Chapter 317 A Fight Is Inevitable
It was an hour and a half after Yu Yun and Pandora woke up.
Inside an oil well on Sakhalin Island, Russia.
Pat, pat.
Footsteps echoed in the vast, uninhabited underground world.
252 visited this place.
What she was seeing was completely beyond the comprehension of normal humans. In the center of the supporting steel balls and guardrails erected for the drilling site—on a piece of ground of unknown material—there was a huge black sphere firmly fixed to the ground.
She then used data analysis to thoroughly examine the sphere and realized that it was actually a "web" made of a graphite-like material.
And it also has life.
It wriggled slightly, growing slowly, in a manner imperceptible to the naked eye; it was certainly not a crescent moon, but a larger organism.
In the darkness, arches rose one after another within the oval-shaped insect web, the power crystallized intensely, making it resemble the moon in appearance. The central core area also bulged and undulated, as if something was wriggling within it—most likely insects—with countless threads weaving densely from the edges to penetrate it.
The process was like a wave surging up from the other side of the ocean, quietly seeping into this pure color, attempting to assimilate it. And at the moment it spread, the entire surface of the ellipsoid trembled and struggled, soon resulting in large-scale fractures. Then, the countless weavers, like humans, opened their hollow eyes and screamed.
The next moment, 252 looked up and saw a burst of crimson blood erupting from the insect web.
It's as if a large chunk of red meat has been spat out, cut open from the inside. The cross-section is very smooth, and you can clearly see the white-yellow fat tissue mixed with blood vessels and muscle fibers, filling the entire field of vision.
There were also long, spine-like structures trailing behind, which was nauseating.
Then, all the newly grown flesh fell off, and something crawled out from inside.
"Who else could detect the fluctuations of the cosmic will within this forbidden object of mine? It turns out it was you."
The man who looked like Sergio had just opened his eyes when he said this to 252.
“There’s nothing we can do. There aren’t many people who can jump over the fourth wall these days. Besides 659, He Yu, and the authors outside the wall, there’s only you, 832.” 252 sighed and replied, “I was actually quite surprised when I found out you were also in the Mirror of Eternal Dreams.”
"Haha, whether it's people or forbidden objects, knowing too much... isn't necessarily a good thing," the other person said with a laugh.
"Of course I understand that logic. Perhaps in some parallel universe, my clones would be erased because of this." 252 seemed unconcerned about the threat. "But... why did you have to choose a scumbag as your vessel?"
"What do you think I can do?" 832 shrugged like she did, his tone unusually irritating. "After all, so many people are vying for He Yubei, and you've got your eye on that girl named Pandora too. I can only choose a slightly inferior one."
"Is this your reason for transforming and beating her half to death?" 252 said, his eyes turning cold.
“Heh…” Upon hearing this, 832 immediately laughed. “To be honest, I originally thought that 659, or that Li Lin, or the author of this book would be the first to discover me. But it makes sense that you are the one interfering with me.”
"Whether others have discovered you or not, I don't care." As he spoke, 252 had already begun to digitize everything around him, and replied calmly, "However, in order to prevent someone from using the Mirror of Eternal Dreams to create a more complex parallel universe and causing incalculable consequences, it's better for me to clean up the mess."
Perhaps because of the remake of Sergio, 832's sarcastic rebuttal at this moment was incredibly insightful.
"That's right, you 252 are the conscience of taboos, willingly going along with the corrupt practices of humans, so I think it's quite reasonable."
"Anyway, you're the kind of forbidden object that's like 656, with absolutely no upper limit. You're very skilled at wormhole jumping and erasing cosmic rays. Besides... even if a forbidden object like you, who has developed feelings for humans, is accidentally thrown into a wormhole again, it won't have a significant impact on the second wave layer."
"Oh—what are you saying?" 252 snapped his fingers, and suddenly half of 832's body disappeared. The sight was as bizarre as the strange things that He Yu had seen, as if a key frame had been pulled out of thin air. "You really think you can eat me?"
"Didn't you take any measurements before you came?" 832 asked, showing no reaction to the injury.
At this moment, the "moon" that had fallen behind them began to rapidly decay and melt.
Some fat and blood vessels were pulled out of the flesh, turning bluish-purple. The last remaining parts twitched and twisted. But they didn't struggle for long before shrinking away, turning into a pile of biological waste.
The decaying flesh writhed and crawled toward the center, surrounded by black residue that looked like burnt plastic, leaving a deep mark on the ground.
252 withdrew his hand, his gaze sweeping over these seemingly useless scraps.
Within her field of vision, all these abnormally shaped chunks of meat displayed only one message—[Data Error].
"Unprecedented, isn't it?"
832 muttered something, then paused for two seconds. In that brief interval, the half of its body that 252 had deleted from the data layer actually grew back.
"It seems you don't have any ideas."
"I can give you a heads-up."
"This flesh and blood comes from those actors who once wielded the will of the universe, and from forbidden objects."
"In terms of level alone, he is roughly an A-level operative in Eoubs' eyes, and a taboo subject in DOJ's eyes."
“A long time ago, during the operation to eliminate Joseph in the Americas, I used my ‘pen’ to… excerpt most of the forbidden objects and humans in Mingze’s record book that posed an absolute threat to the Cosmic Network.”
"Then, I stuffed them all into my hotel."
As 832 spoke, he spread his arms and stepped back.
He walked into those shrunken lumps of flesh, and within seconds they were absorbed by the ground beneath his feet.
252 remained motionless, still deconstructing the data, attempting to fully analyze the other party.
She looked at 832 and, in that brief moment, sensed that the guy's characteristics seemed truly invincible.
But at this moment... he looks like a mentally challenged person lost in his own world.
"I told you so long ago."
"The law of fate... even looking at too many forbidden things can drive someone mad."
"You've gone mad, my kind."
At this point, 252 adopted a comforting expression, giving him a helpless yet sarcastic look as he delivered his ultimatum.
"But disagreements are normal, as is the case with humans, let alone us."
"It seems we have no choice but to fight now."
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