Zi! Zi! Zi!
Zi! Zi! The electric arcs that it injected into Lu Qingchen's soul were still getting stronger and stronger, gradually turning from deep purple into scorching white. Not only was Lu Qingchen's soul being torn apart into pieces, it was also raising smoke-like data streams that were rising up, as if they were trying to burn Lu Qingchen's soul into ashes.
Despite the toughness of Lu Qingchen, who could withstand pain a hundred times more than the limits of a human being, he could not help but scream miserably.
He was like an earthworm that was about to dry up under the scorching sun. He twisted, wriggled, and struggled, but he could not escape from the scourge, torture, and savagery of the scorching sun at all.
"What do we do?"
Li Yao was so anxious that his soul was cramping nonstop. "Lu Qingchen seems to be in great pain. This is … too miserable!"
"So, you're so protective of the fairer sex now that you're taking pity on Lu Qingchen?"
The mental devil said. "Don't forget how he treated us in the Federation. Right now, Fuxi is stabbing his soul here and there, but didn't he stab our souls and leave us riddled with holes, too? You are not trying to save him, are you? "
"I — I don't know. While Lu Qingchen deserves to be punished, his crimes should be judged and punished by the Federation, not by this Fuxi … No, it is not a real 'Fuxi' at all. It is just a crazy artificial intelligence with the code name Fuxi. It is not qualified to push any human being to such an extent!"
Li Yao paused for a moment and went on. "Besides, if Lu Qingchen can't take the torture and really surrenders to Fuxi, it will be easy for it to receive tremendous data from the Federation, which will allow it to infer and control the battle situation more perfectly. It will be a terrible situation!"
"Fair enough. What then? Can we change the situation by jumping out and getting ourselves killed?"
The mental devil said. "Don't forget that our souls are more critical than Lu Qingchen's. Once we are completely swallowed by Fuxi, everything will be doomed!"
"Well —"
There was nothing Li Yao could do except watch Lu Qingchen's soul struggling hard under the bombardment of Fuxi's' torrent of painful data '.
"I … I …"
Lu Qingchen's Divine Soul was burning with difficulty, as if it would be extinguished at any moment.
"It shouldn't be difficult to state your choice. Any carbon-based intelligent life with normal logical thinking ability would know what to choose."
Fuxi pulled Lu Qingchen in front of him and said indifferently.
"Indeed … it's not difficult …"
Lu Qingchen grinned. A brilliant smile beamed out of the hideous face condensed by his soul. Suddenly, a limb that looked like an arm appeared out of his soul and smashed at Fuxi's light cluster brutally. "I choose the second option, a * shole!"
Boom!
His "fist" smashed countless ripples of data light on Fuxi's "face" like rings of light that kept spreading out.
Then, more tentacles of light pierced into his soul and transmitted pain data that was ten times more intense to his soul. It almost filled up his entire soul space, making him lose the ability to think logically. Tremendous data was leaking out of his soul.
In the jargon of the ancient Cultivators, one's soul was about to be dispersed!
"Lu Qingchen …"
Li Yao stared at the scene in a daze. He almost had the urge to roar at the sky and beat Fuxi into a pulp without caring about anything. Had it not been for the fact that he was no match for Fuxi, he would've taken action.
As expected of the grandson of Lu Zui, the leader of the Patriots Partnership. Even if he was a devil, he was still a devil of the Xing Yao Federation!
"I really … cannot analyze, understand, calculate, or infer what you are thinking right now."
The glittering cluster of light that constituted Fuxi revealed similar confusion for the first time. He mumbled, "Why? I've given you and your motherland the best choice. As long as you nodded, you would've been given a life a hundred times longer and infinite technologies and mysteries. Your motherland would've been safe for at least billions of years. Perhaps I wouldn't have interfered with it even when your tiny civilization passed away.
"Why are you unwilling to accept such generous terms? Don't tell me that you care about the lives of the Holy League and the Imperium. No, you don't care about them at all. In your original plan, you were hoping that the Holy League and the Imperium would both suffer heavy losses so that your Federation could rise.
"So, what's the real reason? I'm really curious.
"You are still struggling with 'reality' and 'illusion'. You don't believe that I can 'cultivate the truth with the false' and that I cannot restore everything in the real universe 100% in the virtual world?"
"Hu … Hu Hu Hu Hu … Hehe … Hehehehe … Hahahahaha!"
Under the intense stimulation of Fuxi's electric arcs, Lu Qingchen's soul had been on the verge of falling apart and perishing.
But as if he were having a last burst of energy or even a desperate counterattack, he adapted to the pain. His twisted soul was clear again. Also, in the deflagration of the electric arcs, he let out the wild laughter that belonged to himself, the Federation, and human beings.
"You will never understand. Even if you can control all the stars in this universe one day and transform the energy of all the stars into your computational ability, you will never understand."
Lu Qingchen roared, "I don't care about 'truth' or 'falsehood'. I've always believed that real lives can exist even in a virtual space on the premise that they are free. Unparalleled freedom, freedom that is not controlled by any law or destiny!
"If you do arrive in the future and the entire universe becomes your brain, all the virtual spaces and the lives inside, including human beings, will be created by you. Doesn't it mean that everybody will be under your control and calculated precisely, and there will be absolutely no room for them to resist you?
"Every step and even every second of their lives will be arranged by you. You will be able to observe and interfere with them at your will. You will know how the babies there will die the moment they are born. Everything is predestined, and nothing can be changed. They can only walk forward rigidly along a clear route. There is no possibility of derailment at all!
"Aren't such human beings just marionettes under your control? Isn't such a civilization of mankind a death row prisoner caged in the cage named time?
"No. I will never accept such a fate. I will never admit that such marionettes and death row prisoners can represent the civilization of mankind!
"I am an extraterrestrial devil. I am a believer of chaos. The true meaning of chaos is to suspect everything, resist everything, break everything, and turn the impossible into the possible!
"Even if everything in the macroscopic world can be calculated by you, and even if you can calculate the position and speed of every atom on every star, there are still things that nobody can calculate in the microscopic world below the atoms. That is the 'uncertainty theory' of the path of chaos. It is exactly in such unmeasurable, immeasurable, and unrestricted chaos that the soul of human beings is born!
"Human beings are the children of chaos and the products of 'uncertainty'. We stand for absolute freedom and infinite possibilities since we are born. We will never admit that anybody can calculate, predict, and control our future. We will never accept the oppression and restraint of any fate. We can't bear to be anybody's puppet or slave in any form, be it you, the deities in the universe, or the Flood above the deities. If anything tries to restrict us, we will fight it to the end!
"Do you understand it now?
"Reality and illusion are not important. Absolute freedom is the key.
"Or rather, when we are manipulated, shackled, calculated, and sealed by an irresistible fate, our life will be pale and false even if we live in the real universe.
"When we unleash the infinite possibilities of our unpredictable soul, we will be able to cultivate the most real life even if we are in a virtual space!"
In the middle of the deafening roars, 'fists' dashed out of Lu Qingchen's soul like raindrops again and hit Fuxi's cluster of light heavily.
This time, more ripples and halos were flowing out of Fuxi's cluster of light, tearing the illusion that it had built through all the trouble into countless pieces.
"Doomed. Doomed. I didn't know that Lu Qingchen had been infected by you."
The mental devil said to Li Yao, "He has become a hot-blooded high school student, too!"
"What an … incredible thought."
Fuxi was silent for a long time, simply allowing Lu Qingchen to bombard its cluster of light with dazzling halos. "Then, as you wish, let's take the second option. However, before I rip apart your soul, I would like to ask one last question.
"If your reason for rejecting me is not the so-called difference between 'reality' and 'illusion' but only because you do not want to be manipulated by a certain force, how do you know that the 'real universe' we are in is not under the calculation, monitoring, and manipulation of a certain force of a higher level? How can you be sure that you have 'absolute freedom'?
"Tell me. If you discover that even our 'real universe' was created by a certain existence, that everything was arranged in the big bang billions of years ago, and that countless generations of intelligent lives, including you and all human beings, have been sealed by an unchangeable fate, what will you do? How will you face such a universe?"
Lu Qingchen laughed.
He laughed in the most presumptuous and crazy way.
His soul was beaming with unprecedented brilliance, like the sign of a supernova explosion.
"Even if I am just an insignificant speck of dust in the sea of stars, no deity that dominates the universe can control my trajectory," Lu Qingchen said slowly.
Lu Qingchen said, one word after another. "If the universe is really calculated, controlled, and manipulated by a certain force named 'destiny' or 'heavenly law' as you said, and nothing can be changed, then I will —"
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