Chapter 553: Powered by Love?

Want to erase me? I'll uninstall your antivirus software first!

Boom—!

Two forces representing absolute annihilation collided in the void.

A silent explosion rang out.

Vision lost its meaning at this moment.

Everyone felt a momentary break in their thoughts, as if a frame had been cut from the movie reel being played—that was a missing piece of reality.

Those three ripples of the scavengers, originally lofty and viewing all things as weeds, shattered like waves hitting a reef the moment they collided with this tyrannical force.

Blocked? No, it was pushed back!

Qin Wu's fervent roar echoed in the consciousness net, 'Second brother, this pirated stuff packs a punch!'

Don't relax, full power output! Qin Zheng's voice was tense as he frantically repaired the cracks in the spatial barrier.

Qin Hao had no intention of giving the opponent a chance to breathe.

Since we've turned hostile, we must finish this completely.

Second brother, block the path; third brother, hold it down! Since they love talking about truth, I'll use this fist to tell them: here, I am the truth!

Qin Hao's illusory figure expanded above the universe, his finger pointing at the vague entity on the far left.

Focus fire! Blast it into debris!

【Command confirmed: Truth Strike Triple Shot】

The system's energy consumption plummeted; the blue cosmic essence just swallowed became the fiercest fuel at this moment.

Hum! Hum! Hum!

Three pallid light pillars, arranged in a triangular formation, sealed off all escape routes of the left-side scavenger.

This is not only a venting of rules, but also a tampering of underlying logic.

The first beam stripped away its definition of defense.

The second beam locked its displacement permission.

The third beam directly overwrote its concept of existence.

That scavenger trembled violently.

Its core, originally only a killing program, obviously couldn't handle this sudden situation.

Why does a target marked as a 'virus' use the highest-privilege administrator command?

Logic conflict.

Permission denied.

System error.

Dad, it's stuck! Its core is disintegrating from within! Qin Si's tone was full of uncontainable excitement, "It's having an existential crisis!"

Strike while it's weak, take its life! Third brother!

Here I come!

Qin Wu's spear, long hungry and thirsty, seized the moment the scavenger's logic collapsed and viciously pierced into that mass of garbled code.

Pfft.

An extremely strange shattering sound echoed deep in Qin Hao's soul.

That scavenger was like a punctured bubble, or put another way, a file hit with the Delete key.

Its body, energy, and rules rapidly faded within a second, going from three-dimensional to flat, then to a point, and finally vanishing completely into the void.

Not even debris remained.

Taken down...

After a brief silence, the interior of the Yanhuang Universe erupted with a roar like mountains and seas.

We won!

Facing the enforcers of this cosmic sea, they didn't flee but instead smashed one head-on!

Don't get excited too soon.

Qin Hao's voice remained icy: 'There are still two.'

The two remaining scavengers finally reacted.

Their companion's instantaneous obliteration obviously triggered some emergency mechanism in them.

They no longer released those pallid ripples; instead, they froze in place, and the light around them began to flicker at an extremely high frequency.

That was an information exchange.

They were learning, analyzing, trying to comprehend that illogical attack just now.

'Parsing... error... unknown source... cannot define...'

Qin Si intercepted the information fragments they leaked.

Dad, they've crashed! These two are stuck in a logic loop, they can't understand why they were taken out by their own kind!

'Crashed?'

Qin Hao stared at the two monsters hovering in the void, the killing intent in his eyes gradually receding.

It would be a shame to kill them.

This is a living encyclopedia.

If we could dissect these two and study them, we might figure out the true nature of this cosmic sea,

even... figure out the origin of this system on myself.

'Third brother, put away your spear.'

'Ah? Not killing it? I just warmed up!'

Qin Wu muttered dissatisfiedly.

"Killing the chicken to get the egg is what fools do; only capturing it alive has value."

Qin Hao cracked a grin, and that smile looked especially grim on the face where nebulae converged.

"Since it's a program dead loop, then let's add something that will make them completely collapse."

Lao Wu

Those two lumps of iron now have nothing but logic and formulas in their heads, they're stuck; go give them some warmth.

Qin Hao's tone carried a hint of mischief.

"Don't crash them with rules; they're immune to rules. Use chaos and emotion, use things that can't be derived by formulas, to blow up their memory."

"Love, you understand? Give them a bit of heavy fatherly love."

Qin An immediately understood the meaning.

"Haha, let's go plant a Trojan horse on them."

The next moment.

The originally carnage-filled Flame Yellow Universe suddenly shifted its art style.

A bright green surge of life surged out from the ship's hull.

That was an emotional complex distilled by Qin An from the fused emotions, memories, and desires of countless civilizations.

The green light gently brushed over the two scavengers trapped in a logical dead loop.

"Dad, they emanate a chill all over."

Qin An's feelings carried a sense of heartache.

Qin Hao's heart stirred.

Although these scavengers are temperature-less programs, they are also life in a certain sense.

Their existence is to carry out the eradication agreement.

When this agreement is broken, their world collapses as well.

"Use your love to warm them."

"Let them feel that besides execution, there is also meaning to existence."

The green light surrounding Qin An became richer.

He transmitted his concept of love without reservation to those two scavengers.

【Detecting unknown emotional meme……】

【Analyzing……】

【Analysis failed.】

【Logic conflict……】

The fluctuations of the two scavengers began to tremble violently.

They wanted to resist this non-logical emotional intrusion.

But the core program simply cannot parse this.

This plunged them into deeper logical chaos.

"They seem to be suffering……"

Qin An hesitated a bit.

"Don't stop."

"This is the effect we want; let them know they are not just temperature-less programs."

Qin Hao clearly understood that Qin An's love was not a simple emotion.

It is a non-logical weapon that can directly act on the consciousness level.

It can bypass the opponent's tight logical defenses and violently invade their consciousness core.

Gradually, the fluctuations of the two scavengers calmed down.

From violent trembling, it became weak submission.

No longer trying to resist, they passively accepted Qin An's erosion.

【Logic core being reconstructed……】

【Program settings being modified……】

Lao Wu, try reading their memories.

Qin Hao added another sentence.

Done.

After a minute passed, there was a result from Qin An.

Then, these memory images were transmitted into Qin Hao's consciousness.