Ren Zhong: "Come."

In the next instant, Ren Zhong's brain once again experienced a scene akin to an information singularity explosion.

However, the massive stream of information converged into 680 million beams, passing through Ren Zhong's brain in an extremely short time, entering the communicator outside, traversing a straight line distance of 150 million kilometers, and reaching the pseudo-network base located underground in Starfire Town.

At the moment Sun Ai "arrived," the hundreds of millions of criminals inside the pseudo-network base finally found liberation, ending their life of sin. Their consciousness completely shattered, resulting in brain death.

As for the other side, Ren Zhong also momentarily lost consciousness.

He did not die; when Sun Ai passed through his brain, he vaguely heard a cracking sound, as if some glass vessel was shattered.

After clarity returned, his consciousness had exited the dual dreamscape with Sun Ai, leaving the ruins of the Nameless City, and appearing directly in front of that massive crystal lattice structure.

At this point, the color distribution of the lattice had undergone a noticeable change. 45% of it was entirely transparent, while the other 55% was the emerald green representing the body of the "Net."

Those emerald green hues boiled and surged like boiling water evaporating in a hot pot.

A portion of the emerald green was greedily trying to enter the other 45% region, but it would quickly boil away once inside.

Then, suddenly, the boiling water froze, indicating that the shutdown process had been completed. The "Net," which had struggled for twenty years, finally found peace, awaiting its demise.

The frozen emerald green began to swiftly melt like snow under the blazing sun.

In just six minutes, the emerald gleam vanished completely, the giant crystal lattice became entirely transparent.

This signified that the "Net's" data had been fully formatted.

The 154,332 "Net," which had ruled Source Star for a millennium, died miserably under the dual attack of its own people's betrayal and enemy's raid.

Before the "Net's" data disappeared completely, Ren Zhong keenly captured a faint transmission of information, causing slight tension.

But after analyzing the characteristics of this information, Ren Zhong's mind was at ease.

This stream signified that the "Net" had utilized external system control to cause molecular vibration through direct control of the information flow, generating some sounds in his surrounding environment.

As long as it wasn't directly contacting the Empire, it's harmless, merely sound waves.

Ren Zhong's mind resonated again with Sun Ai's voice, "Uncle, I'm coming back."

"Okay."

In the next moment, Ren Zhong's consciousness once again fell into a void, as Sun Ai's massive data surged through Ren Zhong's mind, entering the entirely blank crystal lattice structure.

In an extremely short period of time, Ren Zhong once more vaguely heard the sound of glassware shattering as he endured a large influx of data.

He wasn't quite sure why, but there were more pressing matters at hand, no need to delve further.

"Sun Ai, how are things?"

"We succeeded, I've now completely occupied the computational module of the 'Net,' and I've become the new underlying operating system. However, I'm still not familiar with all the functions of the 'Net.' If I were to evolve on my own, it would take a long time. I suggest that Uncle you let the frozen Elders start writing the backup system. Once I've absorbed the backup system entirely, it will effectively shorten the time needed for me to achieve various functions."

Ren Zhong smiled slightly, "You need to rephrase. You shouldn't say achieve various functions, you should say gain various abilities. You are Sun Ai, a person, not a program or a machine."

Sun Ai paused before speaking, "Thank you, Uncle, for the reminder. I do need more time to adapt. The people outside are starting to get restless, Uncle you should communicate with them quickly."

"Hmm."

Thirty seconds later, Ren Zhong exited the brainwave link and opened his eyes.

The light screen behind him slowly dissipated.

Nine frozen Elders seized the chance to open their eyes as well.

However, their eyes were flickering noticeably, seemingly filled with uncertainty and suspicion.

Ren Zhong glanced around, smiled slightly, "You all heard the sound earlier, right?"

The crowd, knowing they couldn't hide, nodded successively.

Ying Feng hesitated before speaking, "Yes, I did hear some things."

Ren Zhong stood up confidently, "That was the 'Net's' last words."

The frozen Elders' hearts trembled, unsure of how to respond.

During this moment, Hua Yuelan had secretly transmitted the 'Net's' last words to him through the superconductive line still embedded in Ren Zhong's neck.

Only four words.

"Ren Zhong is in danger."

Clearly, the 'Net' directly manipulated the information flow to cause precise molecular vibrations and simulate human voice, consuming a significant amount of energy, leading to no more than four words as its last statement.

Yet the meaning was clear, it was issuing a warning.

Ren Zhong's situation suddenly became very delicate.

With his personal strength, he could suddenly rebel and kill the nine frozen Elders.

But this wasn't the best choice.

Even though Sun Ai replaced the "Net," there's another independent brain system above everyone, which is the Tracer's control core. The Tracer's Intelligent Brain Core is another system, hard to break in a short time.

Ren Zhong could kill these nine people easily, but how to extricate himself and still enter the Empire openly is difficult.

Ren Zhong racked his brain, pondering the next plausible argument.

He formed his first argument in his mind. "Do you trust me, this Angel Envoy, or the 'Net' controlled by Pilgrim?"

Ren Zhong didn't express this sentence, instead showing a slightly surprised expression.

As soon as the thought formed, he had a hallucination.

He first "saw" himself forced to kill the nine frozen Elders, and then forced to engage closely with the Ice Sealing Army in space, quickly defeated.

Ren Zhong immediately swallowed his words, rethinking his argument.

"This is Pilgrim's conspiracy."

This was his second argument imagined.

In the next instant, he again had a hallucination.

He "saw" a large-scale war spanning space and also saw Li Yang cruelly dismembering the nine frozen Elders.

Ren Zhong didn't know where these hallucinations were coming from, but he vaguely believed them to be credible.

In any case, he can be resurrected, might as well try?

Thus, he displayed a disdainful sneer, and firmly said, "This is Pilgrim's conspiracy."

After saying this, he didn't further explain nor gave others time to think, only letting them reflect later. He continued, "Ma Zhongfei, you can start writing the backup system, hurry."