The so-called flipping through books on the battlefield was of course just a joke, and Hao Ren just wanted to lighten the mood and let Rheia relax a little. But to be honest, he did not expect the new weapon that Rheia had spent so much time preparing to be like this.
He had thought that Rheia would create a new divine sword, or some other "normal equipment". After all, she had used a sword to slay the Mad Lord, and her single-handed weapon proficiency was definitely higher than the others. But he did not expect her to create a bible … Of course, it could also be described as a reading notebook.
He felt that he had used too much force when he taught her that "knowledge is power", and it had caused her to have a wrong view of the world …
But then again, Hao Ren was not worried that Rheia would make the wrong decision when choosing a new weapon. While she looked small, she was still a goddess who had lived for tens of millions of years, and had experienced the War of Madness and the Deicidal War. She was a genius when it came to learning, and she had chosen to make her weapon into a "holy book" after careful consideration.
Hao Ren felt that he only needed to believe in Rheia's judgment at this time, just like how she believed in his and Vivian's plan.
"Actually … I had thought of tying a metal chain to it, just like how Mom's bible can be used as a meteor hammer," Rheia said as she weighed the large book in her hand. "But after some consideration, I'm not good at using a meteor hammer. Practicality comes first, and blindly looking cool will only get in the way."
Hao Ren slapped himself on the forehead. "I don't think tying a metal chain to the bible and using it as a meteor hammer is cool at all …"
Rheia smiled as she kept the large book in her hand and walked towards the exit of the bridge. "Of course it is cool. Any weapon looks cool when it hits the enemy's face."
Hao Ren shrugged as he picked up the Starbreaker Crowbar and quickly followed. "I'll lead the way. You're still lost in this ship."
The Petrachelys moved forward in the darkness and chaos, and the strange distorted objects that appeared in the surrounding space and the blinding light of the ship's shield made it feel like she was sailing in a stormy sea, and in front of the ship, a strange "mirror dimension" was closing in.
The 'mirror space' was spectacular and terrifying. It was like countless mirrors of different angles joined together to form an unimaginably wide spherical barrier. It was so huge that when the spacecraft was tens of millions of kilometers away from the barrier, it was already like an endless vertical wall in front of the spacecraft. The entire universe seemed to have reached the edge, and everything stopped in front of it.
Even with the barrier of darkness and chaos, the entire universe was still reflected on the reflective mirror. The relationship between them seemed to have bypassed the laws of optics, and it was more like a reflection of information. Through the external monitor, Hao Ren saw that the mirror was filled with starlight, and all the stars of the Plane of Dreams were in it, but each of the starlight was different. In the countless "mirrors" of different angles, the starlight was stacked and compressed together, showing a dim and pale hue, as if each star was slowly burning out.
And as they got closer, the shadow of the Petrachelys finally appeared in the mirror. Hundreds and thousands of spaceship projections appeared on the mirrors at different angles, and each projection was the scene of the spaceship being destroyed. Some were smashed, some were cut in half, and some were even melted into a lump of metal droplets that could not be seen.
"Whoosh." Nolan's holographic projection appeared beside Hao Ren. "That scared the hell out of me."
As Hao Ren removed the metal shield, he gave Nolan a sideways glance. "Your tone is not convincing at all."
"What a cheap trick." Rheia looked disdainfully at the image sent back by the external monitor. "Using this' mirror 'to show off his' mighty power 'that is about to destroy the world? I can't believe this shameful thing is actually my avatar … "
This was the Petrachelys' propulsion module, and under normal circumstances, this place was maintained by the autonomous robots, and the personnel passageway would not be opened. But under Nolan's control, Hao Ren and the rest arrived at this special place.
And they were prepared to do something that was not in line with the safety regulations.
The low hum of the machinery came from all directions, and this hum was Nolan's heartbeat. It sounded steady and powerful, not like someone who was about to be stabbed to death with a metal rod.
The last layer of the shield was removed, revealing parallel rows of crystal pipes that looked like lampposts. The crystallized energy pipes emitted a faint blue light as they provided energy to the nearby safety equipment.
At that moment, the hum around them grew louder.
Nolan hugged her arms and shrunk her neck. "I … I'm a little nervous."
Hao Ren raised the Starbreaker Crowbar and swung it at the energy pipes. "It's fine. It'll just hurt for a while, and then it'll be over."
"Like hell I'll believe you!" Nolan glared at him. But this was her own plan, and she had no choice but to go ahead with it no matter how nervous she was. "You … you have to be more precise when you hit. Just hit the two pipes in the middle — don't break the ones on the sides!"
Hao Ren raised the crowbar as he pursed his lips. "Don't worry, I'm a master of all kinds of weapons. Do you think I can't handle a mere crowbar? Just work with me. Once I hit with the crowbar, you immediately rush towards the 'mirror' and blow up the dimensional structure. If you rush too early or too late, it'll be a waste of my crowbar … "
Nolan glared at him. "Nonsense. You'll only waste a crowbar, and I'll waste a kidney!"
Just as Nolan's voice trailed off, Hao Ren had already swung the crowbar down with all his might!
"F * ck, it hurts!!!" Nolan screamed.
She did not even scream this badly when she was smashed by the divine storm back in Star Cluster X. Looks like getting a kidney pierced with a crowbar really did hurt.
Despite that, as an AI, Nolan still maintained the same precision and efficiency of her programming as she piloted the ship. Just as the void engine's safety system went into full alert, the Petrachelys's engine released a bright stream of particles, and the ship that had been slowing down abruptly turned into a stream of light, crashing viciously into the 'chaotic dimensional structure' that was covered by countless mirrors.
With the safety system destroyed, a large amount of energy surged towards the void engine module of the ship under Nolan's conscious guidance. The void engine which could not be started within the world barrier was immediately forcibly activated, and in seconds, it reached a state of severe overload.
The ship's waist began to burst into bright flames, and the unstable orderly field tore hundreds of cracks in the ship's engine shield as large amounts of metal shards and crystal dust spewed out of the cracks. At the same time, the space around the ship was visibly collapsing. Large amounts of curved light formed uneven surfaces that wrapped around the Petrachelys.
The moment those curved surfaces touched the ship, the ship lost control and began to randomly appear and disappear throughout the entire space. The completely irregular spatial structure had destroyed the continuity of the flight path, making navigation an impossible task, and the void engine's overload had reached its limit at that moment.
There was no shocking explosion, and the moment the void engine core melted, the Petrachelys' waist merely flashed for a brief moment before a faintly discernible, soap-like sphere appeared around the ship, and the spherical 'membrane' rapidly expanded, reaching tens of kilometers in the blink of an eye before bursting like a real soap bubble.
And the 'mirror' that enveloped the core of the Dark Abyss also shattered in an instant. The void engine's meltdown released information that was far more complex than any dimensional law had disintegrated the layer of chaotic dimensions, and all the distorted dimensional reflections were washed away by the torrent of information, leaving only the space as it should have been.
With the sacrifice of his shipgirl's kidney, Hao Ren had broken the last door of the Mad Lord.
As the chaotic dimension disintegrated, Hao Ren seemed to be hallucinating, and he saw the broken 'mirrors' flying in all directions as they floated and spread across the entire space. The tiny mirrors were like phantoms as they passed through the ship's shields and armor, filling up the cabin and slowly gliding past in front of him.
Rheia and Vivian, who were beside him, had disappeared without him knowing.
He looked at the mirrors that were slowly moving in the air. In the mirrors, he saw his own face, the stars in the distance, and the old, dilapidated streets in the Southern Suburbs that had been forgotten by the city.
He saw a pale figure appearing in one of the mirror fragments, and the white face smiled at him. "What do you see? Do you see yourself? Do you see me? "
Hao Ren smiled. "As an appetizer, these illusions are too uncreative."
"What's the difference between illusion and reality?" The pale evil god continued to smile. "This universe will eventually perish, and your struggle will only delay it for a little while. When the apocalypse comes, all reality will just be data drifting in the wind in chaos and nothingness … If it will eventually disappear, what is the meaning of your obsession with the boundary between reality and illusion?"
"Meaning? I never said what meaning I'm pursuing. "Hao Ren smiled as he crushed a piece of 'mirror' floating in front of him, and the mirror showed the scene of CARS being destroyed and countless shattered crystal towers floating in space." You have never seen the real scene outside the world, and even if I tell you what I'm pursuing, you will never understand. "
The pale face contorted as a horrifying smile appeared. "Mortal, sweet words can't save you. In the face of this world-destroying power, how much weight can your pursuit carry?!"
"My weight? The key is not how much weight I carry, but how little value you have — "
Hao Ren laughed as he crushed the 'mirror' that showed the evil god's image. "In my eyes, you are just a moving year-end bonus!"
At that moment, all the illusions disappeared.
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