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Before the words were even finished, a burst of brilliant blue energy erupted from Alice's body! A powerful force pushed her out of Lin Ye's grasp, and like a moth drawn to a flame, she plummeted towards the dark red core at the bottom of the abyss!
"Alice!!" Lin Ye and Liu Nan roared.
Alice falls, her blue threads flowing like a final armor, interwoven with a poignant blue and red star ring. The final sound resonates through the dense frequency:
"A message to the observers—"
"Even experimental subjects have their own choices!!"
boom! ! !
Alice's body was devoid of a dark red core, yet a steady and powerful energy flowed forth from the depths of the abyss! A dark red beam of light solidified into a tier—leading to the upper level!
Sacrifice accomplished. The Way initiated.
Lin Ye's outstretched hand froze in mid-air, his fingertips still slightly cold. His palm was empty. The cold light from the abyss below seemed to mock his powerlessness. Alice was gone.
Vegeta remained silent. Liu Nan bit his lip and punched loudly. Android 18 turned his face away and punched Lu Lan.
Lin Ye slowly withdrew his fist. His acupoint sank deep into his palm; the pain was nothing compared to the shattering of his heart. System Panel:
[Technology System - Ultimate Access - Unlocked (Inheritor: Lin Ye)]
[Data Core: Alice (Status: Offline/Deep Sleep/Assimilation in progress...)]
[Final order: Advance.]
The flashing blue light is Alice's legacy of warmth and life exchange, a heavy responsibility.
Lin Ye raised his head to gaze at the steps, his eyes filled with sorrow that seemed to melt into a burning flame. His voice was as deep as the depths of hell:
"Walk."
"This debt...and the ice cream...I will settle it with interest!"
He stepped onto the Life Force Steps, golden flames blinding and tragic. Vegeta hummed in agreement. Android 18 silently followed, his eyes sharp. Liu Nan wiped his face, suppressing his grief and indignation, as emerald flames ignited as he stepped onto the steps.
Beneath the steps, the nuclear war raged. Deep within, the defeated souls wailed. From the depths of their wailing, a faint blue-glowing fragment of consciousness, like a candle flickering in the darkness, silently awaited…
The steps are cold and unknown. The observer whispers, savoring the moment. The curtain falls, and the fire blazes on.
Chapter 275: The True Face of the Observer
The feeling of weightlessness vanished, and my feet landed on a strange material. At the top of the Tree of Origin, there was no sky. The dome was a flowing stream of "0"s and "1"s, pale, cold, and shrouded in deathly silence.
Lin Ye took a deep breath, attempting to summon the White Divine Flame—but it vanished without a trace! His power was completely extinguished. He looked at his wrist; the system panel was pitch black and lifeless. A chill ran through him, as if his armor had been stripped away.
Only her chest, from the fragment of creation, radiated a faint, burning heat. Alice… Lin Ye's heart clenched. Before the system went offline, Alice's technological system seemed to have compressed its last information into this—a coordinate strongly pointing to the center of the dome!
My gaze pierced through the halo of data and locked onto the target.
A colossal throne floats in the air. It is not a physical entity, but rather resembles solidified cosmic dust entangled with dark energy, radiating a chilling pressure. On the throne, a figure stands with their back turned, their silver-white robes shimmering with metallic light.
"Here it comes." Vegeta's voice was low and suppressed, his deep blue aura instinctively rising, but weakened by spatial suppression, barely covering his body. Android 18 remained expressionless, his golden eyes scanning sharply, his processor rapidly assessing the situation. Liu Nan clenched his fists, the feeling of the Turtle Hermit Flow energy within him like being trapped in quagmire.
The figure on the throne slowly turned around.
The silver hood slipped off.
Lin Ye's heart stopped!
That face...it looks exactly like his!
The same eyebrows, eyes, nose, and lips, even the slightest frown was identical. The only difference was the left eye—it had no pupil, only a rotating, ever-changing hexagonal golden crystal, as deep as a black hole, reflecting countless universes' birth, expansion, glory, death, collapse, and dust. The cycle of the world was but a fleeting moment in his eyes.
"We've finally met, Subject 772," the observer said. His voice! Exactly the same as Lin Ye's, calm, deep, and all-knowingly indifferent. He lightly tapped the armrest of the throne with his long, slender fingers.
Om-!
The void suddenly brightened! Countless enormous, transparent incubation chambers appeared out of thin air, surrounding the throne and forming a terrifying matrix. Inside, pale green nutrient fluid flowed, and suspended within were bodies—strangely dressed, scarred, with faces contorted in pain, some sleeping peacefully… but their faces…
Lin Ye, Lin Ye, Lin Ye... it's all him!
Different ages, different states, different universes—countless "him"!
Lin Ye was struck dumb, staggering backward as he stared intently at the nearest incubation chamber. Inside was a teenage boy named "Lin Ye," curled up, his still-childish face covered with strange marks of energy erosion. He clutched a yellowed photograph to his chest, in which a woman smiled gently.
“Or should I call you…” The observer rose, his silver robe billowing without wind, revealing the flowing cosmic patterns on his head, like a living star map. “Another me?”
"It's you!" Lin Ye's voice was forced out through clenched teeth, trembling with boundless rage. The fragments of creation burned intensely, and a torrent of memories not belonging to him surged into his mind!
Late at night, in a cold office. The glaring light from the computer screen illuminated a weary face. A severe headache, a clenched heart, blurred and spinning vision… endless darkness. In the final moment of fading consciousness, a face clearly emerged from the shattering blue light of the screen—it was the face before him! A cold, analytical smile, as if observing an experimental subject!
"It was you! You threw me into that damned Dragon Ball world?!" Lin Ye roared, his fists clenching so hard that his nails dug into his palms and drew blood without him noticing.
The Observer—Lin Ye, No. 9999—slightly shook his head, his golden eyes reflecting the cycle of birth and death in the universe. "To be precise, it's 'us'." His voice was completely flat. "I am the 9999th 'Lin Ye' to break free from system control and escape the fate of being an 'experiment.' Also… the highest administrator of the Observers." He turned slightly, pointing to the massive curved wall behind the throne.
The walls instantly lit up, transforming into a boundless, dynamic mural. It depicted countless "Lin Ye" figures struggling, fighting, and perishing in different universes:
Lin Ye, his battle robe stained with blood, stood on the ruins of a burning planet, with a mountain of alien corpses at his feet;
Lin Ye, dressed in magnificent robes, coldly watched the wails of the sacrificial creatures within the magic circle;
Lin Ye, a semi-mechanically modified individual, hunts down his kind in the steel city;
...and Lin Ye—number 772—who struggled to survive in the Cell Games and made his way here.
“Every one of you in every universe,” the observer’s voice was cold and grand, “is my experiment. I deploy different systems, apply different variables, observe your choices after gaining power, and verify… the inevitable law of civilization’s self-destruction.”
"Bullshit! Nonsense!" Vegeta roared like thunder, his deep blue aura exploding and disrupting the data stream. He took a step forward, his killing intent solidifying. "How could Lin Ye be a monster like you! Playing tricks!" Before his words even finished, he transformed into a deep blue stream of light, gathering all the pride and anger of the Saiyan prince, and with the force of a star-shattering punch, he slammed towards the Observer's face!
The observer didn't lift his eyelids. He lightly tapped Vegeta's direction with his left index finger.
hum!
An invisible barrier—composed of countless tiny hexagonal light shields—appeared instantly before Vegeta. The Star-Shattering Fist struck, but only caused faint ripples; the violent energy vanished like mud into the sea! Vegeta groaned, thrown back by the recoil, plowing a deep furrow in the ground, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, his eyes filled with shock and resentment.
"Vegeta!" Liu Nan exclaimed, his movements even faster! The instant Vegeta was knocked back, he formed hand seals, and the emerald green Turtle Hermit Style energy shone brightly! It condensed into an enormous green palm composed of profound runes—"World-Shaking Palm - Dimensional Version"!
"You think you control everything? Look at this!" Liu Nan roared, unleashing his immensely condensed green giant hand! The space groaned as the palm struck! Simultaneously, he flicked his left hand, sending an ancient scroll hurtling towards the observer like lightning! "Master Roshi's ancient prophecy! 'When the stars return to their places, the souls of the foreign lands will tear apart the cocoon of reincarnation'! It speaks of Lin Ye! He's not an experiment; he's here to end you!"
The scroll unfurled in the air, emanating an ancient and vast aura, with golden divine runes inscribed with prophecy. A gigantic green hand followed closely behind, carrying the power to shatter dimensions, and slammed towards the observer!
The observer's golden pupils narrowed slightly, as if a tiny ripple had been generated by the scroll of prophecy. But faced with an attack that shook dimensions, he merely raised his right hand.
"Interesting. But do you think... he can beat me?" For the first time, his voice carried a subtle hint of amusement... or perhaps icy anger?
hum!hum!hum!
Twelve enormous halos of different shapes suddenly unfolded behind him! Each halo contained completely different cosmic laws: crimson of destruction, emerald green of life, icy blue of time, dark purple of space... The twelve core laws of the universe, like twelve cold suns guarding him!
The "All Nations Shocking Palm," imbued with dimensional power, froze instantly three meters from the observer, as if striking an invisible wall of sighs! The green rune flashed brightly, struggling in vain, before its light dimmed and it disintegrated inch by inch! The ancient prophecy scroll silently turned to dust in the aftershocks of the aura of law.
"I have absorbed the power essence of 9999 'yous'," the Observer's voice regained its absolute indifference, twelve halos rotated, and the oppressive aura caused space to tremble, "I have mastered the highest authority over all system terminals. I am the rule, I am reincarnation. Your resistance is merely noise in the experimental log."
He slowly ascended into the air, his silver robes fluttering, twelve halos intertwining to form a terrifying divine pattern. His golden eyes locked onto Lin Ye, reflecting countless images of Lin Ye's failures, destruction, and collapse.
"Perfect?" Lin Ye, who had been silent all along, suddenly laughed. His smile was devoid of fear or despair, only a piercing sense of relief and… pity? His fist, without the system's support or divine aura, slowly clenched. His knuckles cracked softly. An invisible "force" spread out from him, distorting and solidifying the data stream.
“You’ve merged with so many ‘me’s’,” Lin Ye’s voice was not loud, but it resonated through the halo, “yet you haven’t learned the most important thing.”
His gaze passed over the suffocating halo, over the observer's indifferent face, and landed precisely on Lin Ye, the boy curled up in the incubation chamber, clutching his mother's photo.
A boy, tormented to the brink of death by the system, still clings to the last warmth in his heart.
"The system can give you world-destroying power," Lin Ye pointed at the boy, each word like a heavy hammer striking his defenses, "but the belief in protection, the will to fight for what you love and what you believe in... these are things you can never understand or learn! You strip them away, thinking they are weaknesses! You are wrong! They are the spark that makes us 'human'!"
The observer's indifference shattered for the first time! Those golden eyes, which should have been calm and undisturbed, now fluctuated violently! Countless images flashed, overlapped, and exploded out of control:
In a universe, he was struck by the Yuan Qi Bomb that Sun Wukong had gathered the hope of the entire universe, and his sunny face was filled with anger at his disregard for life.
In another universe, he was pierced through the chest by Vegeta's ultimate flash that burned his life force, the Saiyan prince's eyes filled with unyielding pride;
In another universe, he was shielded by Android 18 in front of the severely injured Lin Ye. The android girl's eyes were no longer filled with cold calculation, but with pure trust and protection.
And... in countless universes, the cries of "Lin Ye" bursting forth in despair, the back of him rising from loss, the glimmer of light guarding in the darkness... those "noises" that he judged as "failures" and "mistakes" now converge into a surging torrent, violently impacting the rational barrier that he thought was indestructible!
"No—Impossible!" The observer roared like never before, a mixture of anger, panic, and fear! His perfect image crumbled instantly! To combat "emotional contamination," the power within him erupted completely!
Roar--!
Dark gold, living metallic scales instantly covered its entire body, ferocious and cold, devouring all aura! Its body rapidly expanded amidst the light, and enormous energy wings, resembling an Omega but even more twisted and malevolent, extended from its back! The twelve law halos were forcibly compressed and fused, forming a destructive, spacetime-tearing final force field around its body!
Final Form!
"I am perfect! I have eliminated all useless emotional weaknesses! I am the end of evolution!" The Observer (End Form 9999) had a distorted, grand voice, full of destructive madness.
"You didn't eliminate a weakness!" Lin Ye fearlessly stepped forward, facing the End Force Field that even True Gods would retreat from! His body groaned under the terrifying pressure, his skin cracked and bled, yet his eyes shone with an astonishing light! His fist, still a mortal's fist, was imbued with: the warm body heat of Earth's Mother, the burning blood of his Saiyan comrades, the trusting gazes of Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Chiaotzu, Master Roshi, Bulma… all his fallen and living comrades, Alice's resolute back, Android 18's fingertip warmth, and Liu Nan's roaring conviction! It was a unique radiance that transcended systems and power, belonging solely to the existence of "Lin Ye"!
"What you've erased is proof of being a 'human being'!!"
Lin Ye mustered all his strength and let out the loudest shout of his life! That fist, which embodied all his emotions and beliefs, had no earth-shattering light, no power to tear through space, it was ordinary, yet it carried an unwavering determination to shatter fate, and smashed fiercely into the final halo that had merged with the twelve laws of the universe!
Time stood still.
The instant the fist made contact with the halo—
No earth-shattering explosion.
It was a faint, exquisite sound, like the crisp crack of glass shattering.
click.
The Observer's indestructible dark gold law scales in its final form instantly became covered with spiderweb-like cracks from the point of contact between the fists! The cracks spread all over its body! The golden hexagonal crystal that was spinning wildly in its left eye suddenly stopped, and then shattered completely with a "crack"!
"Uhhh-!!!"
The observer screamed in agony! The final form crumbled and peeled away like a punctured balloon! The dark gold scales and energy wings turned to ashes and dissipated, revealing the true form inside... a twisted and illusory body entangled with countless pitch-black chains!
The chains were not physical entities, but rather composed of pure black mist and mournful howls! Each chain connected to a blurry, agonizing, roaring face—9998 faces! 9998 resentments devoured and merged with "Lin Ye"! Like maggots clinging to the bone, they clung tightly to the observer's core, tearing and pulling frantically, uttering silent, soul-ripping accusations!
The observer's illusory body convulsed and deformed under the tearing of the chains. He watched as the "perfect" body crumbled under the impact of resentment, and watched the deep-seated resentment of the 9998 "failures" before their deaths. For the first time, his left eye, now empty and shattered with golden crystal, showed bewilderment, followed by a bone-chilling realization of terror.
"So...so I..." Her voice trailed off, filled with endless bitter self-mockery, "I was...the biggest experiment...I wanted to prove...that human nature is inherently evil...and that's the root of civilization's self-destruction..."
The illusory body disintegrated, and the golden light flickered like a candle in the wind. The gaze pierced through the chains of resentment, landing on Lin Ye, Vegeta, Android 18, Liu Nan, and the various "Lin Ye" figures in the incubation pods, finally settling on the boy clutching the photo.
"...yet...yet in every universe...I see...resistance to the light...I see...that which you call...'hope'..."
The observer—Lin Ye, number 9999, who had lost control of the power—lost his voice in the wind. His body, formed from the resentment of the laws, transformed into countless tiny golden specks, like a swarm of fireflies swimming against the current, surging towards the fragment of creation on Lin Ye's chest under the complex gazes of the crowd.
The fragments instantly became scorching hot, radiating brilliant light! They greedily absorbed the light points, like a parched pond welcoming sweet rain.
hum-
The dormant system panel on Lin Ye's wrist suddenly lit up again! There was no complex list of attributes or skills; the entire screen was pure white, with only a single line of simple, heavy black text: