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Chapter 453 Logout permissions were attacked again.
In the room, where high technology and eeriness intertwine, countless thick cables climb the cold metal walls like the exposed organs of a giant beast, emitting a low hum.

In the center of the room, Fujiki Ai sat quietly in front of the control panel with his back to the door. A video was playing on a loop on the screen in front of him.

The metal door slid open silently, and a female assistant walked in.

"Doctor, this thing has been found at the Dragon Temple outpost."

The female assistant, Lilith, raised her hand and tapped lightly in the air, and a holographic projection unfolded in the room—it was a sacred stone tablet exuding an ominous aura, which was none other than the [Dark Doll Nicolofia].

Fujiki Ai didn't turn around, but just watched the video in front of her, already aware of the appearance of the stone tablet.

"Is that Li Guanqi also at the Dragon Spirit Temple stronghold?"

“Yes, Doctor,” Lilith replied. “He’s on the list of the Fifth Department’s logistics team, with that Tang Xin.”

Fujiki Ai stopped talking and watched the video intently.

It was this video that forced the Pope, that old guy who was hiding in his shell, to come out.

The video content is not complicated.

On a frozen sea, Li Guanqi and Lin Chen ran frantically through a hail of bullets, finally placing their hands on the central control panel at the same time.

Lin Chen's situation was obvious. To remain unharmed under that kind of firepower, he must have been wearing a clown mask, and the degree of integration must have been very high, at least over 90%.

But Li Guanqi... is very strange.

Dodging bullets can be forcibly explained as having superhuman reaction speed.

Can one evade Ye Mudan's attacks within the Six Flowers Come Again Domain?

This is definitely not something that can be done by reaction alone. Normally, Ye Mudan attacks the person first and then appears, so it's hard to understand why she can't hit the person.

The only explanation is one word—the power of space and time.

Freeze time before the attack hits, giving yourself enough time to dodge.

Fujiki Ai zoomed in on Li Guanqi's picture, freezing the frame where he dodged Ye Mudan's attack. This fragment of authority looked stronger than the other two.

The Pope's "world" requires the sacrifice of two close confidants, and that person's "Ptolemy" must pay an even greater price, a massive amount of his own life force. The cost is extremely heavy.

But Li Guanqi's case... no matter how you look at it, you can't see any cost involved.

Even more coincidentally, Li Guanqi and the Pope entered the Grantia Secret Realm at the same time. The Pope died, but he survived. Is there a difference in the level of time-space abilities among them? "Time-space abilities without cost"

No cost means it can be used multiple times, which is very similar to that time.

Fujiki Ai's thoughts drifted back to the time when his idol was still known as "0748".

At that time, "Dr. Li" was not yet Dr. Li.

That day, his personality was invaded by an outsider. He wandered around the Elvira base like a headless fly. He didn't recognize any equipment or understand any instruments. He was like a country boy who had just arrived in the city, lost and clueless.

Yet, despite deploying all their elites and robots to hunt him down for a long time, they still couldn't catch him.

Every time the encirclement was about to close in, in the blink of an eye, 0748's figure would flash to a distance of more than ten meters, or even disappear from everyone's sight, so fast that even the surveillance cameras could not capture its trajectory.

In the end, Bai gave an order that no one could understand: "Don't bother catching him, he'll walk into the trap on his own."

As it turned out, he really did walk into the trap himself. He was definitely not 0748; 0748 would never step into such a simple trap.

After that, they placed 0748 on the operating table in room 505.

Carl personally took charge of eliminating the invading personality.

On the operating table, the conflict between the two personalities reached its peak. Just as Karl was about to make the incision, 0748's body erupted with a violent storm, and nine ghostly blue flames rose out of thin air around him.

One by one, the will-o'-the-wisps went out.

When the last will-o'-the-wisp dissipated, only one soul signal remained on the instrument.

After things calmed down, Bai walked onto the operating table and asked in a low voice, "Who are you?"

Fujiki Ai still remembers it clearly: on the operating table, the weak man's lips moved, and the first syllable he uttered was:

"plum……"

Everyone held their breath.

"plum?"

“No…” He woke up with a start, struggling to utter the code name with all his might, “Zero…0748.”

They only breathed a sigh of relief when 0748 gave its complete number.

From then on, the nickname "Dr. Li" became a playful one.

“Dr. Li…Li Guanqi.” Fujiki Ai murmured softly, pulling herself out of her memories, and asked softly with her back to her assistant.

"Lilith, do you think Li Guanqi resembles him?"

He paused, his voice as soft as a breeze, tinged with emotion: "Has he... come back?"

Lilith froze, a look of confusion flashing in her eyes: "Doctor, who are you referring to as 'he'?"

Fujiki Ai opened her mouth, then finally let out a self-deprecating chuckle: "It's nothing."

I forgot again.

Of those who lived through that era, he is the only one left who still remembers those events.

Lilith didn't press further; she knew her place perfectly well. She bowed and continued her report: "The Alliance has become aware of our actions and is completely restricting new visitor logins. Should we continue with our plan?"

Fujiki Ai didn't answer directly. His fingers gently stroked an old, yellowed photograph on the corner of the table. The photograph showed Dr. Li wearing a researcher's white coat.

"Tell me, did I do the right thing?"

Lilith bowed her head deeply, her tone devout: "The Dream Collapse World was created by you, Doctor. Without you, none of this would exist."

"You are never wrong."

"Whatever you want to do, the entire Dream Collapse Realm will follow you to the end."

Upon hearing these words, a complex smile appeared on Fujiki Ai's face.

He turned back and looked again at the figure weaving through gunfire on the screen.

"A world born from dreams is itself the most fertile soil."

“We will plant a seed on it, Lilith.”

"A seed that will blossom into a new god."

Shenwu Department's mobile base.

Mickey leaned against the medical pod, wiping the spotless equipment. Looking around at the empty corridor, he couldn't help but mutter, "Strange, why is it so quiet? Not a single wounded person has been brought in."

"You're still not happy that no one got hurt?" Tang Xin didn't even look up, her fingers flying across the keyboard.

"Pfft—" On the other side, Letong burst into laughter that she couldn't help.

A screen of light floated in front of her, displaying a player's live stream perspective.

Mickey and Tang Xin's attention was drawn to it.

"What are you looking at, laughing like that?" Mickey leaned closer.

"The second level of the dungeon is so interesting!" Le Tong laughed heartily, projecting a piece of information sent by the strategy team into the air. "Look at this map."

It was a three-dimensional structural diagram, with countless strongholds connected by lines, nested layer upon layer, looking like an onion that had been peeled in half.

"Is this the second floor?" Tang Xin stopped what she was doing and asked curiously.

“Yes.” Le Tong pointed to the structural diagram. “The strategy team said that the rules for all the strongholds on the second floor are the same, there is no large-scale melee, and it is much safer than the Flowing Shadow Plank Road before the first floor.”

"What rules?"

"You have to outsmart the NPCs, figure out how to find the other players mixed in, and then take them out," Letong explained. "As long as you defeat seven players of the same race, you can unlock an achievement called 'Calamity'."

As she spoke, she pulled up several battle reports: "The nemesis of the Rock Clan, Dragon Clan, and Fire Clan has been born. Two of them are our people, but strangely, they all said they didn't receive any completion notifications."

"Huh?" Tang Xin frowned slightly. "Then how exactly do we pass the level?" Le Tong spread her hands and made a helpless expression: "The stronghold rules are just a piece of nonsense, 'Lucky children can go to the next stronghold,' who knows what kind of 'lucky child' even is."

"The child?" Tang Xin's focus was rather strange; it wasn't on luck, but on the child.

"But none of that matters!" Yue Tong exclaimed excitedly. "Just be happy!"

"On the second floor, identities are randomly assigned. Several burly male streamers who are over 1.9 meters tall have been transformed into 1.4-meter-tall pink-haired lolis who are calling out 'brother' in a high-pitched voice. It's hilarious!"

Tang Xin couldn't help but laugh as she watched the coy "loli" acting on the live stream: "I remember now, Brother Ba said that he was born with a mute, so he can't express his suffering."

"Haha, how unfortunate."

"The difference between people is greater than the difference between people and idiots."

"Idiot? What idiot?"

Hearing Mickey's words, Le Tong laughed even harder, and Tang Xin watched this joyful scene with a slight smile on her lips.

The event lasts for 24 hours.

Six hours have passed now. Just hang in there a little longer, and you'll have the money.

……

Within the metaverse, at the Shuoye Corridor outpost.

boom!
A muffled explosion came from a distant street corner, followed by a few angry curses, and then everything fell silent.

"It exploded again! Beautiful!"

Arias and Ariana excitedly high-fived, while Ariana, the Lady of the Silver City, smiled broadly and held the baby in her arms high.

"So clever, honey! You guessed their retreat route again!"

Li Guanqi remained expressionless, letting her rub her cheek against his little face. He simply stretched out his chubby little hand and pressed a few words onto a simple light board in his palm.

Go and absorb it!

The three immediately suppressed their smiles and strode toward the chaotic street corner. The three players' corpses were dissipating into data, with wisps of pale blue light escaping from them. These wisps were drawn into Arias's body by the three of them.

Li Guanqi was held by the Palace Master and floated over. His avatar, Victoria, tightened her face and started typing again.

What element?

Arias sensed the energy within his body and pursed his lips: "Another mage race. Why are there so few demons?"

They had been in this stronghold for five hours, and finally managed to ambush a team of players with a trap, but it wasn't what they wanted.

"If we absorb another mage, will we be forced to change classes?" Ariana looked at her hands with a worried expression. "I don't want to be a mage. Making fireballs is not as interesting as planting bombs."

Currently, they have collected three types of mage elements, which is on par with the demon elements, while the undead and fantasy demons each have two types.

"What are your thoughts, my darling?" The Palace Master looked down at Li Guanqi in his arms, his eyes full of trust.

Li Guanqi's gaze was calm as her small hands tapped rapidly on the flat board.

[Absolutely do not forward]

The Demon race is the most elegant.

Next time, cripple them first, find out their elemental type, and don't bother them if they're not demons.

"My darling has excellent taste!" The Palace Master praised the ruthless suggestion. "The demon race is the most elegant! Let's do it!"

He turned to Ariana, who was in charge of intelligence: "Where is the next target?"

Each team will have a member who acts as a guard, serving as an intelligence agent and arresting people, and may also defect.

Ariana opened the police channel, and several red dots popped up on the screen.

"The NPCs just reported that three groups are acting suspiciously in the central square."

"Let's go, let's go lay a trap!"

Humming off-key tunes, the group walked briskly toward the central square, treating this life-or-death game like a giant amusement park, having a great time.

Li Guanqi seemed to be having a lot of fun, laughing and joking along with everyone.

suddenly.

Tick.

An extremely faint sound, like the ticking of a clock, echoed in Li Guanqi's mind.

His small body stiffened.

He quickly typed on the blank screen: 【Did you hear a ticking sound?】

"A ticking sound?"

The palace master stopped and listened intently. Arias and the other two also quieted down and carefully sensed the movements around them.

The only sounds were the wind and the distant hum of buildings; otherwise, there was utter silence.

"No."

"There was no ticking sound."

"Are you hallucinating, baby?" The palace master touched his forehead, which felt icy cold and covered in cold sweat.

Li Guanqi stopped typing, his breathing gradually became heavier, and his pupils dilated.

He slowly raised his head and looked up at the distant sky.

At the edge of the gray horizon, something is gazing at the world.

His pupils lost focus.

A hollow yet grand voice echoed in his mind, transcending time and space.

"The so-called divine will."

"It is—irresistible, inescapable, and indescribable."

Li Guanqi's small mouth opened unconsciously, and she continued with the last sentence.

"But the lucky child is an exception."

No one can see it, no one can react, no one can describe it.

A pure, intense white light engulfed everyone's vision and consciousness.

Subsequently.

Boom——

A devastating beam of light swept across all the strongholds on the second level.

There were no screams, no resistance, no struggle.

High school student, security guard, sausage seller, fat otaku uncle, rich businessman, beggar, loli, thief, doctor, demon baby.
Under the light, all beings are equal.

Everything turned into nothingness.

"PhD."

"The world of dreams has collapsed, but we trust you."

An extremely terrifying data stream exploded at node 14 of the metaverse, and the node was subjected to a frenzied attack. If the attack succeeded, the alliance would lose control of node 14.

The metaverse has 25 major nodes, each storing a significant authority.

The permission represented by node 14 is "logout".

However, each major node is equipped with a safety net to preserve 10 percent of its integrity, no matter how violent the impact.

(End of this chapter)