292: Chapter 292 Deletion Risk Warning

Wang Xue steadied the console, forcibly tightening the entrance.

"Close the door."

Lin Yuan looked toward the main screen.

"If you close it now, the people inside won't be able to come out."

"If we keep it open, I'll be eaten along with the space."

"The fields can be sacrificed."

Lin Yuan swiped to bring up the entry list.

"You cannot die."

[Personnel entering: Lin Yuan, Su Xiaonuan, Tang Qiqi, Jiang Yun.]

Qin Yumo drew her twin blades and stood on the left side of the spatial door.

Lin Naer spread her four wings, sealing off the right side and the upper area.

Lin Yuan looked toward the two of them.

"Anyone or anything that comes out with black marks, sever them first, then isolate them."

Qin Yumo held her blade horizontally.

"Understood."

Holy Light spread along Lin Naer's wings, locking onto the coordinates of all personnel outside the entrance.

The four of them stepped across the spatial door.

The scorched earth area was already reduced by a quarter.

The void had no pit, nor did it sink.

A broken irrigation pipe lay horizontally across the edge.

The pipe opening approached the darkness; the originally two-meter-long metal pipe first shrank to half a meter, then was reduced to only the size of a fingernail.

Finally, it vanished from view.

Tang Qiqi raised the detector.

The screen showed no wreckage.

Nor was there any energy fluctuation.

Only a line of numbers popped up.

[Small World permanent loss: 0.03 cubic meters.]

"It's neither melting nor teleportation."

Tang Qiqi bit down on her candy stick.

"It deleted the things along with their location."

Su Xiaonuan opened the task list.

Rescue crops.

Restore irrigation.

Protect agricultural nodes.

All three directives were frozen.

A new priority overwrote the screen.

[First: Personnel.]

[Second: Parent seeds.]

[Third: Spatial core.]

"Jiang Yun."

Su Xiaonuan raised her hand to mark the route from the parent seed repository to the entrance.

"Use defense authority to clear the passageway."

Jiang Yun swiped her wristband.

Green Lotus Fire surged out, hugging the ground.

As soon as the flames touched the edge of the void, the front end was missing a section.

Jiang Yun's arm sank.

That portion of Mental Energy did not return.

She immediately retracted the fire.

However, the sound of roots rubbing against each other came from underground.

Ma Chao's remaining vines crawled out from the scorched earth.

The black marks split into three strands along the roots, bypassed the isolation wall, and coiled toward the parent seed transport track.

"My roots are disobedient!"

Inside the nutrient tank, Ma Chao hugged the pipelines.

"It's using me to pave the way!"

Tang Qiqi released a reconnaissance drone.

The drone flew ten meters outside the void area, and its fuselage began to shrink.

One meter.

Half a meter.

Palm-sized.

Signal zeroed out.

The black line on the ground lengthened by a section accordingly.

Su Muxue's voice came from the physical control area.

"Cease elemental attacks."

"Green Lotus Fire will also be permanently devoured. Continuing to probe is just sending it Mental Energy."

Outside the spatial door, Qin Yumo raised her blade and pointed at the engineering team.

"Retreat twenty meters."

Lin Naer extended a wing across the doorframe.

The tip of the feather just touched the abnormal coordinates, and a corner went missing out of thin air.

There was no wound.

Nor was there any blood.

That part of the wing vanished structurally.

"Retract your wings."

Lin Yuan's voice came out.

Lin Naer executed it immediately.

Wang Xue's mental load continued to rise.

[Seventy-eight percent.]

[Eighty-one percent.]

She grabbed the edge of the entrance.

"Send them out first."

"I'll leave last."

Lin Yuan did not step back.

A grayish-white stream of water condensed from the air and was split into ten segments by him.

The first segment was sent toward the black line.

The water stream shrank by half.

The second segment approached by three meters, its volume reduced by thirty percent.

The first nine segments disappeared in turn.

The tenth segment landed on a patch of dead, scorched earth without equipment markers.

The water line stopped.

The black marks did not chase after it.

Lin Yuan raised his hand to mark two boundaries.

"It will swallow matter, Superpowers, and the internal space of equipment that enter the zero coordinates."

"But it cannot temporarily cross areas without active carriers or areas not marked by spatial equipment."

Tang Qiqi looked at his Dimensional Space authority.

"Using your space to move the parent seeds is the fastest."

"No need."

Lin Yuan directly closed the Dimensional Space interface.

"It has opened a door once by borrowing the anchoring equipment."

"My warehouse holds all of Tiangong's strategic supplies."

"I won't give it a second entrance."

Su Xiaonuan immediately deleted the dimensional transit plan.

Jiang Yun raised the Green Lotus Fire axe again.

This time, she didn't burn the black marks anymore.

The flames fell on both sides of the transport line.

Crops, mycelium, and residual irrigation roots were all turned to charcoal.

The entire Phase I agricultural zone caught fire once more.

Yield reduced to zero.

Between the two fire belts, only a scorched earth passageway devoid of active tissue remained.

The parent seed transport rack started up.

The first vehicle drove across the ridges.

The black marks crawled out from underground and stopped at the edge of the scorched earth.

The second vehicle passed through.

The third followed closely behind.

Jiang Yun checked her wristband as she walked.

"Seal number one is intact."

"Personnel number two has passed."

"Parent seed rack number three has entered the passageway."

She looked back at Wang Xue.

"The seeds go first."

"My mother will be brought out by me last."

Ma Chao's nutrient tank suddenly tilted.

A diseased root dragged down the base.

More black raised marks gathered along the vines toward his waist and abdomen.

He bit down on the nutrient tube and actively retracted his roots.

Every time a section was retracted, his life value dropped by a notch.

[Sixty-two percent.]

[Fifty-one percent.]

Two diseased roots were jammed under the isolation wall and could no longer be retracted.

Ma Chao grabbed the engineering axe.

"Boss Lin."

"I'll retract all my roots, but leave the agricultural node qualification for me."

Lin Yuan looked toward him.

"As long as output meets standards, supplies remain unchanged."

"Alright."

Ma Chao swung down the axe.

The first diseased root snapped.

Black juice fell into the scorched earth.

With the second axe strike, the remaining contaminated vines lost their living coordinates and stopped outside the fire line.

Ma Chao slumped back into the nutrient tank, his face pressing against the pipe.

"This time counts as working overtime voluntarily."

"The crystal core cannot be deducted."

No one answered.

The parent seed transport rack successfully passed through the entrance.

Tang Qiqi had already set up four positioning pillars on the periphery of the void area.

"Eight-yard deviation, 0.7 cubic meters of loss."

"Every bite you ate left coordinates behind for me."

The four positioning pillars reversed simultaneously.

They no longer transported supplies to the Small World.

Reverse traction activated.

Su Xiaonuan checked the data item by item.

"Eastern coordinates locked."

"Western deviation zero point two."

"Isolation layer expanding."

Lin Yuan released dozens of grayish-white water lines, cutting off the contact between the positioning pillars and the active soil layer.

Tang Qiqi slapped down the start button.

The scorched earth trembled.

The black marks clinging to the ground were pulled away from the soil layer for the first time.

One centimeter.

Half a meter.

Three meters.

The twisted thin lines hung in mid-air, the surrounding space constantly contracting, only to be forcibly propped up by the four positioning pillars.

The area of the Small World stopped decreasing.

[Wang Xue's mental load: Eighty-seven percent.]

[Seventy-one percent.]

[Sixty-two percent.]

Tang Qiqi raised her chin.

"So you like eating space, huh?"

"Now your coordinates have been dug out."

The next second, the suspended black lines suddenly changed direction.

They did not pounce toward the positioning pillars.

Instead, they recoiled along the mental connection Wang Xue used to maintain the entrance.

Wang Xue's right index finger became transparent.

The palm.

The wrist.

The transparent area rapidly crawled toward her forearm.

Dozens of meters at the edge of the Small World went missing simultaneously.

The spatial door collapsed inward.

Jiang Yun thrust an axe into the ground, and the Green Lotus Fire blocked in front of her mother.

"Cut off the connection!"

Su Muxue's remote detection results popped up a step earlier.

[Warning: Wang Xue is the core load-bearing coordinate of the Small World.]

[Forcibly severing the zero coordinates will simultaneously tear apart the target's mental sea.]

[Estimated death probability: Ninety-three percent.]

Wang Xue stared at her transparent arm.

"The space is mine."

"The bill should also be settled on my head."

Jiang Yun blocked the array.

"I took the defense authority not to watch you run away once more."

"Nor to let you die to show me."

Tang Qiqi dragged out the data of all spatial Espers.

Only two candidates remained.

Lin Yuan.

Su Xiaonuan.

"To drag the zero coordinates into the isolation layer, we must find an isofrequency spatial coordinate to act as a bridge."

She looked toward Lin Yuan.

"Your tier is high enough, but you hold too many things inside. Once it bites back, Tiangong's warehouse will be zeroed out together."

Subsequently, the data stopped on Su Xiaonuan's name.

"Her spatial scale is the smallest."

"It is most suitable to act as a disposable bridge."

Lin Yuan shielded Wang Xue and retreated toward the entrance.

"Continue the deduction."

"There is only one premise for the plan."

"No one is to be sacrificed."

Su Xiaonuan lowered her head to record the substitute anchor point parameters.

The scent of jasmine mixed into the scent of scorched earth.

Her fingers did not stop.

Tang Qiqi completed the final calculation.

Red warnings filled the screen.

[The last seventeen seconds before the isolation layer closes must be manually locked from the inside by the holder of the isofrequency coordinates.]

The parent seeds passed through the entrance.

Ma Chao passed through the entrance.

Jiang Yun steadied Wang Xue, following behind Lin Yuan.

Su Xiaonuan glanced at Lin Yuan's back.

She raised her hand.

Delete risk prompt.