He's humming a nursery rhyme?

"Officer Cole, I think this naked Divine River Body won't survive another two minutes if we don't inject energy into it."

Instantly, Cole snapped out of his joy.

"Quick, you, you, you, go bring him back."

"Yes, Officer."

Having just witnessed the stimulating scene, the two soldiers honestly didn't want to go down. However, Taotie was a militaristic civilization.

The Officer's word was law; refusing an order was refusing one's own life. At this moment, as beings from an interstellar civilization, they had no choice.

"Chii!"

For Taotie's small spacecraft, entering a planet's surface from outer space was a swift process.

As the ship landed, two heavily armed Taotie soldiers disembarked.

Listening to the intermittent alarms of high-energy particle streams in their ears, the two exchanged glances, feeling somewhat speechless.

"Do you think our thousand-year campaign will encounter guys like this?"

"Are you kidding? Based on the system's scan, these aren't radiation streams left by a nuclear explosion at all. It's just high-purity radioactive ore circulating on this planet."

After speaking, he looked at his companion with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot.

"You don't actually think a primitive civilization could achieve in a thousand years what other civilizations take tens of thousands of years to accumulate, do you?"

"That's true."

"Alright, enough nonsense, inject the energy fluid. I have to admit, I'm a bit impressed by this Divine River Body; his body is so mangled, yet he's still alive."

"Pfft!"

As the Taotie soldiers injected the energy fluid, Yuan's body surface seemed to cool slightly. Before the two could even lift him, more intense energy turbulence began to surge across Yuan's body.

"No, the energy isn't enough. Impossible, this is the highest-grade green energy fluid, the energy within is unimaginable, how could it not even last three seconds?"

"Officer, Officer, we've run into trouble. For the mission, we request to bring the target back to the warship."

"You may. Bring the target back immediately. Don't worry about the energy fluid; keep injecting it until the target's body is fully repaired."

"Yes, Officer."

Soon, Yuan, with his body severely damaged, appeared in the Taotie warship's repair bay. The soldiers beside him continuously swiped at their handheld instruments, their expressions growing more grim.

"Officer, I think you need to see this."

"Life Sign Scan:

Target Individual: Male Divine River Body

Surface Damage: 90%

Area of Skin Necrosis: 80%

Bone Energetization Level: 43%

Radioactive Elements Detected in Cornea

Internal Radiation Concentration:

- Blood Gamma Ray Concentration: 9.8×10^5 Bq/L (2400 times the lethal dose for Divine River Bodies)

- Liver Tissue Absorbed Dose: 3.4×10^6 rad (170 times the critical threshold for Divine River Body organ failure)

- Abnormal Quantum Entanglement Signals Detected in Brain (Frequency matches that caused by gravitational fields)"

Cole took a deep breath and looked at the wide-eyed soldiers around him, asking with a tone full of disbelief:

"You're telling me, even like this, this guy actually survived?"

"Yes, Officer. While it's hard to admit, this Divine River Body's will is beyond imagination."

"Is his brain development sufficient?"

"Cannot detect. His body is riddled with holes right now, making detection impossible. However, based on the warship's system predictions, if he survives, he will exceed expectations."

"Hahaha, good, good. Quick, everyone get moving! Use all treatment plans! As long as he can live, all these centuries of hardship will not have been in vain."

Cole burst into laughter. Yes, these past few centuries. To secretly complete their plan, they had lived in constant fear.

Whenever the people from Dead Song Academy passed by the Taotie civilization, they would tremble like they had the shakes.

"The problem is, we don't have a plan at all."

"????"

The soldiers quickly explained: "After 'Cup's' examination, an astonishing amount of dark energy is surging within the target's body.

According to the technological concepts provided by the Academy, such a massive invasion of dark energy would be unbearable for an ordinary body unless it could accept a super gene.

However, upon testing, his genes are those of a very ordinary Divine River Body, with no traces of genetic modification.

For him to fully recover, his genes must completely adapt to the dark energy; only then can the target survive."

At this point, the soldier became anxious.

"If we had that capability, Taotie would have become a God-making civilization long ago."

"..."

"So, you're saying we're helpless right now?" The brutal news was like a bolt from the blue for Cole.

"I-I'm afraid so."

"Five hundred years. Five hundred years! Do you know how I've lived through it? I don't care if it's scientific or not, you must give me a plan.

As long as he's not dead, there's hope. I want him alive. He's only valuable if he's alive, otherwise, everything will have been for nothing."

Cole's eyes were bloodshot, his hands tightly gripping the collar of the only Taotie medical officer on the battleship.

"It's useless, Officer. The energy fluid injected earlier allowed the target to linger for a few minutes, but according to the system directory, the target will be completely eroded and dissolved by dark energy in less than a minute."

"Beep!"

"Beep!"

As if to echo the medical officer's explanation, the instruments in the medical bay let out familiar alarm sounds.

Yuan's gene chain danced wildly in the energy radiation, like kite strings torn apart by a hurricane. The biological monitoring screen in the medical bay flickered with death data:

"Telomere degradation: 9.7×10^6 base pairs fractured per second

Mitochondrial runaway: ATP production exceeds physiological limit by 3000 times

Cell death rate: 87%

"His kidneys are dissolving!"

"His lungs are fibrosing!"

"His nervous system is collapsing!"

The cultivation pod suddenly spewed out yellow-green mucus. A fist-sized bloody hole split open on Yuan's right abdomen, shattered glomeruli floating like radioactive dust, each leaving a faint blue trail.

"Beep… Target has lost Divine River Body life signs."

Staring at Yuan's mangled body, Cole dug his fingernails deep into his palm. The monitoring equipment, which had completely ceased its fluctuations, made Cole's expression turn extremely grim.

"Bang!"

Cole's eyes, narrowed to pinpricks in the red warning light, swung violently as his hands smashed into the holographic command console with a piercing shriek.

The alloy tabletop caved in upon impact, and fragments of exploded circuit boards scattered like shrapnel, scratching dazzling sparks on the cabin walls.

Though difficult to accept, reality had shown Cole the cruelty of life.

"The plan has failed. Cleanse this planet and return. After a thousand years of war, to create sacred death for my God Karl, abandon all other thoughts."

With that, he turned and prepared to leave, his expression dejected.

"Creak!"

"Creak!"

"Creak creak!"

A few sounds like rusty mechanical friction echoed in the silent medical bay. As if sensing something, several people suddenly turned their heads.

They could hear faint sounds coming from Yuan.

"This is impossible!" The medical officer's face changed drastically.

"Creak! Creak creak! Creak! Creak creak creak!"

"Scan the target, what's going on with him?"

Before Cole could issue his surprised command, the medical officer next to him had already nimbly begun scanning.

Less than ten seconds later, looking at the data in his hand, he replied with a strange expression:

"He seems to be humming a nursery rhyme? This is unscientific as hell."

"No, this is very scientific."

"Beep!"

"Beep!"

"Beep!"

His eyes fixed on the reactivated medical equipment, along with the damaged wires on Yuan's mangled body that occasionally flashed with faint light.

Cole's lips curved slightly, like a lost person in the darkness seeing a light.