113: Chapter 113 A Mad Escape
In Wang Pingan's perception, the speed at which the mechanical arm extended was as slow as if an entire century had passed.
Yet, in the vision of his upgraded Eye of Truth, the surrounding spacetime rifts that were crazily closing were as fast as lightning!
They were like a giant web woven by the Grim Reaper, rapidly tightening, intending to crush their tiny seagull into nothingness!
"Faster! A bit faster!"
Wang Pingan roared crazily in his heart, squeezing every ounce of his power—whether it was his spirit or physical strength—to the absolute limit without reservation!
His spiritual sea of consciousness, which had just recovered a little, began to churn violently again, and the stinging pain surged in wave after wave like a tide.
The muscles all over his body were convulsing and twitching violently!
"Creak... Crack!"
When the mechanical arm of the seagull had extended less than halfway, its surface alloy armor began to shatter inch by inch because it could not withstand the terrifying spacetime pressure!
It revealed the complex energy circuits inside that were flashing with dangerous electric arcs!
"No! It's going to snap!" Mentor Murphy looked at the lines of red alert data on the light screen and let out a desperate roar, "Kid! Let go! We're retreating! If we don't leave now, it'll be too late!"
Retreat?
That word had never existed in Wang Pingan's dictionary!
Could he let a cooked duck fly away?
Even if he had to lay down his life here today, he was absolutely determined to get his hands on this core of spacetime!
"Mentor! Divert all the ship's backup energy to the mechanical arm for me!" Wang Pingan's eyes were bloodshot, looking like a madman, "We'll fight it out!"
"Are you crazy?! If you do that, the ship's shield system will completely fail! We'll be torn to shreds!"
"If we don't fight, we'll die anyway! If we give it a shot, there's still a one in ten thousand chance!" Wang Pingan's voice exploded in Murphy's consciousness like a thunderclap, "Faster!"
Mentor Murphy looked at the teenager's face, which appeared somewhat distorted due to madness, and his heart—which had been silent for decades and belonged to an adventurer—seemed to be ignited at this moment!
"Fine! Damn it! I'll bet everything I have today to accompany you, you little madman!"
Mentor Murphy gritted his teeth, and his hands operated on the control console frantically like phantoms!
"Backup energy system, unlocked! Energy output, one hundred percent!"
Hum—!!!
The entire seagull shuddered violently at this moment!
All the lighting equipment in the cabin extinguished in an instant!
That layer of pale blue energy shield, which was originally struggling to hold on, also dissipated completely with a "pop," like a punctured balloon!
All the energy, at this moment, turned into a resolute and unstoppable torrent, crazily surging into the mechanical arm that was already on the verge of collapse!
Crack!
The front end of the mechanical arm, the alloy claw used to grab samples, shone brightly at this moment!
It thrust forward violently at a speed more than ten times faster than before!
With absolute precision, at the very last moment before the "Giant Web of Death" composed of spacetime rifts completely closed!
It fiercely grabbed the core of spacetime that was emitting a seven-colored glazed light!
"Got it!"
Wang Pingan and Mentor Murphy let out a shout filled with ecstasy and excitement in their consciousness simultaneously!
However, before they could be happy for more than a second.
A more terrifying suction force, as if it wanted to drag the entire universe into destruction, erupted from the captured core of spacetime!
It was resisting!
It was attempting to drag the seagull, along with the two of them, into the absolute "Annihilation Domain" created by itself!
"Bad! Pull it back quickly!" Mentor Murphy's face instantly became uglier than a dead person's.
Wang Pingan also felt that terrifying suction force that even he could not resist!
He felt as if his soul was about to be forcibly ripped out of his body by that tiny crystal!
Just at this critical moment of life and death.
In Wang Pingan's mind, the system that had always been silent suddenly emitted a cold, emotionless prompt tone.
【Ding!】
【Detected that the spacetime origin power of ultra-high dimension is invading the host...】
【System 'Absolute Protection' protocol, triggered!】
【Forcibly... 'Formatting' this energy!】
Formatting?!
Wang Pingan's heart skipped a beat, not yet realizing what it meant.
He felt a power even more overbearing, even more unreasonable, even more ancient, and even more supreme than the core of spacetime suddenly awaken from the deepest part of his soul!
That power ignored all physical rules and ignored all spacetime laws.
It directly typed a line of code at the "player" who was crazily "cheating"—the core of spacetime.
【/delete all】
Hum—
The terrifying suction force on the core of spacetime, which was enough to swallow everything, came to an abrupt halt at this moment.
Its brilliant seven-colored glazed light also dimmed instantly.
It seemed to have turned into... an ordinary glass marble.
"..."
Wang Pingan was stunned.
Mentor Murphy was also stunned.
The whole world seemed to have quieted down at this moment.
"Retract!"
Wang Pingan was the first to react; he controlled the mechanical arm and pulled the core of spacetime, which had become "harmless," back into the cabin in one motion.
Then he looked around.
The "Giant Web of Death" that was originally about to close had also begun to become unstable due to the "power outage" of the core of spacetime, with huge gaps and loopholes appearing.
"Go!"
Wang Pingan did not dare to hesitate for a moment; he controlled the seagull, which had completely lost its shields and even its lights, and rushed out crazily through those loopholes like a headless fly!
Fortunately, the terrifying giant beast hidden in the wreckage of the mothership seemed to have been hit by the energy tide earlier and suffered serious injuries, so it did not come out to trouble them again.
The seagull rushed out of the spacetime turbulence zone without any danger.
But before they could even catch their breath.
They discovered in despair.
Because the core of spacetime, the "stabilizer," was lost, the entire Subspace Storm began to collapse inward at a terrifying speed!
They... were trapped in a closed, doomed spacetime absolute domain!
Their path of escape had been completely cut off!