Bodhisattva, please help me in my spiritual practice!

Operations command center.

Ao Peng and his companions learned immediately that the Lu Palace had issued a bounty to gather players to form a defensive line.

The advantage players have in the old game is that they are immortal, meaning that as long as the Lu Palace is willing to invest, they can hold off their offensive.

The command center quickly offered a suggestion: "We can directly notify the players in the real world who know our identities to reduce the number of people recruited by the Lu Palace as much as possible."

The Bureau of Investigation had been established for two or three months, and had been operating quietly. Even a second-generation figure like Chu Ge knew about secretly investigating players' identities, making it even easier for the Bureau of Investigation to do its job!

Ao Peng thought for a moment and interjected, "I have an even simpler method that can be used in conjunction with this, without requiring any additional resources."

After Ao Peng finished speaking, he immediately picked up his phone and typed a message.

Good Fortune Person: Hello everyone, I am the person in charge of the Lu Palace operation by the Bureau of Investigation. As a demonic force, the Lu Palace now wants to invade the real world. I hope everyone will not be tempted by the benefits offered by the Lu Palace and cause irreversible consequences.

He posted this message, and immediately someone from the polling bureau helped push it to the front page.

However, this post is not very informative; it's just official jargon, or even worse.

Sure enough, as soon as Ao Peng's post got up to the top, people started complaining in the comments.

Game designer, are you kidding me?! Such arrogance! Others in the Lu Palace bring real gold and silver, what are you bringing? I didn't eat your rice!

If there are negative reviews, people will naturally start making trouble.

I am the best in the world: Others have been sitting in offices for too long and think they are living in the old days. Once I master my supernatural powers, I will kill these officials every time I see them!

Don't try to extort money: Exactly, even capitalists know how to give out money, what are you giving out, a banner? Too bad we don't need any banners!

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Dozens of negative reviews appeared in an instant.

In real life, I'm timid and submissive, but online, I'll strike hard, especially on the unregulated foreign internet!

Seeing that the comments were about to get out of control, a professional responsible for managing online public opinion suggested to Ao Peng, "Should we control the comments?"

Although I don't have backend access, using positive reviews to offset the negative ones is a viable option; I can't have all negative reviews.

In fact, most ordinary people do not choose to speak out at this time, but only choose to stand by and watch, so the public opinion field is driven by one-sided emotions.

Ao Peng smiled and said, "No rush, let the post fly for a while."

Then he turned to look at the person who was formulating a battle strategy.

The Lu Palace is divided into three levels in both the old game world and the real world.

This is a special burial feng shui layout, which is the key to connecting the old world and the real world, so even the owner of the Lu Palace could not change it.

This type of tomb was very popular in the Han Dynasty, with its three layers symbolizing the netherworld, the human world, and the Jade Pool, respectively.

The tomb owner, protected by soldiers and immortals, will traverse the Three Realms and finally drink the elixir of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West to gain eternal life.

Before Ao Peng arrived, small, specialized unmanned equipment had already been sent down into the tomb.

With the help of hundreds of fearless professional machines, the Empire has a general understanding of its internal structure.

Because the entire tomb is now connected to the old world, the space that originally consisted of only a few tomb chambers has been transformed into a hollowed-out mountain. The first level symbolizes the underworld, where a large number of ghost soldiers were discovered. The second level symbolizes the human world, where fox demons disguised as humans appeared.

As for the third layer, unmanned equipment is currently unable to penetrate it.

Qin An did not simply issue an order to bombard the area with artillery fire.

First, as the first discovered stronghold of the demonic forces that connected the underworld with the real world, the Lu Palace's technology is of great research value. The overall situation is still under control, and there is no need to start bombarding the area directly.

Secondly, the Lu Palace is buried deep underground. Even if engineers dig an entrance, artillery fire would likely only collapse one or two layers, making it difficult to damage the inaccessible third layer inside.

Third, although the elite army has been training for two months, it has not yet had any real experience in large-scale combat, so it needs the real enemy, the Lu Palace, to test some weapons and tactics.

Ao Peng listened attentively from the side. He had no experience in tactical command, and at this time, it was most taboo for an outsider to lead an expert.

However, when he heard that Qin An had allowed ordinary elite soldiers to enter the Lu Palace, he still raised a question.

Qin An's combat deployment is a three-person elite squad system, consisting of an extraordinary player from the army, leading two elite soldiers.

Ao Peng asked, "The first level has a large number of ghost soldiers. Will ordinary elite soldiers be effective in entering?"

Among supernatural abilities, incorporeal ghosts are the most effective counter to modern weapons.

Qin An took out a palm-sized sphere and handed it to Ao Peng, explaining, "This is a sonic bomb developed by the Equipment Department. Although ghosts are not afraid of being penetrated by physical weapons, large amounts of energy damage such as fire and lightning can cause them great harm."

"Based on this characteristic and the new knowledge gained, the Empire has researched a batch of new experimental weapons, such as this sonic bomb, which produces a special kind of sound wave that causes minor damage to the human body but severe damage to the soul!"

Ao Peng cast an appraisal spell, and it turned out exactly as Qin An had predicted.

Old Mo added from the side, "And this is also a good time for the soldiers to qualify for the Old Earth Games."

At this point, his tone was tinged with a hint of melancholy, "To qualify for the game, everyone needs to go through a life-or-death ordeal."

Ao Peng suddenly thought of a question and quickly asked, "Teacher, is it possible for the Empire to control some demons, thereby helping a large number of ordinary people enter the game?"

Now that demons have appeared in the real world, the Empire is theoretically able to control weaker demons and mass-produce game accounts.

Old Mo chuckled, "It's not that simple. The core of entering the Old Earth Game is still 'cause and effect'! You need to establish a connection between the living and the underworld so that the soul can reach the intermediate state between them! Unless you find a stable source of cause and effect that is close to life and death, you won't be able to mass-produce players!"

Ao Peng opened his mouth.

At first, he didn't quite understand the nature of the old-fashioned game, so he directly attacked his younger brother Ao Wu, making Ao Wu enter the game immediately. He felt that this method was very simple.

But now that I think about it carefully, it doesn't seem to be that simple.

First, as a resurrected corpse, the fusion of two different souls can be achieved through either inheriting cause and effect or eliminating cause and effect.

So if, the moment he is resurrected, he truly loses all emotion and desire, and tries to resolve his family relationships by eliminating cause and effect, then Ao Wu will be in real danger, having unknowingly walked through the gates of hell.

Moreover, Ao Wu and he have a direct blood relationship, and their causal connection is close enough. Therefore, when he was choking Ao Wu, it was possible that, in terms of causal judgment, the resurrected corpse wanted to kill the original body's relatives in order to get rid of the causal relationship.

After understanding, Ao Peng nodded slightly. The matter of cause and effect is truly mysterious.