wavenovel Chapter 230 This isn't a fight, it's a system reinstallation
Chapter 230 This isn't a fight, it's a system reinstallation
The arrival of the "Eliminator" is silent and stealthy, yet more destructive than any explosion.
It does not produce energy; it only eliminates "definition".
Chen Ye felt himself "dissolving".
His body is no longer made up of cells and tissues, but lines of code being deleted.
He tried to call for help, but found that the concept of "sound" had disappeared from his throat.
Just as his consciousness was about to be completely formatted, a golden light shone from the direction of Renxin Pharmacy.
The light wasn't dazzling, but it carried an undeniable "presence," like a stabilizing force that forcibly recolored the fading world.
The "Eraser's" smooth face turned toward the pharmacy, seemingly taking an interest in this "stubborn bug."
In the backyard of the pharmacy, Wang Minyu stood in the center of the spirit-gathering array.
Beneath his feet were three wooden stakes carved from lightning-struck wood, driven into the ground in a triangular pattern.
The wooden stake was covered with densely packed symbols, not talismans, but rather diagrams of human meridians, pi, the golden ratio, and the fundamental cosmological constants deciphered from the data of the S organization.
The three men with gold-rimmed glasses were exhausted and collapsed on the ground, their eyes glazed over with a fanatical and empty gaze, muttering "optimization plan" and "user experience" under their breath.
Their afternoon's work provided perfect detail for these three "anchors of reality".
"Zero, lock onto the opponent's 'refresh rate'." Wang Minyu's voice was calm.
"Unable to lock on. The other party's actions are outside the rules of physics; my sensors cannot capture valid data. It's modifying our underlying protocol." Su Qing's voice came through the earpiece, carrying an unprecedented gravity. "Master, it's 'deleting' our pharmacy's mark on the city map!"
Wang Minyu glanced at the object in his hand. It wasn't a silver needle, but three finger-length wooden nails made from scraps of lightning-struck wood.
"Guan Shan, go and turn off the power."
"what?"
"Turn off the power, turn it all off. Let's go back to basics today and not use electricity."
As the main switch was pulled down, the entire pharmacy was plunged into darkness.
All electrical equipment, including Su Qing's high-precision monitoring station, instantly went silent.
The "Eraser" paused for a moment.
It can remove the concept of "light bulb," but it cannot remove "darkness." It can modify "network protocols," but it cannot modify a piece of wood that is not electrified.
Wang Minyu's tactics were simple and brutal: You want to play with high technology? Fine, I'll unplug the internet. You want to use a dimensional reduction attack? Okay, I'll just revert to the Stone Age.
The "Eraser" seemed to be enraged by this thuggish tactic. It abandoned its "conceptual deletion" of the pharmacy, and in a flash, appeared directly in the backyard, less than ten meters away from Wang Minyu.
It raised its hand, palm facing Wang Minyu.
Wang Minyu felt as if the air around him was being "stripped away." Breathing became extremely difficult. The blood in his body seemed to have forgotten how to "flow."
This is the "Eraser's" melee attack, which directly modifies the basic settings of a living organism.
Wang Minyu remained calm, pulled out a stainless steel flask from his pocket, unscrewed the cap, and sprayed it all over his face.
A strong smell of alcohol mixed with a peculiar medicinal aroma instantly filled the air.
That was "Water of Courage," a concoction Pierre made with "Fear Mushroom" spores, adrenaline extract from an S Organization agent, and vodka.
The "eraser" froze again.
"Fear" is an extremely illogical emotion. And "courage" is an even more illogical stress response that arises when confronting fear. These chaotic, primitive, and bug-ridden emotional messages are no less damaging to a purely logical weapon than pouring sulfuric acid on a CPU.
For the first time, the surface of the "Eraser's" body rippled, like a television screen with a poor signal.
"Looks like your system isn't compatible." Wang Minyu chuckled. He flicked his finger, and a lightning-struck wooden nail shot through the air with a whooshing sound towards the "Eliminator."
The wooden peg vanished into thin air half a meter from the "Eraser's" body. It had been "deleted."
"As expected." Wang Minyu was not surprised but rather pleased.
He flicked out another wooden peg, this time targeting the ground beneath the feet of the "Eraser".
The wooden pegs were successfully driven into the soil.
The "Eraser" can delete the "objects" that fly towards it, but it cannot delete the concept of the "earth" beneath its feet. Because the earth is the "vessel" on which it exists.
Wang Minyu took a deep breath, gripped the last wooden nail in each hand, and with a sudden burst of power, he charged forward like a cannonball.
He wasn't going to attack the "Eraser," but rather to walk right past it!
The logic system of the "Eraser" appears to have experienced a brief period of confusion.
Its target is Wang Minyu, but Wang Minyu's actions do not point to it.
Just as Wang Minyu brushed past the "Eliminator," he flipped his wrists and drove two wooden nails hard into the ground on his left and right sides behind him!
The three lightning-struck wooden nails formed an equilateral triangle, and the "Eraser" was trapped right in the center of the triangle.
"Activate the formation!" Wang Minyu shouted in a low voice.
The meridian symbols and physical constants on the three wooden nails lit up instantly.
This isn't luminescence, but rather a form of "emphasis." They are constantly broadcasting a message to this space: the physical rules here are under my control!
The fluctuations on the surface of the "Eraser's" body intensified. It was "anchored." It could no longer modify any "concepts" within this triangular area. It had transformed from a GM who could change the rules into an ordinary player trapped in a cage.
"Su Qing, take over the circuit. Zero, treat it like a USB drive and read it!" Wang Minyu shouted.
Guan Shan switched off the power. The machine room on the second floor instantly came into full light.
Su Qing's fingers danced across the keyboard: "Firewall bypassed! Reading data... Data structure unrecognized... Wait, this is... an instruction manual?"
The Eraser ceased its struggle. A line of pixelated text appeared on its smooth face:
[“Cleaner” beta version 0.7. Product function: Cleans up redundant information nodes. Precautions: Do not use under strong emotional interference or in environments without network access. If you encounter logical paradoxes, please press and hold the restart button on the back of your neck for three seconds.]
Wang Minyu walked behind the "Eraser" and, sure enough, found a dent about half the size of a fingernail on the back of its neck.
He stretched out his finger and pressed it down.
The "Eraser" froze, the text on its face vanishing, replaced by a giant, endearing smiling face. :-)
"Formatting successful. Welcome to the 'Renxin' brand intelligent cleaning robot. Would you like us to clean your home or remove a cosmic bug?" Zero's cheerful voice rang out from the pharmacy's loudspeaker.
Wang Minyu looked at the gray figure with a smile on his face, then at the "rules" he had set up, and nodded in satisfaction.
Tonight, Renxin Pharmacy's security system underwent an epic update.
Meanwhile, at the construction site, Shen Wanshan, who had been awakened by the golden light, stared in disbelief at the pigsty that had been restored to its original state.
For a fleeting moment, he felt as if he and the world had almost been Ctrl+Xed.
A sense of lingering fear, mixed with awe of the unknown forces, fermented in his heart.
On the starry sky panel, the groove representing "fearless courage" seemed to have a faint sense of change.