Hu Na happily waved goodbye as Gu Ya watched her walk towards the training building. He smiled and waved back, urging her to go up quickly.
After seeing Hu Na off, Gu Ya strode towards a garbage-strewn alley, silently chanting, "I will assimilate with this world!"
His true intentions conflicted with his spoken words, and a void of consciousness rapidly formed.
A two-dimensional black square, about ten square centimeters and zero thickness, materialized beside him. Without hesitation, Gu Ya reached into the black square, but his hand did not emerge from the other side.
When he withdrew his hand from the black square, he was holding two brand-new mobile phones.
After vigilantly scanning his surroundings for a while, Gu Ya breathed a sigh of relief, murmuring, "Yes, using the void of consciousness can indeed evade Hei Yang."
He found a second-hand phone shop and exchanged the phones for ten thousand yuan at 95% of the market price. Gu Ya chuckled self-mockingly, "I never expected my first pot of gold after graduation to come from selling phones."
Leaving a few thousand yuan for Hu Na and a note stating he would disappear for a few days, Gu Ya took a car out of the city to a vast, desolate area filled with unfinished buildings.
This area, uninhabited for kilometers around, was perfect for battling Hei Yang.
Hei Yang was not easy to find, but Gu Ya had no intention of searching blindly. Luring it out to kill it was the best method.
Chanting the words "Star Blueprint" and "Code Manipulation" in his mind, the entire area was stripped of its surface, revealing its "bloody" truth. The ground, sky, and even the air turned a deep black, with vertical lines of fluorescent green code appearing all around.
Gu Ya felt as if he were submerged in an ocean of data streams, with a nebulous world of code surrounding him from all directions.
As expected, once Gu Ya unfurled his digital domain, Hei Yang's code immediately appeared.
It resembled a mass of perpetually indistinct grayish-white mist, hovering at the edge of the fluorescent green code ocean, hesitant to enter.
A faint smile played on Gu Ya's lips as he steadily walked towards Hei Yang.
Hei Yang did not retreat as Gu Ya approached; instead, it remained stationary, awaiting his arrival.
Its appearance was peculiar, as if perspective had no effect on it. Regardless of the distance, it always appeared as a humanoid mist, about a person's height.
When Gu Ya was a few meters away from Hei Yang, he stopped and calmly stated, "You've caused me a lot of trouble these past few days."
The mist on Hei Yang churned outward from its center, as if being blown from behind with a hairdryer. It remained silent, not uttering a word.
"Mute?" Gu Ya said indifferently. "Weren't you disguised as Liu Feng to trick me a few days ago? Go on."
After a few seconds of silence, Hei Yang finally spoke. Its voice sounded as if it were being strangled and muffled by several layers of thick masks, deep, sluggish, and without echo: "Creation, Desire, Time, Cognition."
The moment Hei Yang finished speaking, Gu Ya’s face contorted, and he lunged forward with clenched fists!
As his fists drew closer, layers of hard steel armor and energy conduits rapidly materialized, attaching to his hands and arms. A mechanical iron fist, thicker than his waist, spewed white steam and slammed heavily into Hei Yang.
Hei Yang was sent flying back several meters.
This tangible sense of impact excited Gu Ya!
Physical combat was viable!
Large areas of green code suddenly appeared around Hei Yang. Only a small portion of the ground beneath Hei Yang remained solid, making it an island in this sea of code.
Before Hei Yang could escape, Gu Ya, clad in exceptionally strong exoskeleton armor, charged forward, pressing a hand onto Hei Yang's "head."
"GET OUT OF MY WORLD!!!"
Gu Ya yelled each word, his fist striking down with each syllable, smashing the solidified ground beneath Hei Yang into code.
Feeling Hei Yang reverse the flow of time, making one second equivalent to 230 seconds, Gu Ya's rage intensified. His hands transformed into green code ropes, binding Hei Yang firmly. He quickly retreated a couple of steps, his eyes filled with murderous intent, and slammed his hands downwards in the air!
A colossal mecha foot materialized above Hei Yang's head and stomped down heavily!
As soon as the mechanical giant foot vanished, a massive Khorne appeared in the code sky. Countless green code missiles, trailing an infinite number of code tails, all struck Hei Yang.
There was no explosion or fiery blast; instead, it was like a boulder falling into an ocean of green code, stirring up a tempest of splashing code.
Khorne suddenly disappeared, and Gu Ya, wearing full metal armor with six mechanical arms, dive-bombed rapidly. Each mechanical arm wielded a lightsaber composed of green code, slashing ferociously at Hei Yang.
Hei Yang, lying on the ground, was now difficult to describe. The gray mist seemed to have sunk into the earth, heavily stained by the black background and green code. Its body had shattered into ten thousand fragmented pieces.
Gu Ya used his lightsaber to flick up a piece of Hei Yang's remains and slowly said, "Aren't you going to fight back? Or are you scared?"
With a flick of his lightsaber, he sent Hei Yang's remains flying over ten meters away. Gu Ya squatted down, grabbed a piece from the ground, and said faintly, "Code Manipulation!"
Within the black background panel, black strips scrolled rapidly. Gu Ya knew they were codes, but he couldn't decipher them.
Just then, the piece of Hei Yang's remains in his hand suddenly vanished. All the fragments stained within the black space rapidly coalesced, reassembling into Hei Yang's original form.
Instantly, everything around became pitch black, with only Gu Ya emitting a faint white glow!
Hei Yang was counterattacking!
"I will completely assimilate with this world! Become the vessel for Hei Yang!!!" Gu Ya roared loudly.
Feeling an icy chill suddenly descend upon him, Gu Ya, unafraid, activated his leg jets and charged forward, disappearing into the pitch-black space as if drilling into a wormhole.
When the surroundings became solid again, and gentle sunlight once more bathed the land, Gu Ya stood on the ground, glanced around, and walked away.
Back home, Gu Ya put the thousands of yuan from the table into his pocket and burned the note he had left for Hu Na.
The sun had already set, and it was time to pick up Nana from work.
Taking a ride-hailing car, Gu Ya arrived at the base of Hu Na's training building.
"Honey!" Hu Na exclaimed, waving her hand happily, like a gentle and cute kitten, and pounced into Gu Ya's arms.
"What should we eat tonight?" Hu Na asked with a sweet smile.
Gu Ya looked at Hu Na expressionlessly and said, "Eat... eat... money..."
Hu Na waved her hand in front of Gu Ya's face, and his eyeballs darted left and right with her hand, eerily.
"Hey! What's wrong with you?" Hu Na asked, startled. "You look so strange, Gu Ya, don't scare me!"
Gu Ya pulled a wad of bills from his pocket and stuffed it into Hu Na's hands, stammering, "Money... money... here's money for you..."
Hu Na was startled and pushed Gu Ya away, asking, "Where did you get this money from!?"
Suddenly, Gu Ya's face began to contort, as if several worms were wriggling beneath his skin. His eyeballs suddenly burst, falling onto the ground.
The people around, terrified by the bloody and horrifying sight, quickly fled. Hu Na screamed and fell backward.
Gu Ya's small figure appeared in Hu Na's horrified eyes. His head suddenly exploded, and a new Gu Ya head grew out from it.
The newly grown Gu Ya head roared menacingly, its neck suddenly expanding to be as wide as its shoulders. Two bloody arms tore through its neck and emerged, gripping its bleeding shoulders and pushing with force!
A red Gu Ya, soaked in blood, emerged from Gu Ya's body!
"Ha... ha... ha..." The newly emerged Gu Ya, looking at the pool of blood that was Gu Ya on the ground with intense killing intent, roared, "Yuyin! Parasitic Type!"
White light flared from the bloody Gu Ya, and within the white light, Gu Ya's body was covered in hard metal armor.
A two-meter-tall miniature mecha appeared, two incredibly sharp beam swords suddenly igniting in its hands. Without a word, it charged towards the pool of blood on the ground!