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After returning to the surface, Yu Sheng immediately sent Engineer Sun and the sample recovery team dispatched by the Special Operations Bureau back to Boundary City. Then, before the entire caldera region completely collapsed, he evacuated to safety with Huli and the others.
Not long afterward, the entire area collapsed before their eyes, turning into a shocking deep pit.
The underground structure of the caldera had long since been completely hollowed out by Dark Angel's parasites. After the Crystal Heart in those caverns completely died, the unsupported strata continued collapsing downward, eventually dragging a considerable area around the caldera into the terrifying chain collapse. The collapse lasted for dozens of minutes, ultimately leaving everything utterly transformed.
The residual heat at the bottom of the pit had yet to dissipate. Lifeless, ashen crystals lay mixed with rock and soil, while the hollowed-out stone "pipes" and compressed, deformed strata sprawled in disarray. They looked like the bones left behind by some primordial beast after a thousand years of death. The "giant pit" was clearly visible even from space, and for the foreseeable future, it would likely remain on Garrison-3 as a permanent structure that the passage of time could never erase.
Xu Jiali and his psychic servant had not evacuated with the others. Instead, they stayed behind and witnessed the earth-shaking Great Collapse with Yu Sheng.
"Boss, that was spectacular, meow." Bell widened her eyes and gazed into the distance at the giant pit still shrouded in rising dust. Then she pressed a button on her protective suit. A thin tube rose into her helmet visor, and a mind-clearing mist extracted from catnip poured through it. She took a deep breath, then narrowed her eyes. "That packs a punch..."
"Does this count as witnessing another 'angel's fall'?" Xu Jiali turned to