Invalid Resonance and Invalid Common Sense

The cellar reeked of mold and damp earth, the air thick and suffocating.

Ling Ye, cradling Ling Xiaoye who had finally cried himself to sleep, slumped onto the cold, muddy ground. He stared at the "troublemaker" cloth bundle in the corner, emitting a faint red glow, and the cracked pendant around his neck. All he felt was a bleak future, a life... no, a godhood without hope.

Just as he was contemplating digging a hole and burying himself—

That familiar, heart-wrenching resonance, without warning, like a maggot burrowing into bone, pierced through infinite space-time and the cellar's thick earth, precisely... locking onto him!

Clearer than any time before! More urgent! More... desolate!

[...Cold...]

[...So dark...]

[...Sister... it hurts so much...]

[...Take me... home...]

[...Coordinates... (even clearer fragments)...]

[...They... are getting closer...]

A mournful, seemingly life-force-draining thought, like an ice pick, hammered into Ling Ye's senses! The despair and pain contained within it even caused Su Wanqing, powerless beside him, to inexplicably shiver and feel a pang of unease.

"Is this ever going to end?!" Ling Ye's mind completely snapped! He leaped up from the ground, veins bulging on his forehead. "Are none of you going to stop?! Do you really think I'm some kind of junk collector?! Or a nanny specifically for raising your brats?!"

The immense pressure and frustration nearly drove him mad. He cursed into the void, "Go home where?! Who's your sister?! I don't know you! If you keep making noise, you think I won't just throw this broken little brother of yours away too?! Let's just call it quits!!"

He snatched the cloth bundle from the ground, raising it as if to smash it against the wall! He intended to use this extreme method to warn and sever that damned resonance!

However, the moment he raised the bundle—

A sudden change occurred!

The beast-tooth pendant on his neck, seemingly stimulated by Ling Ye's furious emotions and the "brother's" piercing wail...

The cracks on its surface... suddenly... erupted with an unprecedented, blinding... grayish-white light!!!

A power far more immense and desolate than before, as if from the end of time, erupted with a roar!

This time, it wasn't a faint leakage, but... like a slumbering behemoth... opening its eyes!

[------]

A [syllable] that defied any language, filled with supreme majesty and indifference, as if it had existed since the universe's singularity, directly resonated in the deepest part of Ling Ye's soul!

Not a sound, but a vibration of rules!

As this [syllable] sounded—

The pendant's light instantly condensed, transforming into a solid, grayish-white... ancient [imprint]... seemingly composed of countless shattered moments in time!

This [imprint], ignoring all obstacles, instantly pierced through the cellar and into the void, following the trajectory of that piercing wail... in an incomprehensible manner... it fiercely... imprinted itself!

The target—directly pointing to the depths of the distant Cosmic Graveyard... towards the "sister" fragment emitting a plea for help!

The Cosmic Graveyard, infinitely far away.

This was a place of absolute stillness, shattered stars like colossal tombstones, and frozen time like an eternal dirge.

An unimaginably vast, yet terrifyingly cracked "Origin Core" fragment, as if on the verge of complete collapse, was tightly bound and sealed within a massive dark matter ice core by countless cold, rune-glowing black chains.

On the fragment's surface, a faint fluctuation, like a candle in the wind, emitted its final mournful cry.

Suddenly—

The solid grayish-white [imprint] from the beast-tooth pendant, ignoring all spatial distances and dimensional barriers, appeared in this land of death like a phantom... out of thin air!

The [imprint] exuded a supreme, ancient aura that commanded all laws to submit. It flashed slightly...

Then...

With extreme precision...

It imprinted itself... onto the core area... of that massive fragment!

Buzz—!!!

Like a drop of water hitting hot oil!

The entire Cosmic Graveyard... trembled violently... because of it!!!

The countless black chains binding and sealing the fragment, imbued with terrifying power, upon contact with the faint light emanating from the [imprint]...

As if encountering their nemesis... or rather... encountering... a higher authority... command?!

They...

Broke... inch by inch!!!

Dissipating into... the most basic... energy particles... into nothingness!!!

The seal... was broken?!

The massive "sister" fragment, seemingly caught completely off guard by this sudden turn of events, its mournful cry abruptly ceased!

The faint light on the fragment's surface, due to the seal's destruction, began to gradually brighten and stabilize... even... conveying a sense of... immense... bewilderment... and... disbelief... [----]?

Next, the fragment seemed to "sense" a trace of... the same origin... yet a more ancient and noble... aura... contained within the [imprint]...

It suddenly... violently... began to tremble!!!

No longer a mournful cry, but... an uncontrollable... [----] of excitement!!!

As if a child lost for eons... finally... felt... the summons of... its dearest kin?!

It even... disregarding its severe damage... began to frantically... absorb the energy of the surrounding shattered stars... attempting to... break free from its final restraints... towards the direction the [imprint] came from... that is, towards Ling Ye's location... beginning... a difficult... [----]!!!

Inside the cellar.

Ling Ye remained in the pose of holding up the cloth bag to smash, but his entire body was frozen as if under a petrification spell.

He... just now... subconsciously... did something with that pendant?!

He seemed to have... [----]ed something... incredibly troublesome?!

And... it seemed... he had also... [----]ed its seal?!

He could even vaguely "feel" that the distant fragment "sister" was currently expressing... an emotion so excited it was cracking its voice... frantically... [----]ing towards his direction?!

Ling Ye: "..."

The "brother" pebble in the cloth bag also seemed to sense its "sister's" escape and approach, once again excitedly pulsating, transmitting joyful and encouraging [----] intentions!

The bellyband also flickered with red light excitedly, as if welcoming a new member.

The beast-tooth pendant on Ling Ye's neck, after its outburst, slowly retracted its light. The cracks seemed to have increased by a few more, conveying a faint sense of "Done, piece of cake"... tinged with exhaustion? Then it returned to its half-dead, tattered appearance.

Only Ling Ye.

Ling Ye stood in place, his hand still raised in mid-air, his expression blank, his brain completely frozen.

A cold wind blew from some crack in the cellar, picking up a few stalks of straw, swirling them, and landing on his stiff face.

It's over.

This time...

It seems...

Truly...

Completely...

Finished.

Not only did he fail to get rid of the trouble, it seems... he personally... invited the biggest trouble... here?!

Su Wanqing, holding her child, looked at the great being's expression, which seemed as if he'd been struck by lightning, and cautiously, with a tearful voice, asked, "Gr-Great being... Wh-what... happened again... just now?"

Ling Ye slowly, extremely slowly... lowered the hand holding the cloth bag.

His movements were as stiff as a rusted robot.

He turned his head to look at Su Wanqing, a smile appearing on his face that was uglier than crying, filled with immense confusion and despair.

His voice drifted as if in a dream:

"...Nothing..."

"...It's just..."

"...It seems..."

"...Our family..."

"...Is going to have... new... people... again..."

"...Maybe..."

"...A little..."

"...Big..."

Su Wanqing: "???"

She looked at the great being's expression, as if the end of the world had arrived, and then savored the words "new people" and "a little big"...

She silently, even tighter, hugged the sleeping Ling Xiaoye in her arms.

She felt...

This life...

Might truly...

Be impossible to continue.

(To be continued?)