Chapter 892: City Consciousness
As soon as Li Yang finished speaking, the ground suddenly shook violently.
The remaining cleaners were surrounding him from all directions.
"The situation has changed." The voice of [Observer] became solemn,
"These cleaners... are different from the previous ones."
Sure enough, several giant machines suddenly stopped, and the patterns on the surface of the armor glowed strangely.
After a moment, their appearance began to distort and deform, gradually merging into one.
"Are they... merging?"
Bai Zhi looked at the scene in front of her in disbelief.
The cleaners finally turned into a mass of flowing metal and reorganized into a huge humanoid structure.
The body of this thing almost touched the clouds, and twisted data streams lingered around it.
[Eternity] looked solemn:
"This should be a higher-level rule enforcer..."
"Also a guardian directly under the city."
The giant looked down at the tiny people and made a metallic voice:
"A major threat has been detected, and the ultimate elimination protocol has been initiated."
Before the words fell, a dazzling beam of light shot out from its chest, razing the entire ruins to the ground.
Li Yang and others narrowly avoided the attack, but the shock wave still knocked them over.
"This kind of strength..."
Li Yang wiped the ashes off his face and looked up,
"It is completely beyond our ability to deal with."
But what is more disturbing is that the giant seems to be able to distort the rules around him.
The ruins that were originally forgotten by time have been brought back into the jurisdiction of the rules.
[Eternity]'s ability is almost ineffective here, and Bai Zhi's vines were crushed by the power of the rules as soon as they grew out.
Even [Observer] cannot penetrate the opponent's defense.
"Li Yang!" Bai Zhi shouted anxiously, "We must find a way to break through!"
But Li Yang showed a strange smile:
"No... This is our chance."
He took out the core fragment from his arms, and saw that the fragment was faintly resonating with the appearance of the giant.
"This guardian... has a direct connection with the City of Eternal Night."
"If we can invade its core system..."
[Observer] immediately understood his idea:
"You mean, use it as a medium to directly transmit to the city?"
"But it's too risky." Bai Zhi looked a little worried,
"If something goes wrong..."
"Right now, I'm afraid we have no choice." Li Yang interrupted her and said calmly,
"This may be the only chance."
Just then, the giant raised his arm again, and several regular beams shot out from his fingertips.
"The success rate is probably not high."
[Eternity] raised his hand and blocked it with his useless divine power, and said quickly.
"Then let's bet on this time."
Li Yang responded with a firm look in his eyes.
Several people looked at each other and quickly reached a consensus.
[Eternity] and Bai Zhi acted separately to attract the giant's firepower.
[Observer] escorted Li Yang to the target.
A thrilling raid began.
Bai Zhi controlled the remaining plants and created countless traps on the ground.
[Eternity] used the residual effect of the time ability to delay the giant's actions at a critical moment.
Li Yang took the opportunity to get close and stabbed the core fragment into the gap of the giant's armor.
In an instant, a huge stream of information swept in.
In this rushing river of data, Li Yang vaguely saw something...
That is, the truth of the City of Eternal Night.
It is not an ordinary city at all, but a huge life form.
Countless exiled concepts wandered in its body, just like blood flowing in blood vessels.
And what's more terrifying is that this life form has begun to wake up.
It is devouring and assimilating those concepts, trying to evolve into a brand new existence.
And once this process is completed, everything will be overwritten.
At this moment, the giant suddenly let out a painful roar.
Its armor began to disintegrate, revealing the complex data structure inside.
"The time has come..."
The raven-shaped [Observer] flapped its wings and flew up, shouting,
"I will open a passage for you!"
The next moment, its body instantly deconstructed, turning into countless data streams, forcibly tearing open a space crack.
Li Yang's eyes flashed, and he looked at Bai Zhi and [Eternity] next to him, and then jumped into it without hesitation.
At the moment of crossing, they seemed to see countless broken fragments of memory.
Those were the traces left by the exiled concepts, telling the truth that this world had been forgotten.
When consciousness was restored, there was an eternal darkness in front of him.
Towering buildings stood around, and the dome woven by data streams enveloped the entire city.
And in the center, the Tower of Babel was emitting a strange light.
"We succeeded..."
Bai Zhi murmured.
But everyone knew that the real challenge had just begun.
Because in the deepest part of the tower, an existence beyond the existing rules is being nurtured.
And its birth will rewrite everything...
Li Yang looked at the towering Babel Tower, his eyes became sharp:
"It's time to end it all."
"Let's... meet the ultimate rule."
At this moment, the top of the tower suddenly burst into a dazzling light, as if responding to their challenge.
The City of Eternal Night, the melting pot of this concept, finally waited for its last visitor.
And here, it will also be the place where all mysteries will be solved...
Several people stood on the edge of the City of Eternal Night, looking at the Tower of Babel.
Strange runes flowed on the surface of the tower, like some ancient text telling an incomprehensible truth.
"We have to find a way to enter the tower." Li Yang whispered,
"We have to hurry before that existence fully awakens..."
Bai Zhi carefully observed the surrounding terrain:
"There seems to be no trace of cleaners in the city."
"Because cleaners are no longer needed here." [Eternity] looked solemn,
"The entire city itself is the most powerful defense system."
Sure enough, as several people went deeper, strange phenomena began to appear.
The streets twisted and deformed silently, and the buildings squirmed like living things. Those contained concepts are flowing in the city's blood vessels, penetrating into every corner.
After a while, [Observer] once again changed from a fragmented black data turbulence to a raven posture and appeared beside everyone.
"It will take quite some time for that big guy to get here."
"But now... you still can't let your guard down!"
"Be careful!"
[Observer] suddenly warned.
The ground beneath his feet cracked, and countless data streams gushed out, turning into chain-like tentacles, trying to entangle the intruder.
Li Yang and Bai Zhi looked at each other and summoned vines to resist at the same time, but those data streams eroded this ability like a virus.
Wherever they went, the concept of plants began to disintegrate and turned into chaotic information fragments.
"The rules here... are being reorganized." [Observer] exclaimed,
"The whole city is evolving!"
"This is really... amazing."
Li Yang clenched the core fragment in his hand, and the fragment resonated with the city, emitting a faint pulsation.
Through this connection, he vaguely sensed the "thinking" of the city.
