Lin Ye injected a wisp of Prototype power into Before Completion's core.
Stimulated by the resonance of the Dreamweaver's Echo, a few of the dim patterns on Before Completion's core lit up again with immense difficulty, conveying a hazy thought:
"...To bear... to carry on... is my destiny..."
"...Shared loss... can be accepted... resonance... can grow..."
"...But... requires... a pact... shared... causality..."
Before Completion could accept this wisp of the Dreamweaver's Echo, but it required a pact to share the burden of unknown causality.
As a Tuner capable of communicating with both, Lin Ye became the pact's witness and guide.
This was undoubtedly an opportunity, but it also carried risks.
Just as Lin Ye weighed his options, Order's Dawn sounded another alarm, this time with deeper anxiety:
"Warning! High-intensity scanning fluctuations detected from multiple sources! Sources-rapidly approaching!"
"Analyzing fluctuation signatures... matching..."
"Match results: 1. Eraser protocol tracking signal! 2. Unknown energy signature, partially similar to the Taotie Court's predatory fluctuations, but more orderly and colder! 3. Faint interference noise from a network beacon."
"At least three forces of different kinds are approaching from different directions! Estimated earliest contact: less than three hundred seconds!"
They had only just resolved the crisis at the Ruined Tower, and an even greater crisis was already upon them!
Eraser had indeed refused to abandon the pursuit, and its signal had grown stronger! What were those fluctuations that resembled Taotie's but were more orderly? Other units from the Taotie Court? Or other units within the Archivist Network specifically tasked with handling such "predatory anomalies"?
The interference noise from a network beacon suggested that the New Era Network might also be operating nearby.
Enemies ahead, enemies behind, and potential allies off to the side.
Yet they were trapped in a death zone. The little boat Before Completion