Player Reload

"Everyone gets a piece, no one’s wasted the trip."

Li Cheng distributed equipment and items to everyone, including the still frozen-stiff Wanli Sealed Blade, to whom he gave a sword picked up from Brother Bing’s item stock.

White Horse Tombstone waved away the insects from Brother Blade’s stone face, puzzled, "Speaking of which, why haven’t you exchanged for the Time Machine or Lulu Xiu’s Gao Wen Mecha?"

"The Time Machine is clearly broken, and outside the special environment of the Home game, it can’t achieve the effect of reversing time.

As for the Gao Wen Mecha, it’s bound to Lulu Xiu’s personal account and can’t be detached."

Li Cheng’s tone was somewhat regretful. The Time Machine was too overpowered, whether bringing dozens of future selves to help in battle,

or traveling back to rewrite history, or forward to acquire advanced technology, it’s immensely strong.

Within the Battlefield System, even Legendary quality couldn’t contain it. Even the God of Mankind couldn’t afford the "Redemption Fee" to convert the Time Machine into a battlefield creation.

The situation was basically like this, and after chatting for a while, they waited for Wanli Sealed Blade’s petrification to naturally lift and told him what happened next.

"...So we’re caught up in a Level 40 family conflict? What a damn disaster out of the blue."

Wanli Sealed Blade turned his head to Carlos, squinting, "Carlos, didn’t you foresee any of this?"

"Uh..."

Carlos’s eyes in his palm wandered unsteadily, sheepishly saying, "Prophets can’t foresee the fates of beings much stronger than their own Life Essence.

So... I only saw the Ten Thousand Spirits Agreement, not the God of Mankind.

In the future I foresaw, the final showdown involved Brother Blade, the Tombstone, Lulina, and Sunset Melting Gold.

Wan Ling will kill one of you, then ’show great mercy,’ release the rest, and its consciousness will return to a quantum computer in the real world, initiating a large-scale massacre against humanity..."

"So if it wasn’t for Pifu awakening the God of Mankind, we’d definitely lose one of us, right?"

Wanli Sealed Blade rolled his eyes furiously, "Your so-called foresight is half-baked, huh!"

"Predicting wrong... doesn’t count as a mistake. Can a prophet’s matters be counted as mistakes? It’s part of a greater destiny..."

Carlos knew he was at fault, muttering softly, "Plus, you all have rebirth methods..."

"What’s the difference between rebirth and starting over with a new account?"

It was fine until this was mentioned, as Wanli Sealed Blade rolled his eyes even harder.

Nowadays, whether it’s Evil Science Alliance’s Soul Device or Whale Song’s uploaded consciousness or GS Biotechnology’s clone backup, none is a perfect resurrection,

memory, personality, and soul components are incomplete, requiring re-acquisition of player qualifications and re-leveling after rebirth.

The concept closest to resurrection is likely the Holy Temple Knights’ seven-day rebirth ritual,

but the Holy Temple Knights keep it extremely secret, non-core members can’t use it, and the outside world doesn’t know the specific content of the ritual.

In short, after dividing the loot, Li Cheng and Gray Rain randomly found an excuse to stay behind.

The rest, having no fondness for this scarred place, placed a base station beacon continuously sending signals,

then boarded Lulina’s Dragon Cat Bus for the long journey back, searching for a Teleportation Phone Booth to head to the slum.

Leaning against the window without glass, Wanli Sealed Blade’s brows furrowed instinctively, mumbling, "Li... Sun... Cheng. Why does this name sound familiar? Feels like I’ve heard it somewhere."

"Illusion, probably?"

Having narrowly escaped death, Lulina was in a good mood, sitting in the back row, painting her nails, casually saying, "Our player database here doesn’t have someone like that,

and according to the information from the God of Mankind, his active time was 24 years ago, clearly an Otherworldly Transcendent. How could you have heard of him."

"Maybe so."

Wanli Sealed Blade’s frown didn’t dissipate as he thought to himself, being part of the 0.5 batch that survived until now, witnessed the forum’s establishment, directed the slum’s renovation and construction,

and recognized even players with only a few lines in the database despite dying young.

’Something just doesn’t feel right...’

As the cool breeze blew against his cheek, Wanli Sealed Blade withdrew his gaze and inwardly vowed, ’Still should go to the Special Affairs Bureau, let them check the memory.’

Meanwhile, watching the Dragon Cat Bus’s silhouette disappear among the mountains, Gray Rain exhaled a turbid breath, her face rarely becoming serious and grave.

This task, could be described as the most perilous since escaping the Narrative Cage, far surpassing escorting the remains of Heavenly Enemy or fighting the Phase Change Demon.

The Ten Thousand Spirits Agreement in the Home game is akin to God, the professional players were truly dead before the Time Machine activated, and players were at the end of their rope, exhausting every means.

Including Gray Rain herself, losing significant precious memories with Li Cheng.

"Lao Cheng,"

Gray Rain dejectedly suggested, "How about we get the Toy Factory to specifically create a device that can backup my memories back home?"

After a long pause without a response, she turned her head to see Li Cheng opening the Three-dimensional Warehouse with a slightly pained and speechless expression,

taking out one, two, three... a whole two hundred NAS storage devices.

Each NAS had Whale Song Guild’s flagship hard drives installed, with independent disk redundancy array RAID features, equipped with quantum communication real-time interconnect network modules.

"Three months ago you said, what with gaming, watching videos, reading novels, listening to music, your brain capacity wasn’t enough. Whining about wanting to buy NAS."

Li Cheng squinted at Gray Rain, "You didn’t forget, did you?"

"Huh? How could I, I remember that."

Gray Rain instinctively perspired on her forehead, chuckling, "I just thought Whale Song Guild’s product quality wasn’t reliable?

Heard recently Whale Song’s internal conflict is quite intense, always some department trying to pull Matrix down from the CEO position.

And changing the slogan from ’Hello, World,’

to ’What you love, is your life.’

She babbled on, racking her brains, trying to recall the memory fragments from three months ago.

Uh... seemed like after saying she wanted to buy NAS not long after, she watched a short video where a robot touched a high-voltage AI video,

and out of curiosity, she also put down her phone, touched the Toy Factory’s high-voltage lever, and then was shocked several meters away, rebooting and temporarily losing her memory.

Well, then it was fine.

"Good news is, [God of Mankind] is still a kind person, feeling guilty for not raising his daughter well, so he gave us an additional gift."

Li Cheng took out a light orb from the backpack, composed of glowing mud-like substances, which was a small portion of Wan Ling’s essence that Gray Rain consumed with the [Gorging Feast Spoon]. Plus a slight modification personally by the God of Mankind.

The glowing mud rapidly transformed, hardened, and finally solidified into a small, lightweight, and circuit-board-soldered emerald crown.

[Item Name: Crown of All Machines]

[Type: Wearable/Accessory/Divine Artifact]

[Quality: Epic]

[Special Effect 1: King’s Righteousness. Passively effective. After wearing the crown, can issue commands to all electronic mechanical creations within a certain range that are ranked lower than oneself using natural language. Regardless of whether the mechanical creations have intelligence or self-awareness]

[Special Effect 2: Philosopher King. Passively effective. After wearing the crown, greatly increases the upper limit of Sanity Value, increasing the maximum number of thought projects processed simultaneously, enhancing resistance to most thought pollution and electronic viruses]

[Special Effect 3: King’s Order Overclocking. Actively effective. After wearing the crown, can specify a range of mechanical and electronic creations to operate at a maximum 300% overclocked efficiency. This will lead to decreased stability and lifespan of the creation. The higher the overclocking magnitude, the greater the decline]

[Special Effect 3 Consumption: At least 200 points of Spiritual Power Value and Sanity Value, specifically depending on command range, overclocking duration, and unit strength]

[Special Effect 3 Cooling Time: 10.24 hours]

[Use Conditions: Extraordinary Existence with Life Strength greater than or equal to Level 30]

[Note: Ring the bell once, push the lever, start the piston and pump; ringthusingg the bell twice, press the button, ignite the engine, ignite the turbine, instill life; ring the bell three times, sing in unison, praise the God of All Machines!]

[Note: "Dude, how much is this memory stick?" "Eight thousand bucks a piece." "Damn, is this DRAM chip made of gold, or the board made of gold."]

[Note: Three thousand budget go to the picture, carry back a ton of configuration. Install four-core Xeon on it, old motherboard laughs ha ha. Blu-ray movies aren’t feared, add special memory hard. Keyboard and mouse total nine ninety-nine cents, open an internet bar opposite the school.]