darknovel Chapter 206 This is not salvation, it's formatting.
Chapter 206 This is not salvation, it's formatting.
Inside the crystal, the deep, dark blue looked as if a star had been cast into it.
There was no sound, no explosion, and not even a ray of light emanated outwards.
However, a more fundamental collapse is taking place.
That "emotional data packet," composed purely of a father's regret, longing, and endless sorrow, is not a virus to a "father" who only understands logic, order, and calculation; it is a black hole.
It cannot be parsed, deleted, or isolated.
Because this emotion is itself an irrational, absolute "truth".
"Buzz..."
All the instruments in the underground space, the code and data streams scrolling wildly on their screens, all turned into a pale white snowflake at the same moment.
The piercing alarm stopped abruptly.
The slowly pulsating blue crystal at the bottom of the pit, the biological supercomputer that Liu Guodong revered as a "god," emitted a groan similar to shattering glass.
A crack appeared at its core and then, like lightning, instantly spread to every corner of the entire crystal.
The pale blue light was fading at a visible speed, being replaced by a deathly, chaotic gray.
The huge black heart on the ceiling stopped beating.
The spider monsters that had just emerged from the slime lay limp on the ground like skeletons of dolls, melting into pools of lifeless black grease.
Suspended in mid-air on the operating chair, the man known as "Old Zhang" wore a faint, relieved smile, his head drooping limply.
His life signs completely disappeared.
But the emotions he ignited completed the final and most thorough "treatment".
"No...it's impossible..." Liu Guodong knelt on the ground, staring blankly at the apocalyptic scene before him.
The "divine kingdom" of absolute rationality and eternal order that he had pursued throughout his life was utterly shattered before his very eyes by a single tear.
His faith collapsed.
"Nothing is impossible." Wang Minyu nimbly jumped off the operating chair, landing steadily on the edge of the cracked crystal.
He patted the dust off his white coat, his tone as calm as if he were giving a surgical summary.
"You're trying to format emotions with logic, but you haven't considered that emotions themselves are also a kind of underlying protocol that can format logic. It's just that its activation command is rather special."
He walked up to Liu Guodong and looked down at the man who had already suffered a mental breakdown.
"Congratulations, Dean Liu. You have successfully proven that a heartbroken father is far more powerful than your so-called 'god'."
After Wang Minyu finished speaking, he ignored him and turned to look at the crystal that had completely lost its luster and looked like an ordinary rock.
In the field of vision of the [Aura Observation Technique], although this thing is "dead", there is still a huge amount of disordered pure energy remaining inside it, just like a top-level hard drive that has been emptied of all data.
This is... top-quality fertilizer.
"Guan Shan, Pierre, Su Qing, that's a wrap." Wang Minyu gave the order in the team channel. "Clean up the battlefield and take everything you can. Especially those servers and instruments, we can pack them up and sell them to Captain Zhou later, and we can get a few new sets of equipment in return."
Guan Shan nodded silently, slung the entrenching tool over his shoulder, and began to walk towards the already destroyed monster corpses like a professional demolition team leader.
Pierre looked at the black grease dripping from the ceiling with a pained expression, and clicked his tongue in regret: "Oh, my dear boss, this is top-quality biological protein. If only we added a little truffle and thyme..."
"If you want to eat it, you can take it to go. I won't stop you." Wang Minyu glanced at him.
The fat Frenchman immediately shook his head vigorously.
Su Qing walked to Wang Minyu's side. Her face was still a little pale, but her eyes shone with excitement: "Boss, Zero recorded the peak data at the moment that 'emotional bomb' exploded. This energy model... completely surpasses our current understanding. If we can crack it, our technology can advance by at least twenty years!"
"Then let's crack it." Wang Minyu's answer was simple and direct. "Make a list of what you need. If you don't have enough money, have Qin Zheng provide it."
He walked up to Qin Zheng, who was slumped in the corner in fear, and squatted down.
"Chairman Qin, has the heavy metal rock music in your head stopped now?"
Qin Zheng raised his head blankly, sensed it for a moment, and then revealed an expression of ecstatic joy: "It's stopped...it's really stopped! It's quiet...for ten years, my mind has never been this quiet!"
"That's good." Wang Minyu stood up, took out a POS machine from his pocket, and said, "Treatment fee, a friendly price, eight figures. Would you like to pay by card or bank transfer? Checks are fine too, I'm not picky."
Qin Zheng: "..."
He looked at the young man who had just saved him, and perhaps even the world, and then at the hellish scene around him. For a moment, he didn't know what expression to wear.
【Ding--】
The system notification tone sounded at the appropriate time.
[Congratulations, host, on completing the S-rank hidden mission: Server Restart.]
[Mission Description: Destroy the core consciousness of the A+ grade anomalous creature "Logical Father" using non-physical methods, and successfully rescue the victims who have been mentally abducted.]
[Task Rating: SS (Godlike). You not only shut down the server, but also installed an emotional Trojan horse on it, and successfully turned the rescue operation into a business transaction, demonstrating exceptional talent and resourcefulness.]
[Task Rewards:]
[1. Special Building Blueprint: "Absolute Mental Shield - Stasis Prison". Suitable for imprisoning living beings with high levels of mental pollution. The blueprint can be integrated with the Renxin Resort project.]
2. Skill Points: 5000.
[3. Specialized Skill Unlocked: Neural Interaction Protocol (Beginner)]. Effect: The host can briefly access the target's superficial thoughts and memories through physical contact (such as silver needles). Note: Deep access may cause both parties' brains to crash simultaneously; please use with caution.]
Wang Minyu's eyes flickered slightly as he looked at the newly unlocked skill.
Reading thoughts?
That's great! From now on, we can even skip the "asking" part in the "observation, auscultation, inquiry, and palpation" method.
Just then, the heavy elevator doors made a loud "bang" as they were forcibly broken open from the outside.
Captain Zhou led a team of fully armed special police officers in, their dark gun barrels pointed at everyone in the underground space.
When Captain Zhou, who was used to seeing big scenes, saw the scene before him clearly, he couldn't help but gasp.
"Wang Minyu!" He saw Wang Minyu standing in the middle of the ruins, his voice filled with tension and urgency. "What happened here? We detected that the bioelectrical signals in the entire southern district of the city completely disappeared five minutes ago!"
Wang Minyu faced those gun barrels without changing his expression in the slightest.
He simply pointed to Liu Guodong kneeling on the ground, and then to the pile of broken crystals.
"It's nothing serious."
"It was like giving an internet-addicted teenager an electrotherapy treatment."
"By the way, I also helped the city unplug a server with a bad signal."
Wishing everyone a smooth and prosperous New Year!