Chapter 117: Collapse

Five years had passed since Lin Lei obtained the System!

In these five years, Lin Lei had gone from an ordinary student at Yangguan Middle School to a power house with incredibly resilient Will.

The status of the System had changed from an initial guide, to an assistant on Blue Rain Star, and finally, it slowly settled deep within Lin Lei’s Will.

Nowadays, Lin Lei and the System had become mortal enemies; fate was truly full of irony.

While the two were fighting for the eleven-dimensional elements of the Will Ring, the communication of their Wills still did not stop.

“System, these five years have been the five years with the most drastic changes in my life. You saved me many times from life-and-death situations. Now, do you have any regrets?”

If Lin Lei had not discovered that his body was being taken over, he would never have attacked this System, which was like a teacher and a friend to him.

“The past cannot be changed; this is the supreme truth of the Universe. The true Time Dimension always rushes forward. Regret has no meaning for the System.”

The System’s information stream carried no emotion, but his methods were as cold and ruthless as ever.

In the brain domain, the Will Ring of the Dark Saint had completely fallen apart and become the target of two other powerhouses.

The eleven-dimensional elements in the Will Ring looked no different now; the external characteristics revealed by each element, apart from their form, had no essential difference.

At least in an uncomprehended state, one could not distinguish which were the three spatial elements, which was the time element, and which were the seven energy elements.

In this Universe, Will possessed the highest authority; it stood above all things, just like gravity, running through the beginning and end of time, and running through the eleven-dimensional Universe.

In the clash of Wills, to determine a winner, the simplest way was to use brute force to forcibly wipe out the other side, but this was obviously not applicable to Lin Lei and the System, who were in a symbiotic state.

So they had only one choice: to break the judgment mechanism in the Law information of the other’s Will Body, making one party a puppet of the other.

The Law information in their Wills was completely different.

Lin Lei was an ordinary human; he did not possess profound wisdom, and his Law information was very simple and clear. However, every intelligent being had its own persistence and goals, which was their reason to live. Especially for Lin Lei, his Law information possessed an incredibly resilient quality that was almost indelible.

The System was a life form similar to artificial intelligence; his Law information was very complex and exquisite, almost impeccable, approaching perfection.

Fusing the eleven-dimensional elements was not a matter of one or two days; in the current situation, even if they temporarily snatched them, it would be useless.

The two simply stopped fighting for the elements and focused on attacking each other.

The System’s attacks were mysterious and unpredictable, just like when he attacked Lenna before; in this brain domain space, he could launch attacks from anywhere.

But he was dealing with Lin Lei, a person whose body authority was second only to his. Lin Lei was able to see through every invisible attack before it reached his Will Body, dissolve the attack, and counterattack in passing.

The two fought for an unknown amount of time; anyway, the System had already run out of tricks. After using 10,324 types of sneak attacks without success, his sneak attack methods began to repeat.

In other words, this perverted System had opened a full 10,324 backdoors for this body. In the past, through these backdoors, he could have expelled Lin Lei from the brain domain at any time.

Although Lin Lei saw through the System’s methods, his counterattacks did not have much effect.

Both were very familiar with each other and could already predict the other’s attack methods. This battle showed signs of turning into a prolonged war.

Since pure attacks were ineffective, Lin Lei prepared to change his approach.

Lin Lei stopped attacking and, while defending against the System’s constant attacks, sent out Will Fluctuations.

“System, is your master a member of the Allen Civilization?”

The System’s attack paused for a moment, and Lin Lei could even feel a sense similar to surprise.

“The Host’s guess is not entirely correct.”

Alright, the only good thing about the System was that he did not lie, at least not in words.

“Then, what is the purpose of your existence?”

The System’s attack stopped immediately, and he began to argue earnestly with Lin Lei.

“To obtain more powerful strength and restart the Allen intelligent civilization; this is the command given by my master.”

The System’s goal was actually the same as Lin Lei’s, except that Lin Lei had already succeeded, while the System was still trying, and he was fighting alone.

Lin Lei suddenly understood the System; for the sake of his race, doing anything was not excessive, let alone just taking a human’s body.

Of course, understanding was understanding, but if the person whose body was being taken was himself, then it was not fun.

“Greater power and restarting civilization do not necessarily require taking my body. With your ability, you could completely create a body yourself.”

“No, one of the reasons for the destruction of the civilization back then was the lack of uniqueness among individuals. As a result, they were defeated by a single blow from a Pan-dimensional Creature. Only by borrowing the innate uniqueness of intelligent beings can a more perfect intelligent race be constructed.”

Lin Lei smiled bitterly; it turned out that he was actually an unlucky person who had been unfortunately selected.

“The Allen Civilization has already been destroyed, and your true master has long since disappeared. System, what is the meaning of your existence? What is the purpose of the authority you insist on? Is it merely the nothingness left behind after the destruction of the Allen Civilization?”

The System’s movement had completely stopped, and his body actually showed a trace of trembling; his mouth turned into a wavy line again.

Obviously, Lin Lei’s question had plunged him into some kind of calculation dead loop.

“The meaning of the System’s existence… is… is… The question was forcibly terminated. The authority judgment mechanism has collapsed. The danger level of the Host is assessed as SSS. Execute Will cleansing immediately!”

Then, the System started a powerful attack on Lin Lei again. This attack was fierce, and it looked somewhat crazy no matter how one saw it.

Clearly, Lin Lei’s question had hit the System’s fatal spot!

“Your existence is meaningless! The goal you insist on is nothingness! For you, this Universe is just a pile of meaningless data. Tell me, System, after your civilization restarts, where will you go?”

Lin Lei’s words once again caused the System to calculate crazily; the System’s authority settings had already collapsed due to Lin Lei’s previous question.

As long as Lin Lei continued to ask questions, he would involuntarily calculate.

But Lin Lei’s questions were fundamentally unsolvable, even for intelligent life.

If a person forcibly thought about the meaning of existence, he would find himself falling into a state of nothingness, but humans were smart and would anesthetize themselves, finding a goal for themselves and believing it deeply.

Just like faith in Deities, or just like Lin Lei’s pursuit of eternity.

But for the System, he had to calculate a true, detailed answer, not something perfunctory.

For him, one was one, and two was two; even the entire Universe should have a detailed solution. For example, 46, or 81, and numbers like that.

This was the limitation of artificial intelligence, because these things were definitions given by the Allen Civilization; they could not be complete settings, and there would always be paradoxes!

This paradox was the System’s fatal spot!

The System was calculating frantically, but Lin Lei had already raised another question.

“System, my original source was just some carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and other basic elements, and your source was just a collection of numbers. Who gave life to these meaningless things?”

This was a question of origin, which also had no answer and could not be overthought, especially for artificial intelligence.

Humans could attach many names to their own origins, such as Nuwa creating humans, God creating the world in Genesis, or something more scientific like Darwin’s theory of evolution.

These answers were either speculation or vague solutions.

Up to now, humans were still very confused about how apes evolved into humans.

The System’s voice had already started to shake violently; his abstract expression had started to become chaotic; his two eyeballs had run to the top of his forehead, and his question-mark-shaped nose was placed horizontally, looking extremely ridiculous.

“The Host’s question cannot be answered. The System’s calculation unit has collapsed… Forcibly terminating calculation…”

Subsequently, the System fell into a dead silence, standing blankly in the brain domain space, no longer making any movements.

Even so, Lin Lei still did not dare to step forward; this System was not a good bird, and he didn’t know if he had really collapsed.

Lin Lei walked to the side of the eleven-dimensional elements and began to slowly absorb the elements of the Dimension; he wanted to test the System’s reaction.

The System still stood there motionless, without making a sound, and the symbolic expression on his face did not change.

Lin Lei stopped his movements and began to attack the System from a distance; he wanted to completely destroy the System’s judgment mechanism and make him a part of his own Will, equivalent to an incarnation.

The whole process went very smoothly; Lin Lei discovered that the Law information in the System’s Will Body had basically collapsed, leaving only the basic Law information used to maintain the existence of the entire Will Body.

To eliminate the weeds, one must pull out the roots; Lin Lei decided to construct part of his own Law information onto the System’s storage information, making it completely a part of himself.

This was a delicate job, millions of times more complicated than the work Fuweili did back then to connect the energy threads of the Epic Beast.

He did not know how much time had passed; there was no concept of time in the brain domain space. Lin Lei’s only feeling was that energy was transmitted from outside the body from time to time to maintain the operation of this brain domain space.

This energy transmission happened thirty times.

By the time Lin Lei completely finished this work, he was almost going crazy!

Lin Lei felt that his perseverance was simply earth-shattering; in his opinion, even the workload of calculating the entire evolutionary history of Earth was not this massive.

As for the Will Ring of the Dark Saint, the Law information inside had long been destroyed completely by the System and could no longer condense.

The Dark Saint had completely ceased to exist, leaving only the storage information of the eleven-dimensional elements, parasitic in Lin Lei’s brain domain, waiting for Lin Lei to slowly digest and absorb it.

Once the absorption was complete, Lin Lei would be a Pan-dimensional Creature on the level of Will.

Lin Lei completely controlled this body; his Will began to connect to the body’s sensory system, and a bright light transmitted in through his eyes.

Then came sound, then smell, and finally the touch of the whole body. Lin Lei’s world became vivid again because of this external stimulation.

The first thing that entered his eyes was that green long dress and that gentle face; it was the World Tree, Lenna.

She looked at Lin Lei, with complex emotions in her eyes; this intelligent being was the person who understood her best so far.

Seeing that Lin Lei had woken up, and the light revealed in his eyes was still the familiar one, a smile could not help but float up on Lenna’s face.

“Lin Lei, congratulations, you succeeded!”

Lin Lei let out a long breath, spitting out all the stifled air accumulated in the brain domain.

He raised his eyes to look at the World Tree and, from an equal perspective, said with a smile, “Yes, Lenna, I succeeded!”