PDLP Chapter 513 Welcome, Immortal
Chapter 513 Welcome, Immortal
It was an extremely large metallic planet, its surface covered with dense geometric structures, and tens of thousands of interstellar warships swarmed around it like bees.
The scene was so realistic that the Dragon Scale team members instinctively gripped their weapons tighter.
Inside the underground command center, Zhang Yunhai, Sun Feng, and other experts suddenly stood up, staring intently at the screen.
"It's about three hundred billion light-years away from Earth," Zero said casually. "We are a highly advanced mechanical civilization."
"We were already tired of those science fiction concepts you Earthlings fantasize about hundreds of thousands of years ago."
Chen You stared at the awe-inspiring interstellar fleet overhead, his eyelids twitching: "And then?"
"Why would such an awesome civilization want a Foundation Establishment cultivator like me... oh no, a newly formed Core Formation cultivator?"
The relaxed expression on Ling's face disappeared.
She snapped her fingers.
In the holographic projection, the dazzling metallic planet suddenly dimmed.
A deep, intense black spread across the planet's surface like a virus.
"We've been infected." Zero's voice carried a hint of coldness. "A higher-dimensional rule that we can neither decipher nor resist."
"We call it 'the source'."
"Source..." Chen You pondered the word, then suddenly realized, "The Source Realm?"
"Smart." Zero snapped his fingers again, and the projection instantly shrank, turning into a transparent sandbox emitting a faint light. "The deduction results show that 'Yang' will eventually be completely devoured by 'Source'."
"In order to find a way to counter it, we separated a small part of the core code of 'Source' and combined it with our strongest forces to build a closed sandbox world."
She pointed to the sandbox: "This is the 'Source Realm'."
Chen You was stunned.
He looked at Zero, then at the sandbox, his mind buzzing.
"So all that hard work and constant battles in the game were just me playing on a private server set up by you aliens?!" Chen You's voice suddenly rose.
"That's one way to understand it." Zero nodded.
"No wonder!" Chen You slapped his thigh, aggravating his wound and wincing in pain. "No wonder the Origin Realm is full of cold weapons, magic, and divine arts, without even a decent firearm!"
"I was wondering before if the game planners were out of their minds, turns out it was you guys who did it!"
"There's nothing we can do." Zero shrugged. "In our countless simulations, no matter how extreme the technology, even dimensional weapons, it has no effect on 'Source'."
"So when we set up the sandbox, we simply deleted all the underlying code of the technology tree."
What we need is the power system of other civilizations.
Chen You understood.
Therefore, they set their sights on China's cultivation system.
"Wait a minute." A thought flashed through Chen You's mind.
He abruptly looked up, staring intently at Zero. "If the Source Realm is your sandbox, then that level 100 city lord, Yuranos... was it you who released him? You deliberately created a god to test me?!"
The thought that he had almost lost his life brought tears to Chen You's eyes.
Seeing Chen You's murderous glare, Ling quickly waved her hand, "Not entirely! Don't get agitated!"
She jumped off the chair and moved closer to Chen You: "We're too far from Earth."
"To arrive in a short time, we must use the underlying rules of the sandbox to open the door."
Zero patted Chen You on the shoulder, looking completely innocent: "Simply put, he's just a tool to open doors."
Chen You almost fainted.
"Open the door?!" Chen You pointed at the devastated ruins of the Qinling Mountains, his voice trembling. "You call a level 100 god who can shatter a mountain range with a single slap 'open the door'?!"
"To kill this guy who opened the door, I used the 'Burning Blood Heaven-Burning Technique' to burn through my underwear! I almost died, you know that?!"
Lin Miao nodded in agreement from the side.
Despite Chen You's fury, Ling remained unusually calm.
She pulled out another lollipop and popped it into her mouth, saying indistinctly, "Oh, what's there to be afraid of?"
"Even if he really turns you into ashes, as long as your soul data hasn't been completely wiped by the 'Source,' I can reset and resurrect you through the internet."
Chen You opened his mouth, but all his words ultimately boiled down to a single, classic Chinese phrase: "I f***ing…"
In the command center, Li Guoan's voice came through the earpiece, calm and powerful: "Chen You, control your emotions."
Ask her about her ultimate goal.
Chen You took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the urge to draw his sword and kill someone.
He looked directly into Zero's wine-red eyes: "Alright, now that you're here, tell me, what do you want?"
Ling put away her laughing and joking expression.
She straightened up, and the pink light and shadow around her instantly vanished, replaced by an extremely cold metallic hue.
"Chen You, you are currently the only variable we have found in the sandbox that can break free from the underlying logic of the 'Source'."
The sound of zero was no longer crisp, but rather carried a kind of solemn, mechanical quality.
"Your cultivation code, with its energy flow trajectory that emphasizes 'following the natural way' and 'defying fate,' is a blind spot that 'Source' cannot analyze."
She stretched out her right hand, with a miniature model of the "Yang" star floating in her palm.
On the model, black gibberish is frantically devouring the last vestiges of purity.
"Yang's time is running out."
Zero looked at Chen You with a hint of pleading in her eyes, but also with an unyielding resolve that left no room for refusal.
So, are you willing to help us?
The Qinling command center was in an uproar through the headset.
"Chief! This is beyond our control!" Zhang Yunhai's voice was filled with anxiety. "I suggest we reject it immediately and cut off the connection!"
"Cut it off? How?" Sun Feng sneered. "They can place the sandbox directly on Earth's dimension. What are you going to cut it off with? Unplug the internet cable?"
"Gentlemen, calm down." Pan Yu's voice was unhurried. "Since the other party has made the request, it means that we have an absolute seller's market."
"No matter what that 'source' is, Chen You's cultivation system is their only antidote."
Li Guoan suppressed all the arguments: "Professor Pan, what is your opinion?"
"Say yes," Pan Yu said decisively, "but don't just agree for nothing."
"If we were to reveal even a fraction of the technological foundation of the Yang civilization, China could achieve a leap forward across centuries."
"This is a crisis, but also a matter of national destiny."
……
Three days later, the command center next to Baiyujing had disappeared.
Instead, there was a massive fortress constructed entirely of an unknown silver-gray metal.
A faint blue light flowed across the surface of the metal wall.
The hovering turret operates silently, its muzzle locked onto every suspicious coordinate outside the atmosphere.
Outside the fortress, twelve towering metal pillars are connected to the Qinling Mountains.
Spiritual energy and dark matter energy converge here, forming a semi-transparent dome visible to the naked eye.
Internal command center.
The area has been expanded tenfold, with hundreds of floating light screens surrounding the central control console.
Sun Feng stood in front of a row of servers flashing red light, his hands gripping his hair.
"Three days! She only used three days!" Sun Feng stared at the scrolling code on the screen. "Compared to her, our supercomputer is just an abacus!"
Zhang Yunhai held his thermos cup and looked out the window at the mechanical guards patrolling in formation.
"The firepower system has taken complete control." Zhang Yunhai took a sip of goji berry water, his tone numb. "The output power of a single-soldier mech is enough to flatten a mountain."
"Our current defenses can withstand a supernova explosion."
Li Guoan sat in the main seat, his face calm, but his slightly trembling fingertips betrayed the turmoil in his heart.
The metal door slid open.
Chen You walked in wearing loose sportswear, with Ling following beside him.
Today she changed into a tight-fitting combat outfit, her pink hair was tied in a high ponytail, and she had no expression.
"Chen You." Zero walked to the table and placed his hands on the surface.
Chen You straightened up.
"What is it?"
Ling's wine-red eyes stared at Chen You.
"Dual repair protocol, compilation complete." Zero's voice echoed in the command center. "The underlying data interface is now open; we can begin."
The command center fell silent instantly.
All keyboard typing stopped.
Sun Feng turned his head.
Zhang Yunhai put down his thermos.
Professor Pan Yu adjusted his glasses, took a voice recorder from the folder, and pressed the record button.
Chen You swallowed hard.
"Right here?" Chen You pointed to the hundreds of people around them, lowering his voice, "In front of everyone?"
Zero tilted her head, looking puzzled.
"Is there a problem?"
Chen You looked at Li Guoan.
Li Guoan coughed and picked up his teacup to take a tactical sip of water.
"Go, Chen You." Li Guoan put down his teacup, his tone solemn, "For the sake of all mankind."
Chen You's lips twitched.
"Don't you guys have some misunderstanding about dual cultivation?" Chen You turned to Zero. "I practice legitimate cultivation techniques, not some cyberpunk data stream!"
"The essence of energy is the same." Zero took two steps back and walked to the open space in the center of the hall.
She raised her hand and unbuttoned the collar of her combat uniform.
Chen You instinctively took a step back, protecting his chest with his hands.
"What are you doing!" Chen You shouted.
Zero ignored it.
A silvery sheen began to emanate from the surface of her body.
Skin, clothing, and hair decompose in an instant.
Tens of thousands of nano-metal particles fly and recombine in mid-air.
Two seconds later.
A silver hibernation pod with a futuristic feel appeared in the center of the hall.
The surface of the hibernation pod is covered with blue energy loops.
The hatch slowly rose, revealing a groove that conforms to the curves of the human body and a dense array of neural connection probes.
Zero's voice came from the hibernation pod's speaker.
"Physical interface docking, deep neural network connection, and interchangeable underlying logic."
"Based on the Earth Literature Database lexical matching, the most accurate translation of this behavior is: dual cultivation."
Chen You stood there, stunned.
The entire command center was completely silent.
Sun Feng pushed up his glasses.
"I knew it," Sun Feng sighed. "How could aliens possibly understand the reproductive behavior of carbon-based life forms? This is a linguistic dimensional reduction attack caused by cross-language translation."
Chen You's face flushed red.
"You call this dual cultivation?!" Chen You pointed at the hibernation pod, his voice rising eight octaves. "Isn't this just a game login pod?!"
"Form is just appearance." Zero's voice was completely flat. "Lie down here."
"I will guide your consciousness into the true 'Source'."
Chen You lowered his hand.
He took a deep breath and put away his joking expression.
"Director Li." Chen You turned his head.
Li Guoan stood up and walked up to Chen You.
"Don't worry." Li Guoan patted Chen You on the shoulder. "We're here to protect you in the real world."
"As long as the Earth exists, your rear will always be safe."
Chen You nodded.
He walked up to the hibernation pod.
Without hesitation, he turned around and lay down inside.
The metal probe quickly adhered to his temples, spine, and limb joints.
A cold sensation came through.
"Initiating connection establishment." Zero's voice rang in my ears.
The hatch slowly descended.
My vision went dark.
Chen You felt his body losing weight.
My consciousness is somewhat blurred.
He saw the remains of Baiyujing.
They saw the shadowy king of the snow-covered sacred mountain.
They saw Euranos, the city of the gods.
Then everything returned to nothingness.
A voice rang out from the void.
Welcome to the Source, Immortal.
The End of This Book