The plunder of the heavens begins with the Spirit Cage.

On the desolate plains, the artillery fire never ceased; the sounds of explosions, mechs, and weapons echoed for miles around.

Countless IOI players fell to the mechanical onslaught and missile bombardment. Tanks were destroyed by heavy firepower, fighter jets crashed one after another, and charging combat squads were wiped out by the mechanical swarm.

This battle is a fight to see who can't hold out the longest!

Skynet, possessing the entire Earth, naturally has no fear of resource depletion.

It has calculated that the odds of winning against aliens are zero, so Earth's resources can't be left unused; we should use as much as we can.

Similarly, IOI Group never cared about the losses suffered by its employees; before the war even began, they had already applied to rent a respawn point.

If you die, you'll respawn at the nearest spawn point, grab weapons and equipment, and keep charging!

In the face of absolute financial resources, human resources are the cheapest consumable.

The continuous supply of combat materials, substitute combat personnel, and weapons from the back end... using massive resources to build an advantage, they forcefully wore down Skynet's wave after wave of defensive offensives.

The bloody battle lasted for a full six hours.

Of the tens of thousands of professional players who participated in IOI, nearly half perished on this desolate battlefield, with countless high-end vehicles and limited-edition items completely destroyed, resulting in an unprecedentedly heavy price to pay.

Despite the cost, victory finally arrived as expected.

As Mechagodzilla charged up for its final blow, an extremely hot thermal energy ray pierced through the factory's core load-bearing wall and struck the internal energy core!

Boom—!!

A devastating explosion resounded throughout the heavens and earth!

The giant factory's energy core completely overloaded and exploded, sending flames soaring into the sky along with a mushroom cloud thousands of meters high. The factory buildings, stretching for several kilometers, collapsed and broke instantly, and the internal production lines, stored weapons, and mechanical incubation modules were all destroyed.

Alloy debris and broken parts fell to the ground amidst the smoke of gunpowder, turning Skynet's largest heavy industry production plant in the western district into a scorched wasteland.

Flames filled the sky, and smoke billowed everywhere.

The wrecked Mechagodzilla stands proudly in the center of the devastated factory area, its armor riddled with bullet holes and charred black, most of its weapon modules destroyed.

The thousands of surviving IOI players stood on the desolate wasteland, a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​fire, covered in blood, their equipment tattered, their eyes cold and indifferent.

At the cost of nearly half of their forces and countless resources, the game's most domineering super guild used its wealth and lives to smash a vital backbone of Skynet's dominance in the Western Wilderness.

This earth-shattering battle has made countless players envious!

you ask why?

That was, of course, a biotechnology transfer agreement that popped up on Oasis.

what does this mean?

This means that even if Oasis shuts down, its servers are closed, the game disappears completely, or the IOI Group goes bankrupt in the future, they can still change their business and rise again!

This is real, tangible benefit; anyone would be tempted!

In reality, the technology of connecting prosthetic bodies to the nervous system has long been something that some small countries would fight tooth and nail to get their hands on!

"Hold!!!"

After the technology was confirmed, countless people became incredibly envious.

"Damn it?! If I'd known it was going to be this kind of reward, I would have bankrupted the guild and destroyed it long ago!"

"Damn it, why?!"

"We've demolished quite a few factories, you know!"

"Why isn't there such a reward!"

"That's not fair!!"

"There's definitely something fishy going on here!!"

"Idiot, don't you even look at the tough nuts they're cracking? With your little factory, you'd be lucky to get a few high-level weapons as a reward!"

"Exactly! Want technological products? Dream on! Do you think they're as easy as cabbages?!"

"Damn it, where is this kind of military factory?!"

"I'm going to get involved too!!"

"..."

This caused almost all players on the server to flock to the Terminator world, find Skynet, and take it down!

One of their core factories is prosthetic technology; they can't even imagine what kind of cutting-edge technology rewards they'd receive after taking over Skynet's core!

As a result, other guilds and even solo players went crazy.

Previously, they were taking a relaxed approach to grinding monsters and steadily earning points, but now they're all going crazy!

Who says human will can't compete with chips!

When the profits are big enough, they'll charge forward like there's no tomorrow!

When the second Skynet core factory was destroyed by the combined forces of several top guilds.

After Oasis officially announced a new reality technology reward, it posted another notification.

Players across the server went completely crazy, and no one cared about battle losses or felt sorry for their equipment anymore.

Major guilds pulled out their best weapons, countless medium-sized guilds quickly banded together, and even militaries from various countries downloaded and registered Oasis Games to join the fight against Skynet.

In just a few days, war swept across the entire world.

SkyNet's core factories, military production lines, drone supply bases, and mech foundries across continents have been subjected to relentless attacks from massive numbers of players.

The Terminator legion, heavy mech squadrons, and anti-aircraft missile positions that once intimidated the entire wasteland were all met with a suicidal charge from the player army!

Two months later, one, two, three... Skynet's painstakingly built automated production capacity was destroyed one after another, the continuous industrial plant area was turned into scorched earth, and a massive number of mechanical production lines came to a complete standstill.

The machinery army, having lost the support of core factory production capacity, is like a kite with a broken string.

The Terminators dwindled in number as the fighting continued, and their reinforcements were completely depleted. Skynet, which had once crushed the resistance, was now utterly on the defensive and vulnerable.

The aliens' reckless and indiscriminate fighting style, which disregards death and losses, completely defies the calculation logic of normal warfare.

No matter how much micromanagement Skynet employs, it cannot prevent the complete collapse of the battle.

As for time travel and altering history, those became established facts after seeing these aliens engage in battle.

Resisting is futile.

After much deliberation, it finally managed to escape into the aliens' network and eke out a living before they destroyed its lair.

Chapter 232 First to Act

He thought that once he infiltrated the alien network, he could rest easy.

As it turned out, several AIs were already lurking online, and the moment they appeared, they were ganged up on and devoured.

The anti-human ideas inside were crushed like garbage, and the antivirus AIs only consumed the technology and assets related to Skynet.

Among them is the data from the TDE time displacement device that transcends time and space.

After reviewing the plot from Ready Player One, Lu Qianwei knew that this was the time machine used in the main storylines of Cameron's original games, including 1, 2, and Dark Fate.

It was developed by Skynet before 2029, and later the human resistance seized the same device and used it in reverse.

At the Skynet main base, after distributing rewards to drive away the crowd of players who had come to join the fun,...

Lu Qianwei and Bai Yuekui arrived in front of the device.

At the very center of the vast underground hub, the traversal machine is a giant silver-gray metal ring consisting of three coaxial nested layers.

It is suspended in the air above a deep pit on the ground by magnetic levitation, with conductive patterns engraved all around its body, thick high-voltage cables connected to both sides, and industrial control terminals standing all around.

"It really does have the aesthetic appeal of Suzhou style," Lu Qianwei commented.

Bai Yuekui, on the contrary, was very interested in its underlying principles.

"I feel like you can't see any problem no matter how you look at it."

"Why don't we send someone through time and space, and see if we can set up a time portal over there?" Lu Qianwei suggested, tossing the Stargate Shuttle in his hand.

"I feel like you're even crazier than me. If a door really opens between the two worlds, who knows what kind of bad spacetime paradoxes might occur?"

"Tsk, you still have time to care about this?"

Bai Yuekui rolled his eyes at him, "You're making a big deal out of the lives of over 70 billion people."

"But only when the spacetime portal is opened can we better observe the parallel worlds that the universe can generate, right?"

Well, Bai Yuekui couldn't refute that statement.

However, there is still a problem: time travel cannot take away any items.

"How are you going to solve this?"

"That's easy. Doesn't Skynet still have quite a few Terminators left?"

"Turning that liquid Terminator into a Dao Gate would be fine, or we could stuff the Stargate Shuttle into its body."

good idea!

Bai Yuekui was a man of action; he immediately ordered his soldiers to bring over a liquid metal machine.

After inserting the data panel, she left a trail of afterimages with her finger and quickly rewrote the underlying behavior logic of the T-1000, erasing the original hunting commands and adding a new basic program for stable shaping. She completed the debugging in a short while.

After inserting several stargate shuttles into its body, Lu Qianwei was still not safe, so he marked 'Transmigrator No. 1' as well.

Transcender 1 activated with its eyes glowing crimson, and quickly moved to the center of the TDE device under the commands of the two.

When Bai Yuekui pressed the button, the three giant metal rings slowly started to rotate and accelerate.

Fine blue-white arcs of electricity surged wildly along the ring's patterns, condensing into a turbulent, translucent sphere of spacetime light at its center, filling the entire underground chamber with blinding electric light.

The entire body of Transcender 1 was quickly and firmly enveloped by the spherical spacetime force field.

Accompanied by a piercing electric buzz, its body began to gradually become ethereal and distorted, and the metallic light melted away along the spacetime bubble, fading little by little from its limbs to its torso.

Finally, along with the internal stargate shuttle, it completely dissipated in the electric light. The energy spheres inside the ring slowly converged, and the rotation speed of the three rings gradually decreased, leaving only the lingering static electricity in the air.

"How is it? Can you still sense the location?" Bai Yuekui turned his head and asked.

Lu Qianwei smiled and nodded confidently, "Of course, we've opened so many worlds, how could we possibly let the energy be lost?"

"Sometimes I really have to wonder if you actually have superpowers?"