“Doesn't feel too good.”

Li Ang frowned, rubbing his temples.

Now seemed to be the best time for those ancient gods to revive.

The Earth's population had reached its historical peak, the Slaughter Game had further increased the level of mutation, plunging the world into chaos.

This was perfect for holding the attention of various countries, leaving them with no time to spare.

At the same time, countless Xingmen (star gates) were gradually opening.

Even if they turned Earth into the main battlefield, launching a bloody divine war against each other,

There was still the last way out: "escape to the Xingmen worlds."

“The worst part is, there are only 72 hours left. Time is too tight.

I can only hope the Global Supernatural Alliance has targeted contingency plans.”

Li Ang shook his head, his mind quickly scanning to the next explanation.

The Slaughter Game's third-stage large-scale event, the "Siming Zhi Zhan" (War of Fate), would begin registration seven days later, standard time.

All players above Lv25 could participate.

The registration location was the same as last time, located in the center of the game square.

Players needed to fill out a form with personal information and drop it into the voting cup.

“The level limit is Lv25.

The registration time limit has been extended from the previous sixteen days to one month.

As long as you rush to Lv25 within a month, you can meet the registration requirements.

The competition officially starts a month later.”

Li Ang thought silently.

Like the last battle for the doors, this Siming Zhi Zhan did not explain the competition rules for the time being, but first announced the final rewards.

[Players ranked 500-301 will receive two perfect quality equipment items of selectable type]

[Players ranked 300-101 will receive three perfect quality equipment items of selectable type, or one epic quality equipment item of selectable type]

[Players ranked 100-51 will receive four perfect quality equipment items of selectable type, or two epic quality equipment items of selectable type]

[Players ranked 50-21 will receive one legendary quality equipment item of selectable type]

[Players ranked 20-1 will receive one legendary quality equipment item of selectable type, and a special reward]

“Is this considered... a grand giveaway of epic and perfect items?

And there's even legendary-level stuff…”

Li Ang clicked his tongue slightly as he looked at the reward list. Even though the Slaughter Game had developed to this stage, perfect quality items were still not commonplace.

Epic level items were only available to the first and a small number of second-tier players.

And now, you only needed to get into the top 300 to get an epic item of selectable type.

The top 50 could even get legendary-quality equipment items that no one had ever seen.

Of course, what Li Ang cared about most was the special reward that the top 20 finishers would receive.

“The final reward for the last door battle was a Xingmen (star gate) exclusively for personal use, capable of opening up an entire world.

What will be the final reward for this Siming Zhi Zhan…”

Li Ang pondered for a moment, slowly closing the description page and opening his friends list.

Unsurprisingly, Mule, Liu Wudai, Xing Hechou, and others had sent messages about this version update, especially the Siming Zhi Zhan.

After seeing the update description, they also thought of many possibilities at the first moment.

Unease, apprehension, and even panic overwhelmed the very small amount of excitement.

If the gods revived, not only would the lives of ordinary people be greatly impacted, but also the lives of superhumans.

No one knew the specific state and strength level of the ancient gods, but judging from the energy level of the Shibiwang (King Shibi) incident, it was not optimistic.

Li Ang casually replied to them a few words, and asked Chai Chai to open the player forum page.

Sure enough, the web page was frantically refreshing.

Every minute and every second, a constant stream of new posts was produced, and everyone was discussing the content of the version update.

Chai Chai frowned and muttered, "Why does this feel like the end of the world?"

"If it's not handled well, it really will be the end of the world."

Li Ang sighed, casually dropped a sentence, "I'm going to the Xingmen world," and left the Longqing cruise ship, diving towards the deep sea.

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In the conference room of the Special Affairs Bureau building, the decision-making level of the Yin City base gathered in the conference room,

Holding a remote holographic projection conference with senior members of other bases.

"...I propose to start the XK-class doomsday prevention program now."

Bai Haozheng, who was already the deputy director of the Yin City branch, pursed his lips tightly and said in a deep voice: "This version update of the Slaughter Game will dynamically increase the intensity of regular tasks.

In other words, the country and the world will usher in a more serious wave of large-scale mutations.

Abnormal events that were originally Level 1 warnings will be raised to Level 2,

Level 2 will rise to Level 3, and Level 3 will rise to Level 4...

The reason why we were able to suppress abnormal events across the country before was because we had sufficient manpower.

In addition to training mobile task forces and hiring bounty hunters,

We also conduct large-scale training for ordinary soldiers, equipping them with weapons and equipment with extraordinary elements.

But if the level of mutation is comprehensively improved, our ordinary soldiers will not be able to cope with overly complex mutation situations, which will cause large-scale casualties."

"XK-class doomsday prevention program..."

A senior cadre of the Special Affairs Bureau from Sichuan and Chongqing took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Comrade Bai, do you know what this represents?

We will be forced to abandon more than 70% of the Earth's territory, transfer most ordinary people to the Xingmen world,

And permanently give up the Earth's settlement status..."

"I know."

Bai Haozheng nodded heavily. The Special Affairs Bureau had formulated prevention programs for various large-scale mutations before the battle for the doors.

In addition to the conventional classification of mutations, there was also the most serious K-level mutation, which was a terrifying mutation that had a doomsday-like impact on the real world.

The XK-level doomsday mutation refers to a mutation within the scope of human understanding,

It can be divided into XK-class α-type doomsday, which refers to a large-scale nuclear war, which causes serious damage to human civilization, and the Earth's environment is subjected to irreversible changes, making it no longer suitable for human habitation.

The XK-class γ-type doomsday refers to the mutation in which the doomsday scenarios described in religious or mythological stories become reality.

For example, the great flood that destroyed everything in the Bible, the ten plagues of Egypt (the river turned into blood, and all the firstborn sons of all families died), the collapse of Buzhou Mountain in Oriental mythology that caused the sky to collapse and the earth to sink, and the Ragnarok in Norse mythology that caused the entire world to sink into the water.

In addition, XK-level doomsday mutations also include categories such as vacuum decay and mass extinction.

Above this, there are AK-level memetic contagion doomsday mutations (humans collectively suffer from memetic infection and forget their ability to breathe), and EK-level human consciousness termination doomsday mutations (human consciousness is collectively replaced or corrupted).

This was not a fantasy.

For example, the Shenlong (蜃龙) mutation, which could silently replace reality,

The Sheng Nanwang (生南王) mutation, which could drag people into a collective dream,

The Shibiwang (尸毗王) mutation, which could extract human belief and will.

These abnormal events could be included in the scope of the most dangerous mutations.

If they were slightly upgraded, expanded in scope, and enhanced in effect,

They could easily cause casualties in the "millions,"

And would 100% be included in the category of K-level mutations.

"The Slaughter Game will increase the intensity of all mutations.

Once that happens, we will definitely not be able to maintain order."

Bai Haozheng said somewhat tiredly: "I won't mention those particularly serious mutations,

Everyone still remembers the 4-1201 incident last year, right?

All provinces across the country experienced a real-world distortion mutation carried by telephones.

After ordinary people answered the phone, they would hear content like normal telecommunications fraud, such as bank cards being restricted and frozen due to overseas shopping.

Once the call time exceeded 15 seconds, the content of the telecommunications fraud would directly come true.

On a real level, freeze his bank card, and cannot be unfrozen by conventional means - even if the bank tries harder, it will not be able to do it.

At first, these were just telecommunications scams,

But soon, the vicious nature of real-world distortion upgraded linearly.

After hearing the message 'Son and daughter have been in a car accident and are being rescued in the hospital and need to transfer money as soon as possible' on the phone, within 15 seconds, the characters mentioned in the phone would inevitably encounter a car accident,

After hearing the message 'A friend accidentally fell from the building and is being rescued in the hospital and needs to transfer money as soon as possible' on the phone, within 15 seconds, the characters mentioned in the phone would inevitably fall from a high place.

In just one week, it caused tens of thousands of deaths and injuries in cities with extremely large geographical spans.

Even the monitoring department of the Mobile Task Force failed to discover this at the beginning - from ordinary police officers to players in the Mobile Task Force,

Everyone's will was distorted,

So that no one felt anything was wrong.

If it wasn't for the Hetu Great Array noticing the abnormality, that mutation may still be raging silently to this day."

Bai Haozheng paused for a moment and said slowly: "This is just one of the less lethal types of large-scale mutations.

If mutations such as Shenlong and Sheng Nanwang are upgraded,

I dare say that within a month, we will lose control of the situation.

At that time, it will no longer be a question of losing living space,

We will lose villages, cities, and provinces."

"..."

In the holographic projection of the conference room, the decision-makers sitting in a ring were silent.

They were not unaware of how terrible that kind of future would be.

But if they really followed the XK-class doomsday prevention program, it would also have an irreversible impact on the social order of the real world.

"We don't even know what kind of XK-class doomsday scenario it is,"

A high-level official of the Special Affairs Bureau said slowly: "It may be a memetic infection, or it may be real-world distortion, or it may be a physical collapse.

There are too many possible situations."

"Then prevent it according to the worst-case scenario,"

Bai Haozheng said in a deep voice: "The essence of mutation is a series of abnormal events.

There are many types of abnormal events generated around abnormal objects.

Only by defending against all possible situations can we ensure that the worst-case scenario does not occur."

"Total defense?"

A group of high-level officials frowned.

Of course, they knew that the total defense that Bai Haozheng was talking about did not refer to guarding against every potential scenario.

But to transfer the vast majority of citizens to the Xingmen world.

After this period of exploration and research, the Special Affairs Bureau and the Different Society have finally determined that the Xingmen world is relatively safe.

In the Xingmen world, the probability of mutation will be linearly reduced, about 12% of the real world.

In other words, as long as the vast majority of people are transferred to the Xingmen world, there is no need to worry about the problem of mutation getting out of control.

However, the reduction in the probability of mutation also means a reduction in player qualifications.

The probability of the Slaughter Game selecting ordinary residents of the Xingmen world to become players is only 12% of that of the real world.

Once the migration is completed, the player growth rate will plummet.

In the long run, it is definitely not conducive to the expansion of the superhuman scale.

There were bursts of discussion in the conference room.

"If we migrate on a large scale, safety can be guaranteed, but what about the future?

Player qualification is the most valuable resource. Losing the player growth rate means losing the potential for future development."

"But if we don't migrate, what should we do if the worst-case scenario happens like Comrade Bai said?

Another upgraded version of the Sheng Nanwang incident may even cause tens of millions of missing people!"

"What about the equipment research department? What do they say? Is it possible to continue to ensure a steady increase in player qualifications while migrating all the original people?"

"Are you talking about the cloning program? No, that technology is not mature enough to guarantee large-scale manufacturing of cloned creatures.

And that technology is still in the review stage of the Ethics Committee.

If we want to use the cloning program to balance the player's new growth rate,

We must publicly explain the details and necessity of the technology to the public.

Otherwise, this is a serious deception."

"Maybe we can only migrate a part of the people and keep ten city buildings on the original land. In that case, we can retain 110 million people on Earth, so as not to clear the player qualification increase rate..."

"But there are so many city buildings. If we explain it to the public, most people will definitely want to migrate to the Xingmen world to obtain a stable and peaceful life."

"Then adopt a voluntary recruitment mechanism? People who are willing to stay on Earth can live in city buildings. Those who are unwilling to stay on Earth can move to the Xingmen world..."

"In that case, we must consider the attitude of the Global Supernatural Alliance and other countries. Large-scale migration means abandoning the Earth, means allowing abnormal events to ravage our territory, and also means irresponsibility to other people in the world."

"There is also the Prison of Demons to consider. If the Slaughter Game will increase the mutations around the world, the Prison of Demons may evolve again. According to the report of the front-line exploration team, demons selected by the Slaughter Game have begun to appear in the Prison of Demons, and there are also players among them..."

The sound of discussion echoed in the conference room. This was just the first stage of the discussion.

This version update of the Slaughter Game determined the fate of human civilization.

Any measures must be cautious and cautious.

It was necessary to search for intelligence, collect as much information as possible, combine the opinions of the think tank and the public, and then make a final decision with difficulty.

The process was cumbersome and the task was heavy.

Even if given half a year or a year, it would not be enough.

And now, there were only 72 hours left.