As soon as Li Yu arrived in this world, he saw the huge Jaeger lying on the ground, along with four ferocious Kaiju.
He instantly sensed the extremely high energy about to erupt around him.
When he saw the nuclear radiation symbol on the box, Li Yu couldn't help but frown slightly. "Did the Main God throw me into the center of a nuclear explosion?"
But it doesn't matter. A mere nuclear explosion, for a Gold Saint who has awakened the Eighth Sense, is as easy as catching an opponent's ordinary attack.
If it were any other Gold Saint, he would only be able to choose to stay away from here or blast the box away.
But Li Yu was different; he was the Aquarius Gold Saint, capable of freezing all atomic motion.
Li Yu slowly extended a finger, a wisp of ice-blue cold air swirling around its tip.
The next second, there was no earth-shattering boom, no world-destroying shockwave, only a white halo slowly spreading out from him as its center.
The ultimate chill of Absolute Zero instantly swept across the entire scene!
The violently expanding nuclear device, containing destructive energy, was instantly frozen in mid-air.
The box maintained its ferocious, about-to-burst form, with scorching red light still congealed in the cracks of its alloy shell, yet firmly locked by the ice.
The surrounding turbulent, scorching airflow transformed into a mist composed of ice crystals, and the splashing ion sparks solidified into tiny ice particles. Even the corrosive venom dripping from the Kaiju's mouths turned into transparent ice beads the moment it touched the cold air, producing a crisp sound as it fell to the ground.
The alloy box behind the Jaeger, along with ten nuclear warheads capable of turning Hong Kong into scorched earth, completely transformed into a colossal, crystal-clear ice coffin.
Inside the ice coffin, the traces of surging energy were clearly visible, like a storm frozen in time, presenting a bizarre, ultimate beauty of destructive stillness.
Lethal cold air seeped from the ice coffin, and visible ice crystal dust floated in the air, instantly freezing into thin ice upon landing on the ground.
Everyone's expressions were frozen in extreme shock.
At that moment, time seemed to stand still.
Zhao Zhengxuan's finger was still on the button, but his pressing motion had already stiffened.
His pupils dilated to their limit, his eye sockets almost tearing, reflecting the terrifying, eternally frozen energy core close at hand.
The fanatical resolve to die was instantly shattered, replaced by an unbelievable blankness and terror!
The blood in his entire body seemed to be frozen by this sudden extreme cold, and he stiffly looked through the torn hatch at the static nuclear explosion so close.
The muscles on his face twitched stiffly, but he couldn't make any sound, only a distorted gasp from deep in his throat due to excessive horror.
His heroic consciousness, which had just been prepared to perish with the world, was crushed to dust by this miraculous power, leaving only the most primitive feeling of insignificance and fear in the face of an incomprehensible force.
In the command center, Cai Tiantong, as the chief technical officer, had been frantically typing on his keyboard moments before, calculating the nuclear explosion's impact range and humanity's survival time.
The red data flickering on the screen stung his eyes.
But the next second, his brain seemed to be struck by an invisible hammer, and all calculations came to an abrupt halt.
He sprang up from the control panel, oblivious to his knees hitting the table leg, and lunged towards the main monitor, pressing his hands tightly against the screen's edges, his knuckles white from the force.
On the holographic screen, the frozen nuclear core was clearly visible, with the energy reading showing "zero."
It wasn't equipment malfunction, but truly and completely frozen.
"No... impossible..."
Cai Tiantong's fingers fumbled across the keyboard, trying to refresh the data, but only got a glaring blue static screen in return.
His lips trembled, unable to form a complete sentence.
"This is... energy level zero? No... is it Absolute Zero? How could this be... How could there be Absolute Zero in this world?"
His glasses reflected the chaotic code on the screen, his eyes behind the lenses bloodshot, his pupils filled with the chaos of a collapsing worldview and a horror that transcended all understanding of physics.
The technology he had spent his life researching was, in the face of this power, as fragile as a paper toy.
On the streets of Hong Kong, citizens still fleeing or praying desperately behind shelters saw this incredible scene through public screens or miraculously surviving monitors.
The desperate weeping ceased abruptly, replaced by an unbelievable silence.
Then, an uncontrollable ecstasy, mixed with immense hope and a shock to their faith, and an even deeper awe, erupted.
Someone fell to their knees with a thud, prostrating themselves excitedly towards the direction from which the golden light descended, tears mixing with sweat as they murmured.
"A miracle! There really are gods who heard our human prayers!"
Fear was instantly replaced by hope, yet accompanied by a deeper, trembling reverence for the unknown power.
The several Kaiju, who had been pinning down the Jaeger, ready to enjoy humanity's death throes, reacted even more violently.
The immense pressure descending from the sky, containing something that made their deep-seated genes feel terror, caused their massive bodies to suddenly stiffen!
The low, rumbling roars, filled with surprise and instinct, ceased abruptly.
Their thick limbs paused mid-shredding, their ferocious heads, with several pairs of compound eyes, spun frantically, tracking the source of the light. For the first time, their eyes showed clear, extreme fear and bewildered incomprehension, stemming from a prey's reaction to a predator at the bottom of the food chain.
The power emanating from Li Yu, completely beyond their perception, brought them only the purest biological terror.
Li Yu chuckled, "Low-level martial arts worlds and technological worlds are like this; a little effort, and the entire world can't quite handle it."
Recalling the EVA world, where the world collapsed due to his and three Pantheon powerhouses' full-strength bursts, Li Yu reined himself in slightly. He didn't want to waste his effort again.
He was determined to acquire the source crystal of the Pacific Ocean world.
Li Yu slowly floated up, his gaze icy, sweeping over the four Kaiju. Without any attacking motion, white frost slowly began to appear on these four monsters, starting from their heads.
At Li Yu's current level, he could freeze all things with his will.
The Kaiju were too weak; Li Yu had no intention of personally acting.
Under everyone's incredulous gazes, the four Kaiju, each over a hundred meters tall, all turned into ice sculptures. They maintained the ferocious, roaring poses they had in life, but with no trace of life left.
After dealing with the Kaiju, Li Yu's gaze fell on the Jaeger's cockpit.
Inside the cockpit, a middle-aged man, with blood seeping from his nose and mouth, clearly severely injured, was leaning against the seat, his eyes unfocused as he stared out the window.
"Tell me, what exactly happened in your world?"
Li Yu's voice clearly entered the cockpit, not deliberately amplified, yet carrying an undeniable authority.
Zhao Zhengxuan's body trembled, his unfocused eyes instantly sharpening.
He looked at the white figure floating in the air, with only one thought remaining in his mind.
Our world?
So, he wasn't from this world; a god had truly descended!
Extreme excitement and awe surged in his heart, and his vision went black. His body, which had been sustained by sheer willpower, could no longer hold on.
His body swayed violently a few times, then crashed to the ground with a thud, completely losing consciousness.