bioinnovel Chapter 418 The Lamp's Guidance!
Chapter 418 The Lamp's Guidance!
Zhang Yan did not stop.
Interface locking progress is 74%.
The golden light of the Heavenly Craftsmanship spread steadily across the surface of the door, compressing the communication bandwidth of the inner interface every second.
The lamplighter stood twelve meters away, the battering ram hanging at his side, its dark red light maintaining a standby state at the lowest power level.
She didn't do anything.
"Maintainer," the lamp's voice echoed slightly in the spherical space, "you're doing something stupid."
Zhang Yan ignored her and pushed the progress to 78%.
"With the door closed, the information density of Earth's civilization will continue to increase. Every year, every generation, and every technological breakthrough is injecting more information into this closed system."
Deng Yin spoke slowly, as if reciting a well-known report: "The community outside the door does not consume matter or energy; they feed on the information density of civilization."
81%.
"You've fixed the door, achieving 100% perfect shielding, and then what?" The lamplighter took a step forward. "A thousand years from now, two thousand years from now, human civilization continues to develop, and information density increases exponentially. This planet will become a—"
"Fattened meat," Zhang Yan finished for her.
84%.
The lamplight stopped in its tracks: "You know that."
"Just a guess." Zhang Yan's gaze didn't leave the runes on the door's surface. "Go on."
"With the door open and information constantly leaking out, the density will never reach the harvesting threshold. Earth is just a bone that can't be completely gnawed on for the community; it has no harvesting value, so they will leave."
86%.
Zhang Yan finally turned his head and glanced at her.
She had short, neat hair, and her pupils reflected the dim light from the door, her gaze as if she were examining a set of experimental data.
"You mean, repairing a door is like raising pigs?" Zhang Yan said.
"That's how the Mohist civilization was destroyed 30,000 years ago."
The lamplighter lowered his voice, "They sealed the Ruins with the Four Spirits and the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship, repaired the network of gates, and then the entire civilization vanished."
"You think the cost of war is too high? Wrong."
"In the three thousand years after the seal was completed, the information density inside the gate skyrocketed, and the community underwent a harvest."
"The Four Spirits could not stop it, nor could the Heart of Heaven's Craftsmanship. The Mohist civilization was completely devoured, leaving hardly any ruins behind."
Zhang Yan didn't move his hand, and the progress bar jumped to 88%.
He was listening, but he didn't stop.
"The door is open, the pioneers can come in directly, there's no need to wait," Zhang Yan said.
The lamp caused him to shake his head.
"The pioneers came in because the door was half-open, neither completely closed nor fully open."
"This state is the most dangerous. Information is leaking, but the amount is not large enough. The community judges it as a 'target that is accumulating.' The pioneers are scouts and catalysts."
90%.
"When fully open, the community's rule is 'not to eat live animals'."
Deng Yin raised his left hand, fingers spread, "A living, fluid, and open system will not accumulate information density to a threshold."
"This conclusion is drawn from 100,000 years of observation. The filamentous structures you see in the ice are the routine assessment behavior of a community of a closed system 100,000 years ago."
"The assessment is complete. It's been determined that it's 'not ripe yet,' so it's withdrawn. It's only seventy years."
Zhang Yan stared at her.
This argument is coherent and logically sound, with no obvious breaks in the flow.
But he didn't believe it.
Three hundred years of observational data, ten thousand years of behavioral patterns, all relying on a lamp and a mouth.
91%.
"You don't believe me?" Deng Yin wasn't surprised. "That's okay, I can give you the data. But I don't have time to wait for you to verify it."
She raised the battering ram.
The dark red light suddenly expanded.
Zhang Yan's voice was faster than light.
"White Tiger".
The heavy metallic sound of metal hitting the runic ground echoed as it fell.
The white tiger burst out from the drilling tunnel behind Zhang Yan, landing on all fours and blocking the two of them.
Deng Yin didn't look at Bai Hu; she only looked at the door under Zhang Yan's palm.
"I won't fight you," she said, "but once the interface is locked, I won't be able to access the door for 72 hours."
"Seventy-two hours is enough for you to repair the door to more than 60% completion. Once the jump protocol is activated, you will go to the seventh door, which is the worst outcome."
The sound of hurried footsteps came from the drilling tunnel behind her.
Six people, fully equipped with protective gear.
The weapon in his hand was short-barreled and stockless, with a dark red crystal inlaid at the front end, the same color as the battering ram.
The first dark red beam of light struck the White Tiger's right shoulder, fully damaging its shield.
This is not a physical impact, but a frequency interference.
The energy wave, which shares the same origin as the breaching hammer, is specifically designed to counter the defensive field of the Heavenly Craftsmanship system.
The White Tiger Shield's efficiency dropped from 100% to 82%.
The second pulse followed immediately, and the efficiency dropped to 73%.
The third beam shot in from a blind spot, reaching 60%. The shield's efficiency dropped below the safety threshold.
Zhang Yan placed one hand on the door to maintain the interface lock, while the Thousand Machine Arm of his other hand pointed towards the White Tiger.
"Close combat."
The White Tiger is no longer passively taking hits.
The hydraulic systems of the four limbs are fully charged, and the massive metal body is launched to the nearest shooter within two seconds.
Left claw sweeps horizontally.
The weapon shattered, and the person was sent flying three meters, crashing into the rune wall before sliding down and remaining motionless.
The second archer tried to create distance, but the white tiger's right claw slashed down, breaking the crystal weapon in two.
The remaining four were still firing. White Tiger's shield continued to weaken under the pulse, but at close range, the advantage of firepower was completely crushed.
Zhang Yan's attention was momentarily diverted, and the interface locking progress was stuck at 89% for two seconds.
The light was turned on.
A faint hum of a servo motor could be heard from beneath her protective suit. Her exoskeleton enhanced her by taking three steps to cover six meters, bypassing the White Tiger's meat grinder and heading straight for the door.
Zhang Yan saw it.
89%, he can't let go.
The lamp-wielding hammer was raised above his head, and a fist-sized ball of light condensed at the tip of the staff, which slammed down hard onto the door surface.
Zhang Yan reacted in the last 0.3 seconds.
My left hand was pressed tightly against the door, and the locking mechanism kept locking.
The right arm of the thousand machines is fully extended.
Using the force of the impact, he bounced half a step away from the door surface, and the Thousand Machine Arm drew a sharp arc in the air, with the metal arm precisely intercepting the point in front of the hammer's landing point.
The dark red orb of light collided with the thousand-arm machine.
The golden and dark red energies intertwined at the contact surface, without a deafening roar, but instead triggered an extremely high-frequency resonance.
The entire spherical space trembled violently, the runes flashed suddenly, and the liquid metal on the surface of the door surged wildly as if boiling.
Zhang Yan was pushed four steps away by the shockwave, and three joints on the Thousand Machine Arm lit up with overload red lights.
The light switch was also deflected, fell to the ground and slid two meters, and the door hammer slipped from his hand and smashed to the ground.
Interface locking progress - 89%.
It didn't drop, and it didn't rise either.
Zhang Yan regained his footing and turned to look at the door.
On the surface of the door, at the point where the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart and the Breaker Hammer are facing each other, a crack appeared.
It's not long, only thirty centimeters.
But it is expanding.
The system displayed a red warning.
"Warning: Unexpected structural damage detected on the door surface. Damage type: Internal and external energy counter-resonance fission. This damage cannot be repaired by conventional methods. Third door shielding efficiency: 38.7%……37.9%……37.1%……Continuously decreasing."
The crack did not originate from the outside.
It was torn open from the inside.
The "Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship" and the "Breaking Hammer" share the same origin.
The collision of the same source energy triggered the fracture at the resonance point, and the door was cracked from the inside by its own constituent materials.
Deng Yin got up from the ground, staring intently at the crack, his clenched fists trembling slightly.
"No...this shouldn't be..."
Baihu has taken care of the last two archers, and all six people are now incapacitated.
Only Zhang Yan, Deng Yin, and the expanding crack remained in the spherical space.
Zhang Yan stared at the continuously declining numbers on the system panel.
36.2%.
35.4%.
The things outside the door have sensed a new weakness, and the pressure is concentrating in a specific direction.
His phone vibrated in the inner pocket. He couldn't receive messages from Nie Qingcheng from this depth, but he knew she was waiting.
Zhang Yan looked at the lamp.
The light drew attention to the crack.
The crack has grown another two centimeters.