307: Data disaster, formatting comes

Piercing alarm bells, like red-hot steel needles, pricked the eardrums of everyone in the Main Control Room.

Fatty Zhang's excited expression instantly froze, turning ashen. "Wha... what's going on? Are enemies attacking again?"

Zhao Linger, Li Hanyue, and the others also drastically changed their expressions, immediately entering a state of alert.

But they soon discovered that this alarm was different from any previous one.

It wasn't an external attack warning, but rather the... collapse of the Immortal Alliance's own defense System!

On the light screen, the star map that clearly marked the Immortal Alliance's territory was being submerged by an incomprehensible, bizarre torrent of symbols, cascading like a waterfall.

Every rune, every energy line that formed the Immortal Alliance's grand formation, was being forcibly analyzed, decoded, and then altered into another segment of cold, disordered garbled code on the light screen.

[Warning! The underlying Law of the Immortal Alliance's Sect Protection Grand Formation has been overwritten! Defense System is offline!]

[Warning! Qingmu Star's life support System logic has been tampered with and is going out of control...]

[Warning! Unknown high-dimensional information flow detected invading!]

The cold electronic voice echoed again and again.

"Boss, what... what the hell is this?!" Fatty Zhang was completely flustered.

He had never seen such a bizarre attack method. No fleet, no artillery, the opponent hadn't even shown themselves, yet with just a stream of information, they had paralyzed the entire Immortal Alliance's proud defense System, rendering it like a pile of scrap metal!

Fear spread through the Main Control Room.

Zhao Linger stared intently at the strange mark slowly forming in the center of the light screen.

That mark exuded an absolute order and a cold will of "purification," as if a top-tier programmer was ruthlessly deleting a "bug" from their own code.

And the entire Immortal Alliance, along with their Qingmu Star, was the hard drive about to be "formatted"!

Just then, in a corner of the Main Control Room, a pot of Spiritual Plant used for decoration suddenly began to undergo a bizarre change.

Its leaves and branches, their edges began to blur, disintegrating into tiny, shimmering pixel squares, then scattering like sand in the wind into strings of meaningless '0's and '1's, completely vanishing into thin air.

This terrifying scene made Su Meier let out a suppressed cry of alarm.

All life, all matter, was being "datafied," being erased from this Universe!

Was this the vanguard of the great tribulation?

In the face of such incomprehensible power, personal cultivation and powerful Magic Treasures seemed so ridiculous and powerless.

However, in this ocean of panic, only Lin Fan was as calm as an isolated island.

He didn't look at the disappearing Spiritual Plant, nor did he heed the piercing alarm.

His gaze remained fixed on the mark in the center of the light screen, which represented the core of the "Data Catastrophe."

"An antivirus program more Advanced than the Heavenly Dao's reckoning, huh..."

"It's quite efficient."

His whisper left Zhao Linger and the others beside him stunned.

At a time like this, you're still evaluating the opponent's professional capabilities?!

"Lin Fan, what should we do?" Zhao Linger's voice trembled slightly; it was the first time she felt such helpless despair.

Lin Fan finally withdrew his gaze. He looked at the anxious crowd, and a strange smile appeared on his face.

"Programs always have loopholes."

He stretched out his hand.

The next moment, a mass of pure "misfortune" Origin, indescribable in any language, appeared in his palm.

It was a chaotic, twisted, anti-logical Chaos, completely out of place in this world.

Under everyone's astonished gaze, Lin Fan casually tossed this mass of "misfortune Origin" towards the light screen in the center of the Main Control Room, as if throwing trash.

"Here, let me give you some overtime and test your program's compatibility."

Om—!

The mass of "misfortune Origin," the moment it touched the light screen, transformed into a black data stream, precisely injecting itself into that violent invading information!

It was like a drop of ink falling into a clear glass of water.

Or like forcibly inserting a fatal infinite loop BUG into a perfectly running piece of code!

Zzzzt—!!!

The entire light screen suddenly trembled violently!

The cascading data waterfall experienced an unprecedented lag and garbled code!

That cold "purification" mark flickered intensely, like a CPU-overloaded computer frantically trying to understand and process this "virus" that completely defied its logic!

In the corner that was being "pixelated," the Spiritual Plant's dissipation process came to an abrupt halt.

The invasion... paused!

"It worked!" Fatty Zhang shouted excitedly.

Zhao Linger and the others also breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Lin Fan with disbelief.

Using one curse to fight another catastrophe?

Only he could have thought of such a poison-against-poison approach.

However, Lin Fan's face showed no sign of relief.

He knew this was only temporary.

Sure enough.

After only a few breaths, the data stream on the light screen stabilized again.

That "purification" mark no longer tried to analyze and delete the "misfortune" BUG, but instead chose to... mark it, isolate it, and quickly generate a set of targeted "antibody" programs!

The mark's light became even deeper and colder than before.

It had completed self-repair and evolution!

The next second.

A beam of light, more condensed than any previous attack, shot out from the center of the mark.

Its target was no longer the entire Immortal Alliance.

Instead, it precisely locked onto—Lin Fan, who was standing in the Main Control Room!

[Warning! Unknown program has completed evolution! Host has been marked as highest priority 'Logical Paradox Entity' (BUG)!]

[Warning! Targeted conceptual-level attack detected!]

[Attack Mode: true spirit • Conceptual Deletion!]

Boom!

Lin Fan's mind felt as if an invisible bomb had detonated!

That beam of light was not a physical attack, but a pure "directive" from a higher dimension!

The content of the directive was only one thing—delete the existence of "Lin Fan"!

At this instant, Fatty Zhang and Zhao Linger next to him felt a momentary daze in their minds.

They looked at Lin Fan's figure, and a strange thought inexplicably popped into their heads:

"Who... is this person?"

The Laws of the Universe were erasing all information about Lin Fan from its very Origin!

"Did I mess up?"

No.

Lin Fan's face, far from showing fear, instead burst forth with an unprecedented, almost fanatical light of excitement.

This was what he wanted!

This was the highest quality death experience!

Facing this "Conceptual Deletion" that could make any Indestructible-level existence completely vanish, he offered no resistance.

He slowly spread his arms, actively welcoming that invisible obliteration directive.

He wanted to use his true spirit to personally experience the core mystery of this Universe's "antivirus software"!

That obliteration directive struck him without any hindrance.

Lin Fan's body didn't explode, didn't annihilate, but instead began to... flicker.

Like a loose light bulb, it frantically switched between "existence" and "non-existence"!

[Warning! Warning! "Indestructible" characteristic encountered unknown logical erasure directive!]

["Indestructible" characteristic passively activated! Engaging in underlying confrontation with deletion directive!]

[Analyzing... Analyzing... Error... Attempting to reconstruct analysis model...]

In Lin Fan's System view, red warning codes frantically scrolled across the screen.

But amidst this red code, unprecedented, dazzling golden data streams began to emerge out of thin air, like hungry pythons, savagely tearing and devouring the directive code of "Conceptual Deletion"!

At the same time, deep within Lin Fan's Sea of Consciousness.

The "Indestructible" imprint, left by the Ancient Will and dormant for a long time, suddenly burst forth with ten thousand rays of light, creating a bizarre, trans-temporal resonance with the power of the "Data Catastrophe" from outside!