Chapter 134

Part．25【End】

No one cared about his thoughts; the people who had almost exhausted their strength merely lay on the platform inside the crystal tower, while the spiritualists could not rest yet, when it was time for them to exert further strength.

As the strength of the spiritual energy drawn from them increased, they also fell silent, supplying it with all their might through prayer/meditation and the like.

At the same time, those participating in the ritual also clearly felt the 'tug' on the space station.

"Steady output; other teams, when the time is right, use your overlimit weapons together to attack the biomass nest. The impact will arrive in 20 minutes; stay inside the crystal tower, this impact will not spread outside the crystal tower."

Wu Ming's voice echoed inside every crystal tower, and as the sentence ended, a countdown constructed from refracted sunlight also appeared on the ceiling of each crystal tower.

Meanwhile, the falling space station grew larger and larger; looking up, the space station now appeared as big as a person's head.

"Team Leader, your body......"

Inside the beta crystal tower where the EU team was stationed, a member inadvertently noticed changes on Ma Erke's body and couldn't help but exclaim.

This drew the attention of others who were resting, who also turned their gaze.

At this moment, Ma Erke's body showed three different conditions: his right hand to right shoulder were almost completely covered by clearly visible biomass organization tissue, while between his body and the biomass-infested parts, and within the areas covered by the biomass organization, a substance similar in texture to the crystal tower was mixed in, blocking the assimilation of the biomass organization.

"Cough... don't, don't bother me, I'm ready; my legs can still move, soon I'll go down to join the teammates I executed. Perhaps it's that mysterious crystal tower controller who let me live until now, but with the outcome already decided, I have nothing left to worry about."

He strained to prop himself up, leaning against the inner wall of the crystal tower.

Someone in the team wanted to speak, but after glancing twice at compatriot teammates, they stopped their action and silently looked at Ma Erke.

Meanwhile, Ma Erke, in pain, paid no heed to the reactions of the EU team members; he simply took out a plastic tube with a needle from a small pouch in his gear and stuck it near his thigh.

"Whooooo---"

With a long exhalation, Ma Erke gradually calmed down.

"Edmond, bring all the remaining explosives; I'm leaving. Don't try to persuade me—even if I survive this incident, given my condition, I know exactly how the EU will treat me. Give me the stuff, let me die with dignity." He said to the junior teammate he had brought along.

"....... Compris!" After a brief silence and mutual gaze, seeing Edmond's resolve in Ma Erke's eyes, he stood up and replied, also giving a military salute.

Afterward, he stepped forward, unafraid of the biomass organization on Ma Erke that others avoided, carefully binding and setting up various explosives.

Meanwhile, Yuri, who was outputting spiritual energy at the tower's center, had no spare energy for other matters; he merely glanced once, then closed his eyes again to focus on outputting spiritual energy.

A seven-colored light membrane, centered on the top of the crystal tower, spread to cover the entire tower like a beautiful deformed soap bubble; this is the second function of the ritual—a protective shield that can block and reflect the impact generated when the space station falls.

After receiving Ailuo's permission, Wu Ming no longer needed to worry about whether the r fighter equipped with fouce technology could be preserved; she only needed to focus on eliminating the biomass, and that was enough.

With communications cut off, she is now the sole supreme commander.

As for the biomass surrounded by the wall, their 'cake' has now taken shape, already reaching the ritual's height limit in overlapping layers; if one looked from outside the wall inward, they would see its structure continually self-optimizing, even surpassing the composite armor of many tanks, specialized not only for the impact point but also for withstanding subsequent effects after the impact, having been perfected and still optimizing through constant splitting and dying.

"How terrifying; if given time to develop, this creature might become a genuine space disaster..." Joseph and some of the observers from other teams simultaneously thought.

"Warning, five minutes until impact; quickly prepare the mysterious/contained/anomalous items and focus fire on the biomass organization that counters the impact."

When the countdown entered five minutes, under Wu Ming's control, the space station's speed increased further, and an unknown-effect beam of non-visible wavelength also shot from the crystal tower's top toward the space station.

Three minutes.

"Gungnir replica, ready; prepared to fire at any moment!"

The EU team member in charge of activating the anomaly assembled a spear studded with gems but with obviously modern craftsmanship, cut himself on it, then smeared his blood on a strikingly out‑of‑place metal fragment at the spear's center, and whispered a prayer.

As he prayed, a mysterious aura began to gradually gather on the modern spear.

One minute.

「γ-level meteorite guidance device is ready, target locked onto the Star Sea Commune observation station, already operational. 」

On the α crystal tower whose skylight had been deliberately opened, the US team member in charge of operating the containment entered a long string of code; when the pixel‑point space station on the screen showed a lock prompt, he loudly reported, feeling relieved.

30 seconds.

Following the manual, Helen twisted the magic cube to the final step, then lifted it with both hands and, under the effect of crystal dust, handed it over to Wuming for the operation ritual.

15 seconds.

Only saw the girl lightly wave her hand; the magic cube finished its final step as it flew toward the landing point, a mysterious attraction became visible to the naked eye, tearing at the material along its path; upon reaching the landing point it had torn a hole about the size of a ten‑ton truck in the surrounding Bai Duo tissue and continued to fall under gravity.

If not intercepted, its ten‑second duration of gradually expanding attraction range would be enough to completely destroy the r fighter housing the Bai Duo core.

However, the frantically surviving Bai Duo, by continuously splitting out new tissue, literally fed this newborn black hole, stalling the artificial singularity's downward fall.

5 seconds.

As the magic cube's effect ended, an extremely high‑density sphere emitting scorching radiation appeared where the cube had been—matter compressed to the extreme.

Although the entity itself is tiny, the light and heat it emits are too intense to look at directly.

And just as it was about to burst from internal pressure, a beam of light from a crack in the horizon smashed it underground, deeply embedding it in the Bai Duo tissue.

This impact even bored straight through the roughly 500‑meter‑deep impedance shock layer, but this was only the beginning.

The energy of the Gungnir replica and that of the micro white dwarf forged by the artificial singularity exploded together.

Like a muffled submarine volcano being held back and erupting, a muffled boom came from underground; part of the shock attempted to rise upward into a mushroom cloud, while more of it continued to destroy the Bai Duo biological tissue outward and downward.

「The big one has just arrived. Everyone, the fireworks have begun! 」

While silently thinking that, the space station pulled down by increased gravity also, as the countdown hit zero, crashed into the Antarctic point before everyone's eyes.

Applying a downward force again to the partially upward‑moving material sent it back into the Bai Duo nest.

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Regardless of how one judges it, the terrifying impact put the three crystal towers into full defensive mode, blocking any attempt to enter information or matter.

The team members from various countries inside the towers could not even observe the light effects.

「Gravity.... strengthened! 」

By this time Wuming had come to directly above the Antarctic point, also the center of the three crystal towers; her fingers twitched slightly, and a pentagram trajectory appeared from her gesture.

A mysterious disturbance also arose then; three different forces, under the new force's influence, began to harmonize, further releasing their power into the Bai Duo mother nest, which served as a sandbag.

Feeling a connection gradually emerging from nothing, thinking carefully, when his mind touched the other party, when he realized that only a single thought was needed to completely erase the existence of the other side of this connection, Wuming knew this incident had been resolved.

「Hey? Hey!! Bureau calling Crystal Spirit Team, please respond if you hear. Repeat, this is the Soviet Mysterious Management Bureau, calling Crystal Spirit Team, please respond if you hear. 」

Click—

The signal has been connected, this is Crystal Spirit. Report, mission completed successfully, we have successfully suppressed the extradimensional super lifeform—Biado. Our casualty status: no deaths, but most team members are experiencing fatigue, muscle damage, organ damage, mental damage, etc., requiring level-three medical assistance. Current location: near the Antarctic Point, and other teams are also here; I need more support assistance for evacuation. End.

Putting down the radio microphone, Wuming, who had restored her original form, looked up at the sky. The Antarctic storm was blown away by the aftershocks of the massive impact, and the three crystal towers originally used for the ritual behind her slowly shattered, turned to powder, and dissipated in the wind.

Among the surviving people, some curiously reached out to try to catch some debris, but the disappearance of these crystals was not slowed by their obstruction; some knelt on the ground, covering their faces and weeping, perhaps needing time, or perhaps needing a memory wipe to recover; others faced the site of the crystal towers, arms spread, faces filled with fervent chanting of what they believed to be the release of an unknown powerful entity.

"Wow! Captain, you really made a big splash! You're really strong!" Malusha shouted excitedly from afar as she rushed over from her crystal tower's position.

"When you go back, your rating will probably have to be reevaluated. However, I estimate there likely won't be any dangerous missions that will let you stand out again. Prepare your thesis well, the Soviet Union will undergo great changes." Before the person arrived, Yuri's psychic communication had already linked into the girl's external psychic energy responsible for defense.

Other team members either sat eating canned food or were tidying up the squad's remnants, awaiting the arrival of further support.

"This big pit... how will the Administration handle it?" Gazing at the pit before her, nearly a kilometer deep, Wuming lamented the destroyed natural environment and asked curiously.

"After thoroughly checking that there is no residual impact from the incident, they should probably pool multinational material and financial resources to try to fill this 'pit'; we shouldn't have to worry about it, although it will be costly, but it is also a way to some extent to strengthen multinational cooperation, and in this situation it is easy to project our power."

Yuri stroked his chin, deep in thought.

puttputtputtputtputtputtputtputtputt——

While speaking, an Mi-26 helicopter that had entered service earlier than in original history approached from afar, its engine roaring like a street‑exploding blast.

"Is that the vehicle my lord will be riding? May I, your humble servant, be allowed to accompany you aboard?"

A faint sound came from behind Yuri, sounding like a distorted female voice. It did not belong to any team member.

"From now on call me 'older sister'. You were originally just an accident, yet you insist on pretending to be human, using human terms of address while still calling me 'master' and 'servant'—I really dislike that." Wuming said to that voice without surprise.

"I will obey your command, older sister." That voice came again, though the severe distortion had weakened considerably.

Then the owner of that voice, from behind Yuri, began to follow Wuming into the helicopter with steady steps.

And all the team members present, including Yuri, failed to notice this suddenly appearing mysterious entity.

"I don't know whether our rating can improve after we return, after all we've experienced such a major event. Just the space station's crash and the Antarctic terrain alteration alone already constitute medium‑large scale terrain changes with serious impact."

"It might go up, but it's more likely to stay the same, and then they'll send someone with power similar to yours to replace your callsign, after which you'll be moved off the front line to do what you're supposed to do. Originally this event should have been for you to gild your résumé, but who could have imagined it would turn out like this." Yuri mused, turning his head to look at a patch of the cabin floor in front of Wuming.

There was nothing there, in his and others' vision.

"What if not? I mean, what if there's no one with power similar to mine?" Wuming looked up at Yuri, then down at the 'little sister' curled up and sitting in front of her legs.

"Then we'll just make everyone forget you, seal your files, alter the records, and then some diplomatic exchanges—anyway there's always a way to hide your information." Yuri appeared quite indifferent.

"You are too important; as the founder of the new psychic system, each extra day you live will greatly advance our work constructing the way psychic abilities will be used in the new era. Although saying this doesn't quite match our notions, in this field it's truly the case that some people make progress in a day, an hour, a minute that others would need a month or a year to achieve." He said with a sigh.

Wuming listened to his words, lightly biting her lip, watching the changing scenery outside the window.

"After returning I still have to write the report, after finishing the report I still have to continue with ogas, after finishing ogas I still have to help the psychic department begin constructing the system's work. How come I feel like I'm drifting further and further from my original idea? Stanford is still waiting for me, but looking now I don't think I can easily leave.... plus Long Siwu and them. Butterfly, do you have any insight on the direction we should take next?"

In resignation, Wuming thought of the time worm that had always served as a fuse, the 'Butterfly'.

"Don't worry, the solution is right before your eyes; please face it, your clan."

The girl lowered her head, and just then 'she' lifted her head to meet eyes, like looking into a mirror; aside from the two facing each other, no one could tell them apart.

【Event End】

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{Antarctic Biado Invasion Event}

Time: February 10, 1976 – late February

Origin: R-type world (compiled by Neos) – an R9c fighter undergoing a spatial jump accidentally crashed into Antarctica, and the Biado organism it carried spread out of control.

Participants: Soviet Union, United States, EU, and other multinational teams each entered Antarctica.

Key Actions and Results

Crisis Outbreak (February 10)

The Antarctic Soviet Komsomol station was attacked by Biado, with 35% of the area eroded; it was confirmed that if erosion exceeded 55% it would trigger a full nuclear strike. Various countries' tactical nuclear strike submarine fleets are already in position.

Joint Operation (starting February 15)

Three teams penetrated Antarctica, aiming to destroy the Biado nest beneath the ice at the Antarctic point.

The Star Sea Commune's observation space station fell during the event due to Biado erosion (—afterwards the main body of the Artificial Heaven Fire operation).

The final stage launched the joint psychic project, guiding the space station as an attack means to precisely strike the target.

Result:

The Biado nest was completely destroyed; testing showed no residual Biado organisms, and the impact altered terrain to about 950 square kilometers, with a depth of roughly 15 to 20 kilometers.

The R9c fighter was completely destroyed, original technology could not be recovered, and the Soviet Union retained personnel strongly related to this event, Ailu.

Postwar disposition:

The huge pit was jointly rebuilt and developed by multiple countries, becoming the emerging technology hub City No. 5 (compiled by Yuri).

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