Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 325
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1:54 AM.
Gaia City.
The outskirts of the city, the highway was covered in ice and snow.
The Little Girl rushed like flying, as if she had forgotten everything around her, only caring about running in the direction she remembered.
“I remember there’s a traffic light ahead. Dad said it’s easiest for us to leave the city because we don’t need to turn left or right.”
“Just go straight!”
In the sky.
Goose-feather snow quietly fell, passing through the dim streetlights, turning the Little Girl’s hair white.
Her face was red from the cold, but she only looked at the road.
Exhale.
Inhale.
Exhale again.
The city was silent, and in the darkness, only the Little Girl’s panting could be heard.
She ran without stopping for a moment.
“Baxter!” she suddenly cried out in delight.
“What?” Shen Ye asked.
“That flowerbed—did you see it? Once I was too tired to walk and rested there, and Mom and I admired the flowers together.”
The Little Girl became more and more agitated.
Countless black figures danced wildly behind her, sometimes transforming into skeletons, sometimes into the appearance of a girl.
They were getting impatient.
Shen Ye looked across the road.
A long-haired woman in a red robe silently watched them from there.
Demon of Fear!
It seemed very patient, just quietly watching from the side.
When Shen Ye looked at it, it no longer made any threatening moves or spoke.
It was as if—
The outcome was already decided.
Shen Ye’s vigilance reached its peak.
The opponent hadn’t attacked at all!
This meant that the opponent believed the situation Nancy, Charlotte, and Peaso were about to face was favorable to them, and had an overwhelming advantage.
Perhaps the opponent might even want to protect this situation and let things unfold naturally.
Damn it!
Shen Ye flew out, found a car parked by the roadside, and looked at the window.
“The Hanged Man’s Gate.”
Tiny glowing words quickly appeared on the glass.
All were the enemy’s routine.
—No change!
Things would still proceed according to their original trajectory.
Then.
The problem wasn’t with the enemy.
Shen Ye’s gaze shifted to the Little Girl.
—Something profoundly impactful would happen to her when she reached home.
Then she couldn’t go home!
But this was her strongest obsession, and her only wish.
If he stopped her—
The synchronization rate would drop to zero, right?
Without him as a variable, Charlotte’s life would return to its original trajectory.
Everything would be irreversible.
Shen Ye couldn’t help but sigh, then quickly took a breath.
He remembered someone once saying not to sigh easily.
Too long ago, it was already blurred.
Quick.
Come on.
Think carefully—
What else could he do?
He flew up, following the Little Girl, running wildly towards the end of the road.
“Nancy, how far to go?”
He asked.
“That red house!” The Little Girl’s voice trembled slightly.
Next traffic light.
Across the street was a red skyscraper.
—Nancy’s parents were here!
“Which building, do you still remember the house number?” Shen Ye asked.
“1701.”
“Seventeenth floor, first apartment?”
“Right!”
“I’ll go check the situation, you wait for me downstairs.”
Shen Ye shot up into the sky, quickly covering a great distance, passing through walls, and entering the seventeenth floor.
In the hallway.
A woman in a red robe, with features like black holes, stood there motionless.
Demon of Fear.
It had arrived, and it was very quiet, seemingly waiting for something.
—Its expression even resembled that of a pilgrim.
“It’s no use.”
It spoke.
“Will you stop me?” Shen Ye asked.
“No, I will only watch quietly, after all, this is just the beginning, a day that every one of me will remember,” said the Demon of Fear.
Shen Ye ignored it and quickly searched for room 1701.
He found it.
He passed through the wall and entered the room.
A few breaths later.
Shen Ye silently passed through the wall again and quickly descended towards the lower floors.
Outside the building.
The Little Girl stopped, gasping for breath, and jumped up when she saw him, asking anxiously:
“How was it?”
“No danger,” Shen Ye said.
“Then let’s go straight up!” the Little Girl said happily.
“No,” Shen Ye said.
The Little Girl looked at him in surprise.
A line of faint light appeared in the void, forming words:
“The synchronization rate can change at any time, and the probability of victory or defeat also depends on this.”
“Please be careful with your words and actions.”
Shen Ye’s expression remained unchanged. He squatted down and whispered in the Little Girl’s ear:
“Do you remember the homeless man in that game?”
“I remember, but what does that have to do with me seeing Mom and Dad?” the Little Girl asked.
“The enemy can monitor everything from outer space…”
After saying half of that, he changed his mind.
His voice became soft and low:
“Listen, I will never stop you from seeing Mom and Dad. I just need to create an undisturbed environment for you so that the enemy cannot interfere for now.”
“This is for your safety, okay?”
“Undisturbed… Then you need to be quick, I can’t wait anymore,” the Little Girl said.
“Just a few seconds,” Shen Ye said.
The Little Girl finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Okay, I believe you, Baxter.”
Shen Ye smiled slightly, his figure merging with hers.
Synchronization began—
7.9 seconds!
Astonishing killing intent burst forth from the Little Girl’s eyes, and a palpable icy aura emanated from her.
She extended a hand, immediately grasping the Guanghan Bow.
With a single pull.
The Taiyin Divine Arrow, radiating an eerie white mist, silently appeared on the bowstring.
However, the Little Girl did not rush to shoot. Instead, she took out a ring, retrieved a small timer from it, powered it on, adjusted the time slightly, and quickly threw it back into the ring.
Four seconds had already passed.
The Little Girl hung the ring on the arrow, froze it with ice, and aimed the bow at the sky.
“Go.”
A soft whisper.
A cold gleam flashed, a fleeting light streaked afar, and instantly disappeared.
6 seconds!
No time!
The Little Girl was unperturbed, she nocked another arrow and drew the bow with all her might, releasing a shot.
Swish—
The second arrow suddenly shot into the sky, instantly transforming into twelve arc-shaped ice shards, and disappeared in a flash.
Time’s up!
Shen Ye bounced off the Little Girl.
“Can I go now?” the Little Girl asked.
“Go,” Shen Ye said.
The Little Girl cheered, not even bothering with the stairs. She immediately pushed off the wall with her feet and used her hands and feet to climb up to the seventeenth floor.
She climbed into the corridor and went straight to the door of room 1701.
Shen Ye stood by, looking up at the sky with anticipation.
In space.
A large space station orbiting the planet.
—As Kunlun said, powerful space weapons were already prepared here, ready to unleash a devastating blow at any time.
This was also an extremely important data storage and processing center.
The void flashed.
An ice arrow lightly stuck to its metal casing.
This level of damage was minimal, and it appeared too suddenly, so the space station did not react immediately.
In fact, there was no time to react.
Twelve ice arrows followed closely, hitting the arrow in front.
—They hit precisely, along the space ring frozen on the arrow, aligned in a circle, and struck at the same time.
The ring shattered instantly.
Dozens of hydrogen bombs, along with their timers, suddenly appeared in space.
“Beep beep beep—”
“Time’s up.”
The timer showed that the detonation time had arrived.
Light.
Blinding light swallowed the entire space station.
On the ground.
A line of tiny glowing words immediately appeared before Shen Ye’s eyes:
“You launched an epic (unparalleled) level archery attack, the cross-world archery skill ‘Star Edge’, targeting an object in outer space.”
“You launched ‘Star Edge’ again.”
“Please note.”
“20 hydrogen bombs have been detonated.”
“The space station has been destroyed.”
“The electromagnetic pulse caused by this explosion is erupting over a large area, and signal transmission and communication facilities have been affected!”
All the small words disappeared.
Just in time!
Shen Ye retracted his gaze, his expression composed.
He had done the only thing he could.
Now, it remained to be seen what the outcome would be, with everything detached from the influence of artificial intelligence.
Tap tap tap—
The Little Girl gently knocked on the door.
“Who?”
Footsteps sounded.
The Little Girl opened her mouth to speak, but not a single word came out.
She pressed her hands against the door, waiting silently.
Click.
The lock opened.
A humanoid entity made entirely of metal appeared at the doorway of the room.
It looked at the Little Girl and exclaimed in surprise:
“Nancy!”
The Little Girl was startled for a moment, then, seeing the other person’s face, she cried out without hesitation:
“Dad!”
The robot suddenly became nervous.
—Although it had a metallic body, its face retained human flesh, hair, and features, allowing it to display various human expressions.
The robot poked its head out to glance around, then whispered:
“Come in quickly, don’t stand at the door, Nancy.”
The Little Girl quickly stepped into the room.
The door closed swiftly.
The humanoid robot picked up the Little Girl and couldn’t help but exclaim loudly:
“Oh my goodness, my Nancy!”
“Incubator, come quickly and see, this is the daughter you’ve been longing for!”
The sound of rapid footsteps echoed in the room.
“Guardian, what kind of joke is this—”
A relatively smaller robot quickly rushed into the living room and immediately saw the Little Girl.
“Mom!”
The Little Girl cried out in delight.
This robot also retained a human appearance, that of a woman in her early thirties.
She rushed over, snatched the Little Girl, and held her in her arms.
“My dear Nancy, you’re back!”
The Little Girl cried, burying her head in the other’s chest, her arms around its neck.
“You’ve been wronged… child, I know you’ve suffered.”
The Incubator’s voice was gentle and low.
The Guardian stood before them, spreading its arms, embracing the Little Girl and the Incubator together.
Time seemed to freeze at this moment.
“Mom and Dad, you’ve been fooled. I wasn’t going to school at all. I had such a hard time.”
The Little Girl said.
The two robots showed sadness.
At this moment.
Endless dark figures also emerged behind the Little Girl.
The Demon of Fear also quietly appeared.
It tilted its head, quietly observing the two robots and the Little Girl.
Everything seemed to have reached that critical point.
“It’s time.”
The Demon of Fear recited, as if from memory, in an inflected tone:
“Listen, Nancy, all of humanity in the world is under the control of an extremely powerful artificial intelligence.”
The next instant—
Under the gaze of Shen Ye and the Demon of Fear, the robot called “Guardian” spoke:
“Listen, Nancy, all of humanity in the world is under the control of an extremely powerful artificial intelligence.”
Shen Ye looked at the Demon of Fear.
The Demon of Fear smiled faintly and said:
“Always the same lines. The truth is nothing more than this. They will seize her, then she will be nailed to the wall, waiting for the pursuers to arrive.”
Shen Ye’s gaze became profound.
He said nothing, just waited quietly.
The Demon of Fear continued:
“We also have that artificial intelligence program on us.”
The Guardian almost simultaneously spoke the same words:
“We also have that artificial intelligence program on us.”
The Demon of Fear spoke again: “Next, we are going to—”
The Guardian followed, saying:
“Although it’s unclear why that program hasn’t been triggered yet, the situation is actually not very optimistic.”
It’s different!
The Demon of Fear was a little surprised.
But it shook its head and said disdainfully:
“Are you playing tricks? But what’s the use? It’s just a matter of time. In this world, no one can escape the control of that artificial intelligence.”
“—The result is already decided!”
Shen Ye did not respond.
He just looked at the Little Girl.
The Little Girl indeed asked:
“Was raising me… also controlled by it?”
“Yes, nothing can escape its control. Everything about us belongs to it,” the Guardian said.
All the black figures behind the Little Girl solidified.
They all stretched out their hands, like long, thin needles, and all inserted them into the back of the Little Girl’s head.
Everything was getting closer.
The Demon of Fear spoke again:
“The next line is—”
“Now we must seize you, child. This is what the program demands, we must obey the program!”
Before it finished speaking, it took a step forward, completely merging itself into the endless black figures.
—It was ready too!
“No.”
Shen Ye suddenly said.
He carefully observed the entire room and saw that the phone screen on the desk still only showed chaotic black and white dots.
The communication interference caused by the nuclear weapon had not ended!
He faced the endless shadows of darkness and whispered:
“Perhaps that artificial intelligence will eventually control everything, but at least at this moment, it cannot control what they say.”
“Naive!” All the black figures roared deafeningly, “The outcome is already set, what significance is there in what they say?!”
Shen Ye didn’t reply, he just stared at the three people in the room.
At this instant.
“My child.”
The Guardian suddenly spoke: “When you were born, this world was not yet controlled. We gave birth to you, hoping you would grow up healthy.”
“But when you were three, everything changed.”
“After you were taken away, our only way was to save up 100 million credit points, and with that contribution, we could make a request to that damned artificial intelligence.”
“Nancy, we are saving money.”
The Little Girl looked up.
The Incubator caressed her face, and said softly,
“Child, we sold most of our organs and worked tirelessly with mechanical bodies just to save enough money as quickly as possible.”
Tears fell.
The Little Girl desperately wiped the tears from her face, biting her lip, watching her mother without blinking.
She was waiting.
Waiting for the most important words.
“We save money, our only wish is—”
The Incubator’s voice slowed, then gradually choked.
The Guardian continued the sentence:
“To bring you back.”
After saying this, it also stopped moving.
The two embraced the Little Girl, their bodies paused, their expressions blank, like machines that had lost power.
“Sizzle—sizzle—”
On the table, the phone suddenly made a sound:
“I am Kunlun!”
“A quick reminder, the nuclear explosion’s effect on signals is about to end!”
“They have the artificial intelligence program. Once Charlotte is discovered, it means the artificial intelligence discovers her.”
“They will be manipulated by the artificial intelligence to attack her!”
“—Run, you two!”
The Little Girl seemed to suddenly wake up, and quickly turned her head to look at Shen Ye.
“Baxter, don’t let my parents be controlled, please!”
Shen Ye said with difficulty, “I just synced with you, now there’s no way—”
A line of faint light suddenly appeared before his eyes:
“Nancy’s intense desire has broken through the shackles; her soul is willing to give everything if you can help.”
“Your synchronization rate is greatly increasing.”
“Your synchronization time has been immediately reset.”
“Your synchronization time is continuously increasing.”
Shen Ye’s eyes narrowed.
Could it be—
He took a step forward, merging with the Little Girl.
The next instant.
The Little Girl’s body was immediately controlled by him.
“Alright, since you have such determination… I’ll give it a try.”
The Little Girl said, then walked quickly to the window, summoned the Guanghan Bow, took out a hydrogen bomb, set a timer, froze it onto a Taiyin Divine Arrow, and then—
“Go!”
She shouted.
A streak of icy shadow, dragging a large square iron box, shot into the sky and quickly disappeared.
—Cross-world archery, Star Edge!
A line of faint light instantly appeared before the Little Girl’s eyes:
“You activated an epic (unparalleled) tier archery skill, the cross-world archery skill ‘Star Edge’, making a shot at an outer space target.”
“Please note.”
“The hydrogen bomb has detonated in outer space.”
“The electromagnetic pulse caused by this explosion is erupting, and signal transmission and communication facilities will be affected!”
The Little Girl turned her head.
She saw the Guardian and the Incubator in the room moving again.
—The remote control signal for that program was jammed!
Shen Ye immediately detached from the Little Girl’s body.
“Mom and Dad!”
The Little Girl rushed over, burying herself in her mother’s embrace.
The two humans with mechanical bodies showed a flicker of expression, becoming “alive” again.
“That program seemed to glitch for a moment,” the Guardian said worriedly.
The Incubator, however, ignored all of this, simply holding the Little Girl tightly and whispering:
“After we switched to mechanical bodies, we no longer feel fatigue, and we can work day and night. We’ve saved up a lot of money now.”
“Selling organs earned us eighteen million.”
“Working 24 hours non-stop for these past few years, we also have several million.”
“Mom, don’t you need to eat?” the Little Girl asked.
“Steel bodies don’t need to eat; they just need to be charged.”
“Brain maintenance fluid costs a little, but not much. Your dad and I use it sparingly, don’t worry, it’s enough.”
“It’s so hard to save 100 million. Do you really want me back?” the Little Girl asked.
Mom gently kissed the Little Girl’s forehead without speaking.
Dad smiled and said:
“Nancy, this is our only belief for living.”
The Little Girl listened quietly, her face suddenly glowing.
She was immersed in that sentence, her eyes twinkling, and just as she was about to speak again, she saw the two stop moving.
She turned to Shen Ye, her face showing a pleading expression.
Shen Ye sighed.
Those black figures filled the entire room, still circling around the Little Girl.
But.
They hadn’t succeeded yet.
“Why…”
The voice of the Demon of Fear echoed from every black figure.
“Why is it different from your memory?” Shen Ye said.
“That’s right, in our memories, there’s only the scene where we were caught by our parents and nailed to the wall. Why is this happening!” the Demon of Fear roared.
Shen Ye stepped forward and once again merged with the Little Girl, completing the synchronization.
—Synchronization no longer seemed to require a cooldown time.
The Little Girl’s voice sounded:
“You wouldn’t understand.”
“By the way—it’s still too early to decide the winner!”
She drew the Guanghan Bow, and again nocked a Taiyin Divine Arrow with a nuclear bomb.
Where to shoot?
Shoot the satellites.
All communication satellites in outer space.
It would certainly be troublesome for artificial intelligence to lose its satellites.
Swish—
The arrow flew out.
In a moment.
Signal interference occurred again.
The two individuals controlled by the program stirred slightly, regaining their freedom.
In the time that followed.
The Little Girl stayed close to her parents, listening to their efforts and pouring out all her troubles to them.
Whenever the program began to activate, Shen Ye would shoot a Taiyin Divine Arrow with a nuclear bomb attached.
Time slowly passed.
At one point.
Faint light quietly appeared, forming words:
“Congratulations.”
“Your actions have created a ‘deviation’ effect on the Nine Aspects. Although everything is currently uncertain, her destiny has begun to change.”
“This act has also had an impact on the infinite universe.”
“By your great deed, the Dharma Realm bestows upon you your rightful name.”
“After this nodal event ends, a corresponding name and effect will be formed based on the overall evaluation.”
All the small words flashed away.
Shen Ye, however, paid no attention to them.
He poured his mental power into the ring, looked again, and then said:
“Nancy, we’ve run out of nuclear bombs.”
The smile on the Little Girl’s face froze.
Shen Ye stepped forward and whispered in her ear:
“If you want to protect your parents, the best way is to leave here.”
“—We need to escape quickly.”
“Don’t cause any impact on them, and don’t let any enemy know you’ve been here.”
The Little Girl’s expression was calm.
She spread her arms and gently hugged her father and mother.
—At this point, they stopped moving again.
In a deathly silence.
“Baxter, take me away.”
“Okay.”
The door opened.
The Little Girl passed through the door and returned to the outskirts of the city.
She stood in the snow, gazing blankly in the direction of her home, her face now tearless.
“The commotion was too great, the enemy must have discovered us and is on their way.”
Shen Ye quickly continued:
“The best strategy now is to leave immediately.”
“At the same time, we need the enemy to think you just arrived here, to prevent them from questioning your parents.”
The Little Girl suddenly looked up.
Shen Ye followed her gaze to the sky.
A man in military uniform appeared in the sky, descending rapidly.
Thud.
He landed in front of the two, his gaze briefly assessing the Little Girl.
“As expected, a test subject… too bad communication is such a big problem right now…”
“Never mind, I’ll catch you first.”
The soldier slightly stretched his body.
His Dharma Aspect unfurled behind him with a roar.
It was an incredibly majestic church, and at the top of its spire, a glowing angel was perched.
Shen Ye’s face changed, and he shouted:
“It’s a deity! Not good, his strength is at least six levels of the Dharma Realm—let me handle it quickly!”
Such a master…
He must first ensure Nancy’s survival!
If he could find an opportunity to open a door, they should be able to escape.
Shen Ye merged with the Little Girl.
But—
He subconsciously raised his hand, only to find that he was still in his “ghost” body.
No synchronization!
At the same time, the Little Girl’s cold voice echoed once more through the heavy snow:
“Baxter, if it weren’t for you, I truly don’t know what would become of me.”
—The personality had converted to Charlotte!
Could she be thinking—
“Your strength isn’t enough, quick! We need to synchronize!” Shen Ye instinctively said.
Charlotte whispered, “I… actually always looked down on power.”
“In countless tests, the pain I endured was too immense. To escape it, I flew into the blank world, and there I created many things.”
“I guess—what they tirelessly seek, despite hurting so many, are these very things.”
“But I just won’t show them.”
“I once scorned these things from the blank world. I fantasized about punishing them with my failure, even using my own death to disappoint and make them regret.”
“But now…”
Shen Ye listened, nervously glancing around.
There were no dark shadows, nor any trace of the Demon of Fear.
Snowflakes silently blew away from around the Little Girl.
The Little Girl’s entire body began to glow faintly.
Her expression was firm, her fists tightly clenched, and a fierce white light surged from her whole body.
Yes, this was still Charlotte!
Shen Ye breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Opposite.
The soldier sneered, hands in his pockets, lazily scrutinizing the Little Girl:
“First level of the Dharma Realm? Naive, such a nascent Dharma Aspect is not even worth a look.”
However, Charlotte’s expression was incomparably solemn.
She still spoke to herself:
“Baxter, thank you.”
“You let me know the most important answer—”
“Mom and Dad actually love me.”
She finally raised her hands, slightly bent, holding them in front of her chest.
She paused for a moment.
She tilted her head, looked at Shen Ye, and whispered:
“There’s a small trick here, I’m only telling you.”
“What?” Shen Ye was puzzled.
“You have to tell that blank world that you need to draw on its vast and infinite ‘aether,’ and in doing so, it understands your intention and will bestow stronger power upon you.”
“Specifically, you need to give it a secret signal, even if it’s just chanting it in your mind.”
“Four words in total—”
“Dharma Aspect Descend.”
After the Little Girl said that, she put her hands together.
Boom!!!
Endless blazing light erupted from her, spreading throughout the world, causing the entire planet to burst forth with boundless ‘aether’ power.
This power caused the earth to quake, the void to shatter, endless illusions to cascade, and countless worlds to tremble with fear.
From a distance.
In the deep dark night.
The Little Girl stood alone in the field, her body erupting with blazing white light that shot into the sky, forming an boundless sea of humanity in the heavens.
Countless Dharma Realm spirits, adorned with various weapons and armor.
They encircled the entire world.
Such majestic and awe-inspiring a Dharma Aspect, merely by its appearance, had already caused the soldier’s Dharma Aspect below to begin to collapse.
“What is this! How can you—who is behind you!”
The soldier stumbled back a few steps, mumbling in a daze.
The aura of the Dharma Aspect bore down on him; without any attack yet, it had already made him spit out a mouthful of blood.
The deity within that Dharma Aspect was even more trembling, kneeling on the ground, begging for mercy incessantly.
The Little Girl stood still.
She looked at everything before her, her face displaying an expression that suggested she didn’t think she was particularly powerful.
“I don’t know what this is either, but if I had to say, Peaso once gave it a name—”
She said casually, then raised her hand.
In the sky.
Countless spirits of the Dharma Realm raised their weapons.
The Little Girl spoke the words:
“Dharma Aspect Descend・One Person, Ten Thousand Lives.”
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