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Oh, so it’s the Goat Crown.

Li Cheng flipped through the crown, feeling the circuit board akin to aluminum nitride ceramics, multilayered internally, all featuring copper-plated gold wiring.

The edges and corners are polished, rounded angles, so wearing it on the head won’t cause discomfort or scratches.

"Is this for me? Let me try it!"

Gray Rain was thrilled to have new toys to play with, took the crown and solemnly crowned herself, then held her breath, one second, two seconds...

She suddenly opened her eyes wide, "No change at all! Could it be a counterfeit?"

"The use condition requires an Extraordinary Existence with Life Strength equal to or greater than Lv30. Your level might not be high enough."

Li Cheng rubbed his chin, rummaged through the Three-dimensional Warehouse to find electronic devices like a big-headed TV, a red-and-white gaming console, a PS5Pro, and an unopened new model smartphone, plugged them in, and then put the crown on himself.

With the experience points from this task enough to level up to Lv30, after donning the crown, he first felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, followed quickly by a fleeting discomfort in his brain.

"A normal adult’s working memory is about three to four units of information, but after I activate the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method, it can soar to 20 units.

Wearing the crown and triggering the [Philosopher King] special effect allows the brain to handle at least fifty tasks simultaneously.

Aside from needing to absorb more oxygen and producing a slightly higher fatigue sensation, there are almost no side effects."

Li Cheng felt the changes, turning his gaze to the electronic devices, and after a moment of deliberation, he said in a deep voice, "Start up!"

The sound wave came with echo effects, and all the electronic devices lit up simultaneously, even the big-headed TV that physically lacked any receiver function.

"Increase the volume."

"Rotate the antenna five degrees towards the twelve o’clock direction."

"Control the game character to move back."

"Open Taobao and search for the Nordic mythology book ’Power of the Original God’ written by UK author Caroline Llington."

Li Cheng’s commands were transmitted one by one, faithfully executed by the electronic devices.

Later, he took more items from the Three-dimensional Warehouse.

After testing for a while, he roughly understood the boundaries of the Special Effect 1 [King’s Righteousness] ability.

①, Almost all modern electronic products, as long as they don’t have strong proprietorship, can be driven by [King’s Righteousness].

This includes mobile phones, tablets, computers, TVs, air conditioners, washing machines, and other electronic devices.

It also covers power generation facilities, transformer facilities, and power line facilities.

②, The effect range of [King’s Righteousness] is strongly related to the range of sound wave propagation. The clearer the sound, the more precise the command, and the faster the execution.

Sound can be transmitted through communication devices, but if the sound quality is compressed by the communication equipment, the command effect will also decay.

③, Commands can drive electronic devices slightly beyond their capability limits.

For instance, letting a Nokia button phone temporarily download and run a new single-player open-world mobile game.

Or let a 4T mechanical hard drive figure out how to compress and store 6T of content.

No more than that can be done.

④, The more powerful the electricity and the more computational power the device/facility has, the "smarter" it is and can better understand command content.

But if it’s too smart, it may defy commands.

For example, asking a Casio scientific function calculator to overclock calculate an infinite loop decimal, it will faithfully execute until it burns out.

While asking a supercomputer to run an infinite loop program until it overheats and burns, it will slow down and cool itself.

Similar to how a Border Collie’s intelligence is too high, making it unsuitable as a police dog.

⑤, [King’s Righteousness] can stack with [Mercy Soul Song], allowing souled devices to execute commands better, with greatly increased ability limits.

"So,"

Gray Rain blinked, "[King’s Righteousness] is basically equivalent to a forcibly installed OpenClaw Lobster AI?"

"It’s still different."

Li Cheng said, "OpenClaw is merely an AI intelligent Agent deployed on local devices with corresponding permissions and long-term memory functions.

At first glance, it seems capable of sending text instructions to remotely control computers to perform tasks like installing software, managing files, sending emails, very intelligent and convenient,

but due to the inherent limitations of the intelligent Agent, it still appears immature, with very high-security risks, and feels less advanced than the Dou Bao phone.

Whereas [King’s Righteousness] is closer to... the essence.

It directly translates human words into machine language with the highest authority and priority."

Li Cheng thought for a moment and said, "In the hands of the Whale Song Guild, the [Crown of All Machines] is a research tool.

In the hands of terrorists, the [Crown of All Machines] is a weapon of mass destruction.

For example, you could send a phone parcel to the US Nasdaq Headquarters,

then from the other side of the Earth, make a call and remotely issue voice instructions to have all Nasdaq displays show stock prices dropping, manufacturing panic and triggering a stock crash.

It’s called, drawing a K-line by hand."

This is particularly hard to defend against because [Crown of All Machines] emits machine language that can penetrate any firewall unless there are Whale Song operatives stationed round-the-clock.

"Additionally, there is Special Effect 3 [King’s Order Overclocking]."

Li Cheng added, "The temporary enhancement limit is 300%, which doesn’t seem too exaggerated at first glance—after all, tripling the overclocking of an RTX4070Ti graphics card merely equates to an RTX5090,

but keep in mind that overclocking targets aren’t limited to electronic devices.

Power generation facilities can also overclock, operating at triple efficiency with triple power.

A massive ship equipped with gas turbines, a plane fitted with turbojet and turbofan engines, Forbidden Army War Cars, and even the Mechanical Swarm."

Indeed, due to the extensive mechanical replacement of body parts, the Great Swarm, under the Killing Field System evaluation note, is classified as semi-mechanical and semi-biological, subject to the effects of [King’s Order Overclocking].

"Overclocking will reduce device stability and shorten lifespan, and the relationship between the two isn’t linear, but exponential.

The closer it gets to the overclocking limit, the harsher the lifespan consumption. Ensuring it doesn’t collapse on the spot, Mechanical Swarm can approximately overclock to 150%."

A 50% full performance boost is already exaggerated enough. Before overclocking, the Mechanical Swarm can punch adult color dragons and kick loaded hundred-ton kings.

After overclocking...they can probably use a massive battleship as a speed bump, perhaps.

"Wuwuwu, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me..."

Under Gray Rain’s neck-hugging "spoiled" request, Li Cheng still gave her the [Crown of All Machines] because it was originally prepared for her.

As for the use conditions... with Gray Rain’s current strength, using the [Gorging Feast Spoon] to eat more for a few weeks, her strength will naturally grow to Lv30, allowing usage.

Thinking of this, the human whiteboard race is truly tricky!

Compared to those Divine Beasts who automatically get stronger by eating and sleeping, humans are incomparable.

Li Cheng shook his head, tossing aside the chaotic thoughts, and examined the system log.

This time [Ready Player One] primarily occurred in the virtual world, recognized by the killing field as "posing no deadly threat to players" and "lacking sufficient challenge",

thus unreasonably withholding the second phase’s rewards,

only providing a baseline of 1024 experience points and Game Coin.

After multiplying by the S+ rating coefficient of 1.6, it was barely enough for Li Cheng to level up to Lv30, experience bar 458/3000.

Fortunately, other aspects made up for this.

Two new traits, [Lover King: +2 Strength, +2 Charm, 5% increased damage to non-human targets]

The corresponding scene shows Li Cheng breaking through the atmosphere with a satellite, remotely controlling space-based weapons to clear space debris orbiting close to the planet.

[Behind-the-scenes Poop Cooker: +2 Perception, -2 Charm, 6% increased persuasion ability]

The corresponding scene shows Li Cheng remotely controlling the Forbidden Army War Car to launch toxic gas bombs, causing professional players to vomit and have diarrhea,

then destroying the Time Machine to trigger time reversal, leading to the spectacle of professional players digesting what they just ate.

"Wow, what a thrilling replay."

Even with Li Cheng’s low threshold, seeing the system using advanced camera techniques to capture this shocking scene that seemingly lets you smell the odor, couldn’t help holding his breath.

The Charm attribute added and subtracted is effectively neutral, but the Strength and Perception attributes adding two points each equals four free attribute points, which is quite worthwhile.

"Pack up your stuff. Get ready to leave."

"Where to?"

"Slum." Li Cheng patted the container housing the quantum computer, "Need to handle Wan Ling along."