Eternal Night.

Chapter 943 Attack
Wu Pifu's face darkened.

He had thought the world could last at least another ten years, right? He had indeed sensed that timeframe from the emotions of those fifth-generation individuals.

But the situation was far worse than he had anticipated. Unexpectedly, at least one main control system suddenly crashed the next day. Although it was still unclear which area's main control system had crashed, judging from the fact that he was able to increase his physical control to 60% within just a few seconds from such a distance, the death toll was probably in the tens of millions...

Do not!
Wu Pifu immediately rejected this number because he had confirmed that as the fish and butterflies devoured the essence of the surrounding souls and relaxed their pressure on his essence, his control over his body did not increase linearly, but rather at a slower and slower rate, and it would never reach 100%... In this respect, it is actually the same as the speed of light in the material world. It is almost impossible to push matter to the speed of light purely through technology.

"So... at least hundreds of millions of people died?" Wu Pifu muttered.

The logistics personnel were still communicating with the rear command headquarters, which was in complete chaos. There were all sorts of noises, shouts, screams, panic, and even a few cries. No one answered the logistics personnel's questions. It was a scene resembling an apocalyptic scenario.

The five logistics personnel were also in a panic, their faces blank. A1 kept yelling something into the communicator, A2 and A3 were arguing, A4 was silent, and A5 was sobbing quietly.

Wu Pifu breathed a sigh of relief and went to the communicator. He said, "Cover your ears."

The group was bewildered, but they immediately covered their ears as instructed.

Wu Pifu took a breath and then emitted a hissing sound similar to ultrasound. In an instant, everyone in the vehicle felt dizzy, nauseous, and wanted to vomit, but they could still bear it by covering their ears. On the other end of the communicator, in the command center's communication audio, the sound was diffused and diluted, turning into a resonance that could only be vaguely heard by the ears.

As the sound spread, the panicked and hysterical people gradually calmed down. Although their bodies were still trembling slightly, they did become calmer mentally.

"...Sir, we've calmed down."

A few seconds later, Mazda's voice came from the other side.

"Tell me what's going on."

Wu Pifu had become accustomed to being spoken to in this tone and language.

Having served as one of the three pillars of humanity for so long, respect goes without saying. The key is taking responsibility and seeking his help in times of danger. This has almost become his instinct. When a dramatic change occurred, with the familiar panic of the masses and the familiar sense of being entrusted with a mission in a time of crisis, Wu Pifu naturally began to shoulder the responsibilities required for his position.

On the other hand, although Mazda and the other fifth generation were high-ranking officials of the multidimensional universe unified government, when faced with a Primal Being, they transferred this responsibility and power without any burden, both legally and psychologically, and none of them felt there was any problem.

"...The main control system of the First Region has collapsed. The First Region has begun a nightmare evolution. According to our preliminary estimates, at least 400 million people will perish in the first wave of the nightmare evolution." Mazda said in a complex tone of calm and panic.

Wu Pifu's mouth dropped open. "How many people? Four hundred million? What the hell! What kind of work are you doing? Huh? Didn't you say you had ten years to maintain this?! Is this what you call ten years?"

Mazda said desperately, "Sir, we..."

At this moment, another aged voice took the communicator and said, "Sir, this is indeed our problem, but the key now is not to assign blame, which can be done later. We need to immediately restart the main control system of Zone 1. The collapse of the world was not caused by the inability to handle the judgments like Taiyi did. This is the biggest difference between us. The world was caused by someone inputting high-sequence judgment tasks from within, and some of these judgment tasks had logical paradoxes. Restarting the world now can restore most of the judgment functions of Zone 1!"

Wu Pifu immediately understood the subtext of the aged voice.

"Is there a traitor within the Fifth Generation? Is it trying to destroy the entire civilization? Or has it already been corrupted?" Wu Pifu immediately asked.

The aged voice paused for a moment before saying, "This can be addressed later..."

"No, tell me now."

After saying this, Wu Pifu told the five-person logistics team, "Change direction immediately. We're heading to the location of the main control system in Zone 1."

The five logistics personnel immediately saluted and began using their authority to adjust the vehicle's flight direction and increase its speed to the maximum.

A large group of people at the command center immediately breathed a sigh of relief. They also felt it was only natural. If Wu Pifu was indeed a Primal Being, then as one of the builders of the Ark, he should have such a sense of responsibility. So the old voice continued, "They are the outliers among our fifth generation, or rather, the very few, accounting for less than one-tenth of our fifth generation..." Next, the old voice began to talk about the ideological differences among the fifth generation.

"Because you have not yet appeared, we are actually facing a desperate situation."

"Although the thirteen main control systems can make a judgment on non-magicification, this judgment is an extraordinary load on the thirteen main control systems and cannot be sustained. We estimate that the thirteen main control systems will completely collapse in ten years at most, and the collapse of the thirteenth main control system, Taiyi, is a sign of this. Therefore, we must find a way to survive."

"Under these circumstances, our collective conclusion as the fifth generation is to restart the extraordinary. You should know that we have inherited tens of millions of extraordinary paths from the multidimensional universe, among which there are more than a dozen extraordinary paths that can lead directly to the ultimate. As long as we are given a little opportunity for extraordinary growth, we may not be unable to recreate the glory of the multidimensional universe. At the same time, you should also know that we, the fifth generation, are different from ordinary people..."

Wu Pifu immediately replied, "No, I don't know. Give me a simple and detailed explanation."

There was a long silence on the other end of the communicator before the aged voice said, "I can understand. After all, you are still recovering, and the process is very long... The reason why we fifth generation are different from the new generation is the same as the reason why you are different from us... Your spiritual essence is far greater than that of a normal ordinary being, right? And in addition to your spiritual essence, the accumulation of negative factors judged by the main control system is also far greater than that of an ordinary being, right?"

Wu Pifu exclaimed in shock, "You, no, how did you know? The main control system shouldn't be able to detect this, right? How could you know?"

The fifth generation members on the other end of the communicator found it amusing, but laughing in front of their respected Primordial Being was going too far, so they all suppressed their laughter. Only the elder, their leader, said seriously, "Because we are all like that, only far smaller than you in both quantity and quality. No, we're not even on the same level..."

Next, the old man described the situation inside the ark to Wu Pifu in detail.

After the Ark was built in the multidimensional universe, the elites of the entire multidimensional universe boarded the Ark. The core condition for entering the Ark was to abandon the physical body and mental consciousness, and only the spiritual essence of life could be contained within it, in order to save resources and internal space of the Ark to the greatest extent.

"...The lifespan of the physical body is the shortest. This is true for the physical bodies of any race. Even elemental life forms and energy life forms have a lifespan of at most a few hundred million to a few billion years. This is the inevitability of entropy accumulation in the multidimensional universe, and even in the underlying structure of almost all universes."

"...The lifespan of the mind is much longer than that of the physical body, but the mind also accumulates negative influences rapidly and in large quantities. Therefore, the maximum lifespan of the mind is only a few hundred billion to a few trillion years. This is the limit of lifespan."

"...Only the life essence spiritual particle has a significantly increased lifespan and negative accumulation. According to the judgment of the thirteen main control systems, the limit of life essence spiritual particle is 311 billion billion years. In the words of some extraordinary races in the multidimensional universe, it is also an immeasurable eon, and at the same time, the final lifespan of our multidimensional universe."

After explaining all this, the old man said, "Of course, this accumulation of spiritual essence carries a huge tendency towards dreamlike blurring, that is, all the negative aspects are like dreams. No matter how terrible the nightmare is, it will gradually fade away after waking up. So this is why spiritual essence can live for so long. According to our calculations, the amount of negative accumulation is only equivalent to one percent of the level when there is mental consciousness, but this is still very terrifying. This is the case for us, the fifth generation, and for you as well. However, your accumulation is about four to five immeasurable eons, which is far beyond our understanding."

"These accumulations are both a huge burden on us and a tremendous source of extraordinary resources. Once we awaken to transcendence, we will immediately gain a massive amount of resources from them. However, a core problem with the re-emergence of transcendence is that... now that we have physical bodies and consciousness, if we were to unleash the negative energy accumulated over hundreds of billions, or even trillions of years, within our spiritual particles, the possibility of us losing control would exceed 99.99%..."

Wu Pifu fell silent. Of course he knew the terror of negativity, a terror no less than that of pollution, which he himself had suffered greatly from.

"Have you done similar experiments?" Wu Pifu asked.

The old man was silent for a moment before saying, "Yes, we did it. Some of us who went to our deaths were the first to do the experiment. They gained extremely terrifying supernatural powers, but within a few seconds they either annihilated themselves or turned into unimaginable horrors and wandered into the depths of nightmares... This is also the reason for the supernatural reproduction experiment. We need to find a safe way to guide the negative energy in our bodies."

"...And what about that minority group? And what are they relying on?" Wu Pifu asked.

"They possess a fragment of the Primal Being's obsession, and they believe that obsession is the Primal Being itself. They attempt to resurrect that Primal Being, but such fragments of obsession often..."

Just then, the sound grew more and more distant and fainter. Wu Pifu felt that the people and things around him were moving away from him, and he seemed to be pulled into an infinitely stretched, narrow space.

Wu Pifu paused for a moment, then, without panicking, he reached out and grasped the Greatsword of Suicide. He then extended his hand towards a faintly visible figure at the top of the stretched space.

"I was originally..."

The next instant, all the anomalies vanished.

(End of this chapter)