1042: Chapter 1041 Calandor's Self-Destruction!

I no longer need to calculate.

His body began to swell, not in the physical sense of growing larger, but as a precursor to extreme compression and release at the energy level.

Fine cracks appeared on the surface of his lead-gray skin, revealing a fierce blue-white light from within.

Captain! He's performing a 'You Shi Clan Resonance'! He's going to detonate his own energy core and trigger a chain reaction that will blow up the entire buffer pool System!

The voice of another team member was filled with obvious panic.

The talent of the You Shi Clan lies not only in sensing energy and space but also in being able to 'resonate' with specific energy fields, turning them to their own use, or... completely detonating them.

Over the past hundred years, through countless subtle perceptions, Kalanduo had long since mapped out all the structural weaknesses of this Folding Space No. 1244 and its connected secondary energy buffer pool A-73.

He was like a fuse that had been carefully placed next to a powder keg, just waiting for an opportunity to be lit.

And Wu Zhankong's intrusion broke the cage, as well as the final energy suppression Restriction that had been planted inside him.

More importantly, the brief turbulence caused by Wu Zhankong forcibly opening the space node when he left gave Kalanduo a once-in-a-lifetime 'window.'

At this moment, he was the one who lit the fuse.

For... Ailiya... For... little Weila...

Kalanduo whispered the two names that had long been carved into his Soul, the last trace of human tenderness in his eyes flashing and vanishing, replaced by a pure, destructive blue light.

He no longer looked at the emergency squad, but instead looked up, as if wanting to pierce through layers of space barriers to look toward the direction of the Black Cloud Empire, toward his homeland that had long since become ruins in his distant memories.

Then, he charged toward the emergency squad.

There were no fancy techniques, no complicated Moves.

It was just the most primitive, most resolute outpouring of energy and self-detonation.

Stop him!

An Ren roared, his gray-white eyes revealing shock and anger for the first time.

He pushed his arms forward, and dark purple energy gushed out, forming a huge energy shield in an attempt to intercept him.

The other four team members also launched attacks simultaneously: high-frequency shockwaves, energy binding nets, spatial anchoring rays...

All kinds of attack methods specifically designed to suppress energy rampages poured out.

But it was too late.

The cracks on Kalanduo's body opened completely, and his entire being transformed into a blue-white, continuously expanding energy sphere.

On the surface of the light sphere, countless tiny energy tentacles extended outward, like plant roots, crazily piercing into the surrounding space barriers and into those invisible energy transmission pipelines.

You Shi Clan · Eternal Silence Resonance.

His final thought was declared calmly.

The next moment—

Hum——————!!!

An indescribable loud noise did not propagate through the air but vibrated directly at the level of the space structure.

The blue-white light sphere suddenly collapsed inward to the extreme, forming a singularity that seemed capable of swallowing light, and then...

It erupted with a boom.

It was not a simple explosion, but an 'erosive' expansion.

Wherever the blue-white light passed, space became as fragile, twisted, and disintegrated as paper corroded by strong acid.

The massive amount of high-purity energy stored within energy buffer pool A-73 was detonated by this resonance, like a fuel depot being set on fire, triggering even more terrifying secondary and tertiary explosions.

The emergency squad bore the brunt of it.

An Ren's energy shield only lasted for one-hundredth of a second before vanishing into nothingness within that annihilating blue-white light.

The team members behind him couldn't even let out a scream before their figures were engulfed and disintegrated by the light.

Relying on his formidable strength at the Late Stage of the Fourth Order and the high-grade armor on his body, An Ren barely survived the initial impact, but he was already severely injured, his battle armor mostly shattered, and his mask broken, revealing an alien middle-aged face twisted by pain and shock.

Coughing up blood, he tried to mobilize his remaining strength to stabilize the crumbling space around him and prevent the disaster from spreading.

But the 'You Shi Clan Resonance' that Kalanduo had triggered at the cost of his life had a destructive power far exceeding estimations.

It not only detonated the buffer pool but also began to erode and spread along the energy pipelines toward deeper, more critical areas of the auction house.

The alarm System went completely crazy:

Warning! Buffer pool A-73 is completely destroyed! Energy leakage index exceeds safety threshold by 1000%!

Warning! Space structure collapse has spread to the 1240-1250 sector of the 73rd floor! It is spreading to surrounding sectors!

Highest Alert! 'You Shi Clan Resonance' effect detected! May cause chain reaction space collapse! Initiate highest emergency protocol! All non-combat personnel evacuate immediately! All combat units proceed to the 73rd floor to suppress the space storm!

The entire Dark Star Auction House, starting from the 73rd floor, began to shake violently.

Lights flickered crazily, and countless hidden defensive runes were forced to manifest, overload, and shatter.

Terrified screams, panicked running, and the roaring sound of falling objects... instantly replaced the previous 'orderly' chaos.

And the source of all this—

Folding Space No. 1244 no longer existed.

In its place remained only a constantly expanding spatial hole, with blue-white energy turbulence flowing along its edges, like a hideous wound torn open on the body of the auction house.

And at the edge of that spatial hole, a speck of nearly imperceptible lead-gray dust drifted slowly, finally merging completely into the violent energy turbulence.

Kalanduo, the last navigator of the You Shi Clan, had, in the most heroic way, fulfilled his promise to Wu Zhankong, and for himself, for his wife and daughter, had drawn a blood-stained yet liberating period.

His charge, his self-detonation, did not just attract attention for Wu Zhankong.

It also ignited a raging fire of revenge deep within this strict and cold Dark Star Auction House, blowing open a rift leading to deeper chaos and opportunity.

And this was just the beginning of the storm.

Not far from the hole, An Ren, who had barely steadied himself, clutched his blood-soaked chest, looking at the constantly expanding spatial wound, then looking toward the node in the direction Wu Zhankong had left, which had long since returned to calm, his gray-white eyes filled with disbelief and deep chill.

His hand trembling, he pressed his communicator and roared with all his might:

Report... 73rd floor, 1244 sector... a major spatial accident caused by a prisoner's self-detonation has occurred... an unknown red-haired male intruder... may have escaped... repeat, an extremely dangerous intruder... may have... disappeared in the chaos!

Requesting... full auction house... Level 1 lockdown! Search with everything... how could you...!

His voice suddenly cut off, because a palm directly snatched away his communicator.