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Chapter 500 Falling into the Abyss
Amidst the scraping sound of sharp weapons cutting through metal, the trident pierced through the last gate of the extraordinary prison, and Triton, the Holy Son of Tranquility, and the Tiger-toothed Girl rushed inside.

They had already dealt with all the prison guards. Triton went to the prison control room and inserted a USB drive into the control panel.

The server security protection on Abyss Island was created by Bonas before he entered the Realm of Reason. Even though there were some modifications later, his underlying architecture was still used.

He certainly wouldn't be constrained by what he created, especially since it was a product of his early, less mature technology.

Almost the instant the USB drive was inserted, a message popped up on the desktop indicating that the crack was complete.

Triton pressed the button, and the gates of the entire Abyss Island Extraordinary Prison opened. The restraints on all the extraordinary criminals simultaneously became ineffective, and chaos instantly erupted inside the extraordinary prison. The extraordinary individuals rushed out of their cells and headed towards the outside of the island.

Not all extraordinary criminals think of escaping the moment they regain their freedom. For example, the high-ranking members of the four major organizations, the Evolutionists, continue to do their own thing in their cells as if nothing had happened.

They eat and drink well here, and live in special cells that are as comfortable as home. Whenever they need something, the prison guards will bring them all kinds of supplies for their entertainment.

Although they have lost their freedom, they are not prisoners in the true sense of the word, so why should they run away?

In the innermost cell, Xu Han, the representative of the Bureau of Evolution, was playing chess with Field, a high-ranking member of the Western Union's Evolution faction.

The two were extremely focused, and even though their monitoring wristbands had automatically fallen off, neither of them took their eyes off the chessboard.

Field moved his pieces, cornering Xu Han's king and leaving him no way to escape no matter how hard he struggled.

Field said, "Checkmate, seven to six, looks like I'm going to win this time."

Xu Han looked at the chess game, which had become a dead end, and sighed:

"I really wanted to finish the fourteenth game with you, but unfortunately there's still one game waiting for me. If we have the chance, we can come back and continue."

The two were chess friends and both belonged to the evolutionary school of thought. Field knew Xu Han well and knew that his old friend had been acting mysteriously lately, as if he was plotting something.

He didn't say much, he just asked:

Will you win that game?

Xu Han said with a smile, "In that game of chess, I was just a piece, not a player. The outcome was not in my hands."

"But I believe we will win, after all, we are on the right track."

As they were talking, the girl with tiger teeth appeared behind the cell door and kicked the locked door open.

The door, which had been kicked open, flew past the two of them and embedded itself directly in the wall.

Xu Han smoothed his hair, which had been messed up by the door, and stood up, saying:
"My people have arrived, I should go now."

Field said:
"If you don't come back, then I'll consider this match a win."

Meanwhile, similar scenes were playing out in other cells.

Terry and the other two took away a total of twelve high-ranking members of the Evolutionist faction, three from each of the four major organizations. After meeting up with their targets, the Serene Child opened the Rainbow Bridge and led everyone away from Abyss Island, back to their prepared secret base.

The secret base has four elevators, named red, white, blue, and green, which correspond to the Administration Bureau, the White Tower, the Western Union, and the Evolution Committee, respectively.

They first split into three groups and entered the last three elevators. They were extremely fast; the elevator doors closed and reopened in less than a minute.

The four groups of people came together and entered the red elevator at the same time.

As the elevator doors closed, after a descent of two or three seconds, they reopened, and they had entered the Bureau's Crimson Wave Space.

At this moment, the Crimson Wave Space is in chaos. Just a few dozen seconds ago, Cai Rui, who was guarding the Crimson Wave Space, received intelligence that the White Tower's territory had been invaded by a group of mysterious people.

The moment they entered, they changed the attributes of the power space, turning it from a safe zone into a sparring area.

The mysterious figure wielded a trident and possessed immense power; all the players within the White Tower's territory, despite their combined efforts, were unable to stop him.

The opponent was defeated by the mysterious man in just fifteen seconds, and then watched helplessly as the group of mysterious men entered the central hub of the power space, destroying the highest authority along with the central hub. The power space had already collapsed.

Cai Rui had just hung up the phone and hadn't even had a chance to relay the information when two managers who were guarding the Crimson Wave Space with him came to his room and told him that the Western Alliance and the Evolution Committee's sphere of influence had been attacked.

The three factions were attacked almost simultaneously, and the process and outcome of the attacks were identical, clearly indicating that it was a premeditated act.

The three looked at each other, a strong sense of unease rising in their hearts.

Three of the four major organizations have been attacked, and the attackers were not their own people. As the last of the four major organizations, will the mysterious man let them go?
The answer is obvious.

The highest alert from the three had just been sounded in the Crimson Wave Space. Before the members inside the space could understand what was happening, they saw a group of mysterious people suddenly appear in the Crimson Wave Space.

Cai Rui and the others noticed the intruders and were about to seal off the Crimson Wave Space when they discovered that the highest authority holder of the Crimson Wave Space had changed from Hou Jingchuan to Xu Han.

The next moment, a message appeared before everyone's eyes.

"Xu Han, the controller of the Crimson Wave Space, has successfully transformed the space from a safe zone into a combat-ready area."

"Within the combat area, when a player's health drops to 1 point, they will enter a weakened state until they leave the area or their health is restored to 100%."

It's the same recipe, the same taste.

They had more than ten seconds to react compared to the other three major organizations. Did they have enough time to stop them?
The giant demonic wolf that smashed the Hongmeng Temple gave them the answer.

Although the Administration Bureau had a few extra seconds to react, they faced three times the pressure from other forces.

The three tried to resist, but as soon as they rushed into the temple hall, they were met with the roar of the giant wolf.

The roar, rippling with waves, struck the three, sending them flying backward and crashing into the temple wall. Their health dropped to 1 point, leaving them lying on the ground unable to move.

The giant wolf circled around and, finding no one able to remain standing, transformed back into the fanged girl and addressed Triton behind her:

"Are these small fry really worth all this caution?"

The Holy Son of Tranquility said:

"It's an organization that promotes peace and cooperation, after all; it's only right to pay more attention to it."

Lyman and Peace have a significant grudge, but the Holy Son of Tranquility himself is not hostile towards Peace.

After all, He Ping helped him eliminate many competitors, and at least half of the credit for his rise to the position of Holy Son goes to He Ping.

The girl with the tiger teeth pouted, stepped back to Triton's side, and stopped talking.

Triton looked at Xu Han and said:

"let's start."

Xu Han nodded slightly and stepped into the Hongmeng Temple.

Seeing Xu Han appear, Cai Rui, who was lying on the ground, forced himself to sit up weakly and asked:
"Xu Han, what do you want to do?!"

As Xu Han passed Cai Rui, he paused for a moment and said:
"Take this world to the future."

Led by Xu Han, the group arrived at the central hub of the Hongmeng Temple, where a golden dragon statue stood, its mouth holding the highest authority that Wu Chang had seized from Lin Jiang.

He opened the management panel of the Crimson Wave Space and skillfully turned off the building protection function.

When Lin Jiang took away the highest level of access, he had disabled the building protection function. At that time, in addition to taking away the highest level of access, he also did so to test whether this method was feasible.

But this time it's different; their target isn't just the highest authority, but the entire Crimson Wave Space.

Immediately afterwards, Triton made his move, wielding his three-pronged sword and thrusting it towards the giant dragon's head.

The trident flashed by, obliterating the giant head and the highest authority simultaneously.

With the highest authority and the dragon statue shattered, the Hongmeng Temple began to teeter on the brink of collapse. Triton and the other two added their strength, and with the combined power of the three lower-level gods, the Hongmeng Temple was completely reduced to ruins.

The Primordial Temple was the core of the Crimson Wave Space. When the temple collapsed, the entire Crimson Wave Space collapsed as well, and players like Cai Rui who had lost their ability to move were forcibly teleported back to reality.

Cai Rui's eyes blinked and he found himself at the Yanjing headquarters. He was just about to report the anomaly in the Crimson Wave Space to the others in the organization when he suddenly felt his foot slip and almost fell flat on his face.

A strong sense of unease filled his mind; his intuition told him that the whole world was falling!
In the Realm of Light, at the headquarters of the Light Society, Huanxi stood in the conference room with the other members, looking at the Abyss model projected by Bonas.

Inside the model, the sphere containing the blue planet is slowly sinking into a vortex-shaped abyss.

During Wu Chang's conversation with Christine, Christine shared a concept with him, comparing the Abyss Game to a large tree with clearly defined partitions.

She claimed that the Abyss game was designed by humans, and that the people who designed the Abyss game created partitions between the different levels of the Abyss to protect players at different levels.

At the beginning, the tree was in good condition and could maintain its stratification without any support.

However, as the number of players increases, the Abyss's corruption is brought into the middle layer, which becomes increasingly unable to support the boundary between the Wilderness and the Realm of Reason. At this point, the Pillars of the Present World, with temporary administrative authority, act as a support force to stabilize the corrupted middle layer.

If one day all the pillars of the present world collapse, the already riddled middle layer will be unable to support the separation between the Realm of Reason and the Realm of Desolation, thus merging the Realm of Reason and the Realm of Desolation into one.

Christine speculated that the Illuminati did not destroy all the Pillars of the Present World much earlier because they were unsure if this path was the right one.

Therefore, they want to seize the world instance and transform it into a giant pillar of the present world.

This world instance is exceptionally large, and becoming a pillar of reality will be stable enough to allow players of the Realm of Reason to freely enter and exit the Wasteland and reality. The Light Society can connect or disconnect the Wasteland and the Realm of Reason at any time by opening and closing this pillar of reality.

In fact, the Guangming Society's initial plan was just as Christine had guessed.

But as the world instance gradually took shape, and they began to destroy the pillars of reality they controlled, they suddenly discovered that the weight of the Desolate Realm and the Realm of Reason was not entirely pressing down on the world instance.

Unseen by them, an unknown entity actually withstood the pressure supporting the intermediate layer.

According to Bonas's data model, if they replicate the world into the Pillars of the Present World, their plans will remain unaffected.

If the world instance is conquered or upgraded to the Realm of Reason, the strength of that unknown entity is enough to single-handedly support the separation between the two realms.

Therefore, they had to adopt another backup plan.

A more extreme approach, the one they are currently using.

If there is an intermediate layer between the Desolate Realm and the Realm of Reason, is there also an intermediate layer between Reality and the Desolate Realm?

The answer is yes.

Players can freely travel between the Desolate Realm and the Realm of Reason through the Pillars of the Realm. Players can also enter the influence space of the four major organizations directly from reality without relying on the Crimson Courtyard.

The Pillar of the Present World is able to support the middle layer because it receives temporary administrative privileges granted by the Abyss Game Administrator when it is formed.

Coincidentally, when the four major organizations successfully built their power spaces, they not only obtained temporary management privileges from the Abyss Game Administrator, but also the highest level of supreme privileges.

In other words, the intermediate layer between reality and the desolate realm is the sphere of influence of the four major organizations.

Once you understand the relationship, the rest is quite simple.

First, there needs to be enough abyssal erosion to erode away the middle layer.

The Guangming Society is meticulous in its work, and they made preparations from the very beginning.

During the Midnight Graveyard instance, they caused numerous instances to go out of control and erode reality, all in an effort to destroy the intermediate layer between reality and the Wasteland.

The erosion instances they triggered were all calculated by Bonas to cause maximum damage to the intermediate layer between reality and the wasteland at minimal cost.

At this point, they had completed the preparation of the backup plan.

As long as the power space of the four major organizations is destroyed, either reality and the Abyss Game will be completely severed, severing all ties with the Abyss, or the Abyss Game will pull them directly into the Abyss.

Based on the intelligence gathered by the Guangming Society, the latter scenario is more likely.

Why did they go to this point?
Initially, the Light Society wanted to connect the Realm of Reason and the Realm of Desolation because they needed time.

Players who entered the third layer of the abyss believed they had transcended mortals. Disregarding the lives of other players and the realities of life and death, they unilaterally severed their connection with the Realm of Reason, allowing the abyssal corruption within the Realm of Reason to accumulate rapidly.

If this continues, it won't be long before the Realm of Reason is completely eroded and collapses.

Once the Realm of Reason collapses, the Abyss's corruption will sweep across the Desolate Realm. Without the Realm of Reason players holding the line, the Desolate Realm will inevitably be unable to withstand it, and its destruction is only a matter of time.

Since the Realm of Reason and the Realm of Desolation cannot be connected at present, and they cannot extend the time of the Realm of Reason, they can only accelerate the evolution of the Realm of Reason so that it can break through the blockade of the third layer of the Abyss and create a path before it perishes.

Or, to put it another way, the Temple of Truth, where the Realm of Reason is located, could be directly upgraded to the third level of the Abyss, skipping the original third level of the Abyss and connecting with the fourth level of the Abyss.

The problem is that the real world is fixed outside the abyss, anchoring the abyss's position. With it dragging it along, the ship that is the Abyss Game is destined to never set sail.

To delve deeper into the abyss, you must first loosen this anchor.

Dragging reality into the abyss is riskier than merging the Realm of Reason and the Realm of Desolation.

Reality, like an anchor, while binding them to the abyss, also guarantees their escape route and safety.

In the game Abyss, many job changes and abilities, even those that lead to godhood, need to be anchored in reality.

Once reality plunges into the abyss, their anchor will no longer be firm. Every time they use their abilities, they will face the risk of losing control. Their will may be lost in the abyss, turning them into madmen or monsters.

That is why the members of the Guangming Society call this plan the worst-case scenario.

As the blue planet in the model gradually fell into the abyss, the atmosphere in the conference room became extremely oppressive, with an invisible pressure weighing on them.

Everyone present knew that if they couldn't find a way out, find the light, then what they were doing today would be destroying the world.

When~
The clear chimes rang out, waking everyone from the oppressive atmosphere.

Huanxi looked at everyone and said in a deep voice:

"Gentlemen, we have long known that from the moment the real world was bound to the Abyss Game, its fate was already sealed. Like the ruins we discovered, it will fall into the abyss with the players' failures."

"Even if we don't do this, when we lose, reality will still fall into the abyss. At that time, players in the real world and the wasteland will be completely unable to resist the erosion of the abyss."

"On the contrary, by going all out and deliberately taking reality into the abyss, we may still have a glimmer of hope."

"As long as we can keep moving forward, clear the Abyss Game, and enter the deepest part of the Abyss, the real world will not only not be destroyed, but will be reborn and evolve!"

"The burden on our shoulders has never been lightened; all we have done is accelerate this process."

"If you don't want to reach that point, then work hard to improve yourself and evolve!"

After Huanxi finished speaking, the atmosphere in the meeting room relaxed a little. First, Peren took the lead and shouted, "For a bright future!"

Then the others joined in, chanting, "For a bright future!"

Just as the atmosphere in the room was lively and everyone was gradually shaking off the dullness and accepting the challenges of the future, the model projected by Bonas suddenly flashed red.

The blue star, which was already 80% submerged in the abyss in the projection, suddenly stopped falling.

The conference room, which had been filled with lively conversation just moments before, suddenly fell completely silent.

Everyone stared intently at the model, waiting for Blue Star to fully enter the abyss, but Blue Star seemed to be dragged along by something, stubbornly refusing to enter the abyss.

Huanxi's face turned extremely gloomy, and she asked, "What's going on?"

Bonas wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said in a dry voice:

"Between reality and the desolate realm, besides the power spaces of the four major organizations, there seems to be a fifth power space. It holds up the middle layer between reality and the desolate realm, preventing reality from sinking further into the abyss."

None of the people present had expected this outcome. After a moment of silence, Huanxi asked:

What will the outcome be?

Bonas tapped on the screen, sweat pouring down his head as if a water pipe had been connected to it.

"According to the model's deduction, in the current situation, not only will we be unable to break free from the anchor of reality and allow the Temple of Truth to enter the third layer of the abyss, but the increased contact area between reality and the abyss will also cause the speed of the extraordinary erosion of reality to skyrocket."

"As a result of the chain reaction, the originally estimated time for the destruction of the Realm of Reason was shortened from three years and five months to one year and ten months."

Everyone in the room started sweating. Huanxi, trying to remain calm, asked:

Is there any way to remedy this situation?

Bonas shook his head and said:

"I'm afraid not. The Abyss Game has already detected the anomaly. Due to the game's rules, Blue Star hasn't lost yet and it's not time to be sucked into the Abyss. Therefore, a special intermediate layer is forming between Blue Star and the Desolate Realm."

"Even if we destroy the last power space now, Blue Star will still be unable to enter the Abyss."

A thought simultaneously crossed the minds of everyone in the Light Society: Oh no, if they can't find a way to remedy the situation, they'll really have to destroy the world.

Meanwhile, on Abyss Island, sensing the changes in reality, Shi Ning let out a long breath and murmured:

"It seems that even prophecies can be wrong, and there is still a glimmer of hope for the world."

(End of this chapter)