88: Chapter 88 The mountain road here has eighteen bends, and the bugs here are linked in nine ways.
At the foot of the Heavenly River Sword Sect, the once solemn battlefield was now bustling. There were no rivers of blood, only rivers of sweat.
"One, two! Heave-ho! One, two! Heave-ho!"
The once world-renowned Divine Marquis Who Guards the Nation of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Butcher Xiao, had now stripped off half of his glorious dark-gold treasure armor and tied it around his waist. He was swinging an... entrenching tool. Covered in sweat, he was filling the huge pit he had previously created by "sliding" into it.
Behind him, the hundred thousand soldiers of the Black Armored Army had laid down their weapons and were lined up in a long, orderly queue, passing... bricks.
"Marquis... oh no, Foreman Xiao." The adjutant, wearing a yellow safety helmet he couldn't take off, ran over holding a thermos. "The asphalt for this section of the road is laid. According to the 'Construction Standards,' the flatness error is within three millimeters."
"Only three millimeters?" Butcher Xiao wiped his sweat, a strange fanaticism appearing in his eyes. "No! Repave it! It must be within one millimeter! Otherwise, the clerk at the 'Administrative Window' will definitely stamp 'Unqualified' on the acceptance form again!"
That's right, this was the "solution" Li Mo had provided. In that despair-inducing "Administrative Approval System," there was an inconspicuous small-print note: [Friendly Reminder: Participating in 'Community Infrastructure' and 'Environmental Restoration' work can earn 'Civilization Points.' Points can be used to accelerate the approval process of the 'Sect Extermination Application.' Current exchange rate: One kilometer of road paved = One minute of acceleration.]
To get the "Sect Extermination Permit" sooner, Butcher Xiao and his hundred thousand soldiers tearfully changed careers and became the Heavenly River Sword Sect's unofficial "First Construction Team."
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Second floor of the Scripture Pavilion.
Li Mo looked out the window at the mountain road that was gradually becoming wider, flatter, and even had a green belt, nodding with satisfaction. "That's more like it. Labor reforms people; labor is most glorious."
He turned around and looked at a virtual panel floating in front of him. It was the background log of the "Heavenly Dao Server." Although he had forcibly used code to stop the Heavenly Tribulation, the resulting side effect—the so-called "Version 2.0 BUG"—was randomly breaking out across the Cultivation World.
[BUG Report List:]
East Sea Region: Seawater texture error, turned into pink strawberry milk. Caused the sea demons to collectively suffer from diabetes (Ignored).
Deep in the Southern Wilderness: Gravity parameter anomaly. Some mountain peaks have started growing upside down (Aesthetics are acceptable, pending repair).
Great Zhou Imperial City: NPC (Mortal) dialogue logic is chaotic. When the Emperor holds court, instead of saying "Rise, my subjects," he says "Welcome" (Interesting, keep it).
"These are all minor issues." Li Mo's finger slid across the list, his gaze suddenly stopping on a red warning box. [Critical Error: Missing Physics Engine Area (Coordinates: Falling Phoenix Slope).] [Description: Friction in this area has dropped to zero and cannot be restored through conventional means.]
"Falling Phoenix Slope?" Li Mo frowned slightly. "Isn't that the path Linger must take to go down the mountain?"
With a thought, he immediately pulled up Chu Linger's "Remote Monitoring View."
...
Falling Phoenix Slope. This was originally a steep canyon named after the legend that a Phoenix once fell here. But now, it had turned into a giant skating rink.
It wasn't frozen; it was because the "friction" here had completely disappeared. Whether it was rocks, trees, or passing beasts, a single slight movement would cause them to slide toward the unknown distance at a constant speed, as if coated in oil.
Chu Linger was currently death-gripping the roots of a large tree, her whole body suspended horizontally in mid-air—because the direction of gravity also seemed to have shifted slightly. In front of her, a group of similarly trapped bandits were bouncing around the canyon like billiard balls.
"What... what kind of ghostly place is this?!" The bandit leader was a burly man. He had originally intended to rob this lone young girl, but as soon as he jumped out and shouted, "This mountain was opened by me," his feet slipped, and he hit the opposite rock wall at twenty meters per second, bounced back, hit a tree on the other side, and was now on his third rebound.
"Master was right; the world down the mountain is indeed full of danger." Chu Linger's face was pale, but her eyes remained calm. She painstakingly pulled out that book, "five-year simulation, Three-Year Cultivation."
"Friction disappears... gravity anomaly..." She quickly flipped through the pages and finally found the corresponding chapter in "Classical Mechanics: Special Operating Conditions."
"If friction is zero, it means we are on an ideal smooth plane." Chu Linger took a deep breath and pulled several... abacus beads from her bundle. These were hidden weapons she had polished out of boredom on the mountain; she hadn't expected them to come in handy now.
"According to the Law of Conservation of Momentum." Chu Linger stared at the bandit leader who was crashing toward her, her mind frantically calculating angles and speeds. "As long as I apply a reverse impulse, I can change his trajectory and make him... get lost."
Just as the bandit leader was about to crash into her, Chu Linger acted. "Off you go!" With a flick of her finger, an abacus bead struck the bandit leader's forehead at a precise angle.
There was no spray of blood, only a crisp clinking sound. But this tiny force, in a zero-friction environment, was perfectly converted into kinetic energy. The bandit leader, who had been charging straight ahead, was hit as if by an invisible cue stick, instantly changing direction and flying off diagonally at an even faster speed.
Thud! He crashed precisely into a narrow rock crevice and got stuck.
"This... this little girl knows sorcery!" The remaining bandits were terrified and wanted to run, but on the frictionless ground, the harder they kicked, the more they spun in place, their postures as ridiculous as performing water ballet.
"This problem is solved." The corners of Chu Linger's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a confident smile. Looking at this chaotic "BUG area," she suddenly felt that using physical rules as weapons was much more satisfying than simply swinging a sword to hack people.
However, just as she was preparing to use the reaction force to slide out of this area, a sudden change occurred.
From the depths of the canyon, a low, muffled roar suddenly echoed. A massive "Error Code Beast," composed entirely of mosaics, slowly crawled out from underground. It had no facial features, only a body of constantly flashing scrambled code; with every step it took, a piece of the surrounding space collapsed.
[Warning: Logic Loophole Aggregate detected.] [Rank: High.]
The book in Chu Linger's hand automatically flipped pages, stopping on a chapter she had never studied. It wasn't Physics or mathematics. That page had only one line of bold black text: "Introduction to Computer Science: How to Reboot the System"
At the same time, Li Mo's voice rang directly in her mind through the book: "Linger, don't panic." "This is an 'extra credit question' from your Master." "Remember, to deal with this kind of illogical thing, we only need to tell it one thing:" "Your existence is illegal."
Chu Linger was stunned for a moment, then had a sudden realization. She held up the book, faced the mosaic monster, and loudly recited a spell that had just emerged on the page:
"Ctrl — Alt — Delete!"
Although she had no idea what those three words meant, it didn't prevent the descent of the rules. Three giant, golden characters appeared out of thin air, crashing down like three great mountains onto the monster's head.
Boom! The monster's body stiffened, and the previously flashing scrambled code suddenly froze. Then, its body began to rapidly turn transparent, finally turning into a puff of green smoke and completely vanishing into the air. Only a crystal emitting a strange light was left behind, falling to the ground.
[System Prompt: Successfully cleared cache junk.]
Chu Linger stared blankly at the crystal and then at the book in her hand. "Master..." "What on earth have you been teaching me?"
Meanwhile, in the Scripture Pavilion thousands of miles away, Li Mo took a sip of tea, hiding his contribution and fame. "It's nothing, just a little 'dimensional reduction strike' trick." "After all, in this BUG-filled world, only the one who Masters the source code is the true god."