The universe inside the Jade Monolith had no sky and no earth.
It was an infinite, looping void of glowing golden assembly bytecode, stretching endlessly in all twelve spatial directions. Trillions of cosmic instructions flickered, carried out, branched, and looped. Eighty thousand years of unmaintained karmic math running without a reboot.
Lin Ke’s mind stood suspended in the center of the roaring deluge.
The data pressure was tearing his mind into shreds.
In the mental sandbox, Lin Ke died forty times in three seconds.
In branch one, an unhandled looping loop in the rain-spreading subroutine looped infinitely, consuming all available mental bandwidth until his brain boiled in its own cerebrospinal fluid.
In branch twelve, a dangling karmic pointer from a long-dead dragon clan tried to dereference an unallocated memory block, causing a violent psychological seizure that threatened to stop his physical heart.
Every death sent a wave of excruciating phantom agony through his nervous system. His soul felt trampled, crushed, and burnt to a crisp.
