Evolution game, nothing more than that!

Yes, there is a super-large-yield bomb installed under the floor of this office. The detonator on it is connected to the Prime Minister's mind. It can be detonated directly with just a thought from him. According to calculations, its power is enough to destroy the energy shield that Yi Shen had displayed before.

It is hard to imagine that any head of state would install such a thing in his own office, so it is obvious that this should be a temporary installation with the purpose of capturing or killing Yi Shen and others - even if it means sacrificing the life of the Prime Minister himself!

However, the Prime Minister, who was used as bait and sacrifice, did not seem to care about this. He just looked at the intercom with sharp eyes, as if he could see Yi Shen and others behind the call:

"It seems my previous assessment of you was inaccurate. Besides the abilities you've demonstrated before, you must possess some powerful investigative capabilities! Is this some unknown superpower? I'm really tempted to capture you and dissect you!"

Listening to the other party's threatening words, Yi Shen just sneered:

"Let's save those dreams for later! But I'm really surprised. I thought you high-ranking officials who value your lives would use prosthetics or something like that to disguise yourself, but I didn't expect you to use your real body as bait. Are you really that fearless?"

As soon as these words came out, the Prime Minister's expression became a little strange:

"Oh? You even noticed this..."

Then he sneered:

"Do you think I'm some old-fashioned politician or bureaucrat? As long as I can hold this position within the order created by the Sibyl System, I won't be afraid of death! As long as I can bring you terrorists who endanger national security to justice, even if it means sacrificing my own life, what does it matter?"

"Oh my! What an impassioned speech! I'm almost believing it!"

Yi Shen said on the intercom:

"—if my companion hadn't told me you were lying."

The second half of the sentence rang directly into the Prime Minister's ears.

The startled Prime Minister jumped up from his seat in an instant, turned around and looked behind him, only to see the three figures who had long been wanted nationwide.

His pupils suddenly shrank, and without hesitation, he sent a command directly through the brain-computer chip in his brain, intending to detonate the bomb.

However, after waiting for a few seconds, he was shocked to find that the bomb that was supposed to explode did not explode.

He immediately changed his strategy, intending to summon the multiple armed satellites that had been prepared long ago to jointly bring down the light of divine punishment, vaporizing the Prime Minister's Office and the enemy together, but the result was still the same - no response!

"Haha, stop wasting your energy!"

Yi Shen smiled and said:

"Why do you think I spent so much time talking to you? The bomb's detonator has already been dismantled by my companions. As for that space-based weapon... you might as well take a look out the window!"

Upon hearing this, the Prime Minister subconsciously turned his head to look at the window, and immediately saw that the sky outside had been covered with a thick layer of dark clouds. At the same time, he could see that light was constantly emitting from the dark clouds, as if there was some huge light source inside.

The thick rain clouds that have already formed are different from the clouds that are being formed. They are much more effective in blocking light spear attacks. The scorching light beams that fall from the sky are constantly refracted and dispersed after coming into contact with the water vapor and ice crystals in the clouds. Even if a lot of water vapor along the way evaporates in the process, it still cannot penetrate the entire cloud layer completely. In the end, it can only turn into this scattered light source that illuminates the entire cloud layer in the continuous dispersion.

Chapter 140: Consciousness Uploading, Digital Ascension

"Can you even control the weather?"

If the sudden appearance of clouds the previous time had only made the Prime Minister skeptical, this time, he was completely certain that these terrorists with superpowers could actually control the weather!

Seeing that his two major backup plans had been broken, the Prime Minister did not call on the guards outside to make any last-ditch efforts - he knew that since the other party could appear in front of him so easily, the guards and bodyguards outside must have been dealt with.

So he gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and used his last resort.

The next moment, Yi Shen saw that the prime minister's head suddenly burst out with very strong electromagnetic waves, and then his whole body softened and fell to the ground in an instant, and his breathing and heartbeat completely stopped.

His expression changed and he immediately said:

"Xing, quick, absorb his memory!"

Seeing this, the girl on the side no longer cared that her target was an old man. She hurried forward, grabbed the prime minister's arm, bit it, and sucked the blood in the vein that had not yet cooled down.

After a while, she dropped her arm, spat out the remaining blood in her mouth, and rinsed her mouth with a bottle of mineral water.

"How is it? Did you read it?"

Yi Shen hurried forward and asked.

"some."

Yamasaki An nodded, looking somewhat excited:

"Fortunately, he just died. The memories preserved in his blood are very complete. I know everything about him, or the people behind him!"

"it is good!"

Yi Shen nodded, but did not rush to ask:

"Let's leave here first and find a safe place, then you can tell us the information."

Yamasaki An nodded in agreement.

"That's right, we really need to leave quickly. The Prime Minister isn't dead yet. No, I should say he's not completely dead yet. But once his body is confirmed dead, the military will attack immediately!"

Yi Shen and Sakurajima Mai looked at each other, both confused about what Yamasaki An meant, but they understood that the military attack was coming.

The three of them didn't say any more nonsense and quickly left the Prime Minister's Office.

Less than half a minute after they left, a missile carrying a thermobaric warhead fell from the sky and hit the Prime Minister's residence. The violent explosion instantly engulfed the entire building. The high temperature, shock wave, and subsequent lack of oxygen turned the area into a brief death zone.

An explosion of this magnitude in the city center, especially in the area where political leaders were located, immediately caused a sensation and panic among the people around.

Unfortunately, because the network was disconnected, the news could not spread quickly and the panic was limited to a small area. Although people farther away knew that an explosion had occurred in this direction, they did not know what caused the explosion or how much damage had been caused. For the time being, there was no possibility of it turning into a large-scale panic.

But all this has nothing to do with Yi Shen and the others.

The three people returned to the safe house and began to sort out the memories that Yamasaki An obtained from the Prime Minister's blood.

"Are you saying that the Prime Minister didn't actually commit suicide just now, but uploaded his consciousness into a satellite in orbit?!"

Just the beginning gave Sakurajima Mai a huge shock.

"Yes, it's not just him. In fact, all prime ministers, including those who have passed away, and many political leaders of the past have uploaded their consciousnesses. They live as digital life forms in satellite servers in outer space, and can remotely control their prosthetic bodies to move on the ground when needed."

Yamasaki An added.

"No wonder I felt the electromagnetic waves erupting from that guy's brain shoot up into the sky. It turns out they were carrying his thoughts and consciousness!"

Yi Shen suddenly understood and realized what he had sensed before.

But after knowing this, he couldn't help but sigh, this world's black technology is really dark enough. Not to mention the "ruler" and Sibylla in the original plot, there is actually this technology that can directly upload human consciousness to a computer, which is seamlessly connected to "Paradise Chasing" written by Gen Urobuchi, right?

Later, he learned from Yamasaki An that, from the very beginning, the world's research on the human brain had been divided into two technical routes.

One of the research areas was the technology to combine the human brain with computers, and the final product was the Sibyl system.

Another technical route is even more radical. It intends to directly abandon the biomass brain and upload human consciousness directly into a computer. It is named the "Digital Ascension" project.

It can be said that the two are carried out almost simultaneously, interweaving with each other, and have greatly helped each other's technological development.

But in the end, the only system that was successfully developed was the Sibyl System, and its true nature was concealed. As for the "Digital Ascension" project, no one knew about it, as if it did not exist at all.

The reason is very simple. Unlike the Sibyl system used for public management, the "Digital Ascension" project has been a plan that only serves a few people since its inception.

And its goal is also very old-fashioned, so old-fashioned that emperors, generals, powerful officials have been pursuing it for thousands of years - that is eternal life!

Naturally, in the eyes of those high-ranking officials and dignitaries, there is no need for too many immortals; just a small number of them are enough.

As for the rest of the ordinary people, let alone the chance of eternal life, they don’t even need to know about it.

After all, these powerful people can only gain that sense of superiority when they have something that others do not; these immortal "gods" can only gain a god-like status when most people are mortals.

And the so-called Sibyl System?

He is just a prophet who conveys oracles to these "gods" and manages the earth, and he doesn't even know it.

Of course, just as the Sibyl System needs an incarnation of the Heshengrang Sect, these digital lives that claim to be gods also need an anchor to maintain contact with the material world.

And this anchor point is the successive prime ministers.

However, unlike the Sibyl System, which directly fabricated an incarnation that did not exist, the digital life forms chose to absorb every prime minister as their own kind.

Under the temptation of eternal life, almost no one would refuse the opportunity to become a "god". Since the success of this plan, every prime minister has chosen to cooperate with digital life forms, becoming their spokesperson while in office, and accepting consciousness uploading upon retirement or death to become a "new god".

It is by such means that these "gods" always firmly control the country, but quietly and without anyone knowing.

Until Yi Shen and the others appeared!

Chapter 141: The Evolution Game Will Not Release Unfinishable Tasks

"The culprit is actually in outer space. This is really a bit difficult to deal with!"

After learning the whole story, Sakurajima Mai sighed like this.

"Yes, according to the Prime Minister's memory, the server satellite carrying digital life is located in geosynchronous orbit. With our current capabilities, we can't reach that height at all!"

Yamasaki An said this, her tone full of dejection.

"Synchronous orbit..."

Yi Shen raised his head and looked at the sky.

The altitude of the geosynchronous orbit is about 35786 kilometers, which is almost one-tenth of the distance from the Earth to the Moon. For Yi Shen and others at this time, it is indeed beyond their capabilities.

But this doesn't mean that they have no other options.

"Since we can't reach it, let's use the power of this world itself to destroy it!"

Yi Shen said this.

"The power of this world itself... you mean?"

Sakurajima Mai asked, and Yamasaki An also gave her a puzzled look.

Facing the two people's questions, Yi Shen asked this question:

"Xing, search the Prime Minister's memories. Is there any information about anti-satellite weapons, especially their locations?"

"Anti-satellite weapons?!"

Yamasaki An immediately realized what Yi Shen wanted to do, and immediately closed her eyes and searched the memories she had obtained from the Prime Minister.

Sakurajima Mai, who was standing by, showed a look of sudden realization:

"That's right. Japan isn't the only country in the world. Since we've developed space-based satellite weapons, other hostile countries will surely have similar weapons for strategic deterrence. Just like missiles and anti-missile systems in the real world, when everyone has space-based satellite weapons, anti-satellite weapons will surely be present as well."

"Yes, that's it."

Yi Shen nodded.

The Japan in this world is actually quite different from the Japan in the original plot, not to mention the types of food that are self-sufficient, the location of the Sibylla system, and even the "Digital Ascension" project that is not mentioned at all in the original work. In terms of the international situation, the Japan in this world is not as unique as in the original plot, claiming to be the only country in the world that still has the rule of law.

In fact, outside of closed-door Japan, there are still countries that are equally powerful or even more powerful.

These countries survived the Third World War and maintained national order and industrial capabilities after the war. Their technological levels are also not bad. They have everything, such as prosthetic technology and brain-computer integration, and space-based weapons are naturally no exception.

As a countermeasure, Japan will certainly develop its own anti-satellite weapons.

"We only need to find Japan's own anti-satellite weapon system and use it to destroy the satellite, and we can easily complete the mission."

Yi Shen said this.

Of course, the key to accomplishing all this lies in whether there is any relevant content in the memories obtained by Yamasaki An, or at least a clear location!

"Found it, it actually exists, and it's surprisingly close!"

After a while, Yamasaki An opened her eyes and reported the good news to her two teammates.

"Where?"

Yi Shen asked quickly.

"It's just outside the city, in a military base hidden in the mountains. And guess what? It's only ten kilometers away from the prison we were originally in!"

Yamasaki An said so.

Yi Shen: "..."

Near that prison?!

It turns out that the key to breaking the deadlock, the evolution game, was placed next to them from the beginning, but at that time neither Yi Shen nor the two girls realized it.

"Is this what they call 'Evolution Games won't release unfinishable quests'?"

Mai Sakurajima couldn't help but sigh.

Yi Shen said this unintentionally while chatting with them in the real world. It was his understanding or conjecture about the existence of the evolution game.

Previously, due to insufficient sample size, neither they nor Yi Shen himself could be completely sure of this.

But now, they can confirm that the Evolution Game will not release impossible tasks. Even if the task goals are beyond the players' capabilities, they will definitely give corresponding prompts or help.

All players need are eyes and brains to discover these hints and help!