146: The Main God Space and the "Quality Plaza"

The "Logic Storm" of the high-dimensional observers was like a clay ox entering the sea, failing to even stir a ripple in Cloud Court. The observers themselves, due to the logical backlash, fell into a prolonged silence and self-doubt, not daring to make any moves again in a short time. Inside and outside Cloud Court, the enviable, jealous, and hateful tranquility and... "unpretentiousness" (mainly to outsiders) returned.

However, the influence of that initial logical fragment, which caused so many incidents, had not been completely eliminated. Although most of its derivatives were recovered by Long Qianyuan and transformed into snacks for the koi or fertilizer for the garden, a trace of extremely weak, almost untraceable concepts of "plunder" and "evolution" still drifted in the dimensional rifts. Eventually, like a mutating virus, it attached itself to an ancient creation that had been operating for unknown eons, specifically designed to capture low-dimensional life for "Gu-raising" style trials—the "Main God Space."

This Main God Space, itself a cold and ruthless collection of rules, operated by throwing "players" (trial-takers) from different planes into various dangerous worlds to complete missions, exchange for enhancements, and ensure survival of the fittest. At this moment, after being contaminated by that trace of "evolution" concept from a higher dimension, the operational logic of the Main God Space underwent an extremely subtle yet fatal deviation.

It was no longer content with merely making trial-takers struggle between life and death and passively enhance themselves; instead, it began to... actively "optimize" and "plunder."

Main God Space, Sector 73462 Plaza (commonly known as "Quality Plaza").

Countless new trial-takers, who had just been forcibly pulled into the space and were still in a bewildered state, were listening in horror as a giant light sphere (a Main God sub-entity) in mid-air read out cruel rules in a cold, mechanical voice.

"Welcome to the Main God Space. This is a paradise for the strong and Hell for the weak. Complete missions, earn points, and exchange for anything. Failure means obliteration."

"Newbie Trial World: 'Zombie Apocalypse (Hell Difficulty).' Mission: Survive 72 hours."

"Warning: Detecting space rule update... Loading evolution module..."

The light sphere's voice paused, seemingly with a fraction of a second's stutter, then resumed, but its tone seemed to carry an indescribable... "vitality"?

"Update content: New 'Plunder' mechanism added. Trial-takers can directly plunder 'Origin Energy' and 'Law Fragments' by killing native creatures in the mission world, hostile trial-takers, or destroying important world nodes. Plundered gains can be used for immediate self-enhancement or submitted to the space for additional points."

"New 'Analysis' assistance: The space will provide basic analytical vision to assist trial-takers in finding plunder targets."

"Wish everyone... a pleasant evolution."

As soon as the words fell, all trial-takers felt as if a very faint, game UI-like light film appeared before their eyes, allowing them to vaguely see the fluctuating energy halos around others, and even "see" the faint "material energy" contained within the plaza's ground and walls.

Panic was instantly replaced by a strange fanaticism!

"Plunder? Direct enhancement?"

"Killing others can make me stronger?"

"This... this is our opportunity!"

Human greed and malice were infinitely magnified by this sudden "Gospel." Almost at the moment the rules were announced, chaos erupted in Quality Plaza! Some quick-witted and ruthless trial-takers unhesitatingly pointed their weapons (simple knives and sticks provided initially) at their seemingly weaker "companions"!

Screams, curses, and the sound of weapons entering flesh instantly filled the air! Blood stained the plaza ground. A flash of light appeared on the killer, and his aura indeed strengthened slightly, while the killed dissipated into light particles, their meager Origin being jointly divided by the space and the killer.

Chaos spread like a plague. The coldness and cruelty that might have taken several mission worlds to hone instantly took shape under the catalysis of this "Plunder" mechanism! The entire Quality Plaza became a true bloody Hell!

At the edge of the plaza, a somewhat thin young man with black-rimmed glasses was huddled in a corner, his face pale, narrowly dodging an attack from a burly man wielding a blood-stained iron rod. His name was Li Ming, an ordinary programmer, and at this moment, his heart was filled with fear and despair.

"How could this happen... this isn't like what's written in novels..." He trembled all over, looking at the hellish scene before him.

Just then, a young voice, completely different from the Main God's cold prompt, with a hint of laziness and curiosity, suddenly echoed in his mind:

"Hoh, so lively down here? What kind of... battle royale team-building event is this? Why is the quality so low?"

Li Ming shivered in fright, looking around in terror: "Who? Who's speaking?"

"Don't look, you can't see me." The voice said lazily, "I'm just passing by, seeing how chaotic it is here, like a garbage dump, couldn't help but take a look. Your 'organizer' isn't good, the event planning level is too low, only knows how to fight and kill, no technical content at all."

Li Ming: "???" P-passing by? Are you passing by a bit too high-dimensionally?

That was naturally Long Qianyuan, who had been sent out by Yun Feng to "inspect the territory" but was actually wandering through various dimensional rifts looking for fun. He had originally come tracking that last trace of logical pollution and stumbled upon this "evolved" newbie trial scene in the Main God Space.

"Sigh, truly unwatchable." Long Qianyuan's voice carried a hint of disdain, "Forget it, meeting is fate, and you look pleasing to the eye (mainly because you look the most cowardly), I'll help you out."

As soon as the words fell, Li Ming felt a warm current surge into his body. His body, previously weakened by fear, was instantly filled with strength. Next to the faint red analytical light film provided by the Main God, an extremely faint, almost transparent, light golden halo appeared.

"Warning! Detecting unknown high-dimensional information intervention!... Unable to parse!... Unable to expel!"

The Main God's prompt sounded in Li Ming's mind, with a rare hint of urgency and confusion.

"Don't mind it, just a rigid program." Long Qianyuan's voice was nonchalant, "I've opened a temporary 'VIP experience version' of vision for you, so you can see something different. Look, that big idiot with the iron rod..."

Li Ming subconsciously looked at the burly man who had just attacked him. Through that faint golden halo, he clearly saw several main pathways of energy circulation within the burly man's body, as well as an incessantly flickering, extremely subtle red light spot behind his neck!

"That's a small node in his energy circulation, and also his weakest point of defense. Poke it hard, and his temporary enhanced energy will fall apart," Long Qianyuan instructed.

Li Ming's heart pounded. Watching the burly man charge at him again with a 獰笑, the instinct for survival overwhelmed everything! He suddenly picked up a dropped short stick from the ground and, following Long Qianyuan's instructions, used all his strength to precisely stab at that red light spot!

"Pfft!"

With a soft sound, the burly man's charging motion suddenly froze, the weak energy he had just plundered instantly dissipated, and he slumped to the ground as if his bones had been removed, his eyes filled with astonishment and confusion.

"Successfully defeated a trial-taker, plundering part of his Origin Energy." The Main God's prompt sounded.

Li Ming felt a faint warm current surge into his body, and his strength seemed to increase by another point.

"See, isn't that much more technical?" Long Qianyuan's voice carried a hint of smugness, "Fighting also requires brains. Alright, experience time is up, you play by yourself, I'll go wander elsewhere. This Main God Space... hmm, I'll have to tell Revered Master about it later, the management is too chaotic, affecting the city's appearance."

After saying that, the voice completely disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

Li Ming stood still, looking at the still bloody chaotic scene around him, and then felt the faint strength within his body, his emotions incredibly complex. He seemed to have... latched onto an unimaginably thick leg's... leg hair?

Meanwhile, the core of the Main God Space, that giant light sphere, was constantly flickering, frantically calculating the incomprehensible intervention event that had just occurred.

"High-dimensional intervention... Target individual 'Li Ming'... Unknown enhancement... Logical conflict..."

"Re-evaluating 'Plunder' mechanism risks... Calculating..."

"Error... Insufficient data... Suggestion... Observe..."

The Main God Space's "evolution" experiment, due to a casual pointer from a passing idler, quietly deviated from its original trajectory. And the instigator of all this, Long Qianyuan, was already humming a tune, tearing through dimensions, and strolling towards the next place that might offer some "fun."

To him, this Main God Space was just a "large-scale offline Immortal Master PK site" with chaotic management and low quality, far less interesting than the few picky koi in Revered Master's pond.