The "Survival on the Train" game has bugs, it's really laggy!

The massive, several-thousand-meter-long Devourer suddenly stopped in front of the gray-white wall.

The inertia of spatial warp has not completely dissipated.

Visible ripples spread out from around the train, but when they hit the surface of the wall, they didn't even splash.

It was swallowed up directly.

Quietly.

Clean and tidy.

Everyone in the carriage was thrown about. Wang Hu slammed his head against the cabin wall, bumping his head and wincing in pain. Xiao Huo clung tightly to the edge of the control panel, his knuckles white, and he dangled in mid-air for several moments before regaining his balance.

Those who are greedy for money will suffer even more.

The treasure chest tumbled over the floor seven or eight times before finally landing upside down in a corner. Indistinct cursing could be heard coming from inside.

Once the inertia subsided, everyone finally had a chance to raise their heads.

Looking out the front window.

Then everyone fell silent.

That wall is too big.

It's not the kind of big that can be described with the word "big".

It stretches across the galaxies, its top invisible, its bottom unseen, extending to the very limits of visual perception. The entire wall is a lifeless, grayish-white, its surface devoid of any flowing laws or fluctuations of energy.

It is a wall in the pure, absolute, physical sense.

What truly sends chills down your spine are the things on the walls.

Corpses.

The shriveled remains of a high-dimensional behemoth.

Densely packed.

Layer upon layer.

Some were about the same size as the current Devourer. Some were even larger. They all retained the contorted posture of their final struggle before death. Some had gaping maws, their fangs broken into the walls. Some had extended giant claws, their finger bones deeply embedded in the gray-white walls.

The eye sockets of all the corpses were empty.

It stares blankly at the direction of the train.

It exuded an aura of despair that spanned countless eras.

Wang Hu stared at the corpses for three seconds.

Then he silently turned his face away.

"Hold."

He managed to squeeze out just one word. His voice was hoarse, and his throat felt tight.

He'd spent so much time in the wasteland. What hellish scenes hadn't he seen? But this wall gave him a completely different feeling. It wasn't bloodshed, it wasn't cruelty, it was a chilling feeling that seeped into his bones—a pure "you've come for nothing."

Any one of those behemoths could be a monster capable of devouring stars and destroying the world.

They're all nailed here.

It looks like a butterfly specimen.

"Slow fire," Su Yuan's voice came from the front, calm. "Scan it."

Xiao Huo swallowed hard and quickly bent down to the control panel. Sweat dripped from his chin, wetting the touch screen. He scribbled away, bringing up the Devourer's full-band detection array.

The dark golden radar waves spread in all directions.

It crashed into the wall.

It was swallowed up.

No echo.

The small fire switched to a different frequency band. Let's try again.

still none.

He gritted his teeth and tried every possible detection method: infrared, sound waves, gravitational fields, law-based sensing, resonance of the true source matter…

Only rows of glaring red characters popped up on the holographic screen.

[Dead End]

[Physical thickness: Infinite]

Insufficient permissions, outbound access prohibited.

Regardless of up, down, left, or right.

This wall, both conceptually and physically, simultaneously blocks all waterways leading to the other side.

There wasn't even a crack.

"Master..." Little Fire's voice trembled.

He brought the scan results to the main screen, pointed to the glaring "infinity," and looked back at Su Yuan.

His golden eyes were filled with confusion.

"This thickness... is truly infinite. Not an imaginary number, not a vague concept, but true infinity in a mathematical sense."

He paused.

"That means... even if we treat the entire train as a drill and keep drilling forward until the heat death of the universe, we still won't be able to break through it."

Before he could finish speaking...

A sudden change occurred.

A layer of grayish-white ripples appeared on the surface of the wall.

These ripples are not fluctuations at the level of laws. They are purely physical.

It seemed to sense the real source matter carried by the train.

The ripples spread out without warning, crossing the distance of the void and enveloping the entire body of the Devourer.

For an instant.

The dark gold obsidian scales standing upright on the surface of the vehicle have visibly turned gray.

The luster is fading, and the texture is peeling away.

Inside the engine bay, the pitcher plant's engine emitted a pitiful, clattering sound.

"Click—tap tap tap tap—"

That was the sound of machinery being forcibly frozen.

The rotor stopped. The energy channel was blocked. The tri-colored energy flowing in the law conduit began to become turbid.

The entire train is being stripped of its physical properties little by little by the force field of this wall.

Without any resistance, the Devourer will become just another specimen on the wall in less than three minutes.

Nailed here.

To live next to those high-dimensional behemoths.

forever.

"Boss!"

Wang Hu's screams came from behind.

Su Yuan turned around.

Wang Hu's face was contorted beyond recognition. On his newly repaired mechanical right arm, a layer of grayish-white petrified patches was spreading at a visible speed. The patches started from his fingertips, climbing up the metal joints, and with each inch they covered, that inch of the mechanical structure completely lost its ability to move.

The gears stopped turning.

The hydraulic pump is frozen.

There wasn't even a static spark anymore.

But that's not the worst part.

The grayish-white petrification continued to spread along the interface between the robotic arm and his body, beginning to erode his right shoulder and right chest.

Wang Hu could clearly feel his ribs losing sensation one by one.

"Damn it! My arm won't obey me!"

He desperately tried to pry the mechanical arm off with his left hand.

Not moving.

It's like it's welded to the wall.

On the other side, Xiao Huo clutched her chest and squatted down.

His face was frighteningly pale.

Large clumps of her golden hair lost their luster, turning into a dry, straw-like grayish-yellow.

He could feel the rotation of the core fruit deep within his chest being suppressed by an irresistible force.

It's not slowing down.

They froze to death.

"Master...Master!"

Xiao Huo trembled as she raised her head. Her eyes were red.

"It's not attacking us!"

"It's assimilating!"

"Turn everything into inanimate objects just like it!"

Yes.

The mechanism by which this Wall of Sighs operates is not a conventional attack or defense.

It won't hit you.

It absorbs you.

Strip away all your energy, your physical attributes, and your laws of operation.

Then make yourself a part of yourself.

It becomes a brick on the wall.

A specimen from which one can never escape.

This is why all those ridiculously powerful high-dimensional behemoths died here.

He wasn't killed.

They froze to death.

They were completely assimilated and became part of the wall's filler.

A suffocating despair permeated the carriage.

Wang Hu's body began to stiffen on one side.

The core of the small fire stopped operating.

The guardian spirit wailed loudly inside the treasure chest, its cries growing softer and softer.

Only Su Yuan.

He stood at the very front of the car.

No force was activated.

No laws were released.

He stood there quietly, looking out the window at the gray-white Wall of Sighs, at the countless colossal beast carcasses covered in it.

There was no fear in the tricolored vertical pupils.

There wasn't even a hint of nervousness.

He snorted coldly.

It's very light.

The inner universe within my chest trembled slightly.

A sense of negation seeped from his body.

It was not a violent outburst, nor a violent outburst.

Rather, it is an extremely relaxed release, as natural as breathing.

The law of negation, mixed with the true essence, transforms into an extremely thin, transparent film.

The film diffused from Su Yuan's body surface.

It covers the control panel.

The floor was covered.

It covered the bulkhead.

It covered every inch of the train's surface.

Su Yuan lowered his head and glanced at Wang Hu, who was being petrified.

His tone was so flat, it was as if he were just saying the weather was nice today.

"Who are you to put a ticket on my car?"

The words were spoken.

The negation law is activated.

The grayish-white petrified patches on Wang Hu's right arm, which had spread to most of his body, began to shatter from the edges within a fraction of a second.

It doesn't fade away gradually.

It shattered directly.

Like ice flowers on a car window in winter being blown by a warm breeze.

With a whoosh, it shattered into countless fine powders.

The robotic arm resumed emitting blue static sparks. The gears meshed and turned. The fluid in the hydraulic pump resumed its flow.

Wang Hu's stiff half of his body suddenly regained sensation, causing him to howl in pain.

But the howl was filled with the ecstatic joy of surviving a disaster.

"I've got it! I've got it! My arm can move again!"

the other side.

Xiao Huo let out a long breath of stale air.

The grayish-white patterns on the core fruit in his chest shattered and fell off. The core began to slowly rotate again. His golden hair regained its luster from the roots.

The guardian spirit inside the treasure chest also came to life, fluttering and jingling inside.

"I'm still alive! I'm still alive! Long live our benefactor!"

Outside the train carriage.

A subtle change appeared on the wall.

The stagnant, grayish-white ripples, upon contact with the membrane of the law of negation, reacted like boiling water hitting ice.

It was hissing and steaming.

Then they were forced to retreat.

It shrank back little by little.

The faded dark gold scales on the surface of the Devourer rose again. Its color was restored. The patterns of law illuminated. The pitcher plant engine roared once more.

What truly plunged this void into an eerie silence were the withered remains of high-dimensional behemoths on the walls, which had been dried up for countless epochs.

Their empty eye sockets.

A faint ripple of law actually appeared.

The lingering shadows of those long-dead vengeful spirits trembled within the gray-white cage.

It's not an awakening.

It is fear.

These colossal beings, who once roamed the universe, experienced for the first time, after their deaths, an existence even more unreasonable than the Wailing Wall.

Something erased the power of assimilation, considering it dirty.

Just casually.

Calm.

Like wiping a table.

Su Yuan did not stay in the carriage for long.

He stepped out of the cabin.

The dark gold bone armor emitted a dull metallic scraping sound in the void. He stepped on the back of the Devourer and walked all the way to the front, to the top of the three-colored giant head.

There is no wind here.

But his clothes fluttered in the aura of true essence.

He stood on the giant beast's forehead.

Raise your right hand.

Spread your five fingers.

The fingertips of the dark gold bone armor gently pressed against the cold wall surface.

A tactile sensation was felt.

Icy.

It's not cold in terms of temperature. It's cold in terms of concept.

This wall has no temperature property. It strips away all physical parameters, including cold and heat themselves.

Su Yuan closed his eyes.

The analytical ability of the One Who Unifies All Things seeped into his fingertips.

The underlying code of zero and one was disassembled, reassembled, and translated in his perception.

layer.

Two layers.

Ten floors.

One hundred floors.

The deeper Su Yuan dug, the more his brows furrowed.

Finally, he opened his eyes.

Extremely suppressed killing intent surged within the three-colored vertical pupils.

"OK."

He pulled his hand back from the wall.

The sound was very soft, but everyone in the carriage could hear it clearly.

"This is not a natural barrier at all."

He turned his head and glanced at Xiao Huo.

"This wall was built with people."

Xiao Huo was stunned.

Su Yuan extended his index finger and pointed to the gray-white "bricks" on the wall.

"Each piece is a physical remnant of an experimental subject."

"It's not just those giant beasts."

"There are still people."

"Countless experimental subjects like me, all numbered."

"001, 002, 003..."

"They were used up. Drained dry. Then the chess players recycled them, compressed them, and stacked them into bricks."

"This firewall has been built."

"Used to filter out all disobedient products."

His tone was frighteningly calm.

But the three-colored sparks that flew from between his bone-armored knuckles betrayed his true emotions.

He hadn't finished speaking.

The wall moved.

The gray-white wall suddenly twisted.

Starting from the spot where Su Yuan's hand had pressed, a sickeningly loud creaking sound emanated from within the wall. Countless grayish-white cracks spread out from its depths.

It's not cracked.

It is cohesion.

The cracks converged at a terrifying speed to a single point. Grayish-white matter piled up, compressed, and shaped wildly.

A giant nail, over a kilometer in diameter, was forced out from inside the wall.

The nail tip was pointed at Su Yuan.

It carries with it an absolute pursuit that has locked onto the causal line.

The nail is made of the same material as the wall. Grayish-white. There are no energy fluctuations. Pure physical mass pressure.

But Su Yuan knew very well that once this thing hit, it wouldn't be as simple as just piercing through.

It will assimilate the target.

It became part of the wall.

forever.

The nail tip pierced the void.

It's so fast that even light can't keep up.

The empty eye sockets of the giant beast corpses on the wall all faced Su Yuan's direction.

It felt like watching a funeral that was destined to happen.

Inside the carriage, Wang Hu and Xiao Huo simultaneously let out heart-wrenching screams.

"Boss, get out of the way!"

"Owner!"

Su Yuan didn't move.

He didn't even raise an eyebrow.

He reached into the storage space at his waist with his right hand.

I pulled something out.

It's about the size of a palm. Covered in dark gold patterns. The surface is still stained with half-dried mineral water.

The dark gold control panel that was just seized from that old monitor in the previous chapter.

The physical carrier of administrator privileges.

Su Yuan held the control panel with one hand. His thumb slid rapidly across the surface.

A dark gold holographic interface popped up.

The kilometer-long nail was less than five kilometers away from his brow.

Su Yuan typed a command on the holographic interface. His fingers moved so fast they left afterimages.

Access level: Highest.

Target of operation: Sighing Wall Defense Matrix.

Execution command: Add experiment subject number 001 to the permanent whitelist.

Grade: Inspection-free.

Note: Cannot be overwritten. Cannot be deleted. Cannot be downgraded.

Input complete.

He pressed confirm.

The control panel made a buzzing sound.

The dark golden code of the law flew out from the surface of the board like a living thing, transforming into a fine stream of data that swiftly drilled into the underlying structure of the gray-white nail.

The long spikes are still being advanced.

But internally, a frenzied code war has already begun.

The administrator-level forced write command collides head-on with the automated attack program of the underlying defense mechanism.

Zero and one explode into a mess at the microscopic level.

The result is no suspense.

The attack command of the defense mechanism, when faced with the whitelist overwriting of the highest privileges, is like a T2-level temporary worker trying to challenge the CEO.

There is no suspense.

The nail tip was just an inch away from Su Yuan's brow.

The underlying permission determination is complete.

The long, grayish-white nail, which could even pierce through the first generation, was now covered with dense green code cracks.

The crack spreads faster than it forms.

One inch.

Half an inch.

The nail tip almost touched the stray hairs on Su Yuan's forehead.

Then it broke.

It wasn't an explosive shattering.

It is a gentle, silent collapse that comes from the inside out.

The kilometer-long, gray-white giant nail transformed into a rain of green code light that filled the sky.

Harmless.

Warm.

The specks of light sprinkled onto Su Yuan's dark gold bone armor, onto the three-colored giant skull of the Devouring Wasteland, and into the void.

It's ridiculously beautiful.

Su Yuan raised his hand and caught a green dot of light.

It stayed in his palm for a second.

Then it dissipated.

next moment.

A deafening roar, which caused the multidimensional universe to wail, came from the deepest part of the Wailing Wall.

The sound didn't sound like an explosion.

It was more like a giant door that had been rusted for countless eons, its hinges being forcibly turned for the first time.

Su Yuan looked down at the control panel in his hand.

A line of green text popped up on the screen.

[Whitelist successfully added]

[Experiment Subject No. 001 - Exempt from Inspection]

[In progress... Opening channel...]

He casually stuffed the control panel back into the storage space.

Raise your head.

In front.

The supposedly insurmountable Wall of Sighs, driven by the highest authority command, developed a vertical crack in its center.

The walls on both sides of the crack began to move.

Slowly.

Heavy.

Accompanied by the creaking sound of the entire universe's underlying framework being stretched open.

The gray-white walls slid to both sides.

A dark and deep data channel gradually appeared in the center of the crack.

The inner walls of the passage are made of pure green code. Zeros and ones cascade down the walls on both sides like a waterfall.

At the end of the passage lay a completely unknown darkness.

Bottomless.

It's endless.

But Su Yuan knew very well.

What he was looking for was in the deepest part of that darkness.

The same moment the passage opened.

An even more striking change occurred on the wall.

The high-dimensional behemoth corpses that covered the entire wall were no longer supported by underlying data.

The grayish-white assimilative force field was extracted from their skeletons.

The first corpse has fallen off.

It remained in its contorted posture from before its death, silently falling from the wall into the void.

Then came the second. The third. The tenth. The hundredth.

It eventually turned into a rain of corpses that lasted for several minutes.

Countless remnants of high-dimensional behemoths spanning eras were stripped off from the Wall of Sighs.

They fell silently.

There was no struggle. There was no screaming.

The last glimmer of vengeful spirit within those empty eye sockets slowly faded as they fell.

It felt like finally receiving some kind of long-awaited relief.

These colossal beings, which once roamed the universe, paid silent tribute to the being that tore open the Wall of Sighs with their final moments.

The engines of the Devourer roared to their maximum power once again.

The pitcher plant's engine is running at full speed.

The three-colored law patterns flashed wildly on the giant beast's body.

The enormous body smoothly entered the dark data channel.

Inside the train carriage.

Xiao Huo slumped in front of the control panel, his arms wrapped around his knees.

He stared out the front window at the inner wall of the passageway made up of green codes.

His lips trembled for a long time.

I can't say anything.

He considered many ways to break through the wall of sighs.

A head-on collision. Devouring. Taking a detour. Forcibly tearing apart with the three-color law. Altering the concept of the wall through creation and evolution.

The only thing he didn't expect was...

Su Yuan directly activated his administrator privileges.

I added myself to the whitelist.

Then the wall opened by itself.

What is this?

Does this count as a breach?

Is this considered a dimensional reduction attack?

No.

This doesn't even qualify as a reduction in dimensionality.

This is called—the administrator uses the main entrance.

You're the Wailing Wall, aren't you?

You think you have infinite thickness?

You can kill higher-dimensional mythical beasts, right?

If you're so capable, try pinning the administrator too.

Wang Hu leaned against the bulkhead, his neck craned back to its limit. He stared at Su Yuan's back for a long time.

Then I closed my eyes tightly for a moment.

Open your eyes again.

The worship and awe they felt were beyond what could be described as mere worship and awe.

That has solidified into a kind of... absolute, reasonless, conditioned reflex-like faith.

He followed the man.

There's no need to be afraid of any wall.

The passage is very long.

The green code flowed silently onto the inner walls on both sides.

The Devourer continued its advance through the tunnel.

The speed wasn't fast.

All that flashed past the window were countless zeros and ones.

About ten minutes later.

The darkness ahead began to change.

A layer of hazy mist surged in from the end of the passage.

It is neither a mist of laws nor an energy body.

Su Yuan leaned closer to the front window.

Her nose twitched.

He smelled an extremely unpleasant odor.

acid.

It smells like acid rain.

The pungent, acidic smell produced by the mixture of industrial waste gas and sulfides.

He was all too familiar.

The fog gradually dissipated.

The Devourer has left the data channel.

Su Yuan saw the outside world.

The blood in his extremities went cold at that moment.

That's not some lofty, divine kingdom.

It's not some ultimate destination that transcends dimensions.

What appeared before him was a huge, gloomy, and dilapidated cyber city.

The gray high-rise buildings stand side by side. Their surfaces are covered with rust and cracks. Countless broken cables hang from between the buildings, swaying in the acid rain.

Most of the neon signs were broken, and the remaining ones that were still lit were crackling with electric sparks.

The streets were deserted.

The puddles reflected a sickly purple light from the sky.

Su Yuan's tricolor vertical pupils shrank to their limit.

He recognized the place.

The layout of the city, the direction of these streets, even the blurry lettering on those tattered GG signs by the roadside.

It was all exactly the same as the city he lived in when he was sixteen.

It's just magnified countless times.

It has become a ruin that stretches to the horizon.

The carriage was eerily quiet.

Everyone was looking out the window, unsure of what to say.

The Devourer slowly entered a wide main road.

The behemoth's size didn't seem out of place in this enlarged city. The skyscrapers were several times taller than the Devourer.

The gray buildings receded into the distance on both sides.

Acid rain fell on the scales, making a soft hissing sound.

Just as the train was passing through an intersection.

Su Yuan heard a voice.

Ring ring ring—

Ring ring ring—

The ringing of an old-fashioned landline telephone.

It came from the roadside.

He turned his head to look.

At the corner of the crossroads.

A dilapidated public telephone booth stood there all alone.

Covered in rust. Half of the glass door was broken.

The coin-operated telephone hanging on the wall inside.

In the deserted ruins.

Under the influence of acid rain.

It kept ringing out, one sound after another.