Chapter 353: Chaotic Orders, Contradictory Guard!

That icy mechanical sound, like a death knell, echoed in this deathly silent wasteland!

The countless scarlet gun muzzles resembled millions of eyes about to spew destructive magma—vicious eyes!

They, from all directions, firmly locked onto Sun Wukong and Yao!

That pure killing intent, existing solely for 'eradication', condensed into a substantive gray storm, nearly freezing this spacetime completely!

A senseless, saturation-style, destructive strike!

It was about to arrive!

Yao's face turned deathly pale as paper in an instant!

She instinctively grabbed the corner of Sun Wukong's robe!

Yet, in Sun Wukong's blood-red eyes, there was not a trace of fear.

Instead, a flicker of extremely strange expression crossed his face.

Because he discovered that the sky-covering war puppets and that corroded Zeroer, although they posed as if they would shatter heaven and earth……

But they, however, delayed opening fire!

All the muzzles merely glowed with that heart-pounding red light, energy surging wildly within, yet they drew back without firing!

It was as if an invisible command was firmly suppressing their fire trigger!

Huh?

Sun Wukong raised his brow, instantly sensing something amiss.

Just then!

An abrupt change occurred!

That towering ten-thousand-zhang Zeroer, which should have been icy mechanical, its massive metal body actually began to tremble violently!

"Zzz… zzzla…"

Countless thicker gray electric arcs, like ferocious poisonous snakes, wildly jumped across its surface, emitting piercing explosions!

Its twin electronic eyes, flashing scarlet light, began to flicker wildly at an extremely unstable frequency!

One moment, it was the icy killing intent representing 'eradication'!

The next moment, it turned into the absolute defense representing 'protection'!

Two completely contradictory lights madly alternated in its eyes!

Sun Wukong watched this scene, first stunned.

Immediately, he seemed to think of something, his blood-red eyes suddenly blazing!

He understood!

He fully understood!

This big guy, its core program had completely gone haywire!

It had to execute the oldest 【Old Command】 issued by the Cosmic Pan-Consciousness back then, to utterly erase its own 'failed conception'!

It also had to execute the 【New Command】 implanted by the behind-the-scenes scoundrel, to stop any being from approaching the Master's Dao Heart seal!

One commands to kill!

One commands to block!

Both are equally top-priority commands, causing a cataclysmic, violent clash in its core logic!

This once cold, merciless, lofty cosmic final cleanup program……

It had fallen into a complete 'crash' state!

"Heh……"

Sun Wukong's mouth corner slowly curled into a smirk full of wicked amusement and cruelty!

"Turns out it's just a brain‑broken lump of iron!"

"Great Sage……"

Yao, watching the Zeroer fallen into madness and the million war puppets poised to strike, still felt her heart pound, and she whispered a reminder.

"Don't be afraid."

Sun Wukong's voice was filled with strong confidence.

"Watch Old Sun mess with it!"

His words fell!

A sly gleam flashed in Sun Wukong's eyes!

He decided to make use of this!

He deliberately stepped forward heavily!

Boom!

This step seemed to press upon some kind of invisible switch!

Sun Wukong's figure had just crossed an invisible boundary!

Inside the Zeroer, the 【New Command】 'prevent anyone from approaching the seal' had its priority instantly raised to the extreme!

"Warn…… warning!!"

"Prohibit…… intrusion!!"

The Zeroer let out a chaotic roar!

The terrifying killing intent aimed at Sun Wukong on its body vanished without a trace in an instant!

In its place came an will of absolute defense, indomitable!

It even gave up attacking Sun Wukong!

Its massive metal arms slammed together in front of it!

Hum—!

A thick, dark-gold energy shield, formed from the purest 'Order' law, instantly coalesced before it!

It firmly guarded the area behind it that led deeper into the ruins!

Even the red light in the muzzles of the million war puppets dimmed, and all their energy was redirected to that massive shield!

It seemed Sun Wukong was no longer an enemy, but an intruder trying to break into the forbidden zone!

Seeing this, the smile on Sun Wukong's lips grew thicker!

"As expected!"

Next second!

He then did something that even Yao found astonishing!

He actually stepped back sharply again!

He returned to outside that invisible boundary!

At the moment he stepped back!

Another invisible switch was triggered!

Inside the Zeroers, the ancient 'Erase Sun Wukong' 【old command】 once again overrode everything and took precedence!

"Target…… detected……"

"Execute…… exterminate……!"

The Zeroers' roar rang out again!

Without hesitation, it instantly dropped the indestructible energy shield before it!

Its massive metal arm lifted again!

The gray destructive beam capable of annihilating stars began to frenziedly condense once more in its palm!

The million war puppets also once again aimed their cannons at Sun Wukong and began recharging!

It seemed as if Sun Wukong had shifted from an intruder back to the "virus" that must be utterly erased!

"Hahahahaha!"

Seeing this, Sun Wukong could no longer hold back and burst into uproarious laughter toward the sky!

His laughter was filled with endless mockery and contempt!

He was like a mischievous child who had found the toy's fatal weakness!

He took a step forward!

The Zeroers immediately abandoned attack and went all-out on defense!

He took a step back!

The Zeroers immediately dropped their defenses and prepared to attack!

Advance!

Retreat!

Advance!

Retreat!

Sun Wukong's figure, like a ghost, repeatedly hopped sideways inside and outside that invisible line!

Each advance and retreat was like an invisible whip, lashing fiercely at the Zeroers' core logic!

He made that once-lofty, judgment-of-all-things behemoth spin around in circles!

One moment it was the absolute-defense "gatekeeper"!

The next moment it was the ruthless "assassin"!

Those two utterly different identities switched back and forth on it in a ludicrous manner!

The million war puppets were left dazed and confused!

The energy in the cannons would charge, then discharge, then shift to power the shields!

The scene descended into utter chaos!

Yao stood aside, watching Sun Wukong's antics, her mouth agape in stunned disbelief.

Her beautiful eyes were filled with incredibility!

She never imagined that a battle capable of destroying the universe, a earth-shaking life-or-death struggle, would actually devolve into this ridiculous spectacle!

Unable to hold back, she leaned close to Sun Wukong's ear and whispered in a mosquito-faint voice.

"Great Sage… you… you're so naughty…"

Her voice carried a hint of shyness, a hint of admiration, and even a hint of indulgence she herself didn't notice.

Sun Wukong felt the warm breath at his ear, gave a hehe smile, turned his head and said to her.

"To deal with this kind of single-minded, unbending lump of iron, you've got to use this method!"

"The more it insists on rules, the more I, Old Sun, must refuse to reason with it!"

Saying that, he stepped forward again, watching the Zeroers frantically raise their shield, the smile on his face growing ever more triumphant!

He was having the time of his life!

It seemed he wanted to repay, double over, the frustration and anger he'd suffered from being toyed with by that hidden mastermind, all on this poor puppet!

However!

Just as Sun Wukong was preparing to mess with that big guy once more!

An anomaly!

It happened again!

Buzz—!!!

The Zeroer that had been toyed with, the mad red light flashing in its eyes, suddenly stopped!

Its massive body jerked to a rigid halt, frozen in place!

Immediately after!

A shrill blast, as if it could shred the Divine Soul, the highest-level Alert, suddenly exploded from within its body!

It echoed across the whole Deathly Silence ruin!

「Warning!! 」

「Warning!! 」

「Logical Paradox, unsolvable!! 」

「Core system…… about to collapse!! 」

The Zeroer's icy mechanical tone, for the first time, carried a hint, as if from the Abyss, of madness and violence!

「Activating……」

「Final contingency……」

「No……difference……」

「Pur……ification……mode!!! 」