Player Reload
Chapter 450 - 418 Horse Head

Chapter 450: Chapter 418 Horse Head

After testing, they found that using the walkie-talkie was no longer possible to contact surface players.

Under control by others, unable to break free, the only way out was to go downward.

Red Spider, with a solemn expression, silently took out paper and pen from the Backpack to write a will to his lovers.

To make the will look more heartfelt, this gentleman even prepared a small bottle of saline, dripping it onto the letter to mimic tears.

Binary Tree recorded a video with a disposable phone, explaining the situation, then taped the phone to the wall so that anyone who entered could quickly grasp the scenario.

"Let’s go."

Binary Tree sighed, releasing six pocket-sized drones and maneuvering them using Cyber Secret Technique. Two in the front, two in the back, and two hovering around, scanning with sensors like laser, infrared, and electronic waves for reconnaissance and securing the area.

The group moved forward silently, spiraling down along the edges of the Pyramid, with the types of buildings updating every so often.

Sometimes they were school classrooms, sometimes hotel apartments, and occasionally bustling shopping malls.

Despite being on alert for a long time, they encountered no dangers or living beings. Binary Tree, thinking of something, casually asked, "By the way, Mr. Pifu, why don’t you just forcefully exit?

Purely weighing personal gains and losses, further exploration in the Secret Realm doesn’t seem proportionate in terms of risk and reward."

All players had signed a Magic Contract before entering the Teleportation Gates, so even if someone discovered a Hidden Room, they couldn’t have complete control over it, at most acquiring 20% to 30% decision rights.

Moreover, Li Cheng is a lone wolf player, and everyone understands the principle of a person being innocent but guilty for their treasures. It’s impossible for a lone wolf to remain independent in front of several major guilds.

"Well..."

Li Cheng naturally couldn’t reveal that he possessed a Toy Factory, something superior to a Hidden Room, and said nonchalantly, "My player’s essence is still intact, with an undamaged personal panel, enabling me to leave whenever I wish. I also don’t believe that I will die here.

But you, sir, didn’t you prepare a personality backup for yourself in the real world?"

[Personality Backup] is a unique Whale Song technology, capable of converting memory, personality, thinking patterns, etc., into data to store in hardware devices or cloud servers.

It can resist brainwashing, Charming, and mental control, and can, in a sense, achieve "immortality."

Like [Bartmos] whom Li Cheng had encountered during the Toy City mission, he applied to the guild to get himself several personality backups.

"No."

Binary Tree shook his head. As mid-high management in Whale Song, he knew all too well what the so-called ’indestructible personality’ actually meant, and he laughed bitterly: "In fact, [Personality Backup] is a pseudo-concept; human brain thinking is essentially the bioelectricity of neural networks, to accurately replicate it, one must correspond atom by atom, tracking and restoring the neural network with as many atoms as in the brain.

Whale Song’s current technological capabilities make this exceedingly difficult to achieve,

and since that can’t be done, the alternative is using big data to incessantly feed, ’masquerading’ as a self with corresponding memories, personality, and thinking patterns.

Essentially a big brute-force black box.

Just like the wax figures in a wax museum, looking lifelike but entirely different internally."

Understanding its essence, it’s no longer revered.

Spoken easily by Binary Tree, Red Spider, who was writing a love letter, was surprised and said, "Doesn’t that mean all those super-rich people in the real world who spend loads to request Whale Song Guild’s help with personality backups are fools?"

"To some extent, yes. These wealthy individuals consider themselves immortal as if by creating an avatar of themselves within an online game."

Talking about this seemed to finally lift Binary Tree’s mood. He grinned, "But who am I to judge, they did give Whale Song the money, after all."

The killing field brought humanity a reshuffle and transformation never seen before, giving billionaire tycoons a glimpse of... an eternal life opportunity.

The game store selling Micro Life Potion curing all diseases, the GYS Biotechnology’s rejuvenation technology reversing aging, and Whale Song’s personality backup allowing for an undying personality, were at least a simulated immortality.

The funny thing is, those super-rich think that spending 100 million euros on having Whale Song make them a personality backup is a ticket to eternity.

Unaware that due to regular computers being incapable of processing such vast data, coupled with involving Cyber Secret Techniques, all personality backups exist on Whale Song’s servers.

To server maintenance personnel, these wealthy individuals’ eternal personalities are just chunks of code.

In a good mood, they input sunny beach scenes, tricking personality codes into believing they are in the Maldives.

In a bad mood, they directly pull out and abuse the super-rich’s personality codes, erase their memory, and restore everything with one click.

Called the eternal paradise, in truth, it’s not even comparable to monkeys in a zoo...

While chatting, they turned a corner, surprisingly arriving at... a theater.

The theater was spacious and grand, with bright lights installed on the ceiling, with seats arranged in a step-like manner, and a wooden stage at the front.

The trapdoor in the center of the stage floor opened automatically, and a platform rose up from below,

standing on it was a theater manager dressed in flamboyant attire with a horse-headed human body, ascending with the platform like a character from a Disney animation, stepping sideways with a floating spacewalk.

[Phase Two Task Objective: Resolve "S"]

The mechanical, stiff counterfeit system prompt sounded timely,

almost instantly, the three players each picked up their Weapons, ready to face off. Even Gray Rain put down the youth romance novel she rescued from the library and picked up the Skull Shattering Hammer.

Regrettably, it was still too late.

The horse-headed theater manager, moving with lightning speed far beyond anyone’s reaction capabilities, dashed across the theater to the three players,

clamping Red Spider’s neck with a human hand wearing white silk gloves.

"Ho ho ho ho,"

the theater manager, with a white horse head, grinned, revealing giant teeth, "Good evening, everyone."

Good evening... my foot.

Not to mention whether or not there is a concept of evening within the Inverted Pyramid, the speed the horse-headed one just displayed far exceeded that of a Divine Calamity infection.

An ill-intentioned visitor indeed.

"May I know who you are..."

Li Cheng aimed an Ape-man Degeneration Gun at the horse head, while Binary Tree’s fingers hovered over the VR goggles’ button, poised to act at any moment.

"Just now ’C’ already said, didn’t they, I am ’S’."

The horse-headed man responded reasonably, "This theater is my territory."

So the fake system voice was that so-called C? That doesn’t sound like a proper name...

Li Cheng’s thoughts whirled quickly, yet his face remained calm, "So you are S? Then the tall skinny woman in black I encountered before, and the suited baby are..."

The horse-headed man swayed as he replied, "The woman in black is ’H’, the suited baby is ’E’."

Li Cheng deliberately left a mental note; he hadn’t actually seen the woman in black and the suited baby but used the description "I encountered before."

The horse-headed man did not deny or point out, indicating he possibly didn’t know the specifics about them.

Red Spider, his neck gripped, gasped harshly, tightly clenching two handguns, knowing that given the speed just shown by the opponent,

there’s a chance his neck would be crushed before even pulling the trigger.

Li Cheng’s eyes gleamed, "C, S, H, E, are there other entities in this Inverted Pyramid?"

"You have quite a lot of questions,"

The horse-headed man chuckled softly, "Don’t ask irrelevant ones. If you want to go past this place, either defeat me or satisfy one of my conditions."

Li Cheng and Binary Tree exchanged an almost imperceptible glance; the woman in black H could warp reality, the suited baby E could absorb energy, and the capabilities of the horse-headed S were unknown, given that the three players might not fare well in actual combat.

"What condition,"

Li Cheng asked, "I’ll say beforehand, if it’s about sleeping with you, this Red Spider here is quite pricey."

???

Come on, be serious, you punk; while I might be a bit of a scoundrel in relationships, that doesn’t mean I’m interested in non-human entities!

Red Spider, choked, looked utterly perplexed,

and the horse-headed man rolled his eyes, "This is my turf, if you want to get through here, you need to pay the toll.

Which means, staring into my eyes, for ten seconds."