Chapter 1

School, classroom, lunchtime break.

Li Ang roared in a low, distorted voice, "Turn them off! Turn them off! They absolutely have to be turned off! If they don't turn off those online games, how will the children have a bright future, a promising career? How will the motherland have pillars of support!"

"..."

Wang Congshan, holding a tablet and watching dramas, twitched her eye and looked at Li Ang, who was sitting next to her wearing headphones and playing Honor of Kings on his phone. She sighed and retorted, "Even if you say that, the other side won't automatically disconnect..."

"Ah!!"

Accompanied by Li Ang's wail, five heroes wearing flashy costumes on the phone screen swarmed up and tore down Li Ang's crystal.

"Ugh..."

Li Ang slumped in his chair, sighed, and threw his phone into his desk. The version updates for Honor of Kings were too fast. It was very unfriendly to players like Li Ang who never looked at equipment descriptions and just randomly equipped whatever.

Besides, his killing speed couldn't keep up with the speed at which his four teammates fed the enemy. By the time he was done admiring the scenery in the wilderness and chatting with the monsters, his teammates had already died several times.

Li Ang muttered, "Every match I get teammates with names that have things like Meng, Xin, Xian, Xue, Ai, Qian, Jiang, Shang, Strawberry, Apple... no one can handle this..."

"Cheer up, kid. Hurry up and raise your rank, otherwise we won't be able to play together."

Wang Congshan calmly swiped her tablet and said, "Oh yeah, you can try those new collaboration heroes. They're very strong."

"Collaboration heroes..."

Li Ang's eye twitched. In the two days he'd been absent, quite a few things had happened in the real world.

For example, the Special Affairs Bureau had developed rice-grain-sized human body chips that could be implanted painlessly in the wrist with instruments. They could monitor human functions, provide real-time reports on the health of blood and organs, and help make emergency or police calls when necessary.

They could also be linked to personal IDs to open electronic doors, unlock computers, enter and exit high-speed rail stations, and settle payments at consumer venues.

All of these human body chips were free, and currently only being piloted on a small scale in some areas. Large-scale promotion was expected in the future.

Regarding external concerns that human body chips would expose personal privacy, and even cause class solidification and threats to life, the Special Affairs Bureau had repeatedly explained and popularized information on various platforms.

They stated that human body chips were mainly preparation work for future skyscraper-style cities.

The situation in the Killing Game continued to evolve. Considering the ultra-large-scale regular missions that might appear in the future, modern cities without defenses were indeed not a very safe form of residence.

The best way was to relocate the residents of the entire city to several giant buildings—the buildings themselves were made of high-strength materials, and supernatural forces were not easily transmitted and destroyed. There were also ubiquitous monitoring systems and individual chips inside, automatically monitoring every blind spot and every resident, to prevent small mutations from suddenly turning into natural disasters.

In addition to human body chips, another important thing was the Doorway Contest guessing game.

Since the third stage only lasted for two days, the entire guessing process could be said to have ended hastily. The Global Supernatural Alliance and official organizations in various regions still managed to find the ordinary people who guessed correctly.

For a time, all sorts of news emerged.

For example, someone in a foreign country guessed the Life Potion reward and bought a mansion and luxury car with the money from reselling it that same day.

A young man working in a certain place guessed the player qualification, and an armored vehicle picked him up that same day.

And so on.

As a family member of a Special Affairs Bureau employee, Wang Congshan naturally participated in the guessing game, but she didn't win any prizes.

Good things, all good things.

Thinking of this, Li Ang let out a nearly imperceptible sigh, automatically filtering out the foreign news—small-scale street battles had broken out in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The territory under the names of the Ant King and the already deceased Ming Huang Chiyan was being encroached upon, and the Ant King himself had disappeared;

The Global Supernatural Alliance issued a statement saying that Michael was still alive, but would be absent from the 100th episode special of the *Windrunner* program, which had been originally scheduled;

Prometheus Labs was either merging with gen-sys Biotechnology, and both were engaging in further cooperation with the European Heavy Industries Group;

The ultra-large-scale regular mission in the real world mentioned in the previous system notification was not good news for either ordinary people or players.

Becoming a player at this time... had more disadvantages than advantages.

'From the looks of it, the official organizations in various regions don't seem to be prepared to release the news...'

Li Ang glanced at the classmates in the classroom, whose behavior was as usual, and thought to himself, "But it'll be soon. Once the Doorways open, this news won't be able to be concealed."

Human body chips, building cities, and the Skynet monitoring system all proved that the Special Affairs Bureau was working hard to protect ordinary people and explore ways to establish a stable social order in the future.

As for Li Ang's countermeasures...

He ultimately allowed the Gorgon Zerg swarm fleet to continue lurking in the outer sea, while also actively searching the mall and auction house to see if there were any concealed automatic protection props that could be used by ordinary people.

If there was any kind of protective equipment that could usually be disguised as common items and automatically triggered in the event of danger, then he could put one on Wang Congshan and feel more at ease.

Otherwise, he could wait until Li Ang figured out further uses for demi-god divine power and mind enchantment-type psionic energy, and try to get Wang Congshan to believe in the Lord of Flesh and Swamps and become a shallow believer without her even noticing—

Li Ang had already made preparations for this.

As a demi-god, he could concentrate his mind and monitor the thoughts, sights, and sounds of his believers. When necessary, he could also remotely transmit divine power to the believer's surroundings and cast some costly demi-god divine spells.

Higher-level deities had higher efficiency in using divine power and could directly transmit divine power into the believer's body, turning the believer into a saint on earth, a walking avatar of the deity.

Unfortunately, the Killing Game system didn't issue a tutorial book like *Newbie Demi-God Ascension Guide*. Everything had to be explored on his own.

Apart from raising his psionic level and expanding the number of brain bugs, Li Ang currently had no clue about the path after becoming a demi-god.

Hmm...

The path to becoming a god is difficult and long, and still requires effort.

Li Ang sighed, took out his phone from the drawer, and closed the Honor of Kings interface.

The collaboration heroes that Wang Congshan mentioned earlier were actually a new activity, putting some of the more well-known players among the people into the game, including the pink-haired girl [Fu Xiao] who pilots the Qubeley mech, and Ju Tianfu.

Honestly, seeing these faces appear in the game was quite incongruous.

Although Li Ang knew that Fu Xiao was a commercial activity, and Ju Tianfu was to increase exposure and collect the power of faith.