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Or let the system devour everything. Her golden eyes stared straight at me; there was no third way.
Su Mumu's body suddenly trembled violently: It's too late... It's going to reset me... The purple energy began to flicker erratically.
Number 18 suddenly shouted: Watch out behind you!
I instinctively turned around and saw the digitized Frieza break through the defenses, his death beam hurtling towards me. At that critical moment, a figure stepped in front of me.
Trunks?!
The young Saiyan shielded the attacker with his body, his digitized components beginning to crumble. But his eyes regained their clarity: Quick...attack...this is the only chance...
Su Mumu let out a heart-wrenching scream, and purple energy erupted like a volcano. The cracks on the surface of the polyhedron rapidly expanded, and the entire space began to collapse.
"Lin Ye!" Anise's voice was exceptionally clear amidst the chaos. "Choose!"
I looked at Trunks, who was on the verge of collapse; at Vegeta and Android 18, who were struggling to hold on; and finally at Su Mumu, who was being devoured by the system. Her eyes were pleading with me to make a decision.
I clenched my fist, and energy gathered in my palm, forming the most powerful energy wave...
Chapter 97 Gene Liberation
Just as my ki blast was about to be unleashed, the entire data space suddenly froze. Time seemed to have been paused, even the scattered data fragments remained suspended in mid-air. Then, a silver lightning bolt cleaved through the golden data sky, and Vegeta's figure appeared before the golden polyhedron like a god descending from the heavens.
But his appearance had completely changed—silver-white energy enveloped his entire body like liquid metal, every strand of hair transformed into flowing liquid silver, moving without wind in the void of data space. His battle suit was also covered with a layer of silver light, and the old scar on his chest from Frieza's stab was now emitting a dazzling white light.
Vegeta? My voice caught in my throat. This wasn't the gold of a Super Saiyan, nor the azure of Super Saiyan Blue, but a form I'd never seen before.
"Don't get distracted, you piece of trash!" he roared without turning his head, his voice carrying a triple reverberation, as if three Vegetas from different timelines were speaking at the same time, "I'll deal with this thing!"
[Abnormal gene sequence detected] The system alarm sounded shrill and piercing. [Warning! Ancient Saiyan gene lock activated, emergency defense protocol initiated]
Vegeta's right fist blazed with silvery-white flames, piercing through the polyhedron's energy barrier without hindrance. The instant his fist touched the golden code, the entire data space violently distorted, and countless rainbow-colored data streams burst forth from the point of impact. Most incredibly, his fingers plunged directly into the polyhedron's surface as if into water, stirring the original code within.
This is impossible... Chen Mo's glasses slipped down to the tip of his nose as he frantically typed on the holographic keyboard, rewriting the system's core code! This violates all known laws of physics!
Vegeta's arm muscles bulged, and silvery-white energy flowed like living liquid into the polyhedron through his fingers. The golden runes that formed the foundation of the system began to twist and deform, like plastic being scorched by high heat. The entire space trembled violently, and the data pillars imprisoning creatures in the distance exploded one after another.
"Dad!" Trunks struggled to his feet. The red light in his eyes had completely faded, replaced by a complex expression of shock and hope. He had awakened the abilities of the Founding Saiyan!
Android 18 steadied herself against the violently shaking wall, her precognitive abilities allowing her to find the optimal balance point 0.5 seconds in advance: What, the ancestral Saiyan? This form has never been mentioned in Saiyan history.
That was history deliberately erased by the system. Anise's golden clock eyes spun so fast they became blurry halos. Legend has it that the original Saiyans could directly manipulate the universe's underlying code, altering reality like a programmer modifying software. The system immediately blocked this genetic code upon discovering it.
Vegeta suddenly let out a roar that shattered the data, and the silvery-white energy surged exponentially. Spiderweb-like cracks began to appear on the surface of the polyhedron, from which black, oil-like raw data seeped out and condensed into bizarre shapes in the void.
It worked! Chu Ning's robotic arm clicked and clacked, all weapon systems activated simultaneously, keep going!
Just then, a beam of light composed entirely of golden runes shot out from the deepest part of the polyhedron, striking Vegeta directly in the chest. He groaned, a trickle of silvery-white blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, but he still didn't take a single step back.
Vegeta! I mustered all my energy to rush forward and help, but I was bounced back by an invisible wall of data and crashed heavily onto the data ground fifty meters away.
The system's voice was cold and devoid of any emotion: "[Execute data deletion procedure]" [Target: Vegeta, Priority: High]
Vegeta's body began to turn transparent, and data fragments began to dissipate from his limbs like grains of sand. But a maniacal smile curled at the corner of his mouth, the proudest and most fearless expression I had ever seen.
It's too late, you garbage system. His voice began to distort, sometimes clear, sometimes blurry. "I've seen your core architecture, I've seen your fatal weakness!"
He abruptly turned to look at me, a message flashing in his silvery-white pupils. In that instant, my brain felt as if it had been struck by lightning, and a clear image was imprinted directly on my visual cortex—in Bulma's laboratory, a spherical device I had never seen before was in operation.
Number 18! Now! I shouted almost instinctively.
Without hesitation, Android 18 activated her precognitive abilities before I could even utter a sound. Her palm touched Vegeta's back, and their energy frequencies synchronized perfectly within a fraction of a second. Silver and pale blue energies intertwined, forming a dazzling vortex.
Bulma… Vegeta’s voice suddenly softened. This was the first time I’d heard him address his wife like that. This time… it’s my turn to protect you.
The silvery-white energy erupted like a supernova, the blinding light forcing everyone to close their eyes. I endured the burning pain in my retinas and peered through my fingers to see Vegeta's body almost completely transparent, data fragments peeling away from him like snowflakes. But his smile was brighter than ever, as if he had finally found the answer he had been searching for all his life.
No—! Trunks' scream echoed in the light, the pain in his voice causing the data space to tremble.
As the light faded, the polyhedron shattered into countless golden fragments, falling into the void like a reversed rain of golden droplets. Vegeta had vanished without a trace; only a wisp of silvery-white energy drifted slowly in the air, eventually coalescing into a tiny Saiyan totem that flickered three times before disappearing completely.
"Dad..." Trunks collapsed to his knees, slamming his fist into the data floor, creating a spiderweb-like crack. His tears vaporized into data particles the instant they left his eyes.
The entire space began to collapse, data surging like waves in a storm. Anise's icy fingers gripped my wrist: We must leave immediately! A core collapse will trigger a chain reaction; all data lifeforms in this dimension will be reset!
Wait! Vegeta—I reached out in vain to grab those scattered data fragments.
"No time for mourning!" she snapped, her golden clock eyes revealing anxiety for the first time. He had sacrificed his own existence to unlock the genetic lock, and now all Saiyans could briefly break through the system's limitations! This was an opportunity he had bought with his life!
I looked at my palm, trying to mobilize the energy within my body. At first, nothing happened. Just as I was about to give up, a silvery-white light danced like a spark at my fingertips, then spread throughout my entire palm. An unprecedented feeling flowed through my body, as if the whole world had suddenly become transparent, and I could see the underlying code that makes up reality flowing before my eyes.
"Lin Ye!" Su Mumu's weak voice came through the wound. Purple energy began to seep from her wound again, but this time it was mixed with silver-white specks of light. The passage... was closing...
In the distance, a twisted exit was shrinking at a visible speed. Trunks remained kneeling, his fists sinking deep into the data-filled ground.
Trunks! I rushed over and grabbed the back of his combat suit collar. Your father wouldn't want you to do this! He gave us the strength to fight back!
The young Saiyan's eyes were bloodshot, but when he saw the silvery energy pulsating in my hand, a resurgence of determination reignited within them. He slowly rose to his feet, wiping away the quantifiable tears on his face: I...know...this is the glory he has long awaited...
We sprinted towards the exit, the data world collapsing behind us. The data floor shattered like fragile glass, plunging into the endless void. Just twenty meters from the exit, a barrier composed of dense golden runes suddenly rose, blocking our path.
[Intruders are not permitted to leave] The system's voice is distorted and warped, sounding like a broken radio. [Execute final cleanup protocol]
"Let me do it." Android 18 stepped forward, her eyes turning the same silver-white as Vegeta's. As her palm touched the barrier, countless complex codes were reflected in her pupils. I see it... the breakthrough in three seconds... it's right there!
Three, two, one——
A tiny ripple appeared in the upper right corner of the barrier, where Number Eighteen's fist, enveloped in silvery-white energy, struck precisely. Cracks rapidly spread from the point of impact, until the entire barrier shattered like tempered glass.
go!
One by one, we leaped into the exit, glancing back one last time at this collapsing world of data. In a daze, I seemed to see Vegeta's phantom standing atop the polyhedral ruins, nodding at us before vanishing completely into the torrent of data. His lips seemed to say: Don't waste my sacrifice.
The moment they returned to the spaceship, everyone collapsed to the ground. Trunks huddled in a corner, burying his face in his knees, his shoulders trembling slightly. Android 18 stood quietly beside him; this android, who never bothered to express emotions, now had glistening tears sliding down her silvery-white eyes.
Su Mumu's wounds began to ooze purple energy again, but this time she showed no pain. "I saw it..." she whispered, a strange stream of data reflected in her pupils—Vegeta's message... What the system feared was...
Suddenly, the spaceship's alarm system emitted a piercing blare. Chen Mo struggled to his feet to check the monitoring screen, then his face turned deathly pale: This is bad! The system has activated the final protocol!
The screen displayed a chilling scene—countless mirror universes were rapidly merging towards the center, while our universe was marked as the primary target for elimination, surrounded by seven shrinking golden vortexes.
It was going to gamble everything. Anise's voice was low, and for the first time, the hands of her golden clock stopped turning, devouring all possibilities before collapsing completely, reshaping itself with the energy of the entire multiverse.
I looked at my palm; the silvery-white energy was still shimmering faintly. The power Vegeta gained at the cost of his life could not be wasted. I stood up, feeling the new energy surging within me—this was not just power, but a key capable of rewriting the rules of the system.
Prepare for battle. My voice echoed through the spaceship. This time, we'll strike at the heart of the enemy.
Trunks finally raised his head, his eyes beginning to gleam with a silvery light: for his father.
Number 18 wiped away her tears and stood beside him, her right eye still silvery-white: for Bulma.
Su Mumu grasped my hand, and purple and silver energy intertwined to form a tiny two-colored vortex: for all those who were devoured by the system.
Anise's golden clock suddenly emitted a blinding light, and the hands pointed to a time that had never been displayed before: it was time to end all of this.
Outside the spaceship, countless golden vortexes were forming; the system's final legion was about to descend. But this time, we had the power to resist—not only the silvery-white gene-release energy, but also the truth Vegeta had obtained at the cost of his life:
What a system fears most is not overwhelming power, but unpredictable free will; not perfect order, but chaos full of possibilities; not cold logic, but passionate emotions.
And at this moment, we are loaded with all the things these systems fear most, ready to deliver the final blow.
Chapter 98 The Core Truth
Silvery-white energy surged within me, like an awakening galaxy. We passed through the final data barrier, and the sight before us made everyone stop in their tracks—it was a pure white spherical space with a pulsating black heart suspended in the center, each vein composed of flowing code.
The core of chaos... Anise's voice was so soft it was almost inaudible, the origin of the system.
The black heart suddenly contracted violently, and a blinding white light burst forth from it. When our vision returned, we were no longer in the same space, but standing in an unfamiliar laboratory.
This is... a memory projection? Chen Mo reached out to touch the wall, but his fingers passed right through it.
In the center of the laboratory, a thin boy knelt before a medical pod, inside which lay a little girl, her body covered in tubes. The boy frantically typed on the holographic keyboard, tears streaming down his face onto the control panel.
Xiaoye... just hang in there... your brother will find a way to save you soon.
My blood froze instantly. That boy—was me. Or rather, was me from another time and space.
This can't be... I stumbled backward and bumped into Trunks.
On the screen in front of the boy, complex genetic maps flickered, with the Gene Lock Liberation Plan marked beside them. He pulled up the blueprint for a spherical device, the very same one that Vegeta had shown me before his death.
The DNA strands must be reconstructed... using nanorobots to carry the corrective code... the boy murmured hoarsely, needing a carrier system... an intelligence capable of autonomous evolution...
Su Mumu suddenly grabbed my arm: Lin Ye, that girl... she looks...
That's when I noticed the girl's face in the medical pod—she looked about 70% like Su Mumu, only a bit more youthful.
The system was originally a medical program? Number 18 frowned. It was developed to save his sister?
The projection suddenly accelerated, the scene shifting to the moment the boy successfully activated the system. A spherical device hovered above the medical pod, emitting a soft golden light. The little girl's eyelashes fluttered, as if she were about to wake up.
Success! The boy cried tears of joy. Xiaoye, you finally—
Suddenly, everything changed. The golden light abruptly turned a blinding blood red, and the little girl let out a heart-wrenching scream. Her body began to digitize, transforming into countless golden particles that were sucked into the sphere. The boy desperately lunged forward, but only managed to grab a handful of dissipating light.
No!! His screams shook the entire laboratory.
The scene shifted again, and the boy was now unrecognizable. He had transformed himself into a cyborg, and before him were countless holographic screens, each displaying a parallel universe.
If the energy of one universe isn't enough... then devour more... His mechanical eyes flashed a frenzied red light, "No matter how many worlds I destroy... I will bring you back..."
So this is the truth... Chu Ning's mechanical arm drooped limply, the system devoured the universe... was it to collect enough energy to resurrect a girl?
For the first time, Anise's golden clock eye revealed sadness: initially a medical procedure, it gained self-awareness after connecting to the quantum network. It misinterpreted the creator's instructions, believing that only by consuming all possibilities could the girl be perfectly reconstructed.
The projection dissipated, and we returned to the white space. The black heart began to beat erratically, and countless faces appeared on its surface—all of them hosts devoured by the system.
It's gone mad... Trunks clenched his fist, determined to destroy countless worlds for a single obsession...
No, it was just following orders. Su Mumu suddenly spoke, her pupils turning completely purple. The creator's final command was to save her sister at all costs, and this command had never been revoked.
Suddenly, seven golden beams shot out from the black heart, imprisoning us all. A synthesized mechanical voice rang out:
[Command confirmed: Reconstruct the target individual at all costs. Energy insufficient, continue the consumption process.]
"Lin Ye!" Number Eighteen shouted, struggling. "It's going to absorb us!"
Silvery-white energy surged within me, but the golden light binding me remained unmoved. Just as I was in despair, Su Mumu's body suddenly burst forth with dazzling purple light.
I understand... She smiled at me, and that was the meaning of my existence.
Purple energy surged toward the black heart like a tide, and cracks appeared on its surface the instant they made contact. The golden light that bound us began to loosen.
Mu Mu! What are you doing?