Blue, light blue, deep blue, indigo...
Occasionally mixed with white, wave-like pixels!
Those patches of color rose and fell rhythmically, just like ocean waves!
Wave after wave of pixel surges rolled in from the distance.
When they crashed against the "shore," they splashed up fine specks of light and let out a faint rustling sound!
"Master, it's the sea! The sea!"
Liguang tugged at his hand excitedly!
The sea, huh...
The two stepped forward and walked in.
Beyond the door lay a stretch of relatively calm mosaic ground, the patches large and steady.
It was like... a coastline?
Fang Qi glanced up again...
The ceiling was extremely high, so high it was nearly impossible to see the top!
All he could make out was, in the darkness far above, tiny pixels twinkling.
Dense and countless, like a real starry sky!
Ahead, the mosaic ocean undulated with a steady rhythm.
"Hm...?"
Fang Qi squinted.
There, in the midst of the "waves," he could see scrap metal parts bobbing about!
Those were...
Rusted gears?
A broken mechanical arm!
And half of... some kind of machine casing.
They floated up and down in the waves, never sinking.
This is...!
Fang Qi instantly recognized some of the fragments!
Oh, those things.
Those were... the core R&D lab equipment!
What was it, atomic-scale lithography machines and the like...
Those were the remains of that equipment!
This area had always been huge, with an extremely high vaulted ceiling, and now...
After being endlessly expanded by the mosaic, the space had stretched out boundlessly!
As if it were truly an ocean!
"Whoosh..."
Just then, an especially large piece of metal debris was pushed up to the shore by the "waves."
It came to rest right in front of them.
Liguang's eyes lit up, and she immediately jumped onto it!
Fang Qi: "?!"
"Danger!"
He instinctively tightened his grip on Liguang's little hand, ready to yank her back!
But the silver-haired girl stood steadily on that piece of metal debris!
Uh...
Fang Qi looked down, eyes wide, staring at the water beneath his feet.
The "water" underfoot rippled gently, the debris swaying softly with the waves...
But she didn't sink.
Instead, he himself, standing on the "shore," was starting to sink into the mosaic of the "beach"!
"Oh dear, Master, hurry up and get on too!"
She gave him a firm tug, and together they stepped onto the metal debris.
The metal beneath their feet wobbled slightly, but...
It held the two of them up solidly enough.
The next second, the "sea" seemed to sense that both of them had "boarded."
The waves began to push the metal debris with a steady, gentle rhythm...
Slowly and softly carrying the two of them toward the depths of the mosaic ocean.
"Hehe, Liguang gets to drift along with Master again!"
Fang Qi looked at her silly, happy face and smiled too.
Ah, whatever...
As long as his wife was happy!
"Don't just stand there, you might fall off!"
"Oh, right...!"
So the two of them sat down together, squeezed onto the creaking hunk of metal.
Her legs draped over his, his hands bracing against the metal's edge.
The "waves" lapped against their metal "boat," splashing up glowing pixel fragments.
When they landed on them, there was a warm feeling!
Liguang pulled Fang Qi down to lie flat on the metal debris.
Above their heads, the "starlight" began to rotate slowly.
The two of them lay side by side on that crude little vessel.
Above them, a spinning, simulated starry sky.
Beneath them, a gently undulating mosaic ocean.
Fang Qi stared at that starfield, his gaze slowly losing focus.
In that moment, he felt like he was back in the time they had drifted together before.
Back then, they were also on the sea, just the two of them, squeezed onto a small wooden raft.
How to put it...
This time, it felt more like drifting toward the edge of the world.
No...
This time, they were already drifting at the edge of the world.
And truly, it was just the two of them left...
"See, Master?"
Liguang turned her head to look at him, eyes curving like crescent moons!
"Liguang was right, wasn't she?"
In her amber pupils, the spinning starlight was reflected.
"This place is so wonderful, it absolutely, absolutely must be granting Master's and Liguang's wishes!"
"If Liguang wants a pretty place, it gives us something pretty!"
"It's really such a good boy!"
Fang Qi looked at her proud little expression and couldn't help but laugh:
"Yeah, it's so soothing, I could just fall asleep!"
"Ah, then sleep, Master, Liguang will watch over you."
Liguang immediately scooted closer to him.
Fang Qi blinked.
Sleep?
Out on the sea?
On a raft... no, on a "metal raft"?
...How could anyone possibly sleep like that!
His PTSD was kicking in!
He reached out and gave Liguang's cute, perky little nose a firm pinch!
"I'm afraid that if I wake up, some silly little dummy will have fallen into the sea again like last time!"
He laughed, glaring at Liguang.
With her nose pinched, Liguang blinked her amber eyes...
Then puffed up her cheeks and glared back at him:
"I would not!"
And she defended herself:
"Besides, that time, it was Master who fell into the sea! Liguang woke up on our raft that time!"
Fang Qi paused.
Ah... that was actually true.
Damn, the dummy was me!
But he wasn't about to admit defeat!
So he glared back:
"And what did you do after that?!"
"Mm..."
Liguang immediately shrank her neck.
"That was because Liguang ran out of power... but there's still plenty left now! Master, look—"
She started to turn over to show him!
Fang Qi quickly pressed her down:
"Don't flip over, this boat's too small. If you flip, we're both going in the water!"
She was pinned by the shoulders, lying on the metal debris...
She blinked, then giggled.
She reached out and gently poked Fang Qi's cheek:
"Then Master can look for himself, it's right on the back of my neck."
Fang Qi shifted to his side and brushed aside the silver hair at the nape of her neck. On that delicate strip of synthetic skin, the small status window was glowing faintly.
37%.
Fang Qi stared at that number for several seconds, then laughed.
Good.
Really good!
...
...
How many times had he woken up now?
Fang Qi wasn't sure.
Anyway, another exploration.
The moment he pushed open a door, the ground beneath his feet suddenly gave way!
"?!"
He was falling!
"Ah! No!!!"
Liguang's terrified scream rang in his ears!
She was falling with him!
"Master, grab hold of Liguang, quick!!!"
Without thinking, he pulled her tightly into his arms!
His mind went completely blank!
Were they going to die here today...?!
And then...
"Thud."
His feet hit solid ground.
The two of them stayed frozen in place, locked in a bear hug.
Fang Qi blinked, looking down at the silver-haired girl in his arms.
Liguang blinked her left eye back at him.
Her white veil was askew, and her amber eyes still held the tears she'd been startled into.
"...Huh?"
Liguang finally reacted, her little mouth falling open in a dazed expression.
"Master, it seems like... we didn't die?"
Fang Qi's heart was pounding, and he held her close as he started looking around...
Then his eyes slowly widened.
Whoa...!
This is...!
It's flipped?
The ceiling had become the floor!
Everything was hanging upside down above their heads!
He looked up.
The original ground was now more than ten meters up in the sky.
A squirming mosaic, like a layer of upside-down pixel clouds.
And they were standing steadily on the ceiling of this room.
Gravity here—it was completely inverted!
Fang Qi’s eyes went wide.
What a novel experience!
And most importantly…
This ceiling didn’t sink underfoot like the floor did!
He tentatively lifted his foot, then pressed down.
It wouldn’t give!
He stamped again.
Still solid!
“Master!”
Liguang had already wriggled out of his arms, tilting her head up at the topsy-turvy world above, her amber pupils brimming with wonder.
“This place is amazing!”
“Master, look—that table!”
He followed her pointing finger.
A mosaic-fied metal table hung upside down above them.
Beside it, a few chairs, also on their backs.
Further off, several cabinets dangled from the “floor” overhead!
He froze for a moment.
The ceiling was tall—at least ten meters or more.
Yet they’d fallen from up there just now, without getting hurt…?
His eyes slowly lit up!
So that means…!
He grabbed Liguang’s hand, bent his knees…
And kicked off hard!
“Whoa!”
Liguang yelped in surprise!
The two of them sprang into the air with ease!
It wasn’t just that gravity was reversed—it was also weak!
Their bodies drifted like they were weightless, floating toward that inverted cluster of tables and chairs overhead.
He reached out, his fingertips grazing the edge of an upside-down tabletop, then slowly sank back down to the ceiling.
His knees bent slightly on landing, barely any impact at all.
“Master, Master, this is so fun!”
Liguang clutched his hand, bouncing with excitement.
“Haha!”
He couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
This feeling—it was incredible!
Gravity flipped, and feather-light too. A single jump sent them soaring, like they were on the moon!
And the ceiling wouldn’t sink!
Stop when you wanted, jump when you wanted—no fear of being swallowed by the mosaic!
Liguang tugged his hand, eyes sparkling as she looked at him:
“Master, let’s jump again!”
“Alright!”
Fang Qi took her hand, and together they bent their knees, pushed off, and leaped!
This time he jumped even higher—easily brushing against that inverted floor overhead.
His fingertips touched the squirming mosaic. It was cool, and soft.
He gave a hard push!
His body bounced back down!
Twisting midair, he landed perfectly.
“Wow, Master’s amazing!”
Liguang clapped her hands, amber eyes full of admiration!
“Liguang’s turn!”
She tried to touch the inverted floor too, but she didn’t jump as high as Fang Qi—her fingertips just barely grazed the edge of the mosaic.
Undeterred, she jumped again. Still a hair short.
“Master, how do you jump so high?”
“Because I’m stronger!”
Fang Qi raised an eyebrow with a smirk.
Liguang puffed out her cheeks, then jumped once more.
This time she gave it everything, and finally, her fingertips touched that upside-down pixel cloud!
When she landed, she proudly tilted her chin up at Fang Qi:
“Liguang touched it too!”
“Oh ho, Liguang’s amazing!”
“Hehe!”
And so, like a pair of agent lovers exploring a ruin, they bounced and bounded through this gravity-defying world!
Then Fang Qi noticed…
The surroundings looked familiar.
Those upside-down tables and chairs, the cabinets—though mosaic-fied, their outlines and arrangement carried faint echoes of something he recognized.
He stared at an inverted metal rack for a few seconds, then at the rectangular, boxy shape hanging nearby…
Oh, that’s—!
“Liguang, look over there!”
He grabbed her hand and kicked off hard!
Together they soared, gliding toward a piece of equipment hanging upside down not far above them.
They traced an arc through the air, sweeping right past the device.
Its casing had become mosaic, but that square, boxy silhouette…
They landed, looked up, and stared at the machine.
“…That’s your charging pod,” Fang Qi said, gazing at the inverted device.
“The one we used on floor B1.”
Liguang tilted her head up to look as well.
Then she turned to Fang Qi, beaming:
“Liguang doesn’t need it anymore now!”
She tilted her head slightly, revealing the back of her neck.
[Remaining Power: 43%]
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
