Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

The eerie green liquid boiled violently inside the glass jar, the sound of bubbles bursting echoing in the deathly silent server room like the whispers of demons. The bright red LCD countdown relentlessly ticked: 2 minutes 57 seconds, 2 minutes 56 seconds… Each change in the numbers represented 50,000 vibrant lives being pushed into the abyss by an invisible hand.

Zhao Tiezhu stared intently at the enormous device emitting an eerie light, wiping the cold sweat dripping down his forehead, instinctively holding his breath. Although he was a rough man, he could tell that this thing exuded an extremely abnormal and sinister aura.

"Captain Lu, what exactly is this thing?" Zhao Tiezhu swallowed, his voice a little dry. "This thing looks like a biological nuclear bomb from a sci-fi movie, but it also looks like an altar used by Taoist priest Lam Ching-ying for rituals? Have these charlatans gone astray in their technological development?"

Lu Jingyan did not reply. He strode forward, clearing a path through the pile of haphazardly lying corpses of the golden-masked assassins, and stood directly in front of the "Spiritual Energy Rage Bomb".

Those eyes hidden behind the gold-rimmed glasses were like two sharp scalpels, quickly dissecting the complex device before them.

The bomb's main body was a modern titanium alloy pressure chamber, densely covered with electronic fuses and integrated circuit boards. But this was merely the surface; the truly lethal element lay in the ancient runes, drawn with some kind of dark red cinnabar, wrapped around the circuit boards and high-voltage lines. These runes, like malignant tumors parasitizing modern technology, emitted waves of energy that distorted the surrounding magnetic field with each tick of the countdown.

"Xiaoxiao, turn on the wide-angle high-definition camera on the blast helmet and switch the signal directly to the Municipal Bureau's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team and the Provincial Department's Chemical Defense Expert Group!" Lu Jingyan gave the order in a very fast voice, while nimbly taking off the heavy stab-proof vest he was wearing and tossing it aside.

"Captain Lu! Why are you taking off your protective suit?!" Zhao Tiezhu exclaimed, grabbing his arm.

"Wearing that thing will affect your hand speed and micro-management." Lu Jingyan was left in only a thin white shirt. He rolled up the cuffs neatly above his elbows and said in a calm tone that was infuriatingly nonchalant, "Besides, if this bio-bomb really explodes, it's filled with high concentrations of hallucinogenic gas and the berserk formations of the cultivation world. Don't even mention wearing a stab-proof vest. Even if you wore a full set of Iron Man armor today, you'd turn into a madman tearing his own kind apart in ten seconds."

His words were extremely realistic, completely extinguishing Zhao Tiezhu's enthusiasm.

"Team Leader Lu, the footage has been transmitted synchronously!" Su Xiaoxiao's tense voice came through the earpiece.

Almost simultaneously, the voice of a bomb disposal expert from the municipal bureau urgently switched into the communication channel, filled with undisguised shock and trembling: "Captain Lu! I see it! My God, what kind of bizarre structural diagram is this? A modern high-explosive fuse is actually connected in series at the core of the Bagua Spirit Gathering Array? They used the circuit board as a conduit for guiding spirits? This simply doesn't make sense in physics and electronic engineering!"

"Expert, now is not the time to discuss academic papers." Lu Jingyan squatted down and pulled out a pair of extremely thin ceramic wire cutters and a pair of insulated tweezers from the tactical pouch on his outside thigh. "Just tell me the disassembly plan."

"Captain Lu, it's no use! We can't do it!" The bomb disposal expert's voice was filled with a deep sense of helplessness. "Those scribbles drawn with cinnabar have created a small, localized magnetic field! Our X-ray scanners are only sending large areas of static and noise; we can't even build a 3D model of the bomb's internal structure! We can't even tell which wire is the main power line and which is the booby trap decoy! If we cut the wrong wire, the entire formation will detonate instantly!"

Time ticked by, and the countdown on the LCD screen had reached 1 minute and 45 seconds.

The heavy metal music overhead continued its frenzied dance, the floor trembled slightly, and the screams of the fans sounded like funeral music for those about to die.

"Since scientific instruments can't see through it, let's use the human brain to calculate it."

Lu Jingyan took a deep breath, his eyes narrowing sharply at that moment, like two cold stars.

He had no intention of backing down at all and issued the command directly in his mind.

[Ding! Passive skill "Absolute Rationality" Deep Calculation Mode is now fully activated!]

With a crisp notification from the system, the world before Lu Jingyan's eyes instantly underwent a dramatic transformation. The surrounding noise, Zhao Tiezhu's heavy breathing, and even the oppressive feeling brought by the suffocating countdown were all completely swept away in an instant.

On his retina, the originally chaotic "technological cultivation composite bomb" has now transformed into countless three-dimensional lines interwoven with blue electric current and cyan true energy.

He could not only clearly see the flow of current at the microampere level between electronic components, but also terrifyingly deconstructed those mysterious "immortal cultivation array patterns" in the eyes of ordinary people into extremely complex mathematical equations and energy conduction models!

What kind of bullshit Heavenly Temple is this? What kind of unpredictable formations are these? As long as energy is circulating, it must follow some underlying logic. And as long as there is logic, he can use absolute reason to dismantle it into a pile of scrap metal!

"Click".

A very slight, crisp sound. Without hesitation, Lu Jingyan's ceramic scissors severed the outermost yellow wire.

"Captain Lu, what are you doing! We haven't even confirmed if that's..." The bomb disposal expert screamed in terror through the headset.

"Shut up. That's the spiritual energy return line of the outer interference array. Cut it, and your scanner will regain 30% of its vision." Lu Jingyan's voice was as cold as ice, and his hands moved so fast that they left a blur.

Immediately afterwards, he used tweezers to separate seven tangled composite wires in three seconds, each movement as precise as that of the world's most skilled neurosurgeon, moving between the blood vessels of the heart.

"Avoid the spiritual energy flow at the Kan position's core... Cut off the secondary circuit of the C4 detonator..."

He wasn't just defusing a bomb; he was using the scientific logic of materialism to wage a cross-dimensional battle against the hidden master of the Heavenly Temple. Zhao Tiezhu watched from the sidelines, barely daring to breathe. He saw only Lu's hands as steady as Mount Tai, the collar of his white shirt slightly damp with sweat, but his cold profile showed not a trace of fear in the face of death.

The time jumped to 00:59.

Just as Lu Jingyan was about to peel off the bomb's core detonation device.

"Beep—beep—beep—!"

The previously regular countdown sound suddenly became extremely sharp and rapid without warning! The eerie green liquid inside the glass jar seemed to have been completely boiled, and began to vaporize wildly, turning into a ghastly green toxic mist that poured into the main ventilation vent through the pressure relief valve!

"What's going on?!" Zhao Tiezhu exclaimed in surprise.

"Team Leader Lu! Damn it! The formation has undergone an adaptive trajectory change! That madman implanted a tamper-proof logic deadlock in the core of the bomb!" the bomb disposal expert shouted desperately into the communication channel.

Lu Jingyan's hands suddenly stopped in mid-air.

The bomb's core outer shell had broken off, revealing the innermost, devastating miniature detonator.

On the intricate integrated circuit board and the array core emitting a blinding light, only two wires remained.

One of them was a deep, bright red, like fresh blood.

One is an abyss-like blue.

Strangely, both wires were completely enveloped by the light of the cultivation array. They looked exactly the same, both physically and energetically, and were indistinguishable!

"Expert, which one is the main power supply?" Lu Jingyan stared intently at the two wires, his brows finally furrowing deeply, his voice carrying an unprecedented sense of pressure.

There was a deathly silence on the communication channel, broken only by heavy breathing.

Five seconds later, the bomb disposal expert's voice, now trembling with utter despair, echoed hoarsely through the earpiece:

"I don't know! I really don't know! The triggering mechanism of modern circuits and the backlash logic of cultivation formations have formed a perfect vicious cycle here! Cutting just one wire could instantly trigger the self-destruct program of the formation!"

"Captain Lu! Only the red and blue wires are left! We can't determine which one is the main power source! We can only gamble!"