Player Reload-Chapter 637 - 553: Backup

The battle continued in the virtual space.

The phase change demon, resembling a rotten potato, continuously absorbed the surrounding bubbles representing interconnected devices through the holes in its head and hurled them.

Above Li Cheng’s head, the phantom of a white dragon appeared, as the insect transformation mask slid open, revealing dark red lips without skin.

"Roar——"

The dragon breath exhaled frost and frozen air, turning the spinning wind turbine blades into icy chunks. With a punch, he broke the connection of the blades and embraced the heavy blade with both arms, wielding it like an Azure Dragon Crescent Blade, swatting away another oncoming truck.

"Humans, at least ordinary ones, are quite fragile."

Dr. Noah spoke quickly: "Even without considering the Divine Calamity and anomalies that have escaped from the killing field, a single virus plague, a memetic contamination, or an undeniable abnormal phenomenon is enough to destroy the familiar norm."

What is the norm? A normal state that conforms to the laws of physics, language logic, and human life experience is the norm.

The gap between extraordinary creatures (whether human players or killing field anomalies) and ordinary people is too vast. The GOC, Special Affairs Bureau, Bell Tower, and the FBI Special Incident Division, and other official organizations must enforce high-pressure rule and strict law enforcement to barely maintain a fragile balance.

Otherwise, what if a player whimsically disguises the Sadako Video Tape as an unreleased anime series/new high-definition photo collection/the latest season of Paw Patrol/s8RNGvsG2’s decisive match team voice chat, and spreads it online?

Can the Global Supernatural Alliance manage it?

What if Level 37 or Level 38 decides to make a big move, fly to the Moon, and leave a clear pattern on the lunar surface that ordinary people can clearly see with a phone?

Destroy all images, wipe the memories of all eyewitnesses?

Further, who should define and set the norm?

It’s important to know that the killing field contains limitless possibilities and technology advances rapidly. Theoretically, Prometheus’s mechanical prosthetics technology can now enable initial mechanical ascension, easily breaking all Olympic records for Paralympic athletes.

GS Biotechnology’s superpower activation reagent can really allow a baby to master superpowers upon birth, flying, earth tunneling, breathing fire, and exhaling ice.

The Special Affairs Bureau’s Hidden Room "Star Simulation Corridor" really has infinite energy. If opened to supply, it can produce dozens to hundreds of billions of tons of grain annually, permanently solving Earth’s famine problem.

The question is, dare we?

If the general public becomes widely aware of extraordinary power and the existence of the killing field, it will undoubtedly lead to unprecedented intense social upheaval.

There might be widespread panic, constantly feeling threatened by anomalies or being replaced by cloning technology from conspiracy organizations, achieving a coup de grace;

Or lower-class killings, hoping to gain favor in the killing field and be selected as players;

Or online agitation, swaying public opinion, demanding the official sharing of extraordinary power and elixirs;

Most players still consider themselves human, and humans are a synthesis of all social relationships. Once the basic social order collapses, the moral concepts of the transcendent group will inevitably derail like a train, plunging into the abyss of Hell.

Turning into a social Darwinian Dark Forest would be the best outcome, as in the black market cultivation and cyberpunk, at least ordinary people still have some value.

Under the killing field system, the four major tools—artificial womb, cloning incubation, gene editing, and knowledge infusion devices—directly deconstruct the concept of "human" completely...

"The reason Earth can still maintain social order and a tenuous balance is based on the top-tier transcendents and countries’ officials balancing interests and strategic games.

No one wants to see social order collapse, so the ’Mirror Earth’ plan was made."

Dr. Noah quickly said through the Eyes Communication Headset: "Using 11,000 satellites to extensively collect network information from key nodes, marking the key points, tracking Earth’s dynamic changes like an artificial neural network."

"Understood."

Li Cheng said hoarsely, no wonder there are so many kinds of floating bubbles in the cyberspace.

The Boundary Earth’s satellite is not like the "Sky Net" artificial intelligence in "Terminator", nor is it a storage station for all network information.

It’s more like a dynamically changing neural network, recording ecological environments, population, industrial and agricultural service production, consumption across the world, and even difficult-to-quantify human thoughts in real-time.

If wildly imagining, should a Divine Calamity escape from the killing field and erupt into a battle with Earth’s top transcendents, accidentally wiping out all of Iceland (103,000 square kilometers, roughly 1.7 Tongliaos),

They can rely on the Boundary Earth plan’s data backup, and Level 40s could restore most of Iceland and toss in some clones,

and later claim that a volcanic eruption occurred, killing most of the population.

As for panic....

Iceland only has a population of about thirty thousand, while the Sudan civil war erupted in the fifties and has claimed up to two million lives, yet hasn’t caused any media storms.

"So, please, you must eliminate the phase change demon,"

Dr. Noah said solemnly: "And it must be completely destroyed, preventing it from splitting into fragments and slipping into the rest of the 11,000 satellite networks— ’Mirror Earth’ links global network nodes. Even if the phase change demon dies,

its forces can utilize the spiritual energy waves from its death resonating in Earth’s network to link anchor points between the Otherworld and Earth."

Before Li Cheng could reply, Gray Rain, listening through the Bluetooth headset at the Eyes Communication channel, couldn’t help but curse: "Oh my, why is this phase change demon so wicked?"

The upgraded Gray Rain’s little brain from ’Silver Wing Light Path’ isn’t dumb, from the sounds of it if Li Cheng doesn’t kill the phase change demon, or even just lets its death fragments escape into other networks,

Then the GOC will handle it, even risking a global network shutdown, they would replace a massive amount of network equipment to ensure the phase change demon won’t make a comeback.

Global unrest and developmental setbacks don’t matter,

the issue is that Gray Rain wouldn’t be able to surf the internet freely for at least a few months, can that even be tolerated?!

"Lao Pi, use that move!"

Gray Rain shouted, rushing forward, using a ’Destructive Death Light’ to pierce through an oncoming tugboat, maneuvering and dashing, leaping to the top of the phase change demon.

The phase change demon itself possessed highly corrosive properties, rapidly assimilating any material approaching him, so Gray Rain did not directly slam down with the hammer but instead...

Whoosh——

Like a discus thrower, Li Cheng twisted and threw a massive copper cake with a fierce motion.

The copper cake, nearly two meters in diameter, was raised up and down, extremely heavy, with constant rustling sounds inside during its flight, like it was filled with grains. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The phase change demon instinctively sensed something was amiss, operating the holes in his head at full power, absorbing a series of water turbine rotors.

In some literary works, due to the author’s negligence or lack of concept, some laughable plots often emerge.

For example, a powerful figure who shatters space upon closer inspection, actually has output levels not even surpassing a road roller.

Or a deity’s life-consuming attack, calculated, feels less destructive than the ten-thousand-ton explosion on Lion Mountain.

The phase change demon absorbed these summoned water turbine rotors, each weighing over a thousand tons,

Just like how the Hajjimi crushed the Hundred-ton King, the rotors crushed the Hundred-ton King the same way.

Li Cheng drew an NFC Card with a backhand and swept it through the Heat Death Corridor, summoning the Six-armed Snake Demon.

The latter’s snake hair danced wildly, flickering at high frequency,