339: A call from beyond the dimensional barrier!

Lingxiao Heavenly Court, Core Conference Hall.

A black card floated in mid-air, emitting a highly unsettling dark red ripple.

The surrounding space was warping, as if something were desperately trying to crawl out.

"Something's not right."

The analyzer in Su Qingying's hand was alarming frantically, the data stream on the screen flowing as fast as a waterfall.

"Lu Chen, the signal source of this thing... isn't in our dimension."

"It bypassed '001's' monitoring and ignored the interception of the '404 dimensional wall'."

"It's being projected directly... onto our retinas!"

"Retinas?"

Wang Peng (Fatty) rubbed his eyes and shrank back in fear.

"Sister-in-law, don't scare me. Are you saying this thing is growing inside my brain?"

"More or less."

Lu Chen sat in the main seat, his fingers lightly tapping the tabletop.

His expression was still lazy, but deep in his eyes, a rare trace of gravity flashed.

"To bypass the pangu system's firewall and perform a direct Causal Projection..."

"It seems that so-called 'Abyss' has something up its sleeve."

Just then.

Buzz—!!!

The black card suddenly vibrated violently.

The originally blood-dripping eye symbol snapped open!

A raspy, cold voice, sounding like nails scraping against a blackboard, exploded directly in everyone's minds.

"Lucky one... Number 9832."

"Or perhaps, a thief who stole 'Administrator Privileges'?"

"Who's there?!"

Ye Qingcang suddenly drew the Higher Dimensions combat blade from his back, murderous intent instantly filling the entire hall.

"Stop playing tricks! Come out!"

"Hehehe..."

The voice let out a chilling low laugh.

"Don't be nervous, humans."

"I am merely a messenger."

"Abyssal Lord [Augustus] sincerely invites you to participate in the final gamble of the 'Myriad Races Hegemony'."

"The stakes are simple."

The voice paused, tinged with greedy temptation.

"If you win."

"You can take the 'World Origin' accumulated in the Abyss for billions of eons."

"That is a resource sufficient to truly promote you to a 'Supervisor'."

"Supervisor?"

Wang Peng's eyes instantly turned into the shape of gold coins, his breathing quickening.

But in the next second, the voice's tone shifted.

"But if you lose."

"We will reclaim your 'pangu' system."

"And... that Natural-born God infant."

Boom—!!!

Lu Chen's aura changed in an instant.

If he was a lazy lion just now, he was now a man-eating tyrannosaur.

The overwhelming murderous intent caused the temperature of the entire Lingxiao Heavenly Court to plunge to absolute zero.

"You want to touch my son?"

Lu Chen slowly stood up.

He didn't shout.

His voice was terrifyingly calm, yet it caused even the projected voice to stutter slightly.

"Do you know?"

"The last person who dared to target my son has already been turned into a toilet brush by me."

"Lu Chen!"

Su Qingying grabbed his hand, her eyes anxious.

"Calm down! This is clearly a provocation! They're trying to force you out!"

"Once the dimensional wall is opened, our location will be exposed!"

"Exposed?"

Lu Chen turned his head, the Primal Chaos Divine Light in his eyes churning wildly.

"Qingying, don't you see yet?"

He pointed at the card still emitting red light.

"Since they could send this thing in..."

"It means that '404' sign is no longer a secret to them."

"The reason they haven't attacked isn't that they can't get in."

"But rather..."

Lu Chen sneered and reached out, crushing the black card in one hand.

"They want to lure the pig out to slaughter it."

"Because slaughtering it in the pigpen makes too much noise and easily attracts wolves."

The card shattered, dissipating into specks of red light.

But the cold voice left one final taunt.

"Three days from now."

The Abyssal Gate will open.

"If you don't come... we will activate the 'Dimensional Collider'."

"At that time, that dimensional wall you're so proud of will become your coffin lid."

The voice vanished completely.

Dead silence fell over the hall.

The veins on the back of Ye Qingcang's hand holding the blade bulged: "Commander Lu! Let's fight! These bastards are too arrogant!"

"We're strong and well-equipped now, what are we afraid of!"

"We're definitely going to fight."

Lu Chen sat back in his chair, pulled out a cigarette from his pocket, and lit it.

The firelight reflected his cold face.

"But we can't fight blindly."

"Since that 'Augustus' dares to open a gamble, he must have a trump card."

"Moreover, he seems to know the 'pangu' system very well."

Lu Chen exhaled a smoke ring and looked at heavenly craft, who had been silent.

"heavenly craft."

"Present, Father."

"Have the coordinates for that 'Abyss' been analyzed?"

"They have."

heavenly craft waved her hand, and an extremely complex multi-dimensional map appeared.

At the bottom of the map was a pitch-black area, like a massive black hole, swallowing all surrounding light.

"That is the Multiverse's 'Recycle Bin'."

"All deleted, abandoned, and formatted data residue gathers there."

"The rules there are chaotic, and physical constants change every second."

"Recycle Bin?"

Lu Chen smiled.

A very playful smile.

"I knew it, I was wondering why that smell felt so familiar."

"So it's a gang built by a bunch of Scavengers."

He stood up and crushed the cigarette butt into the ashtray.

"Since we're in the same trade..."

"Then it'll be easy."

Lu Chen turned around, looking at his core team who were already eager to go.

"Fatty, bring all your 'specialties'."

"Old Ye, call up all thousand of your 'Xingtian' brothers."

"We're going to that 'Recycle Bin'..."

Lu Chen straightened his collar, a heart-stopping madness in his eyes.

"To go treasure hunting."

"And while we're at it, teach that guy named Augustus..."

"What it means to..."

"Force a sale."

Su Qingying looked at him and sighed, but a helpless yet doting smile curled at the corners of her mouth.

She knew he couldn't be stopped.

And she didn't want to stop him.

"What about me?" Su Qingying asked.

"You?"

Lu Chen walked over, gave her a gentle hug, and pinched the little face of Lu Xinghe, who was riding a robot vacuum around.

"You're responsible for keeping an eye on our 'humanoid nuclear bomb'."

"In case negotiations break down."

Lu Chen pointed at his son's innocent big eyes.

"Just let him..."

"Cry once."

"To liven things up for that Abyss!"