I can receive unlimited protection; my parents handed me over to the state.

"A concave lens?" Li Mo was even more confused.

What kind of time is this? Why do you want me to make a lens? Are you suggesting I burn it to death with sunlight? This is outer space!

"Just do what I tell you to do! Stop talking nonsense!" Lu Yuan cursed.

"Yes! Yes!"

Li Mo dared not hesitate any longer. He immediately mobilized his remaining energy, and a huge concave lens made of high-density alloy instantly took shape in front of him.

Just then, the earth-shattering, seven-colored beam of light arrived!

"It's over..."

Li Mo closed his eyes in despair.

However, the death that was expected did not come.

When the seven-colored beam of light shone on the concave lens in front of him.

A miracle happened.

The beam of light did not penetrate the lens, nor did it transform into anything else.

Instead... it was refracted!

The originally straight beam of light was strangely deflected after passing through the concave lens, turning at an incredible angle, and then... precisely shot back onto the "jellyfish" itself!

"Buzz—"

The jellyfish's enormous body trembled violently.

Its colorful body began to fade rapidly after being hit by its own attack, becoming increasingly transparent and ethereal.

Finally, with a soft sound like shattering glass, its enormous body shattered, turning into countless points of light that dissipated into the universe.

Only a fist-sized, rainbow-like crystal core remained in place.

Li Mo stared blankly at the scene before him, his mind completely blank.

He... died?

Was it killed by its own attack?

"Did you understand?"

Lu Yuan's voice rang in his mind again, like a patient and encouraging teacher.

"This guy's ability is essentially a kind of 'rule distortion'. The light it emits can distort the 'rules' of other substances, turning them into something else. However, this distortion requires a 'medium', and that is light itself."

"And the concave lens you made, its function is to 'distort' the light itself. Therefore, its power is reflected back."

"It's like someone who plays with fire getting burned by their own fire, or someone who plays with water getting drowned by their own water."

"This is called... magic defeating magic."

Lu Yuan explained this seemingly complex principle in the simplest and most straightforward language.

Li Mo seemed to understand but not quite, but his eyes were filled with fervent admiration as he looked at Lu Yuan.

What he considered an invincible enemy, the captain believed could be easily dealt with using only a simple junior high school physics concept.

Is this... the difference?

"Don't just stand there, get that 'rule core' back for me! It's a valuable item; it can be used to make a 'kaleidoscope,' and it'll definitely fetch a good price!" Lu Yuan urged.

"Yes, Captain!"

Li Mo suddenly realized what was happening and quickly flew over, carefully collecting the rainbow-like core as if it were a priceless treasure.

Similar scenes played out repeatedly in every corner of the battlefield.

"Hey! You using lightning! Are you stupid? That 'insulating behemoth' in front of you is naturally immune to lightning! Strike it with lightning, you're just charging it! Use your mental power to interfere with its bioelectric field and make it short-circuit!"

"Hey you playing with dirt! Stop throwing rocks at it! That 'burrowing worm' can break down any mineral with its mouthparts! You're just feeding it! Use your earth element to change the gravity around it and squeeze it out of the ground!"

"And you, playing in the water! That's the 'Deep Sea Lord,' a distant relative of Atlantis! Playing in the water in front of it is like trying to wield a giant axe in front of Lu Ban (a legendary Chinese carpenter)! Use your water to simulate a high-pressure water jet and cut its joints! Yes! Right there! A little lower! How stupid!"

Lu Yuan was like a top-tier player with a full-map cheat code, sitting in the command center, sipping juice and giving pointers to the "newbie players" on the battlefield.

He always manages to pinpoint the enemy's fatal weaknesses and provide the most effective solutions in the simplest, most direct, and even most unbelievable ways.

Under his "cloud command," the casualty rate of the "God's Legion" was reduced to a level that was negligible.

However, their combat efficiency increased several times over.

They no longer fought blindly like headless flies, but began to learn to observe, to think, and to... fight with their brains.

Each of them felt that they had learned more in those short ten minutes than they had in the previous ten years combined.

Their awe of Lu Yuan reached an unprecedented peak.

This goes beyond mere strength.

This is a kind of... cognitive-level, dimensional reduction attack!

Their captain seemed to know everything and be omnipotent.

However, just when the battle was going very well and everyone thought victory was within reach.

In the center of the battlefield, the enormous "Eyeball Monster," which had been observing coldly, finally... made a new move.

Its huge single eye slowly closed.

At the same time, an invisible, cold, desperate, and malicious intent, like a virus, instantly spread throughout the battlefield, invading the minds of every human fighting...

What kind of feeling is that?

It cannot be described in words.

It is neither sound nor image.

Instead, it was a pure, cold torrent filled with negative information that poured directly into the depths of everyone's soul.

In that instant, the members of the "League of Gods" who were fighting a bloody battle all experienced hallucinations.

They witnessed the birth of the universe, and they also witnessed its end.

They witnessed the rise of countless civilizations, and they also witnessed the destruction of countless civilizations.

They witnessed the burning of stars and the swallowing of black holes.

Faced with the vastness of the universe, everything they cherished—family, friendship, love, glory, dreams—became so insignificant, so laughable, so…meaningless.

A cold yet powerful voice echoed in their souls:

【look……】

This is... the truth...

Your lives are but a meaningless coincidence on a cosmic scale.

Your civilization is but a fleeting ripple in the long river of time.

Everything you've done—resistance, struggle, sacrifice—is just a futile tragedy repeated billions of times.

Your enemy is not us.

It's entropy.

It is heat death.

It is this cold and lifeless universe itself.

Everything will eventually return to nothingness.

Nothing in this world matters.

The voice seemed to possess a magical power, easily shattering their strongest defenses.

A young warrior, who was fighting a Void Hunter, suddenly froze. He looked at the sword in his hand, then at the ferocious monster before him, his eyes filled with confusion.

"Yeah... what's the point?"

"Even if we win this war, what then?"

"Hundreds of years from now, thousands of years from now, we will all die. The earth will be destroyed, the sun will go out, and the entire universe will become a cold tomb."

"What...is all of this we're doing for?"

Once this thought arose, it spread like wildfire, instantly entangling his entire mind.

The sword in his hand fell limply to the ground.

The fighting spirit in his eyes quickly dissipated.

Instead, there was a kind of... detached, deathly stillness.

"Pfft!"

The Void Hunter before him seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, its sharp claws piercing his chest in an instant.

Blood stained the cold space red.

But the young soldier showed no sign of pain on his face.

Instead, she wore a smile that seemed to convey a sense of relief.

"Finally... it can... be over..."

This scene is just a microcosm of the battlefield.

More and more soldiers were influenced by that spiritual whisper.

Their movements became sluggish, their eyes vacant, and their fighting spirit was being gradually eroded.

The entire offensive of the "League of Gods" was halted.

The battle situation instantly shifted from a one-sided "harvest" to a precarious state.

"Wake up, all of you!"

Yan Ji let out an angry phoenix cry, and golden phoenix fire transformed into waves of sound, attempting to awaken her confused companions.

But the effect was minimal.

That sense of emptiness, originating from the depths of the soul, cannot be dispelled by simple sonic attacks.

"Damn it!"

Gu Tianye cleaved a monster that pounced at him in two with a single axe stroke. Looking at his teammates around him, who seemed to be sleepwalking, he was so anxious that his eyes turned red.

"Boss! Think of something! If this continues, we're going to be wiped out!" he yelled into the communication channel.

【Pangu】Temple, bridge of a ship.

Lu Yuan's brows furrowed slightly.

"A philosophical attack based on nihilism? Interesting."

He looked at the screen, at the warriors who seemed like soulless puppets, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

"A physics student starting to dabble in philosophy? Is this a case of being unable to win a fight, so they resort to philosophical debate?"

He could sense that the whispered mental commands were not simple mind control, but a more sophisticated method.

It doesn't forcefully distort your thoughts, but rather plants a seed called "nihilism" in your heart.

Then, convince yourself to give up the resistance.

The art of attacking the mind.

"There's something, but not much," Lu Yuan said, pursing his lips.

For someone like him, who has long had "pragmatism" and "materialism" ingrained in his bones, such a trick is like a primary school student reciting multiplication tables in front of a university professor—childish and laughable.

Meaningful? Meaningless?

Can you eat?

Can it be used as material?

No? Then what are you talking about!

"Old Su, Old Qian, did you hear that too?" Lu Yuan turned and asked.

Su Lie and Qian Sen both had very solemn expressions.

Although they were not directly impacted like the soldiers on the front lines, they also heard that "whisper" from the void.

"I heard you," Su Lie said in a deep voice. "This is... a very terrifying weapon. It doesn't attack the human body, but rather... a person's belief."

"Yes," Qian Sen echoed, "From an information science perspective, it's using a piece of 'high-entropy' 'junk information' to pollute our 'low-entropy' civilization system, causing the entire system's 'logic' to collapse. This is a kind of... civilization-level 'information virus'!"

"An information virus?" Lu Yuan stroked his chin. "That's a good analogy. So, what's the best way to deal with a virus?"

"Is it... quarantine? Or... developing antivirus software?" Qian Sen asked uncertainly.

"Neither."

Lu Yuan shook his head, a wicked smile appearing on his face.

"The best way to deal with a virus is... formatting."

"or……"

"Use an even more powerful and unreasonable virus to overwrite it."

As he spoke, he stood up from his chair.

"Alright, the debate is over."

"It's my turn... to go on stage."

He took a step forward, and his figure instantly disappeared from the bridge.

The next second, he appeared at the very top of the Pangu Temple, suspended in the dark universe.

He looked at the huge "eyeball monster" in the distance, a hint of impatience on his face.

"Hey! You with the big eyes!"

Lu Yuan's voice, without any amplification equipment, resonated clearly and directly in everyone's soul.

That voice carried an undeniable, domineering will.

In an instant, that cold and empty "whisper" was forcibly pushed out.

All the soldiers who were lost in confusion were jolted awake, as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water on their heads.

Looking at the wounds on their own bodies or those of their companions, and recalling the dazed state they had just been in, their eyes revealed lingering fear and anger.

In the center of the battlefield, the giant "eyeball monster" seemed not to have expected that its "divine voice" would be so violently interrupted.

Its huge single eye slowly turned towards Lu Yuan.

A more powerful and colder intent than before locked onto Lu Yuan.

[A tiny...existence...]

You... are provoking... the truth...

You can't understand... you're just... dust...

"Alright, alright, stop nagging."

Lu Yuan picked at his ear impatiently.

"Realism, the dust. All this talk, are you trying to give me a philosophy lecture? I hate it when people lecture me!"

"Whether something is meaningful or not, is that up to you to decide?"

"If I think it's meaningful, then it fucking is meaningful!"

"I want barbecue today, so grilling and eating you bunch of blind fools is the biggest purpose of my day!"

"I don't like the look of you, and I want to gouge your big eyeballs out and stomp on them—that's the most sublime truth in the universe!"

A barbaric and vulgar statement, delivered through Lu Yuan's will, struck deep into the soul of the "Eyeball Monster."

The will of the "Eyeball Monster" clearly paused for a moment.

It seems...incomprehensible and incapable of handling this...pure "rogue logic" that makes absolutely no sense or reason.

You...blaspheme...

"You blasphemy against my grandma's legs!"

Lu Yuan immediately launched into a tirade of curses.

"Still playing the mystic here? It's just a bigger mantis shrimp, what are you pretending to be, some kind of cosmic guru?"

"Come on, come on, today I'm going to teach you a lesson, so you'll understand what 'fucking surprise' really means!"

As he spoke, Lu Yuan stretched out his right hand and pointed in the direction of the "eyeball monster".

"Little Black, come out and greet the customers!"

Chapter 97: I hate being lectured the most.

"Little Black?"

Gu Tianye and the others were taken aback when they heard the name.

Immediately, they remembered the original core of the former world-destroying god "End," which Lu Yuan had kept as a pet and a "system cleanup plugin."

Is the boss going to... unleash the dogs to bite people?

In the center of the battlefield, the enormous "eyeball monster" also sensed unprecedented...anger and a hint of confusion from Lu Yuan's crude remarks.

It has devoured countless civilizations and polluted countless worlds, but this is the first time it has encountered such a "unique" resistance.

They won't reason with you, they won't debate with you, they'll just start with a barrage of insults.

This made its once invincible "nihilistic spiritual attack" feel like it had hit a stinky, hard rock in a latrine; not only did it have no effect, but it also hurt itself painfully.

[Foolish... mortals...]

You will pay the price for your ignorance.

The Eyeball Monster's will became violent and manic. Its enormous single eye began to gather terrifying energy, preparing to unleash a vicious attack on this arrogant mortal.

However, Lu Yuan didn't give it that chance at all.

"A price? Do you deserve it?"

Lu Yuan sneered, and on the tip of his finger, a pure darkness that seemed capable of swallowing all light quietly emerged.

It is "Little Black"—the core of the end!

"go."

Lu Yuan said calmly.

The darkness instantly transformed into a black streak faster than lightning, ignoring spatial distance, and appeared directly in front of the "Eyeball Monster's" enormous single eye!

The "Eyeball Monster" clearly sensed the danger, and the energy it had gathered suddenly erupted, unleashing a "chaotic ray" powerful enough to distort reality, which shot towards the black stream of light!

However, the next second, something incomprehensible happened.

The chaotic ray containing the "distorted" rules disappeared without a trace the moment it came into contact with the black stream of light, as if it had vanished into thin air... and was "reset to zero".

It was as if it had never been launched.

Immediately afterwards, the black stream of light, without the slightest pause, went straight into the enormous single eye of the "Eyeball Monster"!

"Awooo—!!!"

A piercing scream, so agonizing it defied description, resounded directly at the soul level and instantly echoed throughout the entire battlefield!

The enormous monster, whose size was comparable to that of a planet, began to convulse and roll violently, as if it were having an epileptic seizure!

Its tens of thousands of tentacles pounded everything around it, smashing countless unfortunate Void Hunters who got close into a pulp.

It's...painful!

Extreme pain!

Everyone was stunned.

Just a moment ago, the final boss was all high and mighty, suppressing everyone with mental attacks. How come... he suddenly rolled around on the ground like a cat whose tail had been stepped on?

Boss... what exactly did you do to it?

"What did he do?" Lu Yuan seemed to hear their thoughts, a cruel smile curving his lips as he muttered to himself, "Nothing much, just let it experience what 'true nothingness' is."

The mental attack by the "Eyeball Monster" is essentially to instill in you the nihilistic idea that "nothing has any meaning".

And what is "Little Black," which is the power of "The End"?

It's "reset to zero"!

It is to make "everything" itself become "nothing"!

The former tells you, "Your cooking is bad, so it's no use eating it, since everyone has to die eventually."

The latter would be to storm into your kitchen, smash your pots and pans, throw away your rice, and even demolish your house, making it physically impossible for you to cook.