The sky explodes!

The three high-orbit warships suddenly turned their cannons around and aimed them all at the Purifier headquarters!

[Warning! Warning! Internal system defection!]

[Countdown to the termination of the silence agreement: 10...9...]

"What did you do to them!" The mechanical voice finally cracked, filled with shock and anger.

“I didn’t do anything,” Su Ting smiled. “I just let them…hear their childhood.”

"Madmen!" the voice roared. "You monsters who manipulate others with your emotions! You don't deserve to be called human!"

"We are not monsters," Su Ting's voice suddenly turned cold. "You are. Snatching children from their mothers' arms, cutting off their emotional well-being, and instilling in them the bullshit idea of ​​'efficiency above all else'—you are not human, you are butchers."

Chapter 1355 Hang in there

[Countdown: 3...2...]

Suddenly, the voice on the communicator changed.

No longer mechanical, no longer cold.

Instead, it was... a boy's voice, trembling, weak, and choked with sobs:

"Brother...save me...I'm so cold...I want to go home..."

Su Ting was startled.

"Xiao Zhe?" he almost cried out, "You...you're still alive?"

The sound was intermittent, as if it came from the deepest part of the earth:

"Brother... they locked me in 'Cage Zero'... my ears... were cut off... but I can still hear... Mom's songs... is she... is she still waiting for me?"

"Here!" Su Ting roared, his eyes red-rimmed. "She's been waiting! Hang in there! I'm coming right now!"

[Countdown: 1...Silence protocol terminated.]

"Om-"

The entire aurora suddenly stopped.

The next instant, it receded like the tide.

The world was plunged into darkness.

Xiao Yin cried out in alarm: "All sonic signals have been interrupted! The mother frequency... the mother frequency has been cut off!"

Su Ting abruptly drew his pulse gun from his waist: "What the hell? They're physically cutting off the internet?"

“No.” Su Ting stared intently at the piano keys, the blue light gradually fading. “It’s the ‘sound barrier’ that’s been activated. They’ve blocked everything north of 40 degrees latitude…”

"What about Xiao Zhe?" Xiao Yin asked anxiously. "He's still inside!"

Su Ting slowly pressed the piano keys back to his chest and closed his eyes.

"As long as I can still hear... it's not completely disconnected."

He hummed "Moonlight Sonata" softly, his voice hoarse but firm.

Xiao Yin suddenly paused, "Wait... listen! There's an echo in the headphones!"

She quickly switched on the remaining frequency band and amplified the signal.

— Faint, intermittent, yet incredibly clear.

It was Xiao Zhe's voice.

He was singing.

"The moonlight shines on the river bend... My mother is calling me home to sleep..."

Although the tune was off-key and the voice trembled, it was like a blunt knife, ruthlessly cutting through the darkness.

Su Ting suddenly looked up and gazed north: "He's not calling for help. He's... responding."

Su Ting opened his eyes, flames igniting within them.

"He didn't give up. So we certainly won't."

He grabbed the piano keys and strode toward the wrecked aircraft.

"Fix it. Take off within ten minutes."

"Are you crazy?" Xiao Yin screamed. "The sound barrier will make you deaf! Or even worse!"

“Then I’ll go deaf.” Su Ting turned around and smiled. “But as long as my heart can still hear, I can still sing.”

Su Ting grinned and slammed his fist into the aircraft engine: "Great! I've wanted to kick them in the face for ages!"

He pulled out a rusty can of fuel and gulped it down: "But you have to promise me—after we blow up their lair, I'm going to play 'Moonlight Sonata' on their command platform for three days and three nights!"

"Deal." Su Ting nodded.

Xiao Yin gritted her teeth and lunged at the control panel: "Then...then I'll go too! I don't want all the songs I listen to in the future to be autoplaying ads!"

The aircraft engine roared to life, spewing forth blue flames that pierced the night sky.

Just moments before takeoff, the communicator suddenly rang again.

It was still that Siberian girl, Lina.

"Sister Su Wan... I... I've already started singing. But... I'm so scared, what if I don't sing well and no one can hear me?"

Su Ting pressed the communication button, her voice gentle yet firm:

"Lina, listen to me."

"You don't need to sing very well."

"All you need to do is sing to that version of yourself who was once afraid of the dark."

"Okay?"

After a brief silence, the girl's voice rang out softly, tinged with tears, yet incredibly clear:

"it is good.".

Chapter 1356 Module is Degrading

The aircraft streaked across the night sky in a fiery blue arc, like a bullet flying against the trajectory of a meteor. Inside the cabin, alarms flashed red, and the systems emitted piercing warning sounds continuously.

[Warning: Within the sound barrier boundary, the neuro-auditory module is degenerating]

Hearing loss: 37%...52%...continuously rising

"My ears... hurt so much." Xiaoyin bit her lip hard, her hands flying across the control panel. "It feels like a needle is drilling into them! But the navigation is still working; we'll reach the edge of the barrier in another two hundred kilometers!"

Su Ting grinned, veins bulging on his forehead: "My eardrums are about to explode! This thing is designed to shatter people's brains!"

Su Ting remained silent.

His eyes were closed, his fingers gently caressing the piano keys on his chest, his lips moving slightly as he silently hummed "Moonlight Sonata." His hearing was long gone, the world seemed to be wrapped in a thick layer of cotton, yet he could "hear"—through vibrations, through his heartbeat, through those frequencies hidden deep within his blood.

“Xiao Zhe is still singing.” He suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse. “The frequency has changed, but he hasn’t stopped. He’s giving us directions.”

"What?" Xiaoyin looked up abruptly. "You mean he... is guiding us?"

“It’s not with sound.” Su Ting opened his eyes, his pupils reflecting a deep blue light. “It’s resonance. Every time he sings a note, he creates a tiny ripple in the barrier. Like… a butterfly flapping its wings.”

Su Ting's eyes widened: "So you're saying this kid is using his own life as a navigational beacon?"

“Yes.” Su Ting nodded, his voice low. “With each line he sings, the nerve damage worsens. But he keeps singing.”

The cabin was deathly silent.

A moment later, Su Ting slammed his fist on the control panel and roared, "Damn it! I hate this kind of thing the most! The kid risked his life to pave the way for us, and what are we doing here talking nonsense! Full speed ahead! Crash it in if you want!"

"No!" Xiao Yin screamed, "There's a sound pressure barrier on the outer layer of the barrier. If we force our way through, we'll tear the cochlear nerve! The entire spacecraft will be blasted to smithereens!"

"Then what do you suggest we do?" Su Ting asked, her eyes red. "Wait until he sings until he dies?"

Su Ting slowly stood up and walked towards the rusty audio amplifier at the back of the cabin—an old relic they had pieced together from an abandoned radio station, capable of amplifying a single sound source over a range of 100 kilometers.

“We…return the favor,” Su Ting said in a low voice.

"What did you say?" Xiaoyin was stunned.

“He needs to hear too.” Su Ting’s finger traced the amplifier knob. “It’s not just us who hear him. He also needs to know that someone is responding to him.”

He pressed the start button.

The machine emitted a piercing hum, then stabilized.

Su Ting brought the piano keys to her lips, no longer humming, but instead using all her strength to sing at the top of her lungs:

"The moonlight shines on the river bend—"

The sound exploded through the amplifier, breaking through the cabin and piercing the dark sky.

At that moment, a miracle happened.

In the previously silent headphones, Xiao Zhe's singing suddenly became clear for a moment, and then it briefly overlapped with Su Ting's melody, forming a faint but firm harmony.

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