This time I chose Paladin

In the previous life, the planet’s Internet was not restored until five years after the apocalypse.

For visitors from Earth, it was five years and four months since we left the Internet. But according to the records of the Internet servers here, the last time they were working was an unknown number of years ago.

"internet……"

A familiar name, but an unfamiliar meaning.

No, it has a familiar yet unfamiliar meaning.

By some unknown coincidence, or perhaps simply the inevitability of Homo sapiens thinking, the name "Internet" links the two Homo sapiens races. It is like a strange rope, one end of which is a relic of a previous civilization, and the other end is the greatest creation in the history of mankind on Earth.

In this strange yet familiar world, something great once occurred. It once appeared in people's imaginations, born and destroyed in every hypothesis and dream. It was a hypothesis, a hypothesis of interconnectedness. Now, when the previous civilization has disappeared and the world has become so strange, another group of humans hears a familiar name and smells a familiar scent.

A familiar throbbing spread in my heart.

In the last life, the New World Internet was a new hope for mankind. It brought new functions, new communications, new possibilities and imagination of the beauty of the future. People once again went through the mental journey when they first heard the word "Internet". It was like the second explosion of the nuclear bomb. People breathed in the radioactive dust for the second time and accepted the changes brought about by cesium 137 for the second time.

But just two years later, an incident in the seventh year caused it to collapse again. Since then, darkness and estrangement have driven people further and further apart.

Now, Nie Weiyang wants to know——

If the Internet is achieved ahead of time, what path will the future of mankind take?

"Let's restart the server," Nie Weiyang said. "At least... first, understand the internet technology of the previous civilization?"

He pulled a small drone from his backpack.

Facing everyone's fixed gazes, Nie Weiyang extended his hand and introduced, "I found this in a city. It's a relic of a previous civilization. Are you interested?"

Everyone in the conference room looked at each other, and a few of them slowly stood up, then rushed out with lightning speed!

"What we can do!" "What we can do!" "Let go first!!"

Chapter 104 The Road Ahead is Dark and Deep

The final outcome of this discussion was: "Yes. We will launch the server. We will seize the development opportunities ahead of time and drive the enemy's main forces in Zhongzhou out of this area."

"So, there is no more information?" Liang Zhenduan asked.

"Yes, but I can't say it." Nie Weiyang replied.

He had just shown everyone in the conference room how secret knowledge triggered a mental protection mechanism. But Liang Zhenduan still refused to give up. "What if I ask a question and you hint at it?"

"The weight of secret knowledge is an objective mechanism, unaffected by the form of expression. Even if you figured it out on your own, as long as the weight of this knowledge is excessive, you will definitely experience a state of sensory loss." Nie Weiyang shook his head. "Although no one knows what determines this weight..."

"Don't you know either?"

"I don't know. There are still many things I don't know. The more I know, the more I don't know."

These words made Liang Zhenduan sigh helplessly, leaning back in his chair and rubbing his temples.

"Can you describe in detail the dangers of the Sky-crossing Demon?" he asked.

Nie Weiyang thought about it and used a description that was between precise expression and expanding imagination.

"If they really come here, even if it's just an ordinary Sky-crossing Demon with a few subordinates, it can easily destroy a city of more than 100,000 people." Nie Weiyang said.

"So strong?!"

"The Sky-crossing Demons' manipulation of psychic power is immense. They have a complete system of herding and harvesting, from planets to the flesh and blood of a single person. They won't let anything go. They've been dealing with Homo sapiens for so long that they naturally have a set of spells targeting them..."

"...So the Sky Crossing Demon has no weaknesses? Besides the limited strength of its incarnation?"

Nie Weiyang pondered, "Their mental powers are highly developed, which makes their illusions very powerful, but the chaotic nature of their lives can easily cause them to...occasionally confuse illusion with reality."

Yes, this is probably the only shortcoming of the Sky-crossing Demon Tolianga: before the illusion they created is shattered, they themselves are more confused about reality and illusion than other people who enter the illusion, and the more powerful the Tolianga is, the more likely they are to make this mistake.

Because their mental power is so strong, it is so strong that the virtual world can be like reality, and the feedback this illusion gives them is even 100% real.

Every Tolienga can create a small world of his own. That area will not be very large, and it will not be 100% real for everyone, but it will be almost the same.

When Tolienga himself was in it, it was easy to get addicted - it's the same principle as when people get addicted to a beautiful world that obeys them.

"Okay, two last questions," Liang Zhenduan asked gravely, "Why are they here? And... I don't believe a race with such chaotic thinking could develop an advanced civilization on its own. Are they also worshipping something, or is this technology not originally theirs?"

"I don't know." Nie Weiyang shook his head and replied, "I only know that they are a predatory civilization."

"Well, there's no way to reason with the plunderers," Liang Zhenduan said.

Indeed, one cannot reason with predators because they are not human at all.

"I have to go to the Zhongzhou Bone Sacrifice Hall first. You guys handle the other things." Nie Weiyang said.

"Don't..." Liang Zhenduan stretched out his hand, "Do you want to go alone?"

"Maybe this is the only way."

"What if we're under siege?"

"Few people can keep up with my speed." Nie Weiyang smiled.

He is confident in his speed and lucky draw.

But Liang Zhenduan was still worried. He thought for a moment and shook his head, saying, "There's no way for you and me to communicate. Even if we find out something or do something, we can't notify you in time.

"How about this? We'll send a few people to follow you, one of whom will be a messenger. Is that okay?"

"My combat intensity is too high. Others may die, and the messenger will definitely die." Nie Weiyang said.

Most courier classes have low combat power. The Spirit Control Courier, for example, is an outlier, deriving its combat power not from being a courier but from controlling spirits.

Moreover, given Nie Weiyang's combat intensity, even a spirit messenger would most likely die if he followed him.

"What are you going to do to make it so dangerous?"

When this question arose, everyone who was listening attentively thought that Nie Weiyang would give an action plan or a target point.

But Nie Weiyang gave an unexpected answer.

"I'm going to see Administrator No. 2," he said.

"what?"

"I said, I'm going to find the second administrator." Nie Weiyang stood up from his chair. He looked serious and pointed at the sand table with his hand.

"When I was in Zhongzhou, I witnessed the power of the Second Administrator from afar... When the blood moon rose, I met him face to face, and even... cooperated with him for a while."

This setting that "Lao Zhang" did not use was used by Nie Weiyang himself.

"I'm certain that Administrator Two possesses a certain degree of autonomy... though I'm not sure whether that's a true 'self' or a mechanism simulating self-awareness."

As Nie Weiyang spoke, the tense scene on the day the blood moon rose was quietly revealed.

"At that time, I was being chased by a huge group of monsters. I was riding a battered light motorcycle. If I dared to stop, I would die." Nie Weiyang recounted the story, his voice low, as if lost in memory. "Then, I met Administrator No. 2."

Someone in the conference room gasped softly.

Nie Weiyang shook his head slightly, his voice tinged with nostalgia. "He's right in front of me, with his back to the monsters. If I want to survive, I have to pass by him. But I'm not sure if I'll die faster than falling into the monster pile if I do that."

"At that time, I had just led 20,000 monsters for a while, and there were still more than 2,000 left. But I really didn't have time to think too much." He said, "You have probably seen Xiang Feng's documents. He must have given Blood Moon Ascending the battle records, right?"

Liang Zhenduan nodded slightly. He turned over a pile of rough papers in front of him, allowing Nie Weiyang to see Xiang Feng's performance report documents hidden in the middle and lower levels.

"You are brave and strong." He was generous with his praise, but more direct than usual.

"At that time, I rushed towards the second administrator." Nie Weiyang said in a deep voice.

The conference room was silent, and everyone pricked up their ears, listening to the voice of a warrior who was directly clashing with the second administrator.

No... maybe there was no direct collision, just a passing by.

"We brushed past each other, luckily we didn't collide. Otherwise, if the counterattack mechanism had been triggered, I wouldn't be here anymore." Nie Weiyang sighed softly, "I said he had self-awareness because we were very close at the time, so close that if it were another boss, they would definitely attack me.

"But Administrator No. 2 observed me and seemed to be interested in me. This might be because he is interested in disputes, and I have such a passive skill—"

Nie Weiyang displayed [Death Interweaving], and put it away amidst everyone's sudden nervous reactions.

"Then he sent down a beam of light that intercepted me and walked towards me as if he wanted to see me," he said.

The tension in the atmosphere reached a critical point.

"So...what did he do?" someone asked.

Just make it up as much as you want ()

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Third update on the 23th

Chapter 105: Lighting up the past days

"Administrator No. 2 didn't do anything to me. Instead, the monsters behind him bumped into him," Nie Weiyang said. "And then they all died. I was planning to deal with those two thousand monsters slowly."

He adjusted his sunglasses and spoke calmly.

This may seem like bragging, but how can it be considered bragging?

This is the absolute truth.

"Administrator No. 2 is a special BOSS unit. His specialness doesn't lie in his strength... well, not just in his strength, but in his behavior patterns that are different from other BOSS units.

"I think, as the first world boss, the most unique boss currently, he might have a plot that can be triggered. I have the weapons and work permit of a former civilization member, and I'm the strongest among the players. Even if there's a mistake in the plot, my chances of escaping are the greatest."

Nie Weiyang said.

In the future, he will inevitably appear as the No. 2 administrator many times. In order to prevent others from suspecting that 'Nie Weiyang' has any connection with the No. 2 administrator, he might as well find a reason to block the way for himself.

"I've been tracking Administrator No. 2 since I arrived in Lang City. I even followed him for a while. His movements were mostly in the wilderness, overlapping with the routes between the shelters I've seen. However, he would suddenly start moving freely, or even disappear suddenly. Furthermore, unless there was a conflict, he rarely appeared near human settlements."

"Shelter?" Sure enough, someone grasped the key point. Without even asking any more questions, they simply thought about it and said, "He might be a shelter manager, someone from the past."

"But how did the former civilization's shelter manager become like this..."

"Now that the world has become like this, how comfortable can the survivors of the former civilization be?"

"If that's the case," one man said, "we might be able to somehow get him to help us destroy the Return Sect."

"It's difficult. After all, he's not a human being, at least not now."

"How will you know if you don't try?"

"Wait, how can you be sure he's the vault manager of the previous civilization? What if he's not? His uniform doesn't look like that of a civilian facility manager. New World isn't a real game. We all know that since the previous civilization existed, its art and design must be supported by complete ideas and development paths.

"The armor, cape, sash, and helmet of the Second Administrator are more like those of a military professional than those of a civilian facility administrator."