A Destruction, and a Reconnaissance

Inside the control center, time seemed to flow slowly beneath the torrent of data.

Halsey and Cortana had already immersed themselves completely in their work.

On the Hardlight screens before them, the immense streams of data transmitted by Great Device 01's monitoring nodes scattered across the ring, along with dedicated monitoring stations distributed throughout it, were being processed and cross-referenced.

"Pulse waveform matches the preset model at 99.992%. The energy attenuation curve conforms to theoretical predictions. No abnormal dissipation detected."

Cortana reported calmly, her projected fingers swiftly sweeping across a complex energy distribution chart and enlarging three tiny anomalous fluctuations.

"A 0.008% deviation has been detected. Analysis indicates it was caused by uneven dark matter density in nearby galaxies. It falls within the acceptable margin of error."

Halsey nodded slightly, her gaze moving to another set of data. "The spacetime curvature disturbance peaked 3.7 seconds after firing, reaching 1.47 times normal spacetime curvature, then rapidly subsided below the baseline within 0.3 seconds.

"It did not trigger cascading structural damage to space. The gravitational fields of nearby galaxies remain stable. Good. Stability was five percent better than the simulation results."

She brought up a dynamic stellar map of a spherical region spanning thirty thousand light-years. The scattered crimson points that had represented the life signals of "Marker: Blood Moon" had now all gone dark, replaced by cold gray markers denoting "Purified."

Every extinguished point represented the complete eradication of at least one Blood Moon entity.

"Final confirmation scan in progress," Cortana's voice rang out again. "Initiating deep-space resonance detection. Frequencies covering the full spectrum. Scan progress: 87%... 95%... 100%.

"Confirmation: within the preset purification radius, all locked biological signals have dropped to zero.

"I repeat, all locked biological signals have dropped to zero. No surviving individuals or tissue with residual activity