Origin resonance

After the severe pain, there is endless coldness and nothingness.

Xiang Jinyang's consciousness drifted in the darkness, as if he had returned to the moment when the laws of nature collapsed and his soul was about to dissipate. Millions of years of loneliness and responsibility became heavy chains, dragging him deeper into darkness. It turned out that even the incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, after completely exhausting its essence, faced the same end.

Just as he was about to give up struggling and let his consciousness completely dissipate, a familiar glimmer of light with an otherworldly aura, like the toughest spider silk, firmly tied his falling soul.

The light was not warm, and even had the coldness unique to code, but it was extremely stubborn and refused to stop.

"No sleeping."

A hoarse voice penetrated the layers of darkness, exploding deep in He Yuan's consciousness with an almost shattering panic that he had never experienced before.

"Look at me, Xiang Jinyang! Open your eyes!"

He felt a pair of arms tightly grip his cold body, the force so strong that it almost crushed him. Then, a pure energy with a clear sense of self-destruction, like a flood bursting through a dam, recklessly pouring into his exhausted and cracked core of rules.

This energy no longer carried the same purpose of testing or exchange as before, but was instead a pure, unbridled, even desperate gift. Xiang Jinyang could even clearly sense that with this infusion of energy, He Yuan's own existence was becoming unstable. The silver code streams that made up his body were constantly dissipating and disintegrating due to the excessive output and the backlash of the power of the Heavenly Dao!

"You..." Xiang Jinyang strained his strength, struggling to pry open his heavy eyelids. In his blurry vision, he saw He Yuan's face, so close to him. That face, always radiating either a careless or technical focus, was now completely devoid of color. A streak of "blood," tinged with cold data fragments, oozed from the corners of his tightly pursed lips. The wound on his chest, inflicted by the backlash of the Heavenly Dao's power, was even more horrifying, as fragments of code continuously vanished like flying ash.

He is burning himself!

Use the foundation on which he exists to prolong his vitality!

"Stop..." Xiang Jinyang's heart seemed to be gripped by an icy hand, his voice broken. "If you keep going like this... you will... disappear..."

He Yuan seemed to have not heard it at all, or rather, he heard it but chose to ignore it. He suddenly lowered his head, pressing his forehead against Xiang Jinyang's cold forehead. In his eyes, which reflected the stream of code, surged a kind of madness and fear that Xiang Jinyang had never seen before, almost paranoid.

"Then we'll disappear together." His voice was extremely hoarse, and each word seemed to be ground out from between his teeth, with unquestionable determination. "In a world without you, my existence... is meaningless."

“!!”

This sentence was more impactful than any attack, any snooping, and even than the self-destructive shackles. It more thoroughly split the defenses that Xiang Jinyang had maintained for billions of years!

From deep within the frozen core, a resounding sound like a landslide echoed. All restraint, all defense, all considerations of duty and order, all paled in the face of this declaration of shared life and death, seemingly vulnerable to attack.

A surging, sour warm current, mixed with great panic and an indescribable throbbing, instantly overwhelmed all his rationality.

He stopped trying to push away.

No longer calculating gains and losses.

Almost instinctively, he raised his weak arms and, using his last bit of strength, tightly hugged the figure that was collapsing because of him.

It was like a drowning person who finally gave up the futile struggle and allowed himself to indulge in this dangerous but only salvation.

Just when he completely gave up resistance and wholeheartedly accepted the other party's power—

A strange change occurred.

The power of heaven and the code from another world, which had been constantly annihilating each other due to the conflict of attributes, suddenly stopped in the two people's unreserved embrace and desperate cuddling at the soul level!

Then, they stopped fighting violently and, as if guided by some invisible force, began to try to... resonate at an extremely subtle and difficult frequency.

It is no longer a forced integration, no longer a unilateral grant.

Rather, on the brink of life and death, two completely different essences of existence instinctively seek harmonics that can coexist and resonate in desperation.

He Yuan suddenly raised his head, and the crazy despair in his eyes was instantly replaced by extreme concentration! The code flow rushed through at an unprecedented speed, capturing this fleeting miracle!

"I found it..." He muttered to himself, his voice filled with incredible excitement, "It's not a repair! It's not a cover! It's resonance! It's frequency!"

He tightly grasped Xiang Jinyang's shoulders, staring intently into his distracted eyes, trying to convey this discovery: "Listen! Let our origins... find that common frequency! Like... like a harmonious melody! Let my code, your rules, vibrate in the same rhythm! This is the only way to survive!"

Xiang Jinyang looked at him blankly, his consciousness still hazy, but the words "the only way to survive" and the familiar light of a technology fanatic that rekindled in the other's eyes were like a shot of adrenaline, forcing him to gather his scattered mind.

Frequency... resonance...

He didn't quite understand these strange words, but he could vaguely sense that the other party seemed to have found a direction.

A direction... that might allow them all to survive.

He closed his eyes and stopped resisting the two intertwined forces in his body. Instead, he tried to relax his tense instinct to defend the purity of the Heavenly Dao, and carefully guided his remaining Heavenly Dao rhythm to touch and cater to the external, cold code fluctuations.

once.

twice.

fail.

conflict.

Energy dissipation.

The process was painful and difficult, and every failed attempt made the two people's already seriously injured condition worse.

But He Yuan didn't give up. His computing core was overloaded, constantly adjusting the output frequency of his own code, trying to match the vast and ancient rhythm of the heavens.

Xiang Jinyang didn't give up either. He endured the discomfort and pain of his rules being touched and adjusted by external forces, trying his best to maintain consciousness and try again and again.

I don't know how long it took, but just when Xiang Jinyang's consciousness was about to be swallowed by darkness again -

Buzz!

An extremely slight, yet extremely clear resonance sound rang out from between the two people's chests that were pressed tightly together!

It was as if two lonely tuning forks that had been traveling for billions of years finally found another one that perfectly matched themselves after endless time and space!

In an instant, He Yuan's scattered code flow stabilized!

Deep within Xiang Jinyang's dried-up origin, a faint but real warmth emerged!

It is no longer a consumption in which one increases while the other decreases, but... a nourishment that complements each other!

Success!

Although it was only an extremely weak resonance, it was like igniting the first real flame of hope in the endless darkness!

He Yuan suddenly hugged Xiang Jinyang tightly, buried his face deeply in his neck, and his body trembled slightly with excitement and fear.

Xiang Jinyang also subconsciously tightened his arms in the hug, and the corners of his pale lips, where the other party couldn't see, curled up very faintly into a trembling arc of survival.

On the cold ruins,

Two completely different souls,

In the test of life and death,

Finally knocked

The road to symbiosis

The first doorbell.

Although the road ahead is still long,

But at least,

They caught

That's the only

Lifeline.