Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

This is due to both the surge in the number of players and the strong belief of a large number of ordinary people.

That sea of ​​psychic energy is composed of the subconscious of countless intelligent beings, and specifically, the vast majority of them are humans.

And what is the greatest responsibility of the Psionic Sea? It is to protect the continuation of the species, protect the development of civilization, and protect the world from destruction.

The Pipi Shrimp Company, which is highly anticipated by all, and the Dream Game behind it, have essentially occupied a portion of the authority of the Psionic Sea.

Although Zhao Hao had considered similar possibilities before, he was still extremely surprised when the Magic Mirror and Ika actually expanded the dream and even began to control a small part of the spiritual energy sea.

Perhaps the Ascension Plan and the Salvation Plan can be accelerated?

……

The world has changed so drastically that many people feel as if they are in another world.

A year ago, although life was a bit chaotic, everyone was still able to live a normal life. Those urban legends were just things to tell kids over tea. But now, they've all come true, appearing right here among us.

While ordinary people might silently endure such treatment, the powerful members of the Skull and Bones Society truly loathed it.

When everything was under control, when did it suddenly get out of control?

Today, cities have become isolated islands, and America, once one of the world's two poles, has almost become 50 states.

Even Texas, the so-called Lone Star Republic, has not declared independence.

After all, humanity can only survive in the extraordinary era by sticking together, but it is inevitable that they will obey orders but not proclamations.

Putting everything else aside, even communication relies on psionic Den Den Mushi. The government only has one psionic satellite, which is far from enough. How can you even talk about command?

These days, transporting supplies is impossible without sending dozens or even hundreds of superhumans or psionic armed forces. For even farther distances, you might need a bronze-level superhuman expert!

If it weren't for the fact that many members of Skull and Bones are scattered across various states, the situation would probably have spiraled out of control by now.

How could the Skull and Bones not be envious of emerging yet essential things like fantasy games, psionic den Den Mushi, and live streaming?

They even considered the fantasy game the biggest obstacle to achieving their plans, ranking it even higher than ancient and extraordinary organizations like the Papacy, the Priory of Sion, and the Knights Templar.

After all, even if they have a history of over a thousand years and possess many unknown secrets and spells, do they have hundreds of thousands of extraordinary members?

Can they organize millions of people to observe an event through a tiny snail in their hands?

Even the Vatican, despite its immense influence, is limited to traditional matters. In this era, while Vatican priests can protect some people, they don't inspire the same aspirations as those extraordinary heroes who livestream themselves saving lives and slaying monsters!

Honestly, the Skull and Bones would be craving it!

In fact, it wasn't just them; even the Vatican and the forces of Hell coveted this dream game.

They have tried sending in undercover agents or conducting covert investigations beforehand.

But it's no use. Once you're branded with the Fantasy Westward Journey game's mark, in a sense, you're already Zhao Hao's person. Sooner or later, it's just a matter of time.

In front of the Magic Mirror and Goddess Ika, you can't hide your private thoughts. Every move you make is under their control; how can you possibly obtain any useful information? If you do, it must be because Zhao Hao has turned the tables on you.

The investigation into the fantasy game began gradually over the past two years. However, the urgency intensified last year, yet no progress was made.

Where did it come from? What is its purpose? Who controls it? We know nothing.

Many even speculate that this was a creation of a high-ranking deity, and could not possibly be controlled by a mortal.

The main reason is that Zhao Hao received a [World Tree Teldrassil Seed (Silver 5-star)] by signing in during the Spring Festival at the beginning of this year.

This thing grows slowly once planted, so it's too early to expect it to provide power for the entire dream world. However, it does possess a special ability—the Emerald Dream!

The dream realm mastered by druids is called the Emerald Dream, while the one mastered by Zhao Hao should be called the Game Dream.

In short, it's an ability to collect the dreams of many and make them one's own. While it's not particularly lethal, it's quite mysterious.

With this thing, the capacity and upper limit of the game have increased by hundreds or thousands of times!

Zhao Hao: So what if there are tens of millions of players? Come at me all at once! My servers are itching for more!

With the divine status of the Dream God, the Dream of the Game, and partial access to the Sea of ​​Spiritual Energy, Zhao Hao is no longer worried even if a Silver-level being enters the Dream Game.

It wasn't that no one in the Skull and Bones Society had doubts about Zhao Hao.

But then I thought: Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Although Zhao Hao's Pipi Shrimp Company gained huge profits and status through the Psychic Den Den Mushi live streaming function, it was nothing more than using the platform.

Now that the game has been made public, there's no stopping it.

Den Den Mushi (snail communication devices) have also become more civilian-oriented—they no longer require psionic energy; all that's needed is some ordinary food or psionic food. Therefore, ordinary people can use them too.

Therefore, too many people use games and Den Den Mushi (snail phone devices).

Many strong players even have too many partners.

Even members of the Skull and Bones Society have made a fortune through the game Fantasy Westward Journey. Who hasn't sent people to become Fantasy Westward Journey players and "leech off" the game's profits?

The world is changing rapidly, which caught the Skull and Bones Society completely off guard.

Many things haven't been arranged yet.

The long-planned scheme was suddenly disrupted by a celestial conjunction and an extraordinary outburst, leaving the Skull and Bones Society stunned and disoriented, as if they had been hit over the head.

The current situation makes implementing the plan ten times more difficult. Their former power is crumbling, making them seethe with hatred. What's even more infuriating is that you don't even know who to hate!

However, the Skull and Bones Society's plans are still underway.

There are three plans in total. The first plan is called Awakening the Savior, the second plan is called the Imprinting Plan, and the third plan is called The Descent of Heaven. It can also be seen as a three-step process.

The first plan to awaken the savior is closely related to Zhao Hao and other savior candidates.

……

Christmas had just passed, and 87 had arrived.

The Scandinavian Peninsula, located in the northernmost part of Europe, means "land of darkness." It was originally named for its high latitude and long, dark winters.

The island has two kingdoms, Nawei in the west and Duande in the south, which are separated by a mountain range.

Thomas Schmidt, the Iron Man, is now on his way here.

His exoskeleton combat mech is capable of supersonic flight, and given his powerful Bronze-level strength, he went alone to handle the supernatural incident.

He originally came to Europe to attend a seminar on "psychic mechanical intelligence".

Then, Duandian sent a distress call, saying that the Amei Mengshan Poison Company was conducting psionic gene experiments in this uninhabited area, and unsurprisingly, something went wrong. A batch of test subjects escaped.

The Mighty Poison Company is truly ruthless. They originally conducted biochemical research. After the advent of the psionic era, they acquired technologies from several evil supernatural organizations, such as the Holy Blood Church, through various channels. Combining their own research advantages, they began to work on psionic gene modulation.

It was just something one of the factions within the Holy Blood Church did back then. There are also rumors that the extraordinary individual from that faction is now the chief researcher at Meng Shandu.

In short, they want to secure a place in the new era.

The cost, well, is the civilians who were used as test subjects.

The Skull and Bones Society was fully aware of their actions and held them in utter contempt. Their exact words were: "Genetic ascension? Isn't that bullshit?"

However, now Amy's company has caused trouble in Europe, and I heard that many people have died. Amy has to clean up the mess.

So, they sent Thomas the Tank Engine, who was nearby, to the location.

And so, Thomas never returned...

Chapter 518 The Death of the Iron Man

Thomas Schmidt was killed in action.

Just three hours after he arrived in Scandinavia, and forty minutes after he sent out his message requesting support.

At first, Thomas's task was very easy.

Although the genetically modified experimental subjects that escaped from the Mighty Venom Laboratory have already infected hundreds of other infected individuals.

Many of them are 4-star and 5-star Black Iron monsters, and some are even special extraordinary beings with troublesome and difficult-to-deal-with abilities. According to the game, they are all elite monsters.

But for Thomas, a Bronze 3-star player, it's all just a matter of a moment. If he's happy, he'll take them all at once; if he's not, he'll take them all at once.

He was a staunch pioneer of psionic mechanical engineering, a proponent of radical modification. His psionic abilities were primarily used to modify and optimize mechanical entities, with very little application to enhancing himself.

Therefore, for him, the only way to become stronger is to transform himself.

He also felt from the bottom of his heart that his own flesh and blood body was too fragile.

This can be seen from his psychic eyes, brain-twisting mechanical plug-ins, mechanical exoskeleton, and other modifications.

Although he appears normal from the outside, once the battle begins, it becomes clear that he is covered in various weapons.

In terms of firepower, although he is only a Bronze 3-star, his lethality is definitely at the peak of the Bronze level!

His entire body is covered in psionic thermal weapons; basically, 80% of Ame's psionic thermal weapons can be seen on him.

Smaller-powered missiles include tracking cellular cluster missiles, capable of simultaneously and accurately hitting more than thirty individual targets. Cellular missiles possess effects such as psychic tracking, psychic penetration, and reactive fusion explosion.

The most powerful are the psionic reactive thermobaric bombs, capable of instantly draining psionic energy within a two-kilometer radius and unleashing a series of explosive reactions. Several minutes of continuous psionic explosions can completely disperse all the gas!

Even if the target is hiding more than ten meters underground, they will still be affected and killed.

The psionic laser has extremely strong cutting capabilities; a steel cruise ship tens of meters long can be cut in half with a wave of its hand.

There's also the super-freezing caused by rapid heat absorption, the flight speed of nearly Mach 6 under ultimate burst, the psionic matrix defense system, the psionic absorption circulation system... It can be said that it has no shortcomings in dealing with all kinds of emergencies!

Therefore, for other superhumans, such a large-scale infected organism with the ability to spread and evolve differently based on individual genes is extremely troublesome.

But for him, it was just a game of whack-a-mole.

You know Iron Man fighting terrorists, right? It wasn't that easy, but that's basically the situation.

However, this laboratory leak was not an accident, but a conspiracy orchestrated from within.

Among the middle and upper echelons of the Mengshandu laboratory in Scandinavia, there is a spy from another organization.

Their goal is to steal the psionic gene modulation technology that Mengshandu has researched at great expense.

Those test subjects didn't escape by accident; they were deliberately released by an inside agent.

However, no one expected that this immature technology would cause an accident.

After one experimental subject killed and devoured another, it evolved a large-scale gene infection capability, which suddenly made things spiral out of control.

Just as Thomas sensed something was amiss and began tracking down the person responsible for the lab leak, a conspiracy within a conspiracy began to unfold within him.

Previously, the anonymous followers of the Lord of Change and the followers of Gotha did some serious things in Russia, even leading to the censorship of one chapter.

However, their collaboration is not over yet.

Or rather, the anonymous group's plan to sabotage Gotha's muscle-bound team has a second part.