"You think you can donate my physical frame to your fake void?" I roared, my voice tearing through the freezing white blast. The Philanthropist’s zero-point light was wrapped tight around my ribs, dissolving my denim jacket and turning my chest translucent. I couldn't feel the skin on my arms anymore, but the gold marrow inside my bones was boiling with raw, level 0 human fury. "I told you, kid! I am the Chief Operating Officer of this baseline! You can't distribute an asset that doesn't belong to your ledger!""Your ledger is an artificial construct, Qin Ming!" the Philanthropist shouted back, his peaceful gray robe twisting violently in the white wind as his purple vanity text flared across his chest. He pushed his bare palms closer to my face, his hollow white eyes flashing with a mad, absolute fanaticism. "The void doesn't care about your titles! Your family business is finished! Your body belongs to the absolute distribution pool now! Dissolve!""Ming! Hold onto the axis!" Su Qin

"Get out of the terminal lane, beggar," the heavy corporate security guard barked, slamming his iron-tipped pike straight down onto the polished oak floorboards. The shockwave rattled my leather boots, but my gold marrow didn't flare to protect me. It couldn't. I was a zero-percent asset now."I am the Chief Operating Officer of this building," I said, my voice carrying zero structural weight through the grand foyer of our new family headquarters. "Look at my face, you idiot. I signed your registration ledger yesterday morning.""You?" The guard let out a massive, face-slapping laugh, turning to his partner by the elevator grid. "Hey, Wang! This guy says he owns the ninety thousand sectors! Look at his denim jacket! It’s torn down to the raw pixels! He doesn't even have a level 0 attribute tag on his lapel!""Throw him into the street mud, Zhou," the second guard, Wang, sneered without looking up from his silver tracking screen. "The Board of Directors is holding a primary asset restr

"Fifty-nine seconds left!" Su Qinghe screamed, her fingers digging so hard into my denim jacket that I could feel her nails through the worn fabric. Her silver eyes flared with an intense, frantic light as she held up her graying parchment ledger. "Ming, look at the underlying code lines! It’s not a standard system crash! The central host in the 0th Universe is drawing all the reality-capital back into the core source! It's an automated directory reset!""Long Wu, dump the backup database into the local architecture right now!" I roared, my golden eyes flashing bright as the metallic fire in my marrow struggled against the cold, deadening whistle humming through the walls. "Gao! Can you block the root signal from the central office?""System non-responsive, Chief," Director Gao’s text-to-speech voice crackled from the wall panel, sounding completely distorted, dropping in and out like a broken radio transmission. "The... reboot command... originates from... Root 0... The outer perimet

The screeching vibration of the massive gray rubber eraser ripped through the white void, tearing at my level 0 human skin. I could feel the cold, abrasive friction lines locking up my knees, trying to sand away my very name from the draft page. Trillions of years of my history, my struggles in the 13th Vault, and the family we built were shaking under the pressure of the Draftsman's downward sweep."Ming! Move out of the strike zone!" Su Qinghe screamed, her silver eyes flaring with absolute, wild desperation as she tried to throw her own body between me and the descending block. Her fingers clawed at my denim jacket, trying to pull me backward into the interdimensional caravan. "The eraser code is clearing the local parameters! If that rubber hits your chest, your entire baseline index turns into blank white dust!""Boss! Get your head down!" Long Wu roared, his massive frame launching forward as he swung his heavy iron wrench with everything he had left. The wrench hit the edge of

"Hold the console frame, Qinghe! Don't let your heels lift!" I yelled, my voice cutting through the screeching purple feedback of the Arbiter's shockwave. I slammed my palm against the silver metal of the interdimensional caravan, trying to force my gold marrow fire to anchor us.My boots didn't just slip. The floor beneath us turned into a flashing checkerboard of missing textures. One millisecond I had weight, and the next, my chest violently slammed upward toward the ceiling light."Ming! The ledger metrics are flickering out of bounds!" Su Qinghe shouted, her silver eyes blazing with a frantic, desperate adrenaline as she floated upside down, her fingers locking onto my denim jacket sleeve. "The gravity constant isn't just dropping anymore! Look at the system pop-up on the window pane!"I dragged my eyes toward the reinforced glass. A bright neon-blue window had sliced across the white void, its text pulsing with a cold, mechanical cadence.`[ATTENTION UNAUTHORIZED USER: CORE PHYS