Not to mention that crystal cores could be used as currency, the amount of energy contained in the black crystal was a hundred times more than a level-four crystal core. So to save money, she just used the alternative option.
After she drained her energy again, she suddenly felt pain in her whole body. Noticing the symptoms, she quickly grabbed a bigger piece of black crystal and started her attempt to break through.
As the energy surged in her body, the emptiness she felt was filling up slowly. At the same time, the fog covering the edge of the Space swirled and was absorbed by her.
Noticing the energy fluctuation, Jin Xuyan rushed to the grassland area and saw his fiancée was in the process of breaking through. Scattering around her was black dust, remnants of the unknown crystal.
At this moment, Jiao Lizhi’s five senses were blocked. All she could sense was the bone-crushing pain caused by the violent energy rampaging inside her. Unlike the breakthrough in her previous life, this time, the pain was twenty times more painful.
Her body was soaked with cold sweat while the impurities were expelled from her body through the pores. Gritting her teeth, she endured the pain and focused her mind to guide the energy.
With her meridians opened and the blockage cleared, her mind became sharper. She did not know how long had passed when she suddenly heard a soft mechanical voice echoing in her mind.
"...Gaia’s system... enable... function... emergency procedure... codes launched..."
Thinking that she was hallucinating, Jiao Lizhi soon forgot about the strange voice in her mind.
While she was undergoing a breakthrough in her Space, the sky slowly brightened and was painted with colorful clouds.
"Host, wake up! Gaia finally sent a message back."
The moment Du Beiye heard Krayan’s words, her eyes snapped open and her dizziness disappeared instantly. Sitting up, she said, "Track down Gaia’s location and crack the secret message."
"Host, we are unable to track down Gaia as the signal only lasted for one second."
"How about the message?" Du Beiye asked.
"The system has cracked the codes. Host, do you want to check the message?" Krayan asked.
"Open the message," Du Beiye nodded.
The next second, a blue screen popped up in front of her. On the screen, there were only two sentences.
"Energy insufficient for safe landing, emergency procedure has been activated. Attached data: last recording of the host after entering the wormhole."
As soon as Du Beiye saw the attached data, she tapped on the screen and a video was played. Inside the recording, a girl with similar features as her was injured due to the explosion of the Space portal.
Without the Space portal, the wormhole was distorted and the parallel universes intertwined with each other.
Under normal circumstances, every object that entered the wormhole without the Space portal would either be stretched or squeezed, turning them into nothing but atoms.
Du Beiye watched her sister’s escape pod start to distort under the massive pressure of the gravitation. Her body could not stand the pressure, and her bones and flesh were crushed like meat paste.
When she thought that her sister would lose her life inside the wormhole, Gaia activated the emergency procedure.
Both her sister and Gaia disappeared from the wormhole and appeared in one of countless parallel universes, ending up on the Blue Planet far before their civilization era.
To protect the host’s life, Gaia had to turn back the time. But due to the insufficient energy, it could not control the specific time. The host turned into a one-month-old baby and was found by an orphanage’s director.
This was the last record from Gaia before it went into a deep slumber mode. Without energy, the system shut down and the host could not access the Space at all.
After watching the recording, Du Beiye finally understood why her sister underwent so many DNA mutations.
The first mutation happened during the emergency procedure. The next mutations might have happened after the Blue Planet was contaminated by the virus.
She went through countless possibilities and scenarios, but she could not understand why her sister could activate Gaia now. From what she knew, Gaia and Krayan were both created by the Creator using almost identical rules and codes.
If the system went into a deep slumber mode, the energy required to reactivate the system would be at least double the total energy needed to fully access all of the functions.
"Krayan, what is the possibility of my sister doing the Space jump more than once?" she suddenly asked.
When it heard this, Krayan went silent for a while before it asked, "Host, do you doubt that our current location is not the Blue Planet your sister landed on the first time?"
"Only when the host is in a life-threatening situation could the system reactivate automatically by using the reserved energy. Otherwise, the host has to reactivate it by recovering the energy manually," Du Beiye voiced her doubts.
After a moment of pause, she added, "Since Gaia could jump across the parallel world once, it might be able to jump for the second time."
"Host, your doubts are not unfounded."
When they reached this conclusion, Du Beiye finally smiled. She thought that they would have to search for a long time before she could find her sister. Unexpectedly, she had always been on her side.
Sensing its host’s good mood, Krayan asked, "Host, now that you have found your sister, will you tell her your identity and help her recover Gaia’s energy?"
Du Beiye thought for a while before she shook her head and replied, "I will not tell her for now. Although Gaia’s emergency procedure could save my sister’s life, it came with side effects."
"Not to mention the DNA mutations, she would lose all of her memories after the procedure. Right now, she might only remember her life and experience on this Blue Planet. If I told her my identity, she would not believe me. She might even treat me as a foe."
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