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Chapter 535 Acceptance
This place
Amidst the bustling noise of the slums, a young man dressed in a special affairs bureau suit nervously swallowed as he looked at the plaque reading "Star Casting Anvil" hanging high across the street.

Strictly speaking, Zhuxing Anvil is indeed as the forum's advertisement says: high quality at a low price, and honest to all ages.

Especially for newbies below Lv7, even if they pass the assessment of a large guild and successfully join, their files will be created by the human resources department in secret. Data such as training efficiency, average task performance, ideological awareness, professional competence, and political inclination will be tracked and recorded, and their ratings will be adjusted from D to S in real time.

Based on the scores, different levels of resource allocation will be provided.

Newcomers with A and S level ratings are considered to have unlimited potential and will receive the most professional training, even one-on-one meticulous guidance from high-level superhumans. They don't need to worry about family arrangements, personal life, or building and strengthening their power system.

Newbies at levels D, C, and B can only receive basic training resources.

The Star Forging Anvil provides a perfect opportunity for newbies to break through their original abilities. As long as they are ruthless enough to abandon their humanity and implant seventeen or eighteen enhanced organs into their bodies, or even replace limbs, they can gain combat power exceeding their current level in no time.

This includes, but is not limited to, implanting reinforcing fibers into the dermis, replacing bone joints with servo motors, and replacing eyeballs with the Evil King's True Eye.

If one could obtain some top-tier organ from the script world or from opening boxes—such as a supreme bone, a ten-thousand-year soul ring, or a beast god crystal—and implant it directly into their body, they could defy fate and leap from an ordinary D-rank character to an S-rank supernova.

Luxury cars and mansions are readily available.

However, only a very small minority of people can access top-tier organs, and most newbies can only use generic ones, which often leads to "tragedies" that do not meet customer expectations.

For example, a customer brings in a T-800 chip from the Terminator universe, requesting it be implanted in their brain to gain a visual tactical interface to assist them in combat.

As a result, it was a success. From then on, the customer was able to efficiently analyze enemy information in his field of vision, see the various tactical options given by the chip after calculation, and their success rates.

However, the cost is that the T-800 chip follows instructions to treat all emotionally driven irrational behaviors as inferior options that would reduce the survival rate.

Prioritizing rationality in everything permanently altered the customer's character and personality.

When he visited his seriously ill grandfather in the ICU, he turned off the old man's life support system—because his grandfather had taught him when he was in school that people should be independent and not be unable to live without electronic products.

In addition, there was the adamantium skeleton implanted in Wolverine, which was then pulled away by a strong magnet while passing by a junkyard.
Implanting the soul stone of an ancient powerful being grants one great wisdom, perseverance, and opportunity. The price is inheriting that powerful being's bad luck and destiny, inevitably being plagued by inner demons at crucial moments, causing emotional fluctuations, trembling hands and weak legs, and a significant drop in skill level.
Another major business of Casting Star Anvil is acquiring cultural relics and creating props and skill scrolls, which is also full of pitfalls.

It's become the norm for goods not to match descriptions. As for the skill scroll that allows you to pause time, it can indeed pause time, stopping you as well.

If you want the invisibility skill, you can indeed become invisible, but only to the skin; your internal organs will be clearly visible as they float in the air.

Some dissatisfied customers even posted on the forum, questioning whether the casting anvil was secretly retaining a certain mystery contained in the cultural relics, which they claimed was withheld, resulting in the cast products not meeting their expectations.

These customers then received a strongly worded lawyer's letter from CastStar Anvil, warning them that if they made baseless accusations without evidence, legal action would be taken.

The Low Street District 7 Court, whose member is nominally a full-time member of the Trial Committee on the Side of Truth, initiated related litigation.

What, you're not convinced?
All of the above places the reputation of the Star Casting Anvil and its leader, Ant, in a Schrödinger-like quantum superposition state.

Sometimes a friend to newbies, sometimes a heartless tycoon.
"What are you standing there for? Keep up!"

The voice of Xing Hechou, the director of the Yin City Special Affairs Bureau, interrupted the young man's distracting thoughts. He quickly followed Xing Hechou and a dozen other colleagues from the Special Affairs Bureau into the Casting Star Anvil. In the simply decorated office, he met the ant shrouded in rumors.

He was lying in his executive chair with his eyes closed, his feet propped up on the desk. The Sennheiser speakers beside him were playing the radio drama "Milk Dragon vs. Captain America," clearly from a script world in a parallel universe where Milk Dragon was a top-tier IP comparable to Disney.
Beside the desk, the robot pet named "Gray Rain" was wearing headphones, intently watching the game on the computer screen.

He nervously bit his nails, muttering to himself, "We can't go into this grass, it'll cost tens of millions!" "The Korean team took drugs, the Chinese team needs to take some drugs right away!"

This makes one wonder if this person placed an order on some betting website.

Both have their own abstract meanings. The dozen or so elite agents of the Special Affairs Bureau tried hard to keep their faces straight and hide their expressions. It was hard to imagine that these two were the ones who launched a surprise attack on Britain alone, slapped the clock tower in the face, and almost caused London to be nuclearly blown up.

Xing Hechou rubbed his hands together and greeted him, "Brother Ant?"

"Oh, it's Director Xing."

Li Sheng opened his eyes, stood up from his office chair, and casually pulled open a drawer. "The first batch of goods ordered by the Special Affairs Bureau, shall we inspect them?" Inside the drawer was a transparent plastic basket containing several strange items.
Including an old BBK e-reader;
A suspicious-looking jar of health supplements with no expiration date;

A clump of cotton wool mixed with a lot of dust;
These items are all tools used in the killing field.
The improved BBK e-reader is of excellent quality. Each 3-minute use directly instills knowledge into the brains of preschool children aged 3-7. Even if they cannot grasp it immediately, they can learn it instantly once their brains mature.

Since there is no cooldown period and the guardian can pay for the spiritual energy consumption, it means that 480 children can be nurtured in a day, which is more than 3,000 in a week.

【Happy Planet Chewable Tablets】 are of perfect quality. Their effects include enhancing children's immunity, significantly improving physical and mental development, strengthening learning efficiency, and increasing energy and sleep efficiency after consumption.

As for the cotton wool, the "Sky-Cleansing Beast" is of perfect quality. Its effect is that after being released into the air, its volume expands thousands of times. It can absorb toxic and harmful substances such as volcanic ash and nuclear radiation dust according to the user's requirements, and slowly change the composition of the atmosphere.

Before the Tremor Mission, Xing Hechou, representing the Special Affairs Bureau, reached a cooperation agreement with Li Sheng. The former provided funding and a large number of cultural relics, and commissioned the Star Casting Anvil to create survival-type props with extraordinary elements for the construction of post-apocalyptic shelters.

The dozen or so Special Affairs Bureau agents that Xing Hechou brought were all elite personnel from the logistics department. As soon as they received the props, they immediately unleashed their skills and, in conjunction with the scientific instruments they brought, detected and scanned the props' various data and hidden attributes.

Li Sheng had great respect for the Special Affairs Bureau, which was dedicated to serving the people and went against the grain. They didn't try to profit from the cultural relics; in fact, he had instructed his servants to add many advanced concepts to them.
He casually remarked, "In the future, Director Xing doesn't need to come personally for these inspections; just leave it to his subordinates."

"Director Xing is too formal, just call me Lao Xing."

Xing Hechou forced a smile, "This is of great importance, it's better if I run the errand."

Looking at the few gray hairs at Xing Hechou's temples, Li Sheng couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is this project really that urgent?"

"The wind is high and the waves are rough."

Xing Hechou shook his head and did not continue.

Each Tremor quest reveals new, unique locations within the Killing Grounds entity, altering the power dynamics among major guilds. More importantly, as is customary, every few Tremor quests bring significant updates to the Killing Grounds game.

Whether we like it or not, with the popularization and abuse of supernatural powers and the deepening impact of killing fields, ordinary people will inevitably become more and more "vulnerable".

A natural disaster, a virus, or a meme contamination can all cause millions or tens of millions of deaths and injuries.

The world is moving forward with great momentum. At this stage, it is far from possible for everyone to become like a dragon and for the entire nation to possess extraordinary power. The best approach is to trade space for time, build shelters, and slowly adapt to the dramatic changes brought about by the battlefield.

An operator put away the equipment, held up the bottle of [Happy Planet Chewable Tablets], and nodded to Xing Hechou, "Director, there's no problem with cargo A-2."

Another operator gently patted the [Air Purifier], "A-3 isn't there either; its air purification efficiency exceeds expectations by 13%. As for A-1, uh..."

The atmosphere was a little awkward. Xing Hechou waved his hand and said, "Mr. Ant is a friendly person from our Special Affairs Bureau. You can speak directly if you have something to say."

"That's right, the [Improved BBK e-reader] meets expectations. It can instill 220 million bits of information into the brains of preschool children in 3 minutes, which is roughly equivalent to all the textbooks from elementary to high school, including Chinese, math, English, science, physics, and chemistry.

This exceeded our most optimistic expectations.

The agent explained, "The only drawback is that the [Improved BBK Reading Machine] requires an internet connection to function. Like AI pollution and AI illusions, a small amount of internet content is inevitably mixed in with its more than 200 million bits."

The impact on teenagers is immeasurable.

Saying it's immeasurable is actually an exaggeration. The smarter the kid, the more abstract internet slang they'll use.
The gifted children in the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Junior Class constantly talk about things like, "I'm the only person in my small county who has played Genshin Impact, Honkai Impact 3rd, and Arknights." "Hakimi Omakimbo." "Compared to sugary cola, ice-cold cola is more refreshing to drink."

The scene was absolutely outrageous.
Xing Hechou's expression was also somewhat strained. If he didn't know that Pi Fu was actually quite reliable, he would have suspected that this was some kind of smuggled-in contraband by Pi Fu. "I understand. Put it away for now and hand it over to the logistics department for further investigation."

Before the words were even finished, everyone present except for Hui Yu's expression changed drastically; everyone had heard the system notification.

[Notification: System detection shows that the Tremor Mission for Earth's Chosen Ones has been fully completed, meeting the requirements to unlock the third phase. The Killing Field game version will be updated in one hour.]

(End of this chapter)