144: Break through the heavens!

Before the “Wall of Sighs,” physical laws had completely ceased to function.

The [Dimensional Interferometer: Boundary Breaker] crystal in Jiang Yuan's hand was now like a restless heart, wildly flashing with an eerie blue light.

It didn't directly blast open the wall; instead, like a precise analyzer, it projected all the energy flows and structural weaknesses of the barrier onto Jiang Yuan's retina in the form of holographic data streams.

“So that's it…”

Jiang Yuan's gaze swept past the ten-thousand-meter-high ice wall in front of him, looking up at the gray-white, artificial sky above.

“The walls are the thickest part, to prevent collisions. But the sky…”

A hint of madness curved his lips.

“The sky is only for projecting images, so that's where it's thinnest.”

The location referred to as “directly above the South Pole” was the exhaust vent of this massive cage.

“Zero.”

Jiang Yuan's voice echoed in the dead silent space. Although communications were down, he knew that as the core intelligence linked to his nervous system, she was always listening.

“Are you ready? We're going to do something big.”

He flipped his wrist, tossing the silver capsule, which had been in standby mode, high into the air.

Boom—!!!

In this space devoid of air resistance, the capsule transformed at extreme speed.

It didn't become the elegant yacht, nor the streamlined fighter jet.

It frantically reorganized, stretched, and stacked in the air. Countless black-gold armor plates and energy conduits seemed to be putting on a display of violent aesthetics.

A few seconds later.

A never-before-seen monstrous creation hovered in mid-air.

It was like a fifty-meter-long giant metal spear, or rather, a [Dimensional Drilling Cannon] born solely for destruction.

Its front end consisted of three spirally twisted energy generators, with a core flashing a terrifying dark red light.

【phantom: Ultimate Form: Dimensional Drilling Mode】

“Warning. This mode will draw 99% of the core energy pile's energy.”

“Warning. This is expected to cause irreversible collapse of the current spatial structure.”

“Warning. You are attempting to destroy the world's underlying logic. Please confirm operation.”

Zero's long-unheard voice finally sounded in his mind. This time, her voice was no longer calm, but filled with static and warning red lights.

“Confirm.”

Jiang Yuan didn't hesitate. His figure flashed, and he transformed into a stream of light, diving into the cockpit.

“Target: Zenith.”

“Full power output.”

“Break… open!”

Boom—!!!

No flames, no smoke.

Only a beam of pure, ultimate energy erupted from the tip of the metal spear.

The beam was no longer energy from the material world; it fused space cutting, dimensional interference, and antimatter annihilation technology.

It was a “Gamma Knife” used to perform surgery on the universe.

The beam pierced the gray-white void, shooting straight towards the seemingly ethereal firmament above.

The moment of contact.

The entire world stood still.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

But everyone—not just Jiang Yuan, but every living being in every corner of Earth—felt a shiver originating from the depths of their soul at this moment.

It was like a finely tuned instrument operating at high speed suddenly having its gears jammed by an iron rod.

Sizzle—

Global anomalies began.

In New York's Times Square, all the giant advertising screens suddenly went black, then flashed countless garbled codes and static.

Under the Eiffel Tower in Paris, a couple taking photos were astonished to find that the tower in their camera had turned into a white wireframe model without textures.

In the center of the Pacific Ocean, a cargo ship sailing suddenly found the sea surface gone, the ship suspended in a void, only to return to normal a few seconds later.

The entire “Earth Online” server was experiencing severe frame drops and data overflow due to Jiang Yuan's strike.

And at the South Pole.

That energy beam was firmly pressed against the sky curtain.

The originally gray-white sky began to change color.

It was like a red-hot branding iron, turning dazzling orange-red, then sickly purple, and finally, a despairing dead black.

Screech—creak—

A grating sound, like metal fatigued to its limit, came from the zenith.

The sound grew louder and denser, finally turning into continuous thunder.

That wasn't thunder.

It was the “shell” of this world, groaning.

Finally.

The moment the energy output reached its critical point.

Jiang Yuan sat in the violently shaking cockpit, staring intently at the sky above.

He saw it.

The once flawless sky, centered on the point of impact of the beam, showed a tiny… crack.

The crack rapidly spread, like a wildly growing white lightning bolt, instantly covering the entire Antarctic sky and continuing to spread globally at supersonic speed.

The sky, it cracked open.

It was no longer gas, no longer the atmosphere.

It revealed its original material—a transparent medium similar to glass, yet billions of times harder than glass.

Crack!

A loud bang.

The sound wasn't deafening, but it clearly reverberated to every corner of the globe.

It was like someone snapping a crisp biscuit right next to your ear.

The cage was broken.

The massive “sky curtain” above finally couldn't withstand the internal pressure and shattered with a roar.

Countless transparent fragments, as large as mountains, carried terrifying storms formed by the escaping atmosphere, plummeting towards the ground.

And beyond the shattered firmament.

What was revealed was no longer the familiar starry sky.

But a… absolute, unknown, suffocating—truth.

“Alert! Atmospheric pressure is rapidly dropping!” “Alert! Gravity system completely collapsed!” “Alert! Unknown cosmic radiation detected!”

Inside the cockpit, red alert lights flashed frantically, and Zero's voice was completely covered by static.

The entire Antarctic continent transformed into a true hell at this moment.

With the shattering of the zenith, the immense pressure difference created a terrifying vacuum suction. Ground glaciers, accumulated snow, and even the majestic Wall of Sighs, disintegrated under this suction, turning into countless fragments swept into the sky.

Jiang Yuan, piloting the phantom, was like a small boat struggling in a doomsday storm.

Countless huge sky curtain fragments, like gigantic transparent guillotines, grazed the fuselage as they fell, striking the ice plain and causing violent earthquakes.

“Get out!”

Jiang Yuan gripped the control stick tightly, pushing the engine thrust to maximum.

Instead of retreating, he advanced, heading against the terrifying suction, piloting the spacecraft directly towards the ever-expanding, shattered zenith hole.

That was the only way out, and the only path to the truth.

Closer.

Even closer.

The spacecraft vibrated violently, as if it could disintegrate at any moment.

Boom—!!!

Accompanied by a suffocating sense of weightlessness and a dizzying blackout.

All noise ceased abruptly.

The spacecraft broke through.

It passed through the hole, leaving the space called “Earth.”

All vibrations, alarms, and storm sounds vanished at this instant.

Dead silence.

Jiang Yuan gasped for air, his nanotech combat suit having automatically switched to [Fully Enclosed Life Support Space Mode].