Chapter 357 Return Safely

In the remains of the construct, Su Mo walked forward with difficulty, and began the final confrontation with the black spire.

He walked between the dusty ancient pillars, and the pale crystal continued to emit white light, blocking him like an invisible barrier.

The consciousness-level shock caused by the abnormal wave signal continued to attack, trying to drag him into the illusion again, but the previous successful escape from the illusion had already established a protection mechanism in his brain.

The continuous shock brought various visions, sometimes confusing calls, sometimes old scenes read from the depths of memory, but none of them could completely occupy his mind like before.

He just wiped the sweat from his forehead silently and continued to move forward without hesitation.

Qi Ling had previously set the Black Zetsu virus to automatic mode. The closer Su Mo got to the control core of the black spire, the closer the Black Zetsu virus would take effect.

The pale crystal seemed to sense some kind of threat, and its blazing light suddenly burst out. The white light became more intense than ever before, and turned into ripples in the air.

The violent impact on the consciousness level almost deprived Su Mo of all his strength. He collapsed to the ground and gasped in pain, and his consciousness was about to enter that free state again.

In order to resist the impact, he moved his right hand with difficulty and broke his left hand fingers.

"Crack! Crack! Crack!"

One by one, with the sound of crisp fractures, he broke all five fingers of his left hand.

The severe pain made his consciousness take the initiative again. He stood up again, facing the pale crystal protecting the structure larvae, and smiled miserably: "No tricks? Then follow me obediently."

As Su Mo took the last step, the intrusion device loaded with the Black Zetsu virus finally entered the effective distance and successfully captured the communication port.

At this moment, time seemed to have stopped.

A bit of bloody red appeared on the surface of the pale crystal, like a sea of ​​blood gushing out from the center of pure water. The two completely different colors of red and white blended and collided, and the originally white light was gradually replaced by scarlet, and continued to disappear.

At the same time, the surface structure of the crystal began to disintegrate, and the cracks extended inch by inch. The scene of red fragments falling was like a bloody rain.

Suddenly, a strange whistle sounded in Su Mo's ears. It came from the inside of the crystal, rapid and sharp, but with the rhythm of life, like the cry of a newborn baby.

In the center of the broken crystal, Su Mo finally saw that thing.

It was a perfectly round sphere, composed of some strange colorless crystals, showing a transparent and crystal texture, with a smooth and pure surface without a single flaw.

The inner wall of the crystal grew wool-like fine wool, which was not any substance that humans had ever seen. Each strand was slightly glowing with a light red light. They were intertwined and shining, like a nebula in the universe.

In the center of the crystal, a translucent embryo was suspended, its main body connected to those glowing hairs, which seemed to be pipes supplying nutrients to it.

The embryo's shape was constantly changing, sometimes it was a round sphere, sometimes it changed into a cube full of mathematical beauty, and when Su Mo looked at it, it became a human shape, just like a child still developing in the mother's womb.

Under the translucent surface of the child, countless blood vessel-like lines were looming, faintly emitting strange light, giving people an indescribable sense of beauty.

The structure larvae, the fourth largest clearance prop in the world of Dawn, was now displayed in front of Su Mo, at his fingertips.

Su Mo came to the bottom of the crystal containing the structure larvae and slowly stretched out his hand.

The strange crystal seemed to be guided by something. Su Mo did nothing, but it quietly floated to his hand automatically, like a chick returning to its nest.

The moment the larvae were taken away, the entire black spire ruins began to shake violently, and cracks appeared on the stone pillars, ceilings, and floors, and began to slowly collapse.

Su Mo held the larvae in his arms and limped towards the exit.

"It's time to go home."

[Main battlefield in the eastern part of the border]

In the long battle, the mercenary troops were under great pressure. Even though they had been fighting for so long, the beasts they faced were still endless.

Even though the drone reconnaissance troops reported that a violent explosion suddenly occurred in the northern part of the border, and something had collapsed and sealed the tunnel worm tunnel, there were still many beasts remaining on the surface of the border.

As time went on, whether it was the continuous appearance of wounded soldiers or the ammunition that was about to be exhausted, morale sank to the freezing point bit by bit.

However, just as the mercenaries gritted their teeth and continued to fight fiercely, there was no sign, and the change suddenly came.

It was as if an invisible giant hand appeared on the huge battlefield, fiercely pinching the fierce beasts that were attacking fiercely. They all stopped at the same time without any deviation, like frozen statues.

The originally noisy battlefield fell into a strange silence in an instant.

Then, all the beasts went crazy.

The beasts that were rushing towards the mercenary troops screamed one after another, and the beasts of all sizes suddenly began to attack the closest ones indiscriminately.

An arthropod beast swung its claws, causing a howling wind, and pounced on another cat beast. The two collided into a ball, and the collision of claws and sharp teeth echoed around.

On the other side, a porcupine-like beast pounced on a lizard beast, its sharp hair tearing its hard scales like a blade, and blood spurted out like a fountain.

Tragic scenes took turns on the battlefield, high-temperature flames penetrated the sky, plasma raged everywhere, deadly venom splashed like raindrops, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

The beasts ran back and forth on the battlefield, killing each other, just like when they fought for territory in the no-man's land. The air was filled with an unprecedented strong smell of blood, and various screams and flesh-tearing sounds came one after another, forming a symphony of death.

The mercenaries witnessed this shocking scene in front of them. They could only watch the battle situation develop in an unfavorable direction, and their morale was getting lower every minute and every second.

But at this time, when they saw the beasts inexplicably start to kill each other, no matter what the reason was, everyone seemed to be injected with a shot of cardiotonic, and their fighting spirit was rekindled.

"Brothers, these beasts collapsed!"

"Someone must have done something! We are about to win!"

"Take advantage of its weakness and kill them!!!"

The overwhelming cheers rang out, spreading across the entire battlefield, almost piercing the sky.

The morale of the mercenary troops was greatly boosted. Everyone took advantage of the chaos of the beasts to open fire and easily annihilated these monsters that killed each other. The battle line even showed a trend of advancement for the first time.

The balance of victory completely tilted towards humans at this moment!

The explosion in the northern area of ​​the border destroyed the tunnel and the tunnel worms themselves, cutting off the source of the beasts.

The beasts that invaded the border fell into chaos for unknown reasons and began to kill each other.

The most important thing is that Sumer successfully paralyzed the black spire beacon at a depth of 100,000 meters underground, which outsiders had no way of knowing. The beasts in the no-man's land could no longer sense it.

The victory of mankind is no longer a suspense.

At the same time, reinforcements from other places finally arrived one after another and took over the battle from the mercenary troops.

In the following days, the reinforcement troops went deep into the border area and swept the remaining beasts.

Although there are still many beasts and battles continue to break out in various parts of the border area, compared with the intensity of the previous cluster impact, this kind of sweeping war is not stressful, but it takes some time to clean it up thoroughly.

In this catastrophe, the border area was almost completely destroyed, and only one in ten buildings survived. Looking around, there were only broken walls and ruins, and there were still hidden dangers of beasts. It was no longer possible to live.

At this time, the city council finally stepped forward and established an official resettlement area in the Rust Wall District to accommodate the millions of border refugees entering the inner city.

The originally chaotic situation gradually became stable.

After a long bumpy ride, Su Mo finally returned to the surface from the depths of the earth.

As for the huge and eye-catching earth-flying spaceship, it had a self-destruct system designed by the future long ago. After Su Mo came to the surface, he let it fall into the depths of the mine and self-destructed, and returned to the Edge Building with only the juvenile structure without anyone noticing.

Su Mo and the future met at the hidden back door. He handed the juvenile structure to the future, rushed to the elevator and pressed the button to the medical area.

"Boss!" The future shouted, but failed to stop him, and could only watch the elevator door close.

When the elevator arrived at the medical floor, the door had not yet been fully opened, and Su Mo violently opened it and rushed out.

In the corridor, KK and others were sitting at the door of the No. 1 intensive care unit. Seeing Su Mo, they all stood up.

Looking at the half-open door of the intensive care unit, Su Mo felt that his heart was being grabbed by a big hand, and his chest seemed to be pressed by a huge rock, and he was a little breathless.

He pushed the door open in despair and saw Qi Ling covered with a white cloth.

Qi Ling's body was lying alone on the bed, her face covered by a layer of white cloth, and her face could no longer be seen. Her small hands were placed on her chest and abdomen and slightly crossed, motionless, as if she was praying quietly.

There were many white chrysanthemums placed beside the bed to commemorate the deceased, as white as snow, but it was this white color that made it look even colder.

Su Mo stood beside Qi Ling's body in a daze, feeling as if his heart was cut by a sharp blade, leaving only unstoppable pain.

The beautiful memories of the past unfolded in his mind. They walked hand in hand in the park, admiring the ripples of the river, and sat under the tree together listening to the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves.

But now, everything has become the past. Every breath is a torture, every heartbeat is a tear, and the cold white in front of him seems to be mocking his incompetence, telling him all the time that it was his incompetence that killed Qi Ling.

The grief brought about an indescribable depression. Su Mo roared and punched through the wall next to him.

"Bang--"

"Ah!!!" Without any warning, a terrified scream suddenly rang out in the room.

Su Mo turned his head and trembled with fear.

Qi Ling's "corpse" sat up straight. She took off the white cloth covering her face, looked Su Mo up and down, and said in a puzzled tone: "What are you doing?! There was a sudden thud, and I was scared to death!"

Su Mo was completely confused. After a while, he came back to his senses and asked with wide eyes: "No, what are you doing?"

Qi Ling spread her hands and seemed to be justified: "I'm sleeping."

Su Mo stared and asked inexplicably: "You can sleep, so why do you cover your face with a white cloth???"

Qi Ling rubbed her red eyes and said helplessly: "I put on the brain device a few days ago, the load was relatively large, and the capillaries of the eyeballs were a little damaged. The doctor told me to see less light and recuperate, so I covered it with a piece of cloth."

Su Mo almost couldn't hold it: "Sister, can't you change the color??? You cover it with a white cloth face, I thought you were dead!"

After saying that, he pointed to the white chrysanthemums placed on the ground for memorializing the deceased, and cursed: "There is also this thing, send flowers if you want, send white chrysanthemums? Who did it? !"

KK stood up with his head shrunk, and smiled awkwardly: "The flower shop has sold out all the other flowers, and this one is left. I don't know flowers. I didn't know it was for memorial before, so I bought it directly."

Su Mo was so angry that his eyes turned black: "Okay, you are all talented, you can unite and scare me."

At this time, the future hid the structure larvae in the laboratory, and came late, poking his head in from outside: "Boss, you ran so fast, I didn't have time to say that Qi Ling was out of danger after the emergency surgery that day."

Su Mo sat on the chair and sighed, and he had lost his temper with these people who talked and panted.

He rubbed his swollen temple for a while and asked with concern: "Have you checked everything? Is Qi Ling okay? Are there any sequelae?"

Future smiled and said: "No sequelae, her physique is the most tenacious I have ever seen. In that situation, ordinary people would either die or be disabled, but she survived. I and other doctors were stunned."

Qi Ling lay lazily on the bed and made a scissor hand gesture to Su Mo.

Su Mo nodded. This made sense. The director of Morning Star Eden Garden, Hayato Miyata, told him at the time that Qi Ling was a perfect creation among countless artificial babies.

Except for congenital analgesia, her other aspects of her body are perfect, and she will not even get sick. Her physique has long been out of the category of ordinary people, and is tougher and stronger.

In any case, knowing that Qi Ling is fine, Su Mo's huge stone in his heart fell and he let out a long sigh.

Although the process of the beacon incident was tortuous, at least the previously preset strategic goals were achieved. As many people in the border area as possible were saved, and the structural larvae were obtained without anyone noticing.

His eyes became relieved, and his gaze swept across the faces of his companions.

Suddenly, he noticed something was wrong.

Someone was missing.

Su Mo's heart was suddenly in a knot again: "Where is Dongdong? Why isn't he with you?!"

Everyone's expressions became a little complicated.

Su Mo's voice began to tremble: "She"

KK said: "Brother, don't worry, Dongdong is fine, but..."

He hesitated for a while, lowered his head and whispered: "She lost a very important person"

"The old doctor Gordon who saved Dongdong before, he died." (End of this chapter)