Forever and Ever (@Liu Liuyuan Yu Dong Dong-verified master)
Therefore, we can observe Su Luo's condition by observing the changes in her health bar.
[Qiu Sheng Da Ying Jing] secretly tied his spatial artifact to a very distant location, preparing to teleport away, and then began to "Lifesteal" from the black sphere as Song Shige had requested.
The black sphere before me has grown to a radius of 30 million kilometers. Although it is still tiny compared to the massive star systems on the scale of trillions of kilometers, it has already surpassed the volume of most Fixed Stars. However, its overall density is extremely low, lacking the weight of a star, leaving only pure stillness.
[Qiu Sheng Da Ying Jing] seriously doubts whether what's inside is even a living being; I've used several skills but haven't been able to touch anything inside.
In the end, Song Shige handed him an Unsealing [Disintegration Cannon], which he then aimed at the center and fired a few shots.
[Damage detected: -1.2 trillion]
[Level difference calculation complete, successfully plundered maximum HP: +120 billion]
The next instant, [Qiu Sheng Da Ying Jing] saw the health bar of the black sphere's core creature.
[6245371988/7485983758395738957]
[Qiu Sheng Da Ying Jing] glanced at it and understood immediately.
Seven hundred billion.
Turns out it's a guy with Attribute 30, but why is his remaining health so low?
Just as he was pondering this, the maximum health he had just plundered rapidly recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, instantly returning to its Origin.
[Qiu Sheng Da Ying Jing] raised an eyebrow, about to speak.
The next instant, [Qiu Sheng Da Ying Jing] saw a number pop up on the health bar, a massive negative value that pierced through the health bar, turning it into a huge negative number!
[ -125675000000000000000000000000]!
The creatures within are currently in debt by trillions upon trillions of drops of blood, but they have not died. Their blood volume is rising from negative to positive at an alarming rate, only to be deducted again and fall back into negative territory, and this Cycle itself endlessly.
The maximum health is also constantly increasing at an abnormal rate.
[Qiu Sheng Da Ying Jing] was stunned.
He wasn't unfamiliar with creatures with negative health.
Those creatures are kept alive by some kind of immortality mechanism; generally, once their health drops to negative, they have little ability to move, and usually, the negative health threshold isn't too high.
But the amount of health you owe is a billion times greater than your maximum health bar, isn't that a bit excessive?!
Empty City Stratagem?
"What did you see?" Song Shige stared at [Qiu Sheng Da Ying Jing] for a while without speaking, then frowned and asked.
"I've seen something monstrous. This is truly an era of exponential numerical growth. My Talents are probably useless against him."
[Qiu Sheng Da Ying Jing] came to his senses with a wry smile, and stopped abruptly as he was about to touch his nose.
"No, no, no, I can't do those actions. Those cerebral palsy moves are for the Protagonist character, and I'm not the Protagonist after all."
"From now on, you are the [Qiu Sheng Da Ying Jing]."
[Little Survival Sprite] recounted the scene she had just witnessed in a daze, finally saying with a look of utter desolation:
"I see Fate's arrangement in you... Fate! Fate is a slut!"
"If someone were to write our story, that writer would be a complete idiot!"
"You big--idiot!"
"Who's such a good person to become so arrogant? You'll get your comeuppance for writing like this..."
[Little Survival Sprite] was dejected for a while, and seeing that Song Shige didn't attack him, he squatted down and pondered for a while.
Finally, he chose the latter over the former, and began to use the Disintegration Gun to increase Su Luo's maximum health.
Perseverance is the secret to survival for ordinary people in this Survival Game.
After confirming that Su Luo was in good condition, Song Shige continued to improve her Attributes.
Until Xiao Luo descended from the Dream World.
"Insufficient production capacity, go find [Ye Guanlan] and [Hengjin Jun]."
The Virtual World of [Southern Heaven-Z9] has crashed.
The Virtual World, as the primary venue for citizens' activities, is naturally not simple.
Its Mainframes and computing arrays are distributed across various blocks of the galaxy, practically everywhere. They utilize some form of sharing technology, so even if most of them are lost, it won't significantly impact the operation of the Virtual World.
At least we won't see a situation where, just when citizens are having a good time, a Mainframe malfunctions, causing the Virtual World to crash and separating citizens from their virtual counterparts.
This time, however, the Virtual World of [Southern Heaven-Z9] shattered into countless scattered blocks, leaving countless citizens gathered within it bewildered, most of whom hurriedly logged off.
The chaos was not limited to the Southern Heaven; the Virtual Worlds of all star systems collapsed simultaneously, and public channels and information networks began to malfunction.
Even the Livestream Room had problems. The cultists who couldn't see the Fairy confronted the higher-ups of the operating group. Coupled with the availability of readily available security weapons, this sparked the largest civil riot in tens of thousands of years.
Only after almost all those in charge had been thoroughly plied with alcohol did the citizens realize what was happening.
The underlying hardware of all the facilities was transported by [the Mother Goddess], does that mean [the Mother Goddess]...?
The citizens panicked and some even began to wail.
When cowards possess violence and Future, they only breed more cowards.
In the shattered and chaotic virtual world, like a broken mirror, the girl sat silently in the Void, her hands clasped behind her head, lost in endless contemplation.
[Southern Heaven] stayed here solely to increase his World Influence.
She's been slacking off for the past few eras; if she doesn't increase her World Influence soon, she might not qualify.
The randomly selected virtual character [Southern Heaven] was a perfect fit, and [Mother Goddess] didn't mind. Standing in the Livestream Room, she could boost the World Influence of an entire civilization, making her the perfect choice.
But [the Mother Goddess] crashed; if we don't run now, we'll never escape.
[Southern Heaven] put down his hands, stood up, and began to operate the facilities inside the [Southern Heaven-Z9] Fixed Star, coordinating a pseudo-light-speed spaceship to facilitate his escape.
However, halfway through her maneuver, her thoughts suddenly stalled, and she fell into a vicious Cycle. She crouched in Void -air, holding her head in her hands, and began repeating the thought process she had been going through.
It wasn't until the thirty-ninth time that she stood up and inadvertently saw the system time, realized what was happening, and quickly switched back to Dora.
Blind Dora, without relying on visual perception, glimpsed, through some kind of perception beyond reason, a colossal white cocoon at the Fixed Star's Jump Gate, slowly devouring the Fixed Star.
The next moment, Dora forgot about the scene again, but the bone-chilling fear prompted her to leave the Virtual World and board an ordinary vehicle to head towards [Starry Flower Remains].
Time slowly passed, and the citizens who had lost their mothers, daughters, wives, sisters, masters, slaves... continued to wail, as if the Eternal Paradise of their dreams had begun to crumble.
Until the [Virtual World] returned to normal in an instant, that sweet maternal voice rang out once again in the hearts of the citizens:
"Children, don't cry."
[Mother Goddess], return.
Everything was the same as before, except that he was speaking a little strangely.
We will be together.
"Forever and ever."