Moment of Crisis

At that thought, cold sweat suddenly poured down Zhang Qi's back.

This feeling was not good.

Not good by a full nine, maybe even ten out of ten.

It was like playing games at an internet café, only to suddenly discover the dean of discipline standing behind you to drag you away—with your parents in tow.

A super AI dedicated to solving the universe's ultimate answer had encountered a BUG it could never calculate.

What was the best way to deal with that?

The next second, the massive mechanical planet proved his guess through its actions.

On its surface, composed of billions upon billions of modules, the scarlet glimmer at the center of that retracted region abruptly swelled, like the instant before a supernova erupted.

Vast Path energy, enough to nearly burst this mental dimension apart, transformed into countless invisible chains and nailed Zhang Qi firmly in place. Then, that power connected to his mind.

This was not a metaphor.

Zhang Qi could "see" a probe made of pure data precisely slice through the surface of his thoughts like a scalpel before beginning to drill deeper.

At that instant, Zhang Qi's special space outside the universe began to tremble.

The Zhang Qis from the other worlds immediately sensed the change and appeared within the space one after another, beginning to resist Nous's invasion. "Fuck! What the hell is this mechanical ball? Its computing power is even stronger than Yggdrasil's!"

Koushiro—or rather, Zhang Qi of the Digital World—immediately cursed aloud.

This was the first time they had encountered such an existence...

"Should we sever our connection to this world?"

Masaki Keigo spoke up. If this continued, it would only be a matter of time before this thing broke through their defenses.

If that happened, that mechanical head would likely grasp the