The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

Shen Ge did not respond immediately to Prisoner-007's "request".

Within this eerie spire, corrupted and twisted by supernatural forces, any seemingly "reasonable" gift may conceal the most deadly trap. He never believed in so-called "kinship," nor would he be swayed by that empty phrase "Sequence 1."

"How can you guarantee that you won't detonate your core and perish together with me while I'm freeing you?" Shen Ge's question was very direct.

I cannot guarantee that.

Prisoner-007 was silent for a moment, a hint of bitterness in his voice.

But for a being imprisoned for millennia, its strength drained day and night, soon to be twisted into a walking corpse by those tin cans… mutual destruction is already a luxurious form of 'liberation.' What I'm betting on is your dignity as a 'Sequence 1,' and your confidence to devour everything.

These words were quite frank.

"Transaction complete." Shen Ge decided to leave the trouble to the system to worry about; he only needed to collect the reward.

【Thanks you.】

The voice of "Prisoner-007" faded away completely after conveying the last trace of relief.

It voluntarily relinquished all resistance and defense against its core essence.

At the same time, the mechanical chains piercing its body seemed to sense the prisoner's "abnormality," and the ghostly energy suddenly intensified, forcibly suppressing it in an attempt to prevent the loss of ghostly energy.

But it's too late.

Shen Ge's figure had already appeared directly above the huge flesh and blood core.

"The Ghost Realm—Expand!"

The devouring power emanating from the senior-level Ghost Domain quickly enveloped [Cell-007].

The ground, the walls, those aimlessly wandering, fused monsters... everything was silently decomposed and crushed, turning into the most primal torrent of strange energy, surging wildly into Shen Ge's body.

However, the moment the devouring began, Shen Ge's expression changed slightly.

As the system devoured a massive amount of supernatural energy and the body of "Prisoner-007," some "memory remnants" that the system had deciphered were revealed before Shen Ge's eyes.

That was not the tragic epic it described—a story of betrayal while protecting humanity.

Instead, it was a series of terrifying scenes filled with madness and destruction!
In those fragmented memories, Shen Ge saw the true face of the "purification faction".

They weren't building any "ultimate bizarre weapon" at all; they were conducting an experiment—they were attempting to "create a god"!
They captured countless of the most powerful and bizarre characteristics, forcibly fusing their genes in an extremely brutal way, with the aim of creating an "artificial savior" that could devour all bizarre energy, end the apocalypse, and be under their control!
The "Prisoner No. 007" in front of them is their closest success, and also their most out-of-control "creation".

In its final moments before being suppressed by the "Ark Faction," its memories contained not heroic resistance, but only out-of-control madness.

Its enormous, still-developing body, like a flood of flesh and blood bursting its banks, engulfed the entire deep-sea research base, swallowing and absorbing its "creators" along with it, completing its first "feeding" at the beginning of its life.

The so-called "tragic hero" is nothing more than a "false god" embryo that has been out of control since its inception and is indiscriminate in its pursuit of power!
The "Ark Faction's" act of building this spire to imprison them was not a cowardly betrayal, but the right choice made to stop the monsters created by these madmen from destroying the world!

"I see……"

Having understood the truth and discovered that it was completely different from what "Prisoner-007" had said, Shen Ge didn't have any particular feelings. Lies or truth, to him, they were just "seasonings" for the feast before him.

In any case, judging from the results of the system's previous "devouring" operations, regardless of whether the other party retains any consciousness in the end, it will be perfectly absorbed by the system and transformed into part of the progenitor's strange cells.

Having seen the truth about this "prison," and looking back at the actions of the New God Cult's "Forging Ark," a conclusion emerged in Shen Ge's mind.

This spire imprisons these out-of-control "artificial false gods" and extracts their monstrous energy with mechanical chains, but its purpose is probably not just imprisonment.

This is more like some kind of... "breeding"!
The New God Cult's constant dispatch of "Smelting Arks" was not simply for the purpose of transformation; they were more like a group of farmers who regularly came to harvest the crops.

The entire spire might be designed as a high-level, bizarre "breeding ground" where the New God Cult can harvest its "leeks" when the time is right.

Minutes later, when the last trace of flesh and blood was completely devoured, the entire [Cell-007] turned into nothingness.

However, according to the fragments of Prisoner-007's memories, this place was indeed a place for cultivating "new gods." Did they succeed in the end?
Is this the "new god" that the fleet mentioned before?
While Shen Ge was puzzled, he continued to steer "Ark No. 1" toward the cell with the earlier number.

奇怪的是，【囚室-007】的旁边并非【囚室-006】和【囚室-008】，反而是编号47和19的囚室。

After a moment's thought, Shen Ge decided to first enter the cell with the earlier number, [Cell-019], to find out what was going on.

【Cell-019】

The scene here is completely different from the pure flesh and blood world of "007".

The prison walls have been largely covered with cold steel armor and eerie energy pipes flashing indicator lights.

The bizarre "prisoner" imprisoned here, resembling a giant starfish, had its massive body pierced by countless thick mechanical probes.

One end of the probe is connected to its psychic core, while the other end leads to a series of "refining devices" inside the prison that resemble miniature chemical plants.

The machines of the New God Cult are purifying the bizarre energy of this living "prisoner," processing its chaotic and mixed bizarre energy into a more stable form through an industrialized process. It closely resembles the "colloidal" bizarre energy found in the black mist sea outside.

Shen Ge continued upwards, and everything he saw along the way was the same.

The closer he got to the central core of the spire, the more "mechanized" the prison became, and the more obvious the traces of the New God Cult's "processing" were. Finally, following the direction in which the strange energy pipes converged, he arrived at a huge, independent cavity that did not belong to any "cell" number.

There are no prisoners, no flesh and blood here, only a huge "furnace" that occupies the entire cavity, made up of countless roaring gears, pistons and a spiderweb of eerie energy pipes.

All the supernatural energy extracted from the cells below is continuously drawn here through thousands of pipes, where it undergoes final smelting, mixing, and transformation.

If the lower-level cells are the "breeding area" and the middle-level cells are the "processing area," then what is this place?
The trachea?

conveyor?

Shen Ge docked "Ark No. 1" at the edge of the cavity, and his figure appeared silently on top of the "furnace".

Below, several abandoned "melting arks" have been dismantled and reassembled into a huge operating platform. Dozens of mechanically varied objects are strangely integrated, like AI robots in a factory, repeating their work in a repetitive and mechanical manner.

With his three characteristics of being "invisible," "silent," and "traceless," Shen Ge easily entered the main control room inside.

On the central screen in the control room, an unerased operation log clearly records all the work done.

Preparations for Omnesia's 7934th feeding cycle

[Current Stage: Preparation of "High-Dimensional Nutrient Solution"]

【配方：37%‘利维坦’原型体诡能原浆（源自囚室-007），19%‘诡百目者’诡能污染液（源自囚室-011），44%‘酸蚀诡龙’生物质浓缩液（源自囚室-016）……】

[Catalyst: Type C-7 mechanical virus...]

[Estimated synthesis time: 72 standard hours...]

……

Clearly, the so-called "mechanical ascensionists" of the New God Cult are not acting out of their own immortality or to modify some war-related anomalies. They are simply... preparing meal after meal for their "god"!
And "Omnisiah," which Shen Ge previously thought was just some kind of abstract idea or nihilistic belief, turned out to be a real, terrifying entity that needed to be "fed"!
As Shen Ge approached the semi-finished "nutrient solution" that was constantly churning and synthesizing in the core area of ​​the "furnace" and emitting a dark light, a familiar "nauseating" stench rushed into his nostrils. This smell was very similar to the smell he had once smelled inside those fusion-type monsters in the fragment world.

If the sixth and seventh tier fusion-type monsters in those fragmented worlds are the "limit," then the ultimate form of the fusion-type monsters in this world is the so-called "Omnissiah"?
Shen Ge chose to return to "Ark No. 1" first. Only after passing through the Ark's thick alloy armor did the deadly stench lessen slightly.

He looked out the porthole at the enormous "furnace" that was still roaring and running, and the "nutrient solution" refined by the furnace was being transported downwards through the thickest pipe at its bottom.

"Could it be that 'Omnesia' is down here?" Shen Ge pondered for a moment and decided to pilot "Ark No. 1" down the esophagus.

As they went deeper, the surrounding walls were no longer rough rock or flesh, but transformed into a smooth, obsidian-like substance, engraved with sinister energy veins.

The further down you go, the denser the surrounding eerie black mist becomes, its eerie energy intensity even exceeding that of Shen Ge, who has already reached the eighth rank.

Finally, "Ark One" reached the end of the passage.

The true "spiel" of the Inverted Spire—the part that is deeply embedded in the core of this planet—was revealed before his eyes.

This is a vast, silent, spherical space. Above the dome of this space, countless complex and eerie energy veins spread, together forming a huge, slowly operating "heart".

The pipe extending down from the "furnace" ends at the center, where there seems to be something glowing in the center of the "mysterious heart."

“Fragments of a dream?” Shen Ge could sense the power of the fragments of a dream, but he was unsure of their exact location within the massive “heart of the monstrous tumor.”

Shen Ge hovered the "Ark No. 1" at the entrance of the platform and walked slowly alone toward the enormous "heart of the tumor".

The closer he got, the more he could feel that the eerie energy contained in this "mysterious tumor heart" was far more powerful than any he had encountered before.

Is this "mysterious tumor heart" the so-called "Omnisiah"?
Shen Ge couldn't help but feel puzzled. Judging from this, this thing didn't seem to have anything special about it, and even... it wasn't aggressive at all?
Shen Ge walked a little further, and after entering the hundred-meter range, a strange feeling entered his mind, as if it wanted to devour him.

It is neither an idea nor a belief.

It is a real, sleeping entity... a terrifying being suspected to be the "brain in a vat"!
All the “purification” prisoners in this spire, all the madness of the New Gods… were for one purpose.

— Keep it asleep and prepare the first "feast" it needs when it wakes up.

Just as Shen Ge was shocked by the scene before him that was beyond his comprehension, the final layer of encryption in the "memory fragments" analyzed by the system in his mind, the top-secret file from the pioneers, the "Wedge" project, was automatically decrypted by the scene before him.

A scene that had been sealed away for thousands of years appeared before his eyes.

The forerunners built this spire with the fundamental purpose of stabilizing a reality dimension that was about to collapse due to the unconscious approach of "Omnisiah" and its very existence.
This inverted spire, like a giant "nail" spanning two worlds, forcibly anchors this already shattered wasteland world to that cold, mechanical dimension, preventing the final collision and annihilation.

"So that's how it is..." Shen Ge finally understood.

However, in the instant he understood everything, he made a mistake.

His arrival, along with the overwhelmingly powerful and "delicious" aura of "Sequence 1" emanating from him, instantly shattered the balance that had been maintained here for thousands of years!

The light from the dream fragments within the "Heart of the Mysterious Tumor" became extremely unstable, and the pipe that delivered the "nutrient solution" began to frantically inject concentrated mystical energy into it at an unprecedented speed!
The enormous, sleeping mechanical brain began to throb slightly, as if it were about to "awaken." This "Omnisiah" was about to wake up!

Now Shen Ge only has two choices: one is to defeat this so-called "Omnisiah" and devour it to repair the system and complete the ancestor's strange cells;
Secondly... first find and seize the dream fragments that maintain the "heart of the monster", completely block the possibility of "Omnissiah" awakening, and even destroy it with the help of the power of dreams!

Shen Ge no longer cared about the "truth" here; all he could do now was prevent the awakening of this "new god" whose power far surpassed his own, possibly even reaching the ninth or tenth rank! (End of Chapter)