My future is invincible?

Chapter 286 Loss of Material
K and L met.

This is the first time in three hundred and thirty-one years that they have reunited.

Not all reunions after a long separation are cause for celebration, because they may represent a life-or-death struggle.

The battle erupted the moment they met.

As those with authority, their battles were remarkably straightforward and unpretentious.

Since both are low-level leaders in the riot police, and K has not committed any substantial act of betrayal and has not been confirmed by the central authority, his authority is the same as L's. Regardless of who eliminates whom, both will be reborn at the node. And the rebirth of the thought entity will directly reveal a lot of information to the central AI.

The battle was decided in an instant.

L was instantly burned to ashes.

The reason why K will win is also very simple.

Compared to the rigid and inflexible L, who only knew how to fanatically recite company rules, K showed a slight increase in dynamism during his interactions with psionic cultivators like Lan Yi. This was something L, the corporate dog, could never obtain—an unpredictable mode of action and the ability to utilize permissions.

Hope and possibility are contagious.

Unfortunately, psychic cultivators are not perpetual motion machines, especially in terms of hope and possibility.

In a cold and gloomy environment, even enthusiasm and hope will be worn away.

When L was burned to ashes.

For a moment, K, who had never thought about what the sycophant who was his boss's lackey was thinking, perhaps knowing that this meeting would be their last, looked at his other self in this world and, for the first time ever, wondered what his L was thinking.

the answer is……

He couldn't figure it out.

K stared at the pile of ashes, and for no apparent reason, for the first time since the 40K era, he inexplicably laughed. If Old Demon Blue were here, he would be astonished to find that K, whose thought process should have been simple, had become complex at this moment.

K, who was still unaware of what was happening to him, was interrupted after only a couple of strange, dry laughs.

From a spatiotemporal perspective.

The virtual layer behind him, where the battle between light and darkness was taking place, had already restarted without his knowledge. Meanwhile, the poor patrolling AI Ark 666 had been harassed and humiliated by three psionic cultivators in disguise, and many parts of his body had been cut off. His friend J was trying to contact him.

It's not K that went in.

Instead, Lan Yi and the others headed to the relay station to prepare for their journey to the next virtual layer.

In that virtual layer, they had been plotting for a long time, targeting a reclusive Holy Spirit, who they could then block and seize his authority and kill.

"...That Holy Spirit, his experience was very inspiring."

"He was among the first employees at Lumon Company to undergo dissociative identity disorder surgery. In response to the company's unreasonable practices, his separated personalities actually cooperated with each other, exposing the company's inhumane practices at the time and promoting the company's reform."

"And that's why he became the only person to rise from the bottom of the company all the way to the top."

The relay station is a bus stop that looks like a dreamy fairy tale.

The platform is surrounded by boundless grassland.

Under the soft, warm sunlight, the wind ripples with a beautiful melody, creating a delightful rhythm on the waves of grass. Here, there seems to be a rich, blissful aroma, a blend of milk and honey, but it's never cloying. Perhaps compared to the cold reality and the frenzied virtual world, this relay station is the real paradise.

"What level of authority does he have?" Lin Cheng asked curiously.

"The Holy Spirit's authority extends to both the real and virtual worlds, making it extremely powerful for Night Wanderers," explained Supervisor Z. The Holy Spirit can not only virtually ban accounts, but also physically eliminate them offline—that is, print physical evidence in the real world and physically delete the account via the network cable.

The riot police can only issue virtual bans.

Those who crossed the line, such as those who went out at night, nodded in agreement.

They are most afraid of the Holy Spirit, who can truly see you offline. Anyone would be afraid of that. It's like in the Internet age, there's someone who can appear behind every troll at will through the internet. With such a person, the strange creatures on the Internet would probably all become more cautious in their speech.

Based on the information provided by K and others, Jian Ziyue further analyzed the Holy Spirit's authority, as well as its approximate energy level and focus.

Energy levels cannot be observed in megastructures.

It depends on the permissions.

To be honest, if you only have energy level but no overwhelming power, you're still quite vulnerable to being manipulated by authority. Spiritual cultivators like Lan Yi all possess the Daoist aura of [Silver Illusion], meaning they can use their authority to offset the advantages of a thought entity, while also boosting their own power, making the thought entities in this world appear relatively weak.

Without proper authorization, even a sixth-level spiritual cultivator entering the megastructure world would have to keep a low profile and behave themselves as an unregistered individual.

Otherwise, you'll be taught a lesson by all sorts of powerful figures in no time.

Now Jian Ziyue began to analyze the target's permissions.

Authority and power, celestial level.

This is actually nothing. In the virtual layer, if everyone goes all out, the forces they can disturb are at least celestial in scale. Something like Ark 666 is like a cosmic behemoth coming to devour you.

Lan Yi can transform into a giant silver figure, holding Terra in one hand and then smashing all sorts of monsters and demons with a single punch!
The focus is on permissions and energy manipulation.

The basic method used by transgressors to deal with NPCs is to shut down their energy. This Holy Spirit can go even further; it can target a specific type of energy, such as electricity, and instantly revert an information-age world back to the steam age. This is what the Holy Spirit enjoys most.

Besides.

Things like the Dharma-ending Age, the collapse of the demonic network, and the extinction of gods are also things that this Holy Spirit likes to play with.

Because of this characteristic.

In addition, it makes no attempt to conceal its existence; within the virtual layer, it also has a well-known name: Apocalypse.

"Why is it so keen on destroying and reverting a virtual layer?" Jian Ziyue found it rather strange.

At first, he thought Apocalypse was a world-destroying madman like the Blue Demon, but after learning a little more, he realized that it wasn't interested in destruction, but rather in regression. It deliberately cuts off certain energy sources and then observes them, a practice it has reportedly been doing for over six thousand years.

“Nobody knows why.” J shrugged.

“And nobody stopped me,” Ye You laughed.

Those who overstep boundaries may rack their brains to cause trouble, but they are no match for the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

"It's the boss, it calls the shots." A looked out over the station, where trains frequently passed by.

These trains are like pack animals in a virtual layer.

The ability to transport materials from the central node to replenish the material losses in each virtual layer is undoubtedly a super technology from the golden age of megastructure worlds.

This caught Lan Yi's attention.

What's going on with the loss of material in the virtual layer?

(End of this chapter)