Apocalyptic Disaster: I Hoard Billions in Supplies and Kill the Saint

145: Chapter 145 Breaking the Stalemate on Two FrontsYe Nanxing gave a sudden smile, but there was not a trace of warmth in it.

”But you still underestimated me.”

”Greedy, I am indeed greedy.”

”But I also know that no matter how greedy I am, I must stay awake to be so.”

”People who die in a dream are useless, even if they possess an entire mine.”

She waved one hand, and the spirit stones automatically ceased extraction.

The next second, she clenched her fist abruptly!

Space ability lock-on marker!

Using the [Core Coordinate Space Anchor Point] as the center, perform a forced mental retrograde withdrawal!

Boom!

She slammed her fist down!

The entire spirit stone mine shattered with a roar!

Countless rays of spiritual light scattered, and the consciousness space trembled and tore apart!

[Anti-Loop Activation!]

A spatial storm engulfed her from all directions, sweeping her entire consciousness out of the spirit mine dream layer like a tidal wave!

—Light and shadow flooded backward!

The mirror surface burned!

Her consciousness was abruptly stripped from the depths of the blood mine; a roar like a tide filled her ears, and it was as if her soul had broken free from its shackles just before being incinerated.

The next second, Ye Nanxing opened her eyes abruptly—

Everything in sight was pale.

There were no burning mirrors, no sea of black gold, no spirit stone mine, and no void energy.

She was lying on a hard, cold platform, surrounded by static metal walls and mental suppression lines constructed from stability-maintaining talisman runes.

—It was reality.

She had woken up.

But there were no spirit stones, no surging spiritual springs, and no space node upgrades.

The spiritual spring in her space remained just a shallow pool, and her stock of spirit stones had not changed at all.

All the illusions of ”being collected” and ”being expanded” were fake.

Even that vein of ore was merely an illusory construct of consciousness created by the brass dreamscape.

She had been trapped.

Trapped deeper than anyone else.

A mocking voice came from beside her.

”Finally awake?”

Shang Xu’s voice carried a chill:

”Tsk, what a nuisance.”

”We came out ages ago, yet we had to wait for you, the one with the least resistance.”

”Deluding yourself into thinking you can control space abilities? You ended up being led in circles by a dream.”

She sneered: ”Truly worthy of being the one in this team who needs the most protection.”

The air grew heavy.

Zhou Xiao stepped forward, his tone colder than usual:

”Shut up.”

”She didn’t rely on us to get out; she relied on herself.”

Chu Yunting also frowned, calmly adding a cutting remark:

”If her consciousness fluctuations hadn’t caused such a violent anti-loop that tore a corner of the outer barrier, Yan might not have been able to wake us up.”

”The only reason you were able to wake up is that the signal she sent gave Yan an opening.”

Shang Xu snorted: ”Heh, you’re all protecting her, aren’t you—”

Yan appeared beside Ye Nanxing, his short black hair falling over his forehead, his expression indifferent: ”Say another word, and I will assume you haven’t been cleared of residual contamination.”

Shang Xu froze.

After a moment of silence, she retreated resentfully.

Ye Nanxing sat up, her face pale, but her eyes were clearer than ever.

She did not respond to Shang Xu’s sarcasm, nor did she look at the others; instead, she looked straight up, her gaze passing over the mental suppression device above and toward the tightly closed metal door.

Behind that door—

The brass badge was still there.

Although all of this was a dream, its structural power was real.

Perhaps there were no spirit stones, but it had indeed exposed the deep logical structure of the brass dreamscape.

—It had already revealed a flaw.

She took a deep breath and said softly: ”It was afraid of me waking up.”

”That’s why it delayed me the longest.”

”But now—”

Ye Nanxing did not speak, but Yan already understood her meaning; he also did not speak, only silently raising his hand.

A black light pattern appeared in Yan’s palm, and mental power slowly surged from his fingertips, penetrating the walls and spreading throughout the entire mental interference zone like ripples in water.

Ye Nanxing stood up, drew a mental anchor point dagger from her waist, and slowly raised her right hand, pointing it at the door.

”Yan.”

”Join forces.”

The two of them stepped out almost simultaneously!

Boom!

That heavy metal door shattered directly under the pincer attack of forcibly released mental power and spatial power!

In the control room behind it, the brass badge floating in mental liquid trembled slightly.

It ”saw” Ye Nanxing.

And Ye Nanxing, finally—

No longer saw it as bait, but as prey.

She said coldly:

”It’s our turn.”

”To invade your dream.”

The brass badge hovered high in the air,

That was not the ”experimental component” from Chu Yunting’s base,

But rather—the brass dreamscape original source core.

The entire surface of the badge was mottled with cracks, twisted patterns wriggling like blood vessels, and eerie golden light and mental wave frequencies constantly seeped from within.

Even without being activated, it still possessed ”perception and self-regulation capabilities” at a near-semi-solid consciousness level.

Ye Nanxing and Yan stood side by side.

The two stood motionless, their expressions as if facing an abyss.

”It’s self-repairing,” Yan said in a low voice, his fingertips constantly carving mental arrays, ”more than ten times stronger than the previous one.”

”It still has residual perception; after identifying our ’consciousness structure,’ it is performing targeted counter-pressure.”

”And it’s a learning-based adaptation.”

Ye Nanxing’s eyes darkened.

”In other words, if we drag this out, it can counter-attack us?”

”Correct,” Yan’s voice was like ice, ”and it is already attempting to take over part of my mental circuits.”

Ye Nanxing’s brows furrowed tightly, her internal spatial ability running at high speed to forcibly suppress the tremors in her sea of consciousness.

”...Then let’s not wait.”

”We’ll force a kill.”

The next second!

Six Space Anchor Points instantly locked onto the periphery of the brass badge!

She spread her five fingers, and the spatial structure collapsed rapidly, forcing the badge’s shell into an ”inwardly collapsing” state!

At the same time, Yan backhanded three black mental locking spikes, precisely piercing the badge’s breathing frequency points!

Two currents of ability and mental energy simultaneously plunged into the interior of the badge!

But just at the moment when the power was about to reach the mental core—

—Boom!!!

A circle of counter-shockwaves erupted suddenly from inside the badge!

”Cough—!”

Ye Nanxing felt a mouthful of blood surge up her throat, and a crisp cracking sound came from the finger bones of her right hand!

Yan was knocked back several meters, a wisp of blood seeping from his left ear, but his eyes grew even colder.

”It has a mental buffer wall.”

”It’s a self-constructed ’consciousness firewall’ that simulates each of our attack paths to deduce interference curves.”

Ye Nanxing cursed under her breath: ”Is this a badge or a living neural entity!”

”It’s a source core,” Yan replied in a low voice, ”it is a core container designed for ’consciousness arrival’.”

”You can understand it as—it is the ’eye’ of a god, an interface projected into reality.”

”If we don’t seal it—the dream will never stop.”

The two exchanged a look and said nothing more.

Ye Nanxing restarted the spatial plane manipulation, forcibly squeezing the source power of the spiritual spring!

Yan spread his arms, mobilizing the mental structure mapping array from the depths of his sea of consciousness!

”Once more,” Ye Nanxing gritted her teeth.

”This time, don’t give it any chance to calculate.”

Boom—!!!

Six-fold spatial collapse structures + mental overload commands hit simultaneously!

The entire badge shook like thunder, and the core was exposed!

But just at this moment—

”Enough.”

A cold voice, like crushed ice striking metal.

Boom!

The metal bulkhead exploded, and a tall figure walked slowly from behind.