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Chapter 489 Knight
"Please come in."

When Li Sheng arrived at the headquarters of the Evil Science Alliance on the 666th floor, the Side of Truth was fiddling with the [Evil God Chessboard].

On the chessboard is a miniature landscape rendered in exquisite detail: a middle-aged white-collar worker, holding a bloodstained crowbar and covered in blood, stands blankly on the rooftop of a high-rise hotel, looking down at the devastated city.

A vast number of mutated zombies hunt and prey on humans.

The mutants might possess immense strength, capable of smashing through concrete walls; or incredible speed, able to catch up with speeding vehicles; or sprout wings to attack rescue helicopters high in the sky.

The entire city was ablaze, and the intermittent gunfire from various blocks did nothing to stop the horde of zombies.

Survivors, including pregnant women and disabled elderly people, came to the middle-aged white-collar worker's side. Everyone looked desperate. To make matters worse, the iron gate on the rooftop was banging loudly as the mutants crammed into the corridor were ramming against it.

Just a second before the door was smashed down and all the survivors were about to jump off the rooftop hand in hand, a sudden change occurred.

The slightly balding, beer-bellied man suddenly emitted rainbow light, instantly burning away his blood-stained clothes and revealing thick hair.

A Japanese female chorus inexplicably began to play, and everyone, including the mutated zombies that had crashed through the iron gate, was frozen in place, staring blankly as the middle-aged man was driven by an invisible force to spin around like an ice ballet dancer, striking all sorts of shameful poses.

The whole process lasted for more than twenty seconds. When the rainbow light faded, the balding uncle had changed into a sailor uniform that showed his belly button, white stockings, and tall boots. The crowbar in his hand was also tied with a cute pink bow.

'Are you kidding me? I'm going to throw up.'

If the mutated zombies still had the ability to speak, they would definitely complain out loud. They bared their teeth and claws and pounced on the survivors, only to be smashed into a bloody mist by the bewildered Sailor Moon uncle with a crowbar.

"The Beautiful Girl and the Mature Man's Apocalypse is now showing!"

Truth's Side chuckled as she closed the chessboard and looked at Li Sheng. "Is there something you need?"

"Is such that."

Li Sheng gave a brief account of the mission, the existence of the oracle, and the theory the oracle discussed at the end.

"Well"

Truth's Side reached his left hand into the shadows beneath his hood, scratched his chin, and after a moment's thought, snapped his fingers with his right.

The crystal-shaped familiar that served as a decorative piece on the corner of the table immediately came to life, floated to the front of the bookshelf, took down a stack of documents from a distance, read their contents, and projected them into the air.

"Lynn joined the Evil Science Alliance two years ago at the level of Lv10, and defected a year ago after stealing a large amount of confidential information from the guild. At that time, her level was Lv27."

The one on the side of truth casually said, "I know this person. He's an extraordinary individual who smuggled himself over from another world. His life essence is a fantasy creature."

"You know?" Li Sheng was taken aback.

"Ah."

The Side of Truth nodded. "There are two types of players from other worlds. One type is located in the main universe, which is on par with Earth. There are tens of thousands of mid-to-high-level extraordinary beings in this type of universe, and we must be very careful."

The second type is located in the sub-universe, where there are only a handful of Chosen Ones in the entire world, so there's not much to worry about.

I realized before that Lynn wasn't human from Earth. She took advantage of the "trembling" of the killing field to smuggle herself from another world to Earth and has been lurking within the killing field's physical form for a long time.

He uses a lifelike robot to appear in the slums and join the evil tech alliance.

Considering her usual hard work and the large number of contribution points and research breakthroughs she provided to the guild, I didn't expose her immediately.

However, she frightened herself, suspecting her identity had been exposed and the guild was going to capture and dissect her. So, she preemptively stole internal documents, defected from the guild, and hid in some obscure corner of the killing field.

Li Sheng raised his hand helplessly, "You're just worrying unnecessarily, aren't you?"

The Truth Side honestly said, "Not really. I plan to wait until she reaches level 28 before capturing and slicing her. Of course, I'll revive her after slicing her."

Li Sheng clicked his tongue, not dwelling on the question any longer, and instead asked, "How much of the World Tree theory mentioned by the oracle is true?"

After a moment of contemplation, Truth's Side suddenly said, "The Lizard Man Conspiracy Theory."

"what?"

"Many netizens around the world, especially in the United States, are enthusiastic about the lizard people conspiracy theory. That is, a group of lizard people from another planet use their shapeshifting abilities to infiltrate human society and control important economic, political, military and media institutions around the world, with the aim of establishing a new order and preparing for the arrival of alien lizard spaceships."

The Truth Side spread its hands, "In fact, this isn't entirely a lie. I was deeply involved in a project a few years ago that involved using bio-engineered humans to replace real-world celebrities, the most typical example being Zuckerberg."

This will be used to test the correctness of the World Tree theory.

The Zuckerberg from the alternate world did not become a cyborg despite his real-world counterpart being replaced. His dominant hand, manner of speaking, and common facial expressions remained largely unchanged, indirectly refuting the World Tree theory.

During this process, unsuspecting individuals witnessed the logistics team replacing Zuckerberg's tongue kit in a luxury hotel suite, fueling the lizard man conspiracy theory circulating on the dark web.

".What?"

This statement was incredibly informative. Li Sheng was stunned for a moment. "Wait, Zuckerberg really got replaced?"

Although the arrival of the killing field brought about an unprecedented reshuffling of power worldwide, where only strength could safeguard wealth, many large guilds, such as the Thousand-Throated Beast, the Monster Alliance, and Whale Song, etc.

In its early days, the company collaborated extensively with multinational conglomerates, receiving investment and engaging in cross-shareholding. These wealthy and powerful individuals were acutely aware of the importance of violence; they wanted to protect their vast family fortunes but also didn't want to become players constantly at risk of sudden death.
So they all became parasites in the Extraordinary Ones Guild, employing a three-pronged approach: investing in and buying shares.
On one hand, they bind promising superhumans through marriage alliances;
While desperately trying to have children, the idea is that as long as there are enough children, some will eventually become successful and become high-level players. The rampant surrogacy industry and the emergence of baby growth pods have greatly reduced the time cost of raising young children.

As a Jewish billionaire, Zuckerberg is himself a member of the privileged class.

Guilds like Prometheus and GS Biotechnology, which are most influenced by financial conglomerates, will inevitably oppose the movement of their major shareholders against the side of truth.

"unless."

Li Sheng's mind raced, and he said in astonishment, "It means the Global Supernatural Alliance."

"bingo."

The Side of Truth said lightly, "Small matters are handled in large meetings, and big matters in small meetings. Michael and I both voted in favor, and none of the other top-level superhumans objected, so it was passed."

In addition to replacing Zuckerberg, we also made minor modifications to data such as the height of Mount Everest, the distance between the Earth and the Moon, and the lunar rotation period.

The above changes also did not affect the script world.

The concept of the World Tree remains theoretical to date.

After he finished speaking, Truth's Side noticed that Li Sheng's face did not relax at all; on the contrary, the muscles around his eyes tightened.

He asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"

"The Oracle told me that she knows I know you and that I will contact you as soon as the mission is over."

Li Sheng took a deep breath. "She told me that if you mention the distance between the Earth and the Moon in your speech, then the whole thing is unbelievable."

Sometime last summer, the distance between the Earth and the Moon inexplicably decreased by 0.3 centimeters.

Furthermore, this change was not influenced by any supernatural force.

"."

The hand on the side of truth hovered in mid-air. He paused for a few seconds, then burst into laughter, patting the armrest of his chair. "Hahahaha, well, I admit I underestimated her."

Although the answers are completely different, the reasoning process is commendable.

The laughter gradually subsided. The Truthful One leaned forward, pressing his elbows against the table, interlacing his fingers and placing them under his nose, striking a pose similar to Gendo Ikari. He said calmly, "She's right. It wasn't me, or Michael, or any other superhuman who changed the distance between the Earth and the Moon."

Rather, it was affected by the previous battlefield [shock]—that is, the time when you escorted the battery and 'I' returned to four years ago.

On that very day, in the hidden chamber [Hymn Room] occupied by the Knights Templar Guild, we used a ritual device to observe a parallel world. The timeline was early 20th century Earth, where humans, elves, and monsters had formed a massive coalition to fight against the demons of the abyss.

Both sides have hundreds of thousands of chosen ones.

"so much?"

Li Sheng's eyelids twitched violently. In reality, there were only about 200,000 players of all levels on Earth, and more than half of them were low to mid-level superhumans.

The Truth-Beside said calmly, "The good news is that there are no Lv40s in that world. The bad news is that the human alliance in that world has also discovered us and sent us a brief message."

That text message helped us confirm many things, and it was because of that text message that the GOC accepted Dr. Noah, who had smuggled himself from another world, instead of killing him.

As for the content of the brief message…

With his hands shrugged, Li Sheng quickly pressed, "What's the content of the text message?"

"Its content has a meme effect; those whose sanity is not high enough cannot remember it and will forget it instantly."

"That's easy to say."

Li Sheng patted the Soul-Locking Bell hanging in the inside pocket of his clothes and said confidently, "My sanity level far exceeds that of players of the same level, it's definitely enough."

The man on the side of truth said nothing, but pointed to the clock on the wall. The minute hand had suddenly jumped to two minutes ahead. "This is the sixth time we've repeated this conversation," he said.

"That's okay."

Li Sheng calmly put away the Soul-Locking Bell of the Vast Ocean.
He has always believed in pragmatism; since he figured that even if the sky fell, Lv40 would still be there to hold it up, he didn't dwell on it.

Just as he was about to take his leave, the Side of Truth called him back, "There's one more thing. One of the players you saved during this mission is also from the Evil Science Alliance. He knows you're not short of money, so he asked me to give you this as a thank you gift."

Truth's Side casually tossed a duffel bag to Li Sheng, who opened it and scanned it with his information integration glasses; it was filled with quite a lot of things.
The red headscarf worn by Indian Sikh police officers in the foreign concessions during the late Qing Dynasty—because the Indian police officers always said "Ah sir," there was a saying that Indians were like that.

The origin of the Korean saying "stick" – referring to the laundry stick used by North Korean police who acted as accomplices to the Japanese invaders during the War of Resistance against Japan.

In addition, there are things like the ceremonial robes of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam (which resemble monkeys wearing crowns), the fur coats of the Cossacks of Tsarist Russia, the red hair of Dutch colonists, arrest warrants for African stowaways, redneck maga hats, and Russian Adidas jackets.
A complete collection of racially discriminatory and stereotypical items.

Li Sheng's expression was quite interesting. Although he often used the Farmer Summoning spell, his own racial knight was really not that heavy!

(End of this chapter)