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Chapter 237 The Weaver's Weakness
"Boom——!!"

Another loud bang came from overhead, and the entire bunker seemed to be shaken violently by a giant hand, with cement debris and pipe dust falling from the ceiling like a torrential rain.

The emergency lights flashed wildly, illuminating the terrified faces of the people in a flickering light.

"We can't hold out any longer! Everyone, move to the B7 backup bunker immediately!"

Lieutenant Cui's voice boomed through the communicator. He pushed aside the control panel in front of him and began to organize the soldiers to evacuate the panicked crowd.

Amid the chaos, Lu Zhao quickly squeezed to Su Wanqing's side, grabbed her arm, and whispered, "I have to go out for a bit."

"Are you crazy?" Xiao Ran, who was standing nearby, heard this and grabbed Lu Zhao's other hand. "It's covered in those kinds of detectors!"

“Their technology must have weaknesses; I need more samples.”

Lu Zhao ignored Xiao Ran and focused his gaze on Su Wanqing. "We can't last twelve hours by just hiding."

Lin Che also came over, his brows furrowed: "It's too risky. We don't even know their patterns of movement yet."

“We need every possible opportunity.” Su Wanqing shook off Xiao Ran’s hand, looked at Lu Zhao, and made her decision.

Urged on by the soldiers, the crowd began to surge towards the other passage. Taking advantage of the crowd's cover, Lu Zhao nodded to Su Wanqing, crouched down, and slipped alone into the opposite side passage leading to the ground.

He was covered in various hastily cobbled-together testing instruments, looking like an engineer scavenging for scraps.

He pressed himself against the cold wall, avoiding the slowly drifting silver detectors overhead, and moved toward the edge of the nearest "disappearing area" shown on the map.

He eventually arrived at a large shopping mall that had been half-erased.

The scene before me was extremely bizarre, as if reality had been sliced ​​vertically by an invisible blade.

On the left is an ordinary ruin with exposed steel bars and rubble everywhere, while on the right is a twisted, ever-changing pure blank space where any material that gets close will be silently decomposed and swallowed up.

Lu Zhao crouched behind a pile of broken walls, carefully searching along the boundary between reality and emptiness.

Soon, he found several broken pieces of silver metal on the ground, with faint blue arcs of electricity flickering at the edges of the fragments.

He took out a specially made long-handled clip from his backpack, picked up the fragments one by one, and put them into a heavy lead box.

Just as he collected the last fragment and prepared to return the way he came, a silver detector the size of a millstone silently floated over from around the corner.

Lu Zhao's pupils contracted. Without thinking, he rolled and jumped into a half-collapsed brand clothing store next door, pressing his body tightly against the billboard, even stopping his breathing.

The detector emitted a piercing high-frequency scanning sound and hovered outside the store for more than ten seconds. The sound was like scraping directly onto a person's cerebral cortex.

Then, it slowly drifted in another direction. Lu Zhao waited a full minute before daring to peek out from behind the billboard.

Back in the newly activated B7 backup bunker, Lu Zhao, without bothering to clean the dust off his clothes, immediately spread out his tools in a corner.

He connected the collected fragments to a simple analyzer he designed himself.

A green holographic projection unfolded in the air, revealing an incredibly complex energy flow pattern inside the fragment, resembling a flowing star map.

He squinted, his fingers flying across the control panel, filtering through the massive stream of data.

Su Wanqing and Lin Che stood nervously behind him.

"I saw it!" Lu Zhao's voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement. He pointed to a regularly descending energy curve in the projection, "The energy flow fluctuates periodically... Every fifty-seven minutes or so, there will be an energy trough that lasts for three minutes."

He pulled up more related data for cross-validation: "This is their 'blind spot'! During these three minutes, the weaver's ability to manipulate time to erase reality will be significantly weakened. Although it will not disappear completely, its efficiency will be reduced to the minimum."

"Can we take advantage of this?" Su Wanqing asked eagerly.

Lu Zhao nodded, but then frowned: "Theoretically, it's possible. As long as we can pinpoint the exact starting point of the cycle... The problem is, even if we manage to capture that three-minute 'blind spot,' what will we use to fight against the Weaver's mastermind? Our own flesh and blood?"

His gaze unconsciously swept over the box that Su Wanqing had placed to the side, where the three incomplete cores lay quietly.

A crazy idea flashed through his mind.

“The core…” Lu Zhao’s breathing became rapid, “If we can utilize the core’s energy to launch a counterattack against the Weaver during the ‘blind spot’…”

Without further hesitation, he stood up abruptly and began rummaging through a corner of the bunker for any usable parts and equipment.

He began frantically assembling a strange device that no one could understand, a device whose structure combined crude human welding techniques with a few futuristic Weaver fragments he had just brought back.

At the very center of the device is a support that can just accommodate three cores side by side.

"Night," who had been silently observing from the corner, showed a noticeable change in his perpetually unchanging expression when he saw the prototype of the support structure, as if he had recognized something.

As Lu Zhao rapidly connected the wires, he unconsciously muttered to himself, "Just like last time..."

"What do you mean, 'last time'?" Su Wanqing asked, puzzled.

Lu Zhao raised his head blankly, his eyes empty: "What? I don't remember... but this design... is like it's engraved in my bones."

Lin Che approached the gradually taking shape device, reached out and gently touched the core support. His expression changed: "This is... a core resonance device? But that's impossible. This technology is at least a hundred years ahead of our current technology."

Lu Zhao's work soon encountered a bottleneck. A key energy connection point could not be stabilized no matter what he did, and the red light on the instrument, indicating an error, kept flashing.

He slammed his fist on the table in frustration: "Damn it, we're missing a quantum stabilizer, the energy can't be confined..."

At that moment, "Night" was already standing behind him, silently taking out a small, exquisite cube-shaped device that emitted a soft blue light from her pocket: "Use this."

Lu Zhao took it in surprise, its skin feeling icy cold to the touch: "This is... the weaver's technique?"

He quickly scanned it with the detector, and after confirming that there were no traps, he carefully integrated it into his device.

With a "hum," the soft blue light quickly spread throughout the entire structure of the device along the circuitry, and all the red lights on the instrument instantly went out, turning into green to represent stability.

The entire device began to emit a deep and powerful hum.

Night looked at the nearly completed device, its voice low and carrying a hint of warning: "In the last cycle, you also created this thing. At that time, you called it the 'Core Resonance Amplifier'."

Lu Zhao stopped what she was doing and looked at him in confusion.

"Night" continued, "The result was catastrophic. It did wound the Weaver's vanguard in an instant, but the immense energy it released also completely tore apart the structure of reality, causing the timeline, which could have held up for several weeks, to collapse on the spot."

He extended a translucent finger and gently touched the device's casing. "If you insist on using it, remember to make sure the energy output does not exceed the critical point that this stabilizer I gave you can withstand. Otherwise, you will destroy everything you want to protect with your own hands."

These words were like a pebble thrown into Lu Zhao's heart, stirring up a strange echo.

He seemed to have actually experienced this scene, but his memory was only a blurry blank and an indescribable regret.