Micro-wormhole transportation?

Yuan recounted his recent experiences by the tombstone, including his dark times in the mine, as if complaining to a parent.

"Sigh, it's a shame that token is gone. I wasn't even familiar with that guy, I don't even know where he lived to return it to him?"

Yuan touched the token, long gone from his body, with a speechless expression. It was the last thing the pitiful boy who died in front of him had.

"It's getting late, Grandma, I'm heading back. I feel like I've encountered a different world, more magical than your storybooks."

As he spoke, he looked at the inscription on the tombstone and forced a grimace, saying, "82 years old, in this shit world, I guess you had a peaceful end, huh?"

As the words fell, his heart stirred, and the battle helmet on his head covered his entire face. He spoke:

"I want to write a few words on this tombstone, can you help me?"

"System ZS-9462 is at your service. You can directly control the battle armor's plasma etching beam for engraving. You need to consider the power level; the system can operate it for you."

"You do it, I don't know how."

"Instruction received, scanning target information. Ordinary sandstone slab, composed of quartz with many impurities, adjusting ray power."

Immediately, Yuan's right hand slowly rose under the system's control. A red ray whizzed and carved Yuan's name onto the tombstone.

"Unfilial Grandson: Yuan"

As the last stroke fell, Yuan's right hand returned to his side. He nodded in satisfaction, looking at the neat, large characters on the tombstone.

"Time to go."

With that, he turned and walked back the way he came.

"Yuan!"

"Huh?"

Yuan spun around sharply but saw no one.

"Grandma? Is that you? Grandma?" Yuan shouted anxiously, an indescribable excitement surging within him.

"Yuan, be careful, be careful. Remember, believe in miracles, believe in hope, life will find a way."

"Grandma, Grandma!" A familiar figure seemed to appear before Yuan, but no matter how he looked, he couldn't see it.

Only faint wisps of dust, even with the battle mask on his helmet at maximum power.

Yuan ignored everything, tears streaming down his face. At this moment, his tense heart could no longer contain its sorrow.

"You really... still worrying about me even after you're gone?"

Meanwhile, Taotie's detection encountered some trouble.

Cole's fingers tapped a blur on the holographic console, and the constantly refreshing radiation data on his tactical display made the battleship's central processing core overheat.

The original medical bay on the battleship had been reconfigured into a detection command center. Twelve multi-band radiation detectors formed a circle within the cabin, and blue scanning beams projected the entire planet's atmospheric model in the center.

"Officer, the gamma-ray intensity has reached a radiation dose rate of 20μSv/h, and the cumulative dose has exceeded 2 Sieverts." The science officer's voice crackled with electronic noise. "This is equivalent to exposing the cores of thirty nuclear reactors directly on the surface."

Cole stared at the expanding red area in the three-dimensional projection, the ripples representing radiation exceeding the standard spreading outwards from the villages.

"Initiate geological resonance scan." He pressed the orange button on the console. "I need to know how many meters underground the radiation source is."

"It's, it's on the surface!"

"What?"

"Officer, all the radiation on the planet is on the surface. Those Divine River Bodies thought they found a way to isolate the radiation, but they didn't realize that with their manufacturing techniques, the impurities in those metal containment boxes were severely over the limit.

So, this is the result."

"Forget it, notify Your Excellency. It saves us trouble if these Divine River Bodies are seeking their own demise."

Following Cole's order, a small probe flew towards the tomb on the back of the mountain.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, I think you need to come and see this." Hearing a familiar voice, Yuan wiped the tears from his eyes and looked up at the unknown object falling from the sky.

"What is this?"

"This is one of our detection instruments. We are still at the foot of the mountain. The detection instruments on the battleship have found some problems, and I think you might be interested. Just follow it."

Yuan couldn't explain the current situation and could only keep it in his heart. He glanced back at the tombstone, waved goodbye one last time, and then followed the probe down the mountain.

"Actually, I can't understand much even after coming here. Much of your knowledge surpasses my entire career of over a decade."

"This is only temporary. We believe you will grasp and surpass our knowledge in a very short time."

"Then thank you for your good wishes. Tell me about it, since I can't understand anything right now anyway."

"Certainly, Your Excellency. Look here." As he spoke, he magnified the holographic projection, and the appearance of the entire planet reappeared before Yuan's eyes.

The observation window was divided into 120,000 honeycomb-like scanning matrices, each grid displaying different scanning data:

- Infrared thermal imaging shows an absolute zero zone with a diameter of three kilometers along the continental axis.

- Gamma-ray spectroscopy detected excess Californium-254 isotopes at latitude 37.2 degrees North.

"The radiation kill radius is consistent with pre-nuclear civilization extinction standards," the science officer projected the data stream onto the cabin wall. "Other central intelligences cannot analyze the deep-level data. I apologize, Your Excellency, but your planet's life can be declared extinct."

"What's the reason? Although I don't understand this corrupt Kingdom, it's unlikely such a unambitious country would be so foolish as to destroy itself?"

The light screen before him flickered with countless pieces of information, but unfortunately, Yuan couldn't understand any of it. However, he could tell from Baron Harris that the people of the Kingdom might be cruel, might be greedy, but they couldn't all be fools.

"No, it's not that they have no ambition, it's that they have too much ambition," Cole, standing beside him, shook his head. The holographic projection before them immediately shifted.

"Look, this is the ore you collected at the so-called mine. It's composed of many highly pure radioactive minerals. In the terms of your civilization, it's highly poisonous.

Invisible and tasteless, it's useless even if you hide in a castle. It's truly a weapon of war."

"When they discovered a certain metal could insulate this ore, a brilliant idea emerged."

At this point, Cole turned to Yuan and said, "By having people scatter large quantities of this ore in designated locations, they could unify the world without shedding a single drop of blood. Unfortunately, the honeycomb corrosion holes covered the rusted lead-antimony alloy casing."

"How stupid!" Yuan sighed silently after listening.

"Yes, stupid. Perhaps they thought that no matter how potent the poison, it would dissipate completely within a hundred years? But they didn't know that this substance not only has a wide radiation range but can also maintain high-level radiation even after thousands of years."

"Did anyone survive?"

"The numbers were rapidly declining when I saw you. Now, there should be none left."

Yuan's reaction was unexpectedly calm. He nodded faintly and said, "If they're gone, they're gone. Sometimes, living is also a form of suffering."

Whether it was the planet or the Kingdom. His grandmother was gone, and his village was gone too. He didn't care if others lived or not. Perhaps leaving this painful world wouldn't be a bad thing for them.

"Alright, we've arrived. It's time to talk." Hearing this, Cole's expression grew excited, and just as he was about to say something, he saw Yuan's eyes glow faintly blue again.

With a slight movement of his hands, a large table and several chairs appeared before everyone.

"Mi-cro-wormhole transport?"