The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 191 - 137: Unveiling the Curtain

Chapter 191: Chapter 137: Unveiling the Curtain

A Level 5 anomaly involved reality distortion.

And it should be noted that the last instance when the projection of the Supreme Mother Goddess descended was merely classified as a Level 4 anomaly.

"Don’t look at the internet?" Chen Guangxi raised an eyebrow. This was a warning included in the pop-up alert.

"Unknown anomaly has invaded the first generation of Illusory Realm and the live stream of ’World Hunter’, causing more than thirty million people worldwide to lose consciousness... At the same time, reality distortion and narrative overlay have been detected..."

Zhou Yuan took a deep breath as he looked at the information on the screen. Over thirty million people worldwide were in danger!

"Narrative overlay... could it be that the monsters from ’World Hunter’ appear in the real world?"

"No, a narrative overlay is much worse than that." Chen Guangxi’s brows furrowed. With her level of clearance in the Control Bureau, she had access to far more information than Zhou Yuan.

"’World Hunter’ has been turned into a real existing world by reality distortion abilities, and the souls of those thirty million missing people are in that world..."

"Isn’t this just like Sword Art Domain?" Zhou Yuan exclaimed.

"If it were an anomaly like Sword Art Domain, it wouldn’t be that bad. The worst-case scenario would be giving up those thirty million people... The current situation is that the game world could cover the real world at any time, and this isn’t merely a visual overlap but could disrupt the world’s very principles, causing various laws to collapse.

And once the laws become unbalanced, the most terrifying things will happen."

Chen Guangxi said with a stern face,

"——Anomaly containment failure!"

"By then, numerous contained anomalies would break out, and that would be the real end of the world."

This was the first time Chen Guangxi had been so serious. Zhou Yuan immediately felt immense pressure.

He swallowed hard. "The Control Bureau must have a solution, right?"

"There is a solution. In the worst case, we could launch an annihilation weapon and destroy the game world along with the thirty million people in it. But that plan would only be implemented as a last resort, considering..."

Chen Guangxi softly said, "The veil over the extraordinary has already been lifted."

More than thirty million people worldwide lost consciousness simultaneously. To deal with this anomaly that invaded from the internet to reality, the Control Bureau unprecedentedly shut down the global internet...

Such major cascading events can’t be easily covered up with ordinary excuses.

Coupled with recent rumors on the internet about "spiritual energy resurgence" and "global mutation", many people would probably speculate the existence of an extraordinary world.

Of course, the Control Bureau still had methods to conceal the truth, such as consciousness interference, memetic shielding, and memory erasure... Even if hundreds of millions of people around the globe knew about the extraordinary world, there would be no record of it after the operation.

But...

It seemed the Control Bureau didn’t intend to do that this time.

As the resurgence of the extraordinary accelerated, it was only a matter of time before the veil was entirely lifted. Rather than continuing to spend manpower and resources to cover up the truth, it was better to take this opportunity to reveal the extraordinary world to the public.

——In fact, the Control Bureau had long formulated plans to subtly change society from various aspects. The unrestricted bloody scenes in ’World Hunter’ were deliberately allowed by the Control Bureau to expose ordinary people living in a peaceful society to blood and cruelty, so they wouldn’t be as helpless as lambs when real danger struck.

Therefore, since they had decided to lift the veil of secrecy, this incident had to be resolved perfectly. At the very least, they had to minimize the losses to prevent greater panic.

Schemes like launching an annihilation weapon would never be used unless it was the last resort.

——If they chose to sacrifice the lives of thirty million people by launching an annihilation weapon, there would inevitably be large-scale protests afterward——if they could abandon thirty million lives this time, they could abandon three hundred million or three billion lives in the future. No one wanted to be one of those numbers.

Of course, if that were to happen, the Control Bureau would likely abandon unveiling the veil and instead use the Great Memory Erasure Spell to erase the relevant memories of people worldwide...

"Hmm... The unknown anomalous organism causing this event is suspected to be an anomaly born in the old era, temporarily named... Cyber Demon."

Chen Guangxi glanced at Zhou Yuan and continued reading the message on the screen. "If any investigator has relevant clues, please immediately report to the local Control Bureau..."

The next second, Chen Guangxi’s phone rang. It was a call from the Control Bureau headquarters.

The person on the other end got straight to the point: "Aurelia, did the Intelligence Department staff say you provided the information about the Cyber Demon?"

"It was me, but that’s all I know."

"Can you contact Wang Zhen?"

"I can." Chen Guangxi looked at Zhou Yuan. "But what I said is all he knows too."

"..." The person on the other end paused for a moment before saying, "You should go to the local Control Bureau for a briefing. You have been urgently summoned."

Chen Guangxi raised an eyebrow. "For what?"

"Go to the local Control Bureau; someone will explain it to you."

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When Zhou Yuan and Chen Guangxi arrived at the Xinyue Control Bureau, more than two hundred extraordinary individuals had already gathered there.

And more extraordinary individuals were on their way.

"The situation is urgent, so I’ll keep it brief."

On the platform, Wei Jianqiu, the director of the Xinyue Control Bureau, said seriously, "This Level 5 anomaly has caused over thirty million people worldwide to fall into a coma; the global internet is disconnected, and society is in an unprecedented state of turmoil.

The military has now been dispatched to maintain order and rescue the unconscious, but there will always be those who take advantage of the chaos. Your task is to capture those extraordinary individuals who dare to exploit this crisis.

In addition to that, we need to select a batch of volunteers to enter the game world created by the reality distortion power."

Chen Guangxi raised her hand to ask a question. "What for?"

"To prevent the narrative overlay event from occurring."

Wei Jianqiu said, "Not long ago, headquarters sent people into the game world and successfully brought some civilians out, but extracting over thirty million people one by one is clearly impractical. We can only solve the problem at its root.

By using the [Anomaly 009: Magic Mirror], we found the culprit of this event. It is hiding deep within the game world as the ’Demon King’. As long as we defeat it, the trapped souls will be freed, and the anomaly will disappear.

You all needn’t fear any unexpected incidents; the dimensional separation protocol can function normally and will forcibly exit you upon detecting mortal danger."

Despite his words, the extraordinary individuals below still hesitated.

Wei Jianqiu added, "After being influenced by reality distortion power, the game world has become a dimension with extraordinary power; equipment, items, martial skills, spells, prayers, materials... All these things can enhance yourselves and be brought back to reality."

As soon as he finished, countless hands shot up:

"I’ll go!"

"Sign me up!"

"Me, me, me! I’m an experienced pioneer!"

Though the game world was filled with unknown and danger, it also brimming with opportunities. A risk could turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!

"Are you going?" Chen Guangxi asked Zhou Yuan, indicating her own intention to join the excitement.

[Event detected, generating mission...]

[Mission name: ’Reality Overturn’]

[Phase one objective: Enter the game world.]

"Yes." Zhou Yuan nodded decisively.

Possessing three systems of power, he was currently very short on money. Faced with such an opportunity, how could he not take the plunge?