Chapter 530: An Extremely Ordinary Farewell

Outside the event horizon of the black hole, a medium-sized airship was drifting slowly, and Zhang Jie and the others were preparing to board the ship heading into the wormhole.

"Hurry up and get on, Mom."

"Don't worry, this is just a cleaning; you'll be out soon."

The human female directed her questioning gaze toward Yuan, her eyes showing the foolish earnestness of a recent college graduate; it was obvious her memory had not recovered.

"Not now, not ever—her memory can never return."

"Don't worry, your little one hasn't lied to you."

"It's not that Yuan deceived the human female; Zhang Jie never even told Yuan about this."

"From beginning to end, only Zhang Jie and Nightmare knew that the Ascenders had a second, bigger matter."

The human female nodded, reached out with effort to pat Zhang Jie's head, and Zhang Jie, lowering his head, let her do so.

"You need to be careful...."

"Don't worry, my main body will go up together; it's just that our thoughts won't be synchronized."

"Then aren't your other bodies also going to die?"

The human female doesn't understand split-body technology or thought synchronization; she only knows her child needs to experience death several extra times.

"His body might split off a new consciousness, still himself, but this situation is uncertain."

"No big problem."

Zhang Jie watched the human female go up, and the next moment he turned his gaze toward Yuan.

"?"

"What are you looking at me for?"

Zhang Jie remained silent, just staring at her; Yuan's genius brain turned for a moment, as if understanding something.

Yuan:???

This time Yuan came in her main body; Zhang Jie told her to bring her main body, she believed him, obediently arrived in her true form, thinking Zhang Jie would have her do something big.

"I... I also need to go up?"

"Yes."

Yuan thought for 0.1 seconds, then immediately nodded.

"Alright, this time I'll listen to you."

Yuan was coaxed aboard; next up were these three Ship Girls.

Zhang Jie tossed each of these three little toys aboard one by one, his arm strength astonishing.

Of course, he went up himself.

With the warship's roar sounding, they slowly approached the black hole; as they neared the event horizon, the gravity neutralization device balanced the time-distorting gravity, and they rapidly approached the singularity of the wormhole.

Suddenly... a red alarm blared violently, the huge warship shuddered violently, as if it had struck something.

"How could this happen.... how could it be like this?"

From nearby came the computer head's extremely puzzled muttering, and Zhang Jie suddenly felt a bad premonition.

The computer head's project had indeed been verified; all procedures were completed experiments, so logically there should be no problems.

Sure enough, the next moment a familiar voice, tinged with teasing, came through, and every screen above the warship displayed a person's cheek.

It's Chen!

"Surprised, everyone? As a part of the universe, I cannot allow even a trace of matter to flow out of the universe."

"So.... I can't let you go."

"Persistent nuisance!"

Yuan furrowed her brows and began shouting angrily, while Chen, with just a head remaining, merely shook his head in contempt.

He collected his smile completely, his eyes sharp, as if looking at a group of tiny creatures.

"No matter what you say, I have locked down part of the physical laws! With me here, none of you can escape!!!"

"Not only you, but many people have found ways to survive; I must admit, civilization's potential is infinite."

"But!!! The old things of the old era, just stay there and die honestly in the old era!"

"No one dare think of hindering the arrival of the new era!"

"Madman!!!"

This time the human female did the scolding; she was furious, and Chen, seeing her angry look, suddenly opened his mouth to mock.

"Yo, isn't this Councilor Sir?"

"I'm a madman? Exactly, I'm a madman, but all this tragedy is because of you! If you hadn't pressed the final button deciding the Star Sea Leader, I wouldn't be the Star Sea Leader."

Seeing the groove, he was about to say something hurtful again, but Zhang Jie directly spoke up to interrupt him.

"No need for more nonsense; locking the physical laws, right? Fine, let you lock it—we'll see who ends up laughing last."

"Haha, then I'll be sure to watch closely."

Chen left, all screens returned to normal; the computer head now felt its operating program was about to freeze, and he never imagined someone could lock the physical laws.

"For now, it seems he only locked the maximum value of a black hole singularity collapsing into a wormhole; nothing else has changed."

"Otherwise the universe would have been doomed long ago; physical laws aren't something you can just change."

As expected of Yuan, even before Chen spoke of locking the physical laws, she had begun testing with other bodies; the results were also swift, and she quickly found the locked rule.

"Little one, what are you planning to do next?"

The computer head's screen also turned toward Zhang Jie; Xiao Jiu and the others also looked at him worriedly; they all, without prior agreement, entrusted the final decision of this matter to Zhang Jie.

And Zhang Jie also fell into contemplation.

"'What should we do? We can only do that...'"

Originally his plan was to send himself and his important people into the wormhole, waiting for the civilization outside to be completely burned out before coming out.

If civilization wins, then all will be well; if it loses, he will directly cleanse the ground with the God‑Ascenders, but the problem lies here.

There's no way to hide them; then, once the AI logs into the God‑Ascenders and goes mad, won't we have to purge them together?

"It's fine, he doesn't have that much ability."

"My apocalypse‑level weapon will activate as usual, no need to worry."

He says that with his mouth, but Zhang Jie knows that this time..... it's very possible he won't return.

And just as Zhang Jie finished speaking, he saw a human female with tear‑filled eyes; it was obvious that Chen's words had caused her great harm.

After all, today's human females are not her, who emerged from familial political slaughter.

"Little Jie.... really... really is like that?"

"Don't listen to his bullshit, this badass is twisting the facts."

"He's simply incapable of resolving all this and chooses to escape."

"If he had even half my brains, he would never think of joining the heavenly disaster to solve the problem."

"I fully agree with that."

Yuan nodded, then looked at Zhang Jie again.

"You little thing, still have a trump card? You're even hiding it from me, your teacher?"

"Alright, alright, no more sentimental talk—what are you going to do, what can I do? Say it quickly."

Zhang Jie pondered for a moment; Yuan.... seemed to have nowhere he could help.

"Teacher, what you need to do is just protect them well."

"Leave the rest to me."

Zhang Jie said confidently, and everyone thought this was just an ordinary farewell....