At that moment, the doctor violently pushed herself up from the shattered glass behind her, more and more blood pouring from her chest and mouth.
Riding the irresistible, massive suction force, she lunged like a vengeful specter and threw her entire weight onto the struggling Nascent Soul!
“Did you know?”
“The world of mortals is already destined to meet its end.”
“Above our heads, a ‘nuclear winter’ triggered by the explosions is descending.”
Amidst the deafening roar, the doctor's white lab coat whipped wildly in the wind, yet her voice pierced right through the chaotic din:
“Cough, cough, cough...”
“The Wilderness, the Deep Abyss, the City of the Sky Lake.”
“Every major region of this world has been struck by nuclear explosions.”
“The sky-blotting mushroom clouds and millions of tons of dust and soot are choking the atmosphere... It will completely block the ‘gaze’ cast from the ‘outside’ into this world!”
“At this moment, for the very first time, our sky has completely lost S-002.”
“And because of that, God's Corpse has become unprecedentedly powerful.”
“You're insane!” the Nascent Soul shrieked as he struggled. “What do you gain from doing this?”
“The gain is that this will be the final activation of S-001. This wretched world will never create anyone like me again.”
The smile at the corners of Dr. Cyril's mouth widened uncontrollably. She seemed unable to hold back any longer, nor did she have any reason to.
“S-001 is indestructible, and S-003 is weaker than S-001.”
“Therefore, if we simply drop S-001 into S-003...”
“The result will be that either S-003 is destroyed by S-001...”
“Or S-001 will be locked inside S-003 forever, never to be activated by anyone again. Isn't that right?”
“One is Pops' wish, and the other is mine.”
“How wonderful. No matter what, at least one of our wishes will be granted!”
“Oh, and... cough, cough, cough...”
The doctor's face was completely drained of color. Pinning the Nascent Soul down with nothing but the dead weight of her body, she smiled as she spoke her final words.
“Do you want to guess... who gave them the nuclear fuel?”
Screaming, the Nascent Soul was pinned down by a dying mortal woman.
Under normal circumstances, the feeble strength of a mortal woman could be brushed aside with a mere flick of his finger.
But right now, this tiny nudge was the final straw that broke the camel's back.
Entangled, the two tumbled and fell uncontrollably toward the abyssal throat of God's Corpse.
Boom!
The suction suddenly surged, far more violent than ever before.
With a sharp crack, the glass wall of the water tank shattered completely, and the pale yellow nutrient fluid cascaded out like a waterfall.
That grayish-white brain, which connected the lifeblood of the entire world, was also violently swept out by the torrent, falling toward the throat of God's Corpse.
The Nascent Soul shrieked and thrashed, but the suction had already tightly enveloped him along with the doctor.
From the side, a terrifying mass of black liquid crashed straight through the storm.
The moment he made contact, Evans wrapped himself tightly around the Nascent Soul's body, crushing inward with brutal force!
Splat.
A stomach-turning crunch echoed as the Nascent Soul was instantly crushed flat under the grinding pressure of the black liquid.
【Evans! Get back!】
Ren Yi yelled into Evans' ear while desperately clinging to the steel pillar.
Evans had originally been on the outer edges of the suction, but by charging in, he had put himself in an extremely perilous position.
Evans did not answer. The black liquid swept past Dr. Cyril's body and lunged wildly toward the brain hurtling through the air.
But he was a fraction of a second too late.
Just as it neared the throat of God's Corpse, S-001's volume warped and shrank in a bizarre fashion before it was swallowed down into the corpse's belly with a dull gulp.
Evans froze. He clawed desperately at the floor, his form trembling violently as he fought against the suction of God's Corpse.
He seemed to hesitate for a fraction of a second, then turned his head to cast one last look at Ren Yi.
Buzz.
With a sudden snap of the black liquid, a silver mirrored sphere shot out from his body like lightning, landing squarely in Ren Yi's arms.
It was the Base Station.
The Base Station slammed into Ren Yi, the sheer force of the impact throwing him backward.
Summoning the last of his strength, Evans yelled toward Ren Yi.
“Right now, S-001 is anchored to the Lord of the City's memories.”
“I have to go initiate the New Era!”
In the next instant, he voluntarily released all the tentacles resisting the suction, dissolving into a massive wave of absolute darkness.
Together with Dr. Cyril's corpse, he plunged resolutely into the completely warped void within the throat of God's Corpse.
Boom.
The entire room collapsed under the tremendous suction, everything in the vicinity rushing toward that single tiny point in the throat of God's Corpse like homing birds returning to their nest.
Then, the suction came to a sudden halt.
A majestic, surging wave of energy swept violently through the surroundings.
Under the weight of this immense power, the world let out an overburdened hum.
S-001 had been activated.
...
Time slowly ticked away on this land.
The City of the Sky Lake had lost its former beauty. This body of water, which had once resembled a fairy realm, was now nothing but a desolate expanse of gray.
The sky was leaden, and the world was cast in gloom. Dust and soot continued to settle slowly, like a layer of endless snow.
Deprived of the blue light refracted by the atmosphere, the lake could no longer display its clear, pale blue hue.
In fact, it could no longer even be called a "lake."
The water in the shallow basin had long since evaporated in the intense heat, leaving behind cracked, scorched earth.
Most of the elegant white buildings had been swallowed by the soil, leaving only rows of solitary, tilted rooftops protruding from the ground like tombstones.
It was as if the earth had rolled in from afar to bury them all.
In the exact center of the original basin lay a massive, white, disc-shaped structure.
It seemed to have taken a massive blow, shattered into three pieces by the shockwave and wedged at an angle into the ground.
This was the floating island of the Sky Eye Organization. It had now fallen to the earth, resembling a plate that had been accidentally shattered.
Amidst the ruins, a faint white shadow drifted aimlessly.
This was, of course, Ren Yi.
Exactly three days had passed since the curtain fell on that decisive battle.
At the climax of the battle, God's Corpse had completely spiraled out of control, and Evans had voluntarily charged into the warped space within its throat.
Immediately after, a massive wave of energy swept out, and S-001 was activated.
By the time Ren Yi regained consciousness from the violent tremors, the entire floating island he was on had already begun plummeting toward the ground.
He naturally wouldn't be killed by the fall, but once he stabilized himself, the entire world had already changed beyond recognition.
Since then, he had spent nearly three days wandering around this area, searching.
Until now, he finally had to admit a certain fact:
Something had gone wrong... with the New Era.
Over these three days, he had searched every corner of the vicinity, only to find that all living organisms in this world had vanished completely.
There were no traces, no corpses, and no signs of life beginning to re-emerge after the dawn of the New Era.
In contrast, all man-made structures and the world's inorganic matter had been preserved.
Buildings, ruins, and cracked streets all remained intact in their original positions.
As for the Anomalies, they seemed to have been categorized under "inorganic matter" as well.
Their anomalous abilities and traits were still there, but those who once possessed independent consciousness—including the familiar faces he had met in the Deep Abyss—had now all become inanimate objects.
Ren Yi had turned the entire City of the Sky Lake upside down, but he still could not find a single thing capable of communicating with him.
All "sentience" in this world seemed to have been completely erased in an instant.
This shouldn't be.
In Ren Yi's prior understanding, the so-called New Era was supposed to be a state reset covering the entire world.
Aside from a few people whom the controller chose to preserve, the environment and ecosystem were supposed to be restored to a specific historical point, allowing life to propagate once more.
But now, this world had turned into a completely dead, silent world.
Rate on N.U.
