A One-Character Difference

Bishamonten's body once again shrunk to the size of an ordinary person.

Her slender figure slowly approached Qin Yiguan. Every muscle on her body was perfectly proportioned, and her firm buttocks and perfect waistline were clearly visible.

She raised her smooth chin, revealing her snow-white neck, and stared at the unconscious Qin Yiguan, saying, "Why pretend to be someone else? The teacher's calculation model is absolutely correct. You are not Qin Yiguan."

At this point, Qin Yiguan should have been unconscious due to the massive impact and would have been unable to answer questions.

Bishamonten then said, "Even if you are truly a Qin Yiguan, I am only here to help you as instructed by my teacher, with the aim of ending the evil deeds of the Lu Zhoulang. Why are you fighting me to the death?"

Bishamonten's voice was clear, cold, and arrogant, echoing continuously within this space.

"Oh?"

Isn't your teacher the Lu Zhoulang?

Suddenly, Qin Yiguan's voice came from an unknown direction.

Bishamonten's cold, beautiful eyes narrowed instantly. She first confirmed that the unconscious Qin Yiguan in front of her had not spoken, then turned her head and cautiously looked around at the void.

Her brow furrowed deeper and deeper.

"I'm asking you a question."

Qin Yiguan's voice came again.

Suddenly, Bishamonten's eyes snapped open, and he uttered a low shout, "Edge Empowerment!"

In that instant, the area covered by the Virtual Machine expanded by another 20%, and the hairpin above Bishamonten's head flashed rapidly, seemingly reaching some kind of maximum power.

At that moment, she clearly saw Qin Yiguan's unharmed body standing quietly hundreds of meters away, a smile on his lips.

"So you were imitating your own body."

Bishamonten's eyes flickered, and one of the angel wings on his back suddenly disintegrated into scattered code, flying towards the direction where Qin Yiguan was standing in an instant.

Then the code gathered in the sky into a thick blue pillar of light, crashing down with the force of a mountain collapsing!

Qin Yiguan's expression froze for a moment, "You actually managed to spot me?!"

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The unknown blue energy struck dozens of times in just a few microseconds. Qin Yiguan first knelt on one knee, and then, unable to resist the enormous impact, he collapsed to the ground, unable to move any further.

"Your Reality Enhancement is on a completely different level from my Virtual Machine."

Bishamonten maintained her aloof and elegant demeanor, looking at Qin Yiguan's resentful expression, "In my code world, I can set anything."

At this moment, Qin Yiguan was having great difficulty speaking, "Why can you change the basic code in the Metaverse? That's a privilege only the Gemini Superbrain possess."

"Indeed."

"This ability is too terrifying and too unbelievable in the eyes of ordinary users. It has even overturned your understanding of the world. Now, do you feel that there is no safe place left in this world?"

"Have all the hardships you endured to improve your strength, and the clear faith that once filled your heart, collapsed?"

Bishamonten looked at Qin Yiguan without any emotion. "These things are a piece of cake for you, Master."

Qin Yiguan gritted his teeth and said, "All I know is that the Lu Zhoulang discovered a loophole in the Metaverse."

"My teacher."

His name is Lu Zhoulang.

The two are twin brothers, and they both became disciples of the same master.

"The 'lang' in 'teacher' refers to a doctor, and the Lu Zhoulang ' refers to a hungry wolf."

"A single word makes all the difference."

Bishamonten raised an eyebrow slightly, "If I hadn't seen you getting along well with those Digital Human and thought you weren't an evil person, you would be dead by now."

But Bishamonten slowly shook his head, clearly having lost patience to continue talking to Qin Yiguan.

"Virtual Machine."

"Hardware shock."

"Erase his memory."

Finally, a hint of pity flickered in Bishamonten's eyes. "You are most likely a human who has been harmed by the Lu Zhoulang. Forget about those things. You cannot fight against them. Continuing will only add to your suffering and despair for the rest of your life."

Bishamonten's other coded wing fluttered out and wrapped around Qin Yiguan's body.

Qin Yiguan's eyes gradually lost their sparkle.

"Virtual Machine, shut down."

Bishamonten parted her red lips slightly, then lazily smoothed her long gray hair.

All she wanted was to go back to the bar and finish her fifth shot of liquor.

This dispelled the fatigue that had accumulated over the past few days from searching for Qin Yiguan.

But at this moment, Bishamonten's aloof expression became more pronounced, and a thought suddenly popped into his head: even if he found Qin Yiguan, it probably wouldn't be as his teacher thought— Qin Yiguan was the only one who could end the Lu Zhoulang.

Thinking of that weak, imposter Qin Yiguan from just now.

For some reason, she felt that even if Qin Yiguan really appeared, it would seem to be much the same as before.

My skills were learned from my teacher, whose abilities were remarkably similar to those of the Lu Zhoulang; they were from the same school... No one could defeat this technique.

It would be better to go and find the Lu Zhoulang yourself; perhaps there's still a sliver of a chance of victory.

now.

Bishamonten pulled himself out of his chaotic thoughts, his brow furrowing slightly. "Virtual Machine, shut down!"

She discovered that she had not returned to the tavern, nor had she left the world created by the Virtual Machine.

Her willow-leaf eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"Force shutdown Virtual Machine."

After Bishamonten issued this command, the surrounding scenery finally changed. First, patches of code appeared, and then these codes turned into mosaics and were about to disappear.

But when this world truly vanishes.

Bishamonten's body stiffened slightly.

She found herself still not back in the tavern, but standing in the sky!

Beneath my feet lies an endless expanse of red neural network. This network is eerie, like writhing flesh and blood, seemingly possessing life. Each branch transmits some kind of information. From a macroscopic perspective, it resembles a brain neural system laid out flat!

Bishamonten's gaze slowly moved from his feet into the distance.

But then they saw the boy in the black jacket standing in the distance, as if he were standing on the edge of the horizon.

Above the boy's head floated a gigantic figure identical to him, except that the gigantic figure's chest was ripped open, and blood flowed in a winding stream. He closed his eyes like a god, his face turned toward the sky, but the blood formed the enormous neural network beneath his feet.

"Excuse me."

"I simulated your simulation."

"This thing is really complicated. Just gathering the information took me several minutes."

Qin Yiguan slowly raised his head, a wicked smile on his face, "Virtual Machine, Encapsulation."