Collapse, survive

Compared to the abstract "truth", the ethereal "heaven", and the inherently evil "eating", it uses the seemingly tangible yet distant lightning, whose contact with individuals is often a once-in-a-lifetime event, as its object, with "roar" as reality and lightning as appearance, to develop the great power of the imagined godhood.

The method for condensing it has been mastered by Fang Jie!

In the galaxy, the pinnacle of this phenomenon is 'Weiling', because Weiling shattered everything and won 'fame'.

"Lightning, I have returned—Evil Radiance, open your eyes!"

The cool logo of the "Honkai Star Railway" appeared behind him, and the dazzling light gathered into an eye that looked down on the world. The constantly sizzling light made the Star Core Spirit forget to breathe.

He called it—the Evil Radiance Free Demon!

The Black Tower doll in the office ignored the two children and instead spun around and danced cutely. This was Fang Jie's current great power; she had invaded the doll's operating system and activated some modules, which even her iron will could not stop.

Xing was incredibly envious, her eyes filled with hopeful admiration for the younger newcomers.

"Okay, great!"

However, the cost was enormous; Fang Jie collapsed again.

"Ah ah ah ah ah……"

He was still screaming, though there was an element of acting involved.

This time it wasn't [Pioneer] who did the dirty work, it was Black Tower. It occupied the enormous computing power within the 'Glasses' Security Protocol, but everything outside of that was Black Tower.

Connecting to her is much more effective than any pseudo-god mode.

—The classic dual personality, got it!

"Don't try to mess with me, kid. You're not the Masked Fool. My space station doesn't welcome guys like that. And don't think you can do whatever you want just because you can clumsily imitate a corner of my genius's way of thinking. Although you can indeed do whatever you want if you can do that, you can't do it in front of me, the genius."

The Black Tower Doll stopped dancing. She admired Fang Jie's courage and wisdom, his extraordinary ambition. What was imitating the Star God's thinking compared to imitating the thinking of this genius...

Even if it's just a little bit, Black Tower thinks he's alright and can be considered a human being.

And, the Black Tower doll seemed to hesitate for a moment before grabbing Fang Jie and placing the Black Tower doll that had been dancing and acting cute in place, and making him dance back.

To be honest, that somewhat...damaged her image.

But Black Tower still appreciated the brat who was able to take a part of the control over her 'first mirror,' treating him as a person and refusing to let him continue to boldly insert himself into her precious body full of aesthetic parts.

Refers to a doll.

"And you, get out of here too. Stop causing trouble. Estella should have a job for you."

She turned to look at Xing again, her expression one of disgust.

"I want to test a simulated universe!"

Xing was perfectly justified.

Black Tower said irritably, "No, wait until I finish my inspection."

In reality, she was setting up a scheme. Of course, she couldn't let a star in at this time, otherwise, how could the show continue?

"Ok."

Xing glanced regretfully at Fang Jie dancing in his doll form. He went after Estella to see what was going on and hoped that Estella had calmed down by the end of the night.

Wait until she leaves.

"Click~"

A crisp sound came from Fang Jie's body, and a green light flashed in the air. His movements, which had been spinning and dancing, suddenly stopped, and he became motionless before regaining his freedom.

"Damn it, this Herrscher personality is quite difficult to deal with."

"You boy!"

The Black Tower puppet saw it clearly; in that instant, Fang Jie severed the connection, leaving only the mirror in place. Then he flashed back, bringing another wave of hallucination.

He was too free, almost impossible to restrain. Neither the gravity that bound his soul nor the threat caused by the difference in strength mattered to him.

Fang Jie then reintegrated the cell phone, the 'glasses,' and the protocol that Black Tower had secretly installed back into his body, and waved his hand: "Hey, Ms. Black Tower, do you need my help with your plan to catch Silver Wolf?"

"just you?"

Black Tower's tone was irritating. "You little brat, you're not cute at all. But... you actually managed to figure out a genius's idea with just this little bit of calculation ability. You've leveled up to kid."

No, it doesn't seem like it was calculated; it's like predicting the future?

Very good. Although it's nothing special in the Milky Way, it adds a bit more to your research.

"Here you go, kid. I'll use a new one. Go ahead and try hacking again if you dare."

Her haughty turn left Fang Jie still unable to function.

Inside his body, the 'glasses' made a shattering sound, and a faint green light emanated from between Fang Jie's eyebrows.

That was an even more vast, waterfall-like torrent of data, an endless stream of 0s and 1s intertwined into a tide of code, tearing apart the barrier of the "Security Protocol" and erupting!

The originally illusory concepts '0' and '1' now continuously materialize from it, endlessly transforming into a surge of data turbulence, yet confined to a corner and unable to run rampant.

The gift, representing a fraction of the power of an Envoy-level being, unfolded without any discount, causing Fang Jie's entire brain to tremble and resonate silently. Hundreds of buzzing sounds played simultaneously, as if to tear apart one's will and soul.

"Hi~"

He gasped. This wasn't some performance by a handsome star; the real 'iron will' had arrived.

——【Execution: Reinforcement Learning】

——【Analysis: Program Memory】

The innocent Fang Jie was like someone staring directly at a bubble, being nourished by knowledge.

He quickly shrank into a corner, closed his eyes, and meditated. This was the kind of treatment that allowed him to evolve rapidly under external pressure and be reborn dozens of times in an instant.

Compared to Screw Gum, which excels at rapidly transforming and evolving programs and mechanical products, the Black Tower's magic code is more approachable and works well with people. Like a virus, it constantly adapts to its environment, mutates, and evolves, becoming stronger than before with each transformation.

It requires neither genetic replacement nor physical changes; this is evolution at the information level, and a comprehensive upgrade of the 'information network' of the solution.

This indicates that, in addition to Fang Jie's 'specialty', she has almost completely analyzed the powers within his artificial stigmata, and has also adjusted Fang Jie's method of using [喰] to complete the twelve puzzle pieces, thus completely integrating them.

Even the 'restraint' he constructed in the Black Tower Protocol was optimized, and a terrifying amount of information exchange was instantly transmitted to Fate and written into the medium of the artificial stigmata.

It wasn't that the kind Uncle Yang wasn't effective, but rather that the evil Black Tower gave too much.

He needs to process this properly.

……

……

Arriving early and at the perfect time, Xing Kuangxuan's little robot fried rice was full and wandered around. When she saw Aesta again, she had returned to normal, a youthful, beautiful, elegant, and intellectual stationmaster, and was waiting with everyone at the elevator door.

Distinguished guests are about to arrive, and the space station, which was recently in chaos, has quickly resumed operations and is ready to welcome them.

Xing blended into the crowd and asked her, "Excuse me, who are you here for...?"

"get ready."

Estelle didn't answer; it was too late.

An elegant voice rang out as the elevator ascended and began to open.

"Assuming that thought always precedes language, then no words can define this joy."

The intellectual aura emanating from him made even Xing realize she shouldn't be fooling around. She looked at the gentleman who stepped out of the elevator, even though he was an AI.

"It's nice to meet you, Estádio. I'm sorry I'm 4 minutes and 13 seconds early. I hope it didn't cause you any trouble."

"How is that possible? Mr. Screwgum, welcome to the Black Tower Space Station."

Estelle's curtsy, before it was ruined by train passengers, was an incredibly elegant way to greet someone.

Now she could only try to maintain her usual composure, gesturing to Xing beside her...

Don't even mention skirts! That's a short skirt!

Someone was just pretending to be someone else, but Estella didn't want to say who it was.

"No need to be so formal, Estádio, just use 'you.' The Black Tower is a place where knowledge converges, and here we celebrate the equality of thought."

Screw Goom nodded to everyone, unlike the arrogant Black Tower, and he was a genuinely good person, even the sharp-tongued Black Tower had to admit.

"The collaboration of organic life is amazing and efficient—the speed at which you are rebuilding the space station, well, it's not quite what I predicted."

Estelle didn't want to mention the chaos that had just happened yesterday, so she kept smiling and said, "Thank you for your affirmation, Mr. Screws. Would you like me to show you around? After the last summit, we started several new research projects based on silicon-based matrices."

“Emotionally, I gladly accept it. But since I have a prior agreement with the Black Tower, please wait a little longer for these surprises.”

"Ms. Black Tower should be in her office. Please come this way, I'll show you the way."

"Ah."

Screw Gum was quite friendly and went along with the host's wishes, and—finally couldn't help but ask, what's the deal with this cute girl who keeps making faces?

"Who is this……"

Estella fell silent, then gestured for Hoshino to introduce herself.

Xing received a look, and instead of mimicking a human's bow, she put her hands on her hips and said, "Hey, guess!"

Estelle's eyes immediately... She gracefully introduced herself: "She is Star, a pioneer from the Star Train."

"Oh! Hello, Ms. Trailblazer. I've heard so much about you; you're someone Black Tower has been talking about a lot lately."

Screwgoom said in a friendly tone, "She's curious about you, and so am I. What's it like to coexist with a star core? Hopefully, we'll have enough time to get to know each other and find the answer to that question."

It wasn't wisdom, but intuition, that told Screwgoom to stop here, to end this first meeting, otherwise...

In short, please allow us to say goodbye for now. He then followed Estelle to the Black Tower office.

Oh my god, there's another one there...

Estella's emotions were in turmoil as she headed to the Black Tower's office, hoping that Fang Jie was still unconscious.

This was just a small incident that happened today, and Xing didn't care about it. She continued to wander around the space station, accepting requests from people and helping them out.

Not long after, a Leonard jumped out.

"Trail Blazers, you've finally arrived. We've made a discovery."

"I'm coming."

They had just met yesterday; Leonard was the cybersecurity engineer on the space station.

Not long ago, the space station was attacked by the Antimatter Legion, and the main control systems of all modules were paralyzed during the chaos. The space station is currently undergoing post-disaster reconstruction, and Leonard's responsibility is to assist in repairing various equipment and restoring the space station's cybersecurity.

In addition, he discovered traces of a third-party intrusion, Love from the Star Core Hunter.

Of course, Xing has to come and lend a hand!

She remembered it all. Her last memories of Kafka and Silver Wolf were like those of her mother and aunt. She had to catch up with them and find out the truth about her past.

The highly motivated Xing and Leonard hit it off immediately: "Here, I designed a decoding program. Look—it looks like a camera, but it's actually a detector. Through it, we can see some hidden traces."

Thus, Xing embarked on a journey to find the hacker's digital graffiti. He wasn't worried about not finding it; it was easy to discover. In Punk Lords, there's a tradition where hackers, when they break in, like to deliberately leave something behind, waiting to be discovered—like a challenge.

Following the trail, she discovered that the super hacker Silver Wolf, who left the graffiti, was targeting a game cartridge called "Punk Lord Spirit" among the many collectibles in Lady Black Tower's collection.

And the place where this strange object eventually ended up was the Black Tower office.

Xing Huan suddenly realized: "No wonder I didn't understand why Fang Jie was lying there. This is what they call slacking off as the most efficient way to work."

……

……

In fact, Fang Jie did indeed find Silver Wolf there.

"Hey kid, what are you doing sleeping here? Is your cyberbullying acting up?"

The projection of the single-spiral duck, chewing bubble gum, looked at this guy curiously. After all, he had caused Eriol to have to revise his prophecy, so it wouldn't hurt to get to know him.

"Don't worry about me, Bronya. I'll just stay here and watch."

Fang Jie casually wiped away the graffiti projected onto his clothes and looked at the silver wolf phantom beside him.

Bronya? Who?

Silver Wolf was arrogant: "You've mistaken me for someone else, kid. I am Silver Wolf, the famous Star Core Hunter, the Super Hacker, the Invisible Emperor, Silver Wolf."

"What kind of look is that? Something's not right with you. My name isn't Bronya."

“Still looking? What are you looking at? I said you’ve made a mistake, and that’s it. You little brat, aren’t you also called ‘Fang Jie’? I checked you, and you don’t have a legal name, no ID number, and no past or friends.”

Fang Jie had to interrupt: "I have friends, and I even have a girlfriend."