Countless Cosmic Rays converged into a surging torrent, like an enormous fiery cloud that illuminated the pitch-black expanse. Its searing, violent energy carried the terrifying aura of melting gold and iron, of incinerating all things!
Reed and Johnny held their breath as they stood tensely beside the outer hatch, watching Ben paddle his hands desperately, struggling to seize his last sliver of hope. Susan, who had rushed over, instinctively grabbed Sean, biting her lip as she feared witnessing a tragedy.
Of everyone present, only Sean remained calm as he stared at the oncoming energy storm. A trace of rapture gleamed in his eyes. Those brilliant, firelike torrents, upon closer inspection, were endless Cosmic Rays—high-energy particles invisible to the naked eye, colliding violently and unleashing fierce energy reactions!
It was as though he could feel every cell in his body crying out, craving more energy to fill the emptiness within him, hoping to open that door connected to another unknown world!
"Ben, faster!" Reed kept muttering under his breath. For the first time, the man who had always possessed absolute confidence in his own intelligence was filled with regret and remorse.
His miscalculation had left everyone unprepared for the Cosmic Energy Storm. If only he had been more thorough, if only he had repeatedly tested the computational model, how could he have allowed his friend to fall into such danger?
If anything happened to Ben, Reed might spend the rest of his life drowning in endless pain and guilt, never finding redemption again.
The enormous, fiery cloud surged toward them at an astonishing speed, like raging waves upon the sea. Countless Cosmic Rays collided and exploded, forming an incomparably violent torrent of energy. Before it could even fully reach Ben, a tremendous impact shoved his body away as though he had