163: System, what exactly is your background?

When Lu Chen's ultimate rhetorical question, filled with faint disdain and grand ambition—“You wouldn't really think I built such a massive structure just to dig for some worthless ore on this tiny, broken rock, would you?”—clearly echoed in the Main Command Room of the Guanghan Palace Base, that heart, which had long been tempered by all kinds of storms and hardened like a rock, unexpectedly began to pound wildly at this moment!

Not for mining?!

Then what is it for?!

Could it be that a terrifying thought, one that made his blood boil, instantly surfaced!

Could it be that this kid is seriously going to follow through on the incredible boast he made before!

Directly, in one step!

Using the Moon as a springboard!

To conquer the even vaster and more expansive starry sea?!

"Comrade Lu Chen"

His wise eyes were filled with unbelievable astonishment!

He looked at the calm-faced youth before him, his voice trembling!

"Tell me the truth, you brat!"

"Are you secretly planning some major move behind our backs again?!"

"Major move?"

Lu Chen smiled.

It was a god-like smile, full of absolute confidence and absolute control.

"Your perspective is too narrow again."

He only felt a tightness in his chest!

A mouthful of hot blood nearly sprayed out right then and there!

That sentence again?!

Is this kid seriously picking a fight with the word "perspective"?!

I'm already helping you conquer the Solar System!

And you still complain that my perspective is too narrow?!

Then what do you want to do?!

Do you want to rush straight out of the Milky Way Galaxy?!

"That's right."

Lu Chen seemed to read his mind and nodded calmly.

"It's exactly as you think."

"The Moon is too small for us."

"The Solar System is also too small."

"In fact, even the entire Milky Way Galaxy—"

The corner of his mouth curled into an arc filled with madness and ambition!

"is nothing more than a slightly larger"

"Novice Village."

Boom!!!

This was no longer a mere declaration!

This was a genesis

Divine Decree! One that could change mountains and rivers and eclipse the sun and moon!

In an instant!

The entire Main Command Room fell into a deathly silence.

All the important figures present were struck hard on their crowns as if by a genesis Divine Lightning bolt capable of splitting heaven and earth!

They were completely petrified!

The Milky Way Galaxy is just a Novice Village?!

What kind of divine perspective is this?!

They felt their brains were utterly insufficient!

They could no longer keep up with the mental leaps of this terrifying Prodigy before them!

Meanwhile, Lu Chen acted as if he had done something insignificant.

He looked at the group of important figures who had been completely stunned, and smiled faintly.

Then, right in front of them, he slowly closed his eyes.

It was as if he was having a soul

dialogue with an invisible existence that transcended time and space.

"System."

[Present, Host.]

"I've always been curious."

Lu Chen's voice was calm yet profound, like a bottomless cosmic

abyss.

"What exactly is your origin?"

"Why did you choose me?"

"And what is your ultimate goal?"

This time, the cold, synthesized mechanical voice, which usually answered every question, fell into prolonged

silence.

It was so long that Lu Chen thought it wouldn't answer.

A line of golden

script!

filled with an ancient and weathered aura, slowly floated into his mind.

[I come from the future.]

[And I also come from the past.]

[I am the 'Effect'.]

[And I am the 'Cause'.]

Seeing this riddle-like answer, full of philosophical speculation and paradoxical aura.

Lu Chen's state of mind, which had long been tempered by various Black Technologies and hardened like a rock!

couldn't help but twitch violently!

Good heavens!

After all that, you're still a damned Riddler who needs to get out of Gotham City!

"Speak human."

Lu Chen said impatiently.

[Insufficient Authority.]

The System still replied with those four cold words.

"Authority?"

Lu Chen raised an eyebrow. "Then how can I gain sufficient Authority?"

[Complete all Main Quests in the 'starry sea' series.]

[Or]

The System paused before slowly displaying the next line of terrifying

text that made Lu Chen's pupils contract sharply.

[Increase your Brain Development Level to]

[One hundred percent!]

"One hundred percent?!"

Lu Chen gasped sharply!

He knew!

What that meant!

It meant he would completely break free from the fragile physical shackles of mortals!

To become a Four-Dimensional

God, omniscient and omnipotent, capable of manipulating time and space at will!

And, by then,

this so-called "System".

would completely lose all

meaning to him.

"I understand."

Lu Chen let out a long breath of stale air.

A trace of unprecedented determination and

heroic spirit flashed in his eyes, which were as dark and vast as the cosmos!

Isn't it just one hundred percent?!

Isn't it just becoming a God?!

All I have to do is grind!

Meanwhile, at this moment.

In the Main Command Room.

They looked at the mysterious youth who was currently closing his eyes, doing who knows what.

One by one, they all displayed complex and reverent expressions.

They knew.

The journey of this youth before them.

was never something they, as mortals, could fathom.

There was only one thing they could do.

And that was—

To believe in him unconditionally!

To support him!

And then tightly cling to his sturdy, golden

thigh!

It was at this moment that Long Weiguo suddenly spoke.

He looked at the youth who was still "Wandering Outside the Heavens," his sharp eyes filled with unprecedented solemnity!

"I have a bad feeling."

"Hmm?"

"You mean—"

Long Weiguo's voice was extremely low, as if he were discussing a forbidden topic.

"Is humanity truly the only civilization in this Universe?"