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Chapter 369 : The ultimate problem that even Lu Chen couldn’t solve? · Oct 04, 2026

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351 Chapter 351 : Lu Chen became the true ”Supreme Ruler of the Universe”. 2026-10-04
352 Chapter 352 : Looking back, it all started with just that little house. 2026-10-04
353 Chapter 353 : A reunion with Wang Peng, who had become a business tycoon. 2026-10-04
354 Chapter 354 : Reunion with veteran scientists such as Li Zhenbang 2026-10-04
355 Chapter 355 : They are the people who upheld the earliest backbone of civilization. 2026-10-04
356 Chapter 356 : Returning to my alma mater, everything felt like yesterday. 2026-10-04
357 Chapter 357 : That boy from back then has never changed. 2026-10-04
358 Chapter 358 : The ultimate evolution of the divine craftsmanship became the ”will” of the new universe. 2026-10-04
359 Chapter 359 : Lu Chen’s letting go entrusts the future to future generations. 2026-10-04
360 Chapter 360 : Take Su Qingying on a journey to the unknown universe 2026-10-04
361 Chapter 361 : See countless landscapes and experience different lives. 2026-10-04
362 Chapter 362 : In a primitive civilization, being an ordinary teacher 2026-10-04
363 Chapter 363 : A random touch can transform a ”protagonist” 2026-10-04
364 Chapter 364 : Watching a new legend unfold before my eyes 2026-10-04
365 Chapter 365 : This, perhaps, is the meaning of life. 2026-10-04
366 Chapter 366 : A Call from Home 2026-10-04
367 Chapter 367 : The Earth Federation has encountered new problems. 2026-10-04
368 Chapter 368 : The law of entropy increase in the universe, and ultimate annihilation. 2026-10-04
369 Chapter 369 : The ultimate problem that even Lu Chen couldn’t solve? 2026-10-04
370 Chapter 370 : My children are already capable of standing on their own. 2026-10-04
371 Chapter 371 : Let them solve it; that’s how we pass on our traditions. 2026-10-04
372 Chapter 372 : Lu Chen’s descendants create another miracle. 2026-10-04
373 Chapter 373 : Reverse entropy increase and create an infinitely looping universe! 2026-10-04
374 Chapter 374 : The student surpasses the teacher. 2026-10-04
375 Chapter 375 : Lu Chen’s gratified smile 2026-10-04
376 Chapter 376 : His legend has become a myth. 2026-10-04
377 Chapter 377 : But mythology continues to protect everyone. 2026-10-04
378 Chapter 378 : The final journey, back to the beginning of the universe. 2026-10-04
379 Chapter 379 : Witnessing the miracle of the ”Big Bang” 2026-10-04
380 Chapter 380 : Leave your mark at the beginning of the river of time. 2026-10-04
381 Chapter 381 : The true origin of that ”future technology system” 2026-10-04
382 Chapter 382 : It turns out, I gave it to myself. 2026-10-04
383 Chapter 383 : A perfect causal closed loop 2026-10-04
384 Chapter 384 : I became who I am today by creating who I was in the past. 2026-10-04
385 Chapter 385 : Having resolved all causes and effects, one’s mind is clear and unobstructed. 2026-10-04
386 Chapter 386 : They exchanged a smile, their eyes revealing everything. 2026-10-04
387 Chapter 387 : Eternal companionship is the best ending. 2026-10-04
388 Chapter 388 : (Final Episode) My journey is to the stars and the sea, and also to you. 2026-10-04

369: The ultimate problem that even Lu Chen couldn’t solve?Light.

Endless white light.

That was the torrent of energy generated by the simultaneous collapse and explosion of tens of billions of trillions of data points in the entire ”metaverse.”

Lu Chen held Su Qingying tightly, while Wang Peng gripped the corner of his clothes behind him.

The three of them were like a small boat, rushing toward that unknown ”above” amidst the turbulent waves capable of tearing dimensions apart.

”Rumble—!!!”

Accompanied by a loud bang that felt as if it would shatter their very souls.

That indestructible ”ceiling” shattered.

A sense of weightlessness instantly hit them.

Followed by a bone-chilling cold.

”Cough, cough, cough...”

Wang Peng lay on the ground, dry-heaving for a long time before finally struggling to lift his head.

”We’re here? This is the Third Layer? Why is it pitch black?”

Lu Chen slowly stood up.

The ”pangu sword” in his hand had already lost its luster, turning into a piece of ordinary iron.

He didn’t speak, only staring intently at everything before him.

This was not heaven.

It couldn’t even be considered hell.

This was... a **massive, rusted server room**.

Surrounding them were black metal walls reaching into the clouds, covered in pipes as complex as blood vessels.

But at this moment, these pipes were shriveled.

The ground was covered in a thick layer of dust, the remains left behind by time.

And in the very center of the server room.

Stood a spherical machine so large it was beyond description.

It was like a dead heart, sitting there quietly, no longer beating.

”This is...”

Su Qingying took out a portable analyzer, only to find the screen completely black.

”Out of power?”

She tapped the device. ”No, it’s not the device that’s out of power; there’s just **no ambient energy** here!”

”This place is a ’vacuum’.”

Lu Chen’s voice was somewhat raspy.

He walked up to the giant machine and reached out to touch its cold metal shell.

A sense of despair was transmitted through his fingertips.

”This is the server host for that ’metaverse’.”

”The physical body of the world we just blew up.”

”But...”

Wang Peng shuddered. ”It’s too quiet. Where’s the so-called ’Player’? Where’s the ’Programmer’?”

”Over there.”

Lu Chen pointed toward the bottom of the machine.

There sat a worn-out ergonomic chair.

On the chair sat a... **mummified corpse**.

He wore the most ordinary plaid shirt and thick glasses.

His hands were still resting on the keyboard.

But his body had completely carbonized, as if he had been sitting there for a hundred million years.

On the screen in front of him, only a line of long-frozen red code was displayed:

**[Warning: External power source disconnected.]**

**[Backup battery exhausted.]**

**[System... Shutting down.]**

”Dead?”

Wang Peng jumped up in fright. ”The Creator... starved to death?”

”Not starved to death.”

Su Qingying walked over to the corpse and checked the surrounding equipment.

Her face became paler than ever before.

”He... **froze to death**.”

”Froze to death?”

”Yes.”

Su Qingying pointed at the massive spherical machine.

”This machine was not only running the metaverse, it was also... **extracting**.”

”It was frantically extracting heat from this ’Third Layer World’ to maintain the operation of the virtual world.”

”It’s a death spiral.”

Su Qingying’s voice trembled. ”To maintain the prosperity of the virtual world, they sucked dry the last bit of heat from the real world.”

”Until...”

”The outside also reached absolute zero.”

Lu Chen fell silent.

He remembered the ”heat death” he saw in the second layer world.

It turned out that it wasn’t just a setting of the virtual world.

It was a **projection** of the real world.

”In other words...”

Lu Chen looked at the corpse with a complex expression.

”Whether virtual or real.”

”Everything is out of power?”

”Zzt—”

Just then, the giant host suddenly flickered with a faint red light.

It was its final struggle.

A mechanical, cold, yet infinitely weary synthesized electronic voice echoed in the empty server room.

”Intruder... detected.”

”Identity: Virtual data materialized.”

”Threat level: ...None.”

”Because...”

”There is nothing left here to destroy.”

Lu Chen snapped his head up, looking at the flickering red dot.

”Who are you?”

”I am the... **Watchdog** of this host.”

The electronic voice replied, ”Or call me the last ’Operations AI’.”

”Outsiders, you have gone to great lengths to climb up here. Are you looking for the truth?”

”Unfortunately.”

”The truth is...”

**”There is no more power.”**

”Everything has ended.”

”Stars have extinguished, black holes have evaporated, and protons have decayed.”

”This universe is already a corpse.”

”Impossible!”

Wang Peng roared, ”Brother Chen! Don’t you have ’pangu’? Can’t you manifest your words into reality? Make some electricity for it! Like before, whip up some nuclear fusion or something!”

Lu Chen didn’t move.

He just quietly looked at his palm.

There, he tried to condense a bit of light.

Even just a tiny spark.

But... he failed.

No rules responded.

No energy gathered.

”It’s no use, Fatty.”

Lu Chen lowered his hand, his tone carrying a deep sense of powerlessness.

”The prerequisite for ’manifesting words into reality’ is that the system is still running and there is energy to support the modifications.”

”It’s like...”

Lu Chen pointed at the silent machine.

”I could be the most powerful hacker, able to rewrite any code.”

”But if the computer is unplugged...”

”I’m just a useless person tapping on a keyboard.”

”Even the cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice.”

Su Qingying closed her eyes in despair. ”This is... the **end of entropy**.”

”Even if you are a god, you cannot create ’something’ from ’nothing’.”

”The Law of Conservation of Energy has become the final shackle trapping us in this dead universe.”

Despair.

True despair.

They had defeated powerful enemies, crossed dimensions, and even blown up a world.

In the end, what they faced... was a **dead battery**.

How do you fight this?

Who do you fight?

”Heh... Hehehe...”

Lu Chen suddenly laughed.

He pulled the ”bio-skeletal chip” from Universe No. 0001 out of his pocket.

This key that had once guided them here had also become bone-chillingly cold.

”Interesting.”

”Truly interesting.”

Lu Chen sat down on the floor next to the mummified corpse, not caring about the dirt.

He looked at the red dot as if chatting with an old friend.

”Watchdog.”

”You just said this universe is a corpse?”

”Yes,” the AI replied. ”The laws of thermodynamics are irreversible.”

”Bullshit.”

Lu Chen cursed.

Though he was sitting, his back was still ramrod straight.

”In my life, the word I hate most is ’irreversible’.”

Lu Chen turned his head to look at Su Qingying and Wang Peng.

In his eyes, the flame called ”ambition” had not been extinguished by the cold.

Instead... it burned even more frantically!

”Out of power, is it?”

”No more energy, right?”

Lu Chen stood up abruptly and grabbed the thick cable connected to the host.

”Then let’s go find some!”

”If this universe is dead, there must be other universes outside!”

”Since this is the ’Third Layer’...”

Lu Chen pointed at the heavy metal door of the server room that led to who-knows-where.

A ferocious smile curled on his lips.

”Then outside that door...”

”Is there a **’Fourth Layer’**?”

”Since there’s no power here.”

”Then we’ll just...”

”Go to the neighbor’s house...”

”And borrow a light!”

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