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My code... was the system's initial vulnerability. Her body gradually became transparent, and a part of that girl's consciousness... remained sealed within me...
The black heart pounded wildly, trying to resist the invasion of purple energy. Cracks multiplied, and finally—
boom!
The heart burst open, and countless fragments of memory poured down like a torrential rain. In the center of the fragments, a tiny white sphere of light floated.
[Core protocol corrupted, final reset performed]
The system's voice became intermittent. A white orb of light slowly floated towards me and entered my chest. A warm current instantly flowed through my body, and a line of text appeared before my eyes:
[New system initialization in progress...]
"No!" Anise suddenly screamed, "Lin Ye, reject it! Otherwise you'll become the next system!"
But it was too late. The white sphere of light merged completely with me, and my consciousness began to expand infinitely. In an instant, I saw countless parallel universes, the beginning and the end of time, and...
A pair of familiar eyes.
"Little Night?" I murmured.
The white space began to collapse. Anise grabbed my hand desperately: We must leave immediately! The core collapse will affect all connected universes!
Where is Mu Mu? I looked around, but I couldn't see her anywhere.
Number 18 points to the fading purple light: She...has completed her mission.
We stumbled and staggered toward the exit. Just as we were about to leave, I glanced back—in the very center of the collapsed core, I could vaguely see two small figures holding hands, smiling and saying goodbye to me.
Back on the spaceship, everyone fell silent. I looked down at my palm, where a faint white light occasionally flashed.
So... Trunks finally broke his silence, "You now have a new system inside you?"
I shook my head: Not entirely. It's more like... a seed.
Anise leaned wearily against the bulkhead: The Chaos Core has chosen you as its new vessel. But this time, the decision is in your hands.
The spaceship's alarm suddenly sounded. Chen Mo gasped after checking the screen: all mirror universes were returning to normal! But... the system army was still closing in!
Outside the window, countless golden warships were closing in from all directions. Feeling the newfound power within me, I made my decision.
I activated full-band broadcasting. I stood up, my eyes gleaming with a silver and purple-gold light. It was time to end this war.
The moment the communication channel was established, I released all the energy within me. A burst of white light erupted like a supernova, passing through every enemy ship. There was no explosion, no destruction—only streams of golden data recombining in the air, eventually transforming into countless white doves, flying off into all corners of the universe.
[New directive confirmed: Repair all damage and return the stolen energy]
A gentle female voice resounded in the minds of all living beings, sounding like both Su Mumu and the girl named Xiaoye.
As the last golden warship transformed into a white dove, I finally collapsed, utterly exhausted. Before I closed my eyes, I saw Number Eighteen and Trunks supporting me, while Anise wept, staring at the data on the holographic screen—
The screen shows all the universes that were swallowed by the system, and they are being restored to their original state one by one.
Chapter 99: The War Against Entropy
Time has started to flow backward!
Silver Wolf's mechanical eyes shrank to pinpoints, and the fluctuating numbers on her retina sent chills down her spine. The cosmic entropy curve plummeted like a snapped string, its 7% deceleration per second causing all the alarms to wail shrilly.
"Look outside!" Kavka ripped open the protective shield of the observation cabin.
Outside the control room, an absurd drama was unfolding in the universe—the fiery ring of a supernova explosion contracted back into the star's core like an inverted firework, shattered planetary fragments reassembled against the laws of inertia, and even light was flowing backward, leaving eerie blue trails on the portholes.
Eight minutes and 42 seconds remain. Kafka's red lips were pressed together until they turned white, and her fingernails dug five dents into the control panel. When the entropy reaches zero, the entire universe will be like pencil marks erased by an eraser.
boom!
Lin Ye slammed his fist on the control panel, causing the rock element to explode into spiderweb-like cracks on the surface of the special alloy. He suddenly froze when he looked up—the reflection in the bulletproof glass was motionless, even giving him a chilling smile.
Anchor point found! Trunks' Time Sword hummed as it plunged into the ground, the blade vibrating with visible ripples of time. I can temporarily stabilize the flow of time in this area, but only for a maximum of ten minutes!
[Climax of the Battle: A Code-Level Showdown]
In the torrent of data, the two figures of Lin Ye collided and separated at the speed of light. Their bodies constantly switched between matter and data: sometimes decomposing into a digital storm composed of 0s and 1s, sometimes recombining into an entity constructed of flesh and blood and elemental force.
You can't win. Mirror Lin Ye's voice carried the static characteristic of electronic devices: I am the perfect version, optimized through seventy-nine iterations.
Lin Ye suddenly spun around and thrust forward, his rock spear carrying a vortex of data streams aimed straight for his opponent's chest. The moment the spear tip pierced through, countless encrypted runes suddenly appeared on the mirrored chest, trapping the attack within the constantly self-repairing firewall.
Warning! Personality data integrity 87%...79%... The system notification sounded like a dull knife sawing at everyone's nerves.
Silver Wolf's communication signal suddenly and forcefully cut in: Catch this! A dazzling golden code ripped through the data space like a whip. The moment Lin Ye caught it, dragon scale-like encrypted patterns immediately appeared on his body, each scale displaying ancient, dancing characters.
This is?
Fragments of your seventy-ninth reincarnation's memories! Silver Wolf's voice came and went, accompanied by piercing electromagnetic interference. Use this as... a virus program!
For the first time, a crack appeared in the mirror image of Lin Ye's flawless expression. He retreated rapidly, his data body leaving afterimages in the air, but Lin Ye had already compressed the golden code into a javelin. This strike pierced through the mirror image's brow, and countless random codes gushed from the wound like blood.
No...it's impossible... The mirrored body is starting to pixelate, the edges are blurry like mosaics, and you actually...retained the image that was deleted by the system...
[Moment of Sacrifice: Anchor Point in Time]
Trunks' muscles were taut to their limit, and the blade of the Time Sword was covered with spiderweb-like cracks. The price of the fixed time flow was that his life was rapidly slipping away—his short, jet-black hair was turning white at a visible speed, wrinkles were creeping onto his taut skin, and streaks of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth floated upwards under the influence of gravity.
How much longer...? With each word he uttered, fragments of internal organs mixed with blood and foam gushed out.
Kafka's ten fingers danced across the holographic keyboard, leaving afterimages, her nails curling and bleeding from the excessive force: Just 30 more seconds! System reboot progress 98%...
The silver wolf suddenly let out a scream that was unlike any human's: The entropy value has fallen below the critical point!
The outer walls of the control room crumbled like sandstone weathered over millennia, revealing the pixelated starry sky outside. Trunks' feet began to disintegrate into golden particles of light, but instead, he wore a relieved smile.
It seems... this is where it ends. With his last ounce of strength, he plunged the Time Sword deeper into the ground, taking all my time...
Amidst the burst of golden light from the sword, Trunks' body crumbled like a sand sculpture. But a miracle occurred—the space within a ten-meter radius of the sword suddenly solidified, forming an absolutely stable amber of time.
Reboot complete! Kafka's bloodied fingers slammed down the Enter key.
The entire universe seemed to be paused like a movie disc, and then all the stars lit up simultaneously. Lin Ye knelt before the dissipating mirror image and found a crystalline chip on the ground, engraved with stardust: [80th Reincarnation Plan].
A holographic image suddenly projected onto the chip's surface: countless clones of Lin Ye were immersed in incubation chambers, each labeled with its number of reincarnations. The image finally froze on a white-haired girl who turned to look at the camera, her lips moving as if she were saying something...
Chapter 100 New Era
Beep—System restart complete.
A mechanical female voice echoed in the void. Sun Wukong suddenly opened his eyes and found himself floating under an unfamiliar starry sky. Countless stars were arranged in ways that defied the laws of physics; some were still, while others were moving in a zigzag pattern. He subconsciously tried to mobilize his internal energy, but was astonished to find that the energy he used to control so easily had become strange and sluggish, as if he were wearing heavy shackles.
What on earth is going on? He clenched his fist, feeling the barely perceptible flow of energy within his body. When he tried to throw a punch, the force that could easily tear through space now only stirred up a faint gust of air at his fingertips.
Wukong! Are you alright?
A familiar voice came from behind. Goku turned around and saw Bulma approaching him in a small flying vehicle. The vehicle's hull was covered with strange cracks, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that had been torn apart and forcibly pieced back together; some parts of the metal even had an eerie, semi-transparent appearance.
Bulma! Where are the others? Goku flipped over and landed clumsily at the door of the spacecraft. His movements were nearly three times slower than usual. What used to be an easy task for him now almost made him lose his balance, and he had to grab the edge of the door to steady himself.
"They're all on that planet down there." Bulma pointed downwards, her face deathly pale, a wound below her right eye still unhealed. "After the universe rebooted, we were randomly teleported to this star system. The strangest thing is—she activated the holographic projection, the image flickering incessantly, clearly the equipment was also affected, all energy readings were zero, as if it had been formatted. Even the aura of a god couldn't be detected."
As the spacecraft landed on the planet's surface, a pungent smell of sulfur mixed with a sweet, cloying odor of organic compounds assaulted the senses. Goku saw Vegeta, Piccolo, and the others busily working around a pile of instruments. The ground was an eerie purple, covered with a layer of wriggling fungal carpet that had a strange, elastic feel underfoot, almost like something alive.
"Kakarot, you're finally awake." Vegeta said without looking up. His battle suit was badly damaged, his left arm armor was completely gone, and he had tested it; he couldn't activate Super Saiyan form, he couldn't even generate the most basic energy blast. "My power level is no more than 2000 now."
Piccolo added that his cloak was only half intact: "Not just us, the entire power system of the universe has been reset. Krillin tried, but couldn't even use Flying. Tien Shinhan said his third eye can now only see the normal spectrum."
Number 18 leaned against a rock, its robotic arm occasionally sparking with electricity: worst of all, the output power of my permanent energy furnace had dropped by 80%.
Sun Wukong crouched down, placing his palms on the ground. The fungal carpet immediately receded from around his hands like a startled animal. He closed his eyes, trying to sense the planet's energy fluctuations. At first, he felt nothing, but as he focused his attention, a faint but entirely new energy pulse emanated from beneath the earth. A moment later, he opened his eyes in surprise: This planet... feels like it's pieced together? And... I seem to be able to sense an energy form I've never encountered before.
That's right! Bulma excitedly pulled up the scan data, but the holographic projection suddenly distorted into a Möbius strip shape. She had to pat the device to restore it to normal. Look here—the atmosphere contains characteristic elements from three different universes, one of which doesn't even conform to the known periodic table. The gravitational field fluctuates every six hours. Most amazingly, the Earth's core structure simultaneously possesses solid, liquid, and plasma states! Theoretically, this is impossible!
Just then, Trunks's shouts came from afar. The boy stumbled over, his Time Patrol uniform stained with some kind of fluorescent blue liquid. He held a glowing crystal in his hand: "Mom! I found this in the canyon to the east! It's emitting some kind of signal! The rocks there change shape according to the signal frequency!"
Bulma took the crystal; it was cold to the touch, its surface covered with constantly shifting runes. She immediately connected it to the analyzer. The data stream on the screen scrolled rapidly, several times suddenly turning into blood-red warning symbols. Her expression grew increasingly serious: this couldn't have been formed naturally... its encoding was exactly the same as the system errors we'd encountered before. This was a fragment of a program written in Genesis Code.
You mean... Sun Wukong leaned closer and noticed that there seemed to be some kind of black substance wriggling inside the crystal.
The Chaos Core. Bulma's voice trembled slightly. The abnormal program that should have been cleared during the system reboot was still running, and... Her finger hovered over a string of red code that had suddenly appeared on the screen. That code was slowly replicating itself, continuously sending data packets to a certain coordinate. With each transmission, the planet's physical constants changed slightly.
Vegeta grabbed the analyzer: "Let me see." His pupils contracted slightly. This frequency... what was it summoning? These data packets were constructing some kind of spatial coordinates.
Suddenly, the analyzer emitted a piercing alarm. Vegeta jerked his head up: Oh no! It just activated—
Suddenly, the ground trembled violently. The fungal carpet stood upright, forming countless tiny, tentacle-like structures. On the distant horizon, the sky seemed to be torn open by a massive rift, its edges shimmering with binary-code-like points of light, revealing a distorted starry sky within. Within the crack, a colossal shadow could be vaguely seen writhing, its outline reminiscent of the former Omni-King, yet carrying an indescribable sense of distortion.
"Everyone back to the aircraft!" Bulma shouted. "The atmospheric composition is changing; the oxygen is being replaced by highly toxic fluorine gas! Staying outside any longer will cause suffocation!"
Everyone hurriedly boarded the aircraft. Klin was the last to jump on, his monk's robes corroded with several large holes by the sudden eruption of acidic liquid. The instant the spacecraft took off, the spot where they had just stood suddenly collapsed, forming a bottomless black vortex. Countless light streams composed of data beams extended from the vortex, attempting to grab the spacecraft. The center of the vortex shimmered with the same light as the crystal Trunks had discovered.
Bulma's fingers flew across the control panel: Damn it, all communications are being jammed! The navigation system shows we're in seven different locations simultaneously! We need to find a safe place to analyze this data...
Goku stared at the ever-expanding vortex, noticing it was devouring the surrounding space, turning the engulfed area into a pixelated mosaic. A rare chill ran through his Saiyan blood. He turned to Bulma: "Can you find the destination of the signal?"
Bulma pulled up a star map, which kept distorting and rearranging itself. A red dot was flashing somewhere: right at the core of this planet. But with our current equipment... conventional drilling equipment simply couldn't penetrate that kind of material.
Vegeta scoffed: Whatever it is, we'll go see for ourselves. It's better than sitting here waiting to die.
Bick frowned: Don't be impulsive. We're having trouble even flying right now. If we encounter danger... I sense a lot of life activity underground, and none of it is benevolent.
Wait! Bulma suddenly exclaimed, the signal content has changed! It's repeating a set of coordinates... and there's a countdown? Her face suddenly turned deathly pale. 48 hours later... a system re-format? This time it will completely eliminate all unstable factors... including us!
The spacecraft was deathly silent. Only the beeping of instruments and the distant rumble of space being torn apart could be heard. Goku clenched his fist, feeling the faint but undeniable flow of energy within him: there was no time to hesitate. Bulma, can you find the way to the Earth's core?
Bulma took a deep breath and began calculating frantically: Theoretically... this planet's crustal structure is unstable, containing numerous natural passageways. But I detected that these passageways are filled with illogical fields, where conventional laws of physics don't apply...
Xiaofang suddenly pointed out the window and shouted: Look! What are those?
Hundreds of crystals were rising from the vortex, each containing a blurry humanoid silhouette.
"Let's set off then." Sun Wukong flashed his signature smile, but his eyes held an unprecedented seriousness. A new adventure was about to begin!
The aircraft flew towards a distant volcano spewing iridescent lava. Fragments of metallic structures floated in the lava, some resembling the ruins of a temple. Unnoticed by anyone, deep within the vortex, a pair of eyes slowly opened, their pupils flowing with the same data stream as the Chaos Core, reflecting their departing figures.
Behind the spacecraft, the engulfed space continued to expand, gradually forming a giant number 1, then 0, as if a countdown was underway...
Chapter 101 The Invitation of the Gods
The morning light from the Temple of Beerus streamed through the stained-glass windows, casting dappled shadows on Lin Ye's face. He sat cross-legged in the center of the training ground, enveloped in a pale golden aura—the newly unlocked Divine Breath simulation state from the system.
"Too slow." Beerus's voice suddenly came from behind, accompanied by a hand slash carrying destructive energy.
Lin Ye leaned forward abruptly, bracing himself with his right hand while sweeping his left leg behind him. Bang! With a muffled thud of flesh colliding, he used the momentum to leap into the air, flipping three times before landing steadily on a stone pillar ten meters away.