"Beep, beep-"
Song Linwei's and Wan Yuan's Communicators sounded at the same time. Both looked down and sucked in a sharp breath.
"What happened?" Zhang Kun asked.
Wan Yuan said urgently, "News from Capital City. An hour ago, the temperature plummeted, and the oxygen content dropped with it. Things have gotten even worse."
Song Linwei said, "An hour ago was exactly when the Fragments were assembled, minus one piece."
Everyone drew a sharp breath.
Their gazes turned murderous as they looked at the Fragments.
Lou Mingwei struck them with lightning a few times. The energy from his lightning-type ability landed on them and vanished without a trace, changing nothing.
Ruan Zifeng shook his head. "There's nothing we can do."
They still had no way to deal with the Fragments. The Research Institute had exhausted every method and only managed to damage a little of the surface-and that slight damage had brought the Vampire Mosquitoes and Qiu Yu's death.
In their current predicament, the slightest mistake might leave humanity without even those two-odd months.
Li Xin kicked them hard and cursed, "I can't destroy it, but surely I can beat it up? We used to think it was inanimate. Now we know it's alive. Heh."
He kicked it away like a ball.
Long Tianyu kicked it back.
-they were all taking their anger out on it.
They were not merely venting. They were also trying to force it to speak again.
Yet the "Egg" seemed like an inanimate object. They kicked it back and forth, but it neither moved on its own nor made another sound, as though the word "trash" earlier had only been their hallucination.
Song Linwei looked at Sheng An. "Sister Sheng?"
Sheng An came back to herself. The Fragments happened to be kicked to her feet, and