Fruit!

Return Sea, Moya Island.

Inside the main hall, a virtual sea map floated in midair. The red dots representing the alien islands had all vanished, leaving behind only vast dark green voids.

At this moment, the dark green voids had stopped expanding, as though frozen in place.

Yet beneath the map, every pair of watching eyes was taut with anxiety, their breathing especially heavy as their gazes converged beyond the voids upon a similarly motionless, gleaming point of light.

Only the map had frozen—not the God Realm, nor Li Qingshan!

The mechanical legion had been wiped out and the signal lost, so naturally, the map could no longer update.

But there was nothing they could do now. They could only stare helplessly at the stalled map and fret.

Kong Mingze's nails unconsciously dug into his palms as he repeatedly calculated the time the God Realm had remained still—every additional second was a sign of danger.

Sheng Tian's eyelids twitched as he stared fixedly at the places where islands had vanished. This was no longer the swallowing of forty-five islands, but the annihilation of a hundred.

Zheng Zicheng silently watched the dark green void. The "New Year pig" had certainly been fattened up, but how likely was Li Qingshan to slaughter it...

Amid the crowd, Lu Bing sat upright in her chair with her eyes closed. Icy blue data surged wildly throughout her body, linking through crystal channels in the floor to the obelisks outside that shot into the sky.

Suddenly, her cool, detached face trembled, and she opened her eyes.

"The new unmanned mecha are in position. A signal has come back."

"A signal? There's news?!"

In an instant, every pair of eyes lit up as they impatiently turned toward Lu Bing.

Yet Lu Bing did not answer immediately. A