Chapter 166 Perfection

Yu Zhongji Chang sat powerlessly on the ground, raising his eyes to look around.

At this moment, on the ravaged battlefield, less than five hundred players remained, scattered in various locations. More than ninety percent of them were already injured from the battles within the game space, and one hundred percent had depleted nearly half of their stamina.

Faced with Infinite's near-invincible defense and incomprehensible offensive capabilities, the players had largely lost their fighting spirit, including Yu Zhongji Chang himself.

But... some were still persevering.

When Link rushed towards Xiao Tan, Shiva, Young Master Atobe, Cai Bupa Ne, and Bu Tiange charged forward together, holding off that round of attacks for him.

In addition, Kuang Zong Jian Ying, Xiao Wen Cang Tian, Xu Huai Shang, and Xue Qiangwei had not given up after landing. They were all trying to get close to Infinite, seeking an opportunity to kill the monster.

"Hmm... It's not so convenient to deal with them when they're scattered." After snapping his fingers and releasing a few more sonic grenades, Infinite looked around, considered for about a second, and then made his next decision: "I guess I'll use 'that.'"

With this thought, Infinite plummeted like a shooting star, instantly landing on the ground and raising both arms horizontally to his sides.

What he was about to do was... release a continuous beam of energy from each palm, extending at least ten kilometers outwards, then hold his arms level and rotate one hundred and eighty degrees on the spot.

One had to know... this white space was not Earth; the ground here had no curvature or elevation differences. Once Infinite successfully executed this move, every standing player within a ten-kilometer radius who was taller than one meter sixty would be cut in half.

Fortunately... in that split second, someone discerned his intention and reacted.

"Luohua... Feixu!" (Falling Flower... Drifting Catkins!)

In an instant, Xu Huai Shang's lithe figure arrived swiftly, both swords drawn simultaneously.

Flowers bloomed and withered, catkins flew and fell.

The dazzling sword dance was like a whirlwind of cherry blossoms, tearing Infinite's upper body into shreds, leaving nothing behind.

"Hmph hmph hmph..." However, just as Xu Huai Shang finished her attack, Infinite had already regenerated, emitting a sinister, strange laugh.

"What's going on?"

"So fast?"

"Impossible..."

The three who had charged in with Xu Huai Shang also wore horrified expressions, because Infinite's self-healing ability had clearly increased again, and by a significant amount...

"Hmph hmph... Hehehe... Hahahahahaha!" A few seconds later, Infinite's strange laughter turned into mad laughter. "Stupid humans! Haven't you noticed yet?"

Before the words were finished, he twisted his body and unleashed a fierce punch, the force of the blow striking Xiao Wen Cang Tian, who was several meters away.

The speed of this punch clearly exceeded Xiao Wen Cang Tian's expectations, and it was too late to dodge. He relied solely on his combat instincts, raising his hands and crossing them in front of his body to protect himself.

Then, his upper body disappeared...

Although the part of him below his abdomen remained standing in a stance with his knees slightly bent and his waist aligned, his body had been blasted into nothing by that violent shockwave.

"Ah!" Kuang Zong Jian Ying roared in response, his killing intent breaking through his limits with the surge of anger. "You bastard..."

It was normal for Jian Shao, a young man full of vigor, to curse a few times when his anger flared up.

"I'll send you on your way!" While shouting, he overspent his stamina and spiritual energy, forcibly executing the final form of the Nine Suns Divine Art—【Jiuyang Liaoyu】 (Nine Suns Scorch the Universe).

But Infinite was faster than him...

"Useless!" In the blink of an eye, Infinite dismissed Jian Shao's attack and met it with a wave of his arm.

When the two forces collided, a firestorm erupted, engulfing Jian Shao and Infinite together.

Xu Huai Shang and Xue Qiangwei, who had been standing nearby, sensed that something was wrong a moment earlier and quickly retreated from the area.

About five seconds later, the flames of the firestorm dissipated in a wave of heat.

Two charred figures stood in the positions they had held before the firestorm. One of them... quickly turned into white light and vanished; while the other... recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"I think I understand..." At this moment, an undisguised look of horror appeared on Xue Qiangwei's face, and she murmured, "He's evolving..."

"Finally noticed?" Infinite picked up the thread and laughed madly again, "Hahahahahaha..." The laughter was so insane that it was hard to imagine it coming from a Derivative. "Each time I withstand a high-intensity attack, my defense and self-healing abilities strengthen, because my genetic code wants to 'adapt' to that kind of damage; each time I fight an opponent faster than me, I become faster and faster, because my genetic code wants to 'adapt' to their speed; and whenever my attacks fail to break through a certain defense, my power becomes stronger and stronger, because my genetic code wants to 'adapt' to the strength of that defense."

He spread his hands, his face contorted with a sneer, and continued, "From single-celled to multicellular, from invertebrates to reptiles, and then to mammals... Tracing back to the source, you humans are just a group of monkeys that are slightly ahead on the path of evolution. But I... am completely different from you; what takes you tens of thousands or even millions of years to complete, takes me only a moment."

He consciously projected his voice far and wide, so that every player in this space could hear him.

"Because... I am the perfect being," he declared in a tone of announcement. "I represent infinity."

"No one can stop me anymore... Tonight, I will break through this dimension, break through this bottleneck that has hindered me for so long..." He clenched his fists and嚣张接道, "After I cut off all of your 'nerve links' and destroy all of your consciousnesses, my consciousness will take over all of your bodies... You will have the honor of becoming the first carriers for me to operate in higher dimensions."

"Hey, hey... What is this guy talking about? I don't understand."

"Don't... Don't worry, it's just a plot setting in the game. Meng Corporation wouldn't let an out-of-control program brainwash the players, would they..."

"But... We really can't force ourselves to log off right now."

"We haven't been able to contact the people who died either..."

"At midnight, I already couldn't feel my body in the real world..."

"Now that I think about it, everything that happened today is very strange..."

Infinite's declaration made the players uneasy. Although most of them still didn't completely believe or understand his words, an atmosphere of suspicion and fear was definitely spreading.

"Don't worry, I will use your bodies well." Infinite's words were not finished yet. "Each of you will be an unwavering fighting force, labor force, and experimental subject, and can even serve as a breeding machine when necessary." The content of his speech became more and more terrifying. "The development of brain potential, the reshaping of genetic code, and the research on the assimilation of the human body with electronic devices... I will ensure that those technologies in human society that have been stagnating due to narrow, nihilistic moral views achieve the most efficient progress. I will conquer all the evolutionary difficulties in this dimension, conquer your dimension, and become the strongest being that even the universe itself cannot destroy... Then, I will advance to the next dimension."

Listening to Infinite's narration, even Link's eyes flashed with a strange light. He couldn't help but think to himself, "Wait... Isn't our plan to have our Derivative comrades jointly take over human bodies? How did it become his consciousness taking over them alone..."

"So, foolish humans... Wake up!" Infinite didn't know what Link was thinking, and he continued, "You are hindering a great cause that is hard to describe in words, trying to stop 'inevitable' destiny..." His voice turned into a hysterical sob, "Too ignorant! Too hateful! It's driving me crazy!" The sob turned into a roar, "Just hurry up and die! Die!"

Before the roar faded, his ultimate move was unleashed.

In that instant, his eyes once again burst forth with a cyan light, piercing and annihilating everything in a line in front of him.

Then, he did a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree turn on the spot, conducting a circular sweep of all the players within a thousand meters...