第26章

The missing piece? What could be missing? The entity’s structure… my code… something needed to complete the disruption?

And then I remembered the game again, the legend of the “backend ghost,” and the black card with the cryptic message. “迷途之人，终将归于黑塔。”

Perhaps I wasn't just fighting the entity. Perhaps I was also part of its system. The “迷途之人,” the destined occupant of the black tower.

And if I was a part of it, maybe I could disrupt it from within.

Instead of just injecting the virus, I needed to make the virus *become* part of the entity, a cancerous growth that would consume it from the inside. And maybe, the “missing piece” that 老伯 mentioned, was something about *me* being linked to it, feeding this disruption.

I looked at the black card again, clutched in my trembling hand. The strange writing… the material of the card… it felt like it belonged to the same realm as the flickering black tower. Maybe this card was not just a warning, but also a key?

I brought the card closer to the laptop screen, holding it against the display where the symbols were flashing.