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Not only could the Veda not get their hands on Soulsqn’s information, but she also successfully escaped from their clutches.
Even Lin Sanjiu and Puppeteer, who were far more powerful than Soulsqn, could not escape the fate of having their information analyzed by the Veda, but Soulsqn was resilient. She got stronger with every setback. Not once did she stop fighting back, and at last, she found a chance.
At the mont that Lin Sanjiu was impaled by “Yun”, Soulsqn finally broke herself free of the Veda’s trap and escaped into the endless void of the Data Stream Library.
The mont she escaped, a myriad of cords lit up, and the pursuit of the fugitive began.
Truth be told, speed wasn’t one of Soulsqn’s faculties, not to ntion that she was now running around like a headless chicken. Even though she knew she could not outrun the Veda, she did not slow down her speed.
In the blink of an eye, countless cords flickered in front of Soulsqn and ford into a net, attempting to undercut her. The flesh worm slamd the brakes and stopped before she ramd into the net.
After going through so many ordeals, Soulsqn was no longer the sa as before. She turned her attenuated body around, only to find that another blanket of light surrounded her.
This was the fourth ti she was entrapped by the cords.
Huffing and puffing, Soulsqn turned her body around in a circle, not knowing where the Veda would strike. She waited anxiously for a few minutes; however, nothing ca out of the shimring net of cords.
Just as Soulsqn wondered what the Veda were planning, a voice ca. “My queen.”
Startled, Soulsqn turned her “head”, which was purely composed of strings of flesh, in the direction of the sound. A shadow erged from the sh of glowing cords. The figure beca more apparent as it got closer to Soulsqn, finally revealing itself: Souls.
“Yo, so you transford into this ti?” Soulsqn snarled at the figure after she snapped out of her montary shock.
“Why do you still not get it? This is not about transforming.” The “Souls” stood stock-still and delivered the words directly to Soulsqn. “Everything we code will eventually beco a reality.”
The flesh worm wriggled her body a few tis as if she were annoyed.
“You still don’t trust us even after witnessing so much?”
“Reality,” Soulsqn humphed. It wasn’t easy for her to do this, but she couldn’t give a better response, which she observed from Lin Sanjiu. “How dare you all brag about reality before ! A reality that can be deleted or erased easily is no reality.”
“You’re free to stick to your guns, but in here, it’s us who define what reality is and is not. There’s no phantasm or reality here, the only thing that matters is whether we want to write the code or not,” the Veda refuted calmly. “It’s pointless to continue debating about this matter. We rely want to make a trade with you, where each of us takes what we need. A win-win situation.”
“So I surrender myself, and then you’ll let populate my kind?” Soulsqn sneered. “How absurd! You can’t reproduce either!”
“We can, of course. It’s just that we choose not to. We can have a reproductive system as well whenever we want. It just involves so code writing. Take a look at this.” As the Veda spoke, it slowly moved towards Soulsqn. Shocked, the latter recoiled two steps and studied it.
Her eyes slowly moved to the center part of the “Souls”. She stared at it for a while before exploding into a great fit of laughter.
The laughter of the Souls was different from that of humans. Not only did it sound like a wooden rasp, but it also felt like she was eructating. Soulsqn laughed so hard that she almost choked on her breath. “Whaa... haa... ha... What is that?”
The Veda did not reply.
“That’s a human thing! We wouldn’t be able to use it even if you gave it to us!” Soulsqn’s body convulsed with laughter. “You have to rely on immigration to maintain your population, so what’s the use of adding a reproductive part onto your body when you have no use for it? If you could create sothing that doesn’t exist, then why do you need immigrants in the first place?”
“Then we have no other option left but to subdue you by force.”
Soulsqn suddenly stopped laughing. After a short while, she mustered up her courage and refuted. “You know that doesn’t work on ! How many tis are you going to try before you learn that?”
“It’s apparent that you have underestimated our obsession in exploring the unknown. We will keep trying, again and again and again, until you give in or until we’ve destroyed you. And if I’m not mistaken, your body has already reached the end of its tether. How many tis do you think you can use that ability of yours?” the Veda said calmly. “Ti is on our side.”
The Veda hardly finished its words before Soulsqn made her move. She let out a battle cry and pounced on the Veda.
The Veda vanished in a flash. Then, a prismatic shard of light showered on the spot it previously stood. The light hod in on Soulsqn and enshrouded her in a phantasmagoric blinding radiance. Along with the flesh worm in the center, it began to spin and rge.
However, everything suddenly disappeared in the next second. The void dimd down considerably as a large portion of cords vanished. The Veda, who was still in the form of the Souls, then walked out of the dark.
Once again, Soulsqn had escaped.
The sa process had been ensuing four tis already, and each ti, the attack the Veda threw at her was different. The Veda had amassed a vast expanse of information from every corner of the universe; thus, the type of offense and traps they could utilize was innurable. Yet, no matter how bizarre or powerful their attacks were, they constantly failed to capture Soulsqn due to one reason: they always missed their target.
Soulsqn did not have a clue of where to run, so she just picked the direction with the least amount of cords. However, moving across the Data Stream Library was like bobbing around in space or floating on the water. Even though she tried very hard to propel herself forward, she still moved as slow as a snail.
The Veda in the form of Souls remained standing still. More and more cords stread out of every direction and filled the void.
As if soone had turned on the light, her surroundings beca as bright as day. Soulsqn turned her head around, and she was horrified by what she saw.
It seed that the Veda had no intention of going easy on her anymore after four failed attempts. There were so many cords behind her that it looked like a large white piece of glittering cloth.
Like the Veda said earlier, they had an infinite amount of ti. When they encountered sothing they had never seen or experienced before, they would be willing to track their target and never give up until they got what they wanted, even if the information might be useless to them. Thus, for how long could she run?
Soulsqn was overwheld by paroxysms of despair and anxiety. The tendrils on her body all stood up on their ends, hissing and snarling powerlessly at her pursuers.
The curtain of white light grew larger and broader, moving at a fast yet steady pace. The Veda trapped Soulsqn in a pincer attack, and when everything seed to have co to an end, an arm suddenly appeared from the flickering void. It grabbed Soulsqn by the back of her neck.
Soulsqn turned her body around in shock, and her scream got stuck in her throat the mont she saw the arm. As the arm yanked Soulsqn in, the flesh worm slowly disappeared from her spot as if she had been devoured by the void.
At the other end of the void, Lin Sanjiu pulled back her arm along with Soulsqn, who now resembled a sausage that was spit out by a machine. Lin Sanjiu released her grip, and Soulsqn dropped to the ground, unable to believe that she was saved.
“Lord Puppeteer?” Soulsqn yelled. “You are here, too? Hold up. Are you two Veda? What the hell is happening...”
“My [Pygmalion Choker] has already been activated, so we have only a few minutes left,” Lin Sanjiu chid in. “How did you escape from the Veda?”
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