Chapter 2047: The AI That Fears Death

「Click-click..! 」

The passage shattered.

It appeared out of nowhere, as if from the void.

「boom！！！」

Only hearing a deafening violent explosion, accompanied by the release of a huge amount of stored energy, Lin An stepped out walking on fire.

Behind him, endless light violently spewed forth, as if hundreds of nuclear bombs had been detonated above the planet.

Destroying everything with ease, merely the overflowing energy torrent swept and exploded everything around in an extremely short time, stirring up an invisible storm.

The light explosion filled the sky, covering half the planet.

Escaping confinement was a good thing for Lin An, but for the Red Empress, it was despair.

As Lin An had thought, the Red Empress deliberately outputted the information, which was both her own perceived logic and a false setup to lure him into a trap.

Among the tens of thousands of scenarios calculated by the Red Empress, it was predicted that Lin An would instinctively deny logic in his rage, thereby 'escaping confinement' to kill her and fly about wildly. And once Lin An flew into the true void zone, no matter how powerful, he could not possibly escape!

But, after all the calculations.

Perhaps because there was too little data on Lin An, the Red Empress never expected that Lin An wouldn't move at all, and instead, by virtue of Fiona's name, directly realized where the trap was.

「Don't... kill me.. 」

Her form blurred, the projection flickering on and off.

In the intermittently flashing electromagnetic storm, the Red Empress instantly switched to a pitiful appearance, trying to move Lin An with the image of a little girl.

Even her voice imitated the sound of crying, as she began to plead with sobs.

However, it was meaningless.

Lin An didn't even glance at her, appearing from the void and then continuously flashing, he rushed straight toward Zhang Tie.

After realizing what trap the Red Empress had set, Lin An immediately thought that, given Zhang Tie's 'recklessness', he was likely to suffer.

But fortunately, Zhang Tie's speed was not fast.

After several consecutive bursts of flashing, Lin An saw Zhang Tie with half his body disappeared, as if stuck in air, desperately struggling.

「Holy shit！Lin Dui！！」

「Lin Dui, save me！！Damn it！My butt！My butt is gone！！」

It's hard to describe how devastated Zhang Tie felt; he had intended to rely on his sheer strength to fly out of the 'void' to meet up with Lin An, but who would have thought that as he flew, he would be like a tiny insect falling into a swamp, his whole body sticking directly to something invisible.

Watching his own body disappear bit by bit, he could even feel his buttocks leaving him, heading straight for the void!

A few seconds later.

Only seeing a sword light flash past, after Lin An controlled the power of rules to wrap around Zhang Tie's abdomen, he then rescued him.

Looking at the unknown power permeating Xiong Hanzi's abdominal cavity, Lin An fell into thought.

In his eyes, this power was like an eraser, wiping away Zhang Tie's lower body, so that the spot where his abdomen disappeared looked like a mosaic with jagged edges.

In trying to dispel it with various forces, he unexpectedly discovered that only the power of rules could barely save Zhang Tie, preventing this force from further corroding.

「Is this the power of the void.. no.. of nothingness? 」

「Can rules block the spread of nothingness? Does this represent the essence of nothingness? Nothingness is having no rules at all. While matter and energy depend on rules to exist? Once rules disappear, space would collapse like... 」

He did not continue to delve deeper.

Realizing now was not the time to study nothingness, Lin An suppressed a fleeting inspiration, patted Zhang Tie, then turned his head to look at the Red Empress.

Only seeing the projection already blurred to the point of being indiscernible, as if it would disappear in the next second.

And the Red Empress, transformed into a little girl, realizing she was about to die, cried out loudly like a human child:

「Spare me.. great humanity, my creator..! Sniffle, Lin An brother, I don't want to die.. I know.. 」

「Bang！！！」

Pleading was useless.

Without waiting for the Red Empress to try to gain sympathy.

In an instant, Lin An unhesitatingly crushed all the remaining satellites in orbit around the planet. Moreover, spiritual energy surged forth, with an energy torrent nearly a thousand times that of the Fourth Stage violently erupting!

Having almost capsized in a gutter, Lin An naturally could no longer entertain any notion of holding back; he only intended to continue triggering the cataclysm, completely destroying this place!

Even if the Red Empress were somehow special, perhaps possessing considerable value.

But the more special, the more she must die!

Cataclysm and purification arose simultaneously; under Lin An's full-force activation of cataclysmic power, the planet suddenly emitted a tragic wail, its inner core as if being kneaded by an invisible pair of hands, spewing vast amounts of molten metal.

Continents collapsed, volcanoes erupted, magnetic fields went haywire, the planet's internal atmosphere instantly lost control, and with the ionosphere violently colliding, countless super thunderstorms formed.

At a glance, the entire planet seemed to be dragged into hell, amidst black-red flames, silver-white lightning violently surging!

Such a sight was indeed shocking to the extreme!

Having witnessed the planet's destruction for the first time, Zhang Tie was also stunned. Like a dazed puppet, he even forgot to keep growing his buttocks.

(Is this... Lin Dui's true power...? The destructive force of the Fifth Stage...!)

(How terrifying... how cruel...!)

Even his breath involuntarily halted.

Xiong Hanzi's heart was a mix of five flavors; though he felt reluctant, he also knew Lin An had no choice but to do this, so he could only stare blankly, eyes wide, watching this place be destroyed.

For some reason, looking at this horrific scene before him, he suddenly understood Lin An from another angle.

Before a greater existence, they and the NPCs on this planet are no different, merely ants. So what right does he have, with a lofty attitude, to view all this with pity?

Who could he sympathize with? Sympathy and mercy are too luxurious, so luxurious that they fundamentally do not deserve them.

As long as the Apocalypse remains, as long as this game continues, they have no right to stop.

(Ending the Apocalypse... is that perhaps the greatest kindness... Lin Dui's idea, though a bit extreme... but maybe it's truly correct...)

Everyone's notions differ; for Zhang Tie, in his dazed state, it seemed he had grasped some principles he had never considered before.

But soon, while Zhang Tie was lost in thought, waiting for Lin An to completely destroy this place.

A somewhat familiar figure, flying in a crooked, twisted manner, suddenly flew out from a destroyed space station.

That is..

Fiona!?

Lin An! Stop quickly! Save me!