Chapter 11

**Chapter 11: Mysterious Messenger; Visitor from High Dimensions**

Lin Jin's shadow is killing people.

That shadow, which has grown frost-white hair tips, is currently wrapping around the remains of the Mechanical Buddha Kingdom, refining rusted gears into gold foil. The surface of the gold foil reveals an eerie invitation, written in the ripple patterns of black hole collapse:

**"Respectfully welcoming the Λ? 1 Sword Bearer to the String Court."**

When the last piece of gold foil is embedded into the clan stele, the snow in the Northern Wasteland suddenly loses weight. The ice crystals float into a spiral staircase, and at the end of the staircase stands a white-robed person wearing a bird-beak mask, the stardust flowing from his sleeves gnawing at the time axis.

"Observer's 3,600th-generation cleaner, number 'Grey Crane'."

The visitor's bird beak opens and closes, but the voice is that of a crisp young girl. "Here to wipe your ass."

**String Court: The Inverted Judgment Hall**

The white-robed person flicks his finger lightly, and Lin Jin's flesh instantly deconstructs into string-like particles. From a perspective that transcends dimensions, he sees that the so-called high-dimensional world is nothing but countless nested coffins—

The dinosaur-man ice coffin holds the interstellar civilization, the interstellar civilization coffin holds the Magic Dynasty, the Magic Dynasty's heart beats with the Mechanical Buddha Kingdom... and all the coffin chains lead to the stardust vortex in Grey Crane's sleeves.

"You fold dimensions into coffins?" Lin Jin's particles reorganize into human form, inverse-dimension formulas wrapped between his fingers.

Grey Crane's bird beak suddenly splits open, revealing a mechanical tongue with meshing gears inside: "Wrong, it's the coffins spontaneously folding into us."

Seventy-two thousand compound eyes open on the dome of the Judgment Hall, each eye playing Lin Jin's "crimes":

-The steam civilization he reshaped is developing dimensional engines;

-The dinosaur gene mutants of the interstellar colony ship are mutating inverse-entropy organs;

-Most fatal is the frost hair left by the woman in the ice coffin, which is corroding the String Court's mathematical rate barrier...

"According to Article 9.7 trillion of the *Civilization Conservation Law*," Grey Crane's mechanical tongue ejects a scroll of light axis, "you have two choices:"

"One, let me castrate all Λ? 1 variables;"

"Two, become a new cleaner and go wipe the asses of other Sword Bearers."

**Inverse Dimension Trap**

Lin Jin's Burial Star Pupil suddenly rotates in reverse, and he pinches the time axis of the Judgment Hall into a Möbius strip. The stardust in Grey Crane's sleeves begins to flow backward, revealing a cruel truth:

The so-called cleaners are actually scavengers of high-dimensional civilizations. They track Λ? 1 awakeners, implanting "inverse-entropy viruses" into the civilizations they reshape, causing them to self-destruct when they break through the critical point. And the Observer protocol that the woman in the ice coffin received ten thousand years ago was cast by Grey Crane's ancestors!

"Difficulty choosing?" Grey Crane's bird beak sprays neurotoxic mist. "Why not look at this—"

The toxic mist transforms into a phantom of the youth Lin Jin, carving a clan stele in some steampunk world. The instant the inscription is completed, Grey Crane's mechanical tongue stabs into the back of its head, compressing the entire civilization into a coffin earring.

"You Sword Bearers..." Grey Crane licks the phantom's brain fluid, "always think you are saving the world."

**Shortcut to Slaying Gods**

Lin Jin's chain scar suddenly goes berserk, and seventy-two civilization fires turn into shackles to bind Grey Crane. But the opponent's neck splits open, and frost hair of the woman in the ice coffin drills out—that is clearly a fake product disguised by phagocytic soul fungus!

"She was begging for mercy when she died too." Grey Crane's mechanical tongue rolls up the fake frost hair. "Want to know how to extinguish the sparks of Λ? 1?"

Lin Jin's response is to crush his own left eye.

The instant the eyeball explodes, the inverse-dimension formula Λ? 1=Hope collapses into a singularity, dragging the Judgment Hall into a probability cloud. Grey Crane reveals terror for the first time; his bird-beak mask exists simultaneously in the past and future within the quantum state.

"You actually carved the formula into the Higgs field..."

Grey Crane's mechanical tongue begins to rust, but it is too late. Lin Jin's shadow has crawled all over every existence state of him along the time axis, and frost-white hair tips stab into the heart of Grey Crane in every time-space.

"Cleaners should learn how to sort garbage."

Lin Jin pulls out Grey Crane's core data chain, the chain links engraved with the names of erased Sword Bearers. When he implants the data chain into the clan stele, the ice coffin group in the Northern Wasteland suddenly launches into the sky, with high-dimensional coordinates appearing on the inner walls of the coffin lids.

**Elegy of the String Court**

Grey Crane activates the final protocol before disintegrating. The Judgment Hall collapses to white-dwarf density, attempting to seal Lin Jin in the singularity forever. But the seventy-two reshaped civilizations suddenly fire inverse-entropy waves simultaneously, tearing open a rift in the absolute void—

The boilers of the steam civilization spray mathematical rate steam;

The dinosaur gene mutants set up gene bridges in the vacuum;

The remnant souls of the Magic Dynasty weave into a lifeline with their resentment...

When Lin Jin walks out of the ruins amidst the fire of civilization, Grey Crane's last words echo in his ears:

"You will become a more qualified cleaner than I am."

He crushes the sound wave of the last words, looking at the frost-white hair sprouting in his palm:

"No, I will become your gravedigger."

**Observer Monitoring Log (Abnormal Entry)**

**Coordinate: Northern Wasteland**

**Event: Λ? 1 pollution spread to the String Court**

**Suggested Measures: Immediately awaken all dormant cleaners**

**Note: Unknown variable appeared in Mother Body protocol, suspected interference from the woman in the ice coffin's residual consciousness—**

**She is teaching him how to elegantly slaughter gods. **

The phantom of the woman in the ice coffin appears behind Lin Jin, covering his spine, which is engraved with formulas. Their shadows are cast on the surface of the clan stele, slowly piecing together the complete God-Slaying Equation.

The snow begins to fall again.

This time, it is scalding hot.