Chapter 131 A Familiar Enemy (I)

After passing through the spacetime rift again, Feng Bujue arrived in a blue-gray space.

Here, there were no sun, moon, or stars; the sky itself emitted a moderate light. Everything within sight had a metallic texture.

In that faintly blue sky, there were also wisps of crimson data streams, like rosy clouds, like colorful clouds… extending infinitely to the horizon.

"The Inner World?" Jue-Ge only needed a second to adapt to the new environment, where the atmosphere and gravity differed somewhat from the real world. He activated his data vision and began searching for new rifts.

Unexpectedly, just after that second, he was shocked to realize… that two massive data streams were approaching him from the far distance.

Although they were two distinct powers, their undeniable presence was similar.

In the blink of an eye, one of the data streams had already closed in on Feng Bujue. Judging by its momentum… the other party intended to launch an attack on Jue-Ge directly with this "transmission speed."

Feng Bujue reacted quickly, immediately turning to block. But the impact didn't arrive as he predicted because… the other data stream swooped in at the last moment, colliding with the one rushing towards Jue-Ge and deflecting the impact for him.

*Tss—*

The instant the two streams of light touched, a tearing sound of light energy ripping apart the air erupted. A violent energy storm expanded in a circle, forcibly pushing Jue-Ge back seven or eight meters.

Before the light and shadows dissipated, six figures appeared in Feng Bujue's vision.

The three on his left were formed from the light stream that had rushed towards him; the three on his right were brought by the light stream that had protected him.

"You go! We'll hold them off." Many years since they last met (from Ruote's perspective), Ruote's first words to Feng Bujue were to tell him to leave immediately.

Clearly, she had come riding the data stream that protected Jue-Ge. The two beside her were "Chi" and "Qing."

And the three confronting her were a tall humanoid creature composed entirely of golden liquid metal, and… "Chitie" and "Yi."

Through his data vision, Feng Bujue had confirmed that… the golden humanoid before him was "Zero," or rather… once was Zero.

During the period when Twenty-Three attempted to destroy the main universe, the uninformed Origin and Z Organization had joined forces to resist him. At that time, Ruote led Origin in the Inner World, while Zero led the Z Organization in the main universe to fight back…

Later, on the shattered Chew-Magic Island, Chitie and Yi were "infected" and defeated by Twenty-Three, severely damaging the Z Organization. As a result, when Dou Mo and the Redundant Soldiers attacked the Monster Kingdom, Zero could only confront Twenty-Three alone…

In the end, the high-level combatants of the Z Organization, including Zero himself, were all infected and assimilated by Twenty-Three.

Ruote and the others were spared only because the main battlefield was in the Inner World…

Now, because Twenty-Three himself had been absorbed by Fate, the three members of the Z Organization were also separated by Fate and became "anti-virus programs" that he used to deal with the Derivatives.

"Okay." After observing for a few seconds, Feng Bujue roughly deduced the situation before him. He didn't stand on ceremony with Ruote, responded with a word, and turned to run.

But before he could finish speaking, Zero and the other two rushed towards him again in unison.

Even though Ruote and the others immediately stepped forward to suppress the three members of the Z Organization, due to the principle of "priority commands," the three still stared at Jue-Ge with their white light-filled eyes, struggling to break free from their restraints while desperately approaching their target.

"Don't look back, I won't let them touch you!" As Ruote said this, she, as the suppressor, was showing injuries similar to data cracks on her own body.

Feng Bujue indeed didn't look back. He left, pursuing the data trajectory at his fastest speed.

He could see that the battle between Ruote and Zero had already begun before he arrived in this space, and… Ruote's side was already showing signs of defeat. Once he left this space, Zero and the others would lose their priority target and turn to deal with Ruote with all their strength. The result of the battle… would likely end with the latter's destruction.

But even knowing this, he wouldn't turn back, couldn't turn back.

He believed Ruote's words, "won't let them touch you."

Just as Ruote also believed in him, firmly believing in the promise he had made back then…

Because of the promise he had received at that time, Ruote didn't ask Feng Bujue any questions. She didn't care where he was going or what he was going to do. She simply unconditionally believed in him and did everything she could to become Feng Bujue's help.

At this time of universal destruction and collapse of all realms, even humans might not be able to be as steadfast as she was.

On the contrary, self-proclaimed higher beings, at the critical moment of life and death, often only believe in themselves, or even… don't believe in themselves at all.

Can I really stop Fate?

What if my power is still not enough?

What if I fail?

What will this world ultimately become?

Along the way, Feng Bujue kept questioning himself. These questions, which he couldn't answer but could guess the answers to, flashed through his rapidly running brain again and again, pushing him to the brink of collapse.

Long-lost fear, like an uncontrollable wildfire, scorched his composure.

He wasn't afraid of death, but he was afraid of the situation that might occur after his defeat and death. The hopes, trust, dignity, and lives he carried… would all be shattered with his failure and death.

Whenever he thought of this, he was uncontrollably afraid.

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The spacetime rifts in the Inner World were easy to find, the data network there was very clear.

Feng Bujue quickly carried out the next transfer. This time, the moment he regained consciousness, he saw a scorched earth before him.

Dim light poured through the clouds, shining on the scarred black earth.

At this time, hundreds of corpses were lying in front of Feng Bujue. Among these dead, he saw Long-Ge of [Blade], Qi Sha, Po Jun, and Tan Lang, as well as many members of the Blade studio whom he didn't recognize but had seen on different occasions. In addition, he also saw "Zui Sheng Meng Si" of [Order], as well as Qiu Feng Se and Yu Zhong Ji Chang of [Shan He] and [Tian Di]…

These *Thriller Paradise* players, whom he knew or didn't know, had gathered here for some reason and… died in battle here.

And those who killed them were now standing on this hill of corpses and river of blood.

Billy, Bill, Zhuan Xie Zun, Dian He Wang, Tu Fa-Ge, R2-Leng Feng, Y2-Shan Yao, etc. Among those blood-soaked figures… in addition to powerful NPCs, there were also Derivatives who had been "infected" by Twenty-Three at different times.

These faces that Jue-Ge was familiar with now had eyes filled with data streams, all looking directly at Feng Bujue in unison.

This terrifying, desperate scene became even more terrifying and desperate after a moment…

After the same reaction time, all these monsters rushed towards Feng Bujue, and the overwhelming, insane offensive left him nowhere to hide.

Forced to, Feng Bujue had no choice but to use the power of Holy and Demonic, preparing to release an energy explosion to withstand this wave of encirclement and kill.

However, at this instant…

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"Eh? Brother Feng?" Meng Jing Chan was sharp-eyed and was the first to discover Jue-Ge in the crowd.

Hearing his words, everyone around turned their heads and looked in this direction, making bursts of discussion.

"What? Feng Bujue is here?"

"Where is he? When did he come?"

"It's the first time I've seen him in person…"

"With him here, the chances of winning should increase, right…"

When these voices entered his ears, Feng Bujue's expression was still very puzzled.

One second ago, he was still seeing countless monsters pouncing on him, but the next second, he suddenly stood in the middle of a crowd of people, and these people… were all those "corpses" he had just seen.

"Brother Feng!" Just as Feng Bujue was stunned, Long-Ge shouted at him and squeezed through the crowd to come over. "You've come at the right time. Section Chief Gu has already contacted us, and we will fully assist you." As he spoke, he came to Jue-Ge's side, "By the way, Little Wang and Little Gu are also here… I'll call them over…"

As he said this, he turned back, but then he was stunned for a moment: "Eh? Where are they… Little Wang! Wang Tanzhi!"

"I'm leaving." Long-Ge was still shouting for people, but Feng Bujue had already coldly dropped these words and pushed through the crowd to move forward.

"Eh, wait a…" Long-Ge still wanted to stop him, but just as his words were not finished, someone in the crowd shouted, "Monsters are coming! Seven o'clock direction!"

In this way, Long-Ge's words were quickly drowned out in a clamor. When he looked again, Feng Bujue had already run to a very distant place without looking back.

Just now, when Long Aotian said the first sentence to Feng Bujue, the latter had already confirmed with his data vision that Little Tan and Little Ling were not among these people; as for why Long-Ge said they were there, and why these people who were clearly dead suddenly all came back to life… After thinking for a few seconds, Feng Bujue had already come to a conclusion in his heart.

*Boom—*

In a loud bang of an energy explosion, the battle began.

But Feng Bujue didn't care about the bloody battle that was happening behind him, he just buried his head and rushed forward.

He could already feel that… Fate was in this current space. This was also the reason why there were so many NPCs and infected Derivatives appearing here.

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After traveling at close to the speed of sound for nearly five minutes, finally, on the horizon, there appeared a radiance like the sun.

Because the scene under this data vision was too dazzling, Feng Bujue had to switch to ordinary vision to see things.

So, he saw the next scene…

On a piece of scorched earth slightly higher than the ground, Fate, in the appearance of Twenty-Three, was standing there.

Her left arm was raised high, pinching Wang Tanzhi's neck and lifting the latter over her head.

The moment Feng Bujue saw them, Fate just happened to twist Little Tan's neck…

And at this time, at Fate's feet, there was another corpse lying - Gu Xiaoling's corpse; she also looked like she had just died not long ago, and blood was still gushing out from the bloody hole in her chest.

"I'll kill you…" Feng Bujue had no time to be sad. Perhaps, he would no longer feel sad, because a more intense, crazy killing intent had covered all other emotions at this moment…

He murmured the intention to kill the other party, and the Holy and Demonic power on his body was instantly pushed to the limit.

The moment he broke through the sound barrier, his figure was already in front of Fate… a punch that could shatter spacetime, carrying everything he was carrying, slammed towards Fate's face.

However…

*Buzz—*

Fate just raised a finger of her right hand and gently tapped in the void, and an invisible force field opened up, stopping Jue-Ge's fist and its forward momentum.

The earth-shattering power of the punch only stirred up a few ripples on the force field before dissolving into nothing.

"You've come… earlier than I expected." Fate looked at Feng Bujue and said calmly, "Even if you don't count the 'time of retrospection' of the two of them, the timing of your appearance has already exceeded my calculations." As she spoke, she casually threw Little Tan's corpse away and continued, "It can be seen… you have obtained some new power, but obviously…" She tapped her finger again, pushing the force field forward and sending Feng Bujue flying, "…it's still not enough to threaten me."

*Chichichi…*

In the next second, streamers flashed and black light pierced the wind.

Feng Bujue spun around in the air and scattered dozens of Mad Demon Poker cards from between his fingers.

"Spiritual energy weapon…" Looking at those flying, scattered attacks, Fate still didn't have any emotional changes. She just spread her right hand and waved it slightly, and those black lights were decomposed into data light streams in the process of flying, disappearing in a melting state, "…compared to the power of those spiritual ability users in the current world, it's not worth mentioning."

The continuous setbacks in the attack didn't make Feng Bujue give up. Before his feet landed, he stepped forward again in the air.

"In terms of pure 'power', you have no chance." Fate said, and with another snap of her fingers, she made Jue-Ge, who was rushing forward, fall straight to the ground… The state of his fall was like being pulled down by a huge force. He clearly didn't fall from a very high place, but he shattered the ground.

"You should have more 'high-level' abilities, right?" Fate said word by word, "Let me see it… The Truth, The Reason, The Fallacy."

Hearing this, Feng Bujue didn't respond. Under this huge gravitational pressure, he had already used all his strength just to try to support his body.

If he knew how to use the Fallacy of Truth, he would have used it long ago, and he wouldn't have waited until now…

"I see… still not enough." Fate observed him for a few more seconds and continued, "It seems that my 'stimulation' for you is not enough."

After saying this, she moved forward, approaching Feng Bujue, not knowing what she was going to do.

Just then, suddenly!

Next to Jue-Ge, a space crack suddenly appeared and quickly extended into a "mirror."

Before Fate could react, a thick arm stretched out from the mirror and grabbed the fallen Feng Bujue, pulling him in…

Half a second later, the mirror reclosed and disappeared.

"Oh?" Fate looked at the place where the crack disappeared and said in a deep voice, "The small gods of different dimensions, but unexpectedly, they can cause trouble for me at this time."