Just as Taylor and countless other officials receiving the news felt despair—
The NASA director shouted urgently over the phone again.
"That giant... it's moving!"
NASA headquarters had fully transferred the feed observed by Goddard Space Flight Center. Directors from various NASA departments stared tensely at the satellite imagery.
On screen—
The giant in Earth's satellite orbit slowly turned, facing the massive comet flying in from the sun's direction.
"It's flying toward the comet!"
"Speed... impossible to calculate!"
Under their bewildered gazes, the mysterious giant flew toward the incoming comet.
"What?"
Taylor's expression shifted rapidly. What was the giant doing approaching the comet?
Was it really planning to use this comet to destroy Earth?
"Transfer the satellite feed to me too!" he shouted into the phone. He had to see the live footage.
"Roger!"
Seconds later, a feed appeared on the screen inside Taylor's chartered plane.
From one satellite's lens, a massive azure planet was visible—their home, Earth.
From another satellite's lens, the black cosmos stretched out. In the distance, the sun—far larger than Earth—radiated intense light.
A comet over a hundred kilometers in diameter, trailing a colorful tail, hurtled straight toward Earth from the sun's direction. This was the celestial body that could deliver devastating impact to all life on Earth.
"So massive..." Taylor stared at the comet, growing more desperate the longer he looked. Comets this large were extremely rare. One heading straight for Earth on a collision course—this was the first.
"What... is the giant trying to do?"
The satellites also captured imagery of the giant.
Slender in build, body composed of red and silver—the giant maintained flight posture, rapidly approaching the comet head-on.
The speed it displayed in space far exceeded any human spacecraft. Humanity couldn't remotely achieve such velocity.
Not just Taylor—all Western Hemisphere astronomical institutions including NASA observed the giant's every move.
"Too fast!"
"We're losing the image!" Technicians at the Canadian Space Agency rapidly adjusted their feed but couldn't keep pace with the giant's speed.
"What's it trying to... wait, the giant's slowing down!" At Goddard Space Flight Center, Wilson shouted with furrowed brow.
"Quick, magnify the image!"
"On it!" Cooper completed the operation the moment the words left Wilson's mouth.
"This is..."
"The giant raised one arm. What's it doing?"
"No idea." A nearby technician shook his head. They were all guessing at the giant's intent.
"After raising one arm, it's lifting the other."
Taylor also focused on the giant's movements.
This mysterious alien giant first raised one arm vertically before its chest, then slowly lifted the other arm, gently placing it at the raised arm's wrist, forming a cross.
"A cross... is it... truly God?"
In this unbearably tense moment, a bead of sweat unknowingly formed on Taylor's forehead.
He didn't know what the giant was doing, but he knew—this completely unknown giant, every single movement would affect the fate of their entire human civilization.
"Does it want us to survive, or... does it want to witness humanity's extinction..." Taylor's eyes locked onto the screen. He took a deep breath and traced a cross over his chest with his hand.
As a high-ranking government official, even the United States' UN representative—in any nation, his position stood above hundreds of millions—he always maintained composure and dignity.
But now, he could only pray internally for his future fate.
The next second—
"The giant's body is showing ultra-high thermal reaction!"
"It's a beam!"
"From the giant's palm side—a blue beam containing extremely high thermal energy has fired!" The technicians watching erupted in chaotic shouts.
They witnessed a scene they would never forget.
A scene that completely shattered their understanding of science.
Perhaps when lower civilizations witnessed higher civilizations, this complete incomprehension was natural.
A dazzling blue beam erupted from the giant's palm side, striking toward that hundred-plus-kilometer comet at speeds the satellite lens couldn't capture.
The giant's figure appeared exceptionally small against the comet's volume. That slender beam also seemed somewhat insignificant. Yet even so, when the comet made contact with the beam, its speed still slowed!
"Contact!"
"How is this possible!?"
"The comet... is retreating!"
"That giant used some unknown beam and pushed the comet back!" Technicians across astronomical institutions couldn't believe this reality.
That comet could easily destroy Earth's ecosystem. Now it was being forced backward by a fifty-meter giant?
Fifty meters versus one hundred thousand meters—their volumes weren't even on the same scale!
Yet the fact remained: the comet was retreating at extreme speed. Simultaneously, Spacium Beam energy continuously accumulated inside. Cracks appeared on its surface, as if it would explode any second!
"The comet... exploded!" a technician instantly shouted.
After the giant pushed the comet away with the beam, it exploded from within. Countless fragments continued flying toward the sun amid the shockwave.
"This... what magnitude of energy is this?"
"It actually made the comet explode!"
"Able to survive ignoring the space environment... possessing speed far exceeding any human spacecraft... even having the ability to directly destroy comets..."
"What kind of civilization... does it come from..."
These astronomical workers were already the people most familiar with the stars, yet even they couldn't imagine such an existence existed in the universe.
"That comet... wasn't brought by the giant..." After witnessing this scene, Taylor leaned back in his chair and exhaled a long breath.
Threatened by the Precursors' Kaiju for so many years, he'd never been this tense.
Without question, the civilization behind this giant far surpassed the Precursors. A civilization humanity couldn't even imagine.
Just a single individual could already determine a planet's fate. This was truly astonishing.
Most fortunate of all—this action showed it had no intention of destroying human civilization.
Suddenly—
"Mr. Taylor!"
"The giant's moving again!" came a voice from the other end of the phone.
"Is it heading inside Earth!?" Taylor asked urgently. He very much hoped it was coming to negotiate peacefully with humanity.
Having helped humanity this much, logically the next step should be negotiations between civilizations.
"No!"
"It... that giant is flying along Earth's satellite orbit!"
"We've lost the target!"
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