Player Reload-Chapter 648 - 562: Settlement
The five-minute countdown for the mission’s conclusion ended, and Li Cheng and Gray Rain returned to the Earth’s surface, their bodies reverting to solid form.
"[Net Warrior], it really does happen in the realm of the internet."
Li Cheng muttered to himself. At the moment of return, he and Gray Rain had about a millisecond where their bodies were composed of green code data.
"? What’s so special about this?" Gray Rain asked, puzzled.
"In general mission returns, it’s usually direct teleportation."
Li Cheng casually explained, "When the Slaughter Field Game first launched, there were multinational corporations conducting experiments.
They first placed the players in a pitch-black room, lying in a glass container filled with diluted milk. The players executed the script tasks and disappeared instantly from their original place,
After completing the task in the script world, the players wore a skintight suit covered with femtosecond laser generators, returned to a lying position, activated the lasers, and waited for the five-minute countdown to end,
At the moment of return, femtosecond lasers passed through the diluted milk, captured by an ultra-high-speed compression photography system of 100 trillion frames per second.
The results proved that the players’ return time was far shorter than picoseconds or femtoseconds, which is one trillionth of a second."
"Hmm..."
Gray Rain blinked, pondering and understanding Li Cheng’s point, "When a player returns, their body posture changes, meaning the surrounding air or liquid will be compressed.
If the player’s volume is 0.07 cubic meters, it’s fine if it’s air; if it’s liquid, within a trillionth of a second, pushing away 0.07 cubic meters of water would create an extraordinarily powerful explosive shock wave underwater.
The only explanation for why this isn’t happening is that the Slaughter Field personally intervened, eliminating the impact caused by teleportation."
"That’s right."
Li Cheng felt a bit gratified. Books aren’t read in vain, and [Silver Wing Light Path] wasn’t equipped for nothing. Gray Rain’s intelligence was increasingly approaching that of a normal person.
"Player return is interfered with by the Slaughter Field, or else the major guilds wouldn’t need to research weapons of mass destruction. They could just hire a hundred players, make them overfed and bulky, transform them into good disciples,
and have them infiltrate the seabed off enemy coasts, using the teleportation return effect to trigger tsunamis and flood coastal cities."
Li Cheng paused, his expression complicated as he clicked his tongue, "Though Slaughter Field players grow quickly, they are still under the control of the Slaughter Field.
Even top-tier powerhouses like Michael, Side of Truth, cannot resist teleportation."
"There’s pros and cons to everything."
Gray Rain commented casually, "The higher the cap of the Slaughter Field System, doesn’t it imply that players can reach a higher cap? With version updates, maybe they’ll unlock the level cap to Level 50, Level 60, or even Level 100."
"Indeed."
Li Cheng nodded, wise in a foolish way, foolish in a wise way, Gray Rain saw things quite clearly.
"Oh, the Evil Science Alliance’s reality show has been updated."
Gray Rain’s phone pinged with a notification, and her eyes lit up as she immediately projected her phone’s screen onto the living room’s LCD TV, hurriedly grabbed snacks and drinks, and comfortably sank into the sofa, eating while watching.
"This summer, 39 brave challengers were thrown into a game of survival beyond reality. Some make flawless plans to break the deadlock. Some understand the ways of the world, play on human nature’s shadows, and reap the benefits. Some press forward boldly, undaunted by danger..."
The TV broadcasted an exuberant and passionate commentary, accompanied by flashy and glamorous program preview animations featuring individual character entries.
"Contestant 1: I am Ma Jiajiao, and I’m about to start lying."
"Contestant 2: The most important thing in life is maturity; this is the life rule taught to me by Hannibal-sensei, Sakagawa Ichiro."
"Contestant 3: The only one who sees through the truth is someone who appears to be a University of California math professor with a criminal intelligence far above the norm, Kaczynski!"
???
Li Cheng nearly spit out his salty soda, "What’s this nonsense?"
"This is the Evil Science Alliance’s new reality show called [Death Game]. It just went live last week, and they’ve released three episodes."
Gray Rain explained matter-of-factly, "The Evil Science Alliance’s director of the bioscience department made a breakthrough in brain science. To continue the research and earn some research funding, they organized a reality show,
bringing in 39 death row inmates from various countries, removing their bodies while preserving their brains, inputting false memories into their brains, and linking them to a server, claiming they were selected to participate in the Main God Space’s death game."
"Brains in a vat, huh?"
Li Cheng twitched an eyelid, "Isn’t this a trampling of human rights and anti-humanity? Would the Global Supernatural Alliance allow it?"
"So each contestant is someone who’s had all their rights, including human rights, stripped away because they are ultimate scumbags."
Gray Rain shrugged, fast-forwarding,
Participants include but are not limited to former president of African Liberia, Charles Taylor—mass slaughter, cannibalism, forming child soldiers;
Pedro Alonso Lopez, a Colombian serial killer dubbed the "Andean Beast," who committed over 300 murders while wandering Central America;
A certain Italian intermediary—during the Yugoslav civil war, he invited hundreds of wealthy businessmen from the United States, Russia, England, France, and Germany to form a tour group, setting up guns on a mountain near Sarajevo for the fun of sniping and killing civilians in the city.
Each is the epitome of human scum, with anti-humanity records setting lower and lower bars. The bloodthirsty audience in the slum feels no guilt watching them brain-dead in reality shows.
They’d rather have the program add a ranking segment, allowing them to buy specific brands of milk to vote and rank, maliciously increasing the difficulty for contestants or something.
"Competing alongside these noble figures, even Kaczynski would be sweating."
Li Cheng’s eyelid twitched slightly, but to be fair, the Evil Science Alliance’s "brains in a vat" technology is quite mature, with clear visuals and realistic special effects, although the plot is rather difficult to hold.
Especially when the character shouts, "Main God! Central Continent Team, repair all! Deduct rewards from me, Ma Jiajiao!"
Watching the reality show fascinatingly, Li Cheng returned to his room to check on his mission rewards.
[Player’s overall performance: S+, increasing Game Coin and Experience Points to 160%]
[Reward Settlement in Progress]
Although the Phase Change Demon was a manufactured conceptual biological weapon with limited subjectivity, its Level was a solid Level 33.
Not weaker than those of the same level like Zhongtian Beiji, Wanli Sealed Blade, and White Horse Tombstone.
[Task Reward 1: 3155 Experience Points]
[Task Reward 2: 6720 Game Coins]
With a 1.6 coefficient, the Phase Change Demon provided Li Cheng with 5048 Experience Points and 10752 Game Coins.
Li Cheng progressed from his previous Level 26, with his Experience Bar at 1572/2600, leveling up twice to Level 28, with the Experience Bar at 1320/2800.
[Task Reward 3: Randomly seize the highest-quality item or skill from the Phase Change Demon’s backpack] 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
The last deathmatch mission had to trace back to [Baekje Black Sky], battling Jiang Zhihui in South Korea Seoul, where there were rewards for looting items and skills.
Precisely, it granted Li Cheng the [Demon Exchange] skill and [Mechanic Master’s Certificate].
"I’ve thrown in the Bat Hook Claw Gun and Steel Banner Spear this time; at the very least, let me see a return on investment."
Li Cheng muttered, shouting "Open!"
A golden light flashed, and at the end of the Skill Bar, a shadow named [Illusion and Reality·Bullet Screen Splendor] appeared prominently.
"This one’s great!"
Illusory Splendor can both attack and defend, with low consumption and fast cooldown. Combined with skills like Dragon Breath, one breath creates a flood of fire rain, terrifying the opposite side to death.
"Just having [Illusory Splendor] is at least a Perfect Quality learning scroll, already not a loss. As for the other item..."
He fervently rubbed his hands, clicking open the treasure chest. As a strong light flashed, his expression turned somewhat strange because the box was filled with a variety of miscellaneous junk.
"Cardboard boxes, old newspapers, old tents, small carts, worn blankets, aluminum cans... isn’t this the standard wild survival kit of a homeless person in the United States?"
