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“Because once you see the truth, you will no longer belong to any version of the world.” Eileen gazed at him. “Then you will face not only fate itself.”
As the sandstorm blew, her figure became increasingly blurred.
After a long silence, Su Ting slowly nodded: "Take me there."
Eileen turned and stepped forward, the wind whistling the edge of her cloak, and murmured a sentence:
"I hope you won't regret your choice today."
The two stepped into the desolate depths of the horizon, with the crumbling ruins of the city and the data storm gradually swallowing the sky behind them.
Meanwhile, in a remote control center, a researcher in a white coat slowly lowered his headphones and gently exhaled.
"Report, target confirmed to have moved out of old coordinates."
Another woman stood by the wall, her hands clasped in front of her chest, and whispered:
"Send the information to Qin Ran simultaneously. Tell him to prepare for the reception as soon as possible."
The man hesitated for a moment, then asked cautiously, "Are we really going to let them into the Zero Core Area? Once they discover... what's there, I'm afraid... the consequences will be unpredictable."
The woman smiled faintly, her eyes unfathomable.
"If even Su Ting can't uncover the truth, then there's no point in continuing this game."
She turned around and walked towards the control panel below the screen, which was flashing a faint blue light.
The last line of information is displayed above:
[Plan Start-up Progress: 83%]
[Target object status: About to encounter origin encoding]
[Awaiting Triggered Event: S-Rank Breakthrough - The Gate of Truth Opens]
The sand dunes rolled and the wind howled.
Eileen and Su Ting traversed the desert. Tiny dust particles filled the air, as if they might swallow the entire world at any moment.
“Over there.” Eileen raised her wrist, blue light dancing at her fingertips, a series of coordinates projected into the air ahead, “'Origin Site' is less than five kilometers away.”
Su Ting squinted and saw a dark shadow on the blurry horizon, like a dilapidated wall suddenly emerging from the ground.
“This place… doesn’t seem to have been built by humans,” he murmured.
Eileen nodded. "Because it wasn't built by us."
They continued onward, their steps heavy yet resolute.
A few minutes later, the black structure finally became clear—it was not a wall, but a door, a towering, pitch-black giant door.
Chapter 992 The Source Itself
It is covered with complex totem-like engravings, which look like code or ancient script.
"Do you know how to get in?" Su Ting asked.
“I brought the key.” Eileen reached out and lightly touched a protrusion on the door, and instantly, the symbol emitted a low hum.
A rumbling sound came from underground, and the giant gate slowly cracked open, releasing a chilling aura.
Su Ting frowned: "This isn't just an ordinary data breach?"
“Of course not.” Eileen turned to look at him. “Do you think the truth can be unlocked with a username and password? What you’re about to face… isn’t a flood of information, but the source of existence itself.”
She stepped through the door.
Darkness swallowed her figure.
Su Ting gritted his teeth and followed.
Upon entering, the scene before my eyes abruptly changed—the space was distorted beyond recognition, surrounded by flowing data light screens, and the walls seemed to be composed of fragments of memory, with scenes from the past flashing by:
On a street corner in the third district, the flickering firelight of the old library, Cheng Yuan's silhouette...
"Don't these images seem familiar to you?" Eileen asked. "They were once a part of your life, and they've been deleted time and time again."
“After each death, the system erases your memories... but there was one person who wasn’t.”
"Leah."
Su Ting's voice trembled slightly, "You said she's waiting for me in the seventh quadrant... but why is she waiting? And who is she?"
Eileen stopped at a fork in the road, slowly turned to look at him, and said, “Because she was the core of the initial experiment, and you were the last surviving variable. You should have been separated, but you were always intertwined. Like two mistakes, you formed new rules through mutual attraction.”
She smiled gently, “That’s what the system fears about you—your convergence has produced **non-linear evolution**.”
"Nonlinear...evolution?"
“Simply put,” Eileen stepped forward, “you’ve made the ‘ending’ uncontrollable.”
She suddenly stopped what she was doing and turned to look at the end of the passage.
"somebody is coming."
Before the words were finished, a flash of light appeared in the distance, followed by a series of metallic stomping sounds approaching.
Five figures clad in black robes appeared before them, each wearing a mask, with cold eyes and a sharp aura.
The person in the middle raised his left hand, and a pale blue arc of electricity wrapped around his fingertips.
"Leave here," the man said in a low voice. "This is the final sealed zone; you have no right to access the core data."
Su Ting took half a step forward. "If you're here to stop me... I can only say, it's too late."
The man scoffed coldly, "How important do you think you are? You're nothing more than a runaway program."
Eileen's lips curled up slightly as she slowly raised her arm.
"Then I'll show you... that even runaway programs have their own will."
The next second, a large number of energy ripples burst out in the air.
She suddenly raised her hand, and five blue electric currents tore through the space, accurately striking the five people!
The battle has suddenly broken out!
Fists clashed with lightning, and energies collided with the barrier, causing the entire space to tremble violently. Eileen moved nimbly and acted decisively; on the other side, Su Ting was not to be outdone, using his superhuman reflexes to repeatedly counterattack his enemy.
One of the men in black robes tried to retreat, but Eileen instantly locked his consciousness.
"Don't run away." She sneered. "I know you're Cheng Yuan's friend... or are you just a substitute too?"
"Heh..." The other party scoffed, suddenly crushing a red chip in their hand. "Even if you win, so what? The real 'door' has never been here!"
Chapter 993 Turned into a Pile of Ashes
Before he could finish speaking, the chip exploded, and the man's body turned into ashes.
Seeing this, the others detonated their devices, plunging the scene into chaos.
When the dust settled, only cold stone slabs and a few charred corpses remained in the passage.
Su Ting stood up, panting, his face pale.
"What are they hiding?"
Eileen picked up a broken data chip from the ground. "They know the only entrance to the Real Gate has been sealed off. Now the only possible clue... is Cheng Yuan."
"Go find him?"
"Or... let him come to us."
Just then, the air vibrated suddenly, and a familiar whispered voice rang in my ears.
"...Are you listening, Su Ting?"
They both raised their heads at the same time.
That was Cheng Yuan's voice.
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"It seems the game has only just begun," Eileen said softly.
Cheng Yuan's voice came through the channel:
“Su Ting, if you really want to figure out 'who you are'... then come to the 'Tower of the End'.”
After he finished speaking, he remained silent for a moment.
Then, the last sentence slowly fell to the floor—
“I’m there, ready with all the answers, and ready with the truth you can’t accept.”
Eileen looked at Su Ting, "Are you still willing to walk with me?"
Su Ting took a deep breath, and his eyes finally hardened.
He chuckled softly, clenched his fist, and spoke in a calm yet undeniable tone:
"This time, I don't want to be a bystander."
The wind blows through the door, ushering in a brand new journey.