Chapter 1 Dissemination of the News

The spread of the news about the Jinghai Cloud Palace anomaly became irreversible due to the vast number of astronomy enthusiasts.

Three hours after the cloud-layer dragon head appeared and disappeared, the Global Supernatural Alliance, in conjunction with local authorities, urgently released a statement, officially acknowledging the changes in the Jinghai Cloud Palace. However, they reassured the public that the situation was still under control.

The statement also mentioned an important point: that in three days, the Killing Game would hold a large-scale event called "Doorway Contest: Lost World." The event might provide the public with ten chips, allowing them to bet on the matches in the Doorway Contest, with generous rewards.

The specific format of the Lost World competition and the betting session is currently unknown. The Global Supernatural Alliance and local authorities suggested that the public stay at home during this period.

They advised temporarily suspending higher-risk production projects, keeping mobile phones connected to the internet, and watching television, listening to the radio, and receiving official news in a timely manner.

Do not easily believe online rumors—those who spread rumors during this period will be severely punished.

Local authorities will also send people to various places to conduct publicity work.

Thanks to the experience of handling the mirage dragon incident, local authorities were familiar with maintaining stability. Apart from a few areas (such as India and several cities in the United States) where riots broke out, most areas were relatively stable.

No one dared to spread sensational news about the Killing Game at this time—players who knew the inside story would not do this, and rumor-mongers who wanted to muddy the waters could be sentenced to ten years or more in prison.

The urbanization, population concentration, Skynet system, and free distribution of smartphones promoted by the Special Affairs Bureau played an important role during this period.

Through mobile phones, the Special Affairs Bureau could send notification text messages to every citizen in a timely manner. Urbanization and the ubiquitous Skynet system also made it difficult for chaos to breed in dark corners.

For students like Li Ang and Wang Congshan, the best news was that school was going to be suspended, with the suspension time yet to be determined, pending official notification.

Eat, drink, and play openly for a few days while you can.

And what about those Killing Game players?

As the Lost World stage approached, the top players fell into collective silence. They, the center of public opinion, gradually became less visible in the game square.

Contestants were training in seclusion, and organizations were negotiating, retreating, mediating, adjusting, making deals, signing contracts, and dividing profits...

No one or power knew the format of the Lost World event. All they could do was try their best to increase their chances of winning.

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In the last three days, Li Ang also made preparations.

He spent the remaining 81,000 game coins, leaving him with less than 3,000, buying equipment, props, skill scrolls, and a large number of products produced and sold by other organizations.

【Name: Anti-Dragon Frenzy Helmet】

【Type: Armor】

【Quality: Perfect】

【Defense: High】

【Effect: Mental Guardian. When worn, moderately reduces the interference of external mental power on the brain, consciousness, mind, soul, etc. The range of resistance includes but is not limited to psionic power, illusions, curses, and memes.】

【Consumption: None】

【Cooldown: None】

【Equipment Condition: Strength attribute greater than or equal to 10】

【Note: In order to resist the madness effect brought by the Dragon Frenzy Lock, a young gold dragon with considerable magical creativity used a small amount of fine gold, mithril, astral crystal, elemental plane ore, and scales from his own lips as materials to make this helmet. Although this helmet cannot resist the Dragon Frenzy Lock effect, causing its creator to fall and die under a Dragon Frenzy Lock effect, its special material can indeed withstand a certain degree of mental shock.】

【Note: Compared to other similar helmets, the gold dragon who created the Anti-Dragon Frenzy Helmet has a more eccentric, stubborn, and unyielding personality, and his lips are as hard as high-level minerals in the elemental plane—this makes this helmet have considerable physical protection ability.】

The helmet is a dull gold color, with a smooth, oval surface suitable for humanoid creatures to wear, and emits a dull, distant sound when tapped.

After sleepless efforts and attempts, Li Ang finally completed the entry into mental power, and can now use a small part of level-two abilities in the mental enchantment system, most level-one abilities, and level-zero abilities from other branches.

According to the classification in the books, he has become a mind-enchanting telepath—

Telepaths are experts who specialize in using mental contact and controlling other conscious beings, and can easily deceive or destroy the will of their enemies.

In short, it is manipulating the mind.

There are two types of natural enemies for mind-power users: one is psionic-resistant creatures that are completely immune to psionic interference, such as puppet golems.

The other is higher-level psionic users.

Li Ang bought this Anti-Dragon Frenzy Helmet so that he could spontaneously perform mental protection when he met other psionic users in the future—back at the Dolphin Hotel, Bai Haozheng and the Black Holy Son seemed to be equipped with similar Anti-Dragon Frenzy Helmet props to prevent the [Secret Diggers]' mind-reading effect.

As for whether the Anti-Dragon Frenzy Helmet will affect Li Ang's communication with the Zerg Swarm...

It will, Li Ang can indeed use psionic power to communicate remotely with the Overmind,

However, at his current level, the remote communication effect of psionic power is not as good as the Divine Power Link, so it is harmless.

【Name: Colt M1873 Peacemaker】

【Type: Weapon】

【Quality: Perfect】

【Attack: High】

【Effect 1: Anti-Magic Malice. Passively triggered, the Colt M1873 revolver does not need to be loaded. Every 5 minutes, it automatically generates a powerful silver solid anti-magic bullet in the cylinder, storing up to 6 bullets. Anti-magic bullets deal 200% damage to targets carrying negative energy.】

【Effect 2: Instant Aim. Passively triggered, the maximum distance of bullets fired by the Colt M1873 revolver is 3000 meters, with no trajectory and no firing speed. If the muzzle is aimed at the target when the trigger is pulled, the bullet instantly hits the target and deals damage. If the target is not aimed at, the shot fails and the bullet is not refunded.】

【Effect 3: Headshot Only. Actively triggered, within 5 minutes, the power of all bullets is increased by 300%, and the effective firing range is limited to the head (if there is no head, it can be replaced by other fatal areas). The headshot-only mode can be actively turned off.】

【Effect 3 Consumption: 200 Psionic Points, 200 Sanity Points】

【Effect 3 Cooldown: 1 hour】

【Equipment Condition: The user must be hateful of evil】

【Note: With good intentions and a sharp weapon in hand, one can create peace】