Chapter 1 The End

Back in his own bathroom, Li Ang looked at himself in the mirror and breathed a long sigh of relief.

Finally, it was over.

Not easy. The script mission this time had a very high density of ghosts and monsters, and the implicit conditions for clearing the level were numerous and harsh.

If the two teammates he was matched with hadn't been fairly reliable (especially that ruthless bastard Black Stallion who could gouge out eyeballs), he might not have been able to complete the mission.

Li Ang unloaded all his equipment in the bathroom, told Miss Chai to play with her phone in the living room, and went back to the bedroom to collapse on the bed, checking his spoils.

Reward calculation in progress...

Player overall performance: S+, game coins and experience points increased to 160%

Mission Reward 1: Miniature Life Potion *1

Mission Reward 2: 200 experience points

Mission Reward 3: 400 game coins

Multiplied by the 1.6 coefficient, the "Campus Memories" script mission provided Li Ang with a total of 320 experience points and 640 game coins.

Calculating it that way, his current level was Lv8, his experience bar was 579/800, and he had 4985 game coins.

Mission Rewards 2 and 3 weren't particularly generous. The biggest gain was the Miniature Life Potion given by Mission Reward 1.

Lying on the bed, Li Ang tapped the antique wooden treasure chest in his inventory.

The chest contained a cylindrical glass bottle the size of a soda can. The glass bottle was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom.

The mouth of the bottle was stoppered with a wooden cork, and the smooth, transparent body of the bottle contained blood-red liquid.

Li Ang shook the glass bottle, watching the scarlet liquid swirl and surge inside.

Name: Miniature Life Potion

Type: Consumable

Quality: Rare

Usage: Performing a "drinking" action (no actual drinking required) is considered complete consumption.

Effect: Heals some external injuries and most common diseases. Recovery speed and effect are related to the user's physical strength.

Cooldown: Only one bottle can be drunk within 1 hour. Effects will be overwritten by Small, Medium, and Large Life Potions.

Note: Suitable for carbon-based life (both chiralities), silicon-based life, arsenic-based life, ammonia-based life, sulfur-based life, nitrogen-based life, etc.

According to the forums, this small bottle of life potion

Can regrow severed limbs,

And cure intractable diseases.

Whether it's cancer, AIDS, locked-in syndrome, primary amoebic meningoencephalitis,

Or psoriasis, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, spinal muscular atrophy,

One bottle will cure all diseases.

It can even heal whole-body chromosomal aberrations caused by nuclear radiation.

Expert teams organized by official national institutions and pharmaceutical groups have racked their brains trying to understand the working principle of this life potion, not even knowing what it is.

The expert teams tried to analyze and test the life potion.

After removing the wooden stopper, the life potion inside would remain in a stable state.

However, as soon as the bottle was tilted, the liquid would immediately disappear.

Even using ultra-high-speed cameras couldn't see how it vanished.

Whether it was smashing or chiseling open the glass bottle, or attempts to heat the glass bottle to evaporate, gasify, and condense the liquid, all ended in failure.

It was as if the bottle itself possessed intelligence, and had to be drunk by a living being.

The official institutions and pharmaceutical groups were unwilling to give up, but they were powerless—

If they could replicate the production of life potions, they could not only attract a large number of players, but also take the opportunity to monopolize the global healthcare industry, demanding whatever they wanted from seven and a half billion people.

However, monopolizing global healthcare wasn't entirely without hope.

As the Killing Game continues to advance, there will always be players who can enter more advanced script worlds than modern Earth, and obtain medical technologies that can be analyzed and understood by modern medicine.

Automated surgical intelligent machines, artificial wombs, artificial organs, nanoscale surgical robots, gene modification,

And ultimately, eternal life.

The development of any medical technology will have a significant and far-reaching impact on global humanity, including players.

In this changing tide of the times,

There are players who can't help themselves, and doctors who are swept up in the situation,

There are ignorant and bewildered common people, and news media that manipulate public opinion,

There are pharmaceutical groups seeking money and profit, and national machines with a thousand hands and eyes.

Involving seven and a half billion people and trillions of dollars in profits, no one can stay away from this storm.

Unless one can transcend everything, individual will is insignificant and vulnerable in the face of the general trend.

Li Ang held up the bottle of life potion, stared at it for a long time, and finally put it back in his inventory.

This thing is best used for myself.

You have a new friend request.

The system prompt rang. Li Ang, who was lying on the bed, turned over and got up.

He found that the person who had requested to add him as a friend was none other than Black Stallion, his temporary teammate in the "Campus Memories" mission.

In the Killing Game, players can't just add friends casually.

Either they have to search and add them in the "Previous Teammates" section of the mission log,

Or they have to apply directly through each player's unique code.

To avoid harassment, players can also turn on or off the friend request option, which can be said to be very user-friendly.

After accepting the friend request, Black Stallion chatted with Li Ang for a while, expressing his gratitude.

At the end of the conversation, he secretly indicated that he was willing to represent a secret organization called "Whale Song" to conduct in-depth cooperation with Li Ang.

For example, the buying and selling of spoils (especially computer-related items), the exchange of some special information, and so on.

Li Ang chatted for a while and muddled through, but still expressed his willingness to maintain friendly relations with the Whale Song organization.

After hanging up the friend communication, Li Ang stretched and collapsed back again.

In the next few days, Li Ang kept browsing the forums and collecting information.

The hot news on the forums recently was mainly two things.

The first was that earthquake sensors all over the world had recently received a strange seismic wave signal.

This was a large-scale, extremely low-frequency signal, long, smooth, repeating every seventeen seconds, lasting a total of 20 minutes, and encircling the globe.

A team of scientific experts tracked the source of the signal and found that it originated from the Mayotte Islands between Africa and Madagascar.

Since seven months ago, the Mayotte Islands had been experiencing continuous earthquakes, and so far the entire island had moved more than 20 centimeters to the southeast.

Scientific experts believe that this phenomenon is due to a new volcano forming off the coast of Mayotte.

But local residents claim that every night, they can hear a long, dull, strange breathing sound in their dreams.

However, the recording equipment, which is turned on 24 hours a day, has no reaction to this at all.

It's as if there is some kind of monster gradually waking up underground, dragging everyone in Mayotte into its dream....