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That was Luffy, the wanted criminal wearing a straw hat. Lin Ye's pupils constricted—the Haki emanating from the other man completely blocked his prized "ki" perception. Worse still, when he attempted to use his Flying Technique to ascend, the entire sea suddenly churned with eerie purple ripples, as if some invisible barrier was warning intruders.
"Outsider, surrender!" The naval warship's cannons were pointed at the sky, and Smoker's smoke transformed into chains that bound Lin Ye's ankles. "This isn't a place where you can fly around using your telekinesis!" Lin Ye struggled to throw a punch, but found his energy dissipating in the smoke. At the critical moment, an orange figure swung out the Weather Stick, and as the thunderclouds exploded, Lin Ye was dragged into an alley.
"Don't thank me, I just don't like the Marines." Nami licked her orange-juice-stained lips, scrutinizing him warily. "But your ability is strange; it's neither Haki nor a Devil Fruit." The compass at her waist suddenly spun wildly, pointing to an island in the distance covered in skull and crossbones flags. "That's Blackbeard's newly occupied territory. They say he's collecting fruits that can absorb energy. The aura emanating from those fruits... it's somewhat similar to the faint fluctuations around you."
Late at night, Lin Ye sneaked into the island's warehouse under the cover of darkness. He had just lifted the tattered canvas curtain when he was thrown to the ground by the deafening roar caused by the Tremor-Tremor Fruit. Before him, Luffy and Blackbeard were facing off, cracks spreading across the ground like a spiderweb. The dark purple patterns flowing across the surface of the fruit in Blackbeard's hand were strikingly similar to the fragment of creation that Lin Ye had displayed in his mirror image.
"Interesting little bug." Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit suddenly transformed into a vortex, instantly devouring Lin Ye's protective aura upon contact. "Your power is mine!" A sharp pain exploded from his dantian; Lin Ye felt his meridians being torn apart, and his vision began to blur.
Just as consciousness was about to fade, Luffy's rubber fist, imbued with Conqueror's Haki, shattered the wall: "Don't you dare bully my prey!" His Gear Fourth Snake Man form transformed into a red lightning bolt, the shockwave from his Conqueror's Haki making Lin Ye's eardrums ache. At that moment, the Saiyan genes dormant within him began to surge, the feeling of bloodline resonance reminding him of the life-or-death moment of his duel with his mirror image, Lin Ye.
"Hey! Outsider!" Luffy turned and grinned at him, the Armament Haki wrapped around his arm clashing violently with Lin Ye's aura. "If you want to fight, wait until I've dealt with this guy!" The moment the two forces collided, the fragments of creation deep within the warehouse suddenly awakened. In the purple light, Lin Ye heard the cold laughter of his mirror image, Lin Ye: "See? Without the system's power, you don't even qualify to be a supporting character for the protagonist."
Taking advantage of the chaos, Blackbeard activated his dual Devil Fruit powers, causing the entire island to crumble. Debris rained down, and in the midst of the chaos, Lin Ye suddenly recalled Master Roshi teaching him to sense the power of nature, and then he remembered Luffy's unwavering will when unleashing his Haki. He gritted his teeth and forcibly merged his own ki with Luffy's Haki; the two completely different powers clashed violently through his meridians, as if trying to tear him apart.
"Ah—!" Lin Ye roared, unleashing an unprecedented energy wave that tore through the void. In the aftershocks of the explosion, he grasped the edge of a fragment of creation, only to discover new coordinates emerging on it—a world filled with flames and swordsmen.
"Next time we meet, you'll have to be even stronger!" Luffy's voice echoed through the waves. Lin Ye stared at the slightly warm fragment in his palm, suddenly understanding why Mirror Lin Ye had called this a "training ground"—the true enemy of the One Piece universe might never have been the Navy or the Four Emperors, but rather how to find one's own path within the cracks of rules and power.
Under the moonlight, he unfolded the cosmic map left by Bulma and heavily marked the location of "Wano Country." Meanwhile, somewhere in the East Blue, Shanks, stroking his straw hat, suddenly looked up at the sky: "Interesting, another storm is coming." Beckman, beside him, lowered his binoculars, a hint of wariness flashing in his eyes: "That power... doesn't seem to belong to this world."
On the distant sea, a mysterious black sailboat was slowly approaching. On its bow, a distorted system emblem flickered in the moonlight.
Chapter 180: A Powerful Enemy from Another World
Smoke billowed like thick ink above the island ruins. Blackbeard laughed heartily, dark purple energy coursing through his body like a living thing. The system fragment in his hand resonated with the Dark-Dark Fruit, bursting forth with blinding purple light. His beard and hair were stained with data-flow patterns, each strand seemingly writing the secrets of the universe. "Kid, this is the power to control the multiverse!"
Lin Ye wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his breathing slightly disordered. The energy shield he had just conjured shattered like fragile glass under the terrifying impact of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit. In the distance, Smoker, transformed into smoke, was fiercely fighting Blackbeard's subordinates when the loudspeakers of the Navy warship suddenly blared, their voices like thunder: "Intruders colluding with pirates detected! Execute the Buster Call immediately!"
"What?!" Lin Ye's pupils contracted sharply. The cannons of seventeen warships were already aimed at the island. At this critical moment, a familiar figure descended from the sky, riding on a stream of data. The mirrored Lin Ye's left eye gleamed with a cold blue light, and the system panel in his hand unfolded, transforming into a solid defensive barrier. His tone was full of mockery: "Fool, the Navy's Six Styles can break through your Qi perception. What kind of hero are you trying to be now?"
Blackbeard seized the opportunity, unleashing a dual Devil Fruit fusion technique. Instantly, a terrifying vortex that devoured light surged across the entire sea, the water churned wildly, and the sky was dyed an eerie dark purple. Mirror Lin Ye reacted swiftly, pulling Lin Ye away in a teleportation. He projected a holographic map from his system panel, densely covered with red dots. "See these red dots? Every pirate crew hides a system fragment. And that..." He suddenly pointed to the edge of the battlefield, his tone turning grave.
The mist slowly dissipated, and the Red-Haired Pirates' iconic sailing ship broke through the obstacles and sailed in. Lin Ye's aura had barely caught the ship's presence when an invisible pressure washed over him, the powerful force forcing him to take a half-step back. Red-Haired Shanks stood at the bow, a faint golden light flashing in his left eye beneath his straw hat, the same color as the system emblem. His voice was deep yet extremely intimidating: "Teach, you've crossed the line." His voice seemed to possess tangible power, causing Blackbeard's attack to momentarily halt.
"Shanks!" Blackbeard's laughter grew increasingly manic, filled with rage and resentment. "You think wearing that tattered straw hat can hide the fact that you're also a system host?" With his roar, the system fragments erupted with blinding purple light, countless data streams cracked open in the sky, from which mechanical, tentacle-like energy entities emerged and spread wildly in all directions.
Seizing this fleeting opportunity, Lin Ye leaped into the air. He perfectly fused his aura with the Haki Luffy had taught him, his body enveloped in dazzling light as he attacked Blackbeard. However, the moment his attack touched Blackbeard's new form, it was easily absorbed and transformed into the attacker's power. Lin Ye's system panel suddenly flashed wildly, and a piercing alarm sounded, "Oh no! He's rewriting the rules of this universe!"
In the nick of time, Yasopp, the sniper of the Red-Haired Pirates, sharpened his eyes and decisively fired. The bullet, imbued with Conqueror's Haki, struck Blackbeard like a black lightning bolt, shattering his defensive blind spot. Shanks seized the opportunity to swing his sword; the blade wasn't wrapped in ordinary sword energy, but rather visible system code, shimmering with a mysterious light. He spoke again, his tone carrying a warning: "Stop, Teach. You and I both know that beings of higher dimensions won't allow system power to spiral out of control."
Blackbeard's maniacal grin froze on his face as the distant roar of naval cannons echoed. Lin Ye gazed at the two facing off in the center of the battlefield, his mind flashing back to previous scenes. He suddenly realized the deeper meaning behind Shanks's gazing into the distance each time—that place called the "New World" might have already been infiltrated by the system, and everything was under the control of a higher-dimensional being.
"Want to know the truth?" Mirror Lin Ye whispered close to Lin Ye amidst the roar of artillery fire, a complex look in his eyes. "The first fragment of creation is hidden in the red-haired man's straw hat." Before he finished speaking, his body began to dissipate into data, like shattered light and shadow. "Remember, in this universe, trust is more deadly than a Devil Fruit."
As the Buster Call's barrage of fire rained down, Lin Ye was pulled into the void by a mysterious force. In the instant he turned, he saw Shanks remove his straw hat, the faint system mark on his forehead stinging his eyes. And before Blackbeard vanished in the explosion, the shard in his hand and Shanks's gaze met across the void, as if engaging in a silent dialogue, the meaning of which remained unfathomable.
The sea returned to calm, with only the Red-Haired Pirates' flag fluttering in the smoke. Beckman wiped his rifle and asked Shanks in a low voice, "Captain, should we deal with that outsider?" Shanks put his straw hat back on, the golden light in his left eye completely fading. His gaze was deep as he looked into the distance. "No need. He will be the key to breaking the balance... or, become a new pawn."
On the other side of the universe, the monitors in Bulma's lab suddenly went on a frantic alarm, their shrill sounds echoing throughout the room. On the screen, the coordinates of the One Piece universe were being stained an eerie purple, and the color was spreading rapidly. Meanwhile, in a mysterious space, surrounded by purple mist, a hooded figure gently turned a crystal ball in his hand, clearly displaying the image of Lin Ye, Blackbeard, and Shanks locked in combat. He let out a sinister laugh, shattering the silence of the space: "Interesting experiment. Time to activate Plan B."
Garp, munching on a senbei (rice cracker), unusually wore a serious expression: "It seems a much bigger storm is brewing beneath the calm surface." Meanwhile, aboard the Straw Hat Pirates' Thousand Sunny, Luffy, gazing at the eerie aura lingering in the sky, exclaimed excitedly, "I have a feeling a super exciting adventure is waiting for us!"
Deep within the island's ruins, a forgotten fragment of a system suddenly emitted a faint glow, and a tiny crack silently appeared in the void. A hand covered in scales slowly reached out, gently grasping the fragment, its hoarse voice echoing through the ruins: "Finally, I've smelled the scent of creation..."
Chapter 181: The Tide of Entropy Silence
The dome of the Omni-King's Palace cracked like a spiderweb, from which vortexes of purplish-black energy surged forth, and Omega's colossal mechanical silhouette slowly materialized within them. It was a geometric form composed of countless facets, each plane flowing with dark purple data, as if condensing the entropy increase of the entire universe into shape. Lin Ye gripped the Supreme Kai Sword tightly in his hand, its blade resonating with the Heart of God, emitting a hum.
“Omega core energy index detected to have exceeded threshold, immediate evacuation recommended!” Alice’s data echoed in his mind, and blue light spots condensed into a tactical projection in his palm. “Its surface is covered with an entropy-silence coating that can convert any matter it comes into contact with into disordered energy.”
Vegeta's deep blue aura suddenly erupted, golden lightning crackling around him: "Enough talk, Saiyans never retreat!" He transformed into a streak of light and charged towards Omega, his fist, imbued with destructive energy, slamming into the giant shadow's facet. However, the instant the fist struck, his entire arm turned a dull gray, its cells rapidly aging under the influence of entropy.
"Vegeta!" Lin Ye teleported to his side, and his rock element shield deployed in time, blocking the spreading entropy energy. However, the shield's surface instantly became covered with cracks, showing the fragility of this defense in the face of absolute entropy increase.
“Interesting ants.” Omega’s voice was composed of countless superimposed electronic sounds, and hundreds of energy conduits suddenly opened on the facets. “Your universe is like a candle about to go out, and I am the wind that blows it out.” A dark purple fluid sprayed out of the conduits, and wherever it passed, space itself began to pixelate and disintegrate.
Goku's silver hair fluttered in the entropy-silent fluid, and the silver flames of Ultra Instinct formed a protective shield: "Lin Ye, do you still remember what Yamoshi said about the balance of spacetime? Perhaps only by mobilizing the energy of destruction and creation at the same time can we fight against it!" He clasped his hands together, and a Spirit Bomb condensed in his palms, but it was mixed with the creative power left behind by the Supreme Kai.
"Impossible! Contact between creative and destructive energies will trigger annihilation!" Bulma's scream came through the communicator as her ship dodged the entropy tide from a distance. "You'll blow yourselves into elementary particles!"
Lin Ye suddenly recalled the memory fragments of the Tree of Origin, and the Heart of God and the Rock Spear simultaneously erupted with intense light: "Alice, calculate the neutralization ratio of creation and destruction energy!" The echoing data transformed into a blue light stream that flowed into the sword body, and the patterns of the Supreme Kai Sword began to circulate with dual-color energy.
Omega's facets suddenly unfolded into a matrix, hundreds of entropy-silence rays intertwining into a net: "Useless struggle, accept the fate of increasing entropy!" The ray cluster converged in mid-air into a giant hand, slamming towards the three. Now! Lin Ye, Goku, and Vegeta leaped up simultaneously, three-colored energies erupting from the sword tip, fist, and palm. Creation God's power, like fireflies, entwined with the black flames of destructive energy, while the golden patterns of rock element exploded into nebula-like ripples on the sword blade. Omega's facet matrix suddenly emitted a piercing alarm, the entropy-silence ray cluster solidifying into purplish-black crystals in mid-air.
An energy neutralization rate of 72% was detected! Alice's data echoed within the sword, and the blue light stream suddenly split into countless fine chains, precisely piercing the Omega's energy conduits. Their entropy-quiescent coatings exhibited frequency gaps!
The instant the Supreme Kai Sword sliced through the crystal, Lin Ye saw the internal structure of the Omega—tens of thousands of incubation chambers suspended in a dark purple fluid, each containing a clone resembling himself. One of the chambers suddenly shattered, and the silver-haired clone opened its blood-red eyes, the energy blast condensed in its palm being identical to his rock spear.
A failed product of a parallel universe. Omega's electronic voice was mocking as the facets suddenly flipped, revealing the pulsating entropy at the core: "For every clone you destroy, ten new ones will be born."
Vegeta's deep blue aura suddenly surged, and he forcefully tore open the ashen skin of his arm, revealing the burning Saiyan cells beneath: "Shut up!" Destructive energy materialized into a giant wolf phantom, biting towards Entropy's heart, Kakarot, Lin Ye! "Smash it now!"
Wukong's Spirit Bomb, infused with the power of creation, took on a glassy texture and struck the core simultaneously with Lin Ye's two-colored sword light. The Entropy Silence Heart emitted a sound like shattering glass, and dark purple fluid surged out like a tidal wave. But the next second, all the clones suddenly opened their eyes in unison, their energy converging into a pillar of light that reassembled the heart fragments.
Oh no! They're sharing a consciousness! Bulma's ship suddenly swooped down, releasing hundreds of quantum bombs—viruses modified from Frieza's cells—that could disrupt the collective consciousness link!
The bomb exploded in the entropy-depleted fluid, and countless green spores burrowed into the clone's body. The facets of the Omega began to flash red, and dense warning characters appeared in the fluid. Taking advantage of the moment, Lin Ye inserted the Supreme Kai Sword into the core crack. The Heart of God resonated with the sword, unleashing a golden light that pierced through the universe.
You think you can win like this? Omega's core suddenly split into twelve fragments, each transforming into an independent entropy-silence prism. The real game begins now. Twelve purplish-black beams of light shot into the sky, forming a star map above the palace, each point of light corresponding to a universe eroded by entropy.
Vegeta suddenly knelt on one knee, the ashen color spreading from his arm to his shoulder: Damn it... this energy is devouring my cells.
Cracks appeared in Goku's Ultra Instinct shield, and the black energy mixed in with his silver hair showed the erosion of entropy: Lin Ye, our energy won't last much longer.
As Lin Ye watched the lights on the star map gradually fade away, a sharp pain suddenly shot through his Heart of God. He recalled the scene from the Tree of Origin's memory—when the first system host pushed his sister into the escape pod, the chip on his chest was oozing the same dark purple fluid.
"Alice," he suddenly whispered, channeling all the data reverberations into the sword.
Chapter 182: Quantum Collapse
The instant Lin Ye's rock spear pierced the core of the Omega, the surrounding quantum cloud suddenly emitted a buzzing sound like shattering glass. The system terminal on his left wrist was melting at a visible speed, the liquid metal sliding down his sleeve like burning wax, condensing into angular, twisted crystals in the vacuum of space—the surfaces of those crystals were filled with eerie blue arcs of electricity, as if countless eyes were opening in the darkness.
"Lin Ye! Your arm—data streams are engulfing your cells!" Vegeta's roar suddenly exploded, but was torn into intermittent static by the quantum turbulence. "Tear the terminal off!"
"If I tear it off, I won't even have the ability to analyze quantum radiation!" Lin Ye gritted his teeth, the blood droplet floating in the weightlessness before his eyes as a scarlet sphere. The silver runes that appeared on the back of his hand were writhing like living things, each contraction sending a numbing sensation of electric current through his arm. "Alice, what's the decoherence rate? Give me the specific number!"
Alice's residual data exploded in her consciousness with a blinding white light: [Warning! Quantum state contamination level MAX, cell decoherence rate 82%... System terminal melting progress 67%]
"To hell with it!" Lin Ye didn't hesitate any longer, and his rock spear slashed horizontally across his left arm. What gushed from the severed arm wasn't blood, but countless shimmering blue specks of light, like shattered stardust spreading through space. Before he could even feel the pain, Omega's mechanical voice seeped from the core crack: "A foolish choice. Without system terminal analysis, you can't even understand the basic principles of quantum collapse—those runes are the observer's markings; severing your arm only made the contamination spread faster."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Lin Ye leaped backward, countless tentacle-like data streams grazing his neck and leaving sizzling scorch marks on his energy shield. "Vegeta, entangle its core! I'm going to check on the other hosts!"
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Frieza in the distance disintegrating into a rain of light, his golden body shattering into countless streams of data. Even the usually composed Jiren was letting out a silent roar. "Damn it... is the system mass-purging Markers?"
"Drink—!" Vegeta's deep blue aura suddenly surged, his fist tearing through space as he slammed into Omega's main core. "Lin Ye, this thing's gravitational field is distorting space! My attack can't even hit the core!"
The moment Lin Ye activated the Kaioken, a chilling, transparent sensation ran through his heart. He looked down and saw his palms becoming translucent, the veins no longer flowing with blood, but with shimmering quantum strings: "The Kaioken has also accelerated quantumization... Trunks, how exactly do you use the rock element you mentioned?"
"Thrust the rock spear into the quantum turbulence at the edge of the collapse!" Future Trunks' voice burst from the spacetime rift. The boy's mechanical arm was being inserted into the distorted space, purple lightning crackling from its metal joints. "I found the Primal Code in Universe Eleven. This thing can neutralize the observer's mark—"
Before he could finish speaking, a stream of data suddenly pierced Trunks' chest. He coughed up blood, but his mechanical arm gripped the code fragment tightly: "Don't worry about me! The Rock Spear Resonance needs your life energy, quickly insert the spear tip!"
"Do you fucking want to die?" Lin Ye roared, his rock spear bursting with golden light. The moment the spear tip touched the code fragment, the collapse of the entire quantum cloud suddenly slowed down, and the decomposed data stream began to recombine in reverse. He looked through the energy turbulence into the depths of the Omega core, where a matrix composed of countless clusters of consciousness light floated, and Jiren's silver figure was prominently displayed, being forcibly converted into an energy node.
"So you were collecting consciousness energy, trying to rewrite the laws of the universe?" Lin Ye's rock spear pierced the matrix's crack. "No wonder the system marks all the powerful beings—"
Omega's massive metallic eyes narrowed sharply: "How could you know the Matrix's weakness?! No one but the Observer could—"
“We know.” The spacetime rift suddenly burst open, and Gabe from Universe 6 charged out, wielding an energy sword. His pupils flashed with quantum blue light. “Omega, you’ve got the wrong person.”
In Universe 4, Ganos deployed a wormhole barrier, reflecting a stream of data back: "We are survivors marked by the system; the primordial code is calling us."
"Attack together!" Lin Ye roared, and the moment the rock spear was swung, twelve energy beams struck the matrix node simultaneously. The core of Omega suddenly exploded, and the data stream transformed into a tsunami-like energy wave. Lin Ye felt the rock spear frantically absorbing the scattered consciousness energy, and the cells at the severed limbs were reorganizing at a visible speed—it was the convergence of countless remnants of the host's will, as warm as holding a burning sun.
"Lin Ye, grab the code!" Trunks's mechanical arm extended from the edge of the collapse, the code fragments and rock spear resonating with a light that tore through space. "Vegeta, use your flames as an anchor point!"
"Enough with the nonsense!" Vegeta's deep blue aura merged with the energy of the twelve warriors, forming a massive quantum anchor. "Lin Ye, if this piece of junk makes me kneel again, you're dead!"
The instant Lin Ye plunged the rock spear into the anchor point's core, all his consciousness energy erupted into an artificial singularity, and Omega's body disintegrated into cosmic dust in a blinding light. He gasped for breath, staring at the code fragments entwined around the rock spear, when suddenly Trunks' voice echoed in his mind: "The code... is activated... Next, the Observer will arrive..."
The boy's body began to turn transparent, and the mechanical arm gripped Lin Ye's shoulder tightly: "The primordial code has recognized its master... You must live..."
“Trunks!” Lin Ye reached out, but only touched a cold void. There was a new pattern on the fragment—the signature that the boy had carved with his last bit of energy.
Vegeta knelt on one knee, his battle suit covered in quantum burn cracks: "Is it over? My arrogance is almost gone." He looked up at Lin Ye, only to see that the other's left eye was flashing with quantum blue light, and the primordial code on the rock spear was seeping into his skin, forming glowing patterns on his collarbone.
“It’s far from over.” Lin Ye’s voice resonated with the fragments of code. He suddenly pointed to a nebula deep in the universe. “Omega is just a pawn. The real player is there—look at those quantum clouds, they are re-condensing.”
Suddenly, the code fragments burst forth with intense light, forming a new system terminal within his body. The interface displayed no cold, impersonal commands, only a line of warm text: 【Welcome home, Lin Ye】. He gripped his rock spear, feeling the primordial code flow through his veins, until the distant nebula split open—twelve starships, engraved with identical patterns, emerged from within, their prow cannons glowing a deathly red.
Lin Ye's new terminal displayed a scarlet alert: [Observer fleet has arrived, threat level: ∞].
"Here we go again?" Vegeta stood up, his golden aura reignited, but a cold, battle-ready smirk curled at the corner of his mouth. "Last time I let you carry the system all by yourself, but this time I won't be a bystander."
"Tell everyone we have new weapons." Lin Ye pointed to the starship fleet, a beam of blue light shooting from the tip of his rock spear. "Gabe, Ganos, can you link to the Primal Code?"
"Resonance frequencies are synchronizing!" Gabe's energy sword erupted with purple light. "Warriors of Universe Six, heed my command! Cover Lin Ye!"
Ganos expanded the wormhole barrier threefold: "The wormhole network of the fourth universe has covered the battlefield, and we can teleport at any time!"
Lin Ye could feel the code fragments resonating within his body, each vibration awakening the will of more hosts—those warriors who had once been enslaved by the system were now transferring their power to him through the primordial code. As the main cannons of the Observer Fleet began charging, the quantum blue light in his eyes flashed, and the instant he swung his rock spear, the energy phantoms of twelve warriors behind him simultaneously appeared.
“Let them see,” his voice boomed across the battlefield, making the quantum clouds hum, “that the marked ones’ counterattack isn’t based on the system, but on—”
"We'll rely on ourselves!" Vegeta's roar overlapped with his, and the deep blue flames and the golden light of the rock spear intertwined to meet the main cannon beam that was powerful enough to annihilate galaxies.
The quantum cloud exploded in front of the starship fleet. Lin Ye saw the primordial code at the tip of the rock spear absorbing the energy of the beam. The data streams that had once broken down his cells were now being transformed into burning flames of resistance. He looked down at the patterns on his collarbone; it was Trunks' signature glowing, an inextinguishable light condensed from millions of consciousnesses.
“Vegeta,” Lin Ye suddenly spoke, the rock spear in his hand bursting with an even more dazzling light, “If you survive this time, I’ll treat you to the best gravity wine in the entire universe.”
Vegeta spat, his arrogance suddenly flaring: "Don't give me that crap, you bastard... After I blast these crappy ships to smithereens, you'll have to buy me ten buckets of drinks!"
The main cannon beams of the Observer fleet crashed in, and Lin Ye and the twelve warriors, like rock spears inserted into the quantum turbulence, raised the prelude to the resistance amidst the dazzling light.
Chapter 183: The Observer Arrives
The instant Lin Ye's rock spear clashed with the Observer's main cannon, the cosmic background radiation suddenly surged. He felt the primordial code boiling in his veins, each energy collision making the quantum state cells more stable—but the newly emerging Observer's emblem on the back of his hand was burning hot, like a red-hot iron embedded in his skin.
"Their hull is armored with antimatter!" Number 18's voice boomed from the communicator, his mechanical eyes scanning the starship's hull. "Conventional attacks will only regenerate the armor; we need to find an energy node!"
"Node my ass!" Vegeta's deep blue aura slammed into the ship's hull, but only created a ripple. "My fists are numb from punching, and this piece of junk doesn't even leave a mark!"
Lin Ye leaped backward, dodging a data stream that pierced through space. The rock spear suddenly buzzed, and the primordial code projected an image of the starship's interior onto its tip—countless incubation chambers were filled with clones who resembled him, each with a silver emblem engraved on their forehead and a system terminal inserted into their chest.
"Mass-produced hosts?" Lin Ye gasped, his rock spear plunging fiercely into the nearest starship. "These clones are all backup containers for Omega!"
The code energy spread like a virus, but was instantly neutralized upon contact with the incubation chamber. Inside the largest incubation chamber, the clone suddenly opened its eyes, a cold smile identical to Lin Ye's curling at the corner of its mouth: "Number 734, you've finally arrived."
"Stop trying to get close to me, you son of a bitch!" Vegeta shattered the glass of the incubation chamber with a punch, but froze the moment he touched the clone—the body dispersed like ripples on water, then reformed ten steps away. "A ghost? How do I fight that?"