Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

boom!

A deafening gunshot shattered the suffocating silence inside the deep-sea core server room.

There were no dazzling magical battles like in science fiction movies, nor were there any tedious, lengthy, and overwhelming data stream clashes.

Only a burst of intensely hot, dazzling orange-red gunpowder flame spewed from the muzzle.

That unassuming nine-millimeter brass bullet tore through the viscous air the moment it left the barrel. It carried the ultimate violence of modern Chinese military technology, and the absolute judgment of the rule of law, heading straight for the man who proclaimed himself a creator god.

The mysterious man suspended in mid-air finally revealed a genuine, primal fear in his pure blue data eyes.

"Quantum shield! Absolute physical barrier! Block it!"

He roared hysterically, his hands slamming across the empty keyboard, creating a frenzied afterimage.

Layer upon layer of hexagonal energy shields, shimmering with a ghostly blue light, solidified like tangible ice in an instant before him. This was the highest level of high-dimensional defense that this super cyber weaponry could mobilize, theoretically capable of withstanding even a nuclear shockwave of tens of millions of tons.

He watched the conventional firearm bullet slowly flying towards him, a sinister smile of relief spreading across his face.

However, his ridiculous high-dimensional defense was like a window made of cheap toilet paper in front of Lu Jingyan's [Absolute Rationality], which had already advanced to the rule level.

"Snap—Splash!"

No substantial physical resistance was encountered.

The moment the brass bullet made contact with the quantum shield, the golden light of the codex emanating from Lu Jingyan's body immediately identified it as an "illegal data structure".

Completely crushing everything in its path! Unstoppable!

Those blue shields, radiating high-dimensional energy, were like glass display cases that had been smashed hard with a sledgehammer, shattering instantly into countless blue light spots that then vanished completely into the air.

"No! This is impossible! How can the laws of physics penetrate the defense shield!"

The man let out his last scream, filled with despair and disbelief.

"thump!"

The body, having lost all energy support, crashed heavily onto the cold metal floor like a broken piece of rotten wood.

The thick quantum fiber optic cables connecting his spine and limbs were brutally severed by the immense inertia of the fall. Dark blue nutrient solution mixed with warm blood flowed recklessly along the bullet hole between his eyebrows and the blood grooves on his body, quickly pooling into a glaring dark red pool of blood on the floor.

What kind of higher-dimensional beings are these?

What is the creator god who rules over all things?

Under the overwhelming power of modern firearms and the crushing influence of the rule of law, it is ultimately nothing more than a mortal body that cannot withstand a bullet the size of a peanut.

Lu Jingyan stared expressionlessly at the corpse on the ground, calmly lowering the muzzle of his gun slightly, and deftly ejecting the scalding hot cartridge case from his fingertips.

"Brass bullet, physical exorcism. Specially treats all kinds of unruly high-dimensional mental illnesses."

He uttered a cold sentence, his deep black eyes devoid of any pity.

"Phew—I was suffocating! Boss, you're awesome!"

With the death of the mysterious man, the tenfold gravitational field in the server room, powerful enough to distort the laws of physics, vanished without a trace.

Zhao Tiezhu sprang up from the metal floor like a dehydrated, fat fish, gulping in air greedily. He rubbed his shoulder, which was almost dislocated from being pressed down, grabbed the heavy multi-barreled Gatling gun, and strode over to the corpse.

Zhao Tiezhu stared wide-eyed at the so-called god on the ground, whose brains had splattered out, with disdain.

"Pooh!"

Zhao Tiezhu spat angrily on the ground, his face full of contempt.

"I thought this guy was some big shot, but it turns out he's just a charlatan! Even if he gets shot, he'll still bleed."

"With that flimsy skeleton, he dares to call himself a creator god in front of our special investigation team? Even the butcher Wang from my village can take a beating!"

Su Xiaoxiao, who followed behind and got up, didn't even bother to brush the dust off her clothes. She rushed over with the military tactical computer whose screen had several cracks.

She roughly inserted a tiny data probe into the fiber optic cable connector where the corpse's spine had broken.

The sound of keyboard typing was like a dense raindrop.

"Boss! Brother Tiezhu is right! This guy isn't a god at all!"

Su Xiaoxiao's voice trembled with excitement as she watched the biometric codes rapidly being analyzed on the screen.

"The genetic matching results are in! This is a 100% purebred human from Earth!"

"However, his cerebral cortex underwent extreme cyborg mechanization. Through this surgery, he forcibly bound his own neurons to the island's super quantum computer!"

Su Xiaoxiao pushed up her black-rimmed glasses, which had slipped down to the tip of her nose, and pointed to the huge server racks next to her.

"He's just a severely delusional chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) patient who thinks he's the CPU of the motherboard because he has some hacking skills and some legacy high-dimensional technology!"

Upon hearing this surreal yet incredibly realistic conclusion, the dozens of special forces soldiers who had just gotten up from the ground looked at each other in bewilderment, and then burst into a sarcastic laugh.

"Turns out he's a cyborg?"

"You scared the hell out of me! I really thought the King of Hell was going to be working overtime in international waters today!"

However, before the special forces soldiers could relax their tense nerves...

Suddenly, all the lights in the entire underground core server room turned a blinding blood red!

"Waaah—! Waaah—! Waaah—!"

A piercing, chilling, highest-level alarm suddenly erupted in every corner of the entire cyber weaponry factory without warning. The sound was so loud it seemed to tear eardrums apart, and even the thick titanium alloy floor beneath one's feet trembled violently.

"What's going on? Is the loudspeaker on this damn island leaking electricity?!" Zhao Tiezhu suddenly picked up the Gatling gun and looked around warily.

"Oh no! Boss! Something terrible has happened!"

Su Xiaoxiao stared intently at the tactical computer screen, her face instantly turning ashen.

"This guy is a complete madman! His vital signs are directly linked to the island's core nuclear power cooling system!"

"In other words, he turned his own heart into the ultimate death trigger!"

Su Xiaoxiao was so anxious that tears were about to fall as she pointed to the several huge liquid nitrogen cooling towers in the distance.

"Now that the host is dead, the main server connected to him has completely lost control. The underlying nuclear reactor has entered an irreversible state of overload and loss of control!"

"The nuclear cooling system is completely collapsing! The island's self-destruct program has been forcibly activated!"

It was as if to confirm Su Xiaoxiao's warning.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The numerous thick cooling pipes surrounding the computer room could not withstand the terrifying high temperature and pressure, and they burst violently one after another.

Extremely cold liquid nitrogen and scalding hot high-pressure steam mixed together, gushing out like a white, raging torrent. The extreme temperature difference between hot and cold instantly blasted several nearby server racks into deadly metal fragments flying everywhere.

"Take cover! Find cover!"

Lu Jingyan shouted angrily and pulled Su Xiaoxiao behind a heavy titanium alloy control panel.

A fragment of server equipment, about the size of a palm and with sharp, knife-like edges, flew past Lu Jingyan's tactical cloak with terrifying kinetic energy, smashing a bulletproof glass panel not far away and creating a dense spiderweb-like crack.

"Damn it! That bastard can't even let people have peace after he's dead!"

Zhao Tiezhu roared, raised the heavy tactical riot shield, and held it firmly at the front, blocking all the flying metal fragments and high-pressure steam.

"Click, click, click..."

At this moment of utter chaos.

Suddenly, dozens of hidden weapon bay doors on the walls surrounding the server room opened mysteriously.

Rows of futuristic-looking automatic defense machine guns, flashing crimson fire control radar beams, resembled mechanical serpents crawling out of hell, locking onto any living creature that dared to enter the machine room.

This is the last line of physical annihilation defense that the arsenal automatically activates after detecting a core collapse!

"Locked on the invading creature! Execute the final cleanup order!"

The cold, mechanical synthesized sound echoed in the blood-red machine room.

"Clean up your ass!"

Zhao Tiezhu's eyes were bloodshot. Before the automatic cannons could even fire, he slammed his riot shield to the ground and unleashed a furious barrage of fire from his Gatling gun.

"Da da da da da—!"

"Boss! The copying progress is 90% complete! Just a little bit more!"

Su Xiaoxiao lay on the keyboard of the main control panel, ignoring the metal debris falling from above, staring intently at the data transmission progress bar.

"This mainframe contains the original distribution code for all system hosts worldwide! Once we obtain this core list, we can follow the clues and expose every hidden imposter on Earth!"

Lu Jingyan glanced at the increasingly rapid countdown and gripped his pistol tightly with his well-defined knuckles.

"Speed ​​up, even if it burns out the motherboard, get the data out of me."

"Beep—Copy complete!"

With a crisp beep, Su Xiaoxiao pulled out a specially made portable hard drive emitting blue light and excitedly clutched it to her chest.

"Boss! We got it! It contains all the essential data from 100,000 systems worldwide!"

"All personnel, evacuate along the designated route and safety passage! Helicopter formation, immediately hover on the helipad to provide support!"

"Quick! This wrecked island is about to be blown up!"