The six Sui Xing envoys shrank their true forms and quickly hid behind the Jiuzhou Star.
Lin Xiaohe took the lead, standing at the very front.
She remained extraordinarily calm at this moment, as if she had never known who the Aura people were.
The more critical the moment, the more one must not lose composure.
Lin Xiaohe held her spear, sweeping a cold gaze over the crystal people.
The blazing light of the Fuyao Star shone upon her, making her fiery red battle armor look as though it were burning in flames.
The Aura people did not take Lin Xiaohe seriously.
Lin Xiaohe’s body was indeed quite unusual, but not enough to make them pay too much attention.
After all, if they wanted to, they could descend upon Lin Xiaohe whenever they pleased.
Hundreds and thousands of crystal people transformed into streaks of light flying swiftly past, landing within the bodies of the Stardust humans.
The Fourth-Dimensional Sanctuary, as if struck by a tsunami, had its chess pieces scattered in disarray.
Grandma Lin and Grandpa Lin stood like two giants, firmly holding down the waves stirred up by the Boundary River.
On the Jiuzhou Star, alarms rang out continuously.
“Brother Laohei, something’s wrong with Li Qiang!”
“Report to the Life Safety Center, District e-053 urgently needs support. Six patrol members are unconscious, and handheld scanners can’t detect any problems.”
Ambulance flying cars departed from the Life Safety Center one after another, heading toward the locations calling for help.
The Life Safety Center, meanwhile, was busy as a boiling pot.
Every patient brought in would undergo a full-body scan.
“Brother Laohei, the scan results are normal.”
The medical staff worked efficiently amid the chaos, but each of them wore a very grave expression.
People like them, who worked as doctors, didn’t fear encountering complicated illnesses — they feared not being able to find the problem, not knowing what the disease was.
That was exactly the situation now. All the patients brought in were in a coma, yet their mental energy fluctuations and physical stats were all normal.
The number of comatose people had already exceeded 3,000, and more patients were continuously being transported from space.
Professors and scientists from the Jiuzhou Star University Medical School were urgently summoned.
They examined various data on virtual screens, each offering their own views.
“The patients’ condition closely resembles Awakening.”
“But over a third of the patients are already Awakened — how could they possibly Awaken again?”
“Can you find any commonality among the patients?”
“I found it! They’re all on the [Shadow Tracking List].”
The [Shadow Tracking List] recorded military personnel from the Miluo Star and Gonggong Star who, after being injured by the Zerg, developed inexplicable shadows in their bodies — with the exception of Lin Chiyang.
Could it be that the Aura people have some connection to the Zerg?
Brother Laohei reported this discovery to Lin Xiaohe through the Xinbao exclusive network.
Lin Xiaohe’s true form hovered in the universe, in a standoff with the Aura people’s spaceship.
Her life source, meanwhile, was in the Sanctuary, protecting the chess pieces that had nearly been blown away.
[Number 741-01, return to position.]
A call from ancient times forcefully pulled Lin Xiaohe’s true form into the Fourth Dimension.
Lin Xiaohe felt something awakening inside her body.
Zzz… krrrzzt…
Intermittent electrical sounds, as if emanating from every single particle.
Familiar yet strange.
Finally, the system that had been missing all this time logged back in.
[Biological link initializing. Self-check program starting.]
[Detected unregistered energy signature in core dormant unit. Beginning deep scan…]
[Identified special genetic code. Protocol conflict. Triggering cascade activation sequence.]
[ERROR! Unable to terminate process. Emergency Protocol 7-aplet initiating.]
[WARNING! Core temperature soaring. Safety threshold breached. Attempt to enable cooling protocol failed. Detected bioelectric signal overriding system firewall. Forcing energy redistribution reroute…]
[WARNING! Unauthorized data stream is rewriting access permissions. Detected lignin conduits establishing symbiotic link with silicon-based circuitry…]
[WARNING! WARNING! Identity verification failed. Descent preconditions not met. Initiating self-destruct program.]
[Self-destruct countdown: 30 minutes Jiuzhou Star time.]
Lin Xiaohe was frozen in place — a helplessness where her body was no longer controlled by her mental energy.
She could clearly feel her body crumbling.
The damned Plant Summoner System, upon discovering that the Aura people could not descend upon her, had actually chosen mutual destruction.
Her life source was pinned down in the Sanctuary, unable to come to her aid.
The two sets of energy circulation systems within her body seemed to have entered dormancy, completely ceasing to function.
In this moment, she could not save herself, and no one could help her.
Strangely enough, Lin Xiaohe felt not a trace of fear or terror. Instead, she was quite curious — when her true form self-destructed and perished, could she continue to exist relying purely on a mental-body state or her life source?
Was [Number 741-01] the designation she held in the eyes of the Aura people?
What connection did this number have with Number 71 in the Multidimensional Technological Civilization?
Had the Multidimensional Technological Civilization once been influenced by the Aura people?
From which Era did the Aura people begin entering this star domain? Why had they only started appearing on a large scale now?
One question after another, like a ball of fog — peel away one layer, and there’s still another.
This fog was thicker than the nebulae in the universe. No one knew which layer of the fog they were in.
Lin Xiaohe had never known that she was actually not afraid of death at all.
Ten minutes remained on the countdown.
The two energy systems within Lin Xiaohe’s body had both developed spiderweb-like cracks, and these cracks were still spreading — like a porcelain vase that had been viciously struck with a hammer.
The [Source Body] inside her spun at high speed, as if trying to use some kind of power to repair these cracks, but to no avail whatsoever.
Water and oil cannot merge together — just like how some circles you can’t fit into, there’s no need to force it.
The Rock Clan’s [Source Body] and Lin Xiaohe’s body were like water and oil — even if both were placed in the same container, they still could not achieve a perfect blend.
Lin Xiaohe watched coldly as the seconds and minutes ticked by, her body crumbling faster and faster, like a collapsing universe.
“How about it? Make a deal with me. I’ll help you deal with the system, and you give me what I want.”
Chang Qing appeared here once again, the corners of his mouth curled up, slightly smug — as if saying, “See? I told you. We’d meet again. You’d beg me to make a deal.”
Lin Xiaohe didn’t answer whether she wanted to or not. Instead, she asked: “Why would they come to the Jiuzhou Star area to descend? I shouldn’t be this unlucky, right? Every subordinate I recruit turns out to be an Aura person?”
Chang Qing glanced at the time. Only 9 minutes left.
“Oh, for descent, of course you’d choose a host body with strong physical qualities and all-around capabilities — that way it can carry more energy. In this star domain, Stardust humans are a full level above ordinary humans in quality.”
So that was why the Aura people came to the Jiuzhou Star.
Lin Xiaohe was displeased. The Stardust humans were a path that she, Weasley, and the others had carved out through countless hardships, teetering on the edge of life and death time and again — a path that belonged uniquely to them.
Well, well. Those shameless Aura people actually wanted to come and steal the spoils.
They really hadn’t taken her — the leader of the Xinghe Party — seriously at all. They even wanted to take the whole pot along with the basin!
