Chapter 203 Full Support

The exploration of the Door World could only proceed this far for now. The drones produced by the real world's industries couldn't fly too far in the thunderstorm environment, and Li Ang himself was limited by the Star Gate's exorbitant toll fees, preventing him from personally crossing over.

Actually, discarding all his divine power, atrophying his muscles, and leaving equipment like the Mirage Dragon's Red Mane Outerwear and the Biological Motherboard in the real world should minimize the toll fee.

But that was too dangerous.

A wise man does not stand under a crumbling wall.

He had to wait until the Zerg Hive had explored most of the planet and confirmed that there were no higher-level threats before Li Ang dared to enter the Door.

Until then, he would have to rely on the Zerg Hive.

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Worried that the Door World might contain unknown viruses or the like, Li Ang didn't pilot the drone out of the Star Gate. Instead, he disconnected the cable connecting the portable screen,

throwing the entire thing into the Star Gate, to be handled by the worker insects in the Star Gate world.

He turned and walked out of the alchemy workshop, returning to his room, where he saw Miss Chai browsing the computer with a serious expression.

Seeing Li Ang come over, she looked up and said, "The local network in the Mayotte Islands is back online. The Global Supernatural Alliance is holding a press conference."

"Oh?"

Li Ang approached, seeing on the computer screen the interior of the Global Supernatural Alliance headquarters' news studio, where a red-haired girl in a suit was standing on the stage, solemnly announcing the news about the Mayotte Islands to the reporters.

This red-haired girl was the one he had seen in the Door battle, a member of the Seventh Group of the Wind Chaser program, belonging to the French Bureau of Anomalous Affairs, Eva.

Li Ang's mind raced, and he instantly understood.

Previously limited by its awkward position, the Global Supernatural Alliance had long been in a situation where no one was available.

It could only rent and hire personnel from official institutions in other countries.

Ju Tianfu from the Special Affairs Bureau, Eva from the French Bureau of Anomalous Affairs, Nebula and Alinna from the European Union, were both members of the Global Supernatural Alliance and bore the marks of their original organizations.

While working for the Global Supernatural Alliance, they also undertook the responsibility of coordinating relationships and transmitting intelligence.

The Mayotte Islands, which had just experienced an anomaly, legally belonged to the French overseas region, and there was also a small French garrison on the island assisting in maintaining order.

And Eva came from the French Bureau of Anomalous Affairs, with a not-so-low rank.

That's why she was assigned as the spokesperson for this anomaly.

In the shot, the reporters sitting below were actively asking questions about the Mayotte Islands.

"As of now, more than 1,500 residents of Mayotte Island have been injured or killed, and more than 2,000 are missing. Support from the Global Supernatural Alliance and civilian organizations such as the European Heavy Industries Group has arrived and is gradually carrying out rescue work..."

Eva answered in a very official tone.

A reporter below raised his hand holding a pen, and after receiving Eva's nod, stood up and asked, "Miss Eva, regarding a video circulating on online video platforms about the western ocean of Mayotte,

showing a starlight vortex absorbing seawater,

does the Global Supernatural Alliance have any judgment on this?

Is this, as some say, the Door that the transcendents fought for in the previous Door battle?"

The reporters sitting around, heads down writing something, all looked up, nervously and curiously watching Eva on the stage.

These reporters who could work at the Global Supernatural Alliance headquarters naturally had their own information channels and knew more news than ordinary people.

Some of them also had permission to log into player forums and knew the players' speculations and opinions on the forums.

"..."

Eva didn't have much expression on her face. She glanced at the reporters below, considered her words, and slowly said, "We cannot determine the nature of the starlight vortex for the time being, but we do not deny the possibility that it is a Door."

A slight uproar came from the group of reporters.

The outside world had many speculations about the numerous rewards that the transcendents had fought to the death for in the Door battle.

Among them, the view that [the Door is a passage connecting to another world] has been accepted by more and more people recently.

If what appeared in the ocean west of the Mayotte Islands was really a Door,

wouldn't that mean that human civilization had almost encountered an invasion from another world?

The reporter who was standing swallowed, licked his chapped lips, and was about to ask further questions,

but Eva on the podium nodded and walked off the podium,

and another Global Supernatural Alliance employee who often hosted press conferences announced the official end of the press conference.

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Behind her, the flashing lights flickered incessantly. Eva walked out of the news studio, her thoughts chaotic and heavy.

The end of the Door battle did not mean that the tense situation between international supernatural organizations had eased.

On the contrary, under the seemingly peaceful and harmonious situation, undercurrents were surging.

The European Heavy Industries Group was aggressively acquiring small multinational companies, and even behemoths like Prometheus Labs and gen-sys Biotechnology, openly selling pills that could give people extraordinary powers for a short time, and using South America and Africa as large-scale pharmaceutical experiment bases.

The so-called Seven Martial Seas of Brazil and the Four Emperors of Mexico, who could maintain some independence before, were either dead or injured.

The territory of the remaining survivors was completely annexed by the European Heavy Industries Group.

The even more miserable Ant King directly disappeared from the world, and no one knew which organization had kidnapped and imprisoned him.

The power and resources controlled by the European Heavy Industries Group

had exceeded the limits of multinational corporations or trusts.

But strangely, whether it was Europe or the United States, which liked to steal other people's achievements,

both maintained a permissive attitude towards the expansion of the European Heavy Industries Group,

and sat back and watched the latter establish some kind of [Country Within a Wall] in Africa and South America.

The meaning behind this was chilling.

The same was true for other supernatural organizations.

The冕下 (Miǎnxià) in Rome had recently appeared frequently in the news, making all kinds of remarks;

The GRU psychics department in Russia had gained more and more power, and even established an internal monitoring department under the instructions of the higher-ups.

Using the force of transcendents, they cleared out the oligarch forces entrenched in Moscow - the chaotic international situation was the best cover, and neither Europe nor the United States had the energy to criticize the "purge" that took place in Moscow.

The Special Affairs Bureau had gradually withdrawn its gaze from overseas. No one knew what kind of Door they had opened. These Easterners were no longer interested in overseas and instead had a tendency toward "splendid isolation."

And the reason for all this...

With heavy thoughts, Eva returned to her office and turned on the computer screen.

On the screen was a world map taken by a near-Earth orbit surveillance satellite, which was marked in real-time with the areas where anomalous events were breaking out, and distinguished with small dots of different colors.

To the west of the Mayotte Islands, the red spot symbolizing the threat of otherworld invasion was particularly conspicuous.

Even more worrying was that this red dot was not unique - the vast world map was covered with more than thirty red dots scattered all over the place.