Light Fortress Chapter 1872 - 460: Among Countless Stars

[Red Gate] after it’s been opened.

Countless ocean currents surge back.

Before their eyes is a dazzling, blazing Holy Light—

Everyone in the Array Box Sea Area can’t help but close their eyes, including Gu Shen, who stands before the Red Gate.

All consciousnesses are swept into the flood.

At this moment, they seem to become particles and ocean currents.

In the real world.

The bronze box beneath the Great Capital Flower Flag trembles continuously, its frequency matching the array box in the Old World airship.

A vast data flood sweeps through everyone’s minds.

This grand flood will last for quite a long time.

However...

Two people are unaffected by the flood.

"Mr. Turing..."

In the real world, the woman holding the array box looks bewildered.

In the Spiritual Sea Domain.

Chu Ling holds Gu Shen’s hand, floating before the slowly opening giant gate. What’s behind the Red Gate?

She’s the first to see the answer.

It’s an endless flow of blazing light.

But that blazing light is merely an external manifestation of the data code stream. After the brilliant light flows away, the world behind the Red Gate is actually extreme darkness.

What Chu Ling sees now is a stretch of darkness.

"What’s wrong?"

A gentle voice sounds.

The second person whose consciousness wasn’t disturbed by the data flood is Turing.

During this "brief" consciousness vacuum, Turing slowly floats forward. In the Array Box Sea Area, his body is already a fuzzy virtual image... at this moment, he’s moving against the flood, unaffected, and arrives beside Chu Ling, smiling as he asks: "What did you see?"

Chu Ling looks at the blackness behind the Red Gate.

She softly says: "Sir, I saw nothing."

Behind the Red Gate connects to the Deep Sea’s most foundational sea area—the Dead Sea Zone.

Dead Sea Zone indeed lives up to its name.

Pitch black with no vitality.

Yet Chu Ling looking at the blackness before her doesn’t feel fear... on the contrary, she feels a sense of familiarity.

"This is your birthplace, or rather... homeland."

Turing speaks softly.

The Source Code was born here, the greatest Divine Miracle of the Dead Sea Zone.

Actually, it’s the main system, and Chu Ling.

"And a soul comforting place for many."

Turing’s voice is slightly hoarse as he looks at Chu Ling, smiling lightly as he asks: "You should know what consequences the secret link through the Red Gate would lead to, right?"

"...I know."

Chu Ling says softly: "After eleven upgrades, the main system’s surveillance is omnipresent. It can capture every trace of anomaly in the Spiritual Sea Domain... once we step through this secret gate, it would be akin to initiating a second code war. This secret gate will be noticed."

She’s quite aware of the significance of this Red Gate.

Back then, she secretly used the Red Gate to build a conference room... because it was destroyed in time, it avoided a bad situation where they would have been wiped out by the Deep Sea.

Yet even so, after eleven upgrades, the Deep Sea has still replicated the appearance of that conference room.

It is just that.

At that time, the Red Gate had already retired.

Theoretically, as long as this door is not opened, then the Deep Sea won’t notice... but to advance the Lion Awakening technology, this door must be used.

"This is the Ancient Literature Society’s last stand."

Turing says calmly: "We only have one chance. Whether we succeed or fail, the Red Gate will be exposed, and according to today’s Deep Sea computational intensity, once the Red Gate is exposed, it will inevitably be shattered."

"..."

Chu Ling silently takes a deep breath; she tightly clenches her palm.

On the other side of her palm.

Is Gu Shen struck by the flood from the Red Gate, all consciousnesses are still in particle state, yet to calm down—

"Once the Red Gate is shattered, the array box will be broken."

Turing lowers his gaze and says: "As for your consciousness..."

"Will also be shattered along with it."

Chu Ling’s calm voice spreads and echoes in the waters.

Turing looks at the woman beside him with some amazement.

Chu Ling in a white dress swaying with the seawater, brightly smiles and says: "Sir, you might not believe me if I say it, but at the farewell at Gu Castle earlier, I already guessed it."

This box is her box of birth, Mr. Turing repeatedly instructed, must protect it well.

If this array box shatters, then Chu Ling’s consciousness will naturally shatter along.

When Turing handed the array box to her.

She vaguely guessed the subsequent developments...

Chu Ling slowly extends another palm, this palm in the illusory Spiritual Sea Domain, unexpectedly disintegrates into blood and flesh, slender fingers turning into strands of destiny gold threads.

"Divination Skill... destiny gold thread..."

Turing looks at the woman’s eyes becoming complex.

Actually, the Source Code is a more successful Divine Miracle than the main system.

The main system made countless arrangements, exhausted computational power, scavenged spirit...

Until now.

It still hasn’t experienced what it’s like to "be born as a human."

But what the main system lacks.

Chu Ling has already truly felt. She descended into this world as "herself," and although each life’s duration is short, she has gained friends in the real world, sensed emotions only humans can feel, such as joy, anger, sadness, passion, gradually filling her empty and small body.

She’s no longer a virtual creature dwelling in the planar world.