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"Yes, Not Bad."
"Now, this interface looks much better."
"Welcome to Honkai Impact OS."
Chapter 327 My Cybertron, My Head Maid
Zhou Ye looked at the "Trinity Honkai Body" kneeling on one knee, and the massive fleet behind it that had been completely repainted and had its core system changed. He then looked at his new collection with satisfaction.
Every ship in this fleet is a work of art. Now, they are all mine.
"Master, please give the command."
The voice of the "Trinity Honkai" echoed across the bridge of every warship through a unified communication channel. Its voice was no longer a brutal mixture of the wills of three evil gods, but rather, optimized by the "Honkai OS," it had become calm, efficient, and imbued with absolute obedience.
Zhou Ye stroked his chin, not in a hurry to return to the DXD world.
"Don't go back yet."
He turned to look at Orpheus behind him. The little girl was still covering her eyes, but she was peeking through her fingers, her body still trembling slightly.
"Come on, I'll take you to a nice place."
Zhou Ye issued his first command to the "Trinity Honkai Entity".
"Open a teleportation channel to the core of the EXE world. Target: the highest-level prison where the Virgin Mary is imprisoned."
"Yes, my master."
Purple data streams cascaded through the eyes of the "Trinity Honkai Entity." It raised its massive arm and slashed it violently across the void in front of it.
Space is like an unzipped zipper.
A magnificent stargate, made of pure data and shimmering with purple light, appeared out of thin air.
On the other side of the stargate, the eternal silence of the dimensional rift is no longer present.
It is a... world.
A world made of steel and circuits.
Zhou Ye, holding Orpheus's small hand, stepped into the star gate. The sight before them made even the Infinite Dragon God, who was used to all kinds of mythical wonders, gasp in surprise.
There is no sky, no land, no ocean.
As far as the eye could see, there was an endless torrent of steel. Colossal mechanical structures, like inverted mountains, were connected by billions of luminous energy conduits. The ground was paved with metal plates precise to the atomic level, upon which flowed rivers of blue data. Below the city lay a bottomless canyon, where countless robotic arms were assembling new war machines, sparks flying like stars.
The entire world was silent, devoid of any sound of life. Only the hum of machinery and the hiss of surging electricity intertwined to create a cold yet magnificent symphony.
"Tsk tsk tsk, this place reminds me of Cybertron." Zhou Ye looked around with great interest and exclaimed sincerely.
"Ye... what is Cybertron?" Orpheus looked up curiously, holding Zhou Ye's hand tightly. This cold world made her feel extremely uncomfortable, and only the warmth from her palm could reassure her.
“A classic work I watched when I was a child,” Zhou Ye explained with a smile. “It’s a planet full of mechanical lifeforms, where the inhabitants are divided into Autobots and Decepticons, fighting each other all the time. It’s exactly the same as here.”
Of course, there is only one faction in Cybertron right now.
The Honkai faction.
"Alright, sightseeing is over, time to get down to business."
Zhou Ye's mind raced. As the highest authority holder in this world, the entire EXE world was like a hard drive on his computer to him. And the Virgin Mary was just a special file stored in a certain folder.
"Locate the Virgin Mary and move her prison to my presence."
The order is issued.
The whole world responded.
Tens of thousands of light-years away, a black pyramid suspended in the center of a sea of data instantly disintegrated into countless nanoparticles. The next second, these particles traversed the distance of space and recombine before Zhou Ye.
A transparent cage, shimmering with a ghostly blue energy field, appeared out of thin air.
Inside the cage, a phantom, almost vanished female soul is pierced by countless data chains and fixed in mid-air.
She is the Virgin Mary.
Her consciousness was already blurred, and the flame of her soul was as dim as a candle flickering in the wind.
Zhou Ye glanced at the chains. Each of these chains was connected to a core database of the EXE world, constantly extracting her concepts of "life" and "divinity," attempting to analyze and format them.
For the former EXE Empire, this was the highest level of imprisonment.
But for Zhou Ye right now...
He reached out and snapped his fingers lightly at the cage.
Snapped.
Those complex data chains, formed by the laws of the world and powerful enough to bind even gods, were as if they had encountered the highest-level "delete" command. In an instant, they turned into countless specks of light and vanished without a trace.
The energy field that bound Maria also shattered.
Without support, Mary's frail soul slumped downwards.
With a casual gesture, Zhou Ye sent a gentle force to support her and place her steadily on the metal floor in front of him.
A massive amount of pure life energy, mixed with a trace of the divinity of the Herrscher of the End, was injected into her soul by Zhou Ye.
Maria's shattered soul, like parched earth receiving rain, began to recover at a visible pace. Her consciousness slowly awakened from the chaos.
When she opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was the man who had spoken to her amidst the deluge of data.
And... behind him, an indescribable mechanical kingdom filled with absolute order and icy beauty.
Maria's lips moved; she knew this man had saved her. He had truly done it. He had overthrown a pantheon.
However, she didn't immediately thank him, nor did she ask where she was. Struggling, she used the last of her strength to ask urgently, "Helena... my best friend, how is Helena?"
Looking into her anxious and sincere eyes, Zhou Ye's expression softened.
"Don't worry, Helena is doing very well. When I dealt with those three metal lumps, I also cleaned out the source of contamination from her body. She should be lively and energetic now." He paused, then added in a relaxed tone, "Besides, there shouldn't be any powerful enemies in the DXD world right now, so you can rest assured."
“Should?” Maria keenly caught the word.
“Yes, the Three Mechanical Evils have been incorporated into my forces, and their lackey, Rahu Qiyao, has become dust of the past. The entire EXE Mechanical Empire is now my property, and theoretically, there will be no more threats.” Zhou Ye shrugged, with an expression that said, “Things have been perfectly resolved.”
However, reality always likes to slap you in the face when you least expect it.
The moment he finished speaking, a communication bracelet on his wrist, made of Rias's magic and which usually only emitted a faint red light, suddenly started flashing wildly and emitting a piercing alarm!
Zhou Ye raised an eyebrow.
This is the highest level of emergency communication.
He activated the bracelet, and Rias's stunningly beautiful face appeared as a holographic projection. However, her usual composure and charm were gone, replaced by tear stains and unconcealed panic.
"Ye! Where are you?!" Rias's voice trembled with fear, even sounding like a sob. "The world is going to be destroyed! There's... there's a terrifying mechanical monster! He calls himself Ketu Haitian, he... he's wreaking havoc here!"
The background of the scene was shaking violently, accompanied by deafening explosions and the roar of colliding energies.
“Zeus, Poseidon, Hades… the Olympian gods tried to stop him, but… they were killed in an instant! Even their divine status was devoured by that monster! Brother… brother also…” Rias’s voice choked with sobs, as if she didn’t even have the strength to continue.
For the first time, Zhou Ye's face darkened.
"Don't rush, Rias, tell me slowly. What exactly happened?"
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“Brother…” Rias finally broke down, tears streaming down her face. “To protect our retreat, my brother… he was also killed by that monster…!”
"what?!"
Zhou Ye's pupils suddenly contracted.
This is impossible!
In his calculations, he had completely taken control of the EXE world's main system; all combat units and command centers had been overwritten by the "Honkai OS." The entire Mechanical Empire was like a computer that had been formatted and reinstalled; no program could bypass his permissions and operate on its own!
Just then, Helena's hurried and weak voice came from the other side of the communication screen.
"Ye! It's Beast King 666! It's Trihexa!"
Helena's face was pale, clearly indicating that she had also been through a fierce battle, but her eyes were unusually clear.
"Before the invasion, the EXE Empire had been trying to corrupt and control the sealed Beast King with their technology! This process was originally proceeding slowly, but the moment you erased the Seven Luminaries of Rahu and reverse-infiltrated their main system, it seems to have triggered some kind of out-of-control chain reaction! The corruption program went completely berserk!"
"The Beast King's infinite and destructive nature, combined with the EXE Empire's logic of recording and formatting, has undergone an unpredictable and malignant fusion! It is no longer simply the Beast King, nor simply a mechanical life form! It has become... a completely new collection of bugs that is not controlled by any system!"
Zhou Ye clenched his fist tightly.
He got it.
He hacked EXE Empire's main server, but he didn't have time to deal with the virus program that was "installing locally" and infecting the Beast King. As a result, when the main server crashed, this local program lost its superior command and, under the catalysis of the Beast King's enormous energy and chaotic nature, it evolved and mutated into a monster that no one could control.
It's like a technician reinstalling the company's operating system but forgetting that there's a supercomputer outside the company undergoing a viral upgrade, which is not connected to the internet.
Now, the computer is upgraded and it's gone crazy.
"Damn it!" Zhou Ye cursed under his breath, his face full of regret for his miscalculation.
This was no longer an oversight; it was a fatal flaw that had been deliberately exposed in his otherwise perfect plan.
"Wait for me!" Zhou Ye said firmly into the communicator.
"I'll bring Maria back right away! You do everything you can to hold it off, and remember, survival is the most important thing!"
After saying that, he decisively cut off the communication.
The entire steel world resonated with a low murmur because of his emotional fluctuations.
"Master." The magnificent body of the Trinity Honkai entity bowed slightly, awaiting new instructions.
Zhou Ye raised his head, the ease and comfort in his eyes completely gone, replaced by an unprecedented coldness and sharpness.
"All fleets, engine power overloaded by 300%! Target: DXD world coordinates!"
"Trinity Honkai Entity, as the vanguard, tear open the fastest dimensional portal for me!"
"Also..." He turned to look at the Virgin Mary, who had just recovered but whose face had turned pale upon hearing the bad news, "Mary, your power will be very useful in the future. Prepare for battle."
Maria looked into Zhou Ye's eyes, which seemed to be burning with purple flames, and nodded heavily.
Her homeland is being ravaged, and her followers are dying.
She had no time to be sad, nor time to be confused.