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Chapter 129: Operating on a God
The world was no longer marble and glass. The moment the Primal Needle pierced the outer mantle of the Collector, the Savior’s Suite vanished. I wasn't standing on the 100th floor of a skyscraper anymore; I was suspended in a pressurized void of white-hot radiation and crushing gravity."You are a gnat attempting to suture a sun," the Collector’s voice boomed, but it wasn't coming from a mouth. It was a rhythmic pulse of light hitting my brain. "Do you understand the scale of your arrogance, Jiang Hao?""I understand a dying patient when I see one!" I roared back, my lungs burning as the oxygen in my blood began to ionize. "Stop fighting me! Your 'Collector' persona is just a crust, a scab formed over a collapsing singularity. You aren't a bank, you're a Dying Star!""A star does not need a doctor!""This one does! You have a Core Misalignment! Every soul you've 'collected' for eons hasn't been for profit—it’s been fuel to keep your gravity from imploding! You’re starving, and you’re
Chapter 128: The Sovereign’s Auction
The vibration in my hands had returned, a jagged, rhythmic reminder that my time was bleeding out. On the giant monitors above the vault, the citizens of A-City were cheering, their faces flushed with the artificial glow of Fei’s "Sovereign Elixir." They didn't know they were being marinated for a celestial harvest. They didn't know that every drop they swallowed was just adding interest to a debt they could never pay."Luo Bing, get Mei and the Grandmaster to the extraction point," I barked, my voice cracking with the strain of the last surgery. "Now!""And leave you here with the shadows?" Luo Bing gripped his hilt, his eyes darting toward the spot where the Collector had just vanished. "Hao, you’re barely standing. Your DNA is a mess.""I don't need to stand to talk," I snapped. "Go! If the Bank starts the harvest, this entire tower becomes a vacuum. I need you to create a barrier at the base. Use the Spirit-Bone Root I just pulled. It’s the only thing that can dampen the frequency
Chapter 127: The 10-Second Surgery
"9... 8... 7..."The mechanical countdown from the tower’s PA system wasn't just a sound; it was a death knell vibrating through the very marrow of my bones. The False Father’s chest—the man who wore my father’s face—was now a sun about to go supernova. A blinding, crimson heat radiated from his sternum, melting the reinforced steel of the floor beneath his knees."Hao, run! The core is critical!" Luo Bing screamed, shielding his eyes as he tried to drag Jiang Mei toward the elevator."I’m not leaving him!" I roared, my Divine Sight pinpointing the miniature nuclear battery buried beneath the clone’s synthetic ribs. "Mei, stay back! Luo, hold the perimeter!""It’s a suicide mission!" Sovereign Yao’s golden form flickered wildly. "That's a Void-Nuclear hybrid, boy! If you puncture the casing, A-City becomes a crater!""Then I won't puncture it," I hissed. I lunged. My hands, which had been trembling with the Vibration Disease for weeks, suddenly went stone-cold still. I didn't have Qi
Chapter 126: The Anatomy of a Clone
The violet light from the Void-blade seared the air, inches from my throat. I could feel the heat of it, a terminal radiation that promised to turn my DNA into ash. My father’s face—or the mask Fei had grown in a vat—was a mask of cold, mechanical hatred."Hao, move! He’s going to cleave you in two!" Luo Bing’s voice came from somewhere behind a pile of shattered stasis pods, but I didn't move.I couldn't move. Not because of fear, but because of what my Divine Sight was showing me."Jiang Mei," the False Father intoned, his voice a glitching, layered chorus of a thousand dead men. "Collateral secured. Executing Jiang Hao.""Stop!" I screamed, but it wasn't a plea for mercy. It was a command.The blade paused. The construct’s arm jerked, the violet energy flickering. I stepped forward, ignoring the way the Void-shards from the Collector’s tablet were still swirling around Mei. I focused entirely on the man standing in front of me. Through my Divine Sight, the skin of the commander di
Chapter 125: The False Father
The air in the forbidden basement of the GMC turned into an ice-cold slurry of ozone and Void-energy. I stood paralyzed, the Primal Needle gripped in a hand that had finally stopped shaking, but my heart was hammering a rhythm of pure, unadulterated terror. The man in the black commander’s uniform didn't just look like my father. He carried the exact same weight in his shoulders, the same slight squint in his left eye from a lifetime of peering into microscopes. Even the smell was there—the faint, lingering scent of sandalwood and antiseptic."Father?" the word felt like a shard of glass in my throat."Hao, snap out of it!" Sovereign Yao’s new voice boomed, his golden aura flickering as he stepped between me and the squad of Bio-Soldiers. "That thing isn't human! Look at the pulse! There isn't one!"The commander stepped forward, his boots clicking rhythmically on the cold steel floor. He tilted his head, a movement so eerily similar to the way my father used to listen to my childhoo
Chapter 124: The Teacher’s Bargain
The vault was a tomb of blue light and ozone. I gripped the obsidian jar, the glass vibrating in perfect, terrifying sync with my failing nerves. Inside, the golden wisp flared, expanding until the silhouette of an old man in a scholar’s robe pressed against the glass."Sovereign Yao," I whispered, the name tasting like ancient dust. "The first... the one who found the System before the GMC turned it into a corporate weapon.""I didn't find it, boy," the spirit’s voice echoed directly in my marrow. "I birthed it. And look what you’ve done to my child. You’ve let the butchers turn the Divine Healing into a debt-collection agency.""I stitched the world back together!" I roared, my hand jerking so violently I nearly dropped the jar. "I saved the sun!""And you broke your soul to do it," Yao sneered, his golden eyes narrowing. "Typical. A surgeon who thinks his own life is a disposable scalpel. You have the Vibration Disease, Jiang Hao. Your cells are oscillating at thirty-eight hertz. A
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