365: Chapter 365 Who is actually manipulating whom?

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: You scared me to death! You should have said so earlier!]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Setting up a stage is too easy! As long as it doesn't violate principles and moves resources within the allowed scope of the rules, I can do it with my eyes closed!]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Brother, we have a deal! I'll help you settle this, and you open the 'Dual Cultivation' port for me!]

Chen You looked at the message sent by the other party, his mouth twitching slightly.

[Chen You: Depends on your performance.]

The "Beautiful Girl" on the other side of the screen was silent for about three seconds, then a series of complex data reports and guild lists filled the entire screen.

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Don't worry, Brother! I just scanned all the guild information across the entire server.]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Let's skip those top guilds from the Titan God Clan and Elf God Clan for now. It's not that I'm afraid of them, but those old guys don't know their own strength; I'm afraid they might disturb your immortal body, Brother.]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: I've selected several 'high-quality stages' for you, Brother. Not only will they let you have a blast, but they also guarantee you can harvest luck as easily as crushing ants!]

Chen You leaned in to look; three guild lists were shown on the screen, and next to them were thoughtfully marked "Recommended Ravaging Index" and "Simulated Descent Success Rate."

First Guild: [Cherry Blossom Awkward Dance].

Combat Power Assessment: Rank B.

Beautiful Girl's Comment: A bunch of filthy-minded squishies with atrociously low defense, perfect for you to perform physical salvation using large-scale sword energy, Brother. Descent Success Rate: 99.9%.

Second Guild: [Divine Eagle from the Heavens].

Combat Power Assessment: Rank A.

Beautiful Girl's Comment: They think they're all that just because they have a few Level 50 players; mostly long-range attack classes. Descent Success Rate: 98.5%.

Third Guild: [Cosmic Origin Center].

Combat Power Assessment: Rank C (Self-proclaimed Rank SSS).

Beautiful Girl's Comment: This guild is the funniest. A bunch of Level 30-40 weaklings, yet they claim the origin of the Source Realm is at their place. Go to this guild, Brother! Descent Success Rate: 1000% (It's overflowing, dear!).

Chen You looked at these comments, momentarily at a loss for how to complain.

"Director Li, is this thing... really reliable?" He pointed at that "1000%" success rate.

"Why do I feel like she wants to destroy these guilds even more than I do?"

Director Li Guoan put down his cup.

"Group Leader Sun, what do you think?"

Sun Feng, the Data Analysis Team Leader, his fingers danced rapidly across the keyboard.

"From a data structure perspective, Chen You's current strength far exceeds that of ordinary Level 60 players. Combined with the attribute boosts from his transformation, he is invincible against these guilds."

tactical team leader Zhang Yunhai spoke up at the right moment.

"She shouldn't have any reason to deceive us. Since she needs something from us now, there's no need for her to fake this."

He looked at the last option. "I suggest choosing this one."

Director Li Guoan nodded in agreement.

"Fine, that's the one then." Chen You took a deep breath and began tapping on the glass pane.

[Chen You: I'll choose the [Cosmic Origin Center]. Remember, I want a sense of absolute suppression.]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Understood! You're the best, Brother! Constructing the 'God Descending' exclusive special effects package for you... Locking onto the target guild's plane... Opening 'Dimensional Strike' permissions...]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Brother, I've arranged nine different colored auroras and a background of three thousand kneeling undead for your entrance! Guaranteed to make those hicks pee their pants in fear!]

The glass pane flashed twice, and with a "ding-dong," a large pink dialog box popped up in the center of the screen.

[Invincible Beautiful Girl has confirmed this transaction. Do you confirm?]

"The transaction is happening already?"

Chen You turned to look at Director Li Guoan.

Was he really going to do 'Dual Cultivation'?

"Director Li, are we really confirming?" Chen You pointed at the screen. "I can't help but feel like this is some kind of honey trap."

Pan Yu, the social relations expert, was the first to speak: "Little Chen, don't be frightened by the literal meaning of the term 'Dual Cultivation'."

"The other party is just a high-dimensional data lifeform; she doesn't have the physiological needs of a carbon-based organism."

Chen You rubbed his chin. "But what if she brainwashes me?"

"Unlikely." Sun Feng tapped the screen in front of him. "I just performed a data deduction; the probability of her influencing your will is less than 1%."

"In other words, if she had that ability, she wouldn't need to go to all this trouble."

"The initiative is in your hands," Pan Yu said with a smile. "Just give her a little taste to keep her wanting more, and we can use her for a long time in the future."

Chen You understood.

These national-level think tank members had truly taken the scumbag PUA tactics to the extreme.

Director Li Guoan put down his thermos, the bottom making a crisp clinking sound on the table.

"Confirm." Director Li Guoan's tone was calm, yet it carried an unquestionable power.

"As long as the physical body remains on Earth, there is no substantial risk."

With those words, Chen You's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled back into his chest.

[Chen You: Let me be clear—if the special effects are underwhelming or if I lose a single hair, the Dual Cultivation deal is off.]

[Invincible Beautiful Girl: Don't worry, Brother! I'll handle everything; you just lie back and relax!]

Chen You hesitated no longer and pressed his fingertip firmly onto the screen.

"Buzz—"

The red glass pane instantly erupted with a blindingly bright light.

That light wasn't just simple brightness; it was a high-frequency vibration that seemed to penetrate the retina and strike the soul directly.

The lights in the meeting room flickered violently, and all electronic devices emitted a sharp buzzing sound simultaneously.

"Warning! Abnormal energy peak detected!"

Zhang Yunhai quickly drew his sidearm and shielded Director Li Guoan.

But the anomaly came and went quickly.

Just two seconds later, the light receded, the glass pane returned to calm, and a green checkmark appeared on the screen.

[Transaction established.]

Meanwhile, in the White Jade Capital territory.

The originally clear sky suddenly darkened.

It wasn't clouds blocking the sun; it was as if the entire firmament had been torn apart from the middle by a pair of invisible giant hands.

A crack spanned the horizon, and deep within the crack was the profound and boundless starry sky.

"What is that?"

"Look at the sky!"

Across the entire Qinling Mountains, countless people stopped what they were doing and looked up in horror.

Immediately after, a pillar of colored light with a diameter exceeding a hundred meters soared into the sky from the center of White Jade Capital.

The light pillar passed through the crack, and massive energy dissipated into the surrounding space in a radial pattern.

On the monitoring screens of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, piercing alarms instantly blared.

A camera on a space station in low Earth orbit captured an extremely shocking scene.

On the surface of the azure Earth, an extremely bright energy singularity suddenly lit up.

Then, a visible multicolored light pillar broke through the atmosphere.

In a manner that transcended physical common sense, it pierced straight into the dark and deep universe.

It pierced through the void, leaving ripples of space in its wake.

Like a colored passage, it was firmly pinned onto the Earth.

And as for what was on the other end of the passage, no one knew.