Chapter 504: with translation of chapter title

Boom!!!

When Qin Hao injected that concept vaccine into the node of the cosmic string network, the entire universe let out a silent scream.

It was not a sound, but a violent tremor originating from the level of rules.

Centered on the Miracle Garden, an invisible shockwave spread at a speed exceeding light and causality.

Where the shockwave passed, miracles occurred.

The warships that were melting were hit with a pause button; their fluid-like armor rapidly solidified, returning to their original cold, hard form.

The rule-stabilizing anchors that were violently shaking and on the verge of failure,

regained stability, with all parameters returning to normal thresholds.

The unsettling dark red shrouding the cosmic background was fading at a visible speed.

"Report! Regional temperature… no, the rule-based agitation is decreasing!"

"The gravitational constant has stabilized!"

"The speed of light… the speed of light has stopped increasing!"

In the communications channel, a burst of joyous cheers erupted, like survivors after a catastrophe.

"We succeeded… we succeeded!"

Xie Xi Ling looked at her hand restored to its original state, so excited she could not speak coherently.

The Lord of End also stared blankly at all this; the point of starlight in his eye sockets was brighter than ever before.

This was the most thorough subversion of his worldview over hundreds of millions of years.

As it turned out, facing the universe's wrath, one need not merely endure it passively or flee.

One could also strike back?

And a single counterattack made it retreat its fever?

"Don't get too excited too soon."

Qin Hao's voice doused everyone with cold water.

He still held the injection pose, but his face was even more solemn than before.

"The fever has subsided, but we have also been completely exposed."

He could clearly feel a killing intent, ten thousand times more terrifying than the previous agitation, that had locked onto them.

If the previous fever of the universe's instinctive will was an unconscious, full-body immune response,

then now, after Qin Hao viciously jabbed it with a needle, this vast consciousness finally found a target amidst the chaos.

It began mobilizing its most elite and core defensive forces,

preparing to carry out a surgical, precise eradication of the virus that dared to provoke it.

"What is that?"

The Lord of End's voice trembled.

Following his gaze, one saw in the distant void that space resembled a torn canvas, with huge, distorted wounds appearing out of nowhere.

Then, things began to squeeze out.

They had no fixed form.

Some resembled a three-dimensional projection made of countless geometric paradoxes; a single glance made one's logic feel tangled.

Others were a sound that endlessly looped and self-negated,

directly resonating at the soul level, causing those who heard it to doubt the meaning of their own existence.

Still others were more like a wandering blank zone of rules,

wherever it passed, all physical laws temporarily ceased, and matter was reduced to a probability cloud.

"Cosmic white blood cells…"

The Lord of End muttered to himself, all color draining from his face.

"Or, as you put it, they are a rule-based antivirus program. They are the manifestation of the universe's instinctive will, His ultimate means of eliminating high-threat logical errors."

"Each represents a possibility to be erased, a truth to be denied. Their mode of attack is to make you not exist, far surpassing my strength."

"Once they touch you, you won't die; you will be completely erased from all timelines and everyone's memories, as if you had never existed."

After hearing the Lord of End's explanation, the civilizational representatives who had just been immersed in joy felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar.

How can we fight this dimensionality-reducing strike?

Even death had become a luxury.

"Tsk, so this is the thing."

Qin Hao looked at the rule monsters emerging from the void; far from feeling fear, his face showed curiosity and excitement.

"They're ugly, but… they look kinda tasty."

"What?"

Qin Hao's remark was quiet, yet enough to make everyone nearby doubt whether their ears had also glitched.

"Tasty?"

"This thing?"

"Dad, you're not joking, are you?"

Qin Wu gripped his concept weapon tightly, standing ready.

"This thing feels harder to handle than those previous ninth-level big shots; my soul‑counter seems useless against them, since they have no souls."

"They certainly have no souls." Qin Hao laughed.

"They are merely segments of activated code given aggression. Using anti‑soul methods on code is of course useless."

"What should we do?"

"What do we do?" Qin Hao licked his lips, a sharp light flashing in his eyes, "Of course we'll handle it with what our Yanhuang Civilization does best."

He spoke into the comms channel, issuing an order that left everyone stunned.

"All personnel, pay attention!"

"Put away your weapons, don't waste energy!"

"Science Academy, immediately crank the power of the energy conversion matrix to maximum! Pull out our universe-brand stone crusher and switch it to digestive mode!"

"Qin Zheng, stop having your fleet form any defensive formation—line them up in the shape of a bowl!"

"Today, we're not going to war!"

Qin Hao's voice suddenly rose, filled with boundless arrogance and domineering aura.

"Let's eat!"

"These high-purity rule origins delivered to our door are the compensation the cosmic brain pays us for our mental losses!"

"It isn't trying to erase us? Then we'll first eat all the erasers it sent!"

"I want to see whether it erases faster or we eat faster!"

When his words fell, Qin Hao was the first to rush out.

He approached the nearest rule monster barehanded, without using any weapon.

"Qin Hao, don't!"

The Lord of End let out a terrified sound.

In his view, Qin Hao's action was no different from suicide!

The monster sensed Qin Hao's provocation; its ever-shifting body jerked, instantly locking onto him.

The next second, an invisible logic wave swept toward Qin Hao.

That wasn't an attack, but a definition.

【Definition: Target ahead, does not exist.】

This is the most indefensible erasure.

However, just as that definition was about to touch Qin Hao,

a faint light suddenly flared on Qin Hao's body.

In his chest pocket, the golden steel pen transformed from the Xuanyuan sword automatically emitted a faint hum.

【Counter-definition: I think, therefore I am.】

Two utterly opposing concepts violently collided in the void.

There was no earth-shaking explosion, only a momentary logic stall.

The rule monster's ever-shifting body exhibited a stagnation.

Now!

Qin Hao's eyes flashed with sharp light; his right hand shot out like lightning and grabbed a part of the monster's body,

a distorted geometry attempting to become a Klein bottle.

"Got you!"

Qin Hao grinned, showing a mouthful of white teeth.

"System, activate absorption mode! Analyze target attributes! Deconstruct logical structure!"

【Beep! Detected high-purity 'paradox rule' origin! Beginning analysis……】

【Analysis progress 1%……5%……15%……】

The rule monster sensed the threat, began frantically struggling and writhing, trying to pull its body free from Qin Hao's grasp.

But Qin Hao's hand,

was like a black hole, firmly sucking it in.

More terrifyingly, the part of the monster Qin Hao grasped was dissolving at a visible speed,

turning into a data stream that Qin Hao's palm frantically devoured!

"No……don't……logic……chaos……"

A broken, non-biological thought transmitted from within the monster.

"Don't be scared, it won't hurt much."

Qin Hao smiled like a quack doctor about to give a kid a shot.

"Soon you'll become part of my body."

Amidst the gazes of everyone shocked to the point of despair,

the rule monster capable of easily erasing a Level 9 civilization, right there in Qin Hao's hand, was being "eaten" bit by bit, starting from a geometry.