Chapter 299
Unlike the usual A-level abilities that can open spatial rifts for instant teleportation, Ye Bai's mastery of A-level spatial powers has integrated time manipulation, allowing her to traverse distances that rival those of miniature wormholes.
In the same vein, she possesses the ability to trace back through time for precise positioning.
As the spatial rift before her unfolded, the twisted folds of space revealed the outline of a familiar plaza—the very one Ye Bai had glimpsed during her previous time regression.
Even Ye Bai herself was uncertain of her limits; this was not just idle talk.
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Chapter 206
Crossing through the rift in time and space, Ye Bai found herself in the plaza she had seen during her regression.
Everything in the plaza appeared just as she had observed before, unchanged after countless millennia. The molecular structure of the materials seemed to have come to a standstill in this area.
Her gaze fell upon the orb resting atop the central stone pillar.
The orb sat quietly in the center, resembling an ordinary crystal ball.
Like a ghost, Ye Bai descended and stood beside the orb in an instant.
This enclosed plaza was located within a large building, perhaps deep within the lair of the Star Church. Numerous energy sensing devices were present, ensuring that any disturbance in this space would trigger an alarm.
However, Ye Bai's arrival went unnoticed.
When she wished to remain hidden, she could replace all the effects of her actions on the environment with the 'past' that had not been influenced by her.
It was as if a drop of ink, which should have left a mark on a white canvas, was instead covered by an identical layer just as it fell.
In this way, the result was akin to erasing her existence on a physical level.
The only remaining traces on the mental plane could not be detected by those whose mental strength was inferior to Ye Bai's.
Fixated on the orb, Ye Bai extended her mental energy to touch it.
The moment her mental energy made contact with the orb, the scene was entirely different from what she had experienced during her regression.
Instead of the six million rays of light that had previously erupted, the orb before her suddenly sprouted a sinister red dot from its very center, which rapidly expanded, engulfing the entire orb in an instant.
【Detected stowaway! Current coordinates (00.00.00)】
【Detected stowaway! Current coordinates (00.00.00)】
【Detection ongoing…】
The alarm blared continuously, emanating not only from the orb's 'main control console' but also reaching the secondary terminal Ye Bai carried.
Yet, just like with the main control terminal before, the secondary terminal's permissions were too low to identify Ye Bai as a 'stowaway.' It merely relayed the messages mechanically.
Seeing this, Ye Bai's figure began to fade. For a brief moment, she 'blinked' in this universe, and then, as if returning from somewhere, she revealed a peculiar expression.
At the same time, the members of the Star Church received the alarm on their main control terminals.
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In a mysterious area that could never be accessed normally, a mechanical hall of strange design loomed, as large as a planet.
This was the center of the universe, existing since the dawn of creation.
At this moment, all alarm devices outside the mechanical hall were activated.
“Who is it?! Le Lun is dead, and a new main control terminal has been born. How could this happen… No, a stowaway? Could it be from the last time…”
“This coordinate… how is that possible?!”
Inside the mechanical hall, members engaged in various activities halted, their ongoing tasks forgotten as they stared in disbelief at the enemy's coordinates.
For that was the very core of the Star Church. How had the intruder reached there without triggering any alarms beforehand?!
“Beep! Click…”
Not only the active personnel, but also the frozen stasis devices deep within the hall, heavily protected by large weapons and machinery, were activated.
The members of the Star Church, who had been in stasis to prolong their soul's active lifespan, were all forcibly awakened from their slumber.
The 'Elders' who had lived longer, possessing far more knowledge than the new batch of members currently active in the church, were among them.
These bishops, with only a few years of soul lifespan left and high status and experience within the church, scrambled out of their stasis pods, filled with excitement upon receiving news of the stowaway.
The A-level mentalists, whose soul lifespans were nearly at their end, were almost driven mad:
“A stowaway! There really is a stowaway!”
“Eradicating the stowaway allows one to make a request to the Lord… that person’s must be mine!”
The entire Star Church was in turmoil.
This mysterious organization, which had existed since the birth of the universe, was primarily composed of A-level members, with B-level individuals being rare 'newcomers.'
Now, over a million people within the mechanical hall rushed to the coordinates at the fastest speed possible upon receiving the alarm.
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In the circular plaza deep within the mechanical hall, the red orb, while sounding the alarm, also unleashed an attack against Ye Bai.
【Executing gene eradication program…】
Gene eradication?
In the next moment, Ye Bai looked down at her hand.
Now, with the strength to shatter a planet, her hand began to crack, turning into a carbon-like black dust that fell away.
Her body ignored its current strength, experiencing a fundamental genetic collapse.
Indeed, a genetic collapse.
This phenomenon, which would not have occurred even under significant environmental radiation when she was still at F-level, was now happening rapidly under the execution of the 【gene eradication program】.
Even intelligent beings that had undergone extensive mechanical modifications must retain a portion of their genes to preserve their consciousness and mental energy. This method of causing genetic collapse could be completed as long as any genes remained.
“This must be the Star Church's most powerful biological eradication technology…”
Ye Bai raised her hand, observing it melt and fall away into ash.
The petrifying gaze that transformed flesh into stone paled in comparison; the petrifying gaze could still be influenced by the enemy's size and mental strength, while this method could completely disregard that—if there were genes, it could disintegrate.
Having witnessed the Star Church's attack, Ye Bai lifted her disintegrating hand and pressed it against the now crimson orb.
Had she arrived here before surpassing A-level, she would have likely suffered unprecedented injuries or even death.
But in the next moment, as her nearly non-existent wrist reached for the orb, the carbon ash that had fallen to the ground began to rise back up, as if the film were rewinding, returning to its original position and reconstructing her hand.
By the time Ye Bai's palm made contact with the orb, everything was as it had been before.
The most terrifying lethal attack in the eyes of all Star Church members had been neutralized by Ye Bai simply reversing time on her own body.
Gene eradication was a capability of the three-dimensional universe, but her current mastery of time allowed her to step outside the current three-dimensional scale to a certain extent.
However, this experience led Ye Bai to fundamentally reject her previous theory that the real world was a game.
If the real world were a game, then what she was facing now should resemble a 'Great Annihilation' data deletion from the divine realm, rather than a genetic collapse.
Of course, Ye Bai would not act without certainty. After experiencing a brief escape from dimensionality, even if she were truly facing a 'data deletion' scenario akin to the divine realm, she was confident she could handle it.
The current situation was, in fact, much better than she had anticipated.
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【Detected stowaway! Current coordinates (00.00.00)】
The alarm continued. After Ye Bai touched the orb, unlike the main control terminal of Le Lun, the crimson 'main control terminal' before her still had certain anti-theft measures in place, and the information within was not accessible to Ye Bai, only continuously issuing warnings.
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