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Chapter 539 Phase Transition
Back to the present, Huiyu helped Li Sheng adjust his headphones, while the latter looked up and waved at the sky, "So you can see me?"

"can."

Customer service representative Xiao Yuan said, "At this moment, the mobile task force has emptied that carriage and parked it on the maintenance section of the tunnel, where the logistics team is analyzing the phone."

I'll transfer your call now.

Even disregarding the massive order worth over 100 billion signed between Starforge and the Special Affairs Bureau, this incident has already impacted the real world, and the Special Affairs Bureau will not ignore it.

"Hey, is this Ant Bro?"

Su Jie's voice came through the earpiece, "To make a long story short, the movie 'Shanghai Fortress' playing on this phone is on a pirate website. The phone's fast forward, pause, audio track switching, subtitle adjustment, and screen mirroring functions are all locked. Root access is also impossible to obtain for any type of device."

From our perspective, the movie footage on the phone screen remained fixed about five meters in front of you two, a close-up shot, and corresponding subtitles automatically appeared on the screen as you spoke.

"There are subtitles?"

Li Sheng raised an eyebrow and casually flicked his bat claw forward to strike the air, but it didn't hit anything solid, proving that there wasn't an invisible film crew using hidden cameras to film the scene in real time.

He thought for a moment, then suddenly took out his speaker and started playing a traditional Chinese style DJ song: "I walk down the long street, listening to the actors sing about the capital city~ Pear blossoms fall before your window~"

This sudden turn of events left customer service representative Xiao Yuan, the members of the mobile special task force in the carriage wearing full protective memetic suits, and the high-ranking officials at the Yin City Special Affairs Bureau headquarters command center completely bewildered.

Su Jie asked in astonishment, "Brother Ant, what are you doing?"

"Let's test it."

Li Sheng calmly stated, "For a film to be released in China, it must first pass censorship. If something that would absolutely not pass censorship appears on a real-world screen, it proves that this is not a normal film."

After saying that, he was about to take out some small props from the automated warehouse.

"Holy crap, no!"

Su Jie was sweating profusely and quickly stopped Li Sheng from doing so. Their mobile task force had to record audio and video and archive documents every time they carried out a mission.

'I should have stayed out of this mess.'

Su Jie's expression was one of utter exasperation, but he patiently explained, "Upon testing, this phone's download speed is 10Gbps and its upload speed is 1Gbps, exceeding the normal limits of a 5G phone. Furthermore, it's switching network service providers and their nodes every second, making it impossible for us to track it."

"No wonder the mission is called 'Cyber ​​Warriors'."

Li Sheng rubbed his chin. "This movie is just one of the mission locations. If you can't win during a deadly battle and need to escape, or if you need to chase the enemy, you can switch nodes and jump to other network devices."

The question is, where is the enemy?

"look up!"

Gray Rain pointed to the sky, and the camera followed her finger as it turned to the heavens. Suddenly, the disc-shaped alien mothership hovering above the energy barrier underwent some kind of change.

Thick black smoke billowed out from the gap, and the alien mechanical unit codenamed "Predator" was affected by the black smoke, instantly freezing and falling downwards.

"Something's wrong."

In a subway car filled with specialized equipment, a member of a mobile task force remarked instinctively, "I've watched 'Shanghai Fortress' five times, and this scene isn't in it."

Upon hearing this, Li Sheng was filled with respect, and Su Jie and the others couldn't help but turn to look at the officer.

A science fiction romance epic with a Douban rating of 2.9 is so poorly written that even a normal person would need to wash their eyes after reading it once, and might even need to apply for paid sick leave.

I can watch "The Red Stone Immortal" five times from beginning to end.

Faced with the strange looks from his colleagues, the operative said somewhat awkwardly, "I watched it with my five ex-partners."

You're a sea king, aren't you? You must have gone to the toilet without any toilet paper.

Everyone turned their attention back to the thick black smoke, which seemed to move slowly but actually moved very fast, gradually covering the entire mothership. The ship seemed to be infected by a virus, extinguishing the beams that were bombarding the energy barrier, turning off all the lights, and coming to a standstill.

Something unusual must be going on. Li Sheng tossed the Wanyan Earphone to Huiyu, put on the Bluetooth earphone himself, grasped the levitation engine, and floated towards the blue barrier in the sky.

According to the movie's setting, the celestial vine substance discovered by humanity in the universe is considered an infinite energy source, allowing them to transcend time and invent advanced technologies like energy barriers.
(This point cannot be scrutinized too closely, after all, the movie also mentions that the entertainment industry regressed by a hundred years due to the war, but there was unlimited beer in the civilian population.) Flying out from the gap in the barrier, Li Sheng glanced at the city below and found that apart from the SH city area, the scenery further away was all blurry blocks of color, like a map that hadn't loaded in a video game—understandable, since the movie's plot only takes place in this city.

He looked up and carefully observed the mothership that had come to a standstill. His information integration glasses quickly read the information, and the words "Phase Change Demon" faintly appeared behind the "Alien Mothership".

The next second, a vast number of four-armed robots swarmed out, each robot's body covered with large patches of black tattoos.

"They have tattoos, so these robots won't be able to pass the civil service exam."

Gray Rain shook his head. It was wishful thinking to think that these predator robots, whose performance in the movie was inferior to that of a fourth-generation fighter jet in the real world, could harm Li Sheng.

As expected, Li Sheng simply snapped his fingers, summoning hundreds of Imperial Guard tanks out of thin air. A volley of high-explosive ammunition swept up the four-armed robots, and he took a moment to ask, "My system shows that the alien mothership seems to have been parasitized by something called a 'Phase Change Demon.' Do you know what that is?"

Su Jie and the others in the subway car looked at each other blankly. Even in the command hall of the Yin City Special Affairs Bureau, a group of high-ranking officials looked bewildered. "What do you mean by 'change'? We've never heard of it."

"I've searched, and there are no high-level players on Earth with this name."

The major guilds privately create files for every well-known high-level superhuman on Earth, including their life experiences, relatives and friends, personality traits, political stances, and even use AI programs or real teams to watch mission recordings frame by frame and guess the effects of each item and skill.

There is no information about Phase Change Demons in the power systems of high-level players with names and identities on Earth.

"Okay, I'll do it myself."

Li Sheng floated up several hundred meters, stretched his arms, and deliberately delayed the process.

After a round of sound and light effects from tank shelling, the NPCs in the movie finally noticed Li Sheng's presence. More than a dozen fighter jets approached him, and the citizens "fleeing" on the ground pointed and talked about the sky.

"Wow, look, there's someone over there!"

"It really is! He's flying in the air!"

The obsequious tone of the passersby was so over-the-top that even the usually abstract Hui Yu couldn't keep up. What was even harder to keep up with was that the lip movements of these passersby didn't match their words at all—the film's post-production itself was a disaster, with the characters' lip movements and dubbing often not matching.

Once he had attracted enough attention, Li Sheng focused his energy, quietly activated the [Highlight Moment] skill scroll, and shouted at the mothership, "Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?"

Highlight moments – the higher the perceived sophistication, the stronger the boost.

After shouting, Li Sheng's hair moved without wind, and his clothes swayed wildly. He slowly raised his right leg, aimed at the central axis of the mothership, and assumed a kicking posture. His figure disappeared from the spot in an instant.

hum!
The giant cyclone that had shrouded the entire city in shadow was split in two in mid-air, like Moses parting the Sea, creating a narrow rift.

At the center of the cyclone, the alien mothership was also directly pierced through, with burning and explosions occurring repeatedly inside the breach.

The alien mothership was far less robust than the Alpha Python. With its physical supports severely damaged, the mothership was on the verge of collapsing and disintegrating. However...
A billowing black mist, seemingly appearing from nowhere, extinguished all the flames in an instant, but its momentum remained undiminished, engulfing the entire ship.

The mothership's exterior, like those of the predator robots, was covered in tattoos. It remained hovering in the air.

"Ok?"

Li Sheng retracted his kicking stance; that kick had not only broken the wires on the mothership but also seemingly shattered the boundaries of the movie.

A hundred-meter-wide fissure appeared high in the sky, frantically sucking in the surrounding air and creating gale-force winds of level eight.

The mere gale was not enough to affect Li Sheng. He slightly altered the direction of gravity and moved away from the crevice.

The mothership was becoming increasingly strange. Instead of attacking Li Sheng, it released more predator robots whose forms had been altered. Like banyan trees, it also sent down columns of black smoke that extended towards the ground through the gaps in the energy barrier.

Just as everyone was filled with doubt and uncertainty, a calm voice came from the other end of the phone, "Hello, Mr. Ant, this is Bai Ze."

Li Sheng raised an eyebrow. This Bai Ze was directly under the Special Affairs Bureau headquarters and represented the will of the higher-ups.

Since he was not in the Yin City Special Affairs Bureau system, it was obvious that Yin City had reported the situation to headquarters, which attracted the attention of the General Bureau, and then customer service representative Xiao Yuan transferred the call.

"The situation is urgent, so I'll keep it brief. This [Phase Change Demon] is a high-level non-human player from another world, Lv33. Its specific abilities include shape change, assimilation and corruption, and memetic contamination."

Now you need to eliminate him with all your might. Do not withdraw from the battle; otherwise, he might take advantage of the five minutes of unrestricted free time after the mission ends to hack into every networked device on Earth. Complete preparations for the invasion of Earth.

(End of this chapter)