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Chapter 259 The Appearance of the Time Rift

Lin Che's mutterings were interrupted by a piercing alarm. The sound came from Su Wanqing's left bracelet, urgent and sharp, breaking the brief tranquility in the mine.

[Emergency Alert: High-intensity, irregular time field distortion detected in the city center.]

[Prophecy Node Confirmation: The time rift in the central square has been generated.]

[Warning: A large amount of extraterrestrial bio-energy reaction detected.]

Su Wanqing immediately brought up the holographic projection of the city map. A hideous purple scar was tearing outward from the central square, and the surrounding buildings and streets were becoming blurred and distorted at a visible speed.

"We have to go back immediately." Su Wanqing's voice was unwavering.

"What should we do here?" Xiao Ran pointed to the newly built shelter.

“I’ll stay,” he continued. “You guys go deal with the cracks, and I’ll go talk to the people from ‘Green Ark’ about cooperation. The evacuation plan can’t stop.”

Without further ado, Su Wanqing and Lin Che immediately packed their gear, drove their off-road vehicle down the mountain road, and sped towards the city.

Meanwhile, Xiao Ran met Jiang Hui at an abandoned cannery in the east of the city.

He was a burly middle-aged man with a scar on his face that ran from his brow bone to the corner of his mouth, making him look particularly serious.

He didn't stand on ceremony and immediately unfolded a map.

"The military has abandoned the city; we have to rely on ourselves."

Jiang Hui pointed to several areas on the map with his finger, "These are our evacuation routes, mainly moving towards the eastern mountainous areas."

Xiao Ran explained the situation of the abandoned mine shelter in the north.

“Very good,” Jiang Hui nodded. “We can combine resources and coordinate our actions to save as many people as possible.”

He paused, his expression darkening. "However, we've encountered a new problem."

Last night, two assembly points were raided by the military. They detained our people under the pretext of 'maintaining order.'

When Su Wanqing and Lin Che arrived near the central square, the scene before them was even more horrifying than what they had seen on the holographic projection.

The sky seemed to have been ripped open, with a purple crack stretching across the city, from which all sorts of strange and unheard-of creatures fell, emitting piercing screams.

The air around the crack was distorted, the upper half of some tall buildings seemed to have time slowed down, while the vehicles on the ground aged into piles of scrap metal in an instant.

Lin Che stared at the crack, his human right eye reflecting fear, while his golden left eye shimmered with an eerie light.

“I can feel that the other end of the crack connects to multiple different timelines, like a ‘crossroads’ of time.”

He turned to Su Wanqing and proposed a plan: "I can try to use the Weaver's ability to stabilize the edge of the crack, at least to stop it from continuing to expand."

The monitor on Su Wanqing's wrist was displaying Lin Che's data. She frowned and said, "But your conversion rate is already close to 50%. Using your ability again may cause irreversible changes."

"If the cracks are not stopped from widening, more people will die, and the military's nuclear strike may be brought forward further."

"This is a worthwhile risk." Lin Che's tone was calm.

After a brief but intense debate, Su Wanqing finally nodded, but with a condition: "I will monitor your condition throughout the process, and once the conversion rate exceeds 60%, I will force you to stop."

On the other side, Jiang Hui took a document out of a metal cabinet and handed it to Xiao Ran.

“This is an internal military communication we intercepted,” Jiang Hui said in a low voice. “They have listed civilian relief organizations like ours as a ‘potential threat,’ believing that we could cause widespread panic.”

The document clearly shows that the military plans to completely close all exit routes from the city within 12 hours, and any unauthorized evacuation will be considered an act of "rebellion." "We must evacuate as many people as possible before the blockade," Xiao Ran immediately judged.

The two huddled together in front of the map and devised a more covert escape route, planning to use the city's sewer system and abandoned railway lines to bypass all military checkpoints.

After agreeing on the details, Xiao Ran immediately set off back to the fortress; he needed to bring this urgent intelligence back with him.

Su Wanqing and Lin Che put on the protective suits specially made by Lu Zhao and entered the abnormal area affected by the crack.

Time seems to flow illogically here. Sometimes, they feel as if they take a step, but several minutes pass before they land; other times, a distance of a few meters in front of them is covered in the blink of an eye.

This feeling was dizzying, and every step was extremely difficult.

Finally, they reached the edge of the crevice. Lin Che no longer hesitated and began to unleash his full power.

A dazzling blue pattern instantly covered his entire body, and he was enveloped in a layer of blue light.

He placed his hands on the distorted space at the edge of the crack and began to chant in the Weaver's language, which no one could understand.

A miracle occurred: the ever-expanding crack actually began to slow down, and the violent time fluctuations at its edges stabilized.

However, the instant Lin Che's consciousness came into direct contact with the crack, he was as if he had been dragged into another dimension.

He saw it, he saw countless parallel, glowing timelines intertwined, forming an incredibly complex giant web.

What shocked him even more was what he saw. On this web, he saw the weaver and the time observers in black robes.

But their relationship was not the adversarial and combative one he imagined; rather, it was a cooperative one.

The observers are like worker bees, constantly repairing the "damage" and "loopholes" caused by the weavers.

This discovery completely overturned all his and his team's previous understanding.

He tried to look deeper and understand what was hidden behind it all.

But this action took a heavy toll on his body.

The monitor on his wrist emitted a sharp alarm, and the numbers on it jumped wildly.

Su Wanqing saw that the reading had broken through the 60% red line and reached 65%!

She immediately stepped forward, trying to pull Lin Che back from the edge of the crack.

But Lin Che seemed to be fixed in place by an invisible force, and no matter how hard Su Wanqing tried, she could not move him even an inch.

At this critical moment, a huge hand made of pure blue energy suddenly stretched out from the crack and grabbed Lin Che's body!
Su Wanqing used all her strength to pull him back, finally managing to free him from the grasp of that giant hand.

Lin Che collapsed into her arms, completely unconscious. His entire body was covered in flowing blue patterns, making it almost impossible to see any human skin.

The monitor eventually displayed a despairing figure: 78%.

Even more worrying is that although the crack has temporarily stabilized and stopped expanding, it has begun to show a regular pulsation, like the breathing of some unknown behemoth.

Su Wanqing didn't dare to delay and immediately brought Lin Che back to the underground fortress.

When Xiao Ran returned to the fortress with the latest intelligence, this was the scene he witnessed.

After Lu Zhao completed the initial examination of the unconscious Lin Che, his expression became very serious.

He looked up at the crowd and said, "His brain activity has exceeded 70% of its normal range. If the situation continues to deteriorate, we... may lose him forever."