Yu Sheng heard an incongruous "noise" appear in his mind. Deep within that noise, he seemed to hear the distant earth being shaken by battle, someone shouting at the edge of a dream, and something pounding against the border of the cognitive barrier.
He slowly closed his eyes and deliberately strengthened his connection with the Star Proliferation Body. In the darkness, he saw scene after scene of illusions: the entire planet was covered in a pale light that seemed both real and illusory, yet within that light there was a single rift. The rift was like a black hole, peeled away from the "whole" that was Silent Garrison, while countless restless points of light gathered around that "black hole," attempting again and again to enter it.
"...There's fighting in Mo City." Yu Sheng opened his eyes and spoke to Huli and Luna beside him. "And many people affected by the Star Proliferation Body are converging on Mo City."
"True Spirit Yuan Hao is pretty good in a fight." Huli thought for a moment. "He should have already brought Xuan Che there by now."
Yu Sheng said nothing. He merely nodded silently and looked ahead.
They had already passed through that enormous underground palace. After crossing the walls built by the Hermetic Society and a series of facilities that looked like laboratories, they found another cave system ahead, its structure intricate and complicated. This place was clearly no longer part of the stronghold once built by the pioneers. Those enormous underground fissures and karst caves looked more like the planet's original geological structure.
It seemed that the ancient frontier expeditions had used the existing underground cave system as the foundation for constructing the entire stronghold. As the years passed, this place had instead become the Star Proliferation Body's nest.
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