Xingtetsu: You are not included in Elio's script!

Chapter 690

Lin Yu was running wildly in front. The ground under his feet became muddy because of the monsters' rampage. Every step he took was accompanied by a "puff" sound, but he ignored it.

Just use your energy to maintain the crumbling shield.

Just as they were about to approach the place of light, the monster seemed to sense the danger and let out another deafening roar.

Then, countless blood-red beams shot out from all directions around it, like death rays. Wherever they passed, the fog was instantly evaporated and huge scorch craters were burned on the ground.

Lin Yu's pupils shrank suddenly, trying to find the attack pattern of the light beam.

He turned around suddenly, opened his arms, and protected his companions behind him, while shouting, "Everyone be careful, concentrate on dodging!"

Afterwards, Lin Yu held up a thicker shield above everyone's heads.

The light beam hit the shield, making a "sizzling" sound, and ripples appeared on the surface of the shield, and the light became dimmer.

"I know what the memory key is! We need to find the real memory projection of the returnee. The key is hidden there!" Xing suddenly shouted.

Everyone was greatly encouraged when they heard this.

They began to search carefully in the chaotic memory phantoms, leaving no corner untouched.

Finally, in a place where the fog was a little lighter, they saw the vague figure of the returnee.

Taking advantage of the gap when the monster was attacked, Lin Yu and Xia Die rushed towards the memory projection of Guilizhe.

After getting closer, Lin Yu carefully stretched out his hand and touched the illusory figure.

In an instant, there was a flash of light, and a glowing key appeared in his hand.

At the same time, the monster let out a desperate roar, the light on its body gradually dimmed, and its huge body began to slowly dissipate.

As the monster disappeared, the surrounding fog gradually dissipated, and a magnificent star gate appeared before everyone.

Lin Yu walked forward and inserted the memory key in his hand into the keyhole of the star gate. With a "click", the star gate slowly opened, and a dazzling light shot out from the gate, illuminating the entire Wuyin Star.

The star gate opened, and the dazzling light was like a surging wave, instantly dispelling the chill and fog lingering around everyone.

In the light, there seemed to be countless tiny points of light jumping and dancing. They were like liberated elves, cheering and leaping for joy as they rushed towards the vast universe.

Lin Yu narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to block the dazzling light.

"Is this the power of the Star Gate?" March Seven exclaimed, shocked.

She subconsciously took a step forward, but was pulled back by Lin Yu.

"Be careful, you don't know what's behind the door."

When the star gate was fully opened, a breath came to one's face, carrying with it the vicissitudes of time.

Everyone walked into the star gate carefully. Inside the gate was a huge circular space. The walls were engraved with symbols and patterns that kept flashing and changing.

In the center of the space, there was a suspended crystal emitting a soft golden-blue light, surrounded by circles of fine runes.

"Is this the core of the Mist Hidden Star?"

"It was so easy to find her? Where is Silver Wolf?" Lin Yu frowned slightly, a hint of doubt in his eyes.

According to common sense, something as important as a star core must have a powerful guardian force. However, although they encountered monsters materialized by memories along the way, there did not seem to be any obstacles strong enough to match the importance of the star core.

As for Silver Wolf, she knew the secret of Mist Hidden Star and came specially to remind them, but she was nowhere to be seen at this time.

Lin Yu had a vague feeling of uneasiness in his heart, always feeling that things would not be so simple.

When Lin Yu's eyes swept across the chaotic runes around the star core, a chill suddenly ran down his spine.

The runes that were originally flowing in an orderly manner were now spinning madly in a counterclockwise direction, like a disrupted star map, with every line breaking and reorganizing.

The projection of the Silver Wolf appeared at this moment.

"Seventeen minutes earlier than expected." Her voice was filled with noise, and pixels kept falling off the edge of the projection. "The star core is absorbing the memory fragments of the returnees. Once saturated..." She pointed fiercely at the cracks on the surface of the star core, where light-eating matter like a black hole was oozing out. "The entire Mist Hidden Star will collapse into a memory singularity, dragging your train into the quantum graveyard."

"The spatial anchor point is being reconstructed!" Dan Heng suddenly said, "This is the xenophobic reaction before the awakening of the star core!" Before he finished speaking, the silhouettes of countless returnees suddenly emerged on the translucent walls of the entire circular space. Their palms were pressed on the other side of the wall, and the light spots oozing from their fingertips were being madly swallowed by the star core.

When Dan Heng warned the spatial anchor point to reconstruct, the silhouettes of the returnees on the translucent wall suddenly turned collectively, their empty eye sockets facing the projection of the silver wolf. It was not a gesture of asking for help, but the activation of some ancient defense mechanism.

"Don't touch the star core! You are being assimilated by the memory trap!"

"I am connecting to the defense system of the Mist Hidden Star outside the train. These runes are the memory shackles of the star core's self-protection!" Her voice was filled with obvious electrical noise, and the projection area on her right shoulder could even see the Star Dome Train not far away. "The navigation signal that Pam was cut off three hours ago was forcibly reconnected by me using the quantum anchor!"

"Are you in projection state now?" Lin Yu asked Silver Wolf.

Silver Wolf rolled his eyes. "Do you think I can materialize against the memory tide of Mist Hidden Star?" Her fingertips quickly tapped on the keyboard, and the runes around the star core suddenly lit up several breakpoints. "Do you see those golden lines? Those are the shackles forged by the Returners with their own memories. The star core has long been locked into a memory prison, and the 'key' in your hand--" She pointed to the hot metal piece in Lin Yu's palm, "It's just the key blank that triggers the prison alarm!"

Lin Yu looked at the piece of metal in his hand. It was just something he had just picked up.

"Are you repairing the memory channel of the star core? Just like repairing the data link of the Realm of Eternal Winter?" Liuying asked Yinlang.

"Smart." Silver Wolf's projection finally stabilized, and the thing at hand switched to a 3D model of the interior of the star core. "Mist Hidden Star is not a place to store memories at all, but the 'memory wound' of the universe - the returnees used their own existence as sutures, but the threads grew into the flesh instead." She marked the black area in the center of the model. "Now the star core is devouring all nearby memories, including the passenger data on your train. If it drags on -"

"These things are working to reverse the shackles of the Departed, but they require continuous bioelectric resonance—"

"So I need you to act as human routers." Silver Wolf shook the data stream impatiently, revealing the neural connection lines faintly visible under the projection.

"I connected eighteen quantum conduits to the train, and now each one is leaking electricity!" She suddenly pointed to the golden lines on the surface of the star core that were about to close, "Insert that thing into the rune breakpoint in the southwest corner within thirty seconds, otherwise your Pam will have to learn to write her will in Martian!"

Lin Yu no longer hesitated and stabbed the thing into the ground fiercely. The crane-shaped pattern burst into a sun-like light at the moment of contact. The golden runes that had originally swallowed up the memory melted like ice and snow at this moment.

"Well done!" A real high-five sound came from Silver Wolf's projection, and Pam could be faintly heard cursing in the background?

"Now everyone hold hands and stand in a circle, and spit out the memory fragments you collected in the fog—"

When the memory fragments of the six people floated towards the star core like dandelions, the projection of the Silver Wolf finally stabilized completely.

A slight smile appeared on her lips.

At this moment, Silver Wolf thought of Kafka's words again, "Don't always use projection to act cool. Let them see you bleeding from the nose occasionally. It will be more convincing."

"Tsk, mind your own business." She muttered softly, and her fingertips marked the last breakpoint on the star core model.

The moment Lin Yu and others successfully calibrated the star core, sparks suddenly burst out from the quantum catheter on her side, the Silver Wolf's real body trembled violently, and tiny beads of blood oozed from her nasal cavity...but she quickly erased this embarrassing scene with data.

"Silver Wolf, are you okay?"

"Of course it's okay."

"I'm a star core hunter, a cosmic-level 'after-sales service'." She suddenly brought up the starry sky outside the Mist Hidden Star, "Look, your train is fine, but the star core--"

The golden-blue light of the star core suddenly turned into thousands of fireflies, and the memories of those who had been swallowed up were floating towards the depths of the universe in the form of light.

Silver Wolf looked at Lin Yu and the others smiling in the light, and suddenly felt that this rescue operation, which made him feel numb all over, was not so bad.

At least, they learned not to doubt the data projection with a cold fragrance that always appeared at critical moments - even if she did hide the real recording of herself cursing when the quantum conduit leaked electricity.

Maybe except Lin Yu, who didn't doubt him, the others were just wary of him? It couldn't be said to be suspicious.

Silver Wolf thought so in his heart.

Lin Yu looked at the silver wolf and finally asked the question that lingered in his mind, "So, what happened to this planet? Why didn't Liuguang Yiting take any action regarding memory? Why is there a star core on this planet?"

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