In Dragon Ball: A brutal beating of Frieza at the start

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In the third scene, he heard a suppressed roar, filled with despair: "...They must be sent away! We can't let them get them!" The voice was muffled, but it conveyed a desperate, all-or-nothing resolve.

In the fourth scene, a blinding beam of light struck down, and he felt something warm being stuffed into his arms. It was a fist-sized crystal, emitting a soft white light, like holding a small sun.

The final image shows a pair of cold, mechanical eyes staring at him through a black screen, devoid of any emotion, as if looking at an inanimate object…

"Ugh!" Lin Ye suddenly opened his eyes, gasping for breath, his chest heaving violently, his heart pounding as if it were about to jump out of his chest.

"What's wrong?" Trunks was the first to notice something was wrong with him and immediately came over. Seeing the sweat on his forehead and his clenched, white hands, he frowned. "Is there something wrong with the system?"

Lin Ye wiped away his sweat, his fingertips still trembling slightly, but his eyes were frighteningly bright. "It's nothing." He stood up and stretched his numb legs. "It's just that I'm even more certain now that the relationship between me and the Observer is definitely more than just that of an experiment subject and its master."

He looked up at the crack in the sky, sunlight filtering through it and casting dappled patterns on the ground. Everyone around him was busy. Trunks was debugging the variable engine and data chip, the data stream on the screen constantly fluctuating; Vegeta leaned against the wall, but remained vigilant, his eyes fixed on the corner of the space; Android 18 was still on the platform, his fingers occasionally twitching as he adjusted the angle of the probe.

Lin Ye took a deep breath, and the variable engine in his palm emitted a faint blue light, echoing the light from the data chip. "Silver Fox gave me the coordinates, the Judge wants me to 'return to the team,' my system is hiding secrets... all of these things put together, there is only one conclusion."

He clenched his fist, his voice filled with unwavering determination: "We can't wait for the Observers to make their next move; we have to strike first. We need to storm their testing grounds, and catch them off guard at a time and in a place they never expect!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the crack in the sky suddenly made a "click" sound, and a deeper fissure spread out. Several golden specks of light fell down, landed on the ground, and instantly burned out several small black pits before disappearing quickly.

Vegeta immediately stood up straight, his arrogance surging: "You've arrived?"

Lin Ye stared at the new crack, his brows furrowing even more... It wasn't the Judge, nor the Observer; the aura emanating from it was unfamiliar and dangerous, like something... torn apart by time.

“It’s not them.” Lin Ye’s voice deepened. “It’s something from the time turbulence, something that came earlier than we thought.”

Suddenly, probe number 18 emitted a "beep beep" alarm, and the semi-transparent area at its tip doubled in size. She abruptly looked up at the other side of the space: "Over there! Something's about to come out!"

Chapter 469 The Disruptor of Famous Scenes

“The variable engine analysis is complete. Among the five coordinates, Namek in the year 762 of Age A is the most volatile and the easiest to target.” Trunks pointed to the green dot jumping on the engine screen. “The observer intervened in the variable several times in that area, leaving a large enough time gap.”

Lin Ye nodded, drawing a data stream in the air with his fingertip: "System, plan the jump path, avoiding all time monitoring points."

[Path generation in progress... Warning: High-intensity energy clash exists at the target time point; the landing point may be directly exposed on the battlefield.]

[It is suggested that we relocate to the outer space of Namek and use the planet's gravity to suppress our energy fluctuations.]

"Let's do it this way." Lin Ye turned to look at the others. "Get ready, we might have to fight as soon as we land."

Vegeta instantly erupted in fury, his body enveloped in blue light, causing even the surrounding air to tremble: "Perfect! Let that Frieza taste my fist again, I didn't get enough last time!"

Android 18 raised his hand and pulled the trigger of the mechanical arm, a flash of blue light appearing at the muzzle of the energy cannon: "Hopefully, this Frieza from this timeline is more durable than the one from before."

Trunks took a deep breath and pressed the button on the side of the engine: "The time anchor is set, we can jump at any time."

A burst of golden light suddenly erupted, enveloping the four of them. This jump was worse than the last, like riding a ship without seatbelts through a giant wave, their internal organs feeling like they were about to be thrown out. Lin Ye gritted his teeth to steady himself, and out of the corner of his eye, he could see that although Vegeta's face was tense, his eyes were frighteningly bright; he was already looking forward to facing Frieza again.

When the light faded, all they saw was a dark, starry sky with a green planet suspended in the middle—Namek. But before they could even get their bearings, a wave of energy carrying an aura of destruction surged up from the planet's surface, making their chests feel heavy and suffocated.

"Hahaha! This is the power of a cosmic emperor! One hundred percent full power! You monkeys, tremble!"

Frieza's shrill voice pierced the vacuum, going straight into his ears. Lin Ye looked down and saw a giant purple shadow frantically leaking energy across the Namekian landscape. The ground cracked like a spiderweb, seawater steamed into the sky, and the entire planet shook. Opposite him, Goku was covered in wounds, his golden aura flickering, barely able to stand.

"It's this time!" Trunks' eyes widened. "The final stage of Father and Uncle Kakarot's desperate fight against Frieza!"

Vegeta stared at Goku, who was being beaten to the ground, his pupils contracting... Although he knew it was from another timeline, seeing the Saiyan being bullied like this still made him clench his fists, his arrogance rising even more: "Damn it... We were so pathetic back then."

"Don't just stand there!" Lin Ye suddenly shouted, the data stream at his fingertips flashing wildly. "The system has detected abnormal time fluctuations! The Observer has already made its move!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than the battlefield below suddenly exploded! A pure white beam of light shot out from the void, heading straight for Sun Wukong, who was gathering his energy blast. The timing was perfect, just when Sun Wukong was completely focused on fighting Frieza and had no time to be distracted!

"Not good!" Sun Wukong twisted his body with difficulty, and the beam of light grazed his shoulder, leaving a large spray of blood. The light of the Spirit Bomb dimmed instantly, scattering into specks of light.

Frieza was stunned, then roared in fury, "Who?! Who dares to interfere with my battle?!"

Three figures dressed in silver-white bodysuits and wearing faceless masks floated out of the void, their time energy as cold as ice. The leader spoke, his voice mechanical and devoid of emotion: "Observer Direct Cleanup Team. Variable Sun Wukong, your potential has exceeded expectations, interfering with the experimental process. According to the protocol, eliminate."

The other turned to Frieza, his tone still icy: "Variable Frieza, either keep fighting, or... wipe us all out."

"You bastards!" Frieza trembled with rage, purple energy gathering in his palm. "Who do you think you are? How dare you talk to me about cleansing?"

Sun Wukong clutched his bleeding shoulder, his brows furrowed in a frown: "You... are in cahoots with the ones who attacked the spaceship before?" He still remembered the strange man with time manipulation abilities he had encountered on the spaceship.

Without further ado, the cleanup team raised their hands simultaneously, and a white beam of time-stopping light wove into a net, enveloping Goku and Frieza. This power was completely out of place in this timeline; even the air was frozen.

"Attack!" Lin Ye shouted, charging down first.

"I've been waiting!" Vegeta was even faster than him, his blue flames trailing a long tail as he crashed directly into the leftmost cleanup crew member. "Galik Cannon!" The thick blue energy cannon blasted out, interrupting the opponent's beam.

Number 18 circled behind another team member, his robotic arm instantly transforming into a high-frequency blade, slashing towards the opponent's neck: "A sneak attack from behind? How despicable."

Trunks rushed in front of Goku, his Variable Engine deploying a pale blue barrier to block the sweeping time beam: "Uncle Goku! Watch out! These people can manipulate time!"

Sun Wukong looked at the group of people who suddenly appeared, completely bewildered: "Eh? Who are you...?" He had no idea how so many helpers had suddenly appeared out of his eye socket, and each of them had such a strong aura.

Lin Ye didn't join the fight, but hovered in mid-air, the light of his variable engine shining brightly: "System! Full power scan and cleanup team! Analyze their time energy structure, find weaknesses! Record data synchronously, especially the resonance frequency of the time core!"

[Scan initiated... Target carries a time shield, reducing the effectiveness of regular attacks by 60%... Energy pattern matching in progress... Vulnerability detected! Their energy transmission has millisecond-level intervals!]

[Capturing resonant frequency... Signal interference is severe... Progress 15%...]

The battlefield below was in complete chaos. Frieza was initially angry that someone was causing trouble, but when he saw the Saiyan energy on Vegeta, he was stunned... This power was far stronger than the Saiyans he remembered.

"Another Saiyan trash?" Frieza narrowed his eyes. "This power... who are you?"

While fighting the cleanup crew, Vegeta couldn't resist taunting them: "What are you looking at! You purple-skinned dwarf! After all these years, you're still as disgusting as ever!"

The cleanup team clearly hadn't anticipated the intrusion of people from other timelines, throwing their rhythm into disarray. While their time manipulation abilities were strong, Vegeta's years of experience were ingrained in his very being, allowing him to find openings during the gaps in the enemy's energy. Android 18's mechanical arm reacted twice as fast as a normal person, his high-frequency blades striking at the enemy's shields, specifically targeting weak points. Trunks, with his ability to foresee time, could also manage to cope. Furthermore, although Goku was bewildered, his fighting instincts remained intact, occasionally unleashing a powerful energy blast to provide support, resulting in a stalemate with the cleanup team.

"Variables exceeded expectations! Threat level increased! Requesting execution of Plan B!" The cleanup team member, who had been forced to retreat by Number 18, suddenly shouted into the communicator.

"Approved. Release the Time Aberration." The lead team member's voice was completely flat.

The three of them retreated simultaneously, raised their hands and fired three strange signal flares, which plunged into the ground of Namek.

The ground suddenly trembled violently, as if something was about to burst out from beneath. The next second, a huge, shapeless monster emerged from the ground. Its body was composed of countless chaotic fragments of time and the wailing faces of Namekians. Wherever it went, the ground distorted, and even the light bent.

"What the hell is that?!" Sun Wukong's scalp tingled at the sight.

"It's a monster the Observer created using failed experiments and remnants of time!" Trunks shouted. "It can cause widespread time chaos!"

The Time Distortion uttered a silent roar, and a distorted wave of time spread out. Vegeta suddenly felt a beat slower and almost got hit by the beam of the cleanup crew; Android 18's mechanical arm emitted a piercing screeching sound, as if it had rusted for a thousand years in an instant; Goku's shoulder wound, which had just healed, suddenly burst open again, and blood flowed out again, in a recurring cycle.

"We have to take it down!" Lin Ye swooped down and shouted into the communicator, "System! Synchronize the frequency of the energy intermittent with Uncle Vegeta and Android 18! Trunks, use the Variable Engine to release a reverse time wave to neutralize its effects! Uncle Sun, please cooperate with us!"

"Oh...okay!" Although Sun Wukong didn't fully understand, he immediately nodded and began to gather energy in his hands, "Kamehameha..."

"Frequency received!" Vegeta's eyes lit up, his fist enveloped in blue energy, and he slammed it towards the chest of the cleanup team member, perfectly timed to coincide with the gap in the enemy's energy transmission. "Scum! Die!"

Number 18 also adjusted his attack rhythm, his high-frequency blade precisely slicing through the gap in another teammate's shield, leaving a deep mark.

Trunks activated the Variable Engine at full power, and a pale blue reverse time wave spread out. Although it could not completely counteract the effects of the aberration, it at least restored everyone's movements to normal.

"Now! Attack together!" Lin Ye shouted, and the variable engine released a golden torrent of data, heading straight for the core of the aberration.

Vegeta's Ultimate Flash, Android 18's Energy Cannon, Goku's Kamehameha, Lin Ye's Data Stream, and Trunks' Reverse Time Wave—these five forces collided, forming a devastating beam of light that instantly engulfed the Time Aberration and the three cleanup crew members.

Rumble...!

The deafening roar shook Namek, and the dazzling light illuminated half the planet. When the light faded, the aberrant creature had vanished without a trace, leaving only a few silver armor fragments of the cleanup team, slowly dissolving into specks of light in the air.

Frieza stared at everything before him, his mouth agape. He had no idea who these people who had suddenly appeared were or how they could be so strong.

Sun Wukong, panting heavily, walked up to Lin Ye: "Thank you... thank you so much! But who exactly are you...?"

"No time to explain!" Lin Ye's variable engine suddenly emitted a rapid alarm: [Warning! High-dimensional lock detected! The Judge is breaking through the time barrier! Expected arrival in 30 seconds! Time core resonance frequency recording progress 35%!]

"We have to leave immediately!" Lin Ye said, and began to initiate a time jump.

He glanced at the still bewildered Goku and the bewildered Frieza, and said, "Watch out for the Watchers! They're not friends!"

The golden, leaping light shone brightly once more.

"Trying to run?!" Frieza finally reacted, and a beam of death shot towards the light.

Vegeta slammed his fist into the beam, scattering it, and before disappearing, he gave Frieza a defiant gesture: "Goodbye, trash!"

With a flash of light, the four people vanished instantly, leaving behind only a mess and two people who were still in shock.

Frieza was so angry he was jumping up and down, but he had nowhere to vent his anger... He couldn't even catch a glimpse of the other person.

Sun Wukong scratched his head, looking in the direction they had disappeared, still not understanding what the "Watcher" was. However, he quickly turned to Frieza, his eyes sharpening again: "Never mind! Frieza! Our battle isn't over yet!"

In a distant, higher-dimensional space, the Judge watched the signal disappear from the monitoring screen, and the resonant frequency of Lin Ye's variable engine flickering on the screen. A cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth beneath his golden mask.

"I've found your frequency, my brother..." The Judge's voice carried a chilling laugh. "Next time, you won't be able to escape."

Chapter 470 Resonance and the Hunt

The time-jumping passage trembled violently, the golden light becoming chaotic and unstable. Purple energy lightning, like ferocious serpents, tore through the passage walls intermittently, emitting a teeth-grinding crackling sound. The entire passage seemed poised to collapse completely at any moment, casting the intruder into an endless temporal turbulence.

"What's going on?! Why is it shaking so much this time?!" Vegeta roared. He pushed off with his feet, his ki exploding around him, forcefully pinning himself to the spot, but the violent shaking still made his body sway slightly.

"It's the Judge!" Lin Ye gritted his teeth, his hands flying across the control interface. The variable engine hummed under strain, operating beyond its limits, struggling to maintain the last vestiges of stability in the passage. "He's forcibly interfering with our jump path! He wants to force us out of the time stream, or throw us directly into some dangerous time rift!"

Trunks gripped the variable engine's control panel tightly, beads of sweat forming on his forehead. "I'm trying to counter the interference, but his power level is too high! It's not even in the same league! And... it seems he left some kind of mark on us, allowing him to pinpoint our time fluctuations!"

Number 18 calmly gripped the bulkhead, which was actually just a channel formed by energy, its surface scorching hot to the touch. Her sharp gaze swept over the wildly flickering turbulent energy currents outside: "Can we shake it off? Or find the nearest safe point for an emergency landing?"

"Trying...it's not working!" Lin Ye's face was grim. "All the preset safe point coordinates have been blocked by an even stronger force! It has predicted all our possible escape routes!"

At this desperate and critical moment, the variable engine within Lin Ye's body suddenly emitted a peculiar buzzing sound, distinct from the emergency alarm. A faint yet exceptionally clear resonance signal was detected, strangely echoing the frequency of the "time core" he had previously sensed!

[Warning: Unknown resonance signal detected! Source: Current time stream depth coordinates XXX.]

The signal frequency matches the residual data from the "time core" with a 17.4% accuracy rate... and this is steadily increasing...

[Analysis: This signal may originate from a secondary time core fragment not fully controlled by the observer, or a similar homologous device.]

"This is..." Lin Ye's heart skipped a beat, and a bold idea flashed through his mind, "System! Ignore the interference from the Judge, concentrate all energy, and track this resonance signal with all your might! Set it as the new jump target! Immediately!"

[Instructions received! Route replanned! Warning: This route will traverse a highly unstable region of temporal turbulence, posing an extremely high risk of collision and disorientation!]

[At the same time, tracking this signal behavior may reveal our specific location coordinates to both the signal source and the tracker/judge.]

"I can't worry about that anymore!" Lin Ye made up his mind, his voice resolute. "Rather than be chased into a dead end like a rabbit by the Judges, I'd rather take this gamble! Jump towards the signal source! Execute immediately!"

The variable engine roared as it overloaded, and the already violently trembling golden time tunnel suddenly veered into a sharp, almost right-angle bend, plunging without hesitation into a nearby area where the colors were even more chaotic and the energy lightning was even more dense and violent!

Boom! Click!

A violent impact struck, and the entire "cabin" felt as if it were about to fall apart completely at any moment. The outside world was no longer a relatively orderly flow of light, but had turned into wildly twisting and spinning blocks of color and fragmented pieces of images. Countless mixed fragments of sound from different timelines sharply assaulted their eardrums: the roars of the battlefield, the clamor of the city, the silence of the starry sea... all kinds of sounds mixed into an incomprehensible torrent of noise.

"Where the hell are we jumping off to?!" Vegeta stared at the bizarre and grotesque scene outside, a sight that could drive any sane person insane, and felt a chill run down his spine like never before. This chaos and distortion involving the very essence of time was far more eerie and unsettling than any physical enemy he had ever faced.