Cutting-edge Technology: I Provide the Brains, the State Provides Everything

Su Qingying stared intently at the brainwave map on the screen. The curve was rapidly flattening at an alarming speed. Her face was as pale as paper, and she had bitten her lip until it bled.

”His consciousness is being ’devoured’! No, it’s being ’assimilated’!”

”The engine’s internal defense mechanism has activated! It wants to turn Lu Chen into a part of itself, into a piece of code without self-awareness!”

”What do we do?! Can we pull him out?!” Zhan Lang roared.

”We can’t pull him out.”

Su Qingying shook her head in despair, tears streaming down her face. ”Once the Soul Link is established, unless he wakes up himself or dies completely, external forces cannot interfere! We... we can only watch!”

An atmosphere of despair instantly enveloped the entire fleet.

They had just defeated the Star Devourer, and had just thought they had welcomed the dawn of victory. But in the blink of an eye, was their spiritual pillar, that omnipotent young god, about to fall on this smokeless battlefield?

”No! I don’t believe it!”

Su Qingying fiercely wiped away her tears, a trace of madness flashing in her eyes.

She rushed to the Communication Console and opened the full-spectrum broadcast—a special frequency directly connected to Lu Chen’s ”Tinder” system.

”Lu Chen! Can you hear me?!”

”You said you’d come back! You said you’d take me to Mars to watch the sunrise! You liar!”

”If you dare to die in there, I’ll... I’ll really detonate the expedition, so you won’t find peace even as a ghost!!!”

The mournful cry penetrated the dimensional barrier, transforming into a persistent ripple of conviction that rushed toward the distant white vortex.

High-Dimensional Space, Sea of Data.

Lu Chen’s consciousness was already on the verge of dissipation.

He felt like a drop of water about to merge into this vast ocean; like a speck of dust about to return to the tranquility of nothingness.

That feeling was actually very comfortable.

No pain, no responsibility, no heavy burden of civilization. Just letting go would bring eternal peace.

”Sleep... just sleep like this...”

A tempting voice sounded in the depths of his heart.

However, just as he was about to completely surrender resistance.

A familiar, tearful cry, full of anger and attachment, suddenly struck his Sea of Consciousness like a bolt of lightning piercing the darkness!

[If you dare to die in there, I’ll detonate the expedition.]

”Qingying?”

Lu Chen’s Tinder of consciousness, which was about to be extinguished, suddenly pulsed fiercely.

Immediately following, an anger and unwillingness belonging to a ”human” erupted from the depths of his soul!

”To hell with your peace!”

”My wife is still waiting for me! I still have to lead humanity to conquer the starry sea! I haven’t lived enough yet!”

”I am Lu Chen! I am the Navigator of Earth! I am the Master of this starry sky!”

”Get lost!!!”

Boom—!!!

A golden Psychic Storm, filled with ferocious will, erupted centered on Lu Chen’s remaining consciousness!

That was the power of the ”Tinder”!

That was the highest authority left by the Six-Dimensional Civilization, the only thing capable of countering this defense mechanism!

”You are just a program! A dead object!”

Lu Chen’s consciousness entity reformed. He roared in the white void, golden flames burning around him, like an unyielding God of War!

”And I am life! I am the variable with infinite possibilities!”

”You want to format me? Then let’s see who breaks whom first!”

Lu Chen suddenly stretched out his ”hands,” no longer defending passively but attacking actively! His system-enhanced brain, combined with the ”Tinder” authority, transformed into billions of data tentacles that fiercely stabbed into the surrounding geometric shapes representing ”rules”!

Corrode!

Tamper!

Assimilate!

”If you won’t recognize me as your master, then I’ll beat you until you do!”

”Causality Weapon, full power activation!”

”Set Outcome: I am your sole authorized user!”

”Kneel before me!!!”

This was a desperate struggle between will and rules.

One was a Cosmic-Level Engine with infinite computing power, representing absolute order.

The other was a human youth with infinite potential, representing the miracle of life.

On that unseen High-Dimensional Battlefield, golden light and white light violently collided, tangled, and devoured each other!

The space-time structure at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy visibly trembled due to this fierce microscopic conflict!

Who knows how much time passed.

Perhaps a second, perhaps an epoch.

The overwhelming white light finally dimmed.