“I’m sorry, I can’t guarantee that I am stable and controllable.”

Zhu Tao⁠‍‍​‍​‍‌⁠‌​‌‌‌‍‍⁠‍‍‌‌‍⁠‍ finally pulled Tang Feng out. Tang Feng connected to the channel and explained in a breath, “Eighteen hours ago, Sienna’s experiment went wrong.”

“At that time, she had finished the full sequence genetic testing and was in a comatose state. She was sent from the high-risk laboratory to the Brain Hospital for recuperation, just waiting for her injuries to heal to formally join the Spire. But not long after entering the hospital, she suddenly showed symptoms of convulsions, violently breaking free from medical restraints, and it’s unknown whether she kept her consciousness. Since these symptoms were very similar to mental delirium appearing after severe trauma or major surgery, the hospital only gave conventional sedative treatment. But a few hours ago, she suddenly self-destructed.”

An Yu looked at the large chunks of muscles and organs in the ground fissures. “Self-destructed…”

“Disemboweled herself. Her muscles and bones rapidly fused with the ground. The Brain’s White Tower was almost crushed. Her organs surfaced one by one on the cracked ground. As you can see, they all show characteristics of gigantism.”

“Land-type aberration. Previously, Brain had been unable to define her aberration type, but now they temporarily consider her an land-type aberrant.”

In the ground fissure between the Black Tower and White Tower, there was currently a bright red beating heart, the size of several cars. With each beat, the Black Tower and White Tower trembled a few degrees.

“The earth fissures are spreading unstoppably. The soldiers who came into contact—” Tang Feng paused. “Have already fused with the ground.”

An Yu looked at the mess on the ground. Sienna’s face was no longer traceable; perhaps she had completely merged into the earth. The sky above the Main City was clear and snowless, but the cold wind howled, seeming to carry a woman’s unwilling sobs and screams in the wind.

“Damn it! No one knows what to do!” Tang Feng, who had always been gentle and steady, cursed fiercely. “If this is a Chaos Reaction belonging to the land, we can’t find the reaction vortex at all, let alone the reaction core. Even if we really have to rely on sacrificing a high-level officer to terminate it, we don’t know where to start!”

On the ground, the Black Tower and the military were still doing their utmost to stop the cracking of the earth, even if it was futile.

Tang Feng wandered among Sienna’s various giant organs, no longer considering his own safety, just wanting to find that key “core.” And Zhu Tao stood atop the church, the other high point in the Main City besides the Black Tower and White Tower, using all his vines to assist his Commander.

An Yu suddenly felt a chill in his chest.

“You said just now, her anomaly started eighteen hours ago…” He frowned. “Before we set off?”

Tang Feng clearly didn’t speak, but An Yu sensed Tang Feng was speechless for a moment.

An Yu subconsciously took out his terminal. “What about the Commander? Did he go to the Sea of Plundered Kisses? He—”

He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence.

In his mind, Codex’s frowning contemplation before departure suddenly became clear.

“Law shouldn’t encounter any danger in the Sea of Plundered Kisses, at least I have no cognition related to that… It’s not that I’m hesitant… rather, the connection between the Sea of Plundered Kisses and him is too weak, so weak I can barely perceive it. So I think, perhaps before he arrives, the wind and waves there will subside.”

An Yu gripped the terminal fiercely, almost crushing the thing.

“He didn’t go to the Sea of Plundered Kisses, did he? When Sienna had problems, he was immediately commanded by Black Tower. Black Tower thinks he and Sienna share the same origin, so he is also a risk, right?”

The channel was silent for only a second. An Yu said sternly, “Answer me!”

Before Tang Feng’s answer came, a harsh sound of metal scraping abruptly crashed into his ears.

A sealed capsule was pulled out from the basement of the teetering White Tower along a specific track. It was about the size of a dorm room in the District 53 slums, but lower and more enclosed, like an expensive metal cage. Several officers stepped forward one after another to scan their palm prints and irises, and only then was the heavy mechanical door opened.

A familiar figure walked out from inside.

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Just like the loneliness of his teenage years in that person’s memory.

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With just one button press from the remote controller, it could raze everything within a radius of dozens of meters to the ground.

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They could be sentenced to death without explanation at any time.

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“I’m fine. Black Tower and Brain are treating me like an ancestor.” Qin Zhilu continued walking forward as he spoke. “I thought voluntarily returning to a supervised state would let Black Tower sleep well, but I didn’t expect them to be destined for insomnia. How pitiful.”

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Those intestines didn’t entangle him like they did Tang Feng. Instead, they writhed and coiled quietly under his feet, as if accepting an organ of the same origin without any rejection.

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Those dark eyes flickered for a moment, seemingly surprised, then fleetingly revealed a trace of a helpless smile.

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“I will explain the details of the Polar Region to you later.” An Yu slowly lowered his altitude. His throat felt a bit choked, forcing him to pause before continuing, “You need to explain the situation in the Main City to me.”

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“I shouldn’t have let my feelings take over and dragged you into my fate, but…” He paused, his tone dropping, with a gentle self-abandonment, “Selfishly speaking, I’m very happy to see you in the crowd right now.”

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That bizarre thing, impervious to blades and guns and hard to detonate even with bombs, was easily pierced by him. The massive heart flesh gradually became transparent, with red light flowing inside like blood, rapidly converging into his palm.

The writhing of the internal organs beneath the great earth paused almost simultaneously. Those massive chunks of flesh slowly shrank, turned transparent, until they all became flowing red light, getting absorbed into Qin Zhilu’s body streak by streak.

The cracking of the earth had ceased, but a tremor came from nowhere, sending everyone into a panic amidst the shaking. Only An Yu above the Main City knew that it wasn’t an earthquake, but a spacetime tremor.

When Qin Zhilu absorbed Sienna, the surrounding spacetime vibrated violently.

But it never completely distorted like other Chaos Reactions.

Because that person was constantly suppressing, resisting his fate.

Until the fissures on the ground became empty. The Black Tower and White Tower, with their foundations mostly destroyed, finally survived by luck. In the deep and terrifying fissures, only Qin Zhilu’s figure remained.

Then he turned his head, but a streak of red suddenly flashed through his dark eyes.

Although fleeting, in that instant, his expression was vacant and strange, like a beast that didn’t understand humanity.

The alarms of the entire Black Tower and White Tower suddenly sounded simultaneously, along with the terminal in An Yu’s pocket, vibrating wildly.

He stared in astonishment at the Level 1 alert on the screen.

—S-Class Risk Subject Qin Zhilu, mental power cleared for an instant just now. Although it rebounded immediately, it is currently hovering at a precarious level around 40.

“Commander…” An Yu murmured.

In the channel, Black Tower and Brain were in a panic. Voices shouted one after another: “Control him first!”

“Don’t hurt him, control him first!”

“Sienna shares the same origin as him; did she trigger him?”

“Has he been in a dormant state all these years? If he is just like Sienna…”

“Law! Qin Zhilu! Please confirm your conscious state!”

“……”

Amidst the chaos, that person took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and exhaled slowly.

When he opened his eyes again, his gaze didn’t look much more stable than before, his mental power still struggling at an extremely low level.

“Confirming consciousness… temporarily conscious.” That familiar voice sounded in everyone’s channel.

Qin Zhilu paused, looked up, and gazed deeply at An Yu.

“Black Tower, perhaps you need to find a sturdier cage, like something with the opposite effect of the Dome, to cover me inside.”

Qin Zhilu said in a low, hoarse voice, “I’m sorry, I can’t guarantee that I am stable and controllable.”