263: Chapter 265 Breaking Through the Crystal Barrier! Seeing the Real World

The bridge of the luan niao starship was as quiet as a graveyard at this moment.

Everyone held their breath, staring fixedly at that gray and cold "wall" stretching across the edge of the universe.

It had no thickness, yet it blocked light and hope.

The [Dimensional Reconstructor] in Jiang Chen's hand, which had just been violently dismantled from the Wasteland ruins, was emitting sharp chirps, its red indicator light flashing like a patient having a heart attack.

"If we make this cut, we might not be able to return."

Academician Chen Shuyin took a deep breath and tuned all monitoring modules to maximum power. Although her voice was trembling, she maintained the objectivity of a scientist. "Jiang Chen, are you sure you want to play it like this? Behind this thing might be a higher-dimensional existence capable of easily erasing us."

"What's there to be afraid of?"

A cynical, wicked smile curled the corners of Jiang Chen's mouth. "You only die once. We've been hanging around in this newbie village for so long, it's time to go meet the legendary 'The Keeper'."

He didn't hesitate at all.

His finger pressed heavily on the button that had long been polished shiny.

"Buzz—!!!"

An unspeakable ripple instantly swept from the warship toward that "wall".

There were no light effects, nor any grand explosions.

It felt like an invisible stone had been dropped onto a smooth water surface, and immediately after, the entire space began to show large areas of "snow".

That cosmic barrier, which humanity had looked up to for countless years, let out a crisp, cracking sound at this moment, like rotten wood dried by the wind.

"Crack!"

Space shattered.

It wasn't broken; it was "cut" open.

It was as if someone had forcibly used a pair of scissors to snip off a corner in the void.

A massive torrent of light gushed out from that opening.

The light was colorful, even possessing colors that were completely undefinable by human senses.

Jiang Chen opened his eyes wide.

He saw it.

Behind that shattered crystal wall was not nothingness, nor was it an alien colony.

It was a...

A massive, despairingly large laboratory placed on a higher dimension.

Or rather, a giant "breeding chamber".

The light there was a strange pale purple, and countless threads, invisible to the naked eye, hung down from that crack, deeply piercing into the entire Milky Way Galaxy behind him.

Each thread was connected to a planet.

Some threads connected to the desolate Wasteland, some to the bustling Earth, and others were continuously extracting golden light particles known as "Life Essence" from the destruction of those civilizations.

"Damn it."

Jiang Chen couldn't help but curse.

What was this?

A cosmic farm?

Those so-called "alien civilizations," those so-called "high-level technologies," were actually simplified into rows of simple "cultivation data" here?

"Did you detect it?"

Jiang Chen turned his head, his voice extremely low.

He saw Academician Chen Shuyin slumped in her chair, the data pad in her hand emitting black smoke due to overload, and the expression on her face was unprecedentedly grim.

"I saw it."

Academician Chen Shuyin's voice carried a chilling despair. "The interstellar journey we thought we were on, the peak of technology we thought we reached, in their eyes... might really just be a batch of bacterial colonies in a laboratory."

"This cut has shattered my worldview."

Jiang Chen didn't speak.

He looked at the slowly expanding gap.

Deep within that gap, in the center of that endless purple halo, Jiang Chen vaguely saw a table.

It was a huge, surgical-table-like desk.

And behind the table, a blurry, massive figure whose outline could not be seen, seemed startled by their movement and was slowly... turning around.

It was not angry.

It looked at the crack with a confusion similar to "a pet overturning its feeding trough".

"Who is making trouble here?"

The voice didn't come through sound waves but echoed directly in his mind, "You haven't even evolved to open the door, yet you're in such a rush to step out of the cage?"

"Forget it."

"Since you've broken the toy, then... destroy it completely."

Jiang Chen's heart shrank violently.

He felt a terrifying pressure, capable of forcibly dismantling his molecular structure, sweeping from the crack and covering the luan niao starship.

"Run!"

Jiang Chen roared, "Jump back at full power!"

"Forget about this damn wall! We've caused a huge disaster!"

However.

From the edge of that crack, a crystal-clear, massive knuckle—looking as if it were made of pure energy—suddenly reached out.

It pressed down gently.

The crack that Jiang Chen had painstakingly burned open was closed again as easily as a window shut by a naughty child, without leaving a single trace.

"Boom!"

The luan bird was slapped away by a terrifying repulsive force, like a baseball hit by a bat, flying back in a sorry state for tens of thousands of kilometers.

Jiang Chen hit the console, and a warm sensation flowed from his nose again.

He wiped the nosebleed, looking at the "wall" that had become smooth again as if nothing had happened, the murderous aura in his eyes not diminishing, but instead erupting into a flame that looked almost tangible.

"Heh."

"Locking me in a cage?"

"And cleaning house while you're at it?"

Jiang Chen touched the "Law of Causality" weapon in his pocket that had long run out of power, and glanced at the pile of industrial wreckage he had picked up from the Wasteland.

He suddenly laughed.

He laughed like a desperate desperado, and even more like a gambler about to flip the board.

"Tired of playing, huh?"

"Then don't blame me for... violent demolition."

He turned his head and looked at the group of alien allies outside the window who still didn't know what had happened and were still waiting for orders.

"Since you like being 'The Keeper' so much."

"Then tonight, I'll show you..."

"What is called—the revenge of a true wild animal!"

Having said that.

He immediately pushed the main cannon—which he had worked so hard to fix and hadn't had a chance to rest properly—back into an overload state.

"Don't just stand there!"

Jiang Chen roared into the communication channel, "Stuff all the hot pot base into the power furnace!"

"I don't care who is raising me behind the scenes!"

"Even if I set this universe on fire today!"

"I'm going to smash this damn cage... to pieces!!!"

Following his almost insane order, the luan bird started up again, without a moment's pause, and with an extremely savage posture, crashed into the space crystal wall that was once arrogant but had now developed a crack due to his "commotion"—

The space crystal wall.

I don't care what higher-dimensional The Keeper you are.

I don't care what God-level Civilization you are.

In front of this crazy "Dragon Country infrastructure maniac".

All rules.

Must be rewritten!

And on the other side of the base, Academician Chen Shuyin looked at his reckless appearance and suddenly smiled with relief.

She no longer calculated the success rate.

She no longer thought about logical laws.

She just walked over quietly and held onto the trembling switch that was about to ignite the universe.

"Let's do it together."

She said softly.

"Since the world is going to be destroyed anyway, let's make it... a bigger spectacle."

Jiang Chen felt the warmth in his palm, and the heart that had felt a little cold from confronting a god was boiling again at this moment.

He pressed the button hard.

The universe shattered instantly.

All stories, from this moment on, entered the final madness.

This time, no one is getting away!