Love, death, and false man

Chapter 24. Earth Defense Base
9/22—00:29
Back home, Fang Yan couldn't sleep at all. The insulating tape and antenna radio in the bedroom remained unchanged; though they were better than nothing, they still served a purpose.

I added Xia Bing's verified account. Her profile picture is a T-800 from Terminator 2. Her ID is Moonlight Lake. Looking at her Moments, it's full of photos of her band, half of which are photos of her with the lead singer.

There was nothing to say, and I couldn't force a conversation, especially since the other person didn't like men at all.

With nothing else to do, I experimented with the newly acquired Guilty Gear .EXE file.

It can extract any object as a mold to generate a projection, so naturally it can extract powerful weapons, such as firearms.

But the result was completely different from what Fang Yan had imagined. The Barrett was extracted as a mold and then a projection was generated.

The result is that not only does maintaining the physical properties of the projection require heat, but the released kinetic energy also needs to be calculated separately, making it a complete negative optimization. A single shot generates a total of 500 joules of heat, which is the same as the power of popping a balloon in an amusement park.

The only mold with positive optimization for this capability is something with a simple structure and a simple dynamic equation.

Fang Yan hadn't figured out which mold would be best. Perhaps adaptability was the biggest highlight of this feature. Anything too flashy and impractical would be rather useless. It could only make up for some of the overall combat capability, but it was completely inferior to the Bloodhound.

It can split into two parts, each requiring 300 joules, automatically lock onto enemies, engage in multi-front warfare, and possess considerable bite force and destructive power, making it far more powerful than these characteristics suggest.

Unable to sleep, I checked the equipment again and prepared the extra magazines for the MP5.

Afterwards, I went back to bed and scrolled through some short videos of pretty girls, but I still couldn't fall asleep.

Wang Ying has already instructed the administrator to approve Fang Yan's request to join the group.

The group name is [Earth Defense Base]—9
It is obvious that Luo Di, a senior high school student from Binhai No. 10 Middle School, found such a group of high-end people and created such a high-end QQ group. The group he joined, as the name suggests, is the ninth group of [Earth Defense Base].

Each group is limited to 200 members because the activity level is so high that there are hardly any lurkers. If there are too many people, the chat will be flooded with messages and everyone will be chatting on their own, which will be completely chaotic. This number of members is actually the most reasonable.

Fang Yan's name on V is just a random string of letters, but his QQ name is very old, he's been using it since elementary school and has never changed it, it's useless.

Screw it.

Tenchi Muyo: [Does anyone have any resources for Nagihiko? Could someone kindly share them?]

The Fire Thief: [High-quality (strong) (strong) (strong), [cloud drive link], password DQFWJD, take it yourself.]

Nanfeng: [Wow, usually it's the admins who post these, but the group admin actually did it personally! Nagihiko-sensei, you're terrifying!]

Money emboldens heroes: [Nagimitsu, as the Air Force Commander-in-Chief, I've never heard of him before. Things are getting interesting.]

Solo kill/.: [Ugh, what is this? Let me import it. Ugh, what is this? Let me import it.]

The Fire Stealer: [@天地无用, I checked the group join request, you're from No. 6 Middle School, right?]

Heaven and Earth Useless: [Why are you asking this?]

The Fire Stealer: [For a group like this to last, it needs a clear action plan to maintain order. You can directly request resources from the administrators of your university; they'll reply and send them instantly.]

Fang Yan, standing outside the phone screen, was stunned for a moment. Action plan? This resource group is really like a pyramid scheme. He looked at the group administrators and saw that the group name was indeed followed by a note indicating which school it belonged to.

Tenchi Muyō: [I see, thank you.]

However, Fang Yan, being a freeloader, left the chat interface immediately after receiving the resources, leaving the group to continue chatting.

After opening the cloud drive link, entering the password, and retrieving the resources for viewing,...

"How can this be?"

Fang Yan was greatly shocked because it was incredibly comprehensive, ranging from photo albums to movies, and even footage from hidden cameras. The movies were all uncensored and unblocked, and the most astonishing thing was their terrifying clarity, as if he had obtained the master tapes of the filming equipment.

This is too bizarre. It doesn't seem like something a high school senior could do. Even hackers using web scraping techniques would struggle to accomplish this; it must be some kind of more mysterious method.

Salvation Army base stations can do this effortlessly, provided they report to the liaison officer and it is required for the mission.

Fang Yan began to suspect that Luo Di from Binhai No. 10 Middle School might be a member of the Soul-Sucking Lord or the Old God Church.

Re-entering the group chat interface, Fang Yan clicked on the Fire Thief's avatar and checked the information. There were no updates, no personal signature, and the avatar was just a very common landscape picture.

The fire thief...

Greek mythology, Prometheus, huh? You've got to make it sound pretty high-class.

Suddenly losing all interest, he thought he should follow the man named Roddy and kill him if anything seemed amiss.

You must first report to the liaison officer.

[Suspicious target detected: Luo Di, a senior high school student at Binhai No. 10 Middle School. Please help me retrieve all information about this person.]

[Data is being retrieved. Loading complete. Data will be sent to the terminal.]

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Fang Yan looked at Luo Di's information on the retina UI.

The Salvation Army's server contains data on all of humanity worldwide, so there is no possibility of inaccurate data. If there is false information or discrepancies between the information and the person in question, it only proves that the person is either a fraud or a charlatan.

Luo Di, 18 years old, 175 cm tall, 63 kg.

A local resident of Binhai, with no criminal record and a healthy family.

Like No. 6 Middle School, No. 10 Middle School is one of only two provincial key schools in Binhai City. Luo Di has excellent grades, fluctuating between the top 30 and top 10 in his grade.

Such a familiar strategy: no record of leave requests, and except for one day off on weekends, he is on campus all day, including evening self-study.

He has won international awards for his information programming skills and was admitted to Binhai University of Technology through a special admission program.

"International awards?"

Fang Yan was somewhat bewildered. In this way, this [Earth Defense Base] actually made quite a lot of sense. Was this person really a genius? Like the hacker Scorpio who hacked into the space agency at the age of 11?
No, if I have a mission requirement, I can easily win international awards myself, and then act as a fire-bringer like Roddy. The Salvation Army's servers can also get these.

It's best not to act rashly. Just report this suspicious target to the server. I have a big job to do in half a month, and I don't know if I'll survive.

9/22—14:22
Classroom of Class 2, Grade 11, Binhai No. 6 Middle School.

Fang Yan continued to record and sort out all the intelligence in the red-covered notebook, writing down the Void Demon, the Singularity, the historical timeline, and the year 1899 where number 0-1 was located, but this year was pending and was just a rumor.

Finally, the suspicious target, Luo Di, was recorded and reported.

A message came from V, sent by Xia Bing, who also transferred 1,000 yuan directly. She said she felt bad asking Fang Yan to be her accomplice, and asked him to come to the bar to watch a live show next Tuesday, the 25th, and she would reimburse his travel expenses and other expenses for that night.

Now that I am bound to Xia Bing through thick and thin, I must be her flesh and blood.

In short, after class, go to the fire escape in the auditorium for a smoke and ask Wang Ying if she has ever met Luo Di and what kind of person he is.

If Luo Di is truly a fraud or a charlatan, then that's quite terrifying, indicating that the universities in Binhai are not as safe as one might imagine.

He might go on a killing spree.

(End of this chapter)