Chapter 628 - Phase Transition
Chapter 707 of "Player Reload" begins with suspenseful moments: Time returns to the present, Gray Rain helps Li Cheng adjust the headphones, while he... Donât miss it!
Time returns to the present, Gray Rain helps Li Cheng adjust the headphones, while he looks up at the sky and waves his hand, "So you can see me?""Yes."
Customer service agent Xiao Yuan said: "At this moment, the Mobile Task Force has cleared that train car and parked it in the tunnelâs maintenance section, with the logistics team analyzing the phone.
Iâm transferring the call for you now."
Even if we donât consider the multi-billion-dollar large order signed with the Special Affairs Bureau, this event has already affected the real world, and the Bureau will not ignore it.
"Hello, is that you, brother Pifu?"
Su Jieâs voice came from the other end of the headphones, "Long story short, the phone shows a version of âShanghai Fortressâ that is hosted on a pirate website. Functions like fast forward, pause, changing audio tracks, adjusting subtitles, and screen casting on the phone are all locked. No instruments are able to obtain root access rights either.
In our perspective, the movie image on the phone screen remains five meters in front of the two of you, in close-up view, and automatically displays corresponding subtitles when you speak."
"Subtitles too?"
Li Cheng raised an eyebrow, casually throwing out a Bat Hook to hit the air ahead, not hitting anything solid, proving there wasnât an invisible film crew using an invisible camera to shoot the scene in real-time.
He thought for a moment, then suddenly took out a speaker and started singing an ancient-style DJ song, "I walk through the long street, listening to the actors sing in the capital~ pear flowers fall in front of your window~"
This sudden scene stunned customer service agent Xiao Yuan, the members of the Mobile Task Force wearing full memetic isolation hazmat suits in the car, and the high-level officials at the Yin City Special Affairs Bureau Command Center,
Su Jie said in astonishment, "Brother Pifu, what are you doing?"
"Testing."
Li Cheng calmly said, "Domestic films must pass review before they can be released. If something absolutely impossible to pass appears on the screen in the real world, it proves that this is not a normal film."
With that, he was about to take out some small props from the three-dimensional warehouse.
"Oh shit, donât!"
Su Jie, sweating profusely, hurriedly stopped Li Chengâs action, as their Mobile Task Force records audio, video, and archives documents for every mission.
âHad I known, I wouldnât have gotten involved in this mess...â
Su Jieâs expression was one of pain as he patiently said, "Upon inspection, this phone has a download speed of 10Gbps and an upload speed of 1Gbps, exceeding the limits of a normal 5G phone. Additionally, it switches network service providers and their nodes every second, making it impossible for us to track."
"No wonder the task name is ."
Li Cheng rubbed his chin, "This movie is just one of the task locations. During a fight to the death, if you canât win or need to chase the enemy, you can switch nodes to jump to other network devices."
The question is, where is the enemy.
"Look above!"
Gray Rain pointed to the sky, and the camera followed her fingers to see the disc-shaped alien mothership hovering above the energy barrier suddenly undergo some changes.
Thick black smoke spewed out from the gaps, affecting the alien mechanical unit code-named "Predator," which immediately froze and fell freely below.
"Somethingâs not right."
In the subway car filled with professional equipment, a member of the Mobile Task Force instinctively said, "Iâve watched âShanghai Fortressâ five times, and thereâs no such scene in it."
Upon hearing this, Li Cheng stood in respect, and even Su Jie and others couldnât help but turn to look at that member.
The 2.9 score on Douban for the epic sci-fi romance masterpiece is a testament to its painful watch, making people rinse their eyes after just one view, or even apply for paid sick leave,
but to watch it all five times... what a Red Stone Immortal.
Faced with strange looks from his colleagues, the member awkwardly said, "I watched it separately with five past partners."
Aquaman, are you? You must have gone to the bathroom without bringing toilet paper.
Everyone turned their gaze back, the thick black smoke, though seemingly slow, quickly covered the entire mothership. It appeared as if the ship was being invaded by a virus, extinguishing beams attacking the energy barrier, shutting down all lights, and coming to a standstill.
If something seems off, thereâs bound to be something strange. Li Cheng tossed the Ten Thousand Eyes Headphone to Gray Rain, then put on a Bluetooth headset himself, holding onto a Floating Engine, and drifted toward the blue barrier in the sky.
According to the movie setting, the Immortal Vine Material discovered by humans in the universe is considered an infinite energy source, allowing the invention of advanced technology like the energy barrier by leaping across eras,
(This point canât be delved into, after all, the movie also mentions that due to the war, the entertainment industry has regressed by a hundred years, but civilians have unlimited beer.)
Flying out from the barrierâs gap, Li Cheng glanced at the city below, and found that beyond downtown Shanghai, everything further away was just a mess of blurry color blocks, like an unloaded map in a video gameâunderstandable, since the movieâs plot takes place solely in this city.
He looked up, observing the stalled mother ship closely, and the Information Integration Glasses quickly read the data, with the words faintly appearing behind the .
The next moment, a vast number of four-armed robots swarmed out, each robotâs surface covered with large patches of black tattoos.
"Tattoos, huh, these robots wouldnât qualify as civil servants then."
Gray Rain shook his head, relying on these Predator robots, which in the movie showed power less than that of real-world fourth-generation fighter jets, trying to harm Li Cheng was too far-fetched.
Sure enough, Li Cheng merely snapped his fingers, summoning hundreds of Forbidden Army tanks out of thin air, unleashing a volley above, and the High Explosive Ammunition cleared all the four-armed robots, asking in between, "It seems that the alien mother ship has been parasitized by something called , do you guys know what that is?"
The people in the metro carriage, including Su Jie and others, looked at each other, and even in the Command Center of the Yin City Special Affairs Bureau, the senior officials were bewildered, "What phase, what change, never heard of it."
"Searched already, thereâs no high-level player on Earth with that name."
In private, all major guilds will establish files on every notable high-level Transcendent on Earth, including life history, relatives and friends, character traits, political stance, and even use AI programs or real human teams, watching mission videos frame by frame, speculating and restoring the effects of each item skill.
In the power system of notable high-level players on Earth, there is no information related to the Phase Change Demon.
"Fine, Iâll do it myself."
Li Cheng floated a few hundred meters higher, stretching his arms, deliberately stalling for time.
After a round of tank shellingâs light and sound effects, the NPCs in the movie finally noticed Li Chengâs presence, several fighter jets approached him, even citizens on the ground who were "fleeing" pointed and discussed him in the sky.
"Wow, look, thereâs someone up there!"
"Really, heâs flying in the air."
The tone of the passers-by was so earnest, even the usually abstract Gray Rain couldnât hold it together. What was harder to hold was that the lip movements of these passers-by were completely inconsistent with what they were sayingâthe post-production of the movie was a disaster, with character lip-syncing frequently mismatched with dubbing.
When enough attention was attracted, Li Cheng steadied his breath, quietly activated the Skill Scroll, and shouted towards the mother ship, "Have you ever been kicked at light speed?"
High Light MomentâThe more pretentious it feels, the stronger the boost.
After shouting, Li Chengâs hair fluttered automatically without wind, his clothes flapped fiercely, he slowly lifted his right leg, aiming at the central axis of the mother ship, posed for a kick, and his figure vanished from the spot.
Buzz!
The giant vortex casting a shadow over the entire city was split in mid-air, like Moses parting the sea, creating a long narrow gap.
The center of the vortex, that alien mother ship was also directly penetrated, with flames and explosions erupting inside the breach.
The strength of the alien mother ship was far less than the Alpha Python, with its physical support severely damaged, the mother ship was about to collapse and disintegrate, however...
Out of nowhere, billowing black fog extinguished all the flames in an instant, continuing its momentum, swept over the entire ship.
The exterior of the mother ship, like those Predator robots, also showed tattoos, continuing to hover in the air.
"Hmm?"
Li Cheng retracted his kicking posture, realizing that the kick not only punched through the mother ship but also seemed to shatter the boundary of the movie.
In the high sky, a hundred-meter crack appeared, crazily sucking in surrounding air, creating a level-eight gale.
The mere gale was not enough to affect Li Cheng, he slightly adjusted the gravity direction, moving away from the crack.
The mother ship appeared stranger, not attacking Li Cheng, but instead releasing more transformed Predator robots, and like a banyan tree, dropped down black smoke pillars that extended towards the ground through the energy barrierâs gaps.
Amid the doubts and uncertainties, a composed voice came from the phone, "Hello, Mr. Pi Fu, this is Bai Ze."
Li Cheng raised an eyebrow, this Bai Ze directly belongs to the headquarters of the Special Affairs Bureau, representing the high echelonâs will.
Since he wasnât part of the Yin City Special Affairs Bureau system, it was apparent that Yin City reported the situation to the headquarters, grabbing the attention of the central bureau, and had Xiao Yuan from customer service transfer the call.
"The situation is urgent, Iâll be brief. This is a high-level non-human player from the Otherworld, Level 33, with specific abilities including shape change, assimilation corrosion, and memetic pollution.
Now you need to try your best to eradicate it, you mustnât leave the battle, otherwise, during the 5-minute unrestricted free action time after the task ends, it might hack into every networked device on Earth. Completing the preparation for an invasion of the Earth."