He felt as if he was in hell.
On the operating table, Yoo Dong-ri listened to the sounds of the instruments colliding with each other. He could not help but imagine that he was an innocent victim lying on the experimental table of a mysterious organization.
Soon, a bunch of biochemical organs and viruses would be stuffed into his body, turning him into a messy monster. Then, a chip would be inserted into his brain, and he would become a random soldier that the main character in a fantasy story would kill after breaking into the enemy's base.
While his body was being torn apart and cut apart, he still seemed to be distracted. His mind was filled with messy plots.
He was laughing at himself.
Then, the chief surgeon raised his head and looked at him. The eyes behind the mask were serious. "Name?"
"Uh … Huai Shi?"
He subconsciously hesitated for a moment before replying.
Then, he saw the chief surgeon's expression become serious. "His self-awareness is in disorder. The operation will be suspended. Hurry up and arrange for a CT scan of his brain! Maintain the source … "
"No, no, no, I'm just kidding!"
He practically dragged the hole in his stomach and jumped up from the operating table. "I'm Yoo Dong-ri. Yoo Dong-ri, okay?"
"Mr. Liu, you better not have a sense of humor when you're so serious."
The chief surgeon picked up the oxygen mask and stuffed it over his face. He turned around and ordered the anesthesiologist, "Add 50 grams of Forsyth Forget Worries. Use the B4 concentrated version."
"Yes."
Soon, a faint purple gas flowed into his mouth and nose. Like ice water, it extinguished the messy thoughts in his mind and suppressed his emotions. Only cold, mechanical thoughts were left.
"Everything is normal. The operation will continue —"
Just like that, he raised the chainsaw and cut open the layers of steel that covered Yoo Dong-ri's heart.
Sparks flew everywhere!
An ear-piercing sound rang out.
The box that imprisoned the demon was gradually opened …
The seals that Huai Shi had placed on Yoo Dong-ri's body were removed layer by layer.
Outside the operating room, behind the floor-to-ceiling glass, Perron stood quietly with an expressionless face. He clenched his fists tightly behind him. His iron fingertips rubbed against each other, creating sparks.
Uneasiness.
"Don't be nervous." A voice came from the shadow beside him. "For this kind of thing, it's easy to do it the first time, but it's easy to do it the third time or the fourth time … Steady, steady!"
In the silence, Perron turned around indifferently and looked beside him.
The woman drinking milk tea, the shadow under her feet, and the huge bird spreading its wings in the dark.
"Tongi."
"Hmm? What's the matter? "
"If you really want to comfort me, I only have one request."
"Okay, go ahead. It's okay to change the lines you like."
"Just don't talk."
"I beg you," said Perron.
"Ahaha, my loving father is really scary when he's angry."
Tongi stared at the faint lightning in his eyes. She smiled but didn't say anything.
Because there was a clear cracking sound.
The last shackle was broken.
There was no heart behind the iron shell. Instead, there was only darkness and nothingness. It was like a crack leading to hell, surging with tides.
At that moment, Yoo Dong-ri's eyes fell into a daze and calmness.
In the darkness, a pair of scarlet eyes slowly looked up. The eyes were like a gorgeous wheel, with countless needles spinning rapidly.
A shrill sound burst out. The moment the chainsaw was raised, a sharp needle of darkness condensed into the shape of a needle and flew out from the crack in the heart.
The chief surgeon's movements didn't change at all. He put down the chainsaw indifferently and picked up the instrument in his hand again.
Because there was lightning bursting out of nowhere.
As Perron lifted his finger, the ruler embryo's power was instantly crushed. But right after that, even more sharp needles flew out from within.
One second, two seconds, three seconds, four seconds …
The appearance of each needle gave people an unrealistic feeling of trance, as if time was rapidly passing, but immediately after, it was shattered by endless thunderbolts from the void.
There were some needles that slipped through the chief surgeon's body, but the chief surgeon held the instrument expressionlessly and stabbed into the darkness. His hands didn't tremble at all.
An ear-piercing sound burst out. In the countless cracks, the mosquitoes stopped moving and died in an instant.
But in this desolate border, except for Perron, the chief surgeon's team, and Yoo Dong-ri, there was no other living thing.
Tongi calmly drank her milk tea and let the needles that grew out of nowhere penetrate her body. Then, the needles disappeared like phantoms.
As if they had never existed.
And from that moment onwards, the solidification began.
The crack in the heart spread rapidly, but it was blocked by the instrument in the chief surgeon's hand. Two fist-sized semicircular complex instruments closed in the hole in the heart.
After combining the technology of the Continuation Academy, a new law was born and instantly sealed the ruler embryo inside.
In the darkness, countless needles spun wildly. A huge and solemn figure suddenly jumped from the other side of time. The ruler who had yet to be born wailed to his future self and called for help.
Then, the ruler in his prime descended from the sky.
Then, he saw the man in front of him, his bald head, and his iron fist.
King Hebi raised his eyes, and a ray of blazing lightning shot out from the corner of his eyes.
The Golden Hand had already grasped his neck and slowly pulled him up from the ground. The terrifying power that was second only to the Natural Enemy had descended here and suppressed the monster's performance.
This was the border, the edge of the three blockades. It was not in hell where he ran rampant.
"Is this all you can do, Dongli?"
Perron stared indifferently at the thing that was no longer his son. "It seems that even if you start to do bad things, this is all you can do."
It was really not like him!
At that moment, the resonance of time was crushed by the iron fist.
His body fell apart. From within, countless reeds, needles, complicated gears, complicated pendulums, and even needles inlaid with emeralds and jade fell from the cracks and quickly disappeared.
The solidified person raised his broken head and wailed loudly, calling for his other self. He wanted to repeat the same trick, but it was too late.
The huge alchemy array was activated at that moment, covering the ceiling, the floor, the four walls, and everything. Then, it disappeared into Yoo Dong-ri's body.
From that moment onwards, the distant past had been covered.
The future no longer existed …
The huge body stiffened in an instant, froze, turned into darkness, and dissipated. Only the ticking of the second hand echoed silently in his ears, hovering around Yoo Dong-ri.
It gathered in the crack in his chest.
The operation continued.
And from within, countless gears and reeds appeared, and then formed a complicated escapement mechanism. Countless machines were constantly changing, deducing countless classic clock structures. In the end, when the low heartbeat began to move together with the balance wheel and hairspring, a disc condensed on the surface of the heart.
Three sharp needles unfolded, and with the beating of the heart, they moved towards the future.
Click. There was a soft sound.
Yoo Dong-ri opened his eyes and saw the future that was no longer far in front of him.
He suddenly raised his hand and grabbed the chief surgeon in front of him. The moment his fingers closed, a sharp glass clip appeared between his fingers, and he held it tightly.
It was almost close to the chief surgeon's pupils, causing his calm pupils to contract in an instant.
"Are you okay?"
He looked at the stunned doctor and showed concern for him out of the blue.
The chief surgeon frowned and was about to speak when he heard a loud shattering sound. The floor-to-ceiling glass that had cracked during the struggle finally could not bear the weight and fell apart.
Countless shards flew, but the place where the two of them were was not affected at all.
The only fatal hidden danger had long been removed in the past …
Dead silence.
The doctor was stunned on the spot.
And Yoo Dong-ri looked at him, waiting for his answer.
"I …" He swallowed. "I'm okay."
The operation was a success.
.
.
"What am I? A substitute? A damned Pawa? "
After wearing countless observation devices, Yoo Dong-ri stood in front of the shooting range and tried to move his body, but he found that there was almost no difference from before.
There was no increase in strength, and he continued to be so weak that it made people cry.
After taking two steps, he was panting.
At most, he just said goodbye to the wheelchair.
However, behind him, there was a pitch-black projection that moved according to his movements. It followed his changes and formed a ferocious humanoid creation with sharp edges and corners.
It was like a demon created from the crystallization of hell, and it looked exactly the same as the ruler who had never been born and died in the womb. However, it had lost its terrifying corrosive nature and turned into another body that could freely switch between Source Substance and matter.
Between the two, there was a thin rope that connected and sank into Yoo Dong-ri's heart.
When he received the notification that the test had begun, he lowered his head, picked up the pistol on the table, and aimed at the target in front of him.
After thinking for a moment, he pulled the trigger repeatedly.
But there was no sound of gunfire.
When the needle on the exposed mechanical dial in front of his heart suddenly moved forward for a second, the target exploded into a pile of fragments.
No trajectory could be captured, and no traces of gunfire could be found. Even the examination of the muzzle and hands couldn't find any traces of gunpowder.
The order of time was disrupted.
When the trigger was pulled, the bullet flew out, and during the process of hitting the target, the part where the bullet flew out was removed, and the only thing left was the terrifying result of pulling the trigger and hitting the target.
But when he put down the pistol, there were continuous gunshots and sparks bursting out from where the muzzle was originally.
A pile of bullet casings appeared on the ground out of thin air.
They bounced, glowing with a red copper light.
The experiment continued.
And in the follow-up test, the six machine guns aimed at him continuously fired until the barrels melted, but they didn't hurt him at all. Only the wall behind him was full of holes.
He casually strolled in the rain of bullets, the needle on the dial in front of his chest jumped back and forth without any pattern, constantly fiddling with the time axis of the objects, throwing the process of hitting him to after he left the place.
With his own strength, he actually reached a level comparable to 'Kronos'!
"It's just like … a miracle!"
In the observation room, the ecstatic experimenter opened his eyes wide in excitement and looked back at Perron behind him, "We can actually use the soul of a human to control the authority of a ruler! We have achieved an unprecedented result! "
"It's not unprecedented," Perron said faintly.
Perron said faintly, "Similar experiments have already been done in the Preservation Institute's laboratory seventy to eighty years ago … This is just a sealed technology."
After stripping away the key data and technology obtained from countless bloody sacrifices, its principle was simple — what it used was incomplete solidification.
By artificially dividing a person's soul into two parts and forcibly solidifying one part, one could obtain an acquired and controlled solidifier.
However, no one had been able to reach the terrifying depth of Yoo Dong-ri, and the Continuation Institute didn't have the luxury of using people with resonant physiques as experimental subjects.
Using the pollution that Huai Shi couldn't eradicate, the process of transforming into the Abyss was restarted.
And the range was limited to Yoo Dong-ri's heart.
Through the dusty technology of the Continuation Institute, under heavy blockades, the solidification was now within the controllable range. At that time, the solidified part of the soul couldn't cover the entire soul outside, and could only turn inwards and complete itself in this narrow range.
Even if it was the weakest and most basic structure.
Like a weak premature baby, it was congenitally deficient and difficult to grow.
Then, Perron, the Ascendant who was second only to the seven natural enemies in the entire realm, completely crushed the ruler's consciousness, smoothed it out, and controlled it with other technology.
In the end, with the umbilical cord that couldn't be cut short as the hub, Yoo Dong-ri's soul controlled his solidified body, achieving a different kind of control.
"This time, I'm a mother!"
Yoo Dong-ri's excited shout came from afar.
The corner of Perron's eyes twitched, and he couldn't help but want to clench his iron fist of domestic violence.
But after holding it in for a long time, he finally turned around and pushed the door open.
He saw the woman humming a song and playing with her phone in the corridor.
"Are you done?"
Tongi looked up and asked, "I'll say this first, I don't provide after-sales service. If there are any problems in the future, I won't be responsible."
"Green Day can solve it." Perron said, "Anyway, thank you for the technology you provided."
"Don't worry about it." Tongi smiled happily and sighed meaningfully, "I'm just thinking about my silly child."
In the long silence, Perron was stunned for a long time.
After a long time, he sighed softly, "You really … have become powerful."
"Hmm? Have I? " Tongi said seriously, "A big sister like me is always the embodiment of virtue that conforms to the times."
"…"
Perron didn't want to talk to her anymore.
In just two days, he was angry that he hadn't been in the past few decades.
He was physically and mentally exhausted.
After quitting smoking for so long, this was the first time he needed the comfort of nicotine.
He shook his head and asked directly, "What I'm more curious about is … you actually came out?"
"It's strange. You can betray me, so why can't I come out?" Tongi asked back. "I can't stay in a ruined library for the rest of my life, right?"
"If that's the case, Russell's movements during this period of time can be explained …" He pinched his chin and pondered for a moment. His expression gradually became ugly. "Wait, do you want to rebuild the utopia?"
Tongi's expression didn't change. "Why not?"
"Give up. It's no longer realistic," Perron said indifferently. Perron said indifferently, "Once the utopia is rebuilt, the entire Reality will probably be affected."
Source substance, Spirit Essence, and transformation.
The three major axes.
These were the three pillars that supported the Reality — the silver sea projected by the Source substance pillar, the heaven formed by the Spirit Essence pillar, and the three major seals supported by the transformation pillar …
If the utopia was to be rebuilt, then it was imperative to rebuild the heaven.
But the current Reality could no longer support such a huge change … and after being absent for such a long time, this world could no longer make room for a behemoth like the utopia.
"The Command Bureau won't let you do as you please," Perron warned seriously. "I'm not interested either."
"Look at what you're saying. I'm not here to talk to you about this!"
Tongi widened her eyes and said seriously, "I'm here to ask you for advice!"
"You? Advice? Me? "
Perron suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.
"Yes!"
Tong Ji came closer and held his hand. With a serious expression, she asked, "You've been a godfather for so many years and taught so many children. You must be very experienced. For example, if a child reaches puberty and often ignores you or even despises you, how should you make him respect you like he did in the past?"
She thought for a moment and added, "It's best to make him rely on you, the kind that can't leave you …"
"…"
In the long silence, Perron was silent for a very, very long time.
His indifferent expression gradually shattered, and what emerged was an indescribable shock and disgust.
"Tongi, people can't … at least they shouldn't …"
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