Chapter 386: Your Finger Is Mine

That feeling was like pinching an annoying mosquito buzzing in midair.

So casual, so easy.

So… full of humiliation.

Qin Hao pinched that finger between his fingers, held it up, and weighed it with amused interest.

He could feel that the other end of the finger, the far side of the dimensional rift,

the massive Overlord will was wildly struggling, trying to pull the finger back.

But under the isolation of the Only I Domain's rules, all its efforts became futile.

Qin Hao lifted his head, facing the empty void—and the Overlord on the other side of the dimension—and gave a vicious grin.

"Is that all?"

"Anything else?"

He shook the finger he held between his fingers.

"If not…"

"Then I'll take this finger without further courtesy."

Qin Hao's words were like pouring oil on fire.

On the other side of the dimensional rift, the Overlord's chaotic will conglomerate was instantly ignited by this ultimate humiliation,

bursting into a rage so powerless it made space-time itself tremble.

For billions of years, it had devoured countless civilizations and harvested countless galaxies.

It is the very synonym of disaster, the walking death of the universe.

When had it ever suffered such a bizarre, humiliating disgrace?

Being cut off by an ant that it considered no more than food scraps, in front of its tens of trillions of subordinates,

who severed the finger it extended, then toyed with it in hand, mocking!

That hurt it more than killing it outright!

Yet Qin Hao was too lazy to bother with its meaningless roar.

He couldn't even bother to give an extra expression.

He simply turned his head, looking at the struggling "finger" in his hand, as if admiring a newly acquired amusing toy.

Then, he made a move that completely solidified the Overlord's will.

He casually tossed that "finger"—which contained the mysteries of sixth-level civilization rules—into his own Sea of Knowledge, into the dormant system.

"System."

"Scan and analyze this thing, extract all useful data for me."

【Command received.】

【High-dimensional information sample detected... beginning analysis...】

In almost an instant, atop Qin Hao's system interface, a massive waterfall of data streams began refreshing at a speed beyond imagination!

Each data symbol represented a technological barrier of the Yanhuang Civilization that even tens of thousands of years could not breach!

【Ding! Target analysis successful!】

【Congratulations, host, you have obtained a special loot—Overlord's fragmented finger bone (high-dimensional information aggregate)!】

【Extracting core information...】

【Extraction successful! You have obtained:】

【Tech tree: Sixth-level primitive civilization·Meme technology tree (full version)!】

【Info chart: Overlord·High-dimensional information structure diagram (7.8% incomplete version)!】

【Special info: a fragment of dimensional coordinates!】

A series of system alert tones rang consecutively in Qin Hao's mind.

In an instant, knowledge about the Overlord civilization, meme technology, high-dimensional information applications…

Massive and profound knowledge and mysteries flooded his consciousness!

At that moment, Qin Hao finally fully understood the essence of the Overlord!

It is not, in the traditional sense, a "life" or a "civilization" at all.

It is a … supervirus that can "infect" the very rules of the universe!

It has no fixed form; its existence is merely information, a meme.

It devours civilizations not to gain energy or enlarge itself,

but to "infect" and "assimilate"!

Transforming all matter, energy, souls, even the "information" represented by a civilization itself that it contacts,

into a part of its own meme.

Each of its expansions pollutes the underlying rules of the universe!

And that so-called "infant" state is not due to weakness, but because it is still in a "latency period"!

Once it fully infects and assimilates the entire Virgo Supercluster,

it will use this supercluster as a breeding ground to complete its hatching,

transforming from a "virus" into, in the true sense, a unified and independent sixth-level civilization!

By then, it will possess an absolute "self-will", no longer the current chaotic conglomerate state.

That is its most terrifying aspect!

It is not conquering, but "creating"!

Creating a new universe that is polluted and defined by its meme!

What surprised Qin Hao even more was that, from that fragmentary set of dimensional coordinates and structural diagrams, he obtained a piece of revolutionary information.

The Overlord's true form, that massive will locked in confrontation with me, the vast majority of its "computing power" and "energy" are not even here!

It seems to be engaged on another, far more distant and higher-level "battlefield",

locked in a far more brutal and intense high-dimensional "war" with other beings of the same rank!

This "Overlord" invading the Virgo Supercluster before my eyes,

At most, it is merely a single "thread" split off from its multitasking!

"I see..."

Qin Hao suddenly realized.

He finally understood everything.

Why the Overlord's use of power is so crude.

Why it only sent some regular fleets to "harvest", instead of descending with its true form from the start.

Why, after I cut off its finger, it merely raged helplessly and took no further action for so long.

It's not that it doesn't want to; it simply cannot!

It is being restrained!

On the other side, it has run into even greater trouble!

Having figured it all out, Qin Hao could no longer hold back; he looked at the enormous dimensional rift and burst out laughing.

That laughter was filled with unrestrained delight and undisguised mockery!

"Hahaha! I thought you were so amazing!"

"Turns out you're just a paper tiger, strong on the outside but weak within!"

Qin Hao's voice, resonating through his divine form, clearly reached the other side of the dimensional rift.

"You're fighting a life-and-death battle with someone else, yet you have the leisure to split your focus and come here to throw your weight around?"

"You are truly a one-in-a-million... peerless genius!"

Every word of that speech was like a razor-sharp dagger, precisely and mercilessly stabbing the Overlord in its sore spot!

On the other side of the dimensional rift, that immense will,

experienced a moment of... stagnation and chaos!

It was hit right on the mark!

Now!

Qin Hao's smile instantly vanished, replaced by an icy, bone-piercing killing intent!

He seized this once-in-a-lifetime moment when the opponent's mind faltered!

His voice, conveyed through supreme command authority, thunderously exploded in the ears of every allied warrior!

"All forces, attack!"

"Its heart is already in chaos!"

"Now, immediately, at once! Smash its deceitful avatar and its fleet to pieces!"