I handed over to another world

Every second after the command was issued felt like it was being compressed.

The deep-sea laboratory is no longer a place for discussion, but an arsenal operating at high speed in preparation for heading to the abyss.

Lin Han and his assistants scrambled onto the "Klein bottle" protective suits, which shimmered with a ghostly blue light, to perform final calibrations.

The protective suit's surface is covered with non-Euclidean geometric light patterns, its complex structure causing dizziness.

Academician Zhang's team gathered around several roaring energy cores, repeatedly testing the entropy increase barrier that could theoretically "boil" intruding information. The air was filled with ozone and a tense atmosphere.

Li Rui, the commander of the restricted area special operations, was quickly checking the few physical pieces of equipment he had: a pulse gun that could release a strong entropy field in a directed manner, several high-compression energy batteries, and a wrist device with a conspicuous red button—the final safety device for manually forcibly triggering the "Singularity Fang".

His gaze swept over his teammates who were about to join him: Lin Han, the core technology expert; Ella, the Perceptor, a young woman with pale skin and huge, seemingly light-absorbing black eyes; and Wang Zhe, the topology engineer, responsible for maintaining the stability of the "island".

Ella stood quietly, her fingers unconsciously stroking a pendant engraved with intricate circuits.

She closed her eyes slightly, as if she was getting used to some kind of invisible frequency.

Wang Zhe repeatedly simulated the stress points of the topological model on his personal terminal, beads of sweat forming on his forehead.

"Protective suit fully loaded, maximum power stable."

Lin Han's voice came through the internal communication system, trembling slightly but with a strong sense of determination.

"The entropy increase barrier has been locked at a critical value."

Academician Zhang's voice followed immediately.

“The ‘Eye of the Candle Dragon’ channel is clear and the signal strength is at its maximum.”

The communications team confirmed.

"'Singularity Fang' is ready. The fuse logic has passed the verification. Waiting for the target data stream."

A cold report came from the weapons control center.

Zhou Kerui stood in front of the control panel, her gaze lingering on each of the team members before finally settling on Chen Lin.

Chen Lin nodded without saying anything more.

"Task Force 'Candlelight', board the ship!"

Li Rui's voice was resolute.

A streamlined deep-space assault ship, the Raven, was already waiting in the docking bay. It had no conventional portholes and was covered with dark armor that absorbed all wavelengths, like a silent dagger.

The team members filed in, their heavy protective suits making their steps slightly sluggish. As the hatch closed, the ship instantly cut off all external sight and sound.

The Raven departed its home port, its tail nozzles glowing with eerie blue flames, and silently glided into the cold depths of space, hurtling toward the gravitationally lensed darkness marked UDF-7243.

In the mothership's command center, a huge star map occupies the main screen.

The light representing the "Raven" is moving steadily towards its target area, which is a nebula-like symbol that is constantly pulsating and emitting an eerie purple halo—the "Earth" and its contaminated space.

Time ticked by, and the command center was eerily quiet, with only the faint hum of the instruments and Zhou Kerui's occasional whispered instructions.

Chen Lin stood in front of the porthole, his back to the others, gazing into the deep darkness outside.

"The Raven has entered the edge of the UDF-7243 anomalous gravitational field!"

"The 'Klein bottle' structure of the protective suit is activated, and the entropy increase barrier is engaged!"

Lin Han's voice came through an encrypted channel, carrying obvious interference noise, as if the signal was passing through a viscous medium.

"Perceptor Ayla reports: Memetic level... severe interference!"

"Spatial rules... are unstable, and logical gaps... have appeared."

Ella's voice was broken and intermittent, carrying a sense of physical discomfort.

On the screen, the edges of the dot representing the "Raven" began to show subtle, irregular fluctuations.

The real-time star map image near the target area, which should have been a clear starry sky, now presents a strange, distorted feeling, as if the space itself is being stretched.

"'The Raven' is approaching the visible range of the 'Earth' wreckage... Oh my god..."

A suppressed gasp came from Li Rui over the communication channel.

The main screen switched to limited images transmitted from the Raven's external sensors, which were not cold, steel wreckage.

The once-familiar outline of the "Houtu" is still faintly discernible, but its surface is covered with a wriggling, translucent purple "fungal carpet" whose structure eerily shifts between solid, liquid, and gaseous states, as if it were alive.

The space around it presents non-Euclidean geometric folds and tears, and light is distorted into incomprehensible abstract patterns.

A silent, soul-chilling "silent shriek" seemed to pierce through the screen, sending a shiver down the spines of everyone in the command center.

"The 'isolated island' is stable! We are attempting to establish initial contact!"

Wang Zhe's voice was filled with a calmness he was trying his best to maintain.

"Perceived...the core...a strong logical paradox...the core is...moving? No...is space itself...thinking?"

Ella's voice suddenly rose, filled with horror and pain, "The protective suit... the pressure is increasing dramatically! The barrier is... being... analyzed?!"

"Warning! Entropy increase barrier energy consumption exceeds expectations by 50%! Protective suit structural stress is approaching critical!"

Academician Zhang stared at the data stream, his face deathly pale.

At that moment, the transmitted images and data stream suddenly erupted with a violent, undecipherable purple noise!

"'Eye of the Candle Dragon' data stream is abnormal! A high-intensity memetic contamination shock has been detected!"

The communications team sounded urgent.

"Aila's vital signs are fluctuating drastically! Consciousness... The isolation barrier has cracked!"

The medical monitoring system emitted a piercing alarm.

"The 'island' topology is beginning to...dissolve!" Wang Zhe's voice was filled with despair. "It...it's dismantling our defenses! We...we're locked on!"

Li Rui's roar echoed in the channel: "Manual trigger preparation! Repeat, manual trigger preparation! Target: 'Singularity Fang'!"

The command center was instantly engulfed by piercing alarms.

Zhou Kerui suddenly looked at Chen Lin. But Chen Lin still had his back to them, though his shoulders were taut like a bowstring.

"No! Wait!" Lin Han's hoarse voice suddenly pierced through the interference, "The core logic... has detected a... brief gap! A... rule loophole! It needs... to maintain its... logical closed loop... right now! Data packet... forcibly transmitted!"

A stream of data, compressed to its limit and flashing with a dangerous red light, forced its way through the "Eye of the Candle Dragon" despite the purple pollution noise!

Almost simultaneously, the operator in the weapons control center shouted in a hoarse voice: "Trigger condition one met! 'Singularity Fang' has received neutralization key data! Fuze activated! Irreversible countdown... 3... 2..." "Li Rui! Abandon manual triggering! All personnel! Maximum power protection! Prepare for impact!"

Lin Han's voice carried a final, desperate urge.

On the screen, the core of the purple halo representing the UDF-7243 region suddenly collapsed inward!

A point that defies description and devours all light suddenly appears, followed by a ring of silent, purely destructive white ripples that spread out instantly in a bizarre way that exceeds the speed of light.

Wherever it passed, the wriggling purple fungal carpet, the distorted spatial structure, and even the outline of the "Houtu" wreckage were all silently annihilated and disappeared, like ice and snow thrown into molten iron, returning to the most basic energy and spacetime ripples.

The powerful energy fluctuations and spacetime disturbances impacted the Raven and the mothership instantly, even from a great distance.

At this moment, the ship was shaking violently, the lights were flashing wildly, and the instrument readings were jumping erratically.

After the shockwave subsided, all that remained on the screen was a deep, slowly healing spacetime "scar" at the center of the UDF-7243 region.

And that eerie purple pollution, along with the "Houtu" ship, completely disappeared.

"Raven signal! Raven signal still active!"

The communications team shouted excitedly, their voices trembling with disbelief.

On the screen, the light representing the "Raven" was faint and flickering at the edges, but it stubbornly persisted.

"Life signs...confirmed! All four...survived! But their condition...is extremely unstable!"

At this moment, a report came from the medical monitoring system.

After a brief, almost suffocating silence, the command center erupted in a suppressed cheer of relief.

Academician Zhang slumped into his chair, tears streaming down his face.

Zhou Kerui gripped the control panel, her knuckles white from the effort, and let out a long breath.

Chen Lin slowly turned around. There was no joy on his face, only a deep weariness, as if he had just returned from the edge of hell, and a cold sharpness left after gazing into the abyss.

His gaze swept over the newly formed temporal scar on the screen, then looked at the tenacious point of light representing the "Raven".

They withstood the gaze of the abyss.

The cost is unknown, but the flame has at least been preserved for the time being. What happens next is the key question.

The aftershocks caused the Raven to rock violently for quite some time, like a leaf in a storm.

Once the ship finally stabilized, only the low hum of the energy core and the heavy breathing of the crew remained inside.

The life support system inside the protective suits hissed softly, regulating their disordered breathing and heartbeats caused by the violent impact and adrenaline surge.

On the main screen, the chilling purple pollution source of UDF-7243 has vanished without a trace, replaced by a deep, soul-absorbing vortex of spacetime, slowly rotating and calming down.

The target area is now "clean".

"All personnel, please report your status!"

Li Rui's voice rang out from the helmet's built-in communicator, its metallic quality silencing everyone's breathing.

"Lin Han, the structure is stable, but... there is a slight leakage alarm inside the protective suit, and it is currently performing a self-check."

Lin Han's voice was somewhat weak; it seemed that forcibly capturing and transmitting data had exhausted his energy.

“Ayra… senses the source of the contamination has disappeared… but the remaining… mental imprint… is extremely strong… like the deathly silence after countless screams…” Ayra’s voice was erratic, her huge black eyes seemed to have lost focus behind the helmet visor, as if staring into an invisible abyss.

“Wang Zhe, the ‘island’ structure… is basically intact, but the energy consumption is enormous, and the duration of its operation… has been greatly shortened.”

Wang Zhe's voice was hoarse from exhaustion.

Li Rui quickly scanned the internal status panel: "Energy reserves remaining at 45%. The 'Eye of the Candle Dragon' signal is weak but stable."

"'Singularity Fang' has been successfully detonated, and the fuse access has been deactivated." He paused, his gaze turning to the porthole—though he couldn't see it, the direction was clear. "Now proceeding with the secondary mission objective: search the wreckage of the 'Hou Tu' to find possible survivors and key data cache points."

The Raven carefully adjusted its posture, avoiding the unstable gravitational ripples emanating from the edge of the newly formed spacetime vortex, and slowly approached the space where the Earth God once resided.

The once massive research vessel is now nothing more than a series of twisted and broken metal skeletons, like bones gnawed by an invisible behemoth, floating in the cold vacuum. Most of its structure, along with the eerie purple "fungal carpet," was completely wiped out in the annihilation of the singularity bomb.

"Release the traction beam to lock onto the largest wreckage body."

Li Rui gave the order, and a soft blue beam of light shot out, steadily attaching itself to a relatively intact, twisted piece of the ship's hull structure.

"Prepare for docking! Wang Zhe, ensure the 'island' force field covers the landing module area; Lin Han, check the protective suit's seal!"

“Ella…concentrate and try to sense any…non-annihilated residual thought fluctuations, even the faintest ones.”

A circular landing module extended from the belly of the Raven and slowly approached a huge tear in the wreckage of the Earth Goddess.

As the docking was completed, a dull metallic clanging sound was heard.

"The air pressure is stable... The external environment is in a high vacuum with no harmful gases, but the spatial structure readings are extremely chaotic, and the physical constants fluctuate slightly," Wang Zhe reported the sensor data.

"Understood! Li Rui, Lin Han, Wang Zhe, follow me to log in."

"Ella, stay on the 'Raven' and maintain the 'Eye of the Candle Dragon' monitoring. At the same time, continue to try to sense things with your mind. Report any abnormalities immediately."

Li Rui unfastened the restraints. "Check the equipment and turn on the lights."

The landing hatch hissed open, revealing absolute darkness and deathly silence.

Four powerful beams pierced the darkness and penetrated the wreckage.

The sight before him sent a chill down Li Rui's spine, even though he was a veteran of countless battles.

There were no flames, explosion debris, or floating corpses as expected.

The interior of the ship was covered with a thick layer of dark purple residue that looked like solidified grease.

Unlike the previous "fungal carpet" that wriggled, it was more like the ashes left after everything had burned out, covering everything.

Metal walls, pipes, instrument tables... everything was enveloped and assimilated by this layer of dark purple "ash," presenting a bizarre form that was twisted, melted, and solidified.

The air was filled with an indescribable stench, a mixture of ozone, metallic corrosion, and a cloyingly sweet putrid smell—though in the vacuum, the odor seemed to affect their senses directly.

The space itself was also extremely abnormal; when the beam of light shone through it, it was sometimes straight, and sometimes it was strangely bent, as if it were passing through an invisible lens.

The "ground" beneath your feet is not a flat deck, but a strange, undulating terrain formed by solidified purple remnants and twisted metal. It feels soft and sticky when you step on it, and makes a slight squeaking sound that makes your teeth ache.

"Maintain formation, three meters apart... Lin Han, pay attention to the readings on the outside of your protective suits."

"Move forward quickly!" (End of Chapter)