The Consciousness Separation Procedure produced miraculous results through the flawless cooperation of the Zodiac Concept Round Table.
"The severing is complete." Scobio's voice betrayed profound exhaustion, but even more than that, the joy of success. "The hope remnant has been fully separated from the despair consciousness."
Deprived of the hope remnant's support, the despair consciousness let out one final, agonized shriek, then scattered like sand in the wind. The conceptual energy that had been twisted for countless universe cycles was finally freed and returned to its natural course.
But what truly stunned everyone was the hope remnant's transformation.
Once it regained full consciousness, its faint conceptual fluctuations began to intensify violently. A clear, deep voice rang out through the Round Table's network:
"Thank you for saving me." The voice brimmed with boundless gratitude. "I am Alpha, the last chief scientist of the Negative-One Universe Civilization."
Lin Ye felt a deep resonance between his Sagittarius mark and Alpha. "You're the one who created the concept perpetual motion machine theory?"
"Yes. But now I must tell you an even more terrifying truth." Alpha's voice grew heavy. "The despair consciousness was merely an offshoot of the concept virus. The true enemy still lurks deep within the concept void."
Those words struck everyone like a thunderbolt.
"What do you mean?" Leo's Leo Mark sensed an unprecedented threat. "There's an even stronger enemy?"
Alpha began displaying the complete records of the Negative-One Universe Civilization. Hidden within them was a staggering secret that even the Negative-One Universe Civilization had never fully understood.
An enormous conceptual projection appeared at the center of the Round Table, depicting the birth of the Multiverse.
"When the first universe was born, its opposite appeared alongside it-the concept void." Alpha's explanation stunned everyone. "This is no ordinary concept of nothingness, but an