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Wang Hu's gaze was fixed on the rearview camera, his throat dry.

"Old Su!"

His voice changed tone.

Just as the Devourer gained a breather, a red dot suddenly lit up deep within the dark golden giant hand that represented death, in the previously completely silent 020 core.

A red dot the size of a pinhead.

Su Yuan immediately switched the screen to the main control screen and zoomed in.

The red dot is not just a simple light. It flashes, with a vibrant rhythm, again and again, like a newborn heart.

"Frequency...match." Xiao Huo's voice squeezed out from the speaker, carrying electrical noise, "Completely consistent with the final stage pulsation frequency of the K-001 source crystal."

The temperature in the main control room seemed to have dropped by more than ten degrees.

Su Yuan picked up the dark red stone on the control panel. It was cold and heavy to the touch, and there was no energy fluctuation at all.

He was deceived.

downright.

The message K-001 sent before its death was a trap in every word. It wasn't a plea for mercy, nor was it a revelation of the truth; it was guiding Su Yuan to personally craft a perfect coffin for it—a 020 core stripped of the "Warden's" will, leaving only its powerful functions.

Su Yuan destroyed the prison, releasing an even more terrifying beast.

"Don't let it close..."

Su Yuan's fingers tightened, the cold, sharp edges of the stone digging into his palm.

K-001 does not refer to K-002's palm at all.

It is a closed loop of will transfer and core integration.

At the bottom of the abyss, the giant, dark gold hand that had just finished repairing itself suddenly trembled. Its movements were no longer the slow, purely instinctive repairs of before. It rose, precise and powerful.

The five giant fingers slowly spread open, and the 020 core in the palm, flashing with red dots, was like a newly born demonic eye, coldly "staring" at the Devourer from hundreds of meters away.

It did not attack immediately.

K-002's massive body spun around, slamming its shoulder into the abyss's rocky wall.

Boom!

A deafening roar echoed as a massive amount of rock and metal debris collapsed from above, crashing down and precisely blocking the passageway through which the Devourer had come from.

It wants to catch a turtle in a jar.

A cold female voice cut in from all the channels, carrying an unquestionable arrogance.

"Ten seconds."

The sound of JY-004.

"Hand over the suppressor and the stone, or I will structurally erase you."

A pincer attack from both sides.

There was no way to go to heaven, and no way to go to hell.

In the dead silence of the ten-second countdown, the blue light inside the dark red stone on Su Yuan's control panel suddenly intensified.

Ignoring JY-004's threat, Su Yuan stared intently at the stone and asked in a low voice, "What exactly are you?"

Blue Light did not respond.

An incredibly complex 3D map was projected directly into Su Yuan's mind.

It was in the wreckage maze they were in that three maintenance passages, hidden inside the structure, were clearly marked, even though Xiao Huo's radar hadn't detected them.

And seven unstable structural weaknesses.

K-002's roar came from behind; it had found the entrance and was beginning to rush into the maze.

JY-004's patience ran out, and the dark muzzle began to charge.

"Full power! Charge!"

Su Yuan threw away the stone and returned his hands to the control panel.

Instead of retreating, the Devourer advanced, its front end aimed at a collapsed warship wreckage marked on the blue map, which seemed to be a dead end, and sped towards it.

Wang Hu and Tang Lan were on tenterhooks, but they still chose to carry out the order unconditionally.

"Old Su!"

"Fire!" Su Yuan's voice was terrifyingly calm. "Target: wreckage ahead, structural weakness of A-3!"

A second before hitting the wreckage, Tang Lan pressed the fire button.

The train gun's shells were not fired at the enemy, but rather precisely at the locations marked by the blue light.

The entire wreckage of the warship, weighing tens of thousands of tons, disintegrated instantly.

The massive landslide separated JY-004 and the intruding K-002 at opposite ends of the maze.

JY-004 was forced to confront K-002 head-on, and her angry roar came through the public channel.

"JY-007, you damned rat!"

Her train unleashed astonishing firepower, engaging in a frenzied exchange of fire with K-002's dark gold tentacles, temporarily buying the Devourer a precious respite.

The Devourer rushed unharmed into the secret repair passage exposed behind the warship wreckage.

The passage was narrow, allowing only one vehicle, the Devourer, to pass through at a time.

Su Yuan noticed that the map in his mind disappeared after guiding him into the passage, and the blue light on the stone also dimmed.

"Report," Xiao Huo's voice became clearer, "The map projection just now consumed a tiny amount of the Commander's mental energy as an unlocking key."

Jiang Yu spoke softly from the corner. He sensed no malice from the blue light, but rather a... sense of kinship. This made the living metal within him more docile than ever before.

Qin Yan's code reader rang again.

He deciphered a momentary message left behind by the blue light before it disappeared.

"JY-004 is 'devouring' the key; she's not collecting it."

Su Yuan's pupils contracted.

"Xiao Huo, analyze the residual energy from the JY-004 artillery fire collected from the battlefield just now."

"Analyzing... Frequency model established."

"Refining furnace, for casting JY series frequency jammers."

The instruction has been issued.

At the end of the maintenance tunnel, a spider-shaped automated defense robot left behind by JY-004 blocked the way. It identified the Devourer, its robotic arm's cannon aimed at the front of the vehicle, and issued a composite warning: "Unauthorized unit detected. Halt immediately and accept dismantling."

Before Wang Hu could even fire, Su Yuan activated the newly manufactured jammer.

An invisible ripple swept across, instantly distorting the spider robot's red aiming beam, which flared wildly around the Devourer vehicle, unable to lock on. Its logic system was completely bewildered by the homogeneous but erratic frequency signals.

"ha!"

Wang Hu laughed as he manipulated the crane arm, slapping the out-of-control spider robot into the nearby metal rubble like swatting a fly, crushing it into a pile of parts, and then sending it into the refining furnace.

The Devourer sailed out of the passage, and a bright and open view suddenly appeared before us.

Inside an enormous underground cavity stands a massive circular track platform, with a rusty nameplate that reads: "Pangu Project · JY Series Maintenance Station · 01".

This place seems to be the nest of all JY trains.

The sounds of battle from the direction of the maze gradually subsided and eventually fell silent.

The battle between JY-004 and K-002 seems to have reached a conclusion, but who won? This uncertainty brings an even greater sense of unease.

Instead of immediately exploring the maintenance station, Su Yuan ordered the entire vehicle to fall silent, concentrating all energy on the concept suppression field generator to conceal his presence to the greatest extent possible.

He knew that no matter who won, he would be the next target.

Just then, the stone on the control panel lit up with blue light again, this time more steadily and clearly than ever before.

Instead of projecting a map, it directly streamed information into the main control screen.

A woman's face appeared on the screen; it was the commander of JY-004.

The image is extremely clear, as if it were seen with the naked eye in Blu-ray.

She stood on the bridge of her train, a cold smile playing on her lips, seemingly unharmed.

The camera zooms in, focusing on her eyes.

Deep within those icy blue pupils, a deep red that shouldn't exist, identical to the original K-001, was slowly swirling, like a blood-red vortex hidden beneath an iceberg.

After the blue light projected this image, two words appeared on the stone.

"A fusion".