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Chapter 229 Three-Way Standoff
The viaduct has become a bizarre exhibition hall, displaying frozen time.

The center of the bridge is the absolute domain of the pioneers, where everything is still; the outer perimeter is a viscous transition zone where movement is slow; further out, time gradually resumes its flow.

The three forces formed an unstable triangle in this region with different flow rates.

The vanguard stood motionless at the very center. "Night" hovered in mid-air, the first purple core slowly rotating above his palm, emitting an ominous light.

Su Wanqing and Lu Zhao dragged the second core and hid behind a concrete mixer truck that had broken in two.

Lin Che, protecting Xiao Ling and the third core he had just acquired, was trying to move out of the battlefield along the edge of the transition zone.

A voice suddenly appeared out of nowhere, not coming from any direction, but echoing directly in everyone's mind, like hundreds of people speaking in different tones at the same time, devoid of any emotion.

"The three samples must be returned to the mainnet. Please stop the pointless resistance. This is not destruction, but eternal preservation."

"Night" suddenly let out a cold laugh, which sounded particularly jarring above the overpass.

“I know who you are, and I know what you want! But I have already mastered the core functionality!”

He arrogantly raised the core high, its purple light blazing brightly. "This is not just a time sample; it is the key to rewriting reality. I can transform this world into whatever I want it to be. Your collection plan is doomed to fail!"

The silver halo above the vanguard's head flickered a few times, as if assessing the veracity of what "Night" had said.

During this brief standoff, Lin Che made a move that no one expected.

He abruptly pushed Xiaoling and the third core she was holding toward Su Wanqing.

"Catch her!"

He turned around and shot towards the "night" in mid-air like an arrow.

The Orion sequence within him was pushed to its limit, and his entire right arm rapidly transformed from flesh and blood into a translucent blue crystal, with arcs of energy dancing on it.

"You don't understand what you're doing!" Lin Che's voice was filled with a roar. "You're going to destroy everyone!"

A melee broke out instantly.

"Night" simply waved its hand casually at Lin Che, and a wave of overwhelming blue energy surged toward Lin Che.

The car wreckage on the ground was instantly reduced to dust upon contact with this energy wave.

At the same time, the vanguard in the center of the bridge also moved. Ignoring the two fighting amongst themselves, it stretched its arms outwards.

Dozens of pure silver energy tentacles extended from its back, as if they were alive, and struck the first suspended core, the second core where Su Wanqing was located, and the third core that had just been pushed halfway.

Lin Che's crystalline arm collided with the energy wave of "Night," producing a dull, loud bang.

He was jolted back a few steps, but did not collapse. The power they used came from the same source, but Lin Che's seemed wilder and more unstable, while "Night's" was precise and deadly.

During a lull in the clash of energies, Lin Che seized the opportunity. He stared directly into "Night's" face, which bore a striking resemblance to his own.

“I remember now… You’re not Dr. Morris. You’re just a flawed copy created when he uploaded his consciousness… The real him regretted it long ago, so he made a backup plan before uploading…” Lin Che’s every word was like a hammer blow. “I am that backup plan!”

"Night's" offensive paused almost imperceptibly. On the other side, Su Wanqing successfully caught the small bell and the third core that were being pushed towards her.

The moment the third core entered her vicinity, the distance between the three cores was suddenly reduced.

"Om-"

A resonance occurred that could not be heard with the ears, yet could make the soul tremble.

The entire viaduct area began to shake violently, and the time deceleration field rippled violently like water with a stone thrown in.

In the previously still area, a car's hazard lights began flashing wildly; in the previously slow transition zone, a pedestrian's body suddenly accelerated back to normal, and then froze instantly; even more bizarrely, some of the blasted debris and dust began to defy the laws of physics, slowly drifting upwards.

The vanguard in the center of the bridge also seemed to be affected by this resonance, its movements becoming sluggish and stiff.

The jade bracelet on Su Wanqing's wrist vibrated violently, and the Guardian AI's warning popped up in blood red on her system interface.

[WARNING: Resonance of the three cores has begun! Time stability has dropped to 30%! The cores must be synchronized or completely separated immediately, or the entire city area will collapse into time!]

Su Wanqing wanted to combine the three cores, but found that she had no idea how to do it.

Amidst the chaos, Xiaoling's body began to tremble violently.

Lu Zhao was about to help her up when he saw that her eyes had turned into deep purple crystals.

She opened her mouth, but the words that came out were not her own voice; instead, they were a strange combination of various voices from men, women, children, and the elderly, as well as several unknown languages.

“There are three paths… The first is that ‘Night’ gains all the cores, and the world will be rewritten as his utopia, but the structure of reality will completely collapse within three days…”

"Secondly, the weaver obtains the core, and our time will be preserved forever, but we will be frozen in a single moment forever..."

Her words suddenly stopped, and her purple eyes stared straight at Su Wanqing.

"The third rule...the third rule is known only to the anchor point; you must discover it yourself..."

While protecting Xiaoling, Lu Zhao recorded her words using a tactical terminal.

He suddenly noticed that some complex runes, identical to those on the core, were appearing on Xiaoling's bare arm, and those runes were slowly changing on their own.

He instinctively reached out to touch her, and the moment his fingertips touched Xiaoling's skin, an image flashed through his mind—

In a core military laboratory, several researchers in white coats were gathered around a report, their faces filled with shock.

The report shows that the experimental subject, codenamed "Little Bell," has a special element in its blood that can resonate directly with the core.

She is one of the very few humans who survived direct contact with the core, a natural "translator".

Lu Zhao suddenly came to his senses and looked at the little girl in front of him who was still muttering to herself.

She can not only hear the core voice, she may be the key to understanding the weaver's language!
That's why she can foresee possible futures!