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Chapter 132 I am the truth of the void.
Lin Ci's voice was soft, yet it was like a thunderclap from the heavens, exploding loudly within Karl's data-driven consciousness core.
An even deeper, deathly silence fell over the study at Death Song Academy.
The invisible force that bound Karl seemed to have never existed.
But Karl knew that he had no chance of resisting in the slightest from beginning to end.
Carl shook his head self-deprecatingly, a smile that was almost tragic appearing on his face, which was composed of data streams.
He believed that Lin Ci was using a more sophisticated method to pronounce his fate.
"Your Excellency, Lord of All Gods, there's no need to comfort me anymore."
“I know that my good days were over the moment I offended you at the Angry Sea last time.”
Karl's voice regained its usual calmness, a composure befitting a top scholar facing ultimate truth.
He raised his eyes and looked at Lin Ci.
"I can tell you the truth."
"Since that time, I have been frantically studying technology, exhausting all the computing power of the Great Clock, trying to find clues about your power, trying to analyze whether you are really as omnipotent as the angelic civilization has spread."
Lin Ci picked up the teacup, gently stroking the warm, smooth surface with his fingertips, without saying a word, but instead casting an intrigued glance at him.
"The results of it?"
"I failed."
Carl's answer was concise and to the point.
"My theories, my technology, and everything I know have reached the pinnacle of this known universe, but I still cannot study even a fraction of what you have to offer."
At this point, a fanatical light suddenly shone in Karl's eyes, which were composed of countless data points.
It was the kind of frenzy that comes with a scholar discovering a new continent.
"After nearly a century, I have finally developed a completely new and cutting-edge theory."
He stared intently at Lin Ci and asked the question that had troubled him for millennia, a question that had even driven him to the brink of a cosmic war.
"I want to ask you, are you from the void?"
Lin Ci paused slightly in the motion of holding the teacup.
He raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"Why do you think so?"
"I took the liberty."
Carl spoke immediately, his tone urgent, as if afraid Lin Ci would misunderstand.
"Perhaps in your world it is not called the void, after all, this term is just my deduction based on existing theories."
"I mean……"
Karl lowered his voice even further, as if touching upon the deepest taboo in the universe.
"Do you come from another world, a world whose physical laws and causal laws we know of are beyond our comprehension and reach?"
The amusement in Lin Ci's eyes gradually turned into approval.
He finally understood.
It turns out that Karl's study of the void was not in pursuit of some so-called ultimate fear.
Rather, it was for the purpose of studying oneself.
In order to understand himself, an existence beyond his comprehension.
He is the one who truly understands Karl's research on the void.
This scholar, obsessed with death and nothingness, attributed his incomprehensible origins to the void.
Translated as—a world that cannot be understood or defined.
This guy is definitely a smart person.
A faint smile slowly crept onto Lin Ci's lips.
“You’re very smart, Carl.”
A simple affirmation.
But it made Karl feel that all those tens of thousands of years of solitary searching had been worthwhile.
He exhaled a breath that was not there, as if a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders.
On that face made of data, a childlike smile of satisfaction, as if he had just discovered the truth, appeared.
As you hear the news, you can die in the evening.
At this moment, even if Lin Ci asked him to turn into dust in the universe immediately, he would have no complaints.
His lifelong pursuit has finally found its answer.
"One last question, Your Excellency, Lord of All Gods."
Lin Ci put down his teacup, gesturing for him to speak.
"If I hadn't crashed into you in the raging sea, would you... still have come looking for me?"
Lin Ci thought for a moment, then gave him a positive answer.
"Because you were one of my targets."
This statement is even more impactful than the affirmation just now.
Upon hearing this, Karl felt even more that the man before him was unfathomable.
It turns out that tens of thousands of years ago, before I had fully formed the theory of "phantom body", I had already been plotted against and become his target.
Karl suddenly laughed.
He knew that he had always been at the forefront of the universe in the field of science and technology, but because of this, he had done many things that were not popular.
Perhaps the universe would be a better place without me.
He closed his eyes and calmly accepted his impending fate.
"I'm fine now, Lord of the Gods."
"You may imprison me now."
Lin Ci chuckled as she looked at his posture of offering his neck for execution.
"I already said, it's not imprisonment."
The moment the words fell.
A cloud of pitch-black mist surged forth from Lin Ci's palm, instantly enveloping Karl's body.
"To bind spirits and dispatch generals."
The four words, cold and devoid of any emotion, echoed in the study.
The black mist completely engulfed Karl's figure.
There was no struggle, no screaming.
Karl's data phantom was like an ice block thrown into a furnace within the black mist.
Even his prized clock was stripped of its "existence" in an instant.
Just moments later.
The black mist receded like the tide, quickly swirling back and disappearing back into Lin Ci's palm.
The study returned to its usual tranquility.
Karl's figure reappeared in the same spot.
He opened his eyes somewhat blankly and looked down at his hands.
The data stream continued to operate smoothly, and the phantom remained intact.
He... still exists.
"Your Excellency, Lord of All Gods, what... what does this mean?"
He looked up at Lin Ci, puzzled.
Isn't it imprisonment?
Why was he released again?
Lin Ci leaned back in his chair, his posture languid, and spoke in a matter-of-fact tone.
"I already told you, I'm not imprisoning you."
He pointed his finger at Karl.
"From now on, you're working for me. Call me boss, understand?"
Carl was completely dumbfounded.
In his database, this word represents an extremely primitive and grassroots subordinate relationship.
This was completely different from his imagination of how gods dealt with mortals.
Lin Ci didn't give him much time to think.
He simply snapped his fingers.
Two barely perceptible beams of light shot out from Lin Ci's eyes and entered Karl's body.
[Spiritual Transformation into Reality]
[Spirit follows initiative]
Karl's body trembled violently!
He sensed a terrifying force, inexplicable by any data or theory, being born out of thin air deep within his body!
That's not the power of technology!