159: One hundred and eight crushing defeats! Gu Zhixia was pinned to the ground by Lin Mo!

This was their daily routine, day after day, for the past seven days.

From the very first day of the voyage, she had completely entrenched herself in the simulation training cabin.

Frenziedly, almost masochistically, she pushed herself and the "Thunder Dragon" to every last limit.

Lin Mo, on the other hand, used the complete data of that terrifying demon god named "Yama" to form an eternally insurmountable, pitch-black mountain range before her.

The result was an undeniable one hundred and eight consecutive defeats.

"You're improving very quickly."

Lin Mo looked at her beautiful face, which was clearly screaming, "I'm really annoyed, don't mess with me," and calmly stated a cold fact.

"Three days ago, you couldn't even last thirty seconds against 'Yama's' law domain."

"Now, you can contend with it for five minutes, and you've caused a calculable, albeit negligible, amount of damage to its law shield."

"But I still lost."

Gu Zhixia's voice was muffled, like a stubborn little beast that had been beaten black and blue but still refused to admit defeat.

This feeling of being completely overwhelmed, with no power to fight back, made her, a favored daughter of heaven since childhood, feel a long-lost, bone-deep sense of frustration.

"You are not facing a mech, but a walking natural disaster, a 'manifestation' of power."

Lin Mo walked over to her side, offering no comfort, only calling up the final replay of the battle they had just fought.

Next to the cold data stream was the moment "Thunder Dragon" launched its final charge.

"Look here."

His finger tapped the screen.

"At the moment of the charge, you forcibly reversed the direction of the Gauss rifle's last overload energy, channeling all of it into the mech's thrusters."

"With this, you gained a 0.1-second burst of acceleration that surpassed all theoretical limits."

"This operation isn't in any military academy textbook and is even listed as an absolutely forbidden self-destructive act."

He turned his head and looked at Gu Zhixia, a hint of genuine inquiry in his calm eyes.

"How did you think of that?"

"Intuition."

Gu Zhixia looked at her own reckless operation in the replay, her eyes once again sharp as knives.

"At that moment, I wasn't thinking about anything; there was only one thought."

Her voice was not loud, but it was resolute.

"No matter what, I had to leave a mark of my own on that damn wall!"

Lin Mo looked at her serious, almost obsessive demeanor, and a hint of appreciation and tenderness, which even he hadn't noticed, flashed in his eyes.

As expected of a monster who awakened the S-class "Weapon Master" Talent!

This woman was a crazy sponge that never knew satisfaction.

After being mercilessly crushed by "Yama" every time, she would frantically absorb the lessons from failure, then launch the next suicidal challenge with an even stronger, more fearless attitude.

"What you lack now is just an opportunity to elevate your 'combat intuition' into a 'law of power'."

Lin Mo pinpointed her biggest bottleneck.

"And the 'thunderstorm core' is that opportunity."

Gu Zhixia clenched her fists tightly, her knuckles turning slightly white from the excessive force.

In her beautiful phoenix eyes, a raging inferno, capable of incinerating stars, ignited once more.

"Let's go."

Lin Mo turned off the simulator, his voice returning to its usual steady tone.

"Let's check the progress of the data analysis. It's been seven days; there should be new developments."

He led her, turning and walking towards the Bridge.

The seed named "becoming stronger" had already taken root and sprouted in her heart, about to receive the final watering of thunder and storm... Meanwhile, in the kitchen.

Gu Nianqiu was wearing her pink lace apron, humming a cheerful, off-key tune.

Before her, a row of colorful, magically fragrant jellies was neatly arranged.

"Hmm... this is the 'mint lemon jelly that makes your brain super clear when you eat it,' it's specially for Brother Mo to crack those bad guys' data!"

She carefully placed a mint-green jelly into a delicate glass bowl.

"This is the 'concentrated beef jelly that instantly restores your stamina and lets you fight a hundred more bad guys,' it's for my sister when she fights!"

She picked up another dark brown jelly, exuding a rich meaty aroma, and nodded emphatically.

"And this one, it's the 'rainbow candy strawberry jelly that makes you super happy and forget all your troubles,' it's for me to eat! Hehe!"

The Little Girl had an incredibly clear and unwavering understanding of her own role.

In her opinion, there was no enemy that a loving meal containing various magical buff effects couldn't solve.

If there was, then two meals.

When Lin Mo and Gu Zhixia entered the Bridge, a sweet aroma of food, mixed with the cold aura of data flow, formed a unique atmosphere belonging only to the Natural Selection.

On the main screen, dense waterfalls of data scrolled rapidly.

After seven days of non-stop cracking, the Leviathan Guild's highest-level encrypted core database was finally ripped open by "Yggdrasil" with a gaping maw.

Suddenly, the data flow speed abruptly slowed down.

Several highlighted, crimson entries abruptly popped up.

Project Code: Divine Descent

Core Objective: To find and activate the remains of an 'Ancient God', and through selecting suitable 'containers', achieve the descent of the 'Ancient God's' will, thereby acquiring and controlling the power of 'Laws'.

Phased Achievements: Successfully recovered the heart of the blazing dragon (a failed fire divine personality container; its energy was too violent to stably carry the will; it has been sealed in the Purgatory Furnace).

Current Progress: Another more stable divine personality fragment—the heart of the holy god—has been obtained. First-stage container screening and synchronization experiments are currently underway in the deep laboratories of 'Avalon'. Three 'Holy Son' candidates with high compatibility have been initially screened.

Along with the appearance of the text, decrypted video clips began to play silently on the screen.

They were hellish scenes that would make any normal person sick to their stomach.

Countless confined humans were held like livestock in cramped cages, their eyes filled with numbness and despair.

Subsequently, they were forcibly injected with various strange energies emitting eerie glows.

Terrifying mutations occurred instantly.

Some bodies melted like candles, turning into a puddle of writhing blood in agonizing screams.

Others, in painful roars, had their bodies burst by wildly proliferating flesh, transforming into irrational, bloodthirsty flesh monsters.

And amidst the remnants of countless failures, in the deepest part of the laboratory, an object connected by countless energy conduits and suspended in a giant nutrient tank appeared before them.

It was a heart, sparkling and pulsing like crystal.

It emitted a radiance so sacred it made one want to prostrate in worship, yet it also carried an extreme evil and strangeness that could freeze the soul.

That was the heart of the holy god.

Inside the Bridge, there was a deathly silence.

The air, it seemed, had frozen solid before this suffocating scene.

"These... lunatics..."

Gu Zhixia's voice was squeezed out, word by word, as if from between her teeth; every syllable carried a bone-chilling, undisguised killing intent.

She finally understood.

The Leviathan Guild, those arrogant bastards who claimed to be "dogs of the gods," what they were plotting was not some ridiculous galactic hegemony, nor any worldly resources or wealth.

They were conducting an experiment that blasphemed the gods and all Life, an experiment that was utterly insane.

They wanted a true Ancient God, who had long fallen into the river of time, to descend upon this world again, using the corpses of countless humans as sacrifices!

"God-slaying..."

She whispered these two words, and on her beautiful face, a cold, utterly mocking and mad arc slowly formed.

"It turns out we and they are doing the same thing."

Only.

They were kneeling to welcome the gods.

And they—

Would stand and utterly kill the gods!