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"careful!"
Zhao Xin, who was directly in the blast, felt a blur before his eyes, and the surrounding scenery instantly became bizarre and surreal. The ground beneath his feet turned into flowing liquid, and the distant skyscrapers twisted like noodles. The divine power within him began to surge uncontrollably, as if it were about to tear his body apart.
"It's a mental attack! Mixed with spatial distortion!" Rose shouted. She tried to open a wormhole to transfer Zhao Xin, but found that the coordinates in space had become chaotic and she couldn't locate him at all.
"Master Xin!"
Liu Chuang got up from the ground and saw Zhao Xin kneeling on the ground, clutching his head in pain, his eyes red.
"Fuck you!"
He roared, ignoring the surging dark energy within him, and raised the God-Slaying Axe once more. This time, he didn't use any techniques; he simply poured all his power and all his rage into this single axe strike.
"Noxing... Charge!"
He, along with the giant axe in his hand, transformed into a black meteor, crashing headlong into the indescribable monster.
He didn't know if his axe blow would be effective.
All he knew was that behind him were Ge Xiaolun and Lena, who needed to buy time. Behind him were countless civilians fleeing from North Star. All he knew was that he was a soldier.
A soldier is one who charges forward even when he knows it's impossible.
Just as Liu Chuang was about to collide with the Honkai Beast, a golden beam of light, like a spear of the gods, descended from the sky and struck the Honkai Beast precisely on the head.
"boom--!"
The beam of light contained pure, extreme stellar energy. Upon contact with the chaotic energy of the Honkai Beast, it triggered a small-scale annihilation reaction. The intense light and shockwave instantly engulfed everything.
"Rena?"
Liu Chuang was thrown into the air by the shockwave, but managed to regain his footing in mid-air and stared at the sky in astonishment.
Lena hovered in mid-air, her face as pale as paper, but her body was engulfed in unprecedented golden flames. Behind her, Ge Xiaolun sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, his brows furrowed, and traces of blood seeping from his seven orifices.
"Cut the nonsense!"
Reina's voice rang out directly in everyone's minds through the mental link, carrying a hint of weakness and impatience.
"Ge Xiaolun and I have just established a preliminary connection, and we can only barely mobilize a little energy to support you! This guy's firewall is stronger than we thought, and Ge Xiaolun is looking for vulnerabilities! You guys... hold on a little longer!"
After saying that, the golden beam of light disappeared. Clearly, this single attack had taken a huge toll on Reina.
Liu Chuang landed on the ground, looking at the Honkai Beast that was unharmed in the aftershocks of the annihilation, only its movements were slowed for a moment. He wiped the dust off his face and grinned a ferocious smile.
"Did you hear that, brothers?"
He shouted into the communicator,
"Our eldest sister has spoken; she wants us to hold on a little longer!"
"Roger that!"
Zhao Xin's voice rang out again, still filled with pain, but with a hint of determination.
"clear."
The figure of 687 Rose flickered once more.
"Qilin, take your position."
In the distance, the cold glint of the sniper scope flashed once more.
They had no idea what Ge Xiaolun and Lena were doing.
They didn't know how much longer they could hold on.
But they knew they were not fighting alone.
This is enough.
Liu Chuang gripped the God-Slaying Axe tightly again. He looked at the monster that had started moving again, stretched his shoulders, and his knuckles cracked.
"Come on, you bastard."
He hissed in a low voice, "Let me see if your program crashes first, or if my bones break first!"
Inside the seaside villa, the sand gull was so nervous that it almost crushed the armrest of the sofa.
"Sir...they...they'll die if this continues! That monster is impossible to kill!"
Zhou Ye held a Coke cup, the ice cubes inside clinking gently. His gaze pierced through the screen, as if landing on the chaotic battlefield of North Star.
"die?"
He shook his head, his tone flat.
"For a soldier, the most terrifying thing is not death. It is dying without meaning."
He looked at the black figure charging forward again on the screen, at the sniper struggling in the distorted space, still trying to lock onto the target, and at the red-haired girl constantly calculating safe coordinates, trying to create opportunities for her comrades.
“In the past, their deaths might have been for Dukao’s cult of venom, which was truly meaningless.”
But now,
A slight smile curved Zhou Ye's lips. "They are fighting for their civilization, for their comrades, for the answers that ordinary people can find. Such deaths, even if they occur, are heavier than Mount Tai."
He paused, then took a small sip of his cola.
"Besides, who says...they're definitely going to die?"
Chapter 438 Programmers and the Sun
The ocean of consciousness, deep and cold.
Ge Xiaolun felt himself sinking into it, surrounded by an endless torrent of data. Every drop of "water" was a complex physical formula, and every "undercurrent" was a strange cosmic law. There was no light, no sound, only pure, suffocating information.
This is what it feels like to access Reina's divine body and try to analyze the Honkai Beast's "source code".
The "Galactic Force" gene was like a personal computer pushed to its limit, while Lena's "Solar Light" was an entire national-level supercomputing center. He installed his "operating system" into this supercomputer, gaining unprecedented computing power, but also having to withstand the massive data throughput that this supercomputer could burn everything.
"Hey, loser Lun, are you still alive? Give me a shout!"
Lena's voice, like a thunderclap, exploded in his chaotic consciousness. This was the temporary mental link they had established, and also Ge Xiaolun's only "lighthouse" in this ocean of data.
"It's...it's alright..."
Ge Xiaolun responded with difficulty; his thoughts were like rusty gears, each turn accompanied by excruciating pain.
"This thing... is too complicated. Its underlying logic is completely opposite to our universe. We use 1+12, but it uses 1+10, or even -3! I can't find the entrance; it's all endless loops!"
He saw the true nature of the Honkai Beast. It wasn't a "creature," but a "program," a piece of malicious code written in "negative entropy" and "imaginary internal energy," running on the "server" of the real universe. Its purpose was to constantly create bugs, causing chaos in the server's operation, ultimately leading to the collapse of the entire system.
Each attack by Liu Chuang and his team was like a routine scan by the system's antivirus software. But this virus was too advanced; it could modify the system's underlying rules in real time, rendering the antivirus software's instructions ineffective.
"Stop talking nonsense I don't understand!" Lena's voice trembled slightly, clearly indicating that maintaining the "server" was taking a huge toll on her. "Just tell me, is it okay or not! If it's not okay, I'll just detonate my divine body and take it down with me! Consider it a big firework display for Earth!"
She wasn't joking. She could feel her divine energy draining away at an alarming rate; the load from simulating stellar computations was far greater than she had imagined. Her consciousness was even beginning to be corrupted by the chaotic data streams, and visions of the destruction of Denor and the crisis of the blazing sun flashed before her eyes from time to time.
"Don't!"
Ge Xiaolun hurriedly shouted,
"Give me a little more time! I think... I'm starting to get a clue."
"They are reciprocals of each other..."
Deep within his consciousness, he repeatedly pondered the crucial hint given by Zhou Ye.
"Real internal energy and imaginary internal energy are reciprocals of each other...entropy and negative entropy are opposites...isn't this...isn't this the concept of matter and antimatter?"
A thought, like lightning, cleaved through the fog in his mind.
Yes! Antimatter!
When he was learning how to use the "Galactic Force," Dukao taught him that one of the core abilities of the Galactic Force is to drive the "Anti-Void." According to Karl's theory, the Void is the ultimate state of the universe. But now it seems that Karl's so-called "Void" is likely a manifestation of "Honkai Energy," or rather, an incomplete, theological interpretation of the "Honkai" phenomenon.
Ducaaux taught him "countermeasures," which means using one force to counteract another.
But this is like trying to put out a fire with fire; it will only make the fire burn brighter.
Teacher Zhou Ye's hint was "countdown".
What is a reciprocal? In mathematics, the reciprocal of a number multiplied by the original number equals "1".
It is unification! It is transformation! Not annihilation!
“I understand…I understand!”
Ge Xiaolun's consciousness surged like a tidal wave in the ocean of data: "I can't delete this code, that would cause a system-wide crash! I also can't overwrite it with our own code, because of the language barrier! What I need to do is write a translation patch! A compiler!"
"speak English!"
Lena felt like her head was about to explode.
"Its energy is negative, and our energy is positive! I will build a channel, a loop! Let its negative energy flow in, be processed by my galactic power, be transformed into positive energy, and then be exported! Forming a self-consuming closed loop!"
Ge Xiaolun became more and more excited as he spoke, and countless inspirations burst forth in his mind.
This is like a paradox.
A sign reads:
"That statement is false."
If you believe it's true, then it's false. If you believe it's false, then it's true.
The existence of Honkai Beasts is such a paradox. They "exist" in a way that is "non-existent".
What Ge Xiaolun needs to do is add another variable to this paradox.
The "definition" ability of "Galactic Force" forcibly inserts a new definition—"-1"—into this paradoxical cycle.
This is absurd in conventional logic.
But when faced with a monster that is inherently illogical, the only solution is to use even more illogical methods!
"Lena! Get ready!"
Ge Xiaolun's consciousness suddenly opened its eyes in the sea of data, its eyes flashing with an unprecedented light.
"I'm about to begin! From now on, stop simulating energy output and start simulating a black hole! Collapse your energy to its limit, creating an absolute..."
Zero point! I'm going to use that as the runtime platform for our compiler!
"A simulated black hole?!"
Lena was stunned. "Are you crazy?! That will suck me in too!"