Chapter 1 Li Ang's Disguise

Li Ang adjusted his face back to his own and left the residential complex as if he were taking a normal stroll.

Perhaps the system had a rare moment of kindness, as there was a half-hour gap between a player accepting a mission and the mission officially starting.

This time was not only for players to prepare their equipment, but also for them to relocate as soon as possible—if a player's location was exposed from the beginning, enemy players could find out their real-world identity through their starting position.

Not only did they have to be wary of enemy players, but they also had to be on guard against teammates—after the mission started, the other teammate would directly receive a wristband that could display the companion's location.

If you didn't want your real identity exposed, you had to move as soon as possible.

Li Ang walked a distance, and like before, entered the designated changing location, a public restroom, to complete his disguise. Since he had already determined the appearance of his disguise, this transformation was quite fast.

Li Ang, now a fierce-looking youth with slanted eyes, left the public restroom wearing a shirt, and after walking a distance, quickly pried open an orange shared bicycle by the roadside under the cover of night, and rode towards the outskirts of Yin City.

If he really treated this "Moon God's Crown" as a deathmatch from beginning to end, he would definitely die miserably.

"The closer enemy players are to each other, the more conspicuous their stance becomes, which means that once the battle starts, it must be resolved quickly, otherwise, they will be ambushed by players from other teams."

Li Ang thought silently, "Therefore, in the early stage, players with normal thinking logic will choose to hide their whereabouts and avoid fighting.

Waiting for other teams to fight each other first, and then reaping the benefits in the chaos. Or continue to lie in wait until the last barrier shrinks before appearing."

Being on the outskirts of Yin City was safer than staying in the center of Yin City, and it was less likely to run into other players from the start.

"I wonder what kind of teammates the system will assign me this time..."

Li Ang thought, silently speeding up his pedaling.

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Just as Li Ang was riding his bicycle, on the other side of Yin City, an unremarkable car slowly drove out of an underground parking lot.

Sitting in the driver's seat was a short-haired young man with glasses and a somewhat dull expression, looking a bit like an otaku college student, the kind who would quickly disappear into a crowd.

With driving skills that didn't match his age, he skillfully drove the vehicle around the corner and headed towards the suburbs, his eyes inadvertently glancing at the girl sitting in the back seat through the rearview mirror.

She was a junior high school girl with waist-length black hair, wearing a white shirt and knee-length skirt, with a very heavy laptop on her black skirt.

An equally bulky black suitcase was placed at her feet, connected to the laptop by two data cables.

This device was equipped with the Yin City surveillance network used internally by the Special Affairs Bureau, called "Tianwang" (Sky Net).

It could not only call up images from thousands of surveillance cameras at will, but also automatically analyze them to find abnormalities.

Just how powerful was it? Probably to the extent that even if a suspect covered their face with a mask and wrapped themselves up tightly,

The automatic monitoring network could also match the suspect's real identity with the database through factors such as hairstyle, eyes, ears, hairstyle, arm length, leg length, walking gait, etc., and mobilize surveillance cameras along the way to track and lock down the suspect's specific location.

It was with this thing that the Special Affairs Bureau found many players who were not good at hiding themselves in the early stages of the Killing Game.

The girl stared at the screen, using surveillance cameras to observe the neighborhood near the vehicle at this moment, and asked without looking up, "Ash, has the bureau contacted you?"

"No."

The young man called Ash said softly, "We have been away from the base with the portable Tianwang system for some time. During this time, the bureau has not sent us a communication link as required.

No one is looking for us. The calls I made, the communicator messages I sent, and even system friend calls have all disappeared without a trace."

"It seems that no one in the base has noticed that we are missing."

The girl shook her head and smiled bitterly, "Is this what the mission briefing called 'causal interference preventing external assistance'?

The effect is much stronger than I expected."

These two were players belonging to a certain base branch of the Mobile Task Force. The short-haired young man's player information was [lv11] [True Damage - Ash].

The girl's player information was [lv11] [Primordial Sound - Chu Yin].

Ash's real-world identity used to be an ordinary science and engineering college student who liked playing single-player games, raising reptiles, lizards, spiders, and scorpions, and tinkering with machinery in his spare time.

After being selected as a player, Ash joined the Special Affairs Bureau as soon as possible for the safety of his family and became a glorious member of the Mobile Task Force.

His combat style was biased towards head-on confrontation, a tough guy who was ruthless and didn't talk much.

Chu Yin's real-world identity was a junior high school student and a Bilibili music area up who often uploaded cover songs and shared drawing updates, with quite a few fans. She just never showed her face in front of the camera.

Her combat style was more inclined to support teammates.

As the saying goes, heroes don't ask where they come from. Most players also had decent jobs before being selected by the system—for example, Ash's teammates in the Mobile Task Force included mental patients, pig castrators, teachers, painters, fitness coaches, and sound shop owners.

It could be said that there were many talents.

"We're almost at the outskirts of the city. I'll keep the surrounding area under surveillance."

Chu Yin frowned and said, "Do you think this mission will be related to the previous changes in Mist Realm? Qianhua Road experienced rock stratum vibrations, and the *昙花* (昙花, literally "epiphyllum") patients placed in the containment station collectively disappeared,

And then we received a system prompt in the Chengnan base."

"It's possible."

Ash pursed his lips and said in a deep voice, "If we hadn't considered that this mission was related to Qianhua Road and Mist Realm, we wouldn't have chosen to accept it."

That was the truth. The Special Affairs Bureau could now issue good equipment and props to the elite members of the Mobile Task Force. Although the quality wasn't that high, they had both offensive and defensive types, which were more comprehensive than lone wolf players.

"We have two advantages in this mission."

Ash slowly parked the vehicle on the side of the road, "First, we belong to the Special Affairs Bureau. Even if we make too much noise, we won't be as passive as lone wolf players.

Second, we received the mission almost at the same time and quickly discovered that we were teammates in this mission. According to the system settings, other players may not have met their teammates yet.

This also means that we are currently at a higher level of combat power than other teams."

Ash narrowed his eyes slightly, rubbed the steering wheel with his palm, and his voice gradually turned cold, "Those who chose to accept this mission are likely to be dangerous elements who are thinking of intercepting and killing other players.

We can take advantage of the short period of time after the mission starts to investigate in advance and even hunt them down."