Apocalyptic Rebirth: With a repairman system space, she rises again.-Chapter 623: Empty Answers.

As Sheldon’s muffled screams faded down the hall, Major Elio stepped forward. He was a man of action, and action usually involved explosives.

"Look," Elio said, pointing at the screen. "Whatever is in those sacs, it’s alive. It’s growing or preparing to hatch. My suggestion? We don’t wait for the Happy Birthday moment. I want to authorize a localized strike. We hit them with acid bombs or tranquilizer darts. Blast them out of the sky before they have a chance to attack....I assume that is what they are here for."

It seemed like the most plausible idea at the moment, but some people were afraid of the consequences that could come out of such a move.

"And if the fluid inside is toxic?" Lisha countered. "If you pop those things, you’re raining thousands of gallons of unknown yellow shit on the bubble. What if it makes it pop permanently? Then, we will become sitting ducks for whatever the Watchers throw at us."

Her point was valid enough to make some people nod. "I agree." Linda Chan voiced her opinion. "The bubble should not be disturbed."

"I am with the Major on this one." Vicente chimed in. "We cannot sit and wait for these things to hatch. What’s the worst that could happen?"

Lisha shook her head in disbelief. "What’s the worst that could happen? New guy, did you not hear me talking about the bubble being eroded? What if it is acidic? No bubble means the acid reaches us directly. And I do not want to talk of the things sleeping inside."

"I think that by now we can all attest to the strength of the bubble, even if that liquid is acidic, I strongly believe that it will not melt it." Father Nicodemus aired his opinion. "It survived meteors, acid rain, those snowstorms which buried houses. It will survive this."

Those that agreed with the stated nodded.

"I also agree with Major Elio. Those things are already hanging over our heads like the Sword of Damocles. I’d rather fight a puddle on the ground than a monster in the air." Hades added.

Sunshine looked at Hades. He was looking at her, waiting for that spark of intuition that had saved them a dozen times before. But for the first time, Sunshine was quiet.

Still, her opinion counted the most, so she was forced to pitch in. "If we shoot them," she said softly, "we might just be helping them hatch. I am with Lisha on this one, we should first understand what we are dealing with. We send up drones to scan the sacs and then we attack."

Suddenly, the screen flickered. The yellow fluid inside the nearest pod began to churn violently. A shape_ dark, jagged, and definitely not human_ pressed a limb against the translucent skin of the sac.

"Holy shit.....they are moving now!" Jon made the sign of the cross, he did not see the judgmental look the priest hurled at him.

The murmurs in the Command Center had graduated from a low hum to a frantic, buzzing hive of panic. Every time the dark silhouette inside the nearest pod twitched, someone in the room let out a stifled gasp or a quiet prayer. The air was thick with the sharp, tang of pure desperation.

"We can’t just sit here and watch those grow!" Sister Anna shouted, wiping sweat from her forehead. "It’s like waiting for a heart attack. Let’s just blow them out of the sky!" 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Dominic crossed his arms, "She is right....it’s either my eyes are deceiving me, or they were smaller than that an hour ago."

"Shooting them is not an option!" Lisha countered, her fingers blurring across her keyboard. "We don’t even know if that yellow stuff is an explosive, or_ God forbid_ contagious. It could travel through the soil and enter the base."

Jin pointed at Lisha with his index finger. "I do not see you coming up with any brilliant ideas smarty pants, all you have done is oppose the only real solution that we have."

Sunshine stood in the center of the chaos; her eyes locked on the pulsating membrane of the nearest sac on the monitor. It looked like a giant, jaundiced grape waiting to burst.

"System...anything?" She asked quietly.

[Host, I cannot simply make a wild guess, I need to see inside or at the very least test the liquid inside the sacs.]

"Forget about getting the liquid....no one is going close to those things with an injection." Sunshine responded, she raised a glass of water to her lips but froze it midway. Suddenly the idea popped into her mind.

"Wait," Sunshine said, her voice cutting through the noise. "Quiet! Everyone, listen."

The room fell silent. Even the faces on the screens seemed to dim in anticipation.

"What if we don’t shoot them?" Sunshine asked, her eyes brightening. "What if we freeze them? If we turn that liquid into solid ice, the creature inside won’t be able to escape because it will be frozen too. Then, we just shatter the sacs into frozen dust. No splash, no leaks, no hatching."

Lisha took a sharp, audible breath. "Flash-freezing the amniotic fluid... if we hit the temperature low enough, the cellular structure of the monster would crystallize. It wouldn’t just be trapped; it would be dead."

Major Elio leaned forward, his military brain already calculating logistics. "We’ve got a dozen high-level Cryokinetics on the squad. If we put them in the interceptor jets and fly them close enough, they could flash-freeze a cluster in seconds."

"Not too close though, we don’t know what we are dealing with. " Hades stated.

"System," Sunshine whispered, "What’s the success rate on a cryogenic strike?"

A string of data scrolled across her vision. [Calculating... based on unknown biological fluids and atmospheric conditions, success probability is 46.3%]

Sunshine’s heart sank. "Forty-six percent?" she blurted out in her mind. "That’s it? That’s basically a coin flip with a bad edge. It is not enough." She needed one hundred percent with zero casualties and she needed it now!

[Correct] the System replied, its voice cool and logical. [I have received some new information, but it is not enough to answer your questions. The composition of the yellow fluid is anomalous.

In certain galaxies, Biological Liquids contain natural anti-freeze properties that resist thermal shock. However, the shatter component of your plan has merit. The stress of sudden contraction would likely breach the membrane.]

The System added a rare note of encouragement. But it had not increased the probability of success of the plan. And this, left Sunshine confused.