In "Skyreach City", a futuristic metropolis ruled by four major financial magnates, Lu Chenshen, a cold-blooded heir to one of the magnates, is implanted with the "Scarlet Code" by ...
The cold thought was like a hypnotic spell, following the suction force returning to zero, trying to break down his last remaining, almost instinctive resistance.
Give up? Return to nothingness?
No!
Just at this critical point when consciousness is about to be completely swallowed up and assimilated by the vortex of zero!
Deep within Pei Dun's consciousness, which had been decomposed to only the most primitive and chaotic fragments, a faint spark, like starlight that had traveled through billions of light years, suddenly struggled!
It wasn't a memory, nor was it an emotion. Instead, it was an instinct... branded at the very bottom of existence, born from countless struggles on the brink of life and death! A purest, most brutal desire for "existence" itself!
This desire is as weak as a candle in the wind, but it carries a tenacity that transcends logic and rules!
【exist!】
【I…want…to exist! 】
This silent roar, which came from instinct, was like a spark thrown into boiling oil, instantly igniting the three energy residues in Pei Du's core that were suppressed by the zero law and were about to be completely extinguished!
The dark green life energy of the earth's veins—derived from the might and tenacity of the planet's core! Refusing to be denied, it erupts like trampled weeds, its last bit of tenacious greenness unfurling!
The dark blue energy of zeroing out—it inherently represents the power of destruction and reshaping! It refuses to be assimilated by the underlying "zeroing out," erupting like an enraged beast with violent arcs of deep blue electricity!
A chaotic flow of data—a collection of countless fragmented information and chaotic wills! It loathed this cold, absolute order, erupting like a boiling cauldron of oil, a chaotic silver frenzy!
These three remnants of power that had long been broken into pieces and should have collided and annihilated with each other, driven by this final, desperate roar derived from the instinct of existence, and under the pressure of the destructive suction of the zero vortex, actually... underwent an unprecedented drastic change!
They no longer conflict with each other or waste energy!
Instead... in an extremely brutal, extremely crazy, and completely illogical way... forcefully and recklessly... collapsing inwards! Fusion!
With Pei Du's consciousness fragment that was about to dissipate as the core, and the terrifying suction and negation rules of the zero vortex as the furnace, the three energy residues were forcibly squeezed, melted, and forged together like metal thrown into the core of a star!
Dark green, dark blue, chaotic silver…the three colors swirled madly, entangled, devoured each other, and penetrated each other! The extremely cold negation rule of the zero vortex was like the most violent quenching agent, frantically washing and tearing apart the forcibly fused energy ball!
Severe pain! Tearing apart! Annihilation! Reassembly!
Every bit of information that made up Pei Du's final existence was undergoing the most brutal purgatory! His fragments of consciousness were like being thrown into a crusher, torn into billions of pieces, and then forcibly blended together the next second! Each tear and blend brought unimaginable pain, but also brought a very faint sense of rebirth... reshaped in destruction!
Give up resistance? No! He actively embraced destruction! He treated this cold vortex of zero as a furnace for forging new life! He treated his own shattered remains, already judged a "mistake," as ore to be thrown into the furnace!
“Ughh ...
A silent roar, originating from the deepest depths of the soul, reverberated between zero and zero! The madly swirling, clashing, and merging tricolor energy core, devoured by the zeroing vortex, did not shrink in size. Instead, amidst the furious smelting within, it emanated an increasingly condensed, increasingly... dangerous dark golden light! The edge of the light was no longer a dissipation of energy, but... an extremely restrained edge that seemed to cut through space!
The vortex of zero seemed to... experience a subtle stagnation. For the first time, that cold, logical pronouncement was tinged with a hint of... incomprehensible confusion:
[Energy reaction...abnormal...]
[Logical conflict...intensifies...]
[Sample…entropy…inversely decreasing…? ]
[Error…Unable to…parse…]
Just when the logic of the zero vortex became disordered!
Buzz——!!!
As the world returned to zero, the vast sea of stars, composed of endless dark blue logical light, suddenly began to fluctuate violently! It was not because of Pei Du, but... the outside world!
A huge, chaotic, filthy life wave (the mother tree) with absolute greed and devouring will, and a cold, efficient scanning wave (the scarlet machine) with destructive logical instructions, like a huge rock thrown into a calm lake, actually penetrated the barrier of the obelisk and briefly interfered with the absolute logical field between zero!
Although this interference was minimal and fleeting, for Pei Du's core, which was undergoing the most brutal forging in the zero furnace, it was like dropping a critical weight on a string that was stretched to the extreme!
Now is the time!
The tricolor core, radiating a dark golden edge and smelting within it the essences of dark green life, dark blue destruction, and chaotic data, suddenly stopped spinning! All conflict, all pain, all light, at this moment, collapsed inward... to the extreme!
Then……
boom--!!!
An indescribable wave of terror, not an explosion of energy, but... a gathering of laws, spread out with the collapsed core as its origin!
Wherever the wave passed, the cold, dark blue logical light at zero seemed to encounter an invisible repulsive force, forcibly pushed away and distorted! The huge zero-return vortex suddenly stopped spinning, and the dark logical runes on its surface flickered and flickered wildly, as if forcibly interfered with and suppressed by some higher-level law!
In the core of this wave where laws converge, in that logical vacuum that is excluded...
A pure, cold, dark golden light, as if forged from the solidified starry sky itself, slowly lit up.
In the light, a brand new body outlined by the pure power of law... is quietly condensing in the depths of this cold zero furnace!