True Apocalypse Game

In the medical lab, Li Tongchen stared at the CT scan on the computer screen, the shock in his heart beyond words.

His brain was now completely different from that of an ordinary person.

Surrounding his brain, in addition to the dense network of capillaries, there was now a new type of black filament.

These filaments converged at his brainstem, a small part of which had now turned into a black patch.

According to conventional medicine, such a black patch was almost certainly a brain tumor.

Based on the CT scan, his brain wasn’t just filled with blood clots and what looked like tumors; a large number of his cerebral blood vessels were also completely blocked. It was a miracle he was even alive.

But Li Tongchen felt none of the pain associated with a brain tumor or vascular blockage. On the contrary, he was full of vigor, and his mental state was countless times better than before.

He would even dare to claim that his brain wasn’t this clear even in his youth!

He was the only one in the lab at the moment. He was also the only one who could see the test results, as everyone else had been given the day off.

Thinking of this, Li Tongchen found some old research files on the Evil Spirit Virus experiment. He quickly scanned through them, then tossed the files aside, opened his computer, created a new document, and began typing a flurry of text and characters, his hands moving like lightning.

He wrote for nearly five pages before he finally stopped.

Looking at what was on the computer screen, Li Tongchen picked up the files again to compare. ’It’s a perfect match!’

He had only glanced at it once, yet he had completely memorized the complex experimental data and all the information, and had transcribed it perfectly from memory! A photographic memory! Li Tongchen’s heart pounded with excitement, and his eyes even reddened slightly. He had never been a particularly smart person growing up; he had gotten to where he was today through sheer hard work and diligence. He understood better than anyone what an incredible gift a photographic memory was.

His brain hadn’t just become clearer; it had undergone a complete evolution! ’Brain Domain Evolution!’

Li Tongchen’s hands trembled as he gripped the desk in front of him. He stared at the brain scan on the computer and began to think rapidly.

His brain now showed none of the ailments common in the elderly. It was far superior even to his younger self. When he thought, there was a sense of lightning-fast clarity, a feeling Li Tongchen thoroughly enjoyed.

The structure of his brain was now different from an ordinary person’s. This was the key area of the Brain Domain Evolution.

And after the Brain Domain Evolution, not only did he have a photographic memory, but he could also directly receive television signals—and perhaps other signals—with his brain.

This meant that the evolved part of his brain had undergone a certain degree of silicon-based structural transformation, which was the fundamental reason he could receive TV signals. His brain had now become a biological brain fused with partial silicon-based components.

He had become, in a sense, a superhuman! ’My God, to think this could actually become a medical reality!’

The dream of merging humans with electronic machinery had been realized in him, decades or even centuries ahead of its time!

Stifling his excitement, Li Tongchen began to try and control his new brain. First things first, he needed to at least turn off the fancy tea commercial playing in his head.

Then, Li Tongchen glanced out the window and said silently in his heart, ’Thank you, Commander.’

As Li Tongchen reeled in shock from the silicon-based transformation of his brain, nearly a thousand Salvation Army Warriors across the globe received a reward from the Commander: a dose of Brain Domain Evolution Fluid.

These mysterious rewards appeared in various forms: some arrived as express deliveries, some materialized directly on the desks of the rewarded Salvation Army Warriors, some were found in someone’s drink, and so on.

After the initial shock wore off, all the warriors who received the Brain Domain Evolution Fluid began trying to control their new brains.

They started by shutting out the redundant information in their minds. After all, while the evolved brain was powerful and convenient, being bombarded with junk information every day would drive a person mad long before they became stronger. It was like being surrounded by ten thousand gossips chattering nonstop; it would be a miracle not to go insane.

In the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in New York, Eagle Country, Nick, who had mixed his Brain Domain Evolution Fluid into a glass of whiskey, slowly came to his senses. He then let out a sudden whistle.

"Mother Fucker..."

A pay-per-view channel had just popped into his head, automatically cracked for his viewing pleasure. It was an adult channel, too, and he found it hard to turn away...

In the Kremlin, Vasily stared blankly at the air in front of him and muttered:

"Su... Suka Blyat!?"

...

Out of the tens of thousands of Salvation Army Warriors worldwide, a total of one thousand had received the Commander’s Brain Domain Evolution reward this time.

After undergoing a violent Brain Domain Evolution, these individuals finally tasted the unprecedented pleasure of evolution.

At the same time, they all faced the same urgent problem: how to block out the junk signals while also allowing their minds to access the online world to a limited degree, to enjoy the pleasure of surfing the net with their very souls.

Watching the newly evolved Salvation Army Warriors through monitoring devices scattered across the world, Jingwei couldn’t help but ask a question.

"Shen Feng, you just let them evolve like that? What if there are sleeper agents from the Purification Society among them? And these people are so slow. It’s been this long, and not a single one has managed to project their consciousness into the network."

Shen Feng smiled faintly and said:

"Don’t worry. This batch of the Pangu Potion is a weakened version. The pain they endured was far less than mine, and the degree of evolution they obtained is likewise inferior. Their Silicon-Based Brains have, at most, a few percent of the functionality of mine, but for humanity at its current stage, that’s more than enough."

Shen Feng had even once considered inducing a collective evolution for all of humanity, injecting everyone with the Pangu Virus to usher in an age of superhumans. But in the end, he abandoned the idea.

The main reason was that humanity was not yet ready for such a day. Otherwise, even if their minds became superhuman, their physical frailty, coupled with the dark side of their nature—greed and cruelty—would only accelerate the demise of human civilization.

He had to proceed step by step, guiding the growth of human civilization. And this first batch of evolved individuals would become the kindling, the sparks who would join Shen Feng in illuminating the long, dark night of human civilization.

Shen Feng was about to say something more, to express his feelings about human civilization, when a chaotic stream of data suddenly burst from the detector they had placed on the seabed of the Arctic Circle!

Alarms blared!

On a campus in the suburbs of Tai City, Jingwei, who was dressed in a maid outfit and wearing goggles while doing some electrical welding, abruptly raised her head. Her expression was grim as she said:

"Something’s about to come out of the wormhole!"