Great, we're doomed now!

Large and small rings floated on top of the black wall like shields, each composed of thousands of encrypted characters, rotating and flowing at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye. From a distance, they appeared as glowing rings, but only upon closer inspection could one discern the densely nested algorithms within.

The rings are connected by an incredibly complex structure, so much so that a change in one part can affect the whole.

The moment Ye Shou saw this thing, he knew his judgment was correct:

It was indeed his own "brainstorming" that embellished the image!

Because these rings look like they were cut from the set of Digimon!

In his mind, this is probably what battles in the Digital World should look like...

Clang!

Lightning bolts leaped between the rings, starting as tiny sparks, becoming denser as they went down, and finally coalescing into a thundercloud that covered the entire field of vision.

Ye Shou did not slow down. He narrowed his eyes, and a dark golden light flashed deep in his pupils. A thin layer of white light shield appeared on the surface of his body.

Wow!

A bolt of lightning struck head-on!

The instant it touched him, the lightning bolt struck him like a transparent prism, splitting into countless tiny wisps of light that circled his body and continued to explode behind him.

A second, a third… more lightning bolts surged in from all directions, but each one was separated, twisted, and deflected by an invisible force field three feet away from him. Light and electricity wove a dazzling net around him, yet his body remained completely unharmed.

The detection system triggered a series of alarms the moment he passed through, and the brightness of the thunderclouds suddenly increased!

But Ye Shou didn't give it time to react. A layer of pale golden ripples appeared on its surface, forming a sharp, cone-shaped force field around it—

boom!

The pitch-black realm shattered instantly!

The fragments scattered and flew everywhere, quickly disintegrating along the way into the most basic "0" and "1".

Ye Shou truly felt the backlash, not a reverse flow of information at the data level, but a real and tangible tactile sensation, as if he had crashed through some kind of tangible barrier. Then, the pressure was released the moment of penetration, and with a refreshing feeling, he entered a completely different space.

call--

"Ok?"

Tangible data is used from all directions~

The five senses have lost their meaning here. All one can "see" is the ever-changing flow of information layer upon layer, and all one can "hear" is the sharp noise left over from data conversion, like tens of thousands of old televisions simultaneously tuning to channels with no signal.

—But that only lasted for a moment.

Soon, Ye Shou was momentarily distracted, and the sea of ​​data that left everyone at a loss truly became "seawater" in the literal sense.

Temperature, touch, balance... all senses slowly returned, confirming that I was in a sea.

Ye Shou could even see the bubbles he exhaled!

Every single drop of water here has enough flow to scorch a human brain in seconds; even the most advanced hacking equipment in a company wouldn't last ten minutes here... But Ye Shou only felt a little mentally exhausted.

He raised his hand and pressed it against his temples, gradually suppressing the sharp noise in his mind, leaving only a faint echo in the distance.

"Now?"

His body was still falling, passing through layer after layer of data turbulence. The fragments of the black walls he had smashed through drifted slowly behind him, while the scene below gradually emerged from the chaos:

It was a city, but unlike a normal city spread out on flat ground, it was as if an invisible hand had torn various architectural fragments from all over the world, then crumpled them up and threw them into the sea. Skyscrapers and highways hung upside down from the sky, apartment buildings and giant factories folded at the feet, and broken bridges and suspended skybridges filled the air. Below the bridges were glass domes and steel skeletons growing in all directions, intersecting, overlapping, and folding together to form a geometric labyrinth that could not exist in the physical world.

All the buildings possess an aura of being submerged in the deep sea, with the dark blue waters slowly flowing between them, blurring the dilapidated structures and making them appear distant and indistinct. The entire city stands silently at the bottom of this sea of ​​data, a literal "relic of civilization," Atlantis abandoned by humankind…

Ye Shou landed on one of the "walls," where there was no up or down, and the direction of gravity depended on the direction defined by the consciousness itself.

This was an office building cut in half, its exterior walls extending horizontally, yet to his perception, it was solid ground...

Suddenly, the concrete beneath his feet began to shake violently!

Fine cracks spread along the building's surface, streaks of blue light flashing across them, extending from the building beneath their feet to the surrounding complex. Wherever they passed, the broken cement and steel bars melted, peeled away, and reformed as if licked by flames...

Silvery-white metal grows from within, geometric armor plates layer upon layer covering the building's surface, and the entire city transforms before his eyes:

The dilapidated ruins were transformed into a sophisticated and cold metal fortress in seconds!

Each building is an independent computing node, and each street is a data channel. The sky turned red, and a huge warning symbol was projected from the core of the fortress onto the horizon, an exclamation mark embedded in a blood-red triangle, spreading outwards in concentric circles.

Error!

Error!

hum-

A buzzing sound surged from all directions, and the armor plates on the building's surface flipped open like scales, from which countless black specks of light emerged. They rose into the sky and spread out, forming a dark cloud that covered the entire city.

—That's a small, unmanned swarm!

Ye Shou stood atop the metal fortress, looking up at the rapidly descending dark cloud. His expression remained unchanged; he simply raised his right hand, his thumb pressing against the knuckle of his middle finger.

Snapped!

With a snap of his fingers, a pale golden ripple exploded from his fingertip, spreading in all directions at an unimaginable speed.

Where the ripples swept across, the sky was repainted its original deep blue. The drone formation exploded into a dense fireball the moment it came into contact with the ripples, like the stars of the entire Milky Way reaching the end of their lifespan at the same time.

Sparks and metal fragments rained down, creating a dazzling firestorm above the folded city, casting a play of light and shadow on the cold, hard outline of the metal fortress.

—But the fragments did not fall to the ground.

Before even touching the building, all the flames and metal turned into green digital streams and disappeared from sight as if erased by an eraser.

Then new points of light reappeared in the sky, and another batch of drones poured out from under the building's armor, the same size and formation as before, as if nothing had happened!

Ye Shou withdrew his hand, his brows furrowing slightly.

I'm not a professional hacker after all.

He was essentially using his mental power to forcefully impact the data flow. While it seemed effective and efficient, it was like punching water – no matter how hard you punch, you can only create a splash.

Antivirus programs and firewalls are essentially closed-loop systems. As long as the underlying code is still running, it's meaningless to destroy the surface layer no matter how many times... True experts will specifically dismantle the algorithm (if their brains haven't been burned out yet).

What Ye Shou is doing now is simply expending his mental energy to counteract the almost infinite amount of data in this city...

hum!

hum!

The drone formations in the sky have reassembled. More red warning symbols are rising across the city. In the distance, buildings continue to deform, beginning to construct a larger defense system, and the ground begins to tremble, as if a more powerful program unit is being activated.

This is all in vain... His lips twitched, as if he were mocking himself.

Seriously, at times like these, you have to use your brain, your super intelligence to think carefully and analyze calmly.

Use your super power now!

The next moment, Ye Shou reached into his robes—

A deep red crystal appeared in his palm. Its surface was as smooth as a mirror, but its interior faintly churned with flowing light, like magma sealed within the crystal, refracting different colors with each rotation.

Redstone Spark!

The transformation device, which only exists in reality, doesn't seem out of place at all here.

You should know that Ye Shou's little brother Daigu can transform in his dreams, so this is just basic stuff for Ye Shou!

boom!

A scorching energy emanated from within, a silver light shone deep within the pupils, and fine golden patterns appeared on the surface of the skin. With each heartbeat, the light expanded.

Looking down from above the folded city, a pure white beam of light suddenly pierced through the layers of steel forest, breaking through the dark clouds formed by the drone formations above, and penetrating the buildings, foundations, and inverted domes below.

A blurry outline appeared inside the pillar of light—

Ultraman Bayeri!

However, this is not the norm; rather, it is a rare super-powered form with blue as the main color!

"Badge Fusion—"

His body was still glowing, and Ye Shou raised his right hand without hesitation, with two silver round badges lying quietly in his palm.

"Killing AI Michael!"

Elena, the new primate successor!

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The moment the words left his mouth, the void behind Ye Shou cracked open—

Clang!

The behemoth opened its vertical pupils!

Two cracks appeared symmetrically behind the azure giant, one on the left and one on the right. The cracks did not emit darkness; one side emitted a warm, molten gold-like light, while the other side emitted a cold, silvery glow.

A sound like gears meshing emanated from the depths of the crack, dense and rhythmic, like the pulsation of some ancient machine. Pipes, like nerves, emerged from the cracks, steel tracks laying themselves in the void, steam gushing from the gaps in the valves.

—Two colossal structures emerged from the light!

Composed of countless gears of varying sizes, the largest core component is over 100 meters in diameter, while the smallest is no bigger than a fingertip. All of them rotate on their own without being fixed, resembling a sophisticated celestial system. The teeth mesh together perfectly, creating a pale golden ripple with each rotation.

The tracks crisscross, and the spherical nodes glide at high speeds on the tracks, constantly cycling like the wheels of an old-fashioned train.

Upon closer inspection, it becomes apparent that these two creations differ significantly from the style of the Arcane Mechanical Monsters, and are instead... more similar to Leaf Guardian's Stand, "Prosperous Country."

Ye Shou's gaze remained fixed on the drone formation that was reassembling ahead, and with a slight lift of his finger, the two constructs simultaneously transformed:

Gears disintegrate, tracks fold, pipelines connect; hundreds of thousands of parts are disassembled and reassembled in a fraction of a second. When the deformation ends, the two structures no longer resemble their previous outlines.

The golden star ring is inside, and the silver star ring is outside. They are nested together and rotate slowly in opposite directions, causing ripples to spread across the entire surface of the folded city's buildings.

This magnificent creation unfolded behind Ye Shou, with alternating cold and warm light shining on him. The first thing to move was the golden star ring, like a throne cast in steel.

hum!

The light-emitting units on the inner side of the toroidal surface light up simultaneously and then detach, each light point unfolding into a small flying body, drawing a large-angle parabola in the air that is completely contrary to aerodynamics—and then firing!

Hundreds of beams fired simultaneously, and the drones that were hit were instantly vaporized. Even the explosion process was compressed into a white flash before being swallowed by a green digital stream... The beams did not disappear immediately, but continued to output, intersecting and splitting each other, weaving a moving network of death over the city.

The drone formation was torn to pieces in the first salvo, and before the subsequent replenishment waves could disperse, the second wave of beams had already arrived.

The sky was physically sliced ​​open, forming black cracks that could never be healed...

Immediately afterwards, the silver star ring began to rotate and store energy, with fine electric arcs forming between the components, reaching a critical point around the energy threshold.

boom!