During the process of transferring data on the computer, Ye Ling and Xing Yu waited quietly, both feeling a degree of nervousness.
"Xing Yu, Ye Ling... get ready. You'll be uploaded to the network soon. The rest is up to you," Shan's voice came through. Ye Ling and Xing Yu exchanged nods, then transformed into data, uploading from the local computer to the cloud server.
A progress bar showing zero percent appeared on the computer screen.
"Please don't let anything go wrong!"
The short-haired youth stared intently at the computer screen, subconsciously rubbing his hands, his heart filled with extreme tension.
At the same time, Ye Ling and Xing Yu arrived before a firewall composed of countless data streams.
Ye Ling glanced at the firewall ahead and said to Xing Yu, "Senior Brother, it's all up to you now."
"Leave it to me!"
Xing Yu smiled, placed his hand directly on the firewall, and a large amount of data flashed in his eyes.
Soon, a backdoor appeared on the impenetrable firewall.
"Junior Brother, I can't help with the purification, so I'll shield you from the firewall and surveillance from the outside. Once you're in, we'll stay in touch."
"Understood."
Ye Ling nodded and walked directly through the door Xing Yu had opened in the firewall.
The passage within was not very long. Ye Ling easily passed through the firewall and entered the novel website's database, seeing countless data streams and garbled code representing corrupted data.
"Junior Brother, can you hear me?" Xing Yu's voice echoed in Ye Ling's ears.
"Yes, I can hear you," Ye Ling replied.
"Excellent! Your task now is to purify that garbled code. Be careful not to be discovered. If the programmers in the real world find out we're invading, we'll be in big trouble."
"Alright."
Ye Ling responded quickly and then began clearing the corrupted data.
The garbled code in the database was no different from the garbled code in Pure White. Ye Ling found it easy to clear, and with Xing Yu's help... Ye Ling moved through the database as if no one were there.
In the room, the short-haired youth breathed a sigh of relief as he saw the progress bar slowly increasing. "Phew... it seems everything is going smoothly. As long as Ye Ling can secretly finish cleaning up the corruption, then we..."
Beep! Beep!
Midway through his sentence, the computer screen instantly turned red, and a flood of garbled code filled the entire screen. Xing Yu, who was focused on maintaining the backdoor for Ye Ling, was suddenly ambushed by the corrupted data and directly pushed back to the local system, losing contact with Ye Ling!
"What's going on?" The short-haired youth panicked as he saw the corrupted data occupying his computer.
"Don't panic."
Shan, however, remained calm. He immediately extracted Xing Yu, who had returned to the local system, back to the USB drive, bringing Xing Yu back to Pure White and allowing him to regain his form.
"Xing Yu, what happened? Was it an operational error on your part?"
Xing Yu was also a bit flustered. "It wasn't me. But I felt a special power suddenly descend, affecting that garbled code. It must be a power from the real world!"
At this moment, E also returned to Pure White, frowning. "The situation is not good. Some people entered the room just now and, under the charge of endangering national security, took away the author and his computer."
"Both the person and the computer were taken?" Shan's expression changed slightly. "What about Ye Ling?"
E: "It seems we underestimated the Heavenly Dao of the real world. Beings like us, who come from lower-dimensional worlds, are not very welcome by the real world's Heavenly Dao."
"The worst-case scenario now is that the author goes to prison, all books are removed from the internet, and everything in Pure White will be completely erased by higher-dimensional forces."
Shan's brow furrowed. "Are we just going to sit here and wait for death?"
E: "Based on the current situation, yes... but there's still hope. Ye Ling hasn't been sent back, which means he hasn't been discovered. As long as he can enter any reader's phone or computer from the cloud server, I can use runes to teleport us there."
"Then we can forcefully break through the dimensional barrier, enter reality, and rescue the author. Then everything can still be saved."
Shan: "In that case, we will be officially confronting the Heavenly Dao of the real world, won't we?"
E laughed. "Confronting the Heavenly Dao is not something we should be considering right now. If Ye Ling is erased, or if he uses his ultimate runes to teleport back, then we won't be able to go to reality again, and we'll truly have to wait for death."
"Shan, all of our lives and fortunes are in Ye Ling's hands."
Hearing E's words, Shan couldn't help but sigh and look at the now completely transparent Book of Origin, his eyes filled with complexity.
"Ye Ling... although this is unfair to you, from now on, it all depends on you."
Meanwhile, in the cloud database, Ye Ling was unaware of how serious the situation had become.
However, even without knowing the specific details, he was already overwhelmed.
The garbled code in the database began to increase exponentially, and he had suddenly lost contact with Xing Yu. Even the backdoor Xing Yu had left for him had vanished.
"Why did this problem occur at such a critical moment?" Ye Ling's brow furrowed, and he took out E's ultimate runes. "Should I teleport back now and discuss it with Master and the others?"
"No! I've already taken a huge risk coming here. If I turn back so easily, all my previous efforts will be in vain... Besides, looking at the speed at which this garbled code is polluting the database, if I go back like this, the real world will definitely be greatly affected!"
Ye Ling immediately dismissed the idea of using the ultimate runes to teleport back to the Primordial Chaos and began trying to clear the garbled code in the database on his own.
Unfortunately, the speed at which Ye Ling cleared the garbled code was like a drop in the bucket compared to the speed at which it was multiplying.
"The speed at which this garbled code is multiplying is far greater than my clearing speed. If this continues, not only will I be unable to resolve the pollution, but I might even be consumed myself. I need to find the cause of this garbled code."
After trying to clear the garbled code himself, Ye Ling realized that it was multiplying much faster than he could handle, and understood that continuing this way was futile.
Changing his strategy, Ye Ling stopped trying to clear the garbled code and instead began searching the database for the source of the corrupted data.
Soon, Ye Ling discovered something like a tumor in the database. Growing from this tumor was a humanoid monster, which was continuously devouring the data in the database.
"What is that thing?"
Ye Ling's expression changed slightly as he saw the tumor. He instinctively felt danger emanating from it!
As Ye Ling's gaze fell upon the tumor, the monster on the tumor seemed to sense Ye Ling's presence, turned its head towards Ye Ling, and a hint of confusion appeared in its eyes.
"Hmm? Why is there another one from a lower-dimensional world?"
The monster pondered for a moment, seemingly unable to find an answer. It then chuckled, "Never mind. Since there's a stray fish, I won't be polite. I don't think the Heavenly Dao will mind."
"Let me be your food, and let me taste... your information!"
The monster grinned, and then the surrounding garbled data streams shot towards Ye Ling with extreme speed, like the monster's arms!
"So that guy is the source of the pollution?"
Ye Ling's expression changed slightly as he saw the monster manipulating the garbled code, and he immediately retreated.
"Hahaha! Where do you think you're running to?"
The monster laughed heartily, traversing through the endless data with the large tumor, rapidly closing in on Ye Ling.
"No! Its speed is faster than mine!"
Ye Ling immediately recognized the speed difference between himself and the monster. He abandoned the idea of escape and activated his Karma Mirror Domain!
Boom!!!
A torrent of garbled code poured onto the Karma Mirror Domain, and to Ye Ling's horror, his Karma Mirror Domain could not reflect the corrupted data at all. The barrier enclosing him was rapidly corroding!
"A bug from a lower-dimensional world, trying to block my power with your trash methods?"
The monster roared with laughter. Two giant arms instantly grew from the tumor, tearing open Ye Ling's Karma Mirror Domain!
The monster's face loomed directly before Ye Ling, its monstrous maw opening wide to bite at him.
"One bite after another, calling me a bug. Who is the real monster here!"
Seeing his Karma Mirror Domain torn apart, Ye Ling showed no panic. He immediately activated Absolute Divine Movement to evade the monster's bite.
The monster missed its bite, and a hint of displeasure appeared on its face. It glared at Ye Ling, "A mere low-dimensional being like you dares to run? Do you know who I am?"
"I am the divine envoy of the Heavenly Dao! The ultimate weapon for maintaining world peace!"
The monster roared, and instantly teleported in front of Ye Ling again. Countless garbled code streams transformed into sharp spikes, shooting towards Ye Ling with extreme speed.
"Divine envoy of the Heavenly Dao?"
Ye Ling was startled to see the disgusting monster claiming to be the divine envoy of the Heavenly Dao.
What kind of Heavenly Dao would use such a monster as an envoy?
However, Ye Ling had no time to ponder this now. He activated Absolute Divine Movement again, intending to teleport away, but this time his Absolute Divine Movement failed completely!
"Hahaha! Bug from the lower-dimensional world, you can't escape this time!"
The monster roared with laughter, and the endless garbled code instantly engulfed Ye Ling!