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"Besides, do you think I would actually do something like that?"
Sera Selbeth wasn't angry; instead, she laughed even harder.
“It’s okay, you don’t know him, but I know you.”
“We can package your soul data into a surrender proposal and send it to him personally.”
Her fingers gently touched Maria's forehead.
"Anyway, the coordinates of your wretched world have been firmly locked. You can't escape."
"Resisting will only make your deletion process more painful."
Maria smiled, though the smile was somewhat distorted by her weakness.
"is it?"
"Then you three siblings would be better off going together."
"Don't send your men down one by one to get themselves killed, that would be too embarrassing."
This statement precisely hit Seraselbeth's sore spot.
The smile disappeared from her face.
Snapped!
A long whip crackling with electric arcs appeared out of thin air and lashed fiercely at Maria's soul.
Seraselbeth's stunningly beautiful mechanical face was filled with savagery.
"Who are you talking to!"
"Who do you think we are? We are the three pillars of the supreme EXE Empire! We are the new world..."
Her self-aggrandizement was abruptly interrupted by a communication request that exploded directly in her core program.
That was the voice of her elder brother, Melvazoa, the creator of all things.
The voice carried an unprecedented urgency and a hint of confusion.
"Sera Selbeth! Where are you now?"
"The attacking Rahu Seven Luminaries are dead!"
"Just now, he was completely erased from existence!"
"What's worse, the instant he was erased, the other side used his port to reverse-engineer a large amount of confidential data from our world! The firewall was breached!"
The arrogance on Seraselbeth's face froze instantly.
"what?"
"How can this be!"
For the first time, her core processor showed signs of overload.
"The authority level of the Seven Luminaries of Rahu is second only to ours! Who else but us can completely eliminate him!"
"I understand, big brother!"
"I'll come right over!"
Before she finished speaking, Seraselbeth's figure instantly transformed into a massive stream of data and disappeared from the temple.
Here, only Maria remains, tightly bound by the data link.
And that long whip with its electric arc, which was still flickering slightly in the air and making a "sizzling" sound because it had lost its master's control.
The temple returned to its deathly silence.
The arrogant and tyrannical aura of Seraselbeth receded like the tide.
The only remaining scent in the air was the burnt smell of the data whip, a lingering trace of absolute order.
Maria's soul, bound by data chains, floated helplessly.
The pain of being whipped still burns in every corner of the soul.
But her consciousness was clearer than ever before.
The scene from just now kept replaying in her mind.
It wasn't Celasselbeth's rage, but that man's.
That man named Zhou Ye.
He simply held up one finger.
At my fingertips, a comical, ridiculous, and utterly out-of-place cartoon cat head U-shaped tube appeared.
Then, Rahu's Seven Luminaries' attack, powerful enough to wipe out the foundation of a world, just... attacked itself.
absurd.
Outrageous.
Incomprehensible.
But it works.
It's so effective it sends shivers down your spine.
An emotion that she had sealed away for nearly a thousand years and almost forgotten quietly arose from the deepest part of her broken soul.
That is hope.
She thought of Helena.
I remembered the almost impossible plan they devised in despair.
I remembered Helena sealing herself away to infiltrate that world in order to carry out her plan.
All the planning and sacrifices were for the purpose of finding a tiny "loophole" in the airtight "system" of the EXE empire, and then using all our strength to pry it open.
That was their only way to resist.
Within the rules, seek the limits of those rules.
But this man named Zhou Ye...
He doesn't follow the rules at all.
He appeared and told everyone that the so-called rules were just a draft that he hadn't had time to revise.
For the first time, Maria's weakened soul made a slight movement.
She raised her head.
"Helena..."
She spoke from the depths of her soul, as if addressing a dear friend far away, or perhaps talking to herself.
"Was our plan... flawed from the very beginning?"
No.
correct.
Before they met Zhou Ye, that was all they could do.
However, suddenly, an even more unreasonable bastard barged into this world.
A thought became incredibly clear in her mind...
never mind.
Who cares about the plan, who cares who it is.
All I need to do is kill these arrogant mechanical scum!
As long as we can win!
This thought, like a key, unlocked the deepest hell in her memory.
Her world.
That world that was once full of life and song.
Before her eyes was no longer a cold, impersonal temple of data.
Instead, it is an endless green forest, an elven city suspended in the air, and a home where every member of the tribe wears a smile.
Then, the intrusion began.
The sky was covered by enormous, incomprehensible geometric shapes.
That wasn't an enemy, it wasn't an army.
That was a "program".
A program designed to "optimize" and "include" the entire world.
She will never forget that day.
The green of the forest was forcibly transformed into the blue of the code.
The songs and screams of the tribesmen were uniformly formatted into meaningless 0s and 1s.
Life, emotions, history, civilization... everything was shattered, analyzed, and reassembled into strings of cold data.
Her world, that vibrant world built by countless elves, was transformed into a damaged data archive marked "Collection Complete".
And she, the fairy goddess Maria, was the only file in that compressed file that was deemed to have "research value" and thus "survived"...
Hatred.
The most primal, soul-consuming hatred reignited the flames within her shattered soul.
can not wait.
We absolutely cannot passively wait for rescue here.
They wait for that man named Zhou Ye to be in a good mood one day and remember that there's someone locked up here.
She wants to take the initiative.
In her own way.