A chilling intrusion alarm, like a death knell, echoed wildly within the enormous chamber! The once relatively "calm" interior of the nest instantly came to life! The fleshy walls writhed violently, and more cutting worms and eyeball monsters surged out from all directions, sealing the passageway exit with rapidly closing fleshy membranes! Even more terrifying, the suspended dark red energy Light of the Heart brightly, and the Protoss remains sealed within emitted painful howls. Even more immense energy was extracted, transforming into tangible dark red Inazuma that indiscriminately lashed out wildly within the chamber!
"We're surrounded!" Zoro drew his three swords instantly, shattering an incoming bolt of energy Inazuma, his eyes sharp as knives.
"We must get the intelligence first!" Robin crossed his arms, and countless arms bloomed on the platform, quickly grabbing at the information storage crystals.
" Luffy, Sanji, clear out the minions! Zoro, cover Robin! I'll handle the core's energy burst!" Allen quickly gave the order, while simultaneously forming hand seals, and a silver-purple spacetime barrier unfolded, blocking most of the rampaging dark red Inazuma and protecting everyone.
Fierce Battle! Core Chamber
The battle instantly intensified!
Luffy enters Gear Fourth: Snakeman form, his body moving like lightning, weaving through dense enemies and energy attacks. His rubber fists, like a storm, shatter swarms of cutting bugs and eyeball monsters. " Gum-Gum - Crow Machine Gun!"
Sanji leaps into the air with Geppo, his toes blazing with World-Purifying Flame Flames. Each kick carries a purifying power, scattering the dark red Inazuma and incinerating any enemies who try to approach Robin: "First Flesh Kick - Purifying Flame Combo!"
Zoro stood guard near Robin like a rock, his Enma humming, his Conqueror's Haki Coating slashes forming an impenetrable net of blades, instantly severing any energy or physical entity that dared to approach. " Three-Sword Style: One Thought Three Thousand - Pound Phoenix!"
Robin's clone focused entirely on collecting the information crystal, while her main body diligently deciphered the runes flowing across it, her expression growing increasingly grave. "This data... records the deployment of Abyss forces, the genetic sequences of the new 'behemoths'... and... the coordinates of their search for the ' Void Rift '?!"
Allen was under immense pressure. The energy core, like an enraged beast, unleashed a frenzied attack, primarily focused on the spacetime barrier he maintained. The destructive laws contained within the crimson Inazuma relentlessly eroded his power, causing veins to bulge on his forehead. "I can't keep defending... I must interrupt its drain on the Protoss!"
A fierce glint flashed in Allen's eyes. He abandoned a full-scale defense and shrank the barrier to only cover the area around his companions. He himself took a step forward, facing the raging core head-on!
"The Secrets of Time and Space: Morning Flowers Gathered at Dusk!"
He pointed his fingers like a sword at the core void point. He wasn't attacking the physical body, but rather the sealed remnants of the Protoss! A strange Power of Time enveloped the tormented Protoss—not accelerating or reversing, but briefly "rewinding" its life state to a relatively perfect moment before it was sealed!
"Buzz--!"
The Protoss remnant shuddered violently, its previously dim light suddenly becoming dazzling! Although it was only a fleeting moment of respite, this instant of completeness allowed it to unleash tremendous power, forcefully Resistance the extraction from the core! It even reversed course, guided by Allen's Power of Time, and poured a pure stream of Protoss primordial energy, filled with anger and sorrow, back into the core through the extraction channel!
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The energy core emitted a piercing, soul-rending wail! The foreign energy, with its diametrically opposed properties, instantly caused a massive internal conflict. The dark red light flickered violently and erratically, and even tiny cracks appeared on the surface! The energy Inazuma throughout the chamber momentarily froze!
"Now!" Robin shouted, and her clone seized the last few crucial information crystals.
escape and the data deluge
With its core damaged, the nest's defense system experienced a brief period of chaos. The membrane sealing the exit also became unstable.
"Retreat!" Allen roared. Because of forcibly using " Morning Flowers Gathered at Dusk " and guiding the energy backlash, a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, but his eyes remained firm.
" Gum-Gum - King Kong Gun!" Luffy punched the weakened flesh, creating a hole in it!
Without hesitation, everyone rushed out through the hole!
However, their actions appear to have triggered a deeper self-destruct or defense mechanism within the nest.
[... Clean up... contamination... release... raw data...]
The cold, icy thought echoed once more.
The next moment, instead of a physical attack, a torrent of information, more violent and malicious than what had been encountered in the Slumbering Corridor, surged forth from the various energy nodes of the nest, like a black flood bursting its banks, instantly submerging all the passages!
This torrent of data is filled with twisted code, the doctrines of the Abyss, images of destruction, and direct contamination of the consciousness of life! It is hundreds of times more intense than the "whispers" from the outside world!
"Ah--!" Usopp and Chopper's screams (via the communicator) rang out, and even though they were far away on the Thousand Sunny, they were still deeply affected by the shock.
Nami, Franky, and the others also clutched their heads in anguish.
Even Zoro and Sanji swayed, their eyes momentarily unfocused.
"Hold onto your consciousness!" Allen suppressed the turmoil in his mind and once again activated the " World Seed " to stabilize himself and try to expand his power. But this time the flood of data was too strong, and his defenses seemed to be on the verge of collapse.
At this critical moment, Robin stepped forward!
Her eyes shone with an unprecedented light, the focus of an archaeologist deciphering Poneglyph, and the unwavering resilience of Devil Child facing darkness! She didn't try to Resistance or dispel the torrent of data; instead... she embraced it!
" Flower-Flower Fruit, Awakening, Mirror of All Knowledge!"
Countless Robin clones instantly appeared around the fleeing group, each clone acting as an information receiver, actively facing the raging torrent of data! The clone's eyes became pure data streams, her body trembling slightly as if bearing a tremendous burden, but her main body remained exceptionally clear-headed, her hands moving rapidly through the air, as if sorting through, interpreting, and archiving this chaotic and dangerous information!
"I'm... filtering!" Robin's voice trembled slightly, but remained incredibly clear. "I can... temporarily separate the corrupting intent... but it won't last long... Go!"
She shielded her teammates, buying them precious time!
" Robin!" Sanji's eyes widened in horror, and he tried to rush over.
"Trust her! Go!" Zoro grabbed him and slashed open the flesh wall that had closed up again in front of them.
Taking advantage of the opportunity created by Robin's desperate efforts, the group frantically retreated along the path they had come from, with the nest passage behind them constantly collapsing and being swallowed by the data torrent and out-of-control energy.
When they finally broke through the outer shell of the nest and returned to the cold Void, the hatching nest behind them was already engulfed in a Chaos storm of energy and information.
The Thousand Sunny arrived at high speed to pick up the exhausted and shaken passengers.
Robin was the last to be pulled onto the ship. All her clones vanished, her face was as pale as paper, and she was almost exhausted, but she tightly clutched those crucial information crystals in her arms.
"Did... did it succeed?" Usopp asked, his voice trembling as he collapsed to the ground.
Allen glanced at the exploding and disintegrating hatchery behind him, then at the weakened Robin and the intelligence report in his hand, and said in a deep voice, "Intelligence in hand, the nest severely damaged. But..."
He paused, his tone extremely solemn.
"As Robin was filtering the information one last time, I caught a crucial fragment... the ' Void Rift ' they were searching for... the star system whose coordinates pointed to, adjacent to our home world."
Everyone's hearts sank instantly.
Their reconnaissance mission seems to have uncovered an even more terrifying conspiracy.