When the game shut down, I took my skills with me.

Chapter 78 Mr. Lu's "Environmental Protection" Philosophy

Over the Pacific Ocean, the "Flowing Light" class aerospace fighter jet drew a silver trail and disappeared silently into the clouds.

The atmosphere in the command center of the research vessel Challenger was so oppressive it seemed to freeze.

The three survivors of the ordeal have been taken to the medical bay, but no one can be happy.

The mission failed.

The cost was an astronomical figure of 800,000 global contribution points, and all the core data models that the "Lighthouse" project relied on for its pride.

Serafina Vince sat blankly in front of the messy control panel. Her face, which was usually known for its calmness and intellect, was now filled with humiliation and paleness.

Her confidence, her pride, and her faith in data and models were ruthlessly crushed in the face of Lin Wei's unreasonable and absolute power and Su Muqiu's cold and ruthless business terms.

She suffered a crushing defeat.

"Doctor—" a technician spoke with difficulty, breaking the silence, "The volcano's energy index—"

It continues to rise. According to the latest global climate models, if it is allowed to continue erupting, the released volcanic ash will cover nearly one-third of the Pacific Ocean, causing the global average temperature to rise by 0.5 to 0.8 degrees Celsius.

This is no longer a failed exploration mission; it is a global ecological disaster.

Serafina numbly raised her head, staring at the volcano on the screen that resembled a wound in the world, constantly spewing destructive energy, her eyes filled with helplessness and despair.

Human resources are sometimes limited.

Faced with the might of Heaven, even the most meticulous calculations seem utterly laughable.

Meanwhile, in the Gaia plane, in Ark New City.

On the terrace of the seaside villa, Lu Yuan was lying idly on a beach chair, drinking an iced cola.

Fatty Wang was busy on the side, marinating the top-grade sandworm meat he had just packed from the "buffet" with various spices, preparing for a sumptuous seafood barbecue.

"Brother Yuan, do you think those Americans must be crying their eyes out right now?" Fatty Wang said gloatingly while sprinkling cumin. "They spent so much money and got nothing in return, hehe."

"Troublesome." Lu Yuan yawned, too lazy to even lift his eyelids.

He didn't care about the fate of the "Lighthouse" project; he just felt that his leisurely life was always being disturbed by all sorts of things.

Just then, Xiaoya's holographic projection appeared beside him, a capable white-haired female secretary with a serious, systematic look on her face.

"Sir, Order has just received a real-time environmental report from the Earth's primary plane."

Xiaoya waved her hand, and a huge weather map was projected into the sky.

The volcano in the Pacific Ocean, like a giant red abscess, is constantly spreading pollution outwards.

According to the projections based on the "order" principle, without intervention, the "umbrella effect" caused by the volcanic eruption will reduce the intensity of sunlight received by the Gaia plane by approximately three percent within the next week. This will directly affect the comfort of your sunbathing on the beach, and intervention measures are recommended.

Lu Yuan's brows finally furrowed.

Does it affect his ability to sunbathe?

This is a very serious problem.

"What a hassle," he complained, sitting up from the beach chair and stretching his hand out to the air. "Xiaoya, bring up the backend panel."

"Yes, sir."

A virtual light screen, filled with code and data streams, that only Lu Yuan could see, appeared in front of him.

He swiped around on the screen a few times and quickly found a data entry that was flashing a red alert.

[Geographic coordinates: Pacific Ocean K-27]

[Target: Active underwater volcano (codename: Gates of Hell)]

[Status: Erupting in a frenzy (uncontrollable), Rule disorder: 78.4%]

Lu Yuan didn't even glance at the complex analysis data; he simply stretched out his finger and lightly tapped the "Status" column.

A drop-down menu popped up.

He ignored a series of complicated options such as "slow cooling" and "energy channeling," and dragged directly to the bottom, choosing the simplest and most straightforward option.

[Set status: Permanent hibernation (stable)]

Click to confirm.

After doing all this, he saw the core area of ​​the volcano, the "rule fragment" marked in red that constantly emitted polluting energy.

Title: The First Flames of Fury Ignite the Earth

[Status: Severe rule contamination, structure on the verge of collapse]

Lu Yuan frowned again.

He hated this messy feeling, like a junk file on his computer that needed cleaning up.

He stretched out his finger again and tapped the fragment.

[Operation Options: Repair/Purify/Destroy]

He selected "Purify" and checked the "One-click Clean and Optimize" option in the pop-up submenu.

Finally, he gave a new command to the fragment.

—"After processing, it will automatically pop up and be delivered to the nearest D.H.I.E.L.D. receiving unit."

After doing all this, Lu Yuan nodded in satisfaction, closed the GM panel, and lay back down on the beach chair, as if he had just casually closed a pop-up window.

"Alright, let's continue grilling."

Challenger Command Center.

The piercing alarm stopped abruptly without warning.

All the red data representing the volcanic energy index were instantly reset to zero.

"What happened? What happened?" a technician stammered.

No one could answer him.

Everyone stared in disbelief at the satellite images on the main screen.

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The volcano, which was spewing out billions of tons of lava and causing devastation just a moment ago, suddenly fell silent.

The towering volcanic ash seemed to be wiped away by an invisible hand and quickly dissipated.

The churning magma cooled and solidified at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The once barren island, covered in sulfur and toxic gas, seemed to be surging with boundless life force from beneath its surface. Within minutes, new shoots sprouted and green vegetation grew.

The hellish crater stopped spewing black smoke and instead began to gush forth clear spring water radiating gentle energy.

A doomsday volcano has been transformed into a beautiful hot spring paradise.

Just when everyone thought this was the pinnacle of miracles.

Then something even more incredible happened.

A crystal-clear, perfectly formed crystal, seemingly condensed from the purest flame, slowly rises from the summit of Hot Spring Mountain.

It was no longer violent or chaotic, but exuded a gentle yet powerful primal aura.

It drew a graceful arc in the air, landing precisely and gently into the energy net spread out by a warship bearing the Dragon Shield insignia that had rushed to the scene.

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

Serafina Vince stared blankly at the world-shaking scene on the screen, her body trembling uncontrollably.

She slowly stood up and walked to her private control panel.

Amidst the puzzled gazes of the crowd, she stretched out her trembling hand and drew up the culmination of her life's work.

Those folders named after her: [Seraphina's Behavioral Logic Model], [Extraordinary Individual Threat Level Assessment System], [Mathematical Analysis of World Rules] —

She selected all the files.

Then, I pressed the "Permanently Delete" button.

"Confirm deletion?"

"Yes."

The moment she clicked "confirm," this genius analyst, hailed as a "goddess walking above data," wore an expression of relief mixed with a bitter smile and awe.

"So this is the answer—" she murmured to herself, "We are not even on the same dimension."

She gave up trying to understand and chose to submit.

Meanwhile, in China, at the headquarters of Dragon Shield.

Qin Shiyue stared into silence as he looked at the top-secret report on the Pacific volcano that Li Mo had just presented, and the exorbitant bill from the "Ark" that had been transferred from the "Order."

After a long while, he let out a long sigh of relief, his eyes shining with a sense of enlightenment.

"I see."

"Sir, you are teaching us the same lesson in two completely different ways."

He stood up and walked to the huge world map, which shone with profound light.

"Ivanov's success and Serafina's failure both illustrate one point: when facing unknown rules, both courage and reverence are indispensable. And above all of this is the administrator's absolute authority, enough to define the rules."

"Pass on my order," he said in a deep voice, "to distribute a complete, encrypted report on this incident to all members of the council. The report will be titled—"

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On the Administrator's Environmental Protection Philosophy and Sustainable Development Ideas.

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