The plunder of the heavens begins with the Spirit Cage.

However, after this incident, the six empires still held peaceful talks and signed the "Oasis Starfield Joint Maintenance Treaty".

On the surface, the six parties appear to be on good terms, but in reality, they continue to play the proxy war game, constantly trying to win over middle-income countries that are sitting on the fence and use them for their own purposes.

But the effect was minimal.

Damn, there's a lot of reality to it!

We'll hire you if you pay us, but do you really think you're treating us like dogs?!

In real life, it's one thing to fawn over your boss, but in games, if someone's being nosy or bossy, you can just yell back without hesitation!

Who's indulging whom?

But let's not talk about how fiercely the EVE players in the starry sky are fighting.

Bai Yuekui's new racing car, created using the eternal source code of the Origin Star, has taken shape!

Looking at this car, which doesn't look much different from a top-tier race car.

Lu Qianwei raised an eyebrow, "Emm~ I can't see any difference between this and a regular race car at all?"

“The difference is huge~” Bai Yuekui patted the car body and couldn’t help but roll his eyes: “The car isn’t for you to see the exterior.”

She raised her hand and gently tapped the car's exterior, causing a faint glint of light to appear on the metal surface: "The car's engine alone could be patented in the real world and usher in a new era for automobiles, you know~"

Seeing Lu Qianwei's thoughtful expression, Bai Yuekui continued to explain carefully:

"In short, the 'realism' provided by the enduring source code has rewritten the basic operating logic of the game. There is no threshold bottleneck in power output, and the body strength far surpasses that of other racing vehicles in the same class."

Let alone the regular obstacles on the track, even when driving at high speed directly facing turbulent airflow, it will be unaffected due to the 'unrealistic' nature of wind resistance.

Lu Qianwei walked halfway around the car, his fingertips tracing the streamlined body of the vehicle.

"So this car can materialize into reality, right?"

“Of course!” Bai Yuekui curled his foxy lips. “As long as there are enough external materials, we can bring it back to reality at any time.”

…………

To avoid any mishaps, Bai Yuekui had already obtained the two subsequent keys while manufacturing the new car.

A clue from "The Shining" provided by Lu Qianwei was easily obtained.

The second attempt was completed exactly one day before the clues were found in IOI.

Bai Yuekui is quite experienced when it comes to playing games, especially older video games.

I found the hidden Easter egg almost after playing "Adventure" for the second time.

Meanwhile, the New York racetrack, the only publicly known Easter egg key, became extremely lively after both keys were found.

They believed that once they could get through this place, the guy who got the other two keys would definitely come to them seeking cooperation.

By then, hehe...

Okay, so this delusion is when Bai Yuekui drives his car, dodging road traps and his competitors, and arrives in first place.

Amidst the shock and cheers of countless people, and King Kong's bewilderment, the climax arrived after they crossed the broken bridge chasm ahead of schedule and reached the finish line!

Lu Qianwei didn't know what she said to Halliday, the AI ​​she left behind. After Bai Yuekui obtained ownership of the Oasis, she even kidnapped the AI ​​along with it!

"Holy crap, how did you do that?!" Lu Qianwei paced back and forth around Halliday, who looked like Gandalf, observing him closely.

He gave a thumbs-up and said, "Your verbal skills are pretty impressive!"

Bai Yuekui rolled his eyes again. "It was attracted by the underlying core code of the Origin Star."

"Oh, I see. So you want to enter reality." Lu Qianwei looked at Halliday's figure, not quite understanding.

Halliday gave a helpless, bitter smile and pointed to his head, "Although I was his...consciousness before his temporary death!"

Well, let's just say we can call it that for now, since he's the one who transferred all his life memories into this system.

They even opened a museum and generously displayed their wares to everyone…

“I understand. You’ve seen so many memories and are curious about what reality is like.” Lu Qianwei patted him on the shoulder.

"However, reality might disappoint you; it's not as wonderful as it seems on screen."

Halliday frowned, deep in thought. Since the Oasis opened, millions of players have stopped logging in.

Nearly 70% of those who stopped logging in did so because the game went bankrupt...

Because the vast quantum library of the Oasis game is difficult to move, Ready Player One becomes a permanently anchored world that neither joins nor knows of the existence of the multiverse.

Unfortunately, after being exposed to the eternal source code, the game world's ninety percent of things cannot be said to translate into reality.

However, its DNA gene chain, endowed by the source code, still allows it to gradually transform into a 'real' universe, independent of the limitations of two-dimensional games.

Six months later, Lu Qianwei was once again dragged by Bai Yuekui to open a time portal, much to his dismay.

"No?! What do you want?"

“The Oasis Game already has three layers that are close to reality, so of course we need to find a suitable experimental environment,” Bai Yuekui said matter-of-factly.

"I need more implementation data, so no matter which world you go to, as long as it's in a state of war, you can provide me with a detailed data experiment."

You wouldn't want a permanently fixed world to be completely worthless, would you?

"Fine, so you just want to unleash the Fourth Calamity into reality to cause trouble, huh?" Lu Qianwei complained, but his hands didn't stop moving. He imbued the box with spacetime energy and immediately threw out the Stargate Shuttle to open the blind box.

Since last month, when gamers were able to materialize into reality through dimensions and even control it through VR devices, and death did not affect their real consciousness, Lu Qianwei has had many thoughts.

The mere fact that future wars would not result in casualties was enough to bring the Fourth Calamity plan to the United Council.

Across from the door, the sky was filled with dark clouds, devoid of bright sunlight. All that could be seen was a heavy, oppressive darkness of ink and dust, making the world as gloomy as dusk.

As far as the eye could see, there were only broken walls and ruins. Collapsed buildings stood crookedly on the ground, their metal frames twisted and deformed, and rusted remains were scattered everywhere.

Abandoned vehicles lay overturned on the cracked ground, with broken components, ruptured pipes, and rubble forming a thick layer. In the distance, large scorched areas of land could still be seen, faintly bearing the marks of artillery fire and catastrophe.

Well, it's a great start!

You don't even need to look to know that this is another disaster-stricken world.

There's nothing more to say. Lu Qianwei put on the virtual reality pod provided by Ling Cage World and entered the Oasis game.

With a flash of light and shadow after inputting the specified coordinates, Lu Qianwei was teleported to a dedicated experimental site on Origin Star.

He took out the starships, various weapons, and equipment he had purchased in the game one by one and arranged them neatly.

After nodding in confirmation, several beams of crimson light shot out, reaching the heavens.

When Lu Qianwei opened his eyes again, he was already in reality, along with the ship and equipment.

After checking the weapons and equipment and finding no problems, Lu Qianwei, with the help of the robot, moved everything onto the spaceship.

"Tsk, it's good to materialize anything, but it's a pity that I can't take out the system space in the game to use."

"You should be content. It's already good enough that you can die an unlimited number of times."

Bai Yuekui walked up to him, looked him over in his player body, and then smiled mischievously at the real body lying in the virtual pod.

"If you really want some space, there is a way."

"Go to the Source Material Research Institute and let those old professors study your spatial ability again. Who knows, they might find something else for you."

Upon hearing this, Lu Qianwei felt a chill run down his spine. He quickly grabbed the prepared space ring, put it on his hand, and hurriedly boarded the spaceship.

This kind of thing only happens once in a while. Let's stick to science and technology instead of getting into all this metaphysics.

Chapter 225 Terminator

The spaceship glided into the hazy sky along the devastated canyon.

Lu Qianwei pressed a button similar to a car button to adjust the cruise speed to medium, and slowly flew forward along the central axis of the abandoned city.

All that met my eyes through the porthole was a deathly desolation.

Most of the skyscrapers that once stood in the city center have been broken in half, revealing the rusted steel skeletons twisted together inside.

If the wind passes through, it will make a low, howling sound, like a wail.

After that, large chunks of crumbling concrete would occasionally fall from the break and crash into the street below, which was littered with broken glass.

As he passed through the densely populated residential areas, he could see faded slides with half of them sticking out of the ground, or half of a road sign that had been tilted and rusted so badly that its original appearance was no longer visible.

"It's all overgrown with weeds~ How many years has this place been abandoned?"

Lu Qianwei pulled up the control stick and flew towards the outskirts of the city.

If there were anyone, they wouldn't be in the city; there's still a lot of residual radiation here, and no normal person would live there.

No one knows what happened in this world. Lu Qianwei flew from morning to afternoon, scanning the moving area with his detection radar, but he couldn't see a single sign of life.

The screen showed only overgrown weeds and wild rats hiding in caves, along with scattered tank and armor wreckage; not a single bone of a corpse was visible.

After another half hour of wobbling flight, we flew over three or four small towns that were reduced to mere foundations, with endless ruins stretching as far as the eye could see.

What I saw were either scorched, barren wastelands or half-collapsed town skeletons.

Occasionally, one can see toppled high-voltage power towers lying across the dry, cracked riverbed, their glass insulators long since shattered.

"Damn, this is a waste of energy!"

Lu Qianwei leaned back in his chair and rubbed his temples. The time portal had been open for eight hours, and he hadn't seen anything at all. It was a huge loss.

However, some things are just so mysterious. Just when you were about to give up, the spaceship's external microphone suddenly crackled, and a series of blurry vibrations came through the wiring.

Lu Qianwei immediately sat up straight, turned up the volume with his fingertips, and the blurry sound instantly became clear.

First came a series of crackling sounds, like countless tongues of fire sweeping wildly across the ground, followed by a deafening explosion.

A column of smoke and fire shot suddenly into the sky from the direction of the valley below the mountain.

Alright, judging from the sounds, we can confirm that someone is playing paintball in the distance.

"Let me see what's going on?"

As Lu Qianwei spoke, he quickly lowered the flight altitude and flew towards the smoke column.

In the half-collapsed fortifications at the bottom of the valley, the smoke from the gunpowder made people's throats hurt, and shrapnel flew past Old Cole's ear and slammed into the concrete wall behind him.

"Crab Special!"

Shivering, he crouched down, clicked open a brand new magazine, and yelled at the broken wall to his left: "Tom!"