The giant face formed by the Differential Elder (Ancient Mechanical Will) coldly "watched" the direction in which Gao Gong had disappeared.
That region of space had been left in ruins by the final eruption of the three spacetime storms. The rules were in disarray, and the spatial structure resembled a shattered mirror.
Countless fragments of mechanical-will data that had broken apart in the storm drifted slowly downward like swirling black snow.
The key information those fragments might once have contained—"coordinate records," "channel maintenance logs," "abnormal access markers," and the like—had already been torn apart, distorted, and utterly annihilated by the violent force of the rules. It was as though they had been shoved into a shredder running at maximum power, reduced to the most basic, unreadable dust of information.
Gao Gong's method of "flattening" had been so clean and decisive that it was chilling.
However, the Differential Elder's consciousness, formed from cold logic, did not experience much emotional fluctuation from the complete severing of the trail.
Its "gaze" slowly turned in another direction—the location of the "spacetime coordinate" where Gao Gong and Xiao Yu had originally stood, the same place they had deliberately exposed at the beginning to draw attention.
The space there had originally been calm, but now an ominous ripple suddenly spread across it.
A deep, secluded passage had actually opened on its own!
Yet what surged from the other end was not any form of energy or matter, but... absolute "nothingness."
Dense, pale light so cold it seemed capable of freezing the soul, accompanied by an absolute chill that even a mechanical will could sense—the coldness of all things reaching their end—surged out of the passage like an ice river breaking through a dam!
Wherever it passed, it did not freeze things. Instead, something even more terrifying