The whole nation: You're put to survive on a desolate planet, you'll be running an alien b

Su Wan's words were like a pebble thrown into a calm lake.

Li Haotian's lazy expression remained unchanged, but his eyes deepened.

Kyushu.

Doctors.

Two seemingly parallel lines that would never intersect now share the same signature on a drawing.

"interesting."

Li Haotian played with the empty water glass in his hand, tapping his fingertips lightly on the glass.

Su Wan stood to the side without saying a word.

She knew her boss was thinking, and it was best not to disturb him at this time.

"Kyushu wants my alien data, saying it's for filing and analysis."

Li Haotian muttered to himself in a very soft voice.

"The doctor wants my SSS-level talent, he wants to do some kind of 'divine transplant'."

"Currently, the technical drawings they use are still very similar in style."

He looked up at Su Wan and gave a slight smile.

"Do you think this is a coincidence?"

Su Wan shook her head.

"It doesn't look like it."

"Right? I don't believe it either."

Li Haotian put his water glass on the table, sank into the sofa, and shifted to a more comfortable position.

"It seems there's more hidden underwater than I imagined."

"Boss, then we..."

"No rush."

Li Haotian waved his hand.

"Keep building the blueprints, keep doing business. If they want to see, let them see. If they want to play, play along."

He squinted, like a dozing cat.

"The bigger the chessboard, the more fun it is!"

……

at the same time.

Donghai City, Dragon Shield Bureau Headquarters.

The huge circular command hall was brightly lit.

The atmosphere, however, was somewhat oppressive.

Qin Yue stood in front of the huge electronic sand table, her arms crossed over her chest, looking at the three red coordinate points marked on it.

Tianhua Pharmaceutical Factory.

Air raid shelter No. 7.

Venus Plastic Surgery Hospital.

The results were brilliant.

They captured "The Doctor," a core researcher of the "Purgatory" organization, destroyed two secret strongholds, and seized a large amount of illegal experimental equipment and data.

Logically, this should have been a great victory to celebrate with champagne.

But Qin Yue felt an inexplicable awkwardness in her heart.

Everything went too smoothly.

It went so smoothly, as if someone had written the script in advance, and they, the Dragon Shield agents, were just actors who appeared on time.

"team leader."

A young analyst stepped forward, handed over a report, and looked excited.

"Operation summary: This operation resulted in zero casualties on our side, the successful capture of the A-level target 'Doctor,' and the destruction of a key 'Purgatory' organization's stronghold in Donghai City. It can be described as a resounding victory!"

Qin Yue took the report, casually flipped through a couple of pages, and then tossed it back onto the table.

"A resounding victory?"

She turned around and looked at her subordinates.

"Don't you think this victory came too easily?"

The analyst was stunned.

"Simple? Captain, we mobilized half of our entire force, and after meticulous planning and..."

"A meticulously planned operation?"

Qin Yue interrupted him, pointing to the sand table.

"Our deployment was based on an anonymous tip from a man who called himself 'Mr. Li, a concerned citizen'."

"We stormed into Tianhua Pharmaceutical Factory, and their resistance was as weak as paper. The mercenary leader surrendered in less than half an hour."

"We rushed to the No. 7 air raid shelter and Venus Hospital, basically to clean up the battlefield."

She walked up to the analyst and looked him straight in the eye.

"This isn't a raid, this is a takeover."

"It's like the 'Purgatory' organization has packed up all the trash they don't want and then called us to come and collect it."

In the command center, everyone fell silent.

Qin Yue's words were like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing their joy of victory.

Just then, Lao Wang, the head of the technical department, rushed in, holding a tablet in his hand.

"Captain, the cross-comparison analysis you asked me to do has yielded results."

Old Wang's expression was very strange, as if he had seen a ghost.

"Look at this."

He handed the tablet to Qin Yue.

On the screen, several dynamic data models are displayed side by side.

[Event Model A: Dock Container Explosion]

[Event Model B: Genesis Tower Spherical Hole Event]

[Event Model C: Tianhua Pharmaceutical Factory's Trap Setup]

Next to these models, there is a brand new model with a line of small print next to it.

[Game Behavior Analysis Model: Player 'Alien', S-Rank Dungeon 'The Lost Titan']

Qin Yue frowned.

"What is this?"

"We extracted all the behavioral data of the player named 'Alien' in the dungeon from the public live stream recordings of 'God's Game' and built a model."

Old Wang pointed at the screen, his voice a little dry.

"Then, we compared the underlying logic of this model with the methods used in these unsolved cases in our real lives."

"result……"

He took a deep breath.

"Similarity: 93%"

Qin Yue's pupils contracted.

"Ninety-three percent?"

"right."

Old Wang swiped the screen, and several key nodes of the model were highlighted in red.

"Look here. The dock explosion—the perpetrators used a chemical chain reaction to create widespread chaos, but the core blast precisely avoided civilian facilities."

"Look here again. Genesis Building, a perfect spherical cavity, no noise, no dust, it only took away the target, which we call 'environmentally friendly targeted cleanup'."

"And this time at the pharmaceutical factory, the traps they set up looked impressive, but they were mostly just sound and light effects; they had very few truly lethal weapons."

Finally, Old Wang's fingertip landed on the game model.

"This is the strategy used by that player 'Alien'. He used a summon called 'Hellfire' to launch a suicide attack, which took away half of the Mythic-level BOSS's health."

"According to our data analysis, the energy control of that explosion was precise down to the microsecond level. Any more would have affected him and his allies. Any less wouldn't have been enough to seriously injure the BOSS."

Old Wang raised his head, looked at Qin Yue, and said, word by word.

"Captain, the core logic of these methods is completely the same."

"Ultimate pragmatism, a morbid pursuit of explosive art, and... absolute control over the scene."

"They're like madmen with scalpels, humming songs as they perform the most delicate brain surgery."

Qin Yue's gaze was fixed intently on the screen.

On one hand, there were those code names that were causing her a lot of trouble in reality.

The Fishing God of the East China Sea.

Sewer water monkey.

Doomsday prophecy: crayfish.

On the other side is the ID that stirs up trouble and acts lawlessly in the game world.

Alien.

"It's him."

Qin Yue uttered two words almost subconsciously.

"It's definitely him."

"Captain, who did you say?"

The analyst next to me asked in a low voice.

Qin Yue did not answer.

She knew that she might have touched upon the truth hidden behind all the fog.

These seemingly unrelated identities may very well be the same person behind the scenes.

"Old Wang, find out the real identity of this 'alien'!"

Qin Yue gave the order.

Old Wang shook his head with a wry smile.

"Cannot be found."

"What do you mean by 'cannot be investigated'?"

"We contacted the game operator to retrieve the account's binding information."

Old Wang sighed.

"The other party replied that the account has the highest level of confidentiality and is protected by the first order of the Star Sea Convention. No one has the right to access it."

"We tried to crack the network technically, but as soon as we made contact with their firewall, our entire technical department... was forcibly disconnected from the internet for three minutes."

"And then there's that 'helpful citizen Mr. Li.' We traced his IP address and eventually found that the signal came from a decommissioned weather satellite that had just fallen into the Mariana Trench."

The entire command center was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Everyone stared at the data on the screen as if it were a monster.

Is this even human?

This is practically a ghost living in the internet!

Qin Yue leaned against the command platform, feeling a deep sense of powerlessness.

She felt like a flying insect struggling in a spider's web, while the spider that wove the web lay nearby, watching her futile performance with great interest.

No.

She suddenly realized.

wrong.

If the other party really wants to stay out of it, they could do it much more cleanly.

Those provocative blue stools, those leftover crayfish at the scene, those perfectly timed anonymous tips…

He wasn't provoking anyone.

He was telling himself, in an extremely arrogant way, that he was the one who did it all.

He was even... teaching himself how to do things.

Having figured this out, Qin Yue suddenly felt a sense of relief.

She straightened up, a bitter smile on her face.

"Alright."

She waved.

"All investigations targeting the 'Three Heroes of the East Sea'—no, now we might call them the 'Four Heroes of the East Sea'—are suspended."

"what?"

"team leader?!"

Everyone was shocked.

"What else is there to investigate?"

Qin Yue laughed self-deprecatingly.

"They're on the fifth floor, and we haven't even touched the first. What's the point of investigating further besides making us look even more foolish?"

She walked to the window and looked at the bustling city traffic outside.

"He purified the city's water supply."

"He removed the protective umbrella that 'Purgatory' had planted in the city."

"He packaged up dangerous individuals like 'doctors' and delivered them to our doorstep."

"Regardless of who he is or what he wants, at least for now, he doesn't seem to have any malicious intent."

Qin Yue turned around and glanced at her teammates.

"Therefore, we changed our strategy."

"Since we can't catch him, let's try... talking to him."

She pointed to the "Alien" ID on the screen.

"Old Wang, prepare a game account for me. The level doesn't need to be too high, but it must be absolutely clean and have no connection with D.H.I.E.L.D."

"I want to go and meet him in person."

……

Genting Villa No. 1.

"Achoo—!"

Li Haotian was lying on the sofa when he suddenly sneezed loudly.

He rubbed his nose.

"How strange, who's talking about me?"

"It's definitely not a good thing."

He had just finished muttering to himself when Su Wan came up from the basement.

In her hands, she held a strangely shaped metal container.

The object was made entirely of dark gold osmium-iridium alloy, and its surface was covered with complex blue energy circuits, making it look like an oversized luxury thermos.

"Boss."

Su Wan's breathing became rapid, and a blush appeared on her face.

"The thermos you mentioned is finished."

"The Scorpion team used the highest-level equipment from the military factory and worked through the night to produce it, so there are absolutely no issues with its precision and stability."

She carefully placed the container on the coffee table, her eyes filled with anticipation and nervousness.

"According to the instructions on the blueprints, it should be able to stabilize the energy of the 'Heart of the Void' and allow it... to appear in reality."

Su Wan looked up at Li Haotian.

"The Empress's... ultimate evolution."

"We can begin."