Cold logic surged and collided within Main God Fang Yu's mind. With the Fourth Order Genetic Lock pushed to its limit, he perfectly replicated Chu Xuan's mode of absolute rationality, stripped of every unnecessary emotion.
The optimal solution: destroy this world and extract the maximum return.
The conclusion was clear. Beyond question.
Fang Yu's gaze swept over the still-shaken members of the Central Continent Team.
"Stay here."
Two words, cold as iron.
No explanation. None was needed.
With Chu Xuan's mind simulated, every decision Fang Yu made now pointed toward a single end: efficiency.
He turned toward a corner of the basement thick with old dust and unseen resentment.
His fingers did not tremble as he picked up the videotape carrying Sadako's memetic curse.
The old black plastic casing was bitterly cold, as though it could draw in souls.
Without pausing, Fang Yu shot through the Cabin in the Woods' already crumbling wooden wall like a ghost and appeared at the forest's edge.
Before him stood the invisible energy barrier that sealed the area off and maintained the rules of the Horror Film set. Faint ripples shimmered across it in the moonlight.
He drew back his right fist. Power from the Fourth Order Genetic Lock compressed within his muscle fibers, then erupted!
Raw physical force, honed by the precise destructive intent of Chu Xuan's simulated mind, slammed into the barrier!
Boom—
Crack, crack, crack!
The barrier groaned under the strain. Like an enormous glass dome shattering, it filled with spiderweb cracks as far as the eye could see!
Violent energy currents tore through the air with a piercing shriek.
The next instant, the entire barrier collapsed like a smashed eggshell!
Beyond the forest, the noise and lights of a human city flooded this cursed land, jarringly out of place.
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