# Chapter 16: Ultimate Crisis Part 2 (6000, Please Vote for Monthly Tickets)
Unlike Ke Lei Le, Ai Er Ma, as a high-level figure in the Amos system and a former thinking individual from the Collective Zone, had the corresponding authority to view the scenes within the sealed world.
As the chill spread to her nerve endings, she immediately connected to the internal observation system to find the source of the terrifying roar coming from within the sealed world.
Then, an incredibly massive, bizarre creature abruptly appeared in Ai Er Ma's field of vision.
In the detection lens, a dark brown, indescribably strange creature was rapidly 'overflowing' from within the twelve planets locked by the blue star's tidal forces—more precisely, from the seventh experimental planet. And that terrifying roar was the sound it made as it broke through the planet's restraints and emerged on the surface.
The reason it was called 'overflowing' rather than 'emerging' was because this bizarre creature truly behaved like liquid... One could see a dark brown, petroleum-like grease aggregate rapidly surging out from the planet's surface fissures at subsonic speeds. Simultaneously, the grease appearing at tens of thousands of nodes across the globe howled across the surface, covering seventy-two percent of the planet's area in less than a minute.
Then, these greases began to aggregate and solidify—it transformed into a massive fungal umbrella facing the blue sun.
A dark brown giant fungal body, fifteen hundred kilometers tall, pierced through the atmosphere. It took root on the planet, and fissures across the globe continued to flow with grease, attaching to its fungal stalk like blood vessels, making the umbrella cap increasingly massive and towering.
But this was not the monster's final form—Ai Er Ma noticed that this terrifying, unknown creature was constantly undergoing abnormal mutations and evolutions, not just using vast amounts of supernatural power: At the top of the fungal cap, one could see a mana crystal rapidly expanding. At the edges of the cap, starfish-like strange structures began to appear, covered with densely packed, tens of millions of eyes. These eyes rotated irregularly, and an incredibly massive flow of Aether was thus manipulated by the creature, causing its front end to gradually detach from the planet and begin swimming in the vacuum, like a piece of seaweed floating in space.
Beneath it, as the planet continuously overflowed with dark brown grease, it also cracked and shattered due to the massive plundering of its mass. The planet's core energy was almost completely drained, and substantial fire and earth elements transformed into profound, substantial patterns covering this creature—now indescribable, looking like a constantly writhing mixture of fungus and echinoderm.
Just as the planet completely shattered, silently breaking into several large fragments, this creature finally completed its temporary mutation—or rather, an ultimate evolution—a massive moth with carapace and bone wings appeared in the vacuum. This moth still had some dragon-like features, with horns on its head for manipulating mana, a huge tail covered in sharp spikes, but its body was more like a hybrid of moth and bee, and on its back, it carried the typical snail shell common to Amos prototypes.
"What kind of monster is this?!"
"Did they put all living things in a breeding cauldron and crossbreed them?!"
Not only Ai Er Ma exclaimed, but even Ke Lei Le, who considered himself well-traveled and had seen many strange forms of Chaos minions at the officer academy, felt dizzy—because this monster lifeform, which seemed to gather all the advantages or special traits of every creature, was still mutating. One could see a mana halo appearing behind this mutated creature, whose body width exceeded two hundred and fifty kilometers, with part of its body still rooted in the planet. It twisted space-time, creating a ring in front of it that only appeared during a jump.
The next moment, the section connecting the monster to the planet shattered, and the front end of the monster's body made a short-distance jump, approaching another experimental planet.
"Major experiment error—applying for emergency evacuation."
"I have failed my teacher, my sub-bodies. I now make my will, dividing all my property into three parts, one part to be given to..."
"The seventh experimental planet has been completely destroyed. Mutant experiment subject—codename 'Ultimate Life' exceeds 'highest level of control'. Estimated strength: General-class."
"Codename Ultimate Life individual possesses extremely high intelligence. May break through the thirty-three layers of seal restraints at any time. Requesting complete elimination plan."
On the sixth experimental planet, all Amos thinking sub-individuals located there were not panicked, because thinking sub-individuals, who focused on thought, possessed exceptional intelligence, and had most negative emotions removed, simply did not panic. But even so, they calmly requested emergency evacuation or calmly left their final words.
After all, calmness and intelligence were sometimes useless, especially when facing sudden, unstoppable terrifying power.
After the jump, the bizarre creature's body began approaching the sixth experimental planet. The excessively massive mana flow it possessed had already begun blowing away the planet's atmosphere. One could see the sixth planet's oceans beginning to massively vaporize and dissipate under the cosmic rays and the burning fire element patterns on the monster's body surface, causing most of the planet to be shrouded in high-temperature steam—and this scene lasted only three seconds. Three seconds later, the monster's body surface generated four biological tentacles like straws, directly inserted into the planet, seemingly reaching deep into the crust, beginning to extract matter and heat from the core.
The sixth planet was about to follow the seventh's fate. One could see the earth cracking, mountains and oceans simultaneously breaking and collapsing. The crust and mantle were churned into a broken mess by those excessively massive tentacles, and solid rock was like liquid, rapidly stirred by the straws into easily absorbable magma.
It was like a bored person using a spoon to stir originally solid ice cream, turning the planet into a soft, oily paste.
"Ultimate Life... So this is the ultimate lifeform that the Ultimate Virus can spawn?!"
Ke Lei Le now shared vision with Ai Er Ma. Whatever she could see, he could also see. Thinking of the name 'Ultimate Virus' and the previous designation of this creature from the sixth experimental planet, this captain couldn't help but feel his hair stand on end: "Besides killing people, that plague can also catalyze such a terrifying creature?!"
"This strength already far exceeds many low-level Generals. It would probably require the Seven War Zone leaders, the titled General-level existences, to come and suppress it—"
Ai Er Ma, however, recognized the creature's strength. Her body trembled. As an Ultimate Peak 'Commander'-class existence, she was only a paper-thin distance away from a low-level General. Of course, she could see that the Ultimate Life's strength had already reached the level of being able to 'hunt planets'—if it could move in the void and pry open world barriers, then it would be no different from a world-devouring Void Behemoth!
"Hurry! Apply for purification! Execute the complete elimination plan!"
Ai Er Ma's actions were not slow, but at this moment, the constantly mutating, expanding creature—covered in countless biological features that changed in the next instant—this massive planet-level magical beast, the 'Ultimate Life', after absorbing a large amount of energy from the second planet, began to rapidly rot—but just as Ai Er Ma and Ke Lei Le's hearts jumped with a mix of shock and hope, thinking the monster might self-destruct, a pure white cocoon, hidden beneath layers of semi-transparent rotting tissue, appeared at the center of the Ultimate Life's body.
On this giant cocoon, rainbow light flowed, revealing various profound patterns and structures, as if it could naturally control numerous supernatural powers.
Mana, Aether, Elements, Life Energy... Four supernatural forces condensed into four gems, embedded at the four directions of this cocoon, making this white giant cocoon, suspended within rotting flesh, seem like a work of art from hell, a vessel nurturing some terrifying existence, allowing it to completely sublimate.
There was no need for Ai Er Ma to continue applying—seeing this, the leaders of the Collective Zone made their own decisions. They could naturally see that the terrifying creature before them had exceeded common sense, completely beyond their expectations, and was no longer under control.
So.
"Complete elimination plan initiated."
With a tentacle, after inputting a thirty-six-digit key, resolutely pulling down the control lever, the chain runes located deep within the blue star at the center of the sealed world, within the chromosphere, began to activate.
Accompanied by a series of low explosions, the blue star, already in a critical state, immediately crossed the threshold and began rapidly entering a supernova critical state!
This massive blue star, with a mass far exceeding ordinary stars, was already on the verge of core collapse due to its own gravity. The Amos had been supplying it with extra energy to maintain its original form. But when the complete elimination plan was activated, all the rune arrays inside the star self-destructed in an instant. Without external energy to sustain it, the entire star, which had already entered its final stage and whose core had mostly fused into an iron core, began to collapse.
In that instant, nuclear reactions stopped, radiation pressure completely disappeared, and the force supporting the star dissipated into nothingness in an instant.
Then came the collapse.
At the blue star's core, matter exceeding five ordinary stellar masses fell toward the star's iron core at near-light speed. When this stellar matter struck the high-density iron core, it would rebound outward at almost the same speed and direction. The iron core, due to its own excessively massive mass and the secondary fusion brought by the impact of stellar matter, would collapse into a neutron star in less than a second. The energy it released in that instant was hundreds of billions of times greater than its past output, enough to blow away all stellar matter.
This massive energy was enough to destroy everything within the sealed world.
And after some time, the neutron star, with its excessively powerful gravity, would pull all the dispersed stellar matter back to its surface. Under the continuous impact of matter flow and the high-energy storms sweeping the entire world, it would transform into a stellar black hole that would end everything, conducting a second thorough cleansing of the entire sealed world.
This was the 'small sealed world' and 'complete elimination plan' modified to deal with 'ultra-hazardous experiments'—using a supernova explosion as a cleansing device and a black hole as a recovery device. In theory, any crisis could be nipped in the bud through this series of operations.
In theory.
Inside the sealed world, all observation systems completely failed, and even the entire world barrier was illuminated. But the alarm bell in Ai Er Ma's heart still did not stop—in that instant when all observation lenses completely failed, she seemed to see that white cocoon become ethereal. It folded space, exiling itself between the world barrier and the void, effectively half-detaching from the entire sealed world. While this defense certainly could not withstand a close-range supernova explosion, it might not necessarily fail to leave a thread of life!
Especially considering that the creature might possess intelligence.
And the situation was exactly as bad as Ai Er Ma had imagined.
When the entire sealed world released abnormal brightness due to the internal supernova explosion, a giant cocoon, scorched black, suddenly appeared in the outer void of the world—at the last moment, it had pierced through the sealed world's barrier, directly leaving the sealed world ravaged by supernova energy!
"I succeeded!"
In the mental channel, both Ai Er Ma and Ke Lei Le heard a roar and laughter nearly mad with frenzy. His voice was manic and piercing, stirring up large ripples in the mental world: "Hahahaha, I'm out! Even the sealed world couldn't stop me! I am the chosen one, the child of destiny!"
This speech, though mad, was fundamentally logical, undoubtedly confirming Ai Er Ma's worst speculation.
The Ultimate Life—had intelligence.
And very likely, it was the intelligence of those infected Amos individuals.
"Even a supernova explosion can't kill it?!"
On the other side, Ke Lei Le felt that he had used up a lifetime of exclamations in a single day. He stared at the creature whose scorched black outer shell was gradually peeling off, revealing a typical Amos body with an iron shell underneath. He swallowed his saliva and said: "Your Amos people become this strong after ultimate transformation..."
Saying this, Ke Lei Le blinked, thinking of Amos the Great Emperor, whose even a clone could easily toy with stars, fight with Marshal Radcliffe and others, and destroy who knows how many worlds across several star domains. He suddenly felt he had said something unnecessary: "Yeah, that's right, not strange at all."
"No, this is very strange, isn't it?!"
At this moment, Ai Er Ma also snapped back from her shock. She also noticed that the Ultimate Life before her was struggling to emerge from the completely destroyed cocoon. Her human appearance's expression was uncertain, and her semi-transparent warship body began to change colors, proving she was in extreme hesitation: "Damn it, he should be in his weakest state after enduring the supernova explosion! I can sense his aura is very weak, even dropping directly from General-class..."
This was indeed a good opportunity to eliminate him.
But after all, he was originally an Ultimate Life capable of hunting stars... No matter how weakened, he was still very strong!
"Let's temporarily run first. We originally just wanted to investigate the truth behind the anomalies in the Amos Royal Court and even the Bloody Star River—now the truth is very clear, it's the Ultimate Virus and these Ultimate Lives causing it."
On the side, Ke Lei Le, who didn't want to fight for the Amos, didn't advise either, just expressing his opinion: "I think our survival is most important—aren't there the Imperial Guard and the protective power bestowed by Amos the Great Emperor himself? There's no need for us to fight."
Ke Lei Le's reasoning was very sound, and Ai Er Ma thought so too... However, just as she truly intended to turn around and temporarily flee, this Amos suddenly stopped.
Because a series of urgent notification messages appeared in her mind.
"Warning! Plague epidemics are activating across various regions. Special individuals may awaken as codename 'Ultimate Life' special super-individuals! Their strength ranges from Commander-class peak to high-level General-class!"
"Warning! The Royal Court Military has currently discovered a total of 749 Ultimate Lives! Their main distribution is in the East Star Zone, Aira Star Domain, Demer Star Domain..."
"Warning! Ultimate Lives possess intelligence—they mutate from ordinary Amos individuals, but they still retain the original Amos individuals' memories and intelligence. They still remember who they were before, but!"
At this moment, the urgent announcement came from a powerful thinking individual known to Ai Er Ma, whose status, translated to the Mycroft World, would be equivalent to a personage at the level of an honorary academician of the Central Technical Research Institute. He used a calm and serious tone to make an urgent announcement to the entire Royal Court: "But, the thinking of those Ultimate Lives has become distorted. They have completely abandoned civilization, abandoned cooperation—they only want to plunder resources, to make themselves stronger, to go further!"
"They have become beasts—immortal monsters that devour everything and are hostile to us!"
"Now, the Royal Court Military has issued the highest alert order. All Royal Court individuals, obey orders. We will exhaust all our strength to eliminate these monsters wreaking havoc in our nation!"
"...Wait, wait... Why only the Royal Court Military? What about the Great Emperor's Imperial Guard? The Direct Extermination Army? Those titled Generals?!" Listening to all this, Ai Er Ma's expression suddenly darkened.
First, she was tense, then contemplative, and finally, bit by bit, she became agitated and depressed. Until finally, clenching her fists, she raised her head somewhat despairingly, her gaze seeming to look toward the great existence at the other end of the void. She roared in a low voice: "What about the Great Emperor?! Why doesn't the Great Emperor descend his power and directly annihilate these monsters?!"
"More than a dozen, even more worlds have fallen silent. Over seven hundred monsters are rampaging through our territory. But why don't you do anything—why?!"
"You absolutely can do it—as easily as blowing a breath!"
Ai Er Ma's cry was filled with incredulity, disbelief, anger, and despair. She truly found it difficult to understand everything before her and everything she had heard from the bottom of her heart.
Ke Lei Le witnessed this scene. For some reason, he also felt a bit uncomfortable.
—Ai Er Ma was an 'independent' who wanted to rebel against Amos the Great Emperor, to lead a group of like-minded Amos individuals to break away from the Royal Court, from the Great Emperor's protection, and survive alone in the Multiverse Star River.
Essentially, she was afraid—afraid that Amos the Great Emperor would completely ignore his own people at a critical moment. It was precisely because of this fear that she wanted to rebel and leave, to find a remote corner and lead her compatriots to thrive.
But this fear and dread had no basis before, it was just a persecution complex, and Ai Er Ma herself did not deny this.
In the depths of her heart, Ai Er Ma still harbored a fantasy about the Amos Royal Court and Amos the Great Emperor—she always felt that the Great Emperor was, after all, their Great Emperor. At a critical moment, the Emperor ruling this vast Royal Court would still protect his people.
And now it seemed... he simply didn't care.
There was no heavenly fire descending from the sky, no appearance of the Emperor's Imperial Guard, no aid from the Direct Extermination Army... None of the core forces of the Royal Court appeared at all. Only the Amos Military and the Amos people's own strength were saving themselves.
Ai Er Ma's fear was correct—Amos the Great Emperor ignored all this. He simply didn't care about the casualties of his people.
—After all, the dead are the weak, and the survivors are the strong, right?
—One could even say that those Ultimate Lives, those immortal beasts pursuing the strongest, pursuing power, might be more to the taste of this Emperor who pursued 'strength'.
"Ke Lei Le... I'm very sorry."
Whether it was disappointment, despair, or awakening, it only took an instant. Ai Er Ma was an elite among the Amos, a genius individual who had once conducted void wars and developed new technologies—Ai Er Ma raised her head, staring at the severely injured Ultimate Life individual before her, who had just barely emerged a little from the scorched cocoon. Then she turned her head, looking back at the living area of the Collective Zone thinking individuals. She said in a deep voice: "It seems there are no reinforcements... And I am, after all, an Amos. At least, for now."
"Before the real 'defection', I still need to fulfill my duty."
"—Ah, don't be so tragic. Stop, stop. We're far from the point where we need to say such things, right?"
Ke Lei Le interrupted Ai Er Ma's words—he didn't need to think to know that she was about to say something tragically heroic like 'This has nothing to do with you, you go first, I'll hold the rear'. So this former Mycroft captain could only shake his head helplessly, saying to the surprised alien woman of a different race before him: "You saved my life. How could I run away first? Besides—"
"You may not believe in Amos the Great Emperor, but I absolutely believe in our beloved Marshal Joshua Van Radcliffe!"
Saying this, Ke Lei Le, who was smiling, patted the 'Crisis Handling System' at his waist, the belt emitting a faint golden light. Then he raised his hand, pointing at the confused Ai Er Ma's chest—who had no idea what he was talking about—because there were two shaking gelatinous masses there, Ke Lei Le quickly withdrew his hand with a red face.
But even so, his meaning was very clear.
Ai Er Ma thoughtfully lowered her head. She saw the pale blue gem on her chest, like the clear sky—whether it was deliberately not using the aid left by this alien strongman, or truly overlooking it, she had never thought about it from beginning to end.
This power...
"The 'Crisis' Handling System was entrusted to us by the Marshal precisely to handle 'crises', wasn't it? Mine is for infiltration, and yours is for combat."
And at this moment, Ke Lei Le's voice drifted faintly into Ai Er Ma's ears.
"Now is the time."