"Chairman, we must quickly move it or evacuate the crowd."

Shi Gandang explained, "Every Alien has a unique structure and distribution of consciousness. Over time, this can change. Based on multiple past Alien detonation experiments, we can judge that it could self-detonate at any time."

The situation is urgent.

Zhou Yi ordered Red Kestrel, "Notify all residents and staff to immediately drop everything and move towards Mushroom Forest, away from the Yalong Bay area. Have Gong Zheng and the others prepare for emergency evacuation."

"Yes."

"Also, summon Jiong He and Wu Yi."

"Yes."

Drones flew into the sky.

Evacuation notices resounded throughout the Jade City area instantly.

People were somewhat caught off guard and hurriedly evacuated in panic.

Yuan Xiao stayed close to Zhou Yi.

She looked sharply at an outsider, "Chairman, should we deal with him? Bringing this kind of dangerous explosive to us might have been an attack."

Across from her, Fang Qiao shivered, "Mr. Zhou, please believe me, I don't know what happened. I only knew about the cold storage Alien malfunctioning. I didn't know it would be like this..."

Zhou Yi remained calm, "Now is not the time to deal with people; let's handle the explosion first."

"Yes."

Angel of Death did not speak further, just continued to stare at Weapon Hunter like a predator.

Fang Qiao was visibly sweating.

Zhou Yi then synchronized consciousness frequencies to inquire about Jade City and Yalong Bay.

Between buildings and lives, there was a mutual perception of something.

Yalong Bay said, "Its current state is extremely unstable, and it could trigger a colossal energy explosion at any moment."

Jade City also said, "Commissioner, though its size is not large, for some reason, its strength is very high... reaching A-level. If it bursts, it will cause tremendous destruction and continuous radiation to the outside world."

The problem is quite tricky.

An A-grade Light Bomb that could explode at any moment.

When it bursts, it will escalate an order of magnitude, nearing the level of a Light Core Body.

For the entire Sand Port Region, it is a true extinction-level disaster.

There's only one way.

Zhou Yi decided immediately, "Yuan Xiao, take him to the Mushroom Forest area. I need to focus on handling this explosive."

"Yes."

Slender fungal strands emerged from the girl, wrapping Fang Qiao into a white cocoon. The Weapon Hunter, realizing the vast gap in power between them, did not resist honestly.

Then she flew with the cocoon all the way to Mushroom Forest.

Zhou Yi first ordered Jade City to lift the cold storage and push it into the Dead Sea.

This was to avoid outer surveillance.

Then, Zhou Yi summoned the Sea God and initiated the Fire Seed Life transformation.

It consumed a total of 100,000 Light Seeds but finally imprinted the cold storage on his shoulder, turning into a square, silver pattern with an ice crystal symbol.

Zhou Yi's heart eased slightly.

Fortunately, the Circumference Light Device was still effective for buildings on the verge of self-destructing.

Now, the cold storage seemed to be frozen solid, maintaining its structure in an Energy State.

As Zhou Yi contemplated how to handle the situation next, his expression suddenly changed.

The previously static Energy State cold storage was now operating again—it was energy-level operation, and without material carrier constraints, it entered a wildly accelerating state.

The tattoo on his shoulder produced a severe burning sensation and sting.

Zhou Yi saw a small patch of the silver tattoo on his shoulder turning into black ashen.

Not good!

Even the Energy State can self-detonate!

He couldn't wait any longer.

Zhou Yi immediately entered Jade City.

"Take the Sea God and enter high altitude at top speed."

"We must keep the detonation far from Sand Port!"

"Yes, Commissioner."

Jade City secured the submarine, Sea God, to the wall, and then shot straight into the sky.

In the high sky, Zhou Yi saw that over half of the ice storage tattoo on his left shoulder had turned to shattered black ash. It was slowly expanding and dispersing, much like a type of skin infection.

Already thousands of meters above the ground.

The Fire Seed Life form of the ice storage had completely changed into spreading black ash.

Smoke was emerging from Zhou Yi's shoulder, as if every hair, every piece of skin, was being seared by a branding iron, causing his entire body to convulse in pain.

He momentarily experienced severe dizziness and fell backwards to the ground.

His Life Value of 110,000 points dropped to just 30,000 points.

Not good.

He must throw out the exploding ice storage!

Just as he struggled to rise, preparing to exit and use the Sea God's Circumference Light Device to dismantle it, he suddenly noticed something strange.

The ashen residue on his left shoulder was slowly receding back.

With this change, the burning sensation and pain began to subside, and the dizziness and weakness also weakened.

His body seemed to return to normal.

Only the shoulder area still felt extremely hot, still emitting white smoke. If it weren't for the White Suanni body, flesh and blood might already have been cooked.

What's going on?

Zhou Yi paused, deciding to observe a little longer.

Slowly.

He saw the black ash on his shoulder moving slowly, then the color gradually turned back to silver.

This group of cloud-like material gradually formed a new silvery tattoo, resembling a vortex or perhaps a cyclone.

Its size was massive, almost entirely dominating the shoulder blade. Surrounding it, the note-like mic master and the side-profile, long-haired girl Tietie, both seemed like satellites orbiting it, suddenly making it the striking central focus.

Zhou Yi was momentarily perplexed.

Could it be…

He tried to activate the Memory Core.

In front of him appeared three Memory Core glass tubes, the latest one ten times the size of the previous two—massive but somber.

Zhou Yi gazed at the new Memory Core.

Inside, numerous Conscious Keys had fallen off and were damaged; black and white key bodies floated adrift in the dark void, rendering the entire double helix like ancient, broken stairs.

Inside was a lifeform akin to swirling mist.

It was stuck on a section of the ruined Conscious Key stairs, unable to move forward or backward.

Zhou Yi had a growing suspicion.

This creature must be an atmosphere creature.

Cold storage in the Fire Seed Life form had still detonated, costing itself 80,000 Life Value.

If it were to detonate in the outside world, it's feared all life near Jade City would be obliterated.

From this experience, it seemed that the transformation of Building Life into an atmosphere creature was primarily a series of energy reactions.

Even transformation into Fire Seed Life couldn't halt this process.

In fact, due to the loss of a physical carrier, it only accelerated the entire process.

That's how the current situation had evolved.

It's a pity Reverse Flow was making the Fire Chamber Plate; otherwise, it could be brought in for interrogation.

Will have to wait until next summer.

Zhou Yi pondered.

Nevertheless, at least a method to control the mutation of Building Life had been found. By transforming into Fire Seed Life and using itself as a container, it could lock in the newly born atmosphere creature.

If faced with a formidable opponent, it could also unleash it for indiscriminate attacks.

On the Inner Sea, the atmosphere creature could still impress many.

Once confirming that the situation was under control, Zhou Yi then ordered: "Let's return, Jade City."

"Yes, Commissioner."

Zhou Yi spoke to Shi Gandang: "I have a hypothesis…"

According to past conclusions by Shi Gandang and others, after Building Life escapes its physical body, the atmosphere creature is a type of life form whose consciousness totally disperses, constantly in flux and a collective of consciousnesses.

Such a life needs to hunt other consciousnesses to continually replenish its own domain of consciousness information.

"So, can it be said that consciousness itself is also a consumable, continually diminishing?"

Shi Gandang pondered for a long time: "It is certain that consciousness has natural depletion."

"Even for higher mechanism Concept Life, their consciousnesses are in dynamic flux. They need to acquire consciousness information from other life forms, continue to propagate themselves, only then can they enhance themselves at the consciousness level."

It explained: "From this point, it's not hard to deduce that although the atmosphere creatures further disperse their physical bodies into sandy, gaseous structures, their domain of consciousness will also deteriorate and need replenishment."

"This conclusion is sound, but the cause still needs further verification."

Zhou Yi thought, this is enough.

...

Skyscrapers landed on the ground, stirring up a ring of shockwaves, and Sea God also returned to Dead Sea.

Red Kestrel flew in: "How's the situation?"

Zhou Yi pointed at his shoulder: "There were some complications, but no serious harm."

"That's good."

The drone then asked: "Can the alert be lifted now?"

"Yeah. Go, tell everyone to resume normality."

It busied itself with a new round of tasks.

Accompanying Red Kestrel, Assistant Yuan Xiao also arrived.

Angel of Death wasn't the least worried about Zhou Yi's safety, she said: "I've handed Fang Qiao over to Bone Man Wu Yi, with it around, that person won't get away."

"Besides, I've also checked the nearby areas, and didn't spot any other life forms with suspicious tracks."

She was a professional in combat and hunting.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Zhou Yi nodded: "Go call Sun Hao over."

Before long.

The black-robed youth came flying with Yuan Xiao.

"Father, you called for me?"

He still addressed him this way.

"Ah, you seem to have been seriously injured…"

Surprise shone in Sun Hao's eyes, which then turned serious: "Part of your consciousness is collapsing and severely tearing."

Zhou Yi inwardly affirmed.

Indeed.

"Your new consciousness is severely damaged, with most consciousness blocks being incomplete and shattered. Please let me treat you, the earlier the better," the youth strongly suggested.

Zhou Yi nodded: "Alright. Give it a try."

The black-robed youth observed for a moment, placed his hand on Zhou Yi's shoulder, then his entire body unfolded a series of geometric light paths connected to Zhou Yi's shoulder, forming a peculiar closed structure.

The previous burning, acid pain, and tearing sensations were significantly alleviated.

At the same time, Zhou Yi also monitored the situation inside the Memory Core.

Inside the giant glass tube belonging to the atmosphere creature, one could clearly see some floating, scattered Conscious Keys slowly approaching the broken main body and gradually piecing together.

The double helix structure was slowly self-repairing.

Zhou Yi felt a great relief.

Indeed, it was workable.

Sun Hao's 'Consciousness Puzzle' could repair the damaged consciousness of the atmosphere creature!

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