Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 851 - 850: Token (4K)

Information.

A massive amount of redundant and complex information accumulates and deposits in the mind.

Li Ang was driving a Jaguar II model high-speed motorcycle, rushing through the dim floors.

The pitch-black motorcycle helmet reflected the emergency lights on the walls in the desolate space on both sides, like meteors passing by.

The Brain Worms collected information with the Scout Worker Bugs and then classified, organized, and summarized it,

transmitting the unusual and noteworthy intelligence directly to Li Ang through a Divine Power Connection.

When the Bug Nest was still underwater, we only needed to guard against potential human civilization Detectors,

but once the swarm established the Bug Nest in the trench and all Worker Bugs completed their mimicry, the information transmission rate was much less.

Now, however, with the Bug Nest's restrictions lifted, the amount of information has increased sharply, creating unavoidable chaotic noise in Li Ang's mind that consumes his Sanity Value at a visible pace.

Along with the information transmitted through the Evil God Handicraft Clay, there were other things, such as... the emotions of the Brain Worms.

Infinite yearning and reverence for the creator, thirst for knowledge, hope for recognition from the benevolent father and Lady Saint, and even envy and jealousy towards other accomplished Brain Worms (many Brain Worms probably aren't even aware of this point). 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Brain Worms with a sense of self-awareness naturally develop a variety of thoughts and emotions through interaction with the outside world.

These currently shallow emotions mixed into the information they prayed to the creator with, accumulating over time and forming noise.

Hence, Li Ang constantly receives feedback from the Bug Nest's will, resisting the bombardment of numerous complex emotions.

The downside is Li Ang must concentrate fully without any loss of focus,

but the benefit is during this process, he continually faces his inner self, recognizing himself more deeply,

gaining an increasingly profound understanding of "Li Ang".

Self-awareness is, in fact, a rather prolonged, painful, and arduous process,

requiring long-term objective observation of oneself, a calm assessment and judgment of one's thoughts, desires, and actions, and analyzing the reasons from internal and external causes, past and present layers.

Like observing oneself in a mirror, seeing clearly the features in the reflection, every strand of hair, every dirty and hidden pore, and every filthy twisted mite,

even penetrating the surface to analyze the skeletal structure forming the exterior.

Li Ang matured far earlier than most of his peers, and his mind was like a solid rock, deliberately encased within layers of stone for a long time.

Outsiders find it incredibly difficult to imagine or surmise Li Ang's true thoughts,

even he sometimes gets confused by the identity of "Li Ang", like faking a smile for so long and forgetting what a genuinely happy smile looks like.

The Bug Nest's mental washing became instead a good opportunity,

Li Ang gradually realized his mind and memory's condition and could somewhat control his mental activities, like a puppeteer observing a puppet from a high vantage point, scrutinizing and comprehending himself,

anchoring his will to remain unchanged,

to resist the washing from the Bug Nest's will.

The high-intensity spiritual grinding swiftly elevated Li Ang's Spiritual Energy level, and his skill in using Psychic Abilities also achieved long-term progress.

He barely pushed open the door to Level 3 Spiritual Energy.

Moreover, Spiritual Energy can increase the maximum Sanity Value and the Sanity Value recovery speed, perfectly offsetting the Sanity Value consumption caused by the Divine Power Connection.

This allows him to act as usual, without showing any signs of sluggishness or dullness.

"Are the Wind Chaser's people attempting a jailbreak..."

Li Ang turned a corner on his motorcycle, leaving this insignificant matter to the Brain Worms to handle.

He had more important issues to resolve.

The Bug Nest's Scout Worker Bugs spread out, gradually confirming that there was indeed a new unknown force in the Lost World at present.

They were composed of Monster Beasts and humans, with a complicated power system, appearing randomly on various floors, attacking Mortal Realm players,

killing them,

or using special ropes to tightly bind them and take them to lower floors.

However, due to the swift movement and keen perception of these individual beings, the Scout Worker Bugs couldn't get too close,

and any slight inattentiveness would leave them thrown off by the opponent's overly flexible mobility speed.

Even so, Li Ang and the Bug Nest Brain Worms still thought of a solution—let the Scout Worker Bugs carry different models of micro spores to spread on various floors,

once passing through these spore-distributed floors, an imperceptible yet gradually changing over time slight spore scent would be left on them.

The Bug Nest can verify the movement direction of all living things in the Lost World based on the spore tracks.

"Judging from their behavior, we can almost confirm they are Otherworldly Players, with the only questions being their reason and purpose for appearing here."

Li Ang's mind raced, pondering: "The System's statement regarding the Lost World is 'players can attack each other, when the surviving players become fifty, the remaining players automatically enter the formal door fight. If the time limit ends with still over fifty, then they will be eliminated down to fifty depending on performance.'

There is no mention of Otherworldly Players..."

The Otherworldly Players Li Ang officially encountered, thinking carefully, seemed to be the two from the [High-dimensional Hacking] scenario task, appearing as Yuri and Gandalf,

who allowed Li Ang and others to complete the task and, upon its completion, kindly reminded them to go back and tell other Mortal Realm players that they must win the door fight.

If it's "winning," naturally this means facing competitors, not internal digestion of positions,

perhaps at that time, Yuri and Gandalf were hinting at the current situation of the Lost World....

"Still far too little information."

Li Ang's eyes flickered, he whispered: "Currently, all observed situations are that the Otherworldly beings either kill Earth players or bind them, showing no mercy once they act.

And the kidnapped Earth players are noticeably among the three hundred strong, ranked relatively later.

If it's to use Earth players for blood sacrifices or refining them into puppets, naturally, the more, the better in terms of numbers and quality.

Thinking this way, perhaps the other side's intention is to control the number of Earth players,

to gradually reduce the player count to fifty artificially, thus prematurely triggering the door fight—if the fifty advancing Earth players are all weaklings, perhaps this would be advantageous for them."

Li Ang thought to himself without showing any emotion, "Of course, these are just assumptions.

The most efficient way is still to directly kidnap an Otherworldly Player, extract their memory, and figure out their plan.

If possible, try to thwart their conspiracy.

Considering the Bug Nest can't be too far from me,

it's now time for the identity of 'Li Rising' to officially appear in a reasonable way..."

Having sorted out the connections, outwardly Li Ang drove at breakneck speed, while internally his thoughts surged, with the Spiritual Warlock's intense personal will, through the Divine Power Connection, communicated to the numerous Bug Nest units.

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A certain battle that erupted on the 42nd floor was nearing its end.

Nebula from the Global Occult Coalition floated in mid-air, with scintillating starlight flowing in his eyes, extending his hand to suppress and summoning out of thin air the Star Realm matter capable of absorbing energy and individual mind (a non-solid, non-liquid, non-gas matter, akin to a supercritical state)

that trapped the hands and feet of two people dressed in ancient clothing.

"Who exactly are you?"

Standing on the ground, Arlina asked in a deep voice, "Why did you appear here? Why are you attacking us?"

Crack.

Nebula drove the Star Realm matter and broke the hand of one person—he was trying to take out and activate a golden plaque.

The token fell to the ground with a sound, and a resolute expression appeared on the man's face. He shouted something in an otherworld language to his companion, and their bodies inflated rapidly like balloons being blown up,

even the Star Realm matter summoned by Nebula couldn't suppress it.

Boom, boom!

The explosion resounded through the floor, and the place where the two had been was now a deep pit with a ten-meter diameter,

charred and filled with the smell of sulfur, with some soil faintly showing glass-like crystallization marks from the intense heat.

"They actually committed suicide..."

Nebula slowly descended from mid-air, her face a bit pale—at that moment of lightning and fire, she had used the Star Realm matter to create a giant shield in front of the two of them, barely blocking the explosion's shockwave.

Arlina supported Nebula and asked in a deep voice, "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine."

Nebula shook her head, slightly fearful, as she withdrew the tattered stellar shield, glanced at the sunken pit, and murmured, "That token..."

"It's with me."

Arlina raised the golden plaque taken out by the two otherworldly players with her hand, not directly touching it but letting it float on her palm using the updraft generated by her hand.

[Name: Private God Engraving Agreement]

[Type: Consumable]

[Quality: Perfect]

[Special Effect: God Aid. Summon the existence contracted by the God Engraving Agreement, allowing it to be directly transported to the vicinity of the token or remotely transfer extraordinary power into the user's body via the Private God Engraving Agreement]

[Usage Cost: None]

[Cooldown Time: None]

[Usage Requirements: Intelligence Attribute greater than or equal to 10 points, Perception Attribute greater than or equal to 10 points, User is a mage receiving blessings from the Taoist Door of Liwei Mountain]

[Remark: The further the distance, the weaker the teleportation effect, the greater the loss of energy and information]

[Remark: The contractor may refuse the God Engraving Agreement response]

[Remark: This God Engraving Agreement belongs to Dann Chenzi, the mage receiving blessings from Liwei Mountain]

[Remark: Summon wind, summon rain, call gods, dispatch generals, descend upon the altar, escort souls, exorcise and subdue demons]

The token is actually a Perfect Level consumable item?

Surprise and shock surfaced simultaneously in the hearts of Nebula and Arlina.

"This should be a magic artifact frequently used in Eastern Taoist rites and ceremonies."

As a mentor of the Wind Chaser program and an experienced, well-informed high-level player, Arlina naturally had seen information on power heritage systems from different regions of the world and was not unfamiliar with Eastern Taoism,

"Most Eastern rituals, whether it's offering reports to the heavenly gods, praying for rain and clearing skies, stopping the wind and snow, or commanding ghosts and gods, all require using plaques made of materials like jujube wood, pomegranate wood, or cypress wood to issue orders. Otherwise, ghosts and gods won't obey orders.

The entire process of making, using, and refining the plaques is tedious for outsiders."

Arlina paused and said in a low voice, "The name of this item is [Private God Engraving Agreement], and it is also marked in the remarks which existence the plaque is contracted with.

Considering the plaque is, after all, just a Perfect Level consumable, not an epic or legendary item,

it probably doesn't have the function of world-crossing energy transfer.

In other words, the contractor of the plaque, the so-called Dann Chenzi, the mage receiving blessings from Liwei Mountain, is inside the Lost World."

"Hmm..."

Nebula nodded, speaking in a deep voice, "Moreover, this item specifies that the user must be a mage receiving blessings from Liwei Mountain, which means the two players who just committed suicide also belong to the Liwei Mountain faction.

Do you think they could be from the Heterodox Academy...?"

"Probably not."

Arlina shook her head, "We've never heard of any faction called Liwei Mountain in the East, even the Heterodox Academy can't hide so well.

Moreover, if they were indeed branch players of the Heterodox Academy, they certainly wouldn't commit suicide right in front of the system detector—the Heterodox Academy's power system has terrifying requirements for talent,

with few people, difficult legacy, and each member is extremely precious.

Even if captured by another faction and stripped of the ability to surrender,

they would still propose a trade, handing over items and equipment in exchange for a chance to quit and surrender."

"Then what exactly is this..."

Nebula frowned, vaguely guessing something, exchanged a glance with Arlina, and buried the possibility of otherworldly players in her heart, not saying it in front of the detector.

They are high-level agents of the Global Occult Coalition, with clearance to access confidential materials, and have seen some information about otherworldly players.

Mech beasts, security guards, the inexplicable "When the Stars Return" comic series, self-slaughtering Earth players,

and now there's also otherworldly players similar to the Eastern ancient Taoist heritage system...

Intricate intelligence gradually forms a complex web in their minds, vaguely revealing the shape of something, yet always remaining indistinct.

Arlina and Nebula remained silent as the system detector, exceeding its gaze time limit, automatically disappeared over time.

"What do we do now?"

Nebula glanced at the spot where the detector disappeared and asked in a deep voice.

"If there are otherworldly players, the situation is significantly different."

Arlina thought for a moment and answered, "The previous struggle was still an internal Earth's competition, with any winning faction's prize eventually being Earth's various forces.

But now, the appearance of otherworldly people, and judging by their behavior, they come with ill intentions...

I think we need to unite with others.

Did you record the encounter with otherworldly players just now?"

"I did."

Nebula nodded, tapping the button-shaped camera on the chest of her Global Occult Coalition uniform.

Arlina breathed a sigh of relief, "Good, if we meet other mortal realm players, we'll use the recorded video to persuade them to join us, unite and understand the current situation..."

Before she finished her sentence, dense footsteps echoed from the distant tunnel.

Swarm of ants.

A massive swarm of giant ants almost filled the entire tunnel, from a distance, there were countless densely packed legs.

The previously vanished detector reappeared, clearly recording the astonishment on Arlina's and Nebula's faces, as well as their exclaims,

"Ant King?"