Upon hearing Bai Haozheng’s words, the leader of the Japan Islands Bureau of Anomalous Affairs, though furious, knew that the other party would not provide any substantial help,
so he had to hang up the video call,
and instructed his subordinates to continue maintaining communication with official organizations.
Since the Special Affairs Bureau was unwilling to help, they had to handle the situation themselves,
on the plus side, the Special Affairs Bureau did not claim that Li Ang ca with ill intentions, so he probably wouldn’t cause wanton destruction... hopefully.
The leadership on the Japan Islands briefly exchanged opinions,
on one hand, instructing people like the Life-Killing Hospital to rush back imdiately,
and on the other, having agents from the southern end of Honshu continue to follow Li Ang from a distance, preventing any extre actions.
At the sa ti, they reluctantly reported the relevant information to higher authorities and peer-level departnts.
Soon, the entire Tokyo fell into a strange state of pause.
The glass on the surface of the Tokyo tropolitan Governnt Building in Shinjuku New District all descended, switching to pitch-black, non-transparent explosion-proof glass,
so tourists who intended to visit the Tokyo tropolitan Governnt Building were also dissuaded by ard guards at the entrance, under the pretext of a fire drill.
The sa went for high-grade buildings in Chiyoda District and other areas.
Subordinates inquired whether to issue the highest alert level for the entire city’s alarm,
the leader contemplated for a mont and rejected the suggestion, "There’s no need for that currently."
The Japan Islands have a strong disaster preparedness consciousness, disaster education has been widely disseminated, and various sectors of society, including schools and companies, hold various disaster drills annually,
especially after the Killing Ground ga expanded massively, the Japan Islands Bureau of Anomalous Affairs spent a great deal of effort on establishing rapid response ard forces, constructing shelters, and educating the public on disaster mutation knowledge.
All major smartphone companies were mandated to pre-install an app provided by the Japan Islands Bureau of Anomalous Affairs,
and the public was required to use it compulsorily — the app could pinpoint each citizen’s exact address, send alert ssages, provide map information and mutation danger zones, and show the nearest and most accessible shelter facilities.
Li Rising, the Dragon Head White Lab Coat, was still in the deep forests of southern Honshu, there was no need to cause widespread panic and alarm,
besides, based on observational results, his long-range teleportation techniques also have a cooldown period,
evacuation would be tily when he makes further threatening moves.
Moreover...
Honshu Island stretches approximately 1300km from northeast to southwest,
if you draw a circle with a 500km radius from Li Rising’s current location,
most of Honshu Island would be encompassed.
If Tokyo was evacuated, what about places like Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, and Nagoya?
Should all of them be evacuated?
As Bai Haozheng said, that’s the only option...
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In the deep mountains, Li Ang was unaware that his sudden visit threw the entire Japan Islands Bureau of Anomalous Affairs into turmoil,
even if he knew, he wouldn’t care.
He casually stowed away the packaging of the takoyaki, suddenly stopping in his tracks, standing still.
The Japan Islands personnel monitoring from afar through specially designed binoculars and drones were suddenly startled, their hearts skipped a beat involuntarily.
"This should be it..."
Li Ang muttered to himself, pulling out the Heart Monkey Staff from his backpack, and casually stabbing it into the solid rock.
Then he injected spiritual power, turning the Heart Monkey into a miniature shield tunneling machine, and started using alchemy through it.
The mountain soil rapidly liquefied and turned to mud, carving out a sloping, person-high tunnel.
Li Ang simply pushed the Heart Monkey Staff, stepping into the tunnel, moving downward all the way.
He casually released a spiritual energy shield, repelling the continuously dripping mud from above along the way, pondering the experiences from his previous script tasks in his mind.
At the end of Fate Carving Village, the Killing Ground ga lifted restrictions on players,
Wang Congshan was sent back to the surface by Li Ang; however, she was unaware that, in the last two minutes underground, Li Ang not only covered the entire Yuan Mountain at the entrance to the Netherworld but also personally stepped to the edge of the Netherworld to take a look.
With the improvent of his power level, Li Ang was no longer completely oblivious to information outside the script tasks,
outside the Netherworld Edge,
he could see and feel the millions of vengeful spirits contained within the Netherworld.
The small settlent of Fate Carving Village alone could not provide that many souls; these vengeful spirits must have co from elsewhere.
At that ti, Li Ang used spiritual power to protect his mind, cautiously using divine sense to glance inward,
discovering that the entrance to the Netherworld indeed sat at the boundary between reality and illusion, as the myths of Fate Carving Village suggested,
the entire Netherworld beneath it was not material but more of a phantasm,
like an interconnected pipeline system linking to other distant parts of the script world.
Li Ang continued to use divine sense to explore along the Netherworld pipeline and unexpectedly discovered that the script world was entirely identical to the Japan Islands of the real world,
and the entire script world has only one Japan Islands.
Beyond that, the connection of the Netherworld pipeline range ends, turning into a pitch-black void.
This obviously defies common sense.
Reasoning with conventional logic, if the Netherworld system serves as the soul reincarnation foundation for the script world, then why are there places not connected to the Netherworld pipeline system?
Could it be that those in the script world who are from the United States and Britain don’t need to be reincarnated?
Does the Netherworld system have a kind of residency discrimination?
"Two possibilities exist.
One, my divine sense is still not strong enough to see the deeper, connective Netherworld of other regions of the script world.
Two, the script world indeed only has a single Japan Islands, with no other regions."
Li Ang muttered to himself, moving down the tunneled path, "If it’s the first possibility, then it’s fine.
But if it’s the second, then things aren’t good..."
If the script world, where the Fate Carving Village is located, only has an area the size of the Japan Islands,
and all people in that world express no dissent or doubt about why there’s an invisible wall at the ocean’s edge,
then what exactly is that world?
A box temporarily fashioned by the Killing Ground ga?
Not likely; the Fate Carving Village task confined players around Yuan Mountain for the most part and limited player abilities, restricting them to the vicinity of the village.
If the Killing Ground ga created a box for Fate Carving Village, there would be no need to fabricate an entire Japan Islands.
Or is it a fragnt of so other world?
Li Ang took a deep breath. In the script task before last, along with Hoenhem and Liu Wu Dai, he had encountered what seed to be a Su Ni Sheng who had fit an entire world into a box,
and then, in the last script task, he saw the Fate Carving Village, which also seed like a world inside a box.
"The position beneath the Fate Carving Village at the Netherworld Edge roughly corresponds to this spot..."
Li Ang stopped in his tracks, casually waving his Heart Monkey Staff, lting large swathes of soil and rock,
creating an underground space similar to Fate Carving Village.
Nothing... Nothing at all...
Li Ang looked at the sprawling dark void, his eyes gleaming in the darkness.
No Netherworld, no lingering souls, nor the withered vines imbued with Divine Power that Li Ang intentionally left in the script world.
On the rock walls of the entire underground space, there were only layers of rock in varying colors and solid clumps of earth and stone.
"..."
Li Ang stood there thinking for a mont. Even though this trip yielded nothing, he didn’t feel any disappointnt.
Or rather, he vaguely guessed that this might be the result.
"The script task doesn’t correspond with reality, huh..."
Li Ang sighed softly, still thinking about the scenes he saw in the Netherworld.
As a first-tier player, he also experienced many script tasks explaining reincarnation and the nature of souls,
such as the one long ago, where he assisted Mules in an afterlife world ruled by dinosaurs using an off-site projection thod.
In that world, five dinosaurs managed the entire Underworld, responsible for handling the reincarnation of all living beings.
Or, for example, when he had just beco a player, he t that crazy man, Zou Zhengze, who believed that the soul could never be freed after death—Zou Zhengze was also the first player Li Ang killed.
"Maybe both the dinosaurs and Zou Zhengze got sothing right."
Li Ang thought silently. He had a hunch that the Netherworld pipeline system, as well as the Underworld ruled by dinosaurs, were reasonable existences in so sense.
When living beings die, their souls are extracted from their bodies,
either turning into lone ghosts,
or heading to an unknown area,
to be shattered and reforged, then return to the mortal realm for reincarnation.
In the entire process, both the Netherworld and the Underworld serve the sa function, which is to recycle souls.
The difference is,
one follows the constraints of world rules,
while the other involves human factors, actively driven by people.
"Since both reincarnation systems follow the sa basic theory, is it possible to intervene in them actively?
For example, during reincarnation, intercept a part of the soul and retain it..."
A thought erged in Li Ang’s mind, feeling that he vaguely grasped a crucial clue, yet he couldn’t piece all the information together.
He stood there thinking for a long ti, unable to find an answer,
so he slowly waved his Heart Monkey Staff to restore the lted compressed mud, roughly repairing the cave,
then returned to the surface along the tunnel.
When he returned to the ground, the people from the Life-Killing Hospital were already waiting on a distant hillside,
seeing Li Ang co out, the person from the Life-Killing Hospital smiled gently and called out from a distance, "Did Li-san find what you wanted?"
"Not bad."
Li Ang nodded casually, showing no intention of continuing the conversation,
once again stepping on invisible stairs to ascend into the sky, heading towards the sea, pulling the trigger of the Colt Revolver, and instantly disappearing.
The mbers of the Japan Islands Anomalous Affairs Investigation Bureau, watching from a distance, felt a complex mix of emotions as they saw Li Ang completely ignoring them, swaggering out of their encirclent,
Absurdity, embarrassnt, helplessness, anger, and a hint of relief.
Only those standing with the Life-Killing Hospital, like the Blue Lantern and Umibouzu, felt slightly uneasy, subconsciously glancing at the expression on the face of the person from the Life-Killing Hospital.
It was the first ti the Life-Killing Hospital had been publicly ignored like this,
even high-ranking officials, ministers, and dignitaries from the Japan Islands would treat her with reverence and respect, never daring to show the slightest neglect.
Li Ang has the capital to ignore the Life-Killing Hospital, but for these subordinates, they could beco scapegoats for venting anger...
To the surprise of those like the Blue Lantern, the expression on the Life-Killing Hospital’s face was neither rigid nor cold, she rely smiled faintly, put away the dagger hidden in her palm, and said softly, "Let’s go."
"Where to?"
The Blue Lantern said instinctively, regretting it imdiately after speaking.
"Of course, back to Tokyo, to eat and drink as we should."
The Life-Killing Hospital replied blandly, "Or do you have the ability to catch up to him and make him pay?"
The Blue Lantern and the others dared not reply, falling silent as if dead.
Although they also knew that at this mont, the big figures in Tokyo were probably hiding in underground facilities, panicking and cursing the Japan Islands Anomalous Affairs Investigation Bureau’s incompetence.
Letting foreign Transcendents co and go as they please, ignoring border systems, treating the entire Japan Islands as a public toilet.
This sha and humiliation would likely stick to the Japan Islands Anomalous Affairs Investigation Bureau for so ti, becoming a hot topic on the player forums.
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Li Ang, walking and stopping, soon returned to the long-distance cruise ship of the Longqing Group, greeted Liu Wu Dai,
leaving two ships in place, while the other continued heading towards Australia according to the Ark Plan, to receive the Transcendents there.
At this mont, those on the ship were unaware of what happened, still undergoing blood tests by the dical team,
Liu Wu Dai, on the other hand, knew through the Special Affairs Bureau’s channels that Li Ang had just taken a stroll around the Japan Islands, feeling a bit complicated.
"Heh,"
Li Ang glanced at Liu Wu Dai’s expression and chuckled, "My ability only allows for single-person teleportation, can’t take too many things, otherwise I’d take the ship everywhere."
"I don’t care about that,"
Liu Wu Dai smiled helplessly. She also felt that after the anomaly in Yin City, Li Ang had changed a bit, "Well... but this is sowhat a good thing,
at least the Ark Plan should proceed more smoothly."
There are no walls without leaks. Li Ang ignored the Life-Killing Hospital and others, forcefully crossing the Japan Islands’ borders, forcing Tokyo’s upper echelons to evacuate. Coming and going as he pleased,
this news would soon spread,
grabbing the world’s attention and making people marvel at the privileges of apex Transcendents,
in so way also reducing obstacles for the Ark Plan.
It just feels... Li Ang is becoming more and more casual.
"Hmm. Just like that, I’m going to the ga mall."
Li Ang bid farewell to Liu Wu Dai, logged into the Ga Square, and headed northeast.
The exploration of the essence of reincarnation was temporarily set aside, but Li Ang hadn’t given up on exploring Soul Energy and researching Spiritual Energy.
Intercepting a part of the soul during reincarnation and retaining it would undoubtedly be seen as an evil path, a villain in literary works.
And in the entire Killing Ga, the ones most skilled at utilizing soul energy are undoubtedly the famously, or infamously, known Demon Scientist Alliance.
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