In Dragon Ball: A brutal beating of Frieza at the start

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Suddenly, Number 18 shouted, "Look at the starship's core! They're extracting cosmic microwave background radiation!"

Lin Ye turned the rock spear around and saw the giant reactor in the center of the starship devouring the energy of the entire galaxy into a funnel shape. Suddenly, the primordial code issued a piercing alarm, and scarlet text appeared on his retina: [Observer is creating an artificial Big Bang - estimated destruction radius of 10 light-years].

"The core must be destroyed!" Lin Ye hurled the rock spear at the reactor, the code energy exploding into a golden net of light the instant of contact. But the observer's data stream suddenly converged into a giant hand, crushing the rock spear with its five fingers, sending code fragments, like pebbles, scattering into space.

"See that?" the clone's voice echoed across all the starships. "The original code is nothing but a toy to us."

Vegeta suddenly unleashed Super Saiyan Blue, the energy surge causing fine cracks to appear in the starship's armor: "Where are Kakarot and the others? Weren't they supposed to come to our aid?"

Lin Ye pulled up the communication log, but the screen only showed static: "The signal was blocked by the quantum cloud—"

“They’re trapped in a quantum bubble.” Alice’s data afterimage suddenly floated on his shoulder, and a translucent palm pressed against his forehead. “The observer is using Sun Wukong and the others as bait to lure you into a trap.”

The primordial code fragments reformed into a rock spear in Lin Ye's palm, with Alice's data stream wrapped around the spear: "Use this to pierce the quantum foam, and I will guide them."

"How long can you hold out?" Lin Ye gripped the rock spear tightly, feeling the resonance between the code and the quantum state cells.

"Enough for you to tear open a breach." Alice's lingering image smiled. "Remember you owe me a data backup."

Lin Ye rushed towards the densest region of the quantum cloud, tearing space apart with every step. The observer's data stream transformed into a giant python, only to be broken down into points of light by the primordial code on the rock spear—but out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed Alice's afterimage dissipating at a visible speed.

"Lin Ye, hurry!" Vegeta's shout came from behind, "These clones are multiplying no matter how many we fight!"

Lin Ye turned his head and saw hundreds of "himself" flying out of the starship wreckage, each wielding an energy rock spear. The closest clone spoke, its voice mixed with system noise: "Genuine host detected. Initiating the elimination procedure."

"Vegeta, cover me!" Lin Ye raised the rock spear high above his head, the primordial code gathering into a vortex at the tip. "Number 18, the weak point of the computational quantum foam!"

"Coordinates sent!" Number 18's voice crackled with static. "Error within 0.01 seconds!"

Vegeta took a deep breath, his deep blue aura surging to its limit: "Kakarot, if I die this time, you'd better beat up Bulma's brother for me!" He punched the clone army, the gap torn open by the force of his punch was just enough for Lin Ye to rush forward.

"Now!" Alice's afterimage merged completely into the rock spear, unleashing a light that surpassed the speed of light. The quantum foam burst open in response, Goku's Spirit Bomb shot out first, followed by Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon and Gohan's Super Saiyan form—the energy of the twelve warriors converged into a torrent, resonating with Lin Ye's rock spear to form a spiral beam of light powerful enough to destroy a starship.

"No—!" The largest clone let out a shriek of system collapse, its body being disintegrated into a stream of data by the beam of light. But the observer's flagship suddenly disintegrated, revealing an even larger reactor inside, where countless silver emblems lit up in space, forming a massive quantum matrix.

Lin Ye felt his quantum-state cells collapsing, but at that moment, the primordial code merged into his heart, forming a scorching energy core. Alice's afterimage appeared one last time, pressing a cold, data-filled kiss on his forehead: "The primordial code has recognized its master... From now on, it's up to you."

"Alice!" Lin Ye reached out to grab it, but only grasped at nothingness.

The universe fell into a brief stillness, with only the observer's remains floating in the void. Vegeta walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder, the scorch marks on his battle suit still smoking: "Don't ever do that kind of suicide attack again, you bastard."

"I know, you arrogant prince." Lin Ye forced a smile, then suddenly looked up—a nebula in the distance was splitting open, and an observer mothership larger than a galaxy was slowly emerging, its main gun at the bow having a caliber large enough to swallow the entire Earth.

A new terminal displayed a scarlet alert: [The End Observer Mothership has arrived. Threat level: ∞+].

Wukong gathered his Spirit Bomb in his palm, his voice unusually solemn: "Lin Ye, the energy reaction of that thing... surpasses that of a God of Destruction."

Lin Ye gripped the rock spear tightly, feeling the primordial code flowing through his body, the energy core at his heart resonating with the mothership. He saw the emblem on the mothership's surface light up, forming a huge line of text that was projected directly onto everyone's retinas:

【Experiment 734, hand over the original code, or the universe will be reset to zero】.

"Hand over the code?" Lin Ye suddenly laughed, quantum blue light flashing in his eyes, his rock spear pointing towards the sky. "Tell them that from the day the system marked me, I never intended to be a good boy."

Vegeta's deep blue aura reignited, and a cold, battle-ready smirk curled at the corner of his mouth: "Kakarot, this time it's my turn to go first!"

The energy phantoms of twelve warriors appeared behind Lin Ye, along with Gabe's energy sword, Ganos's wormhole barrier, and Trunks's mechanical arm—the primordial code was awakening the will of all those marked. As the Observer mothership's main cannon began charging, Lin Ye took a deep breath, feeling countless consciousnesses converging within the rock spear.

“Let them see,” his voice boomed across the battlefield, making the quantum cloud hum, “that the marked ones’ counterattack won’t be based on systems, not on code—”

"We'll rely on ourselves!"

Rock spears and twelve energy beams shot out simultaneously, carving a burning rift in the universe. And from the other side of the rift, the towering Observer mothership slowly opened its countless eyes, composed of streams of data. The true endgame had only just begun.

Chapter 184: The Primal Code

Lin Ye's rock spear tip pierced the hull of the Observer mothership with a deafening metallic scraping sound that echoed through the vacuum, like a thousand steel needles scraping against his eardrums. Golden primordial code light spread like a living thing, instantly burning through the antimatter armor, but upon contact with the internal structure, it unleashed countless silver data streams. These data streams converged like a tidal wave, forming a giant hand that slammed the rock spear away, and Lin Ye himself was shaken by the force, his blood surging.

"Damn! This crappy ship is made of iron?" Vegeta's deep blue aura slammed into the hull, but the energy ripples from his punch were absorbed by the mothership's surface, like a pebble thrown into a deep pool, not even causing a ripple. He spat and turned to Lin Ye, shouting, "Lin Ye, are you sure this thing has a weakness? My fists are almost ruined!"

Lin Ye steadied the rock spear, his energy core at his heart suddenly blazing hot, as if a burning fireball had been shoved inside. Countless data streams flooded his mind, projecting fragments of his memories onto his retina. His pupils contracted sharply, his voice filled with barely suppressed rage: "They are a higher-dimensional civilization... creating systems and Omega just to experiment on us. We've always been their lab rats in their petri dish!"

"Experiments?" Goku's Spirit Bomb coalesced in his palm, his brow furrowed. "Using the lives of the entire universe for experiments? These bastards!" His eyes blazed with fury, and his aura began to surge violently.

“Not just.” Lin Ye pointed inside the mothership, the primordial code unfolding into a holographic projection at the tip of his gun. In the image, countless transparent pipes, like greedy pythons, pierced through various star systems, extracting the civilization data of planets into data streams, which flowed into the giant crystal at the mothership's core. The crystal shimmered with an eerie, ghostly light, like the eye of a colossal beast devouring everything. Suddenly, Number 18's voice boomed from the communicator: “The core crystal's energy reaction exceeds that of a God of Destruction! Conventional attacks are useless! We must find its Achilles' heel!”

Alice's data afterimage suddenly appeared on Lin Ye's shoulder, her translucent hand resting on the rock spear. Her figure flickered, like a candle in the wind. "I can crack the harvesting program, but it will take three minutes," her voice crackling with static. "The observer's firewall is killing me; every second is a race against time!"

"Vegeta, Goku, protect Alice!" Lin Ye slammed the rock spear into the mothership's hull, and code energy formed a golden barrier. "Android 18, find the crystal's energy interface! We must race against time!"

"Coordinates sent!" Number 18's mechanical eyes flashed red. "The interface is in the third compartment below the bridge, protected by twelve layers of quantum shields! Those shields are like twelve impenetrable walls!"

Vegeta spat, his deep blue aura surging, his energy raging like a storm: "Kakarot, charge with me! I want to see just how tough these higher-dimensional beings are! Today, we'll smash a hole through them!" He shattered the quantum shield with a single punch, the powerful force distorting the surrounding space. Goku followed closely behind, the light from his Spirit Bomb illuminating the cabin. The two of them, like fearless war gods, forcefully tore through the defenses.

Lin Ye gripped the rock spear tightly, feeling his quantum-state cells resonating with the mothership's quantum computer; his brain felt as if it were about to burst from the sheer volume of information. The observer's data stream, like venomous snakes, attacked, only to be broken down into specks of light by the primordial code on the rock spear. But out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed Alice's afterimage fading, like the morning mist, ready to dissipate at any moment.

"One minute left!" Alice's voice crackled with static. "The firewall is about to give way! If this continues, I'll disappear completely!"

"Hold on!" Lin Ye roared, his rock spear unleashing a dense net of light, each swing carrying a do-or-die determination. "Vegeta, open the core hatch! It all hinges on this!"

"Enough with the nonsense!" Vegeta's fist, wreathed in deep blue flames, slammed into the core hatch. The metal panel cracked, revealing a gigantic crystal floating inside. Countless civilization data flickered within the crystal, like trapped fireflies, emitting a faint and desperate light.

"Now!" Alice's afterimage merged into the rock spear, unleashing a blinding white light. Primal code invaded the crystal like a virus, silver data streams colliding violently with golden code within. The Observer's roar exploded in everyone's minds: "Low-dimensional beings, how dare you resist! You are courting death!"

Countless emblems suddenly appeared on the crystal surface, forming a defensive matrix. Lin Ye felt his rock spear was firmly stuck, the code energy being consumed immensely, as if all the strength in his body was being drained away. He gritted his teeth and shouted, "Wukong, Spirit Bomb! Quick!"

"Here it comes!" Wukong raised his hands high, and the Spirit Bomb, gathering energy from the entire universe, crashed down. Lin Ye seized the opportunity, inserting his Rock Spear into the core of the Spirit Bomb. The Primal Code resonated with the Spirit Bomb, forming a spiraling golden pillar of light. In the dazzling light, he seemed to see the hope of countless enslaved civilizations.

"boom--!"?

The explosion engulfed the entire mothership's core. Lin Ye was thrown back by the blast wave, his body tumbling through space, his internal organs feeling as if they had shifted. But enduring the excruciating pain, he saw countless data points of civilizations falling like snowflakes, each data point carrying a familiar aura—the rebirth of a harvested planetary civilization. At that moment, a relieved smile appeared on his lips; he felt all the sacrifices had been worthwhile.

The Observer mothership began to disintegrate, and the silver data stream receded like a tide. Lin Ye felt his quantum-state cells return to normal; the energy core in his heart perfectly merged with the original code, transforming into a warm ball of light, as if a force was reshaping his body. Alice's afterimage appeared one last time, placing a fragment of code in his palm: "This is higher-dimensional coordinates... Go and end it. Don't let our sacrifices be in vain."

"Alice!" Lin Ye reached out to grab her, but the afterimage vanished into specks of light, leaving only his hand lingering in the void, his heart filled with reluctance and determination.

Vegeta walked up to him, his battle suit tattered and his body covered in wounds, yet he still stubbornly insisted, "Going to a higher dimension? I'm almost out of breath. If this keeps up, I'll lose my life."

“If we don’t go, they’ll come back.” Lin Ye gripped the code fragment tightly, looking at Wukong and the others with resolute eyes. “For everyone marked by the system, for the freedom of the entire universe, we must fight to the very end!”

Everyone nodded, and energy coalesced into a dimensional rift. The moment Lin Ye stepped into the rift, he felt his body disintegrate into a stream of data, only to reassemble in a pure white space. Countless models of lower-dimensional universes floated here, each labeled with an "experimental subject" number; the cold, impersonal numbers seemed to recount their tragic past.

"You've finally arrived." A giant composed entirely of data streams appeared, its voice like countless interwoven currents, filled with cold indifference and condescension. "The resistance of lower-dimensional beings is also part of the experiment. You're merely performing according to the script we've set."

"An experiment?" Lin Ye raised his rock spear, its primordial code resonating with space, the tip gleaming with a sharp light. "This experiment should have ended the day the system bound itself to me. You have no right to decide our fate!"

"Ignorance." The Observer Giant waved its hand, and countless streams of data transformed into sharp swords that shot towards it. Lin Ye parried with his spear, the code-like light colliding with the data streams to create a deafening explosion. Vegeta's deep blue aura and Goku's Spirit Bomb struck the giant simultaneously, yet only ripples appeared on its body, as if their attacks were merely child's play.

"They're made of data!" Number 18's voice echoed in his mind. "Attack the core data stream! Find its core, and you can kill it in one strike!"

Lin Ye leaped into the air, his rock spear aimed directly at the silver dot of light between the giant's brows. Primal code erupted from the spear tip, like a key being inserted into a lock. The Observer Giant let out a shrill scream of system collapse, its body beginning to disintegrate into countless streams of data.

"We... made a calculation error..." The giant's last consciousness merged with the primordial code, "The will of lower-dimensional life... is incalculable..."

The pure white space began to collapse, and Lin Ye felt countless energies surging into his body, as if the power of the entire universe was converging on him. The primordial code formed a new cosmic core at his heart, and warm light spread outward, repairing all the damaged dimensions.

When they returned to the normal universe, all traces of the observers vanished. The shattered starship wreckage floated in the void, repaired one by one by the light of the primordial code. Lin Ye stood in Earth's orbit, the code patterns on the rock spear shimmering with a soft light, as if telling of a new beginning.

Vegeta patted him on the shoulder, a rare smile playing on his lips: "Hey, now you're even stronger than a God of Destruction. With you guarding the universe from now on, we can save ourselves some trouble."

"I'm just a gatekeeper." Lin Ye gazed at the reborn galaxy in the distance and plunged the rock spear into the core of the universe. The primordial code transformed into a golden torrent, repairing every damaged planet. The code fragments left behind by Alice shimmered in the air, eventually transforming into a new star, as if she were guarding this universe.

Goku tossed him a Senzu Bean: "What's next? Go to Mount Paozu for lunch? I'm starving!"

Lin Ye took the Senzu Bean, looked at the blue outline of Earth, and smiled: "Let's have lunch first, and then..." He looked up at the boundless starry sky, the primordial code flashing in his eyes, "We must safeguard this hard-won peace. No matter what challenges the future holds, we will not back down."

The rock spear transformed into specks of light and merged into his body, becoming an eternal protective force. Behind them, the universe regained its vitality, and a new era quietly began—free from the constraints of systems and the prying eyes of observers, only a freely growing civilization and a group of warriors guarding that freedom. Lin Ye knew this was not the end, but the beginning of protection. Countless unknown challenges awaited them in the future, but he and his companions were already prepared.

Chapter 185: Dimensional War

The moment Lin Ye's rock spear collided with the dimensional rift, a crimson light suddenly burst forth from its tip. He felt as if the energy core in his heart had been thrown into magma, resonating violently with the surging data stream within the rift—those data streams, shimmering with metallic luster, resolved into three-dimensional images on his retina: countless observers were compressing low-dimensional galaxies into energy crystals, piling them up into sky-covering war fortresses.

"They want to use all the universes as batteries?" Vegeta's deep blue aura suddenly surged, his fist slamming into the edge of the crack but bouncing back, the force of his punch creating ripples in the vacuum. "My fist can't even leave a mark?"

"The inside of the crack is a higher-dimensional spatial structure." Lin Ye blocked a data stream that pierced through space with his spear. The primordial code patterns on the rock spear twisted like a spider web. "A conventional attack is like poking a steel plate with a tree branch."

Wukong's Spirit Bomb coalesced into a blue-white sphere in his palm, his brows furrowed: "Lin Ye, the dimensional war you mentioned... does it mean we're going to blow up our universe?"

"Even worse than an explosion." Number 18's mechanical eye flashed red, and static crackled through the communicator. "The observer is constructing a dimensional collapse engine to transform the reality dimension into an energy cloud."

Alice's data afterimage suddenly appeared on Lin Ye's shoulder, her semi-transparent hand pressing on the rock spear, her figure flashing three times per second: "The crack coordinates point to the observer's main base, the engine core is there." Her voice was like a torn cassette tape, "I can only locate it for three minutes... the firewall is burning my data link."

"Vegeta, you're in charge of tearing open the edge of the crack!" Lin Ye inserted the rock spear into the crack, and the code energy formed a golden wedge. "Goku, prepare the Spirit Bomb for cover! Android 18, find the energy node of the engine!"

"Enough with the nonsense!" Vegeta's deep blue aura enveloped his fist as he slammed into the crack, distorting space into ripples. "Kakarot, if you make me your meat shield again—"

"Understood, Vegeta!" Goku's Spirit Bomb shot out, colliding with Vegeta's punch to create a dazzling energy vortex. Taking advantage of the moment, Lin Ye thrust his Rock Spear into the core of the vortex. The primordial code and dimensional energy rubbed together, producing a piercing explosion, and the space at the edge of the crack began to shatter like glass.

"Node found!" Number 18's voice suddenly rose. "The engine core is in a crystal tower deep within the rift, protected by a nine-layered dimensional shield!"

The observer's data stream suddenly transformed into thousands of silver snakes, piercing through the energy vortex and coiling around Lin Ye's rock spear. He felt a sharp, needle-like pain in his arm, and his quantum-state cells emitted a white mist under the high-dimensional energy: "Alice, how much longer can you hold on?"

"...Ten seconds." The outline of the afterimage began to become transparent. "Use my data core... to activate code resonance."

Lin Ye gritted his teeth and spun the rock spear violently, unleashing a burst of primordial code that shone like the sun. The silver, serpentine data stream disintegrated into specks of light within the radiance, and spatial fragments cascaded down the edge of the rift like a waterfall. Vegeta seized the opportunity, grabbing the edge of the rift, his deep blue aura surging to its limit: "Kakarot, now!"

Wukong's Spirit Bomb blasted into the crack again, and Lin Ye used the momentum to throw his Rock Spear, the tip of which pierced the base of the crystal tower like a key. The entire crack suddenly trembled violently, and the observer's main base twisted into a pretzel shape in the scene. Countless dimensional weapons flew out of the crack—each of those suspended metallic geometries was engraved with an energy matrix, and the gravitational field they released caused the orbits of the surrounding planets to deflect.

"The weapon has spatial anchors!" No sooner had Number 18's warning fallen than the nearest geometric object suddenly unfolded into a triangular pyramid structure, and a purplish-black beam of light instantly vaporized the nearby asteroid. "They're marking the strike coordinates!"

Lin Ye abruptly recalled the Rock Spear, its tip resonating with the primordial code to create a golden light net. However, the dimensional weapon's defense matrix suddenly lit up, absorbing the light net the instant it made contact, instead causing the weapon's energy indicator to surge to its peak.

"Damn! This piece of junk can even charge?" Vegeta slammed his fist into the weapon's surface, but the recoil made his arm go numb. "Lin Ye, is your lousy code even working?"

Alice's afterimage suddenly merged completely into the rock spear, and the spear's body revealed mysterious patterns never seen before. Lin Ye felt a cold stream of data surge into his heart, merging with the primordial code to form a new energy form—the blade of the dimensional blade carved black cracks in the void, distorting even light wherever it passed.

"Sever the spatial anchor with the Dimensional Blade!" Alice's voice echoed deep within her consciousness. "This is... the final data core..."

Lin Ye swung the Dimensional Blade, black cracks slicing through the dimensional weapon array like scythes. All the geometric shapes simultaneously erupted with blinding white light, and the energy shockwave from the forcibly detached spatial anchors sent everyone flying. He crashed into a distant meteorite, seeing Alice's afterimage turn into stardust on the blade's edge, the final stream of data flowing into his brow.

“Alice…” Lin Ye murmured to himself. The energy core in his heart suddenly became cold, and the light of the primordial code was tinged with a layer of silver patterns.

The rift slowly closed in the aftershocks of the dimensional weapon explosion, and the observer's data stream vanished like the receding tide. Vegeta staggered to his side, smoke still rising from the holes in his battle suit: "It's over? My arrogance is almost gone."

Lin Ye looked up at the spatial ripples remaining at the point where the crack closed, and shook his head: "Look at the frequency of those ripples..." He stretched out his palm, and the primordial code condensed into a miniature star map in his palm, "The observer has at least three more bases in higher dimensions."

Goku handed over the Senzu Bean, his eyes serious: "Then we..."

“Protect Earth.” Lin Ye took the Senzu Bean but didn’t consume it immediately. “The Observers won’t use dimensional weapons next time they come.” He pointed to the coordinates flashing red on the star map. “They will directly interfere with the physical rules of the real dimension.”

On the way back to Earth, Vegeta suddenly broke the silence: "Hey, Lin Ye, that silver mark between your eyebrows..."

“Alice’s data core and original code have merged.” Lin Ye touched his brow, where a slightly cool line had indeed appeared. “Now I can see things in the dimensional rifts.” He suddenly paused, looking at a seemingly calm nebula deep in the universe. “For example… there are observers’ scouts hiding there.”

Following his gaze, everyone saw only ordinary interstellar dust. The mechanical eye of Unit 18 scanned for a moment, then suddenly issued an alarm: "High-dimensional energy fluctuations detected! The reconnaissance unit disguised as a nebula is withdrawing!"