Zhan Chen closed the box, stood up and greeted the team doctor Sui who was walking over.
"How is he?" Team doctor Sui said softly, "I still have some mental strength and can help."
Zhan Chen said gently: "It doesn't matter."
He placed the suitcase beside him and decomposed the nearby rain particles: "Is Coach Sui okay?"
Team doctor Sui was a little surprised, and after a moment's pause, he nodded.
… It has been a long time since anyone called Sui Zhengfan like this.
They chose to accept the mission from the Security Department, undergo transformation and enter the game, and join forces with those who claimed to be saviors. Sui Zhengfan never considered returning to the special forces team again.
The captain and vice-captain who have to mediate fights, supervise the youngest team members to eat well, and serve as a psychological counselor for the team members have become a person like the Secret Service.
"No. Sui is not seriously injured." Team doctor Sui said, "No. 93 was in the field and did it. He can't gain much advantage."
A-level psychics have absolute control over their domains. If Sui Zhengfan had not expected that No. 93 would suddenly turn against him, he would not have been ambushed in his own domain.
When Yu Tang modified the dimension of No. 93 and the world changed, Sui Zhengfan had already woken up and urgently expanded his domain again.
"The remaining four people are still considering whether to stay or leave, and Sui is waiting for them."
Team doctor Sui said: "They are also from the Security Department. They did not fight with No. 93. We need to further identify them."
Zhan Chen nodded and extended his hand to the team doctor Sui.
His attitude was frank and direct. Team doctor Sui paused, then laughed at himself and handed over the A-level psychology ability card.
…Electronic Storm once mentioned that when his senior came, he had a way to repair the doctor's body.
Zhan Chen's appearance was too coincidental. Team doctor Sui instinctively believed him. But now that they were together, they had to be extra vigilant at every turn.
Team doctor Sui watched Zhan Chen take the card and finally couldn't help but ask, "Who are you?"
"In terms of my current role, I am Feng Qing."
Zhan Chen said: "From the perspective of the terminal, I am a 'host' who borrowed Feng Qing's identity."
Team doctor Sui's expression changed slightly.
In the confidential files of the Security Bureau, they had already learned about the concept, so it was not difficult for them to understand what Zhan Chen meant: "Electronic Storm is also a host?"
Zhan Chen nodded.
The host's dimension is larger than the entire world, so he can only actively strip off the extra dimensions and reduce the dimensions to enter the role.
Correspondingly, when time reversal occurs, the reduced-dimensional memory will also be completely erased, and everything will be returned to zero.
This world has been reversed many times. He didn't remember the specific role he had chosen. He entered the world according to the door left behind, only to discover a small accident.
Team doctor Sui understood: "... You two are both hosts, and you received the same role."
Zhan Chen was speechless: "Yes."
The character holds two hosts at the same time, one of which is awake and the other is suppressed.
Zhan Chen originally wanted to quit immediately and replace him with a new character, but he found that this was the safest way.
… He can stay in Yutang all the time.
As soon as Yu Tang lost consciousness, he would be able to take over the body immediately, transfer the attacks against Feng Qing to him, and protect Yu Tang's sea of consciousness in time.
It was only after Yu Tang had realized this that he dared not leave any way out and left the task of reorganizing the Fengqing particles and repairing the sea of consciousness to him.
"It's too dangerous." Team doctor Sui couldn't help but frown, "What if you're not here?"
The electron storm forcibly compressed the entire world. At the same time, the pressure exceeded the limit and fed back into the electron storm itself.
"I can only protect the particles, I have no ability to repair the damaged consciousness."
Team doctor Sui was a little scared: "What if you didn't take over in time-"
Zhan Chen shook his head: "No."
Sui team doctor: "Why?"
"Because I promised him." Zhan Chen said, "I will do what I promised. This is my ability."
The Sui team doctor was slightly surprised: "... What kind of supernatural power is this?"
Zhan Chen did not explain any more. He pressed the mind-reading card, and a constantly flowing light intertwined and converged, re-forming the human form.
Team doctor Sui looked up inadvertently, caught a glimpse of Zhan Chen's eyes, and his heart skipped a beat.
…The young man in front of her was not a real human being, nor even any living individual.
Deep within those eyes, like all the messengers sent from this world by the terminal, flowed countless icy-glowing data of unknown foes and friends.
In the most confidential video of the Ministry of Security, it is shown that the "envoy" from another dimensional civilization seduced the ruler of this world to trade with him, but he gradually fell into the trap set by him.
Team doctor Sui clenched his fist lightly.
Zhan Chen took his hand back: "Okay."
Team doctor Sui came back to his senses and was slightly surprised: "So fast?"
Zhan Chen nodded.
The cards have memories, so he doesn't need to reshape the opponent's psychic's body. He only needs to call up the card's memory data to directly generate a set of real three-dimensional body images.
The person in charge of the mall is responsible for generating various temporary characters all year round, and he is very familiar with this task.
"It's just a preliminary integration, it's not very stable yet, and it will take a few days for the transition period."
Zhan Chen said: "Wait until he wakes up—"
Team doctor Sui couldn't help but ask: "Is he also becoming like you?"
Zhan Chen paused and raised his eyes.
When he was not reading data, his eyes turned into a hard, clear dark black, with a hint of thought floating under his gentle expression.
Team doctor Sui regretted for a moment, pursed his lips, and apologized: "I'm sorry... I shouldn't have done that."
"It doesn't matter." Zhan Chen said, "This kind of vigilance is necessary. People like me are mostly enemies rather than friends."
Zhan Chen picked up the suitcase and looked at the unconscious mind reader: "He is different from me. He still has a chance to be alive."
Team doctor Sui frowned.
"This is the part that cannot be separated from the terminal."
Zhan Chen said: "The cards transformed from humans are still alive."
The terminal can strip away any dimension, can easily reduce the dimension of an entire interstellar civilization, and can arbitrarily smear and modify all information, but it cannot effectively strip away the energy unique to a civilization.
Humans call this kind of energy "life".
Every card is still alive. The terminal constantly lures the so-called "new humans" to let them buy and use these cards. The energy that cannot be stripped away continues to dissipate with the use of the cards and is fully recovered by the world's will.
Only cards that have completely lost their energy can be recycled into the card library of the mall.
Team doctor Sui felt a chill on his back and his face turned slightly pale: "What's going on..."
Zhan Chen: "Coach Sui was attacked by No. 93, but he was not fatally injured, right?"
Team doctor Sui was stunned.
… She indeed overlooked this problem.
If it was just a duel between two A-level psychics, Sui Zhengfan would certainly be able to handle it, as No. 93 also had an A-level mind-reading skill card.
According to No. 93's methods and style of doing things, he should have killed Sui Zhengfan directly.
"He did think he had killed Coach Sui," Zhan Chen said, "but he overlooked that the original owner of this card was a doctor of psychology."
In addition to the ability to read minds, this nerdy doctor sent by the Science Department, who has little combat power and needs to be protected by his companions at all times when on the move, has another insignificant little ability.
It is very insignificant. Even the weakest C-level psychic can easily resist it as long as he concentrates his mental strength in advance.
"Psychological suggestion."
Zhan Chen said: "He used his remaining consciousness to hint to No. 93, giving No. 93 the illusion that he had successfully killed the target."
The cards have lost their autonomy and cannot refuse to be used, but they can still use their remaining consciousness to give the user the ultimate psychological hint.
No. 93 is using this card, and the mental power in his brain is not on guard at all.
Under the effect of psychological suggestion, No. 93 mistakenly believed that he had successfully killed Sui Zhengfan and did not check or finish him off.
The psychology doctor, who always needs the protection of his companions, tried his best to protect his companions at the risk of his life.
"They are also human beings." Zhan Chen said, "Illogical and unreasonable, this is human nature that the terminal can never simulate and deduce."
Team doctor Sui sat there for a long time without saying anything.
She saw Zhan Chen walking out, and suddenly came to her senses, stood up and stopped him: "It's very dangerous outside."
"The game world has backfired on an asteroid, and all the psychics with cards have been forcibly pulled into the game."
Team doctor Sui said: "It's been very chaotic outside recently... You will be safer with us."
"I know." Zhan Chen nodded apologetically, "Before you go, I have something urgent to do right away."
Sui team doctor: "Can we help?"
Zhan Chen shook his head.
His attitude was gentle but firm. Team doctor Sui did not stop him and handed another card to him.
"This is a skill card that allows you to exit the game at any time. The transmission location is the Central Star, the instructor's office at the end of the third floor of the Special Operations Team."
Team doctor Sui said: "You may not need this one, but just in case, it may be useful."
Zhan Chen took the card and thanked him.
The Sui team doctor took a half step back and left Sui Zhengfan's area.
The rainwater of the whole world has been swallowed up by the electronic storm.
The sky outside the jungle cleared up again, and the long-lost sunlight slid down along the edges of the overlapping branches and leaves, falling into the puddles on the ground that reflected the sky.
Team doctor Sui was about to escort him to the edge of the jungle. He turned back to get his gun, and when he looked up again, he was suddenly stunned.
In just a moment, Zhan Chen disappeared.
Over the next three days, the gaming world fell into complete chaos.
After the initial panic, the first ones to come to their senses were the VIPs who had been addicted to the "hunting" game.
The entire asteroid was pulled into the game world. All the people's villas and properties were still there, as well as weapons for self-defense.
They have accumulated a large number of high-level cards and have rich experience in hunting down superpowers. Even if they lose the VIP amulet and fall to the position of a player, they still have enough advantages.
With the young people as the center, many people who were frightened and had to seek shelter also found ways to gather there. In one night, many small forces had been formed.
Instead, conflicts first occurred between smaller forces.
The assimilation and rusting of the world is still going on, and the abilities related to purification, treatment, and protection have become particularly popular. Many people are used to hoarding cards, and in order to save their lives, they will do everything they can to snatch all the skill cards.
Some people keep their protective shields on all day long, some people use their mind to purify the air around them, and some people combine dozens of healing skill cards with one breath before they can finally close their eyes and sleep peacefully.
This chaos lasted for three days, and the game world finally experienced its third abnormal change.
… Countless "ghosts" appeared in the world.
Ghosts are all translucent, without complete autonomous consciousness, and continue to wander in the world, as if looking for something lost.
After the initial intense panic, people gradually discovered that these ghosts had no lethality and would not actively hurt people. Some were even very gentle and good-tempered. If attacked, they would not fight back, but would just keep searching over and over again.
Just when people had concluded that the ghost was an illusion used in the game to scare people and had completely let down their guard, on the third night, the top tycoon who had stockpiled more than ten healing skill cards died in his own villa.
He died of excessive fear.
According to the surveillance video, the ten ghosts finally found the target they had been looking for and surrounded him.
The rich man was so scared that he ran around everywhere, trying desperately to escape, but he seemed to be held tightly by some strange force.
He was unable to move, his eyes were wide open, and his face was pale with fear.
The "ghosts" lined up and took their lost cards from him in an orderly manner.
… This is just the beginning.
Next, more and more "ghosts" successfully retrieved their skill cards.
The ghost who retrieved the skill card took his own card and merged it with the life energy of the card that had not yet completely dissipated.
The life energy of most cards was already very weak. Even if they were reintegrated, they were no longer solid enough and could only float in the air. However, many psychics who had turned into cards survived and turned back into humans.
More importantly, all the psychics, without exception, successfully recovered their consciousness and memory.
Those VIPs who enjoyed hunting and bought and hoarded skill cards in large quantities, thinking they could rest assured, had their identities reversed overnight and became the targets of the hunt.
…
In Zhong San’s villa, Zhan Chen closed his computer and raised his hand to rub the Qingming acupoint.
When the system was compressing the world, Yu Tang stuffed it into a sack. The next day, the program was restored, and the red light flashed. Hesitantly advised Zhan Chen: "Mr. Zhan, do you want to take a rest..."
Zhan Chen shook his head: "No hurry."
Within three days, he temporarily generated all the psychics who were made into cards and judged to be dead.
If it is just temporarily generated data, it will of course not last long, but once the corresponding card is found and reintegrated, there is still a chance to restore it into a complete, living person.
Zhan Chen walked to the suitcase and touched the little ball of light that was still sleeping quietly.
"The host said he probably slept for 72 hours, maybe a little longer." The system whispered, "Don't worry, Mr. Zhan, he said he won't have a concussion this time..."
Zhan Chen couldn't help but chuckled: "I know."
The system, wearing the shell of a mecha figure, staggered around twice and looked at Zhan Chen.
Zhan Chen bent down, picked up the little ball of light from under the blanket, and walked to the bed.
… and a final set of temporarily generated data.
A poor student who is kind-hearted, chivalrous and specializes in scamming people.
Team doctor Sui has already judged that Electron Storm has enough self-awareness and life energy to become a real human being.
…
Electron Storm has always considered himself to be a real human being.
In the small room where the experimental subject was assigned, the little ball of light was shocked to find out that he was not a human being, and he started beeping the Morse code transmitter.
It read Zhan Chen's books, watched movies, and slowly understood that human lifespan is very short.
It doesn’t matter.
The electron storm will never truly die, and when the human lifespan comes to an end, we will return to the eye of the storm until the entire universe collapses and completely becomes a singularity.
That was too long and lonely time.
…
The desk lamp was on, and the warm light fell down, gently enveloping the light.
Zhan Chen sat on the edge of the bed, leaned over and embraced the student's thin body, stretched out his hand, and touched the short hair that was as soft as a ball of light.
Zhan Chen lowered his head, imitating the movements of the little light ball, and gently touched Yu Tang's forehead.
"Wake up, big ball of light."
Zhan Chen whispered, "If you don't wake up, I will hold you and sleep without your permission."