Before the translucent apparition vanished, it seemed to say something to itself. Hao Ren was certain that several characters drifted into his ears, but he couldn't understand their meaning at all—he had no idea what had caused this.
In the end, everything settled. All the drifting points of light were completely absorbed by Vivian. Hao Ren shook his head, temporarily setting aside the strange events that had just occurred. "Does this count as her dying?"
"No." Vivian shook her head and pointed at her chest. "I just came back."
"You got her memories?"
"Some of them, but it was already better than expected." Vivian let out a breath. "At least I've more or less figured out what these so-called 'evil spirits' are."
"We'll talk about it in detail after we get back." Hao Ren noticed how exhausted Vivian looked. The excessive expenditure of magic had left her extremely weak, so he stepped forward to support her. He then glanced around and noticed that after the evil spirit and the surrounding sealing system had been destroyed, this place had begun to collapse. The thick biological tissues were withering and cracking at a visible speed, rapidly taking on a deathly gray-black color, as if the wilting of plants had been sped up dozens of times under a camera. In the low-gravity environment, fragments produced by the disintegration of the giant organ slowly drifted in every direction before eventually falling toward Earth's core in chaotic arcs. "Let's get out of here, quickly."
He stowed away the Data Terminal and led Vivian away from the giant organ that had split into pieces. Outside, he found that the tendrils connected to the organ, resembling long bridge chains, were also breaking one after another. All the biological tissues that had once bound this sealed site were