The words echoed through the Conference Room.
Lu Nanzhi, Lin Lin, and Red Dragon exchanged glances.
This news was truly...
Beyond comprehension.
"The enemy the Ancient Text Society has been fighting all along... has been Deep Sea."
Gu Shen said, "More precisely, Deep Sea's Main System."
An ethereal, dreamlike figure condensed beside him. Chu Ling descended into the Conference Room in the form of Source Code. This room had endured all these years only because it remained under her protection.
"The current Main System is undergoing its tenth iterative update."
Standing at Gu Shen's side, Chu Ling spoke softly. "In truth, starting from the second iteration, Source Code had already been suppressed by the Main System. With every update, the Main System became stronger."
Everyone in the Conference Room looked increasingly grave.
Everyone knew why—
All Five Continents had been connected to Deep Sea. The spiritual power emitted by every Transcendent had been integrated into this vast oceanic network.
And beyond that.
Every citizen lived under Deep Sea's surveillance and control.
A spark could start a prairie fire.
The power contributed by every citizen connected to this enormous network was enough to create an ocean that could practically be called infinite!
"The fact that this Conference Room has endured for nearly thirty years is already a miracle..."
The war between the Main System and Source Code had erupted with the second iterative update.
In fact, after that iteration, the war could have been declared The End... Turing fled, the Ancient Text Society was destroyed, and Source Code curled up in the Deep Water Zone, barely surviving to this day only through Jing Shan Yan's Array Box.
From the Main System's perspective.
Source Code had already been completely eradicated.
The war was over.
With every subsequent upgrade, the Main System expanded