The First Analyst of the Interstellar Era

Chapter 152 : God-Abandoned Domain

In the distance at the horizon, dust was lifted by a gust of wind, instantly soaring high, like a light veil, driven by an invisible giant hand, moving toward the base station.

The ground's gravel trembled, like the footsteps of a giant beast striking down, small pebbles rolling along the slightly inclined ground. On the distant mechanical mountain peaks, fine cracks appeared.

"Retreat behind the base station barrier!! Quick!!"

On the joint channel, Zhang Yingjie's pupils suddenly dilated as he warned sharply. Along with his words came a piercing mechanical screech, "Energy monitoring index has exceeded the limit!"

"The instrument exploded."

Though Xie Chunshi's voice was steady, his hand placed on the operation console was tightly clenched. His fingers pressed the base station's highest-level defense switch.

Chen Sui moved upon hearing the sound, her mecha pulling people on both left and right, energy propulsion maximized, charging directly into the base station.

From all directions, military school students retreated together.

"How can this be!"

He Lanqi looked back toward the rear. A massive energy storm swept in, the base station defense barrier flashed with a layer of flowing light. Soon the view in front was completely distorted, the entire barrier struck by energy waves, rippling violently like a water surface several times.

Chen Sui looked back, and although her perception was submerged by the surrounding high-concentration energy, she could feel in her mental domain a force probing forward toward her core crystal.

The core crystal rotated, with Wood-Born Flower's remaining energy wrapping around the mecha, expanding outward in layers, binding the surrounding companions together.

"Thud!"

Like the sound of a bell, the reverberation was so great it instantly spread throughout the entire base station.

Far away in the main control room, separated by countless mechanical metal walls and sound barriers, Xie Chunshi suddenly stood up: "Put away your mechas, quickly!"

Zhang Yingjie reacted, looking at the monitoring equipment inside the base station. In the images broadcast over, the energy storm swept past the distant mechanical mountain peaks like thousands of troops galloping, instantly grinding a majestic mountain face flat with its powerful metal energy. Gravel was crushed into dust, carried by the wild wind, moving with the storm.

As an SSS-level metal attribute energy field, during the riot period, the Mechanical Tower's energy storm interior would gather incredibly powerful and violent metal attribute energy. Once it contacted metal objects, it would instantly reduce them to powder.

The mecha connected to the driver's nerves. Encountering an energy storm attack would cause enormous damage to the driver, potentially causing instant loss of consciousness and neural collapse.

"The energy attack is too strong, the base station won't hold up."

He looked at this scene through his sensing glasses, his eyes showing some helplessness.

Below the base station, Chen Sui rushed into the barrier. Hearing this, she immediately left the driving state, storing her mecha in a spatial button. Several people leaped down from above, standing on the ground, looking up. The energy 'wall' ahead was incredibly tall; they had to tilt their heads back ninety degrees to roughly see the top.

"Thud!!"

The second impact arrived. Chen Sui clearly saw the barrier wall shake several times, a layer of blue honeycomb network floating up. After flashing for a few seconds, a blue-purple lightning suddenly struck it.

Whether it was her imagination or not, Chen Sui looked up. Her mechanical artificial eye couldn't activate the mirror plug, making her somewhat uncomfortable. She could only squint slightly to see the scenes further away more clearly.

—The energy storm seemed to have stopped in front of the base station.

Only the outer energy kept hitting the barrier in waves.

"It seems to have stopped."

Noya's voice sounded, the golden-haired shota uncommonly serious: "Not quite normal, more like the calm before the storm."

"Prepare for the worst."

With mechas put away, the military school students were surrounded by layers of swaying energy. Fluorescent light circled around Noya as he reached up to tug at his hair, pulling all the soft strands back to reveal round eyes with exceptionally fierce golden pupils.

With energy pressure at this level, it was no longer a question of whether rescue would arrive in time. Now they had to see if the jump passage could be preserved.

Chen Sui strongly agreed with his view.

Everyone's gaze remained on the slowly rotating energy storm. Under this energy pressure, analysts' perception couldn't sense any fluctuations, and the unknown magnified the fear.

"Thud!"

The outer energy collided once more.

Blue-purple electric light outside the barrier had already covered the entire barrier, with threads of energy silently seeping in.

Searching.

A word involuntarily appeared in Chen Sui's mind.

What were these energies searching for?

Energy bodies had no human intelligence; all their activities were driven by energy and energy source trends.

But this understanding didn't quite match the behavior of these energy storms.

Chen Sui narrowed her eyes. Just as her nerves were tense and energy completely surrounded her body, the energy tendrils seeping in seemed to sense something.

"Thud!!"

The lightning outside the barrier suddenly exploded. The electric light was blocked by the barrier, but immediately afterward, the energy storm that had been stationary suddenly became agitated, with powerful pressure violently ramming toward the base station.

"Boom—"

In an extremely brief moment, when the lightning exploded and before the electric light had completely faded, in the interval before anyone could react, the energy storm rushed in like a river breaking through a gorge, rumbling in.

The sound of the barrier shattering was covered by the energy's violent attack. The overwhelming energy storm, like spreading ink, instantly blotted out the sky, plunging everything before them into darkness.

"Little Sui!!"

Xie Chunshi's voice came through the team channel, carrying strong electric current, almost completely masked under the influence of the energy storm.

But Zhu Jing Fu's school team and members of other academies immediately reacted, looking toward Chen Sui's position.

Within the Mechanical Tower energy field, the energy storm formed an invisible vortex. Wind and dust were pulled into shapes by the powerful energy, and at the center of concentric ripples was the scarlet fire glow that had not yet dispersed.

At the outermost edge of the fire glow, jade green energy, like planetary rings surrounding a planet, rippled outward in circles.

Before others could respond, the overwhelming energy, like surging waves, instantly shattered the base station barrier.

"Rumble!!"

The floating load-bearing pillars of the base station were easily blasted apart, and the entire base station building completely collapsed.

"Commander—the base station will..."

Several Ink Hills members opened their eyes wide, looking toward the back. Before their voices could be transmitted, they felt as if their throats were forcefully gripped, the flow of breath cut off. The scene before their eyes was covered with flickering white dots, their faces turning red from the pressure.

The surging energy elements completely filled the current space, making it difficult for the organisms in this area to even breathe.

Apart from the tremendous crash of the base station building's collapse, only the rustling sound of rising and dancing dust remained.

Wood-Born Flower branches emerged from the hazy air, piercing through the base station building, crossing the base station, extending in all directions.

The giant tree grew wildly!

A second before everyone's vision fell into darkness, they all retained the image of the giant tree fully revealed.

It was something no one had ever seen before, even more sky-covering than that time in Red Moon Snow Plain. It cast a layer of inescapable darkness over the entire earth. Green like miasma, forcefully pressing down from midair, carrying an aura of irresistible pressure.

In that instant, awakened individuals' spirit bodies and mental domains all felt a crisis like thorns on their backs.

But before fear could surge, people had already lost consciousness.

Chen Sui was struggling with the core crystal in her mental domain.

The energy of the Mechanical Tower and the energy in her mental domain formed a pull on the core crystal. Chen Sui couldn't resist the Mechanical Tower's powerful energy storm, so she chose an extremely risky method.

—Devouring the entire Mechanical Tower's energy.

As energy filled her mental domain, facing the mental domain's violent fluctuations, Chen Sui just recognized a familiar force.

At the same time, in the God-Abandoned Domain, on the Rust-Red Sea.

Towering waves rolled layer upon layer, white light shot out like needles breaking through the sea surface, piercing toward the sky.

The surging waves beat against each other repeatedly, sounding like clashing weapons.

"Commander, detecting that the Mechanical Tower energy field's energy level is rapidly decreasing!"

All members of the Tata Mine Star Competition Committee were evacuating to Zone Eleven. Currently, Zhao Loulan had taken over all league competition affairs, and all monitoring signals from the arena were directly transmitted to Zone Eleven.

Hearing this news, the woman checking countless floating light screens turned around. Her deputy raised his head from remote communications, carefully choosing his tone: "Commander, the Main Star's energy level is extremely high. The council requests relocation."

Zhao Loulan didn't turn around, but her voice carried over: "Approved. Open emergency channels, transfer all military zone officers, analysts, and research institute members over here, and speed up the production of absorption instruments!"

After speaking, she switched to the previous signal: "Is the Mechanical Tower passage intact?"

Seemingly receiving the other party's answer, Zhao Loulan suppressed her fatigue: "I will dispatch the Seventh Team of the Third Military Zone for rescue. What's the casualty situation on Tata Mine Star?"

The entire Star Alliance was submerged in elevated energy. From energy field loss of control to the entire Star Alliance becoming a quasi-energy field area, the time span was just a short 24 hours. Zhao Loulan felt somewhat powerless.

She was never someone with very high talents. Whether as a military zone officer or in other roles, she could perform very well, but sitting in the position of Zone Eleven's highest Commander, she couldn't bear the burden of a turbulent Star Alliance.

Zhao Loulan swallowed, her eyes regaining calm, her mind constantly recalling the commands Song Baining had made. Her tone was steady, making the operator on the other end feel somewhat more settled as well.

"Commander!"

The main control room door opened, and a young soldier in military uniform strode in, his lips trembling slightly as he spoke: "Received a message from the First Military Zone, Main Star's Hera City area has fallen."

Zhao Loulan turned around, thinking of Hera City's geographical location in her mind, "I issued orders for the First Military Zone to evacuate and control. Squads have been dispatched, what about casualties?"

The soldier took a deep breath: "Evacuated people have gathered around Hera City's First Medical Ward. Analysts led by Master Lalnuo raised an energy barrier, but the Main Star's energy level rose too quickly..."

"What about the First Military Zone's rescue?!"

Zhao Loulan's hand slammed heavily on the table.

"Chair-Chairman Gu requested the First Military Zone's 15th Squad to go to Zeus City, the rescue team..."

"Chairman Gu?"

Zhao Loulan's eyes blazed with fire, "Have they gone mad?!"

The soldier lowered his head, his eyes instantly reddening, holding back tears: "I received information that Master Lalnuo's spirit body separated to maintain the energy barrier."

Zhao Loulan's rising anger suddenly halted, her movement freezing. She raised her head, her expression not yet reacting, "What did you say?"

Spirit body separation meant an awakened individual detached their core crystal, completely releasing the core crystal and energy in the mental domain as energy support.

The entire process was no less than forcibly tearing out a person's brain tissue.

It also meant that Master Lalnuo couldn't possibly survive after spirit body separation.

This renowned analyst of the Star Alliance had passed away.

The soldier, seeing the Commander's expression, lowered his head without speaking further. But as he lowered his head, a hot tear escaped his eye socket, rolling over the metal button on his chest that bore scratches and fresh blood.

There was no time for Zhao Loulan to grieve. The Main Star and the entire Star Alliance still had countless people waiting for rescue. The light screens in front of her kept flashing, with countless communications connecting. Zhao Loulan clenched her fist, suppressing all emotions, forcing herself to stay calm: "The Third Military Zone will respond to the call, immediately support the evacuating people, and head to the safe star region."

The safe star region was created by several generations of the Song family heads.

The Song family was naturally cautious. Even though energy fields had been stable for many years, they worried that one day, energy fields might lose control. Therefore, they established a completely energy-free safe star region. Every year, countless isolation materials were sent from the Star Alliance, and not a trace of energy factors could be found in the entire region.

That plan, which had been criticized by the council many times, had now become the hope for the Star Alliance people's survival.

As the soldier left the main control room upon receiving the reply, he heard the voice from the communication Zhao Loulan had connected.

"God-Abandoned Domain's monitored energy level is fluctuating, with a large amplitude!"

Zhao Loulan looked at the real-time information transmitted from the opposite side, immediately switching to Mo Qiu'an's side: "What's the situation with the God-Abandoned Domain?"

Mo Qiu'an was in a similar predicament, with countless light screens in front of her. Hearing Zhao Loulan's voice, she looked up, checking the light screen positions before widening her bloodshot eyes: "According to the God-Abandoned Domain's fluctuation point, it should be the Rust-Red Sea, but the base station signal is affected, so I can't determine the specific situation."

With energy levels rising, all base stations were disconnected from the outside world under the influence of powerful energy storms.

Zhao Loulan rubbed her brow, confirming the rescue situation of Cloud Flower Star where the God-Abandoned Domain was located through the light screen communication.

And at this moment, on Cloud Flower Star in the Seventh Star Ring.