Deposed? I couldn't be happier! I wouldn't even be a dog to the crown prince.

The alarm sounded like a rough steel saw, shattering the tranquility of the Taiji Hall.

The Guanzhong Plateau on the radar screen turned a blinding scarlet red in milliseconds.

This red light is not a code error.

It is a real physical geological fault early warning system.

Li Shimin's laughter sound was stuck in his throat.

His nerves, which had just relaxed due to the sudden realization, tensed up instantly.

"What's going on?"

The old emperor leaned on the table, staring intently at the red patch that spread across the screen like blood vessels.

Is an earthquake about to hit Chang'an?

Inside a safe house in Hawaii.

Li Chengqian's ten fingers left afterimages on the keyboard.

Lines of detection code scrolled across the screen like a waterfall.

He had no time to pay attention to the old man; his eyes were so sharp they looked like he wanted to devour him.

"It's not an earthquake."

Li Chengqian gritted his teeth, his voice filled with a chilling coldness.

"It's an electromagnetic pulse overload."

"Someone is draining the underground backup power grid of the entire Guanzhong Plain."

Outside Chang'an City.

Qinling Mountains, deep within the Zhongnan Mountains.

As dawn broke, the morning mist in the mountains had not yet dissipated.

The once quiet deep forest suddenly became restless.

The superconducting backbone copper wire buried deep underground is used to connect major military bases.

It began to emit a low-frequency humming sound.

hum-

The sound was almost inaudible to the human ear.

But it triggered an instinctive panic in the biological nervous system.

In the woods.

Flocks of birds took flight like headless flies.

Wild boars and black bears, beasts that haven't fully woken up from hibernation, rushed out of their caves with red eyes.

In a panic, they ran wildly towards the outside of the mountain.

The wild animals throughout the Qinling Mountains were terrified by this eerie low-frequency vibration.

The Imperial Academy of Sciences of the Tang Dynasty.

The third underground restricted area.

This place is perpetually dark, with more than a dozen seals affixed to the iron gate.

Inside are artifacts from the pre-existing era before the establishment of the Tian Shu system.

A first-generation giant steam supercomputer unit, reaching a height of fifty meters.

Because of its inefficiency and severe pollution, this old machine was physically seized three years ago.

There was no coal, and no high-pressure steam.

It should have been a pile of rusted scrap metal.

But now.

In the deathly silent basement, the heavy sound of gears meshing suddenly rang out.

Click, click.

It did not ignite.

The enormous boiler began to heat up inexplicably, defying the laws of physics.

Thick, black steam billowed from the large exhaust pipes.

On the outer casing of the generator unit.

The rusty dials lit up one after another.

This is not normal blue light.

Instead, it exuded a sinister, filthy black-red computing power glow.

"They've gone mad... all those remnants have gone mad."

Wu Meiniang pushed open the door to the side hall of the Taiji Hall and strode in.

The high heels clicked rapidly on the white marble floor tiles.

She was clutching an encrypted report that she had just intercepted from the dark web.

"Your Highness, you are the remnants of public losers."

Wu Meiniang looked at Li Chengqian on the big screen, her tone urgent.

"Last night you pulled the power switch and smashed all the Changsheng server racks."

"Those black market bosses who didn't have time to complete the upload, their dreams of immortality have been completely shattered."

She swallowed.

"Utter desperation drove them to initiate the final destruction program."

"They bypassed the firewall of Tian Shu and forcibly activated the first-generation steam engine that had been sealed off."

"We are extracting electrical energy from the Qinling Mountains' veins, using it as a giant physical amplifier."

Li Chengqian paused for a moment while typing.

"What are they trying to do?"

"perish together."

Wu Zetian's voice trembled slightly.

"They want to preserve the remaining consciousness of those burned, mutilated immortals..."

"Including a high-frequency destructive virus called 'Feathering'."

"Through that first-generation unit, it was indiscriminately stuffed into the brains of every citizen of the Tang Dynasty wearing a brain-computer interface helmet."

A monitoring station on the banks of the Wei River outside Chang'an City.

A monitor wearing a radiation protection suit slumped on a monitoring platform covered in mud and water.

He was trembling all over, holding a tactical tablet in his hand.

On the radar chart of the flat panel.

A massive, breathtaking stream of data is surging forth from the depths of the Qinling Mountains.

This data stream appears in a strange form on the radar.

It looks like a venomous snake covered in black and red tumors.

It is expanding rapidly, following the copper wires underground, heading straight for various civilian network nodes in Chang'an City.

"Sir...it's alive..."

The monitor screamed into the walkie-talkie, his voice filled with despair.

"It treats the physical power grid like a neural network...it's going to devour reality!"

Inside the Taiji Hall.

Li Shimin gasped.

He had just realized the importance of living in reality.

Are these lunatics going to drag reality into hell?

"This is Chang'an, the capital city!"

"There are over a million people in the city, and they don't even spare the common folk?"

"In the eyes of a madman, all beings are equal."

Li Chengqian's eyes were terrifyingly cold.

He stared at the screen.

The massive leakage of electricity in the Qinling Mountains is intensifying.

That first-generation steam supercomputer, running at breakneck speed, was like a water pump.

They are transforming the physical energy of the entire Guanzhong Plain into a devastating spiritual virus.

Just then.

The Tian Shu system connects all the public holographic projection screens in the streets and neighborhoods of Chang'an City.

Suddenly, they both started flashing.

Everyday GG, news, and price lists were all forcibly deleted.

There is no image on the screen.

There was only a depressing, deathly grayness.

Accompanied by a piercing electrical hum.

On the gray screen.

Slowly, several pale, distorted characters materialized.

The font was still seeping out black code residue.

That was the final ultimatum issued by the madman of the Gongshu family to the entire Cyber ​​Tang Dynasty.

Since the physical body cannot be discarded, the path to immortality is blocked.

[Citizens of the Great Tang Dynasty, today you ascend to heaven with me!]