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Chapter 93 Chaos Code
Beerus's temple floated in the void, with countless shimmering stars beyond the purple energy barrier. Lin Ye rubbed his temples; he remembered that he had just been in Bulma's laboratory, and in the blink of an eye, this God of Destruction had grabbed him by the collar and brought him here.
"What are you looking at?" Beerus flicked his tail. "If Whis hadn't said you were useful, I wouldn't have bothered with the lives of you ants."
Just as Lin Ye was about to speak, the temple floor suddenly cracked open, revealing a swirling black hole. Weiss, leaning on his staff, floated out, still sporting that same smug smile.
Oh dear, just in time! Weiss lightly tapped Lin Ye's forehead with his staff. This little kid has something very interesting on him.
Beerus squinted: Speak like a human.
He possessed a piece of encrypted source code. With a wave of his staff, countless golden characters appeared in the air. Look, this is the initial protocol of the Omni-King System, but it has been modified.
Lin Ye stared at the words, then suddenly felt a splitting headache. The symbols twisted and distorted in his eyes, finally forming a familiar image—a girl lying on a hospital bed, a ventilator, and a flashing monitor.
What is this...? Lin Ye covered his eyes, blood seeping through his fingers.
Weiss and Beerus exchanged a glance. It seemed he really was connected to that girl. Weiss sighed. "Let's go, take him to the database."
Beerus reluctantly snapped his fingers. In a spatial distortion, the three arrived in a pure white spherical space, with countless translucent data streams floating around them.
"The Omni-King's database." Whis lowered his voice. Theoretically, no one except the Omni-King and the High Priest could enter.
Lin Ye noticed that Beerus's claws were trembling slightly. "Are you scared?" he couldn't help but ask.
Shut up! Beerus snapped, "I just... don't like the smell of disinfectant here!"
Weiss chuckled softly, pointing his staff at a massive crystal suspended in the center. It looked like half a Super Dragon Ball, its surface covered with symbols identical to those Lin Ye remembered.
The Chaos Core, Weiss said, is a container that holds the system's original protocols.
Lin Ye involuntarily walked forward. The moment he reached out and touched the crystal, the entire space suddenly turned blood red, and a piercing alarm sounded all around.
Warning! Unauthorized access! Warning!
Beerus grabbed Lin Ye by the back of his collar: Idiot! You triggered the defense system!
Countless mechanical guards rose from the ground, their eyes flashing a dangerous red light. Weiss sighed: Looks like I need to stretch my muscles.
A battle was about to erupt. Beerus smashed three guards to pieces with a single claw and roared at Lin Ye: What are you standing there for! Go and read the core data!
Lin Ye stumbled towards the crystal. This time he learned his lesson and didn't touch it directly, but instead tried to connect with it using his consciousness. The intense pain struck again, but this time he gritted his teeth and endured it.
The chaotic core projected a holographic image: a white-haired scientist stood in front of a hospital bed, on which lay a girl who looked exactly like Lin Ye in his memory.
The 137th experiment failed. The scientist's voice was cold: the entire system must be reset.
The scene shifted, revealing a familiar scene to Lin Ye—the training base of the Time and Space Administration. But this time, he could clearly see the faces of his fellow trainees; each of them wore the same mechanical prosthetic eyes.
"Are they... all clones?" Lin Ye murmured to himself.
More fragments of memory flooded in: the image of the bureau chief patting him on the shoulder and saying that the future depended on them had repeated hundreds of times, each time with a subtly different expression on the bureau chief's face; in the medical room, the liquid injected by the woman in the white coat shimmered with the same light as the core of chaos.
Found it! Weiss suddenly appeared beside him, his staff pointing at a certain spot in the core, the part that had been deleted from the initial protocol!
The words unfolded in the air:
[Purpose of System Creation: To rescue Experiment Subject X-137]
Current status: Failed
[Final Solution Implementation: Cosmic-Level Memory Overwrite]
Lin Ye felt as if he had been struck by lightning. X-137... Isn't that the girl's number on the medical record?
No time to daydream, kid~ Weiss easily dodged a laser beam; if this keeps up, we'll all be reset!
The battle on Beerus's side is fierce; the entire database is a mess. Whis! Can this piece of junk be fixed?
"I'm afraid that won't work," Weiss said in a song-like tone, his voice filled with horror. "The system has been completely corrupted, unless..."
Unless what?
Unless we find the other half of the Chaos Core. Weiss looked at Lin Ye, "Do you know where it is?"
Lin Ye's mind flashed to a blue icosahedron from the seabed. But before he could speak, the entire space suddenly trembled violently. The data stream twisted wildly, coalescing into a gigantic humanoid shape.
The voice of the Omni-King, Beerus, carried an unusually fearful tone.
The humanoid figure had no facial features, but Lin Ye could feel it looking at him. An invisible force gripped his throat and lifted him into the air.
Unauthorized visitor. The voice of the Omni-King sounds like millions of people speaking simultaneously. Delete.
At the critical moment of life and death, the pendant on Lin Ye's chest suddenly glowed—it was the coordinate code given to him by the reflection in the mirror space earlier! The light resonated with the Chaos Core, and the Omni-King's movements froze for a moment.
Now! With a wave of his staff, Whis opened a portal. Beerus grabbed Lin Ye and threw him inside: Get lost, you ant!
The last thing Lin Ye saw was Whis smiling and waving at him, while Beerus turned to face the Omni-King, and purple destructive energy illuminated the entire database.
The moment the portal closed, he heard Weiss's voice: Remember, the system was originally created to save a girl...
Lin Ye crashed heavily onto the beach of Turtle Immortal Island. Night had fallen, and the sea shimmered with an eerie blue light. He struggled to his feet and discovered a crystal fragment—a corner of the Chaos Core—in his hand.
A line of small text appeared on the fragment:
Searching for X-137, which lies dormant on the seabed.
Amidst the roar of the waves, Lin Ye seemed to hear the girl's call. He gripped the fragment tightly and walked towards the luminous sea. There, the fates of countless universes awaited to be rewritten.
Chapter 94 Graveyard of Time
The moment Lin Ye stepped into the space-time rift, the buzzing in his ears suddenly disappeared.
"This is... the system graveyard?" He narrowed his eyes, his pupils reflecting countless floating, eerie blue orbs of light, like a frozen shower of stars.
Behind him came Chen Dao's curses: "Damn it! My energy detector exploded!"
Su Wei crouched down, her fingertips tracing the cracks in the ground: "These cracks aren't physical damage... they're remnants of a data crash."
"Welcome to the Graveyard of Time".
A cool, clear female voice fell from above. Everyone jerked their heads up—
Her long, silvery-white hair cascaded down like a waterfall. Anise stood barefoot on a band of light in mid-air, her skirt fluttering even without wind. With a flick of her wrist, a ball of light suddenly exploded, transforming into a stream of data: "The memories of hosts devoured by the system will condense into 'Cocoons of Time'."
[Core Conflict: Mirror Memory]
"So these orbs of light are all brainwaves from dead people?" Chen Dao spat. "What a fucking bad luck!"
Anise chuckled softly, "For the living, this is a grave. But for the system..." She suddenly appeared in front of Lin Ye, their noses almost touching, "This is a nutrient reservoir."
Lin Ye's neck hairs stood on end.
He saw familiar code appear in Anise's pupils—the same code as the dormant "God-Slaying System" within him.
“You really can resonate.” Anise took a half step back, then suddenly slammed a scarlet orb of light into his chest. “How about this?”
The memory was violently torn apart—
On the rooftop in the pouring rain, another "Lin Ye" kneels in a pool of blood, holding a girl whose head has been pierced through.
"Why can't the system start?!" Mirror Lin Ye pounded his temples frantically, blood seeping from between his fingers. "What happened to reversing time?! You fucking drained my sister's life force—"
"That's... me from a parallel world?" In reality, Lin Ye staggered to his knees, his back soaked in cold sweat.
Anise looked down at him: "The system never does charity. The price each host pays is more expensive than you can imagine."
Su Wei suddenly drew her gun and pointed it at Anise: "What exactly do you want by leading us here?"
"A trade." The guardian snapped his fingers, and a massive contract array appeared beneath the feet of the three. "Use one-tenth of your memories in exchange for the answer to one question."
Chen Dao suddenly burst into laughter: "My hard drive is full of pornographic videos, which part do you want to cut?"
“I want this.” Anise pointed her finger at Lin Ye’s heart. “The true memory of the night your sister ‘Lin Xiaoyu’ had her car accident.”
The air suddenly solidified.
Lin Ye's pupils suddenly contracted.
He never mentioned his sister's name to anyone.
“You really did tamper with the memories,” Anise sighed. “There was no car accident that day. It was the system you just bound to…”
"Shut up!" Lin Ye lunged forward, swinging his knife, but his wrist was caught by the data link. Memories forcibly flooded in—
In the hospital corridor, fifteen-year-old Lin Ye stared at the red light of the operating room.
A mechanical voice echoed in his mind: [Strong sense of remorse detected. Godslayer System activated. Will you accept trading your sister's lifespan for her survival?]
The boy pressed "Confirm" with trembling hands.
The moment the red light went out, the younger sister's electrocardiogram flatlined, while the patient in the next ward, who was in a vegetative state, suddenly sat up...
"Do you understand now?" Anise's voice seemed to come from a great distance. "What is buried in the system graveyard is always what the host cherishes most."
Lin Ye looked down at his trembling hands and suddenly noticed that cracks, identical to those on the light sphere, had appeared on his palms.
Su Wei's exclamation became muffled: "His body is being digitized!"
Anise turned and walked into the darkness: "Welcome to our ranks, Gravekeeper No. 94021."
Chapter 95 Twin Universes
"Is the energy conduit connected?" I asked, biting the tactical flashlight between my teeth, the cold metallic feel pressing against them. My hands groped through the intricate network of pipes in the ship's engine bay, my knuckles bleeding from the sharp metal edges. Three days after escaping from the Graveyard of Time, our ship was like a severely wounded warrior, barely clinging to the last vestiges of life.
Chu Ning's voice came through the communicator, crackling with static: "Just two more sets to go. Lin Ye, can you see the quantum readings on your end?"
Wait... I wiped the sweat from my eyes and squinted at the flickering dashboard. Damn it! The readings are completely messed up! This can't be!
The numbers on the dashboard were jumping wildly, sometimes dropping to zero and sometimes exceeding the limit. Most bizarrely, some values were even showing negative numbers—completely defying all the laws of physics I knew. I pounded on the dashboard, only to be met with a piercing alarm.
"Let me see." Chen Mo pushed open the creaking hatch and crawled in, his white lab coat stained with engine oil. He glanced at the instruments and his face turned deathly pale: This isn't a malfunction... We've entered overlapping space.
What does that mean? I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.
Chen Mo's fingers flew across the virtual keyboard, and a holographic projection unfolded a star map. Blue dots cast dancing shadows on his glasses: according to the coordinates Anise gave us, the Seventh Universe should be an independent plane. But now...
The star map suddenly split into two perfectly symmetrical images, as precise as a mirror, like a piece of paper being torn apart. The outlines of the two universes overlapped perfectly, yet remained distinctly separate.
Mirror universe? I blurted out, my throat tightening.
More precisely, it's a matter-antimatter universe. Chen Mo adjusted his glasses, his voice deep, like two sides of a coin: the matter-on-the-head universe we inhabit, and its corresponding antimatter universe. Every particle has its antiparticle counterpart, including...