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Chapter 480 Pharaoh (4K)

Li Sheng flipped the tweezers over and calmly said, "It's the work of the Evil Science Alliance."

"The Evil Science Alliance?"

Zhongtian Beiji paused for a moment, then frowned and said, "There were seven figures when we entered the script mission, but now only the four of us have joined together."

A player from the Evil Science Alliance entered this world with us and killed Dershowitz early on.
Or perhaps he was captured by mistake and, in order to survive, leaked information about the killing scene to the natives of the scripted world?

Zhongtian Beiji has seen many related posts on player forums. Bad guys rack their brains, but a fool can come up with a brilliant idea.

There are indeed some terrible teammates in team missions who think they can manipulate and use the NPCs in the mission world at will, secretly bringing in a copy of "History of World War II" or "History of the Soviet Union" to download the script, only to cause the plot to go completely haywire, and everyone ends up dying hand in hand.

In the end, only the action camera transmitted the data back to Earth.

Could it be that they also have a terrible teammate who revealed information that shouldn't have been given to the NPC, causing the difficulty to skyrocket?
Personally, I don't think so.

Li Sheng shook his head and casually said, "Take beef as an example. After chewing beef and entering the stomach, stomach acid and pepsin immediately begin to break down the protein, making the meat tender."

Within 1-3 hours, the food enters an active digestive phase, with strong peristalsis in the stomach mechanically breaking down the meat and transforming the solid into a semi-liquid chyme.
Over 3-6 hours, the chyme is gradually expelled into the small intestine in batches.

In this world, Dershowitz is over seventy years old, and his stomach acid secretion, gastric motility, and digestive ability have declined significantly compared to younger people. Judging from the degree of food digestion in his stomach and the contents of his small intestine, at least four hours have passed since his last meal. And at that time, we had not yet entered this scripted world.

In other words, this finger wasn't made by any of our group of players.

Zhongtian Beiji instantly realized what was happening, his eyes narrowing. "Players have descended upon this scenario world before."

"correct."

Li Sheng nodded, put down the stomach and intestines, and put the body into the three-dimensional warehouse together—Dershowitz, as an SVIP on Epstein Island, provided 6% of the ability unlock progress, which was just enough to recycle the body.

"Players have visited this place before."

Zhongtian Beiji's brain was working at lightning speed. After all, he was an elite from GOC. He quickly reviewed and deduced in his mind, "If we go back in time of that person's arrival, it is most likely no more than 10 years ago. And the interference in the world will not be too deep. The level should be above Lv25."

The timing and extent of the interference are easy to understand; the butterfly effect amplifies minor disturbances. If that player had manifested his power during the Cold War, been discovered by a superpower, and even left behind a legacy of extraordinary abilities, the world situation in 2009 would inevitably have been drastically altered.
It's impossible for a group of Western elites to be happily partying on Epstein Island like they are in the real world.
Information regarding levels above Lv25 was derived from the bear-shaped monster capable of etherealization and teleportation.

Thinking of this, Zhongtian Beiji was startled.

The SVIPs on Epstein Island are all top figures at the pinnacle of American society. If they come into contact with supernatural forces, it's impossible for them not to utilize them, or even form research teams to analyze and study the nature of these extraordinary forces.

If the underlying logic of this world allows spiritual energy to exist, then over ten years, miracles can be achieved by sparing no expense, and something can surely be researched.
"Let's keep going. If I'm not mistaken, there shouldn't be many survivors left in the valley."

Li Sheng said indifferently and strode forward.

Until we reached the edge of the dense forest, the scenery suddenly opened up.

The wide, calm river flows quietly, and a giant wooden statue with a human body and a bull's head, sitting in a chair, is placed on the south bank of the river.

The statue itself is over six meters tall, dressed in an ancient Roman robe, with half of its body naked, revealing its muscular physique. But paired with a bull's head, it looks utterly incongruous.

Beneath the statue was an altar, on which sat a satellite phone.

In front of the altar were two rows of bronze basins burning with flames, and in the middle of the basins lay a large number of gruesome corpses of important figures.

A business tycoon who bit off his tongue;
An old European nobleman whose eyes were pierced by a fire poker;
A senator who died from ingesting carbon monoxide;

"No!"

Zhongtian Beiji's pupils contracted. These black-robed figures wielded influence over the world even greater than that of the Sultan of Brunei in the underground winery—they were definitely SVIPs.

The mission assigned by the killing field is to kill eight SVIPs. So far, only one has been killed, and the goal is still a long way off.

The good news is that Epstein was not seen.

"The system notification sound has not yet appeared, and the mission has not failed yet."

Li Sheng shook his head. At that moment, the voice of the divine oracle came through the previously blocked civilian walkie-talkie again, "Hello? Can you hear me?"

Li Sheng answered the walkie-talkie, "I can hear you."

"call,"

The oracle breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said, "To make a long story short, 20 minutes ago, a bear-shaped beast spirit rushed out of the woods, pushed aside the abandoned shuttle bus on the airport runway, and then disappeared."

A C-17 transport plane then landed on the runway, carrying an 8x8 armored vehicle, two AH-64 Apache helicopters, and an entire special operations team. Unloading is currently underway.

The oracle's voice was deliberately lowered, sounding as if it were coming from a narrow, secret space.

Li Sheng asked, "Where are you now? How did you get in touch with us?"

"Joker and I are currently hiding in the burrow he dug with his skills. As for how to contact each other, there should be an electronic warfare aircraft near the island that took off from San Juan Airport—most likely an EA-6B Prowler, which suppresses the 400-470MHz UHF band, the communication band for civilian walkie-talkies."

The Oracle explained, "I used player skills, frequency hopping encryption, to contact you."

"understood."

Li Sheng took a deep breath and briefly explained his situation. The other end of the walkie-talkie immediately fell silent.

SVIPs are dying en masse, Epstein has disappeared, US armed helicopters and special forces teams are landing, and the mastermind behind it all is suspected of possessing supernatural powers. The situation is overwhelmingly unfavorable to the player.

His mind raced, and Li Sheng asked in a deep voice, "Can you connect to the internet in this world right now?"

The oracle said, "With the equipment at hand, it won't work. If we use player skills, we can force a connection to the network using a satellite as a relay. But that would consume most of my spiritual power."

"Internet cafes."

Li Sheng decided, "Focus on collecting news information from the past ten years and looking for discrepancies between the news and major events on the real-world timeline."

"clear."

The oracle paused for a moment, then spoke rapidly: "On this world's timeline, during Christmas 1999, a meteorite fell from the sky over Chicago, Illinois, causing hundreds of casualties and triggering panic over the millennium doomsday prophecy."

911/10 occurred as expected. In October 2001, then-President George Bush launched the war in Afghanistan and two years later the war in Iraq. However, the war progressed extremely poorly. Coupled with the exposure of prisoner abuse scandals and the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis, he lost the election in 04, and the first black president took office ahead of schedule.

This triggered a series of chain reactions: the war on terror raged on, the Orange Revolution broke out in Ukraine ahead of schedule, Russia intervened militarily, the conflict led to the leak of biological research materials, and a global pandemic of infectious diseases ensued.

The LGBT movement and the Black Lives Matter movement occurred ahead of schedule, and the backlash led to the emergence of the MAGA movement, with protests and demonstrations erupting one after another, forcing the United States to establish more military bases within its borders.

The clues strung together in his mind, vaguely revealing a corner of the truth. Li Sheng took a deep breath and said calmly, "I understand. What about the situation in other areas of the island? Have any VIPs left by boat?"

The Oracle paused for a moment, then said, "No, I hacked into the island's surveillance system. Many people are crowding at the dock entrance and being prevented from boarding the yachts by armed guards." Li Sheng nodded and said, "Okay, in a few minutes, the C-17 transport plane will finish loading and unloading, and the armed helicopters inside will most likely head directly to the forest."

I need you to do two things then.”

Under the strange gaze of Zhongtian Beiji, Li Sheng finished his explanation.
He then stepped out of the woods, walked through the corpses scattered everywhere, and picked up the brick-like military satellite phone from the altar.

A sticky note on the side of the satellite phone provides simple, foolproof instructions: "Press the dial button."

Li Sheng grinned and answered the phone, "Hello."

"Hello, traveler from a parallel world,"

On the other end of the satellite phone, a deep, resonant voice, belonging to a middle-aged Black man, rang out, "Or should I call you, Player?"

"The title 'Traveler' is a bit too much like Genshin Impact; any player should be used."

Li Sheng said calmly, "Anyway, nice to meet you, Black Pharaoh."

Indeed, the middle-aged Black man's voice on the other end of the satellite phone was that of the first Black president in American history, who profoundly changed the political landscape of the United States with the slogan of "change," and whom public intellectuals called "a once-in-a-millennium leader who reshaped American values."

Barack Hussein's view of the sea.

"I really like the name 'Black Pharaoh',"

The middle-aged Black man chuckled softly, "Ant, Oracle, Mid-Sky North Pole, Joker, I wonder which one you are?"

"Guess? My first love, [Ant], is incredibly charming and beautiful;"

Gentle breeze and white poplars [divine oracle], gentle and bright;

Mermaid's lead singer, [Zhongtian Beiji], possesses a warm and lustrous voice;

The charismatic Joker, a young man with a traditional Chinese style;

We are TNT, Teens in Times.

Thanks to the system's absurd translation capabilities, this passage was translated verbatim into a universal language.

After a long silence from Obama's side, Zhongtian Beiji, standing next to Li Sheng, almost blurted out a complaint.
Why am I involved here? What the heck is this "mermaid lead singer"? Is he a fish-man from One Piece? And why is the abbreviation for Teens in Times TNT instead of TIT? It doesn't make any sense at all.

Unexpectedly, Li Sheng seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, and turned his head calmly and said, "Because the abbreviation of TIT can be translated as titmouse, you should have seen that before, right?"

The rooster, struggling, destroys the little tit.

And on the great tits of the Moro Islamic Exposition Front.

"Uh," Zhongtian Beiji really didn't understand this time. "What the heck? Is this some kind of trendy internet slang?"

Li Sheng was stunned for a moment, then realized that Tian Beiji, this wealthy second-generation overseas Chinese, had previously led an overly fulfilling life, dating models, internet celebrities, and stars every day.
The resources that netizens download online are not as good as his personal experience, so he doesn't look at the resources at all and doesn't understand these memes.

"I'm convinced."

Li Sheng slapped his forehead, realizing he had nothing in common with the popular people around him.

After a moment of silence, Obama hesitated before saying, "An impressive statement. Why don't you follow the footprints up the mountain? I believe we can cooperate."

"Let me sort out the intelligence I have on hand."

Li Sheng said, "Four hours ago, Epstein and a group of VIPs and SVIPs held a burnt offering ceremony in the woods to worship Moro and eat the same parts of his own body."

Then at some point, a sudden change occurred: the VIPs and SVIPs present died mysteriously, and Epstein and the remaining SVIPs disappeared without a trace.

This point in time should be the period around when the island's management reported the incident to Epstein.

Combining this with the bear-shaped spirit footprints found in the forest, and considering the extremely efficient operations of the US military, we can perhaps draw the following conclusions—

You, the Black Pharaoh of this timeline, received your supernatural powers long ago, when you were still an Illinois senator, through a player hacking incident.
He then secretly manipulated the situation, changed the world order, and gradually ascended to the position of President.

When news of the strange occurrence on the island reached you, you immediately realized that it was another player appearing. So you stopped the sacrificial ceremony, killed a group of VIPs and SVIPs, and hid with the rest of the group.

Considering your decisive actions and your ability to accurately name all four of us,

There was another player in child form during the burnt offering ceremony, right?
You learned about our mission through him.

clap clap.

Applause rang out on the other end of the satellite phone, and the Black Pharaoh chuckled, "Very well, correct."

Dealing with smart people is so satisfying. Right now, most of the SVIPs on the island are dead, leaving only seven, all of whom are in my hands.

Once I take action, those who die at my hands will not count as part of your achievements, and the "Escape from Lolita Island" mission will be declared a failure.

I went to great lengths to build this stage so that I could communicate, discuss, and cooperate with players from other worlds.

Li Sheng raised an eyebrow. "What kind of collaboration?"

"I'll hand over seven SVIPs for you all to complete the mission, and in return, you'll give me a copy of the extraordinary power seed. How about that?"

The Black Pharaoh said in his signature seductive tone, "For you, there will be absolutely no real loss, and you will be able to complete the mission smoothly."

Li Sheng squinted and said, "What if I say no?"

The Black Pharaoh said, "First, the penalty for failing the mission is permanent confinement in the scenario world. You may have an emergency escape card to leave, but your companions may not."

Second, even if you use an emergency escape card to escape, you will still face the system's hidden penalty for skipping levels.

Third, multiple fighter jets, including F-16s and F-22s, are circling the island at high altitudes with a large diameter, several Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are sailing towards Little St. James Island, and a large number of missiles and bombs are aimed at the valley.

Looking up from the North Pole, one could indeed see the faint indicator lights of the fighter jets in the clouds.

Li Sheng clicked his tongue, whether in mockery or praise, it was hard to tell, "Really, meticulous thinking, kind face but ruthless heart."

Well, actually, Obama's face was also dark. Literally, it was a challenge: "Dare to show me what 'black hands' really means?!"

Zhongtian Beiji thought to himself, but then he heard Li Sheng take a deep breath and say, "Okay, I'll come to the mountain to find you. I believe we can have a positive and constructive conversation."

A hearty laugh came from the other end of the satellite phone: "YES, we can!"

(End of this chapter)