His mind was completely shattered and drowned. Fragments of memories belonging to "Pei Du"—the cold metal ground of the training ground, the fallen figures of his comrades, the glaring white light of the laboratory, Xu Shuangyao's fragile yet resilient gaze—were like fallen leaves in a gust of wind, instantly scattered and shredded by this chaotic wave of data. In their place, countless fragmented images and streams of information flashed back and collided frantically in his consciousness:

[Warning! High-dimensional pollution index exceeds the limit! Implement logical isolation!]

[…Sample G-7-Alpha undergoes abnormal evolution… Recording…Energy reaction…Unknown…]

[…It hurts…Let me out…Mom…]

[…roots…spread…devour…melt…become one…]

[…Command conflict…Logic error…Tried to restart…Failed…]

[…Scarlet…Key…Final…Authority…]

Countless voices roared, screamed, whispered, and declared within his skull! The cradle's cold commands, the test subjects' desperate cries, the mother tree's greedy call, and the destructive whispers of the out-of-control Crimson Protocol... Countless "voices," countless "wills," like billions of red-hot files, frantically scraped and eroded his remaining self-awareness.

"who I am?"

"Pei Du...mission...protection..."

"No! Blend in...become...eternal!"

"Erase... the error... must be... cleared..."

His ego repeatedly teetered on the brink of collapse. His massive thorned body spasmed and twitched violently under the triple torture of chaotic data flooding, internal forces clashing, and consciousness ripping apart. Each tremor was accompanied by the crisp snap of thorns and the hiss of energy leaking out. He was like a war machine forcefully pumped with excessive fuel and chaotic commands, on the verge of complete loss of control and self-destruction.

At the critical moment when his consciousness was about to be completely overwhelmed and his body was about to be blown to pieces by the internal conflict -

Buzz!

A weak but extremely tenacious wave of thought, like an unbreakable reed in the raging waves, stubbornly penetrated the layers of chaotic data frenzy and consciousness storm, and gently touched the dying fire of self in the deepest part of Pei Du's consciousness core.

It’s Xu Shuangyao!

It didn't come from her body - her body was still doubly locked by the out-of-control Crimson Storm and Cradle's erasing "White Domain" - but came from the depths of her consciousness, the last bit of original will belonging to "Xu Shuangyao" that had not been completely swallowed up by the Crimson Agreement!

This thought was as faint as a candle in the wind, yet it carried an incredible purity and warmth, like a faint ray of dawn at the end of a cold winter night. There were no words, only the most instinctive and tenacious thought:

【Survive!】

[Pei Du! Live!]

Like a drowning man grasping at a last piece of driftwood, like a lost boat spotting a distant lighthouse! This faint yet incredibly clear thought instantly tore a crack in Pei Du's chaotic and turbulent storm of consciousness! The core consciousness belonging to "Pei Du," which was about to be completely submerged by the chaotic data, was suddenly awakened and anchored by this glimmer of light!

"Xu... Shuang... Yao..."

The shattered thoughts struggled to reunite. Within the molten gold's pupils, the golden color, obscured by chaotic data, suddenly lit up with a faint light! That glimmer was like a spark thrown into boiling oil!

boom--!

The battlefield inside the body was on the verge of exploding out of control, and the violently conflicting dark green life energy, dark blue arcs of destruction, and chaotic data torrents, underwent incredible changes under the forced intervention of the strong will to survive that was anchored by "Pei Du"!

It is no longer a destructive conflict and annihilation, but a kind of... barbaric fusion... that is forcibly guided and ruled by cruel will!

Swish——!

Pei Du's massive, thorny right arm suddenly erupted with a blindingly bright light! The dark gold thorns that comprised the arm instantly "melted" beneath the chaotic data stream, revealing the madly flickering and clashing dark green and dark blue energy veins within. However, at this moment, those violent energies no longer collided in disorder, but were forcibly restrained and compressed by a cold and violent will emanating from Pei Du's core will! Countless cold, geometric data patterns that roamed the thorny surface seemed to come alive, madly pouring into the arm, imprinting themselves upon the clashing energy veins!

Visibly, the dark green life force was forcibly "tamed" by the data lines, becoming condensed and sharp, like a tempered emerald spike, growing and extending wildly from the arm's broken end! Dark blue arcs of destruction were guided and restrained by the data lines, transforming into endlessly leaping deep blue electric snakes that coiled around the newly formed emerald thorns! And the chaotic data slurry flow became the most brutal adhesive and amplifying agent between the two, giving the newly formed thorn structure a strange texture that was neither metal nor wood, shimmering with cold metallic light and streams of energy!

A new, terrifying power, a blend of the physical destruction of thorns, the resilience and erosion of life energy, the annihilation of arcs of destruction, and the information interference and rule-altering disturbance of chaotic data streams, was born from this reforged arm! The entire right arm was no longer a simple battering ram, but transformed into a massive whip blade composed of countless fine, sharp emerald data thorns, wrapped in deep blue electric snakes. Its surface flowed with an icy silver data halo, emitting a soul-shaking aura of destruction!

Data thorns!

At the same time, deep within Pei Du's molten-gold composite pupils, the madly swirling dark green runes and dark blue data streams suddenly solidified! The base of the pupils remained molten gold, but the swirling runes at the edges had completely transformed. The dark green runes stretched and twisted, blending with cold geometric lines, transforming into a thorny data chain of endless calculation and deduction. The dark blue data streams became more condensed and profound, like a logical black hole, flowing and flickering between the thorny chains. A new, cold vision, penetrating the flow of energy and the structure of information, instantly overwhelmed his perception! He could "see" the chaotic data nodes that formed the Crimson Storm, "feel" the weaknesses in the rules of the Cradle that obliterated the "White Domain," and even vaguely grasp the greedy intent of the vast will of the Mother Tree Core beneath his feet!

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