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The depth gauge's LCD display was flashing wildly. 2,900 meters. 2,950 meters. 3,000 meters.

The dark gold rams mounted on the front of the vehicle shredded the last layer of hard basalt, and the immense friction instantly burned the rock powder into a dazzling incandescent color.

Suddenly, everything became clear.

There was no illusion of seeing the light of day again, only a suffocating crimson.

This was a massive cavity that had been hollowed out from the outer edge of the Earth's core. The temperature detector went off the charts the moment it entered the cavity, the pointer stuck at the red line of 8,000 degrees Celsius. The black-gold armor of the Devourer emitted an extremely sharp, brittle crackling sound as it carbonized, and the air outside the windows was severely distorted by the extreme heat.

In the very center of the cavity, suspended, lies an 800-meter-tall metal heart.

Its surface lacks the usual fleshy texture. Vast areas of crustal rock and high-density dark gold veins have been forcibly stripped and blended together by some force, forming an extremely rough and bizarre mutated structure. Thousands upon thousands of dark red living lava cables, as thick as water tanks, traverse the entire mantle like robust veins, deeply embedded in the boiling rock walls surrounding the heart, pumping every second.

The massive 2,000-ton hull of the Devourer looked like a tiny speck of dust in front of it.

The oppressive atmosphere was so palpable that it abruptly stopped everyone in the carriage from breathing.

Without warning, the rocky outer shell of the metal heart split open to both sides, emitting a roar like an avalanche.

Tens of thousands of tiny eyes were exposed to the air. Those irregular, dark red pupils were all focused on the falling chariot.

The gravitational constant collapses instantly.

The Devourer was plummeting into the abyss at a speed exceeding 200 kilometers per hour. Suddenly, the vehicle came to a stop, the immense inertia causing the chassis to groan under the strain, and three shock absorber springs snapped instantly.

Immediately afterwards, the entire vehicle was pulled back by a violent, reverse gravitational force. This force not only counteracted the downward potential energy, but also pulled the vehicle diagonally upwards, towards a huge, jagged rock in front of the giant's core.

The main control panel flashed red lights rapidly, and alarms blared incessantly.

The feeling of weightlessness came on extremely suddenly. Wang Hu was thrown off his seat, and the back of his head slammed heavily against the alloy pipes on the ceiling, leaving a dent.

"Damn it!" Wang Hu flailing his arms and legs, trying to grab the edge of the control panel, his boots kicking sparks off the panel.

Inside the meat grinder's mouth, layers of deep-space crystalline fangs were arranged in an interlocking pattern, with viscous, dark red magma clinging to the gaps. The winch began to turn, emitting a grinding sound powerful enough to crush planets.

500 meters away. 300 meters away. 200 meters away.

Su Yuan didn't even glance at the ever-growing maw of the abyss.

He flipped his wrist, and with a swift movement, he drew the Blade of Judgment from his waist. The tip of the blade pointed downwards, and grayish-white high-dimensional runes instantly covered the ancient blade.

"Absolute definition".

Su Yuan swung his sword backhand, pinning the Blade of Judgment firmly into the special alloy floor of the cockpit's central area.

The blade pierced through the explosion-proof plate and cut into the core load-bearing beam of the chassis. The "cloud" character mark on the left arm shone brightly with purple light, rushing down the back of the hand holding the knife and injecting rules into it.

"The overall weight of the vehicle has increased dramatically."

The power of higher-dimensional rules sliced ​​into the chassis of the chariot along the blade. At this moment, the physical mass of the Devourer broke free from the constraints of the laws of reality.

Two thousand tons. Twenty thousand tons. Two million tons.

The false gravitational field was directly crushed by real absolute mass.

The vehicle, which was initially being sucked upwards, came to an abrupt stop less than fifty meters from the crystalline fangs.

Click.

The levitation gravity released by the giant core was crushed into pieces by the excessive mass. Large transparent physical cracks burst in the air, even light was broken here.

Losing its traction, the Devourer, carrying an ever-increasing downward momentum, crashed straight into the edge of the Earth's core fracture layer like a meteor falling to earth.

boom!

The moment the wide tracks made contact with the ground, the entire massive rock stratum tilted violently downwards. The wheels screeched wildly against the rock vein at an extreme temperature of tens of thousands of degrees, the ear-piercing metallic scraping sound tearing at eardrums, and leaving a trail of blinding sparks stretching for kilometers in the darkness.

Lava flowed back from both sides. The chariot slid a considerable distance along the cliff face before finally coming to a screeching halt at the very edge of the precipice. The rear third of the chariot was suspended precariously above the lava lake.

Inside the medical pod, the veterans clung tightly to the anchors, their faces covered in blood, their internal organs nearly displaced due to the extreme deceleration.

The giant core was provoked, and tens of thousands of eyes on its surface contracted violently.

A high-dimensional heartbeat pierced the eardrums, bypassing the defenses of physical armor, and detonated directly in the brainstem of everyone present.

The molten lava lake beneath the cavity boiled.

Hundreds of enormous creatures crawled out of the churning lava.

Each one stood fifty meters tall. These were not mechs at all, but creations forcibly stitched together from high-density underground metal and deep-space flesh. Where the core reactors once were, their chests were now embedded with violently writhing, dark red tumors, within which human skulls could be vaguely seen. They dragged heavy nuclear molten hammers weighing tens of tons in their hands. The hammerheads dragged across the ground, melting deep magma trenches.

Hundreds of lava martyr Titans, with extremely heavy steps, crushed rocks and tightly surrounded the Devourer at the edge of the cliff.

At the entrance to the medical ward, the amputee veteran clung tightly to the door frame with both hands, his eyeballs bulging outwards due to extreme bloodshotness.

He saw it clearly. On the chest of the Titan at the very front, there remained a piece of rusty steel that was almost melted.

It bears the military insignia of the old Blue Star, along with a line of numbers that have long since faded.

[Advance Engineering Regiment - 03rd Company]

The veteran coughed up a mouthful of blood, his knees buckled, and he knelt on the ground, letting out a heart-wrenching wail.

"It's the 30th Company! Those are our brothers from the 30th Company!"

Fourteen years ago, the first group of engineers tasked with excavating the Earth's core array disappeared en masse. It turned out they had all been parasitized by deep-space neural networks, spending fourteen years submerged in magma thousands of meters underground, transformed into these monstrous, guardian puppets. Those pulsating tumors housed the remains of their former comrades.

Wang Hu's eyes were bloodshot.

He clenched his teeth, blood seeping from his gums. His hands gripped the main gun control stick tightly, veins bulging on the backs of his hands.

"Fuck your ancestors, you deep-space scum!"

Wang Hu pushed down the fire control switch and deactivated the conventional ammunition tank: "Purger Main Gun. Plasma Overload Detonation Rounds."

The twin main guns spun wildly, their gears meshing. A blinding blue light illuminated the entire cliff face.

"Send my brothers on their way!"

Boom!

The heavy shell slammed into the chest of the foremost Titan. The immense kinetic energy blasted a hole ten meters in diameter. Dark red flesh and metal fragments flew everywhere.

But this is only the surface. At the edge of the blasted hole, boiling magma flows backward, and the dark red lumps hanging at the gap writhe wildly. Countless fine, hair-like fleshy tentacles intertwine and interweave, visibly beginning to forcibly pull the metal fragments back into place, rapidly healing and piecing together the puzzle.

"Physical damage can't keep up with the recovery speed." Su Yuan stared at the screen and said coldly, his left hand quickly entering wind deflection data on the control panel.

Second-floor sniping position.

Tang Lan remained silent. She showed no emotion whatsoever at the veteran's cries. The crosshairs of the Gauss sniper rifle darted rapidly, the recoil pressing against her shoulder armor.

Through the cracks in Wang Hu's armor, she precisely spotted a tiny crystal core on the back of Titan's neck, its color extremely dark and covered in dense flesh and blood.

boom.

A specially made armor-piercing bullet burst from the barrel. The bullet slid in along the crack, piercing through three layers of bone membrane and accurately hitting the crystal core.

Titan froze, its head snapping back. The shattered crystal core severed its central nervous system, and its massive body, losing all momentum, crashed straight back into the nearby lava lake, sending up waves of lava dozens of meters high.

Wang Hu didn't turn back, continuing to frantically rotate the cannon. The heavy artillery unleashed a barrage of fire, clearing a path through the armor and violently tearing through the Titan's outer defenses. Tang Lan, on the second level, calmly searched for any exposed weaknesses, delivering a fatal headshot. The two's coordinated movements were as precise as a ruthless meat grinder.

Behind the carriage, several surviving soldiers, dragging their broken legs, gritted their teeth and pushed boxes of heavy ammunition. One soldier, with a broken arm, used his teeth to bite down on the pull ring of an ammunition box, managing to drag the hundred-pound iron box to the ammunition supply port. The iron-blooded ammunition supply line was forced into operation.

In the rear corner, a violent burst of dark gold pulse erupted from the stump of Jiang Yu's right arm.

The living metal twisted at the site of his severed arm, forcibly piercing the skin to form an antenna-like receiving structure.

He was in so much pain that he curled up into a ball, cold sweat streaming down his forehead. But he stared intently at the 800-meter-tall metal heart, his eyes filled with horror.

"He's rotating the pump..." Jiang Yu's voice was hoarse.

Everyone turned around.

Jiang Yu pointed to the nerves and blood vessels connecting the Earth's mantle on the surface of the giant heart, blood trickling down his chin: "That thing... isn't a heart, it's a pump! It's extracting the Earth's rotational energy! Sending commands to the outer matrix."

"He's peeling away the crust! He's stripping the entire Earth's crust and sending it directly to the core!"

The countdown was pounding wildly in Jiang Yu's mind.

ten minutes.

The Earth's surface will crumble in ten minutes. The Great Wall and the remains of billions of humans will be flung into space. What began as a localized war will escalate into an apocalyptic threat that threatens the very survival of the Earth's surface.

Su Yuan completely ignored the meaningless countdown.

His eyes were cold and sharp as knives, his gaze sweeping over the lava lake.

"Then drain it dry."

He abruptly pressed the full unlock button for the refining furnace: "Ultimate Negative Pressure Devouring Protocol. Activate."

The chassis of the Devourer emitted a sickeningly loud mechanical grinding sound. Gears were breaking in, and the hydraulic pumps roared.

Thirty-six high-dimensional quenching conduits, as thick as buckets and covered with dark gold devouring runes, burst forth from the bottom of the vehicle.

The conduit did not pierce the besieging Titans. Instead, it plunged straight down, embedding itself firmly into the boiling, churning, high-dimensional lava lake below the cliff.

The high-temperature magma instantly enveloped the conduit.

The surface of the conduit shimmered with a Zero Purge-resistant coating, withstanding the vaporization crisis. Thirty-six giant serpents forcibly created a massive negative pressure vortex in the lava lake.

A continuous stream of super-limited heat energy and high-dimensional radiation was violently drawn back into the refining furnace of the Devourer through the pipelines.

On the instrument panel, the fuel reserve readings were skyrocketing. The refinery's durability was fluctuating wildly under intense negative pressure, and the indicator lights were flashing a dangerous red glow.

The deadly crisis was reverse-engineered by Su Yuan into a concept-level high-pressure fuel. The entire black-gold chariot emanated an extremely suppressed, violent red light. The engine sound became deep and brutal.

The remaining dozens of Lava Titans changed tactics. They stood shoulder to shoulder, raising their heavy-core molten hammers. A continuous, dark red, highly maintained shield was forcibly erected. Like an advancing steel wall, they stepped across the sea of ​​fire, pressing directly towards the chariots at the edge of the cliff.

Wang Hu's artillery fire struck the shield, but was deflected and bounced off by the high temperature, leaving only ripples on the surface.

Su Yuan pulled the Blade of Judgment from the floor. The purple light of the "Cloud" mark on his left arm shot skyward.

The hatch slid open automatically to both sides, and the hot air from outside rushed in, stirring up the ashes on the ground.

He held the knife in one hand and leaped directly onto the roof armor.

Facing the imposing steel wall, Su Yuan did not retreat a single step. He slightly bent his knees to stabilize his center of gravity, gripped his long sword tightly with both hands, and slashed horizontally from bottom to top and from left to right.

The gray-white concept erases the ripples, pushing outwards in a crescent shape with the blade as the center.

The ripples swept across the void without making a sound.

The instant the shield made contact, the conceptual-level erasure rules directly severed the energy's sustaining logic. The seemingly indestructible combined shield crumbled into nothingness, exploding like shattered glass.

The ripples continued their momentum, cutting across the first ten lava titans in half.

Metal, magma, flesh and blood. All of it turned into extremely fine dust on this grayish-white cross-section.

The upper bodies of the ten colossal Titans lost their support and slid backward, crashing heavily onto the rocks. The cross-sections of their waists were so smooth they could reflect firelight.

A huge gap was forcibly torn open in the dense formation.

Su Yuan leaped back into the control room, sheathing his blade. He grabbed the power push lever with his left hand and pushed it all the way down.

"Full speed ramming!"

The Devourer's wide tracks spun wildly in place, kicking up a cloud of debris. Its two-thousand-ton mass, carrying the raging fuel just extracted from the refining furnace, propelled it into the air.

The chariot transformed into a black and red Tyrannosaurus Rex, plunging straight through the gap in the Titan formation and crushing the remains of two Titans that were not yet completely dead along the way.

boom.

The abyss-piercing ram slammed into the outer shell of the 800-meter-tall metal behemoth.

The point of impact was directly in the middle of the 10,000-meter-long aorta, which was gushing out dark red blood.

The foul-smelling blood cascaded down the tank's windshield like a waterfall. The thick armor hissed as if being corroded by a higher dimension, and white smoke billowed up.

The giant heart, in agony, erupted with a high-frequency scream that shook the cavity.

The densely packed nerve cords on the surface instantly activated. Tens of thousands of black pythons, composed of living metal and dark red flesh, surged forth, engulfing the vessel. They tightly coiled around the Devourer's hull, frantically squeezing inward.

The vehicle's black and gold armor was twisted and dented inwards. Several windows couldn't withstand the abnormal pressure and shattered instantly. A gust of wind mixed with toxic fumes and shards of glass poured into the cabin.

Just as the tank was about to be torn to pieces.

An unusual fluctuation came from the direction of pod zero. Inside the hibernation pod, locked in by the low temperature, Ji Yun's right eye suddenly emitted a blinding, eerie blue light.

This blue light penetrated through the heavy isolation door, bypassing all physical defenses, and forcibly connected directly to the neural frequencies inside the carriage.

An encrypted audio message filled with electromagnetic noise was directly inserted into Su Yuan's brain. It was a top-secret channel from the Supreme Command of the old Blue Star fourteen years ago.

The audio contained Ji Yun's young yet extremely cold voice.

"The bottom electrode zero plug has been pierced! Engineer Qin has left a physical shut-off valve! The parasitic mother organism must be severed!"

Su Yuan immediately glanced at the tactical screen and began typing rapidly.

"Low heat, bottom electrode zero plug."

"Coordinates confirmed. Penetrating scan of the giant core's underlying structure in progress."

The hologram is rapidly formed on the screen as a green raster sweeps up and down.

At the very bottom of the 800-meter-deep core, where the roots directly connect to the mantle, lies a massive bronze bolt, 100 meters long, inscribed with ancient script representing the primordial Pangu Plan.

Qin Zhao. The original chief engineer. Fourteen years ago, when he was casting the Earth's core array, he used his own spinal cord as a fuse to forge this "Earth Vein Sealing Pile." He had long suspected that the Deep Space Matrix might parasitize the Earth's core in reverse, leaving behind this most basic physical countermeasure hidden door.

But at this moment, the screen showed that the surface of the bronze bolt was covered by layers of deep-space mucus and bacterial sacs, which were more than ten meters thick, and all the starting circuits were completely cut off.

The giant heart sensed the scanning probe at its bottom and immediately realized the real threat.

It abandoned the method of simple physical strangulation.

A tangible divine pressure forcefully squeezed into the carriage from all directions, directly invading everyone's physiological nerves.

In a corner of the carriage, several amputee veterans coughed up blood and collapsed to their knees. Their retinas were filled with horrific hallucinations of deep-space monsters tearing apart their families. They clutched their heads, screaming in agony on the deck, and frantically pounded their temples with their fists.

Wang Hu was bleeding from all seven orifices, his eyeballs were almost bulging out of their sockets, and his vision was completely blood red.

He roared, using brute force to grab the edge of the control panel to keep from falling. Half of his teeth were crushed, and his hand bones snapped and broke through the skin during the exertion. Dragging his badly deformed arm, he yanked off the safety valve of the manual fire control.

"Fuck your mother's god!"

Wang Hu used his shoulder to brace the control lever, pressing down hard on the main cannon mounted on the roof of the vehicle. The cannon barrel was aimed directly at the most tightly coiled giant pythons at the bottom, and he forced a shot.

Tang Lan lay prone at her sniper position. The pressure on her fingers had caused cuts and cracks. She bit her lip and pulled the trigger. The bullet didn't hit the gun's center, but instead precisely severed two metal nerve cables on the main gun barrel that interfered with its trajectory.

Su Yuan didn't even look at those hallucinations. His left arm was radiating purple light, and his entire nervous system was tightly locked in place by the rules, isolating him from all mental pollution.

"Absolute Definition of Rules: Superconducting Fold-Up Assassination"

Fuel was forced into the reaction chamber with a deafening roar. The Devourer's engine instantly overloaded to 200%. The high-pressure fuel in the refining furnace burned wildly at a rate several times higher than its design limit.

The tank's original black and red armor turned a deep blue under the extreme heat. The front of the tank was slightly raised, and the surrounding space was distorted due to the compression of the extreme gravitational field.

The speed defied the physical laws imposed by its immense mass. The two-thousand-ton tank transformed into a trail of deathly light, a mixture of dark blue and crimson, leaving a visible ring-shaped sonic boom cloud in the air.

Click.

Tens of thousands of black metal pythons wrapped around the vehicle were instantly torn apart by the extreme explosive force. Before the broken wreckage even hit the ground, it was ignited by the high-temperature airflow generated by the friction of speed, burning it to ashes.

The Devourer hurtled straight down, skimming the massive outer shell of the giant core.

Boom! The vehicle crashed directly into the very bottom of the giant core, less than ten meters from the sealed bronze bolt.

This is the core region where dark matter radiation is most concentrated. Even steel dust in the air is directly vaporized.

Su Yuan pushed open the car door. Gripping the Blade of Judgment tightly in one hand, he leaped out of the car.

He was suspended in mid-air when terrifying high-dimensional radiation assaulted his face. The flesh on his cheek instantly dissolved, revealing glimpses of bone. But then, purple life essence surged forth from his left arm. Flesh and blood reassembled in an extremely savage manner, the purple crystals covering the skin's surface, forcibly healing.

Facing the radiation stream powerful enough to melt everything in the world, Su Yuan raised his long sword high with both hands.

The blade aura instantly expanded to thirty meters. The gray-white conceptual laws swirled wildly, tearing apart the surrounding magma.

He cleaved down with a single stroke.

The massive, deep-space bacterial sacs, weighing tens of thousands of tons, attached to the surface of the bronze giant bolt, were sliced ​​open like rags. The slime burst open.

The moment the bacterial sac burst open, countless writhing blood vessels, enveloping the already mutated organs, were exposed. Su Yuan's eyes remained unmoved, and the momentum of his blade's strike continued unabated.

Where the blade sliced, higher-dimensional contamination was forcibly stripped away. This unleashed an extremely violent storm of rules, forcefully clearing away all the filth within a cavity several hundred meters around.

At the bottom of the giant bolt, a simple physical handle was revealed.

The handle has a clearly visible slot. Its shape perfectly matches the "cloud" character mark on Su Yuan's left arm.

Without pausing, Su Yuan braced himself against the tearing force of the storm of rules and lunged at the bronze bolt. His left arm slammed into the slot.

"Authentication begins." A synthesized mechanical voice rang out from inside the bronze bolt.

Inside his body, the pure energy, cleansed and reshaped by Zero the Purifier, surged like a flood, rushing through the mark and into the bronze bolt. The burning sensation of the mark caused Su Yuan's arm muscles to tremble violently, but he held on tightly, refusing to loosen his grip even slightly.

This is the core essence of the Pangu Project.

The command Qin Zhao had inscribed fourteen years ago was forcibly activated. The lines of ancient characters shone brightly, as if stained with blood.

[Pangu's Extinction Command - Activation]

On the surface of the bronze bolt, the ancient characters lit up with a dazzling blue light.

This light is not a physical light, but a logic that absolutely severs the connection to higher-dimensional neural pathways.

The colossal metal core let out a desperate wail that shook the entire Eurasian tectonic plate. Large sections of rock collapsed from the top of the cavity, and boulders rained down like raindrops.

The azure light surged backward along the thousands of nerve ducts connecting the giant's core to the mantle. This was not ethereal light, but rather tangible bronze chains, carrying blades capable of shredding everything, winding their way up the nerve ducts.

This is not cutting off; this is strangulation without reservation.

Wherever the azure light passed, the divine consciousness centers extending from the Deep Space Mother were shredded inch by inch. The once violently pulsating dark red flesh withered and turned black instantly, turning into lifeless gray dust. Pieces of the giant heart's surface crumbled away, and magma erupted outwards uncontrollably.

The arrogant, high-dimensional neural master pump was utterly defeated by a physical backdoor forged from tens of millions of tons of scrap iron.

The giant core began to collapse and disintegrate.

Tens of thousands of tons of dark red blood rained down like a waterfall, crashing onto the Devourer's black-gold armor and releasing thick, foul-smelling white smoke.

Su Yuan withdrew his left arm, rolled over, and landed back in front of the main control room door. His boots thudded as they stepped onto the alloy deck.

The thirty-six conduits at the bottom of the Devourer unleashed their full absorption power. The runes on the conduits moved rapidly, absorbing a vast amount of primal energy.

The massive amount of primordial energy that spilled out after the collapse of the giant core, mixed with the purest energy from the Earth's core, was completely absorbed by the refining furnace. The enormous chariot greedily devoured the corpses of the gods. The temperature inside the refining furnace exceeded 100,000 degrees Celsius.

The data stream on the main control screen was so fast it was blurry.

"An oversized concept remnant has been detected."

"The refining furnace has been reconstructed."

"Unlocked Mythical-grade component: [Planetary Leyline Resonance Gravity Anchor]. Can be forcibly docked with any planetary-level anti-gravity matrix."

"The outer armor absorbs the high-dimensional residue and begins a profound transformation."

The charred surface of the entire vehicle had been stripped away. The armor plates were replaced and reassembled piece by piece. In their place was a pure black matte armor with flowing dark gold magma patterns.

"【Earthfire Annihilation Divine Gear】Deployment complete. Physical defense threshold surpasses planetary level."

Inside the carriage, everyone stared at the data, their heavy breathing clearly audible. Combat power had achieved a leap beyond its previous level. The veteran touched the brand-new interior wall, feeling that incredible power, his eyes reddening.

In the upper right corner of the screen, the blood-red countdown that was counting down the peeling command and even the three-hour engine-sent countdown from further away froze.

Then it turned into a jumble of characters, completely shattered and collapsed.

The giant heart is dead. The neural master pump is disconnected. The interstellar warp drive array has lost its bio-powered supply and has completely shut down.

The crisis is over.

The earthquake triggered an irreversible chain reaction. The already fragile crustal structure of Asia No. 01 Dead City collapsed completely at this moment.

The underground cavities, three thousand meters deep, began to disappear in large swaths. Millions of tons of rock, mixed with abandoned steel structures, crashed down.

"Activate the gravity anchor." Su Yuan pushed the control stick hard.

The chassis of the Devourer emitted a strange, resonant hum. It wasn't the roar of the exhaust pipe, but a shockwave directly engaging with Earth's gravitational field.

The tank rose from the ground without the aid of any ramp.

Outside the Divine Armor, which had been annihilated by the Earth Fire, a dark golden cone-shaped gravitational field appeared.

The massive boulder, weighing tens of thousands of tons, crashed into the gravitational field and was instantly crushed into fine powder by the opposing gravity. The Devourer transformed into a giant black sword that shot into the sky, violently slicing a vertical passage to the surface against the collapsing strata.

Two thousand meters. One thousand meters. Five hundred meters.

boom!

A massive crater exploded on the surface of the frozen wasteland in the Abyss Forbidden Zone. The Devourer, its body covered in dark gold magma patterns, soared into the sky, its tracks slamming heavily onto the remaining ice, crushing large swathes of floating ice, before coming to a steady stop.

The veterans in the carriage had just loosened their grip on the handles.

The surroundings suddenly darkened.

The polar regions never experience daytime, only the aurora borealis. But at this moment, all the light in the sky has been erased.

Su Yuan looked up, his eyes narrowing instantly.

The sky above.

Originally, it only dared to remain in the high-dimensional deep space beyond near-Earth orbit. That colossal mother eye, spanning tens of thousands of miles, fell into absolute rage because it lost the positioning and projection capabilities of the ley lines.

Its enormous eyeball, composed of countless bizarre crystals, actually tore apart Earth's atmosphere and forced it inward.

The immense friction ignited a ring of blood-red fire stretching for thousands of kilometers in the sky. The entire sky seemed to be ablaze.

Immediately afterwards, the one-eyed dark red pupil dilated violently.

A black, torrential downpour, obscuring the sky, poured down without warning.

Raindrops are not water. They are pure, high-dimensional decaying matter. When they fall on distant icebergs, the hard ice peaks, hundreds of meters high, instantly melt and collapse, turning into murky gray water.

At the horizon, the last remaining outline of human defense is slowly losing its life in the black rain, shrouded in utter death and silence.

Raindrops pounded on the Devourer's dark gold armor, producing a harsh, corrosive sound. Su Yuan's fingers rested on the cold hilt of his sword, his gaze piercing through the shattered windshield, fixed on the blood-dripping eye.

At the center of the giant eye, a deep purplish-black vortex was slowly forming. The center of the vortex pointed directly at the location of the Devourer. Amidst the raging black rain, a massive beam of high-dimensional gravitational force descended straight down from the single eye, piercing directly through the clouds.

The beam of light struck the icy ruins less than a kilometer ahead of the Devourer. Accompanying the beam was an overwhelming aura of destruction far surpassing that of the massive metal core from before. A colossal shadow, incomprehensible by the laws of physics, was being forcibly dragged from space toward the earth's surface by the beam of light.

The ice on the ground began to melt and crumble inexplicably under the influence of this aura.

The ice plains were wailing. All communication channels were filled with a series of irregular screams. They weren't human screams, but the mournful cries of some massive machine being torn apart.

Tang Lan's crosshair caught the beam's trajectory, and his fingertip pressed down on the trigger.

Wang Hu spat out a mouthful of blood and pulled the deformed fire control gate again.

A gravitational beam struck. The black rain was instantly vaporized into a vacuum in this area.

The shadow fully revealed its outline. It was a humanoid entity, a kilometer tall, with countless broken metal wings on its back.

The entity slowly raised its head, and the red light behind the mask locked onto the black and gold chariot.

It dragged a heavy metal scythe, even larger than the Devourer, along its blade. On the blade lay half of the still-dripping wreckage of the Skyrail control tower.

The spire of the Skyrail Tower. The building that the remnants of the defense line fought and recaptured with their lives. Now it sits like a jumble of broken metal. A cracked deep-space coordinate stone is embedded in it, emitting a piercing countdown alarm.

The humanoid entity has taken its first step.

A ten-thousand-meter-long abyss split open in the ice field.

It dragged its scythe as it walked toward the Devourer.

The black rain intensified. The ice surface began to tremble violently. On everyone's retinas, only that blinding red light slowly approached. The red light in their eyes was of the same origin as the light that Ji Yun had once revealed. But it was purer, more brutal.

Those were executioners sent down by the gods.

It raised its sickle.

The tip of the scythe was aimed at the cockpit of the Devourer.

There was no heartbeat, only the pure aura of death spreading.

The wind stopped. The black rain hung eerily suspended in mid-air.

Only the trajectory of that sickle sliced ​​through the solidified air, aiming for Su Yuan's throat.

Light and shadow intertwine.

The beam of light from the searchlight on the front of the vehicle went out completely the moment the sickle swung down.