293: Chapter 293 The Most Obedient Person, His First Disobedience

The mother seed transport racks passed through the space door.

The first one.

The second one.

The third one.

Su Xiaonuan stood at the end of the scorched-earth passage, checking off the names on her terminal one by one.

"Mother seed seals intact."

"Ma Chao node moved out."

"Agricultural interface closed."

Ma Chao's nutrient tank slid along the doorframe toward the reality side. He hugged the nutrient tube tightly, all remaining vines retracting to the bottom of the tank.

"Housekeeper Su, this counts as a work-related injury for me."

"The medical team will evaluate it."

"What about the crystal core?"

"Settled based on output."

Ma Chao wanted to speak again, but the engineering team had already dragged his nutrient tank out of the entrance.

Su Xiaonuan closed the life-monitoring interface.

The connection of the last vine turned gray.

Losing Ma Chao's living passage, the Zero Coordinate suspended in the center of the four positioning pillars paused for a moment.

The next moment, it turned toward Wang Xue.

Wang Xue's right arm was already transparent up to her shoulder.

Jiang Yun supported her, the Green Lotus Fire covering beneath their feet. With every step they moved toward the entrance, the edge of the Small World shrank by several meters.

Lin Yuan guarded their sides.

"Qiqi, continue the deduction."

Tang Qiqi hugged the coordinate motherboard, her fingers swiping rapidly across the screen.

"The Zero Coordinate must pass through the isofrequency space to enter the isolation layer."

"Internal lockdown for seventeen seconds, the outside is responsible for closure."

"My plan is still short of one person."

Lin Yuan glanced over the red results.

"Then keep calculating."

"Calculate until no one dies."

Su Xiaonuan lowered her head and shut down the irrigation System.

The mother seed inventory maintenance interface.

The geothermal pipelines.

The external feedback of the spatial anchoring equipment.

With every item disconnected, the black line lost one replicable exit.

The complete record was synchronized to Lin Yuan's wristband.

However, the evacuation list was forced by her into the highest steward authority.

[Personnel sequence adjustment completed.]

[Outside master control: Lin Yuan.]

[Remote confirmation: Tang Qiqi.]

[Internal manual lockdown: Su Xiaonuan.]

She deleted the final risk warning.

Tang Qiqi's terminal popped up with a task change.

[Please evacuate carrying the coordinate motherboard.]

"I changed it to outside lockdown?"

She looked at Su Xiaonuan.

"The internal equipment has completed its reversal, you calibrate the coordinates outside the door."

Su Xiaonuan pushed a set of data to her.

"If the deviation exceeds zero point two, immediately disconnect the positioning pillars."

Tang Qiqi checked twice, picked up the motherboard, and ran toward the entrance.

"Great Demon King, I'll go out first to take over the master control."

She passed through the space door.

On the reality side, the coordinate motherboard connected to the B2 System. The operating curves of the four pillars reappeared on the main screen.

Inside the isolation layer, only Lin Yuan, Su Xiaonuan, Jiang Yun, and Wang Xue remained.

The space door shrank to two meters.

The black line clung to Wang Xue's spiritual connection, already approaching the spatial core.

Jiang Yun sent her mother to the edge of the door, then turned back to look at the array.

Su Xiaonuan was still standing in the center of the four positioning pillars.

"Housekeeper Su, let's go together!"

Su Xiaonuan checked her wristband.

"The steward must confirm that the last person has evacuated."

"Let Qiqi confirm!"

"She is in charge of the equipment."

Su Xiaonuan raised her hand to activate the one-way push.

Jiang Yun's wristband lit up.

[Small World Level 2 defense authority has been temporarily taken over by the highest steward authority.]

The Green Lotus Fire passage suddenly retracted toward the entrance.

Jiang Yun felt empty beneath her feet.

She and Wang Xue were pushed out of the Small World by the spatial force simultaneously.

"Su Xiaonuan!"

Jiang Yun fell onto the reality side, turned around, and slapped the doorframe.

The alloy isolation layer had already risen.

The Green Lotus Fire crashed against the barrier, the flames scattering along the wall.

Qin Yumo caught Wang Xue.

Lin Naer folded her four wings, blocking Jiang Yun outside the spatial rift.

After Wang Xue left the Small World, her mental load dropped from eighty-nine percent to sixty-one percent.

Her transparent shoulder stopped spreading.

Lin Yuan exited the entrance last.

His gaze still fell on Tang Qiqi's deduction screen.

"Keep calculating."

"I want a plan where no one dies."

Inside the space door, Su Xiaonuan's report connected to the public channel.

"Wang Xue is out."

"Jiang Yun is out."

"Tang Qiqi's equipment connection is normal."

"The Zero Coordinate has left the spatial core."

Her tone was no different from when she reported the cold storage inventory.

Tang Qiqi continuously entered three sets of permissions.

Research layer authorization.

Wartime engineering authorization.

Emergency disposal authorization.

Red prompts popped up on the screen one after another.

[Task has been bound to the highest steward authority.]

[Remote revocation failed.]

[Internal personnel cannot be replaced.]

The candy stick dropped from the corner of her mouth, hitting the coordinate motherboard.

She raised her head.

"Great Demon King."

"The person who locks the door in the end isn't me."

Lin Yuan pulled up the complete evacuation list.

The hidden final column expanded.

[Su Xiaonuan: Internal manual lockdown.]

His name had already been moved to the outside master control position.

The wrist terminal followed by popping up a handover checklist.

Three-location material dispatch.

Cold storage inventory.

Mecha production line.

Core member permissions.

Pregnant women medical contingency plan.

Outer ring daily meal standards.

Even Lin Motong's cake quota and Tang Qiqi's weekly candy limit were written down.

The final page had only a single line of text.

[Highest steward authority handover: Yu Qingyi.]

Only equipment alarms remained in the B2 Research Level.

Tang Qiqi reached out to wipe the screen, pressing it twice before hitting the return button.

Jiang Yun's fire axe pressed against the isolation layer.

Wang Xue stared at the handover checklist, her transparent fingers curling back into her palms.

Lin Yuan connected to the internal channel.

"Su Xiaonuan."

"Come out immediately."

Inside the space door, that figure's shoulders trembled slightly.

Su Xiaonuan instinctively took half a step toward the entrance.

The tip of her shoe crossed the positioning pillar.

However, the Zero Coordinate detached from the spiritual connection left by Wang Xue and turned toward the center of the Small World.

She stopped.

Her hands pressed down on the console again.

This was the first time she didn't answer "Yes".

"President Lin, your Dimensional Space cannot be lost."

"Wang Xue cannot die."

"My space is small."

"And the loss is minimal."

Lin Yuan raised his hand to forcefully open the return permissions.

[The passage has been set to one-way closure.]

[Modifier: Su Xiaonuan.]

"Qin Yumo, split open the doorframe."

The twin blades slashed down simultaneously.

The Indestructible Martial Body pushed power into the blades. The alloy floor sagged downward, but the space doorframe left no cracks.

"Lin Naer, fix the coordinates."

Four wings unfolded.

Holy Light locked down the four corners of the doorframe. The spatial entrance stopped shaking, but it was still shrinking.

Half a meter.

Forty centimeters.

Su Xiaonuan closed the last set of external interfaces.

A small space door unfolded behind her.

Inside, there were no strategic supplies of the Celestial Palace.

There were only categorized shelves, old filing cabinets, and an employee badge from two years ago.

On the badge photo, she was wearing an ill-fitting professional suit, with her head lowered.

Losing Wang Xue's connection, the Zero Coordinate immediately pounced toward the new isofrequency bridge.

The black line drilled into the space door.

The shelves began to disappear from the top.

A corner of the filing cabinet was missing.

Tang Qiqi stared closely at the curve.

"It went in!"

"The four positioning pillars are dragging the main body."

"Housekeeper Su's space capacity has dropped by twelve percent!"

Lin Yuan pressed a palm against the isolation layer.

The Water Calamity poured in along the doorframe, and the pipelines of the entire B2 Research Level vibrated simultaneously.

"I said, no one is sacrificing themselves."

His voice overrode all alarms.

"You are inside too."

Su Xiaonuan's fingers paused on the lockdown key.

She raised her face.

Only half a meter of the door gap remained.

The scent of jasmine drifted out from the scorched earth, only to be swept back by the spatial turbulence.

"Master."

"You taught me that a steward must keep losses to a minimum."

The Zero Coordinate swallowed the last row of shelves.

Only that employee badge remained in her small space.

Tang Qiqi projected the countdown onto the main screen.

[Isolation layer closure: Seventeen seconds.]

Qin Yumo jammed her twin blades into the doorframe.

Jiang Yun pressed the Green Lotus Fire into the fissure.

Wang Xue propped up her body, trying to reconnect to the Small World.

Lin Naer used her four wings to support the constantly sinking edge of space.

Su Xiaonuan looked at Lin Yuan through the door.

Her eyelids lowered, her breath stuck in her throat. Her hand holding the lockdown device was still trembling.

She did not let go.

"This time..."

"Please allow me to disobey."