298: Our universe is just a "bubble"!

"Is this the weapon?"

Su Qingying's voice trembled in the void.

She looked at the mass of matter Lu Chen had just grabbed from the depths of nothingness, which was emitting a strange light. It didn't look like a gun or a cannon; it looked more like a mass of "liquid universe" that was constantly flowing, changing, and self-reorganizing.

"That's right."

Lu Chen's gaze was grave; he could feel the weight of this mass of matter in his hand—not a physical weight, but the weight of causality and logic.

"This is the 'Source Code' left behind by the Six-Dimensional Civilization."

"And it is the 'stone' we will use to smash this 'bottle'."

"But," Su Qingying looked up at the dense, despair-inducing ocean of Multiverse cosmic bubbles above, her fear not diminishing despite having obtained the weapon. "Can we really get out? What exactly is that 'the cleaners'?"

Hearing this, a cold sneer grew more pronounced on Lu Chen's lips.

He turned around and didn't answer directly, instead waving one hand.

"heavenly craft, analyze the 'Source Code'!"

"Project the 'security system' of this universe for me!"

[Yes, Master!]

Hum—!

Following Lu Chen's will, the surrounding void instantly changed.

The grand Multiverse landscape vanished, replaced by a massive, semi-transparent spherical model—that was the universe they were in.

And on the surface of the sphere, there was a thin yet indestructible "membrane."

"Do you see it?"

Lu Chen pointed at that membrane, his voice ice-cold.

"Our universe is not just a cosmic bubble."

"It is more like a massive living organism."

"And that membrane is its 'skin,' as well as the 'wall' that imprisons us."

Lu Chen's finger suddenly pointed inside the sphere, where a group of red light spots were frantically wandering, devouring, and cleaning up the "impurities" inside.

That was—the approaching fleet of "the cleaners"!

"And the so-called 'the cleaners',"

A cold glint of insight flickered in Lu Chen's eyes.

"They are not some external invaders at all."

"They are the 'immune cells' produced by this cosmic bubble itself!"

Boom!!!

This truth was even more hair-raising than "the universe is a cosmic bubble"!

Su Qingying was completely stunned.

Immune cells?

White blood cells?

"Y-Yes."

Lu Chen's voice was filled with mockery and sorrow.

"To those high-and-mighty 'Supervisors', we civilizations that try to develop technology, try to grasp the truths of the universe, and try to jump out of the cosmic bubble,"

"Are 'viruses'."

"Are 'cancer cells'."

"Because our development consumes the entropy of the universe, disrupts the stability of the cosmic bubble, and may even threaten the rules they have established!"

"So, whenever a civilization develops to a certain degree and touches the edge of the 'taboo',"

"The 'immune system' of the universe itself will be activated."

"'the cleaners' will appear to completely eradicate these restless 'viruses'!"

Lu Chen clenched his fist tightly, and the "Source Code" in his hand erupted with blinding radiance!

"This is why the 'Star Devourer' failed."

"Because it only wanted to destroy, to devour."

"But I am different."

"I don't want to be a virus."

Lu Chen looked up, the fires of rebellion burning in his heterochromatic divine eyes, enough to incinerate the firmament!

"I want to be"

"The 'sharp knife' that pierces the skin and stabs through the heart!"

"Since this universe treats us as viruses, then we will be the most toxic kind!"

"Toxic enough to make it hurt! Toxic enough to make it afraid! Toxic enough to force it to let us out!"

"heavenly craft!"

Lu Chen roared!

[Present!]

"Lock onto the coordinates of 'the cleaners' fleet!"

"Aren't they immune cells? Aren't they coming to eliminate the virus?"

"Fine!"

"Then we will return to the Solar System!"

"There, we will prepare a 'cytokine storm' for them,"

"that they have never seen in their lives!"