Chapter 198 You're tired of living!

Heavy footsteps. Thump. Thump. Thump.

A figure emerged from the depths of the black giant door that had been forced open.

If that tentacle monster from before was disgusting, this one was the stuff of nightmares.

Cardinal "Jealousy".

He stood four meters tall, but his body was clearly no longer a purely mechanical construct. The left side was still precise dark gold armor, embedded with pulsating energy crystals; but the right side was like rotting flesh that had been soaked in an acid pool for three days, chewed up, and spat out.

Countless black mycelia grew wildly at the joints between the rotting flesh and the metal, occasionally bursting into yellowish-green pustules that dripped onto the floor, emitting a hissing, corrosive sound.

That is what you call losing your face in the pursuit of power.

"You ate my messenger."

"Jealousy" stopped twenty meters away from Lin Yuan, his voice sounding like two rusty iron plates rubbing against each other, setting one's teeth on edge.

The only eye still functioning stared fixedly at Lin Yuan, while the right eye socket was stuffed with a mass of squirming black granulation tissue.

"Messenger?"

Lin Yuan casually stabbed the black dinner knife, still dripping with energy residue, into the ground, tilted his head, and picked his ear with his pinky finger.

"Are you talking about that thing that looked like spoiled takoyaki? Tasted average, a bit tough on the teeth. Remember to peel it next time."

This indifferent attitude caused the intact half of "Jealousy"'s metal face to twitch violently.

"Ignorant carbon-based monkey..."

"Jealousy" slowly raised his rotting right hand, pointing to the starry sky above, which had become murky due to the energy storm.

"That is the grace bestowed by the void... You actually dare to blaspheme the divine gift..."

Rumble—! Following his movement, the entire massive metal ring base jolted violently.

In the space outside, the red giant star, which had originally been suppressed by the gravitational lens like an obedient ruby, suddenly began to spasm violently, as if its stomach had been kicked hard.

The originally stable fusion reaction instantly spiraled out of control.

Millions of kilometers of flaming solar prominences erupted, as if they wanted to burn a hole in this damn universe.

Alarms blared instantly.

【Warning! Stellar constraint field is collapsing!】

【Warning! Thermonuclear reaction out of control! Supernova explosion expected in 120 seconds!】

【Warning! All units please evacuate immediately!】

"Since you like to eat so much..." "Jealousy"'s twisted face revealed a smile uglier than crying, his mouth even stretching to his ears, revealing a mouthful of black fangs.

"Then eat this sun along with it! Let this galaxy become your tomb!"

The smile on Lin Yuan's face vanished.

He slowly took his hand out of his ear, his eyes becoming gloomier than ever before.

"What did you say?"

Lin Yuan took a step forward, and the alloy floor beneath his feet shattered instantly.

"You want to blow up this sun?"

"That is destruction, and also rebirth." "Jealousy" spread his arms, as if embracing the coming death, "Here, nothing is more suitable as the void's... than a grand display of fireworks."

"Shut up!" A roar interrupted the Cardinal's sermon.

Lin Yuan pointed at the star that was expanding wildly, trembling with anger—he was genuinely pissed off.

"That is my reserved power bank! That is the dry rations I worked so hard to find!"

"Do you know how expensive energy is right now? Do you know how much electricity costs per kilowatt-hour on Earth? You wasteful bastard, you want to blow it up just like that?"

The rage in Lin Yuan's eyes was more intense than the sun outside.

For a void engine host who had just awakened the Gluttony attribute, this behavior was no different from overturning a table of a full-course Manchu-Han feast into a slop bucket in front of a starving man.

"Wasting food is shameful! Didn't your mother write this code into you when she produced you?!"

"Jealousy" froze for a moment.

He had anticipated that the opponent would be afraid, would beg for mercy, or even angrily rush up to fight for his life. But he had never imagined that the point the opponent was angry about was... worrying about the electricity bill?

"Unreasonable insect!"

"Jealousy," enraged by shame, waved his hand violently, and the gravity system of the entire core hall was instantly taken over by him.

Hum! The air instantly became thick as mercury. A terrifying gravitational field acted directly on Lin Yuan.

This was no child's play like a multi-gravity training room. This was the gravitational field used by the gravitational lens to constrain stellar-class objects, compressed by him into this tiny room.

Crack! The ground beneath Lin Yuan's feet instantly collapsed into a giant pit two meters deep.

His bones emitted a teeth-grinding cracking sound, and his titanium alloy skeleton began to deform under this pressure.

"Kneel!" "Jealousy" looked down at Lin Yuan, who seemed to be pressed into a meat patty in the pit, his voice cold, "In the face of god's power, your ridiculous anger..."

"Kneel my ass."

From the bottom of the pit came a muffled groan. Immediately following was a roar that sounded like an engine overload.

Creak— The spine that had been bent was straightening up little by little.

Lin Yuan's skin was oozing blood; that was the result of capillaries bursting under the unbearable pressure, but the expression on his face was as ferocious as a demon.

"System, mass control... Turn it on for me!"

Boom! A black ripple exploded violently with Lin Yuan as the center. That was the void engine rewriting the local laws of physics.

You use gravity to suppress me? Then I will turn myself into a black hole!

Two invisible but substantial force fields collided crazily in the air, and the surrounding space shattered inch by inch like a mirror, revealing the pitch-black void turbulence.

"Boss! Stop chatting with him! It's really going to blow up!"

In the communication channel, A Ji's voice carried a crying tone, and the background noise was a chaotic mess of alarms.

"That sun is now swollen like a balloon! The radiation levels have already gone off the charts! The paint on our broken ship is already starting to peel! If we don't run, we'll really become roast suckling pigs!"

"Run, my ass!"

Resisting the gravity that felt like Mount Tai pressing down, Lin Yuan walked out of the pit step by step. With every step, the floor emitted an unbearable groan.

"I'm definitely eating this meal today! It doesn't matter who tries to flip the table!"

Whoosh—! A large amount of red steam gushed out from Lin Yuan's body surface; that was the waste heat generated by the energy running to its limit within his body.

Overload mode, fully engaged. Lin Yuan was like a red-hot steam locomotive, carrying an unstoppable momentum, pushing against tens of thousands of times the gravity, and charged towards "Jealousy".

"Madman... You are a madman..." "Jealousy" watched the bloodied man who was still accelerating while pushing against the gravitational field, the granulation tissue in his eyes jumping wildly. He panicked.

"Psychic Pierce!" "Jealousy" dared not be arrogant anymore, the crystal between his eyebrows suddenly lit up. Since the physical body cannot suppress you, then I will destroy your brain!

An invisible psychic spike, carrying terrifying computing power capable of shredding the consciousness of tens of thousands of people, slammed fiercely into Lin Yuan's brain.

However. The next second, "Jealousy"'s pride-and-joy logic processor almost crashed on the spot. He didn't feel the opponent's pain. He heard a song.

It wasn't some sacred hymn, nor was it a painful wail. It was a festive, folksy Eastern song that made one want to vomit blood, playing at maximum volume on loop in Lin Yuan's mental world.

"Good Luck Comes~ Wish you good luck~ Good luck brings joy and love~"

The sound of suona. The sound of gongs and drums. And that bustling feeling of rushing to the supermarket to snatch discounted eggs during the Chinese New Year. In that instant, all the eerie and terrifying psychic attacks were scattered by this BGM filled with the scent of human life.

"What... what the hell is this?!" "Jealousy" screamed, clutching his head. The festive melody, like a virus, invaded his processor in reverse along the psychic link, making his brain, which pursued "silence and nothingness," feel as if it were in the middle of a vegetable market.

"This is called Chinese New Year! You ignorant bumpkin!"

Just in that moment when "Jealousy" was mentally dazed. A large hand burning with dark red flames grabbed his neck. Lin Yuan's blood-stained face appeared in front of him, less than ten centimeters away.

"Physical antivirus, you heard of it?"

Slap! Lin Yuan backhanded him with a massive slap, smashing hard onto "Jealousy"'s rotten half-face.

This slap was not only highly damaging, but the insult factor was off the charts. That half of his rotten face was slapped right off, revealing the pitch-black gums underneath.

Before "Jealousy" could react, Lin Yuan had already kicked his knee joint, making him drop to his knees on the floor with a thud.

"Weren't you acting pretty tough just now? Didn't you tell me to kneel?"

Lin Yuan stepped on "Jealousy"'s chest, his right hand fingers joined like a knife, and with a squelch, he thrust it directly into the shiny core reactor in his chest.

Zzzzt—! Violent electric currents ran wild along Lin Yuan's arm, but he didn't even blink.

"Alita! Give me the root access of this grandson!"

"Received! Cracking the firewall... Firewall disabled! Boss, he is yours!"

"Jealousy" struggled wildly on the ground, but his pride-and-joy power was as weak as a baby's under the suppression of the void engine.

He could feel a rough hand rampaging at the bottom level of his system, modifying every single core code. It was rape. Naked data rape.

"No... you can't..." "Jealousy" let out a desperate roar, watching as the control of the gravitational lens was rapidly slipping away, and the star that was about to explode was being forcibly pressed back by the newly re-established constraint field.

His destruction plan was about to fail. Not only had he lost, but he was also going to be used as a new power bank by this barbarian. An unprecedented sense of humiliation welled up in his heart.

"Want to control me? Dream on!" A flash of crazy determination suddenly crossed "Jealousy"'s single eye. "Since I am not worthy of enjoying this big meal... then let everyone starve to death together!"

Beep beep beep! A countdown sound, so rapid it made one's heart palpitate, suddenly rang out inside his body. Not just him. All the energy nodes of the entire gravitational lens array simultaneously lit up with red light representing self-destruction.

"Damn it! Boss, pull your hand back! That madman has activated the antimatter annihilation program!" Alita's terrified scream pierced the eardrums, "The equivalent yield is thirty supernovae! He wants to blow himself up along with the gravitational lens!"

"Three seconds left!" "It's too late to evacuate!"

Inside the hall, those mechanical guards that weren't dead yet began to disintegrate on their own under this terrifying energy fluctuation.

"Jealousy" grabbed tightly onto the arm Lin Yuan had inserted into his chest, his face revealing a victor's maniacal laughter. "Let's die together! This is the price of your greed..."

His laughter stopped abruptly. Because he discovered that the human riding on top of him did not show the slightest bit of fear.

On the contrary. When Lin Yuan heard the words "antimatter annihilation," his eyes lit up like a wolf that had been hungry for three days seeing a chunk of fatty meat. That kind of look... was appetite.

"Pull back? Why would I pull back?" Lin Yuan licked his lips, and instead of pulling out his arm, he lunged forward, hugging the about-to-explode "Jealousy" tightly like an octopus.

"I was just worried that the appetizer from before didn't fill me up." Lin Yuan opened his mouth, his lower jaw dislocating and opening impossibly wide, revealing the black hole deep in his throat that seemed to connect to an endless abyss.

"Thanks, buddy, sending a family bucket even as you die."

【void engine... Gluttony mode... Overclocking fully engaged!】

Boom—!!! The earth-shattering explosion did not ring out. At the very instant that the earth-destroying antimatter energy erupted, before it even had a chance to expand, it was swallowed in one gulp by that even more terrifying, even greedier black hole...