Infinity: Kill your way through the movie world.

The most direct impact of this riot was that people were actually further away from death.

Those who overturned the lottery platform and stomped on the wooden signs did indeed disrupt the order, but the rift leading to hell would not widen even a fraction because of their anger.

The number of demons is limited, and the souls that have been overfed will not recover faster due to human anger.

The fires and commotion in the ruins do not increase the efficiency of consumption; they only accelerate the dissipation of resources and the disintegration of the body, thus taking them further away from death.

Meanwhile, on the desolate edge of the continent, those who had lost their way continued to walk, forming a long line with no end.

Although their directions and paces differed, they were all slowly extending forward, as if being gently pushed into the depths of a crack in the ground by an invisible hand.

From a high altitude, the traces of movement scattered across different continental plates are gradually outlining a migration network that has never been seen before, spanning the entire world.

The world order is like an old building whose foundation stones have been removed, slowly and irresistibly tilting.

The fire in the ruins is still burning, the procession below the cracks is still stretching out, and the endless crowds are still moving, crossing the collapsed walls and the shattered ground, surging into the more open fields and the dried-up riverbeds.

The wind swept across the ruins of the entire continent, through the broken wooden stakes and charred rags, through the still-burning fires and the extinguished embers, through the crowds that were walking and those that had stopped walking. It spread further along the horizon, toward every ruin that still had a light, and every shadow waiting to be ignited by the fire.

It was at this critical moment.

Alan Thorne acted just in time!
He sent a new notification to the teams on the ground and the lottery station, the content of which was simple and direct:
The number of deaths will be centrally controlled by him, and will no longer be drawn in a decentralized manner or distributed in batches.

Among those in line, some frowned, some were confused, and some complained in hushed tones, but most simply accepted it silently, because they were used to being told what to do.

No one knew what this decision meant, nor did anyone know that he was laying a path to the end of the entire domain.

He remained dormant in the earth, still enduring the pain signals continuously transmitted by the cell fragments scattered in the soil and water, but his consciousness was no longer just observing and recording; he had begun the next step.

He set a 30-day deadline; after 30 days, he would launch a plan covering the entire region.

That plan did not rely on scattered devouring or individual sacrifice, but rather on its own diffuse state, using itself as a bridge connecting all things and death.

He wanted to orchestrate an unprecedented situation that would uproot the world.

It's not about liberating a few, but about liberating everyone, allowing all those who hesitate, queue, and struggle to leave intact, without leaving any scattered fragments or forgotten remnants.

He is the only being capable of covering the entire domain at the same time, and the only one who truly regards the end of the entire world as his life's goal. He has waited for a full thousand years for this moment.

Alan Thorne lay dormant in the earth, sensing the flames that were slowly moving forward, and sensing their extinguishing and reignition.

He did not stop them; his experiment had reached a critical stage, and now, with a large amount of data and samples, the feasibility of his idea had been verified.

To this end, he mobilized observation stations and sensing lines distributed across multiple continents. These lines, buried deep in the soil, sedimentary rocks, and strata, consist of countless tiny detection nodes that are converting all changes occurring on the ground into signals that are continuously fed into his sensing network.

He knew where every fire was lit, the direction every toppled fence fell to the ground, and which areas the disordered crowds were moving towards.

But he didn't dwell on the riots; he needed to confirm something more important than he had anticipated:

Can the essence of evil be aggregated, compressed, reshaped, and formed into a more complete, harder, and more inclusive form?

The entire sealed experimental chamber was built in an underground rock structure that had been abandoned for many years. The entrance was hidden and the space was not large, but it was large enough to accommodate several captured low-level demon samples.

The bulkhead is made of multi-layer composite thermal insulation material, and the internal temperature and humidity are maintained at a stable state by a geothermal control system. The cabin is equipped with a high-precision monitoring equipment array and an adjustable energy field generator.

The demon samples were separated into different small, sealed compartments. Their souls were extremely sparse, like black mist diluted too many times, drifting slowly within the compartments, occasionally touching the inner walls. These movements were all recorded.

The core of the first batch of experiments was to observe the density distribution pattern of demon souls.

Allen slowly introduced a low-level demon soul into a sealed chamber filled with low-energy filler, and used an energy field generator to adjust the density of the filler to observe the changes in the soul's form under different pressure conditions.

Experimental results show that when the filling density is low, the soul expands outward and the edges become blurred; when the filling density increases, the soul contracts inward, like cotton being slowly compacted.

The core area of ​​the soul always maintains a very small, tight dark core, like an old ore wrapped in black mist. The loose black mist around it can be compressed, but the core itself contracts very slowly under pressure.

Allen then placed two low-level demon samples in the same compartment to observe whether their souls would come into contact naturally, and what would happen after they did.

Without external stimuli, the two souls remained on opposite sides of the compartment, avoiding contact with each other.

When Allen injected a small amount of highly concentrated human cell active matrix into the compartment, the two souls simultaneously became agitated and moved towards the source of the active matrix. Their edges touched each other, and part of the edge of one soul began to seep into the interior of the other soul, like black ink being absorbed into a thicker layer of black liquid. The edges gradually blurred, and the seepage area slowly expanded. Eventually, the contact area between the two souls formed a turbid, darker mixed area.

The souls of the two demons in their natural state tend to merge, but the fusion is extremely slow and requires external conditions to trigger and maintain it.

Meanwhile, the fused mixed region exhibited a higher energy density, but its structure was not stable enough and it was prone to separation again when disturbed. Allen then adjusted the experimental parameters, changing the active matrix to a diluted composite vitality solution extracted from a large number of suicide victims. The concentration was slightly higher than the previous sample, but the total amount was controlled within an extremely low range and added slowly in multiple drops.

The results were still unsatisfactory. The souls would gather together, come into contact, and form a brief, turbid transition layer, but they could never form a stable, continuous, and irreversible fusion process.

They lack adhesives and the external pressure that can continuously strengthen that connection.

So Allen kept the two demon samples sealed in the same compartment, maintaining a stable low-energy field and continuously injecting very small amounts of composite life-giving solution, while constantly observing and recording. The peripheral infiltration was progressing slowly, as slowly as an old tree growing, but it never stopped, never ceased.

He finally confirmed that the direction was correct—integration was feasible, but it required maintaining extremely stable external conditions over a sufficiently long period of time.

But he didn't have that much time. What he needed to merge wasn't two demons, but all the demons and every wisp of soul mist surging from the depths of hell.

Allen began to construct a convergence framework, which was based on the demon's own tendency to merge. Its existence meant that as long as enough external energy and a stable medium were provided, the boundaries between souls and bodies could be broken and recombined.

Allen compiled the observed patterns into a new scheme:
He wants to construct a massive energy field beneath the entire continent, using arrays of insulating minerals as barriers, an underground energy network as a power source, and automated equipment in thousands of laboratories as nodes, to create an artificial, continuously operating aggregation field.

Within the area covered by this field, the souls of all demons will be slowly guided, compressed, and gathered together to form an ultimate aggregate that can bear an infinite amount of life force, will not disintegrate due to excessive life force, and can cover the entire area in one go without leaving any residue.

He needed a vessel deep enough to contain that fusion, and that vessel was himself.

A thousand years ago, he disintegrated himself into trillions of cellular molecules that diffused across the earth, and his consciousness became one with the soil, vegetation, and water systems of the entire continent.

He can use his dispersed body as a guiding channel and attachment interface to guide the free-floating demonic soul mist into a designated area, allowing them to merge within his perception range.

His core consciousness can act as the central hub of that aggregate, like a cable buried in the deep sea, connecting all the fragments of the soul.

Allen spent many days integrating the plan, repeatedly verifying calculations, and adjusting parameters, drawing on his entire industrial empire to build the basic framework for him.

Underground laboratories across continents begin receiving new instructions:
Modify the energy field generator, adjust the frequency parameters, lay denser sensing lines, and increase the power load limit of the insulated mineral array.

Thousands of scholars, craftsmen, and engineers began working under new instructions. Most of them were not told the ultimate purpose of the work; they only knew that they were assembling components for a large piece of equipment they had never seen before, which were distributed in different underground sites and linked to each other via remote signals.

Allen himself is undertaking a deeper integration:

He needed to analyze the intricate details within the high-ranking demons, which included not only their shape and density, but also the distribution of internal stress, energy redirection paths, critical signs before rupture, and subtle changes they had exhibited when subjected to massive infusions of life force.

He established a dedicated high-level demon analysis area in a large underground research station in the central part of the continent. The area was divided into multiple independent observation chambers, each equipped with an independent energy field control system and multi-angle high-sensitivity recording equipment.

The souls of higher-ranking demons are larger and more solid. The contraction and expansion of the black mist on their surface are significantly smaller than those of lower-ranking samples, but their expansion limits are also greater. Under continuous life-giving conditions, higher-ranking demons can withstand a longer period of continuous intake than lower-ranking samples. Their souls will automatically adjust the energy distribution path after the intake reaches a certain capacity. At a certain critical point, they will lose their regulatory ability and then begin to crack from the inside.

Allen also noted that the internal structure of higher-ranking demons was closer to a layered structure than that of lower-ranking demons:
The outer layer of black mist is relatively sparse, like old ash scattered by the wind. It is responsible for initial contact and perception, and will transmit signals to the inner layer after receiving external signals. The middle layer is thicker, like semi-solidified asphalt, and is responsible for storage and initial energy allocation. The inner layer is an extremely dense, almost stagnant dark core, responsible for maintaining the stability of the overall shape.

When the amount of life force injected is too large, the middle layer will collapse first. That part of the structure will be like an oversaturated carrier that can no longer contain more energy. Then the inner core will also be forced to participate in bearing the energy, eventually causing the whole structure to burst open from the inside.

Allen realized that if he could connect the inner cores of all the demons to each other, using his omnipresent perception network as the connecting cable and the earth's own energy field as the external pressure, then it would be possible to create a giant soul entity with 'no internal boundaries'.

Once the internal boundaries disappear, the entire aggregate will become a complete, transparent, and crack-free whole. Its carrying capacity will no longer be the sum of the individual demons, but a completely new form that far exceeds the original limit.

He spent a long time in that observation area, completing all the necessary recording, calculations, and adjustments, until he confirmed that his understanding of the demonic structure had reached the limit of all the information he could access.

He shut down the main control terminal in the observation room, put the still-operating equipment into automatic recording mode, and then returned to the main control area via the underground tunnel.

He knew the plan required extensive preparation and meticulous execution, but he also knew it was the only path he could find.

Alan Thorne lay dormant deep within the earth's strata, sensing the spreading flames, the crushed fragments of license plates, and the still-burning embers.

He did not stop the riots because they were a signal of his plan—they proved that the old order had lost its effectiveness, that passive waiting had reached its limit, and that people no longer believed in fragmented, slow, and uncertain ways of dying.

He wasn't waiting for the riots themselves, but for the empty space in his field of vision that would be cleared away after the riots ended, a space that would never be filled back by the old rules.

The final batch of verifications has now been completed, confirming the feasibility of the scheme at both the theoretical and some experimental levels.

Those scattered demon souls can merge, and the merged structure can bear a higher amount of life force infusion. The infused life force can be evenly transported to every corner of the aggregate through his all-encompassing diffuse body as a guiding channel.

This conclusion was drawn from a testing framework he personally verified, built upon his own industrial empire.

He doesn't need to wait any longer.

He decided to announce his plan to the world! (End of Chapter)