!
The old man let out a shrill, inhuman scream, and the entire twisted flesh monster violently convulsed and swelled! The embedded energy cores overloaded and exploded one after another! The dark red energy lost control and crazily devoured its main body!
“No——!!!” The old man let out a final roar filled with unwillingness and despair, and the entire monster turned into a continuously collapsing dark red energy ball in a series of explosions!
"Now! 'Guixu', open fire!" Shao Wei roared in the mental link!
The ancient Guixu ship, already prepared, fired seven beams of icy blue light across the vast expanse of space! The beams pierced through space with pinpoint precision, following the beacon placed by Shao Wei and simultaneously striking the seven energy nodes of the Shenhai space station!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Seven massive balls of icy blue light exploded simultaneously across the "God's Skeleton"! The shields and energy systems that maintained the station's operation collapsed instantly! Without energy suppression, the dark red energy ball formed by the monster's collapse suddenly shrank inward, and then—
The ultimate annihilation explosion occurred!
Destructive energy a thousand times more powerful than Shao Qing's self-explosion erupted from within the "divine skeleton"! Dark red and icy blue light intertwined and devoured the entire space station, along with all the "Original Blood" liquid stored within it, research materials, and those members of the Elder Council who had not yet escaped. They were completely torn apart, evaporated, and reduced to nothingness!
The huge energy impact even disturbed the gravitational field of the nearby neutron star, causing a small-scale space ripple.
At the moment of the explosion, Shao Wei was forcibly pulled back into the ship by Guixu through the space beacon.
He stood on the bridge, looking out the observation window at the cloud of destructive light that continued to expand and eventually slowly dissipated, with no expression on his face.
The "divine remains" have been destroyed, the core of the Elder Council has been destroyed, and the fragments of the X-7 meteorite have most likely also been annihilated.
The source of pollution that had lasted for thousands of years seemed to have been eradicated.
The scanning beam of 'Guixu' swept across the explosion area, confirming the results.
Silence fell on the bridge. Hong Shun, Ahmet, and Gu Zhixing all stared at Shao Wei's back with mixed emotions. They had witnessed a mythical battle, and also witnessed the end of an era.
However, Shao Wei frowned slightly.
It went so smoothly.
Although the process was thrilling, the result... seemed too expected.
The Council of Elders had been operating for thousands of years. Didn't it have more tricks up its sleeve? What was this ancient evil will that was trying to assimilate him?
Moreover, at the moment of the final explosion, with the help of the perception of "Guixu", he seemed to catch a very obscure energy fluctuation that was different from the "Blood of the Origin", more ancient and colder. It flashed from the center of the explosion and escaped into a deeper space.
What is that?
At this moment, the ethereal voice of Guixu sounded again, with an unprecedented solemnity:
"Detected abnormal spatial coordinate residue... Energy signature analysis... Match 97.8%..."
"Match target: 'Threads of Life'."
What? !
Shao Wei turned around suddenly!
Guixu projected the captured energy fluctuations onto the main screen. That soft and compassionate light, that pure breath of life... was indeed extremely similar to the "Thread of Life" he had encountered on the Antarctic ice sheet!
But why did it appear in the explosion of the "God's Corpse"? Was it a coincidence? Or...
A bigger and more chilling guess emerged in Shao Wei's mind.
Could it be that the "Thread of Life," the X-7 meteorite, and the "Original Blood" aren't completely unrelated? Is there some deeper connection between them? Or perhaps... is there even an even more ancient secret hidden behind this millennia-long contamination and watch?
He remembered the compassionate yet exhausted eyes of the "Thread of Life" and its almost selfless act of bestowing "tears"...
Is all this really just out of good intentions?
Shao Wei looked at the residual energy signature on the screen. For the first time, deep doubts and... a barely perceptible chill appeared in the depths of his ice-blue eyes.
Revenge, it seems, is over.
But the fog of truth seems to have just been lifted.
And the final reminder of Siqi's mark - "keep your original heart" - seems particularly heavy at this moment.
He raised his head and looked at the boundless starry sky outside the observation window.
The darkness there seemed deeper and more... unknown than ever before.
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