Chapter 42: Planetary-Class Aberration

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[Attribute: Magnetic Storm]
[Category: Spirituality]
[Tier: 0]
[Level: 0/10]
[Description: With this attribute, you can actively become a source of electromagnetic interference, using yourself as the center to emit powerful electromagnetic waves. These waves can disrupt surrounding electronic devices, including but not limited to wireless communication systems, radar equipment, navigation devices, and other apparatus that rely on the electromagnetic spectrum. You are also able to resist electromagnetic interference from external or hostile sources.]
[As the level of this attribute increases, the electromagnetic waves you emit will become stronger, even producing intense pulses of electromagnetic radiation capable of instantly burning out circuitry and destroying electronic devices.]
[Note: bilibili, come at me!]

Li Nanke carefully read the description of the ‘Magnetic Storm’ attribute.
The ability of this ‘Magnetic Storm’ was almost monstrous, akin to the forbidden objects in the A91 Safe Zone that could render all electronic devices useless, paralyzing them and turning high-tech gear into nothing but scrap metal.
Perhaps the Magnetic Storm attribute would not be as effective in some primitive, low-tech forbidden dreams, but in the real world, its impact would be extraordinary.
However, as a tier 0 attribute, even when fully leveled up, it likely wouldn’t reach the overwhelming power of those forbidden objects. At best, it could be considered a juvenile or downgraded version.
For the first time, the Magnetic Storm attribute was not bestial but belonged to a category he had never gained before—spirituality.
After obtaining ‘Magnetic Storm’, he could clearly sense an additional, self-replenishing energy arising within the ‘Spirituality’ substrate, a strange energy named ‘spiritual power’, which seemed to be dedicated to powering all main and subordinate attributes under the spirituality category.
To use the Magnetic Storm attribute and emit electromagnetic waves from himself as the core, he would have to consume the now meager ‘spiritual power’ available.
This was entirely different from the previous beastly and human attributes. For example, the beastly attribute ‘Scales of the Sea’ had an ultimate ability—when the illusionary scales became tangible, activating and maintaining this power would consume vast amounts of physical energy, quickly leading to exhaustion.
The human attribute ‘Armed’ seemed to consume mental power instead, but its consumption was so minimal as to be almost unnoticeable.
Now, with the acquisition of ‘Magnetic Storm’, an extra source of ‘spiritual power’ directly generated from the spirituality substrate was provided for its use.
Gazing at the subordinate attributes from bestiality, humanity, and spirituality, Li Nanke began to develop a faint conceptual understanding of the so-called substrate classifications.

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Nevertheless, the attributes and main qualities he had obtained so far were too few, and he couldn’t be sure whether his analysis was correct.
While he was pondering this, Alba had already succeeded in hacking the control room’s console.
However, what he brought up was not the space station’s logs, but a super artificial intelligence, projected holographically as a stunning blonde woman with blue eyes.
With her hands folded on her abdomen, the woman bowed deeply. “Strange Station Director, you may call me Bridget. How may I serve you?”
Alba said to him, “I’ve gained the highest authority on the space station. You can ask this AI anything—it’s much more convenient than searching the database.”
Li Nanke considered for a moment. “Tell me everything you know about the ‘First Generation Construct’ beneath the Deep Pit Prison.”
Bridget answered rapidly, “Three centuries ago, the United Human Government discovered a ‘Primordial Construct’ on an alien planet. This strange creation could emit powerful electromagnetic signals endlessly, a perpetual motion machine with infinite energy.”
“For a human civilization gripped by an energy crisis, the discovery of the ‘Primordial Construct’ was like divine favor.”
“The United Human Government attempted to replicate the ‘Primordial Construct’, and successfully manufactured small ‘Imitation Constructs’ capable of continuous high-frequency pulse emission. Though crude imitations, they solved the immediate energy crisis.”
“With ample energy, human technology advanced explosively, and the United Human Government began interstellar colonization, launching large-scale exploration beyond the homeworld.”
“Yet after this technological explosion, humanity soon reached a bottleneck. Advanced theoretical physics remained mired in speculation, impossible to verify.”
“At this point, the United Human Government resolved to create a more perfect replica, hoping to fully absorb the advanced technology contained within the ‘Primordial Construct’.”
“Soon, the nearly perfect replica—the ‘First Generation Construct’—was developed, but this was only an imitation without true understanding. The government still hadn’t mastered the profound sciences it sought.”
“However, the emergence of the ‘First Generation Construct’ revealed another astonishing biological technology—resurrection from death.”
“After exposure to the construct’s electromagnetic signals, intelligent lifeforms could revive uncontrollably after death.”
“The research direction changed. The United Human Government installed the ‘First Generation Construct’ deep beneath the mining planet Gliese 798c, assigning research staff to study the resurrection technology. Above the laboratory, they built the Deep Pit Prison, conducting human experiments on death row inmates to attempt mastery of controlled resurrection.”
Li Nanke frowned. “What happened to the prison administrators and research staff who were supposed to evacuate earlier?”
Bridget replied, “Since the transport ship intended for evacuation never arrived at the station, they were unable to depart. The space station attempted to contact the United Human Government and the evacuation ship, but received no reply.”

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“A large number of personnel remained on the station. After dawn, a group of inmates who escaped from Deep Pit Prison reached the station, clashing with resident staff and causing casualties. The corpses of the dead then began to revive uncontrollably… At present, other than the two station directors, there are no normal survivors left on the space station.”
As Bridget spoke, the rows of monitors in the control room lit up, surveillance cameras clearly displaying the carnage in densely populated sections such as the ‘living quarters’ and ‘residential areas’. These had become playgrounds for the fused abominations.
“Do you know about the Flare Project?”
Bridget shook her head.
Li Nanke turned to Alba. “Either this AI is lying, or the station’s internal database is incomplete. Let’s search the database ourselves.”
Alba operated his neural terminal, looking surprised. “Lying? That’s impossible! Trust my skills—I have the highest clearance. If the data exists on the station, this woman will tell the truth… Michael, are you suspecting there are still survivors on the station?”
“And this Flare Project you mentioned—I’ve never heard of it.”
Alba quickly pulled up all the information. Li Nanke searched for a long time but found that some key records were indeed missing from the database. However, the information Bridget provided matched the station logs and existing data.
“I’m not suspecting there are other survivors… Bridget, are there any satellite radars monitoring the planet’s surface?”
“Yes, Director. There is a monitoring satellite in synchronous orbit, equipped with laser radar and synthetic aperture radar. It can penetrate cloud cover and even parts of the crust, continuously observing the Deep Pit Prison… Would you like me to bring up a live feed?”
Li Nanke nodded. The monitor flickered, and the camera zeroed in on the surface relay station above Deep Pit Prison.
But at this moment, the relay station was nowhere to be seen on the screen—only writhing, twisted flesh filled the view.
It wasn’t until the camera zoomed out and climbed higher that the true shape of the colossal entity became apparent.
It was a titan eclipsing the sky, formed from the fusion of countless abominations. Even now, the planet’s native creatures continued to be absorbed, joining the mass and causing it to swell ever larger.
Its form resembled a gigantic jellyfish made of flesh—a monstrous jellyfish capable of taking to the sky, vast as a town.
Once it finished absorbing the countless lifeforms of this planet to grow itself, it would ascend, soaring through the atmosphere to synchronous orbit, where it would devour all the abominations within the space station…