Xingtetsu: You are not included in Elio's script!

Chapter 762

The moment he stepped into the black net, Lin Yu felt countless tiny electric currents running up his spine to his brain.

The space was like a crushed kaleidoscope, where the boundary between reality and nothingness was completely blurred. He saw his reflection split into countless parts in the purple data stream, each wearing clothing symbolizing a different destiny. Some held codes, some held scales, and some were shrouded in the black mist of nothingness.

"Be careful."

After only a few steps forward, the space suddenly froze, and countless transparent figures were suspended all around.

Their bodies were torn apart by the power of nothingness and reality, maintaining twisted postures, but with an eerie calmness on their faces.

"They...are staying here voluntarily?" Lin Yu looked at the nearest figure in shock.

"This should be the first test of the 9th Agency." Huang Quan's knife cut through the void, cutting off a data stream that was trying to entangle Lin Yu, "Choose to become the 'anchor point' that maintains the stability of the black network, or be completely swallowed by nothingness."

"These scholars have proved with their lives that the 9th Agency is worth everything."

Before he finished speaking, the space suddenly shook violently, and the purple data stream converged into a huge human face.

The voice sounded like countless people speaking at the same time, as cold as the friction of metal. "Intruder, why are you pursuing something that does not exist?"

Lin Yu clenched his fists, "Because nothingness should not be synonymous with destruction, just like order cannot become a shackle of confinement. We must cut off the curse of nothingness, not to destroy it, but to find a balance to coexist with it!"

Huang Quan was a little surprised when he heard this. Coexistence?

How can it be?

I became a 'self-annihilator' just to cut off the nothingness.

She never thought that Lin Yu would come up with such an "absurd" idea.

In her long life, nothingness meant devouring, forgetting and ending, and it was a fate that had to be fought with a blade.

"Coexist?" The voice of the giant face caused ripples in the space, shattering the energy around Lin Yu. "Since the birth of the universe, the virtual and the real have been like day and night, and can never intersect."

“Those who attempt to reconcile will become ghosts trapped in the black web.” As the words fell, the transparent figures floating in the surroundings suddenly twisted and approached. Black tentacles emerged from their empty eye sockets, interweaving with the purple data stream to form a cage.

Lin Yu's Henglü energy circulated wildly in his chest, and the two-color light forcibly suppressed the conflict between virtual and real forces.

He reached out and touched the nearest figure, and the energy of order seeped into the other person's twisted body through his fingertips.

"You see, they weren't completely swallowed up by nothingness."

On the figure's chest, a faint golden light flickered in the black mist. It was an indelible will. "Isn't the purpose of the 9th Agency's existence to find balance?"

"What nonsense!" The giant face suddenly twisted and deformed, and it let out a sharp roar. The space shook violently, and the tentacles on the cage twisted wildly, as if they wanted to crush the two people completely.

The speed of those transparent figures suddenly increased, and the black mist overflowing from their empty eye sockets became thicker and thicker. Wherever they passed, corrosive ripples appeared in the space.

Huang Quan's knife burst out with a dazzling red light, and she swung the knife at the approaching figure, but the blade made a harsh metallic friction sound the moment it touched the black fog.

"Be careful! These black mists will devour energy!" She reminded Lin Yu loudly, while dodging a sneak attack from a tentacle, leaving a deep cut on her body.

Her void energy was actually devoured?

"Impossible..." She staggered back half a step.

Obviously, even order cannot assimilate nothingness.

With my strength at the level of a Void Envoy, why would I be swallowed by nothingness?

She should be the one who devours the void.

But the black fog before her was like some kind of distorted mirror image, not only devouring her power, but also copying her destiny characteristics.

Lin Yu's Henglu light suddenly enveloped them, forcibly shattering one of the tentacle.

“They’re imitating!”

"Some consciousness remains in these figures, but now they have been twisted by the void into living weapons to fight against intruders!"

As he spoke, his order wrapped around the nearest figure like a chain, and the light resonated with the light spot on the other person's chest, "Look! As long as you awaken the remaining will..."

Before he could finish his words, countless purple thunderstorms suddenly exploded in the space.

The huge human face condensed again, and this time its outline was outlined by blood-red lines like the light of a Yellow Spring knife.

"Foolish envoy, do you think you can override the rules by mastering the power of nothingness?"

At the moment the thunderstorm struck, Lin Yu fiercely pulled Huang Quan into the light shield, but three charred blood marks were left on his back.

"Why do you think the 9th Agency has been able to survive until now?" The giant face let out a hideous laugh mixed with Huang Quan's voice. The black fog of the cage began to materialize, forming hundreds of "Huang Quan" phantoms.

"Every inch of space here is made of the remains of those who attempted to reconcile reality and illusion!"

At the moment when the rain of blades poured down, Huang Quan suddenly grabbed Lin Yu's wrist and wrapped his chain of order around his waist.

"I'll lead the way, and you find the core!"

She injected the unconsumed void energy into the blade.

The knife burst into an unprecedented scarlet light.

When the first phantom knife pierced her shoulder, she actually held the blade in reverse and let the blood flow back down the blade.

Huang Quan's blood flowed upstream along the phantom blades, and the moment they came into contact with the black fog, those blades made of nothingness began to vibrate violently.

Lin Yu looked at the blood-colored mist that spread around her in amazement, forming a strange vortex.

"This is... using one's body as a guide!" He understood instantly that Huang Quan was using his power of nothingness and life energy to reversely erode these distorted void creations.

"Don't be dazed!" Huang Quan gritted his teeth and broke the phantom knife abruptly. The blood-stained blade turned into thousands of fragments, each of which accurately pierced into the vital points of the surrounding figures.

"Go find the core! The black fog here... is made of the obsession of the self-destructors!"

Her voice was filled with uncontrollable pain and fine red and black lines began to appear on the skin beneath her clothes, as if it was being gnawed from the inside by the void.

Lin Yu no longer hesitated, order unfolded under his feet, and he rushed into the depths of the cage along the silver track.

The purple data stream was blocked frantically, but was forcibly blended into a gentle light band the moment it touched the light of Henglu.

He could feel that the closer he got to the center, the stronger the remaining will in those transparent figures became.

In one figure's hand, he held a half-piece of a pocket watch engraved with the emblem of 9, while in another figure's hair, he had the medal of the Sea Patrolman entangled.

"So that's it..." Lin Yu's pupils suddenly shrank.

Those trapped in the black web are not only failed explorers, but also the "defense line" set up by the 9th Agency.

They used their obsession to merge with the void, turning into a living barrier to protect the core.

When he reached out to touch the figure in the center of the cage, the body suddenly emitted a bright light, reflecting the faintly visible stairs behind it.

At the end of the stairs, a door made of virtual and real energy slowly opened.

At the same time, Huang Quan's roar came from behind.

Her sword was completely covered in blood, and every swing could tear open a crack in space.

The black mist that had once devoured her strength was now rolling violently like boiling asphalt.

"Lin Yu! Come in quickly!"

Huang Quan's clothes had been corroded by the black fog and were riddled with holes. The moment the dark red blood beads seeped into the void, they were swallowed up by greed.

Her sword made an unwilling humming sound, and under the erosion of the black mist, the patterns on her body that symbolized the Order of Nothingness were fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Lin Yu! Don't worry about me!" Huang Quan gritted his teeth and swung his knife, cutting off a tentacle that was wrapped around his neck, but saw a thicker limb instantly grow out of the broken end.

She could feel that the power of nothingness in her body was being drained away in reverse. The power that should have been under her control now became shackles that bound her.

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