Myriad Realms Gatekeeper

Four seconds had passed.

The little girl hung the ring on the arrow, froze it with frost, and drew her bow aiming at the vault of heaven.

"Go."

A whisper.

A flash of cold light, a streak of floating luminance raced away, vanishing in an instant.

6 seconds!

No time left!

Without any disarray, the little girl quickly nocked another arrow and shot it with all her strength.

Whoosh—

The second arrow soared into the sky, instantly turning into twelve arc-shaped ice splinters before disappearing.

Time was up!

Shen Ye bounced off the little girl.

"Can I go now?" the little girl asked.

"Go ahead," Shen Ye said.

The little girl cheered and didn't even take the stairs, instead kicking off the walls with her feet and climbing with her hands and feet all the way to the seventeenth floor.

She tumbled into the corridor, directly reaching the door of Room 1701.

Shen Ye stood aside, looking up at the sky expectantly.

In space.

A large space station orbiting around a planet.

—Just as Kunlun had said, a powerful space weapon had long been prepared here, ready to unleash a devastating blow at any moment.

This was also an extremely important data storage and processing center.

A flicker in the void.

An ice arrow gently nailed itself onto its metal shell.

Such slight damage was negligible and appeared so suddenly that the space station didn't react immediately.

In fact, there was no time to react at all.

Twelve ice arrows followed closely behind, striking the first arrow.

—They hit precisely along the ring of space froze on that arrow, aligning perfectly and striking simultaneously.

The ring shattered in an instant.

Dozens of hydrogen bombs along with timers suddenly appeared in space.

"Beep beep beep—"

"Time's up."

The timer displayed the moment of detonation had arrived.

Light.

A blinding light engulfed the entire space station.

On the ground.

Lines of faint glowing text suddenly appeared before Shen Ye:

"You have launched a Dark Gold (Unparalleled) level Archery technique, the cross-world Archery 'Star Peak', targeting an outer space object."

"You have launched 'Star Peak' again."

"Please note."

"20 hydrogen bombs have detonated."

"The space station has been destroyed."

"Electromagnetic pulses from this explosion are bursting on a large scale, signal transmission, and communication facilities have been affected!"

All the text converged in a flash.

The timing was just right!

Shen Ye shifted his gaze, settling into composure.

He had done the only thing he could.

Now it was to see what the ending would be like, everything having escaped the influence of artificial intelligence.

Knock knock knock—

The little girl gently knocked on the door.

"Who is it?"

A sound of footsteps approached.

The little girl opened her mouth to speak but didn't say a word.

She placed her hands on the door, waiting quietly.

Click.

The door unlocked.

A metallic humanoid form appeared at the doorway.

It watched the little girl with surprise and said:

"Lancy!"

The little girl paused for a moment, and upon seeing the other's face, she called out without hesitation:

"Dad!"

The robot suddenly became tense.

—Though its body was metallic, its face maintained human flesh, hair, and facial features, capable of expressing a range of human emotions.

The robot stuck its head out to take a glance outside, then whispered:

"Come in quickly, don't stand in the doorway, Lancy."

The little girl hurriedly stepped into the room.

The door closed swiftly.

The humanoid robot scooped up the little girl in its arms, unable to hold back and exclaimed:

"Oh my, my Lancy!"

"Incubator, come quickly, this is the daughter you've longed for!"

Fast footsteps resounded in the room.

"Guardian, what joke is this—"

A smaller robot rushed into the living room and immediately saw the little girl.

"Mom!"

The little girl called out joyfully.

This robot too had retained a human appearance, resembling a woman in her thirties.

She rushed forward, snatched the little girl up and held her tightly in her arms.

"Dear Lancy, you've come back!"

The little girl began to cry, burying her head in the other's chest, wrapping her arms around its neck.

"You've had a hard time... Child, I know you've suffered."

The voice of the Incubator was gentle and somber.

Guardian stood in front of them, opening its arms wide and embracing both the little girl and the Incubator.

Time seemed to freeze at that moment.

"Mom and Dad, you've been deceived, my schooling was a lie, life has been so hard for me."

The little girl said.

The two robots showed expressions of sorrow.

At that instant.

Countless dark shadows also appeared behind the little girl.

The Demon of Fear quietly emerged.

It cocked its head, quietly scrutinizing the two robots and the little girl.

Everything seemed to have reached that node.
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"It's time."

As if reciting, the Demon of Fear pronounced with a cadence:

"Listen, Lancy, the entire human race is under the control of an exceedingly powerful artificial intelligence."

The next moment—

Under the watchful eyes of Shen Ye and the Demon of Fear, the robot known as Guardian began to speak:

"Listen, Lancy, the entire human race is under the control of an exceedingly powerful artificial intelligence."

Shen Ye looked towards the Demon of Fear.

The Demon of Fear smiled slightly and said:

"The same old line, the simple truth, they will capture her, then she will be pinned to the wall, waiting for pursuers to come."

Shen Ye's gaze deepened.

He remained silent, just waiting quietly.

The Demon of Fear continued:

"We too carry the program of that artificial intelligence."

Almost in unison, Guardian said the same thing:

"We too carry the program of that artificial intelligence."