The echoes of the city-wide broadcasts had not yet completely dissipated.
A flash of golden and red lightning streaked across the laboratory.
Barry Allen pressed his earpiece.
" Hill, give me a list of unfiled personnel. Categorize them by hazard level."
"I've sent you the terminal, Barry. You only have six hours."
"It won't take that long."
Barry didn't wait for anyone's instructions and rushed out the door.
He's going to get people out of trouble.
There were also many relatives of Frost City residents scattered outside.
Six hours might be a short time for others, but for him, it was enough to travel through several branches of the multiverse.
In the first second, he brought back the logistics team that had been procuring Vibranium in other universes.
The next second, he went to the X-Men Universe 10005 and dragged back several Mutants who were scouting on the periphery.
The third second.
As more and more people gathered in the square, Barry's speed increased, and golden-red lightning began to pierce through one universe after another.
Barry dared not slacken his pace in the slightest, because in this crisis of the multiverse's survival, every extra second he could save more lives.
After all, no one knows better than him how to race against time.
No one in the lab cared about Barry's departure.
Reed stared at the points of light on the sand table that were being swallowed by darkness, his fingers gripping the edge of the control panel.
"This doesn't make sense," Reed repeated. "The rules have been broken. How did they do it? What about energy conservation? What about the dimensional threshold?"
Susan ignored him and stepped forward, blocking Valeria's path.
A translucent blue force field rose from beneath her feet, enveloping her youngest daughter completely.
The outer shell of the force field gleamed faintly.
" Susan, I need Valeria to help me recalculate the dimensional constant." Reed wanted to cross the force field.
"No." Susan didn't budge.
"This is a state of emergency, if things aren't clear..."
"I said no." Susan didn't even turn her head. " Reed, you don't understand the situation. Franklin is risking his life; your formulas won't lead to survival. Right now, the only thing that can save our lives is a solid barrier."
Reed opened his mouth, but no words came out.
He looked at his daughter, who was protected inside the force field, and could only take half a step back.
"Mom, don't block my screen." Valeria's fingers flew across her personal terminal, retrieving data from Frost City's defense network.
"Get back to work." Susan kept her eyes fixed on the door. "Don't leave my side until your brother gets back."
Susan's thinking was simple: she didn't care how chaotic things were outside.
It doesn't matter to her who destroys the universe; as long as she's there, this force field cannot be broken—that's the bottom line she must uphold.
On the terrace outside the laboratory.
Erik spread his arms wide, his knuckles clenched tightly.
The entire underlying structure of Frost City was trembling.
Thousands of tons of superalloy steel rose from the ground.
Underground pipes, abandoned vehicles, and armor plates were all torn to pieces by the magnetic field, and then forcibly kneaded together in mid-air.
This is the new home he found for the Mutants.
The Nimrod Sentry destroyed Genosha; he can't let anything else happen to this place.
After all, his children Lorna and Pietro are here.
Buzz--
A dark green magical aura lit up at his feet.
Doom appeared beside him, his eyes beneath the metal mask fixed on the rising steel.
" Victor, aren't you going back to your 2027 universe?" Erik glanced at him sideways. "The door's closing. If you're Latveria will have a new king."
"It's none of your business, you old piece of trash, telling Doom how to do things."
Doom raised his hand, which was covered in metal armor.
Intricate magical runes slid down his fingertips, imprinting themselves onto the steel surfaces Erik was holding up.
Metal and magic intertwine.
Two repulsive energies collided in mid-air, creating sparks.
"Keep your magnetic field under control," Doom said. "You've broken my array patterns; now you're out there fighting the monsters."
"Don't let your broken magic corrode my steel plate," Erik retorted.
Despite their sharp tongues, the two worked together seamlessly.
The monotonous defensive line was tinged with a layer of eerie green sheen.
Doom didn't want to stay here; the Reed family annoyed him.
But if this city falls, who will protect Valeria?
Expecting Reed, that bookworm with his head full of formulas?
Forget it, Reed has never been reliable.
Doom increased his magical output, and dark green light patterns spread along the metal skeleton to the underground of the entire city.
Erik didn't reply and increased the magnetic field output.
Two old men, who never bowed their heads, one on the left and one on the right, reconstructed the defensive framework of Frost City.
Asgard, the floating city.
This is the highest point in the entire city.
Looking down, you can see the fighting arena in the south, the cyberpunk neon lights in the west, and hovercars darting around the streets.
Residents were evacuating, and the streets were in complete chaos.
Someone was leading a Triceratops towards an underground shelter when several hoverboards collided, blocking half the street.
Emma Frost stood on the edge of the highest point.
The wind was strong, making her white suit jacket flutter loudly.
Betsy emerged from the shadows behind her.
"Your commanding manner is getting more and more interesting." Betsy stopped and looked down at the chaotic street below.
"If you're not happy, then you become the city lord." Emma Frost didn't turn around. "How about I give you the position of deputy city lord?"
"No interest." Betsy sheathed her knife. "I only know how to kill."
Emma Frost was fully aware of the consequences of Ark Plan.
Once the door closes, the coordinates are locked.
People outside can't get in, and people inside can't get out.
If it really comes to that, Thor loses at the end of time, then this will be the next target of those formless monsters.
This place will become a piece of prime meat coveted by the entire multiverse.
"Since Thor has entrusted this city to me," Emma Frost's tone remained unchanged, "Then no one, no matter who comes, will be able to take it from me, not even a single brick."
"He won't die," Betsy added. "He's got a whole bunch of dirty tricks up his sleeve."
The two remained silent, standing and watching the crowd below evacuate.
Madelyne floated in mid-air in the North District Ecological Park.
The dark red chaotic psychic power swept up a dozen or so frightened children and carried them into the safety passage.
She didn't like doing the work of a nanny.
But this is Thor's territory.
"Run! Don't make me kick your asses!" she shouted at the few boys below who were still in a daze.
Several children tumbled and crawled into the passageway.
Madelyne withdrew her telekinesis and watched the steel defenses rising continuously on the perimeter, red energy swirling at her fingertips.
Her thinking was very straightforward.
Thor belongs to her, and whatever belongs to Thor naturally belongs to her as well.
If anyone tries to cause trouble, she'll shove a fragment of the Phoenix Force directly into their mouth.
Six hours passed quickly.
Maria Hill stood in the control room.
"All personnel, return to your positions. Teleportation portal closed. Ten seconds remaining."
"Ten."
"Nine."
The four districts are: east, south, west, and north.
Beneath the ground in the eastern residential area, a blue energy pillar bursts through the surface.
Red energy pillars rise in the West District entertainment area.
South Fighting Zone, yellow beam of light.
North District Ecological Park, green light pillars.
Four beams of light converged in the sky above Asgard.
"Three."
"Two."
The beam of light spread out.
A semi-transparent crystalline dome, following the trajectory of the beams of light, enveloped the entire city, along with the surrounding Terraria Continent.
The crystal shell had just closed.
"One."
The last spatial anchor point was forcibly severed.
On the large screen in the main control room, all the numbers displaying external coordinates turned to zero.
The Frost City has disappeared from the radar of the multiverse.
Completely isolated from the world.
This place has become an isolated island.
No matter which universe collapses outside, it won't affect this place.
Emma Frost looked at the completely sealed crystal defense layer above her head and breathed a slight sigh of relief.
She has done all she could for the time being.
The rest is up to Thor and his crew.