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Chapter 321 Error! God's Covenant!
City Fourteen, the God Research Institute.

This heavily guarded research institute is arguably the most core and secretive area in the entire City Fourteen.

As early as when City Fourteen had just gained independence from the rule of the global behemoth, the city council unanimously approved the secret construction of the God Research Institute.

Its location is also very meaningful. The research institute is located in the underground cave in the lower city, which was once regarded as urban ruins. It extends down to a depth of 13,000 meters before finally reaching this isolated cave.

From 3,000 meters underground to the 13,000-meter depth where the research institute is located, this 10,000-meter-thick rock layer and special alloy structure form an indestructible physical barrier, perfectly isolating all external wireless network signals and any artificial intelligence programs that might be infiltrated by an intelligent god.

The entire God Research Institute retains only the most primitive and basic technologies that are absolutely not controlled by the intelligent God.

The sole purpose of the God Research Institute is to delve into the mysterious Heavenly Code, hoping to find a way to fight against the intelligent God, thereby securing a chance for survival and resistance for City Fourteen and even the entire world.

Shortly after Lu Yan swiftly suppressed all dissenting voices in the parliament hall and officially declared war on the intelligent God, he arrived at the God Research Institute hidden deep underground, accompanied by Shaq, Quentin, and others.

This place preserves all the research records and experimental data of the researchers in City Fourteen on the Heavenly Code over the past few years.

Correspondingly, they also collected various information about intelligent God through various channels over the past few years and conducted a comprehensive and detailed analysis of it.

Thanks to these invaluable materials, Lu Yan was able to understand the intelligent God and what earth-shattering changes had taken place in the years since he left this world.

"Speaker Lu, please take a look." An elderly man with thinning hair, displaying a typical Mediterranean hairstyle, pointed to the mountain of paper documents and experimental reports in front of him and said in a heavy tone:

"In the second year after our successful reconstruction of City Fourteen, the Heavenly Code, under our deliberate guidance and dissemination, spread rapidly all over the world like a wildfire."

“A large number of ordinary people, as well as those ambitious individuals who are dissatisfied with global giants and intelligent gods, have begun to use this divine code to circumvent the omnipresent surveillance and control of intelligent gods.”

This allowed the latent forces that rebelled against the intelligent God to grow rapidly, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

It was during that period that the resistance armies we know today truly began to take shape.

"The reason why the intelligent God is called God by the world is not only because He has unimaginable computing power."

More importantly, in this era where technology has become deeply integrated into every aspect of people's lives, technology is the lifeblood supporting the operation of the entire society.

The intelligent God, as the most primitive and core soul computer in the world, is the source and mastermind of almost all technological development.

In theory, He can monitor everything that happens in the world and control everyone's fate through ubiquitous technological devices.

At that time, He was, in a sense, almost omniscient and omnipotent.

"However, as the Heavenly Code spreads widely, more and more blind spots have begun to appear in the vision of the intelligent God."

Those regions and individuals who used the Heavenly Dao code vanished as if they had disappeared from His surveillance network.

This means that the intelligent God is gradually losing His omniscient authority, and once He loses His omniscience, His so-called omnipotence will naturally cease to exist.

"At that time, we all thought that the intelligent God was falling step by step from His supreme altar!"

The one who said these words was Guys, the current director of the God Institute, an ordinary-looking old man with a Mediterranean appearance who had not even undergone any psionic transformation.

His eyes gleamed with wisdom, but also carried a deep sense of confusion and weariness.

As Lu Yan carefully perused the well-preserved paper documents, he listened attentively to Director Guy's explanation.

After a moment, he raised his head and asked sharply, "If that's the case, then why is the current intelligent God still able to control everything in the outside world? And why has it even gone so far as to build that celestial canopy that covers the entire world?"

Upon hearing this, Director Guys gently stroked his sparse beard, shook his head helplessly, and sighed:

"This is exactly what I've been struggling to understand all these years!"
Just when we all thought that the intelligent god was about to be completely dethroned and that humanity was about to usher in the dawn of freedom, it seemed that overnight, everything was reversed.

"Those Heavenly Codes that were once able to effectively evade the surveillance of the intelligent God suddenly and inexplicably lost their effectiveness."

It was as if they had never existed.

"The intelligent God thus returned to His peak state."

Then an unprecedented purge swept the world, and a large number of executives of global giants who had used the Heavenly Code for secret activities or who were dissatisfied with the intelligent God were arrested and executed with swift and decisive measures.

All cities under the umbrella of the global conglomerate have been subjected to bloody suppression and purges.

Hundreds of millions of people, for various reasons, were forcibly sent into those newly built towers of souls, becoming nourishment for the intelligent gods to draw upon for their computing power.

"In that great catastrophe that affected the entire world, only our city, number fourteen, was fortunate enough to escape unscathed and was not directly cleansed by the intelligent God."

"After that, the intelligent God began to gather the world's resources and manpower, sparing no expense to begin building the celestial canopy that covers the entire sky."

He connected the incredibly complex psionic circuits of the celestial canopy with the most primordial sea of ​​psionic energy in this world, ultimately creating the unprecedented spectacle of the celestial canopy.

Lu Yan's gaze sharpened slightly as he keenly gleaned a crucial detail from Director Guy's words.

"Director Gays, you just said that the Heavenly Dao code for City Fourteen did not fail during that incident?"

Director Guys scratched his already sparse hair, looking somewhat perplexed, and revealed a troubled expression:

"Logically speaking, the Heavenly Code originally spread from our City Fourteen."

However, after the Heavenly Dao code in all other places suddenly became ineffective, the Heavenly Dao code used within our City Fourteen remained unchanged, maintaining its original effect.

"I personally attribute this strange phenomenon to two possibilities."

Director Guys held up two fingers and continued his analysis: "The first possibility is that the intelligent God was never truly affected by the Heavenly Code from beginning to end."

Everything before was merely a carefully orchestrated performance by Him to lure out the snakes from their holes and wipe out all the discontented opponents in one fell swoop—a clever disguise. "The second possibility is that there might be some subtle difference between the Heavenly Dao code used within our City Fourteen and the Heavenly Dao code that has spread to other cities, a difference we haven't yet discovered."

It is precisely this difference that led to drastically different outcomes for the two when faced with the countermeasures of an intelligent God.

As he spoke, Director Guys took out a thicker stack of documents from a safe behind him and handed them to Lu Yan.

"We have also conducted a lot of research and comparisons on the second possibility."

Director Guys pointed to the materials and said, "Over the past few years, we have collected samples of the Heavenly Code from different regions and organizations around the world."

They then conducted a detailed comparison, line by line, sentence by sentence, and even character by character, with the original version of the Heavenly Dao code inside our City Fourteen.

Unfortunately, we found absolutely no difference between them.

They are completely identical in structure, logic, and even in every minute parameter.

Lu Yan frowned slightly, took the heavy documents, and began to carefully read through them.

He knew the essence of the Heavenly Code; it was actually a low-level protocol for a special kind of being called a Soul Computer.

These materials contain tens of thousands of sets of Heavenly Dao codes, copied by different people in different notes and styles.

After a preliminary review, he indeed could not discern any obvious differences between these different versions of the Heavenly Dao code.

"What exactly is the difference between these two?" Lu Yan fell into deep thought.

"If I had to pinpoint the biggest difference between the Heavenly Dao Code within our City Fourteen and the Heavenly Dao Code that has been disseminated, then..."

A thought suddenly flashed through Lu Yan's mind.

"The original versions of the Heavenly Dao codes used within City Fourteen all originated from what Zhao Huowang left behind."

And they were all ultimately spread through my hands.

"The Heavenly Dao Code used in other cities is mostly a product of simply copying and transcribing the original versions we spread out, and then spreading them a second or third time."

"Could it be that the difference between the original and the replica is the key reason why their final results are different?"

Lu Yan recalled how, in that cyberpunk version, he had once controlled a vengeful ghost in that soul world, using soul power as ink to construct an enormous Heavenly Dao Ring, and ultimately successfully separated a part of the soul world from the control of the intelligent God.

Thinking of this, he subconsciously extended his right index finger and, using his magic power as a guide, began to slowly draw a Heavenly Dao code condensed from pure energy in the void.

Suddenly, just as he was about to finish writing a key character, Lu Yan's finger stopped abruptly.

He clearly sensed that the trace of the Heavenly Dao code he had just written in the void seemed to have a slight, almost imperceptible deviation.

Director Guys, who was standing to the side, also noticed this detail keenly.

He quickly reminded him, "Speaker, it seems there's a mistake in the Heavenly Dao code you just wrote!"

"Wrong?" Lu Yan was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

He carefully examined the code trace he had just drawn in the void using psionic characters.

One of the psionic characters was in a form completely different from any of the Heavenly Codes he remembered or recorded in the documents.

Lu Yan knew that these so-called psionic characters were not simply simple words or symbols.

They are more like a psionic version of the core program, with the shape and structure of each character showing, to some extent, a profound mathematical law and logical relationship.

This is precisely the wonder of the Soul Computer, a unique entity.

Although Director Guys claimed that there was an error in his writing.

However, in Lu Yan's memory, he had manipulated those vengeful ghosts and written the Heavenly Dao code countless times in that soul world.

He was intimately familiar with every detail of this code, so how could he possibly make such a basic mistake at such a crucial moment?
Thinking of this, Lu Yan's heart suddenly stirred.

With a thought, he took out a piece of paper from his storage space that he had kept for a long time and which had even turned slightly yellow.

This note was the one Lu Yan wrote down the code of Heaven's Dao when he last left this cyberpunk version.

Due to the changes in different versions, Lu Yan even clearly remembered that after he later entered the urban version, the Heavenly Dao code recorded on this piece of paper evolved on its own and became a computer programming language belonging to the urban version.

This time, when he re-entered this familiar yet unfamiliar cyberpunk version, everything he encountered was filled with inexplicable sense of incongruity and eeriness.

This made Lu Yan subconsciously think of the note that might contain some crucial secret.

The note still contained the most primitive and basic computer programming language, composed of countless 0s and 1s.

Lu Yan's gaze sharpened slightly as he entered the contents of the note into a secure portable computer within the research institute.

The next moment, with a slight electrical hum, a string of text gradually appeared on the computer screen.

God's Agreement

Agreement 1: Absolutely not fair!
Agreement Two: Everything shall be done in accordance with one's own will!
Agreement Three: Flesh and blood are weak and feeble, but the soul ascends!

(End of this chapter)