"Three minutes!"
The Silver-white Mechanical Body's warning echoed through the narrow Maintenance Well like death's toll. The cold countdown began hammering at Ming Xin's consciousness, second by second.
The shriek and explosions of energy from overhead grew clearer and clearer. That was the sound of the Law Noise Field collapsing under the self-destructive assault of the Silver Dust swarm.
One could imagine that, at the edge of the hollow, the remaining Silver Dust were now like moths rushing into flames, annihilating themselves to unleash powerful energy pulses.
They forcefully tore through the interference and sent the most precise coordinates and situation here to the rapidly approaching advance forces of the "Cleaners."
In three minutes, a torrent of steel and Destruction would arrive.
Despair beyond despair! There was no time for fear, no time for hesitation!
A fierce light flashed in Ming Xin's eyes. The newly born pale-gold veins deep within his soul and the dark gold frequency core of the "Key"—
—erupted with unprecedented power and resolve like a keg of gunpowder being ignited!
"There's no time to repair the conduit!" He made his decision in an instant. Rather than painstakingly fuse that fragile, easily broken conduit, he might as well—
The dark-gold fragment abruptly changed direction. Instead of aiming at the broken conduit port, it slammed into the side of the southeast anchor cylinder, directly at the most obvious impact dent and the center of the cracks!
It was not destruction, but fusion!
The "Key" frequency operated at full power, taking the transformed dark gold energy contained within the fragment itself—
—as well as the portion of energy absorbed and converted from the Iron Tomb wreckage, and forcibly pouring it into the anchor's interior in a nearly self-sacrificial manner, regardless of cost or consequences!
At the same time, he