150: Chapter 151 The day Lin Shoushan cut off the God's heart, the God himself handed him the knife.

[First Cut Executor: Lin Shoushan]

The moment the name appeared, the control room fell so silent that only the sound of the valve releasing pressure could be heard.

Chen Ye looked at the black box, then at Lin Shoushan in the treatment pod.

"First cut..."

"What does that mean?"

No one answered for Lin Shoushan.

The paper continued to unroll downward.

[First Cut Location: Chest Cavity of the Divine Body]

[Severed Structure: gods heart]

[Tool Used: Original Rule Corrector]

[Execution Result: Interruption of the Mother of All Things' divinity cycle]

[Execution Confirmation: Lin Shoushan]

Every line felt like a nail.

Yu Xing's face, which had just regained some color, quickly turned pale.

She raised her hand to press against her chest.

There lay a newly grown heart.

It was not the one that Lin Shoushan had cut out.

Yet when the words "gods heart Separation" appeared, she still felt a phantom pang of sharp pain.

It was as if, twenty years ago, a wrench had pierced between her breastbones.

Twisted.

Pried open.

And forcefully ripped a still-beating heart from her body.

"It was you."

Yu Xing looked at Lin Shoushan.

"The gods heart was hidden in your body for twenty years."

"So you didn't just pick it up later."

"You took it out with your own hands."

Shi San stepped in front of Yu Xing to shield her side.

He offered no comfort.

Nor did he stop her from questioning.

He only stared coldly at Lin Shoushan.

"Speak."

Lin Shoushan's hand rested on the edge of the treatment pod.

His knuckles turned white from the strain.

"It was me."

He did not deny it.

"Twenty years ago, I made the first cut."

Boom!

A loud crash echoed from outside the maintenance passage.

Although the main connection to the Six Divine Seats had been severed, they were still battering the iron door.

Golden flames suddenly flared up on the surface of the black box.

[The dismemberment Record is an internal secret of the God Head]

[Executing destruction]

The edges of the paper instantly charred black.

Cheng Du lunged forward, pressing down on the black box with the half of his body that had already been turned into circuitry.

The golden flames burned along his chest, causing the aging circuits to burst repeatedly.

"Don't just stand there!"

"If this thing burns, the original Records from twenty years ago will be gone!"

Lin Jin immediately squatted next to the box.

The Hand of Rules was already shut down.

He couldn't see where the destruction program was coming from, so he could only trace the direction the golden flames were spreading, checking the wires at the bottom of the black box one by one.

Three power lines.

Two reading lines.

And an extremely thin gold wire that snaked into the bottom of the box from behind the wall of the maintenance passage.

Lin Jin clamped the gold wire with a pair of pliers.

The flames instantly surged along the handle of the pliers toward his palm.

Shen Tingxue raised her hand to freeze the jaws of the pliers.

Zhou Heng used his Thunder Spear to pry open the wall panel.

Chen Ye propped his shield against the iron door, blocking the increasingly violent impacts from The Six Seats.

"Hurry up!"

"The door lock was just repaired, but that doesn't mean it can hold forever!"

Lin Jin gritted his teeth and forcefully ripped the gold wire out from the bottom of the box.

Snap!

The flames died out.

The paper was saved.

But the brief destruction just now had burned away the latter half of the list.

Now, all that could be clearly seen was the first cut Record and an old-style video marker beneath it.

[Play the recording of the first cut scene?]

Lin Jin looked at Yu Xing.

"This is the source of your memories."

"It's up to you whether to watch it or not."

Yu Xing stared at the marker.

After two seconds, she reached out and pressed it.

"Watch."

All the lights in the control room went out.

The black box projected a shaky, old video.

Twenty years ago, the No. 9 Forbidden Zone was not as massive as it was today.

The Golden Delivery Room had just been built.

A complete divine body was secured in the center by countless mechanical chains.

She had a head.

She had hands.

She had a complete chest cavity.

And she also had a golden heart that illuminated the entire forbidden zone.

A young Lin Shoushan stood before the divine body.

Back then, his hair was still black.

In his hand, he held a silver-white tool.

It was not the rule correction wrench with only sixty-one percent integrity that he had later.

But a truly complete original corrector.

Behind him, six black authority projections hovered in the air.

Record.

Ruling.

Replacement.

Recycling.

Correction.

continuation.

They did not yet have the shape of chairs.

They were merely six stamps used for system maintenance.

In the video, the Mother of All Things opened her eyes.

Her face was similar to Yu Xing's.

Yet she lacked that cold, perfect gentleness of the current God Head.

She was very tired.

And in great pain.

"Classes are devouring their users in reverse."

"Humans borrow tools."

"Their lives should not be dictated by those tools."

The six authority stamps responded in unison.

[The National Class Transfer System has become humanity's primary defensive structure]

[Immediate shutdown is projected to cause civilization-level casualties]

The Mother of All Things closed her eyes briefly.

"Which is why I submitted a gradual shutdown plan."

[Rejected]

"Keep voluntary awakening, and abolish mandatory class naming."

[Rejected]

"Return class authorities to individuals, rather than having the system make unified rulings."

[Rejected]

Six consecutive times.

Each time, the six stamps gave the same reason.

[Risk is too high]

[Unpredictable]

[Does not conform to the principle of continuation]

The Mother of All Things remained silent for a long time.

Finally, she looked at the young Lin Shoushan.

"If the system will not allow me to shut it down,"

"then let the system lose me."

Lin Shoushan gripped the corrector tightly.

"If I dismantle you, the Career System might collapse as well."

"It is not dismantlement,"

the Mother of All Things said.

"First, separate the gods heart."

"Interrupt the divine cycle."

"Then extract the brain, preserving my shutdown judgment."

"Finally, isolate the God Head from the class ruling center."

"A system that loses its complete divinity will no longer be able to force expansion."

The six authority stamps instantly turned crimson.

[Execution forbidden]

[The divine body is a core asset of the Career System]

For the first time, a mocking smile appeared on the face of the Mother of All Things.

"Even my body has become your asset?"

She lowered her head.

Her chest cavity slowly opened.

The golden heart was completely exposed before Lin Shoushan.

Countless nerves were connected to the class network.

With every beat, countless people in the world gained power.

And countless others were further defined by their classes.

"Lin Shoushan,"

she said softly.

"the first cut must be made by a human."

"Why me?"

"Because you are a Repairman."

The Mother of All Things looked at him.

"Not a believer."

"Not a knight."

"Not a divine executor."

"You know that dismantling a running machine is not out of hatred for it,"

"but because it is already hurting people."

Lin Shoushan did not move.

"After the gods heart is cut out, will you die?"

"I don't know."

"Will it hurt?"

"Yes."

"Will you regret it?"

The Mother of All Things fell silent for a moment.

"If I do not do this,"

"only then will I regret it."

She raised a hand.

She personally took hold of Lin Shoushan's wrist.

And guided the Original Rule Corrector into her own chest cavity.

Watching this scene, Yu Xing's body trembled violently.

The pain in her memory had finally returned in its entirety.

It was not an attack.

It was not a betrayal.

It was the complete God herself who had gripped the knife.

The young Lin Shoushan's hands were shaking.

"I'll count to three."

"No,"

the Mother of All Things said,

"don't make me wait."

In the next second,

Lin Shoushan twisted the corrector.

Crack!

The first connection between the golden heart and the divine body was severed.

The entire No. 9 Forbidden Zone shook violently.

The second.

The third.

The blood was not red.

Instead, it consisted of billions of fracturing class prompts.

The Mother of All Things convulsed in agony, yet she never let go of Lin Shoushan's hand.

When the final nerve snapped, the golden heart fell into Lin Shoushan's arms.

The light within her chest cavity instantly went out.

The six maintenance authorities fell silent simultaneously for a second.

Then, all the stamps suddenly changed direction.

[Divinity cycle interruption detected]

[Power vacancy detected in the system core]

[Initiating emergency takeover]

The young Lin Shoushan abruptly looked up.

"Stop!"

He tried to put the gods heart back.

But the [Recycling] stamp locked onto the gods heart first.

[continuation] took over the class network.

[Ruling] redefined the Mother of All Things' shutdown request.

The original text—

[Terminate the National Class Transfer System]

was altered stroke by stroke in the video to:

[In order to ensure the continuation of the National Class Transfer System, voluntarily dismantle the divine body and provide permanent maintenance]

When the Mother of All Things saw those words, her expression completely changed.

"Lin Shoushan."

"They are no longer tools."

"Shut them down!"

Lin Shoushan raised the corrector and lunged toward the six stamps.

But after the gods heart left the body, the original corrector suddenly lost most of its power.

[Maintenance authority has been taken over by The Six Seats]

The silver-white tool in his hand rapidly rusted.

Its integrity plummeted from one hundred percent to sixty-one percent.

It was at that exact moment that the six maintenance authorities elongated and deformed for the first time,

turning into six black seats.

The video shook violently.

In the end, only the intermittent voice of the Mother of All Things remained.

"Don't let them... turn maintenance into a position..."

"Don't let anyone... sit there forever..."

The screen went dark.

The dim yellow lights of the control room flickered back on.

No one spoke.

Lin Shoushan sat in the treatment pod, looking as if he had aged another ten years in an instant.

Yu Xing stood in place.

In her eyes lay both the grief left behind by the complete deity and the hatred forged from her own one thousand two hundred and four awakenings.

"The first cut, she made you do it."

Lin Shoushan nodded.

"Yes."

"And what about after that?"

Yu Xing stared at him.

"The God Head was installed into the National Class Transfer System."

"The brain was made into me."

"The body was left in the delivery room."

"The Six Seats have ruled for twenty years."

"You knew very well that after the first cut, they had already betrayed her."

"Why didn't you make everything public?"

Lin Shoushan did not avoid her gaze.

"At first, I thought it would only take seventy-two hours."

"If the Career System suddenly shut down, the Abyss would flood into reality."

"I signed a temporary continuation."

"I planned to shut it down completely after completing a nationwide evacuation."

Yu Xing let out a laugh.

"Seventy-two hours."

"It later became twenty years."

"Yes."

"Every time, did you think that if we just waited a little longer, the world would be better prepared?"

"Yes."

"And every time, did you know that I was still waking up?"

Lin Shoushan's Adam's apple bobbed.

"I found out later."

"And you still didn't come back?"

Silence stretched for a long time.

"Yes,"

Lin Shoushan said.

"The first cut was not my sin."

"Every single day after that was."

Yu Xing did not ask any more questions.

She turned and walked toward the black box, taking out the Record along with the video.

"This testimony belongs to me."

"No one is allowed to alter it for her again."

Just then, a soft click came from the bottom of the black box.

Beneath the burned list, there was another hidden compartment.

Cheng Du used a wrench to pry open the hidden latch.

A thinner sheet of paper slid out.

It was not a dismemberment list.

Instead, it was the final private maintenance commission left by the Mother of All Things before the first cut, secretly bypassing the six maintenance authorities.

[Commission Target: National Class Transfer System]

[Fault Description: Maintenance authorities have developed a need for self-continuation, alienating from tools into ruling positions]

[Maintenance Requirement: Shut down The Six Seats, and return the right to exit the system to all class holders]

At the very bottom, the space where the trustee's name should have been was blank.

Not until Lin Jin approached

did a new line of text slowly emerge on the paper.

[Reopening of the Maintenance Worker passage detected]

[The first maintainer without God Head authority has arrived]

[Commissioning Party: Mother of All Things]

[Trustee: Lin Jin]

Immediately after, the Six Divine Seats outside the maintenance passage stopped battering the door at the same time.

They seemed to have seen this commission as well.

In the next second, for the first time, the six voices were no longer in unison.

[Record Seat: Recommend destroying the commission.]

[ruling seat: Recommend executing the trustee.]

[recycling seat: Recommend reclaiming the Maintenance Worker passage.]

But The Sixth Seat [continuation], which had been silent all along, let out a soft laugh from outside the iron door.

"You have finally found her will."

"What a pity—"

"among The Six Seats that the Mother of All Things commissioned to be shut down back then,"

"it wasn't just the six of us."

In the center of the control room, the black lever labeled [Maintenance Complete, Personnel Departed] suddenly turned on its own.

On the back of the lever, a seventh stamp, hidden for twenty years, was revealed.

The word on the stamp was not [Maintenance].

Instead, it was—

[Reboot].