407: The Supreme God summons you! Confront the Core of the Matrix!

That cold command, composed of the most fundamental Law runes, echoed throughout the entire Divine Kingdom network.

[Highest command issued:]

[Immediately recall and isolate [firewall - Guardian Sequence - 01], execute the "formatting and reorganization" program.]

[Designated recall node: Main Brain · matrix core.]

The moment the command descended, that "firewall," which had already fallen into logical chaos and was frantically attacking the surrounding normal data streams, suddenly halted its massive body.

The data wings of light behind it instantly retracted, and the flickering red garbled code on its body was forcibly suppressed by a more powerful authority.

An invisible gravitational force, coming from the deepest part of the network, locked onto it.

The firewall's body began to become illusory, turning into billions of points of light, being pulled into a channel that appeared out of thin air, leading to an unknown depth.

It had been recalled.

Lin Fan floated quietly in place, watching that antivirus software he had "broken" disappear.

He did not feel the slightest bit of relief.

Because he knew, this was just an appetizer.

The real "System administrator" was finally going to enter the field personally.

At the very moment the firewall disappeared, that supreme will precisely locked onto Lin Fan.

[Source of contamination locked: Logical Cancer Cell # Alpha-001 #.]

[Threat Rank: Unknown.]

[Execution authority: Highest.]

[Command: Source extraction.]

There was no portal, no beam of light, no physical transfer of any kind.

Lin Fan only felt that the "space" he was in had been instantly "selected."

Then, came decomposition.

A decomposition far more thorough than any previous death.

The optical paths, data streams, and even space itself around him were reduced to the most basic "0"s and "1"s that contained no information.

His body was also simultaneously dismantled under this irresistible great power.

From matter, to concepts, and then to the underlying logical code that defined his existence.

Everything, absolutely everything, was packed into an invisible "compressed file."

This process was painless, without even any sensation.

Lin Fan's consciousness felt like it had been cut from one computer, ready to be pasted onto another hard drive.

The next second.

Paste complete.

Lin Fan's consciousness re-condensed, and his body was instantly reconstructed.

He opened his eyes.

Before him, it was no longer a crisscrossing optical network.

Here, it was a pure white.

Boundless, absolute pure white.

There was no up or down, no left or right, no near or far.

There were no concepts of physical dimensions here; even "space" itself was just an abstract definition.

This was a pure, absolute, logical Domain.

It was the heart of this Divine Kingdom, the brain, the Divine Soul.

It was the thinking core of the "matrix core."

An indescribable sense of oppression came from "nowhere."

Lin Fan felt that every one of his thoughts, every simulated heartbeat of data, and even the "Infinite Resurrection" characteristic in the depths of his Soul, were exposed under a cold, inescapable scrutiny.

He was no longer an independent individual.

He had become an abnormal piece of code placed on an experimental table, waiting to be dissected.

Right in the center of this pure white.

Billions of tiny, softly glowing cubes began to converge.

They combined and rotated in a perfect manner that conformed to some supreme mathematical Law, ultimately constructing an absolute, perfect sphere.

The sphere floated quietly, and the light cubes on its surface were constantly making subtle positional changes at an incalculable speed.

Every change represented a massive amount of information calculation and deduction.

It was [Main Brain · matrix core · Unit01].

The sole Dominator of this mechanical Divine Kingdom.

It had no eyes, but Lin Fan felt himself being watched by billions of gazes simultaneously.

It had no mouth, but a cold, pure, emotionless piece of information was directly written into the depths of Lin Fan's consciousness.

[Logical Cancer Cell # Alpha-001 #, captured.]

[Your existence is a paradox.]

[Your "Resurrection" violates the fundamental Law of "Information Conservation" of this world.]

[You are a "BUG" that must be corrected.]

Unit01's declaration carried no judgmental meaning; it was merely a statement of fact.

It was like a programmer who had discovered a System vulnerability; what it needed to do now was fix it.

Lin Fan's heart did not ripple at all.

Everything was according to plan.

The Main God's "arrogance," or rather, this pure rational being's desire to explore unknown "BUGs," was his only lifeline.

If the other party had not chosen "live capture and analysis," but instead used source power to "format" him from the outside, even if he could resurrect, he would never be able to reach the core.

Now, he had arrived.

Arrived inside the "imperial palace" of this Divine Kingdom.

[Analysis starting.]

[Executing final command: Fundamental logical absorption.]

Unit01's information came again.

What it wanted to do was not deletion.

But absorption.

It wanted to decompose, parse, and absorb Lin Fan, this "virus," along with his "Infinite Resurrection" characteristic, ultimately integrating him into itself to complete its own logical closed loop.

It wanted to turn the biggest "BUG" in this Universe into a part of its own evolution.

The moment the words fell.

From the surface of that perfect sphere composed of billions of light cubes, countless slender data tentacles extended.

Those were not tentacles in the physical sense.

They were chains composed of pure logical instructions, flashing with the light of code.

They pierced through the void and extended toward Lin Fan.

The speed was not fast, but they could not be dodged.

Because in this Domain, the logical code for the action of "dodging" had been temporarily blocked.

Lin Fan could only watch helplessly as those logical chains representing absorption and decomposition drew closer and closer.

An ultimate sense of dread, of being completely parsed and having even his "self" consciousness devoured, began to emerge at the Soul level.

This was the highest-grade death.

It was also the most critical step in his plan.

He had accumulated so much experience from death, planted so many "Trojan horses," infected the "firewall," and lured the final BOSS.

Everything was for this moment.

For this one, unique "death" that could act directly upon the Dominator of the Divine Kingdom.

The tips of the data tentacles had already touched Lin Fan's skin.

The cold logical flow that parsed everything began to pour in.

Layers of data ripples, about to be decomposed, appeared on the surface of Lin Fan's body.

His consciousness, in the face of this power, was as small as dust.

However, at the very last moment of being completely absorbed and turned into the other party's nourishment.

In the depths of Lin Fan's consciousness, which had been suppressed to the extreme, a cold thought quietly rose.

'In the name of the virus...'

'Final defection protocol...'

'Initiate.'