329: The Dimension Cleaner's Shock: What kind of monster are you?!

Amidst the ruins.

The smashed mountain of trash was still emitting purple energy smoke.

"Cough, cough... cough, cough, cough..."

A series of violent coughs rang out.

That previously elegant and noble "Big Boss" was now as wretched as a dog with a broken back, struggling to crawl out from the pile of scrap metal.

His expensive suit was reduced to rags, and the miniature universe on his head was dim and dull, even missing a corner, revealing the sizzling, sparking logic circuits inside.

"Bastard... Bastard!"

Big Boss leaned against a broken steel plate, staring fixedly at the young man in the distance who was directing his subordinates to "move house."

"Xing Tian! Dismantle that reactor for me! Easy now, don't bump it!"

"Fatty, don't bother with that statue. Pure gold is too tacky; we want the ones with high-tech content!"

Lu Chen stood in mid-air, like a black-hearted contractor, pointing fingers at his own "zero-yuan purchase" operation.

He completely ignored the owner of this Slaughterhouse.

"Ignoring me?"

Big Boss's chest heaved violently, the sense of humiliation instantly breaking through the dam of his reason.

"I am a Dimensional Lord! I am the rule-maker of this world!"

"Do you really think that just because you beat me, you can do whatever you want here?"

He suddenly pulled a red, heart-shaped object pulsing with dangerous light from his robes.

"You forced my hand!"

Big Boss let out a shrill roar and crushed the heart in one go!

"With this body as a sacrifice!"

"Call upon the [Asgard · Supreme Cleanup Sequence]!"

"Come forth! Ultimate Adjudicator!"

Rumble—!!!

The nebula above the entire Slaughterhouse suddenly went still.

Then, like a mirror being shattered by a heavy hammer.

The sky cracked open.

A massive Silver Giant Eye, covering half the field of vision, slowly opened from the crack.

It had no pupil.

Only countless, densely packed data streams that were performing frantic calculations.

A pressure a thousand times stronger than the previous "the cleaners" and ten thousand times more terrifying than "Big Boss" descended instantly!

"Warning! Warning!"

The instrument in Su Qingying's hand exploded directly. "This is... the low-level antivirus program of the high-dimensional universe! It's the 'Heavenly Dao' of this world!"

"Heavenly Dao?"

Lu Chen stopped his directing and turned around, looking at the Silver Giant Eye in the sky with great interest.

"I didn't expect that hitting a mouse would attract a cat."

"Hahahaha!"

Big Boss burst into wild laughter, his voice filled with the madness of mutual destruction.

"Scared now? It's too late!"

"This is a supreme-sequence cleaner! It has no physical form, no emotions; it represents the will of 'Absolute Eradication'!"

"Even if you can reverse entropy, can you compete with the computing power of the entire Asgard?!"

"Kill him! Cleaner! Erase him from existence conceptually!"

The Silver Giant Eye in the sky turned slightly, locking onto Lu Chen.

[Detected abnormal Source Code.]

[Threat Level: World-Ending Grade.]

[Execution Plan: Causality · Ultimate Formatting.]

Buzz—!

A silver pillar of light fell without any warning.

There was no sound, nor any energy fluctuation.

But everywhere the light pillar passed, space simply vanished, turning into the most primitive "nothingness."

This wasn't an attack.

This was—Return to Zero.

"Brother Chen!" Wang Peng closed his eyes in despair.

However.

Lu Chen didn't dodge.

He didn't even take his hand out of his pocket.

He just looked up, the chaotic divine light in his eyes becoming as deep as an abyss in an instant.

pangu.

Lu Chen chanted silently in his heart.

"Show it your 'ID card'."

[Command confirmed.]

[ROOT Permissions: Fully Open.]

[Original Code Display: Activated.]

The next second.

A simple, desolate golden rune that seemed to contain the truth of the universe's beginning suddenly lit up on Lu Chen's forehead.

That was—[Source].

Just as the silver "Return to Zero light pillar" was about to touch the top of Lu Chen's head.

It stopped.

Like a movie frame being paused, it hung stiffly three inches above Lu Chen's head.

Then.

That originally cold and heartless Silver Giant Eye suddenly began to tremble violently!

Those dense data streams began to frantically garble, report errors, and flow backward!

[Warning! Logic Conflict!]

[Warning! Permission Suppression!]

[Detected... Ancestor Code?]

"This... how is this possible?!"

On the ground, Big Boss's smile froze on his face.

He saw the most terrifying scene of his life.

That "Ultimate Cleaner" representing absolute authority, whom even Dimensional Lords had to bow to... was actually trembling right now?

It was afraid!

Facing that tiny human, it felt a fear originating from the depths of its core code!

"That's it?"

Lu Chen reached out and lightly flicked the suspended silver pillar of light.

Ting.

A crisp sound.

That Return to Zero light pillar, which was enough to erase a galaxy, actually shattered into silver dust like a fragile glass pillar!

"You... who exactly are you?!"

The giant eye in the sky emitted a trembling synthetic voice, "In your code... why is there a 'genesis' signature?!"

"Who am I?"

Lu Chen stepped into the air, his figure instantly rising until he was at eye level with the giant eye.

He stood with his hands behind his back, his clothes fluttering in the wind.

The "pangu" phantom behind him transformed into a giant that split heaven and earth, looking down upon this world.

"To them."

Lu Chen pointed at Big Boss and Gao Jianjun below.

"I am a predator, a thug, the director of the demolition office."

Lu Chen paused, a playful curve hooking the corner of his mouth as he looked at the giant eye.

"But to you..."

"To this broken system of yours that has been running for billions of years."

Lu Chen reached out a finger and poked the massive silver eyeball.

"I am... a Programmer."

"Which means..."

"I'm your daddy."

Boom!!!

These words, like a billion-ton nuclear bomb, exploded in the giant eye's logic core.

Programmer?

Daddy?

Although it didn't understand the ethical meaning of the word "daddy," it understood the permission level represented by that "pangu" rune—

[Highest Administrator].

"Thud."

Without any hesitation.

That Silver Giant Eye representing the "Heavenly Dao" actually manifested a huge palm in the void.

Then, it performed a standard "subordinate's salute" to Lu Chen.

[Cleaner Sequence 001, pays respects to... Administrator-sama.]

Dead silence.

The entire Slaughterhouse, whether living people or dead ghosts, was completely petrified.

Big Boss sat slumped in the ruins, his eyes vacant, muttering to himself:

"Impossible... this is absolutely impossible..."

"The Cleaner saluting a virus? The Heavenly Dao kneeling to a mortal?"

"Has the world gone mad?"

Lu Chen ignored the ants on the ground.

He looked at the giant eye before him, which was as submissive as a dog, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Although you're just antivirus software, you've got good eyes."

"Since you've acknowledged me as master, then do some work for me."

Lu Chen pointed to the bustling city below, and then to Big Boss who was still questioning his life.

"First thing."

"Ban that so-called 'Big Boss' for me."

"The permanent kind."

[Command confirmed.]

The giant eye instantly turned, shooting a red beam of light directly at Big Boss.

"No!! I am a Lord! I am a VIP! I have immunity!!"

Big Boss let out a shrill scream.

But in the face of the highest permissions, all VIP status was a joke.

"Puff."

A soft sound.

Big Boss turned directly into a mass of garbled data and was sucked into the giant eye, becoming history forever.

Lu Chen clapped his hands and turned to look at Wang Peng and Su Qingying, who had already finished loading the "Xing Tian."

"Alright, stop dazing off."

"Since the biggest security guard here has become one of ours."

Lu Chen grinned, pointing at this vast high-dimensional territory.

"Then don't be polite."

"Take down the 'Slaughterhouse' sign for me."

"Replace it with our flag."

"From today on..."

"This place's name is Lu!"