There are still a little more than twenty-four hours before the arrival of the apocalypse. The entire world seems to have succumbed before the coming destruction. There are no more explosions and no more riots. Even the players are worried because they will be announced tomorrow.
He was accumulating strength due to the location of his physical body warehouse, and behaved particularly quietly.
After losing the unified command of Markarian, the players behaved a little loosely. Each major player group had its own interests. This gave mankind a chance to breathe, but it was only for a day.
Mikkelsen was sitting leisurely in his office at the Lost Mountain base, drinking twenty-year-old whiskey. Since the Tree of Life was limited, he has been looking for alternatives. He has changed many different brands of tobacco and alcohol. Currently, this black
Brand whiskey is his most satisfied.
In Mikkelsen, there is a huge screen in front of him, which is divided into 1024 small screens, which represent 1024 shelters. This may not be all the shelters of mankind, but it is definitely the largest 1024, including
But it is not limited to some space manor-style shelters located in outer space, undersea shelters, etc.
But these 1024 shelters basically cover all the shelters used by human civilization to continue the fire of civilization.
The numbered shelters are sorted from shelter 0 to 422. These 423 shelters are of different sizes. Some can accommodate 50,000 people, while some can only accommodate a few thousand people. These are official shelters.
Built under a large authority and with support from governments around the world, it has sheltered a total of 12 million people.
This is the limit of what human civilization can do, to place more than 12 million people in safe shelters and ensure the supply of energy and materials that meet the minimum living standards.
Among these 12 million people, nearly 7 million are residents who are kept in cold storage in life-support cabins. Perhaps they are luckier than those who are awake, because at least they cannot feel it.
The destruction of the world.
In addition to these 423 official large-scale shelters, there are countless private shelters. Many well-informed people and forces have built their own shelters in advance, such as the Ark organization and the naturalized people.
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Yes, the naturalized people have also established their own shelters in case of emergencies. Some of these naturalized shelters have even been classified into the official shelter sequence, but Mikkelsen is aware of all this.
Be aware.
Because in all of these 1,024 shelters, there are clones of him lurking as undercover agents. In the past seventy-two hours, these clones have entered these shelters at different time points, with different identities, and with different backgrounds.
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Mikkelsen had eight clones installed in those with the most numbered shelters, and only one in the smaller ones, but that clone was the shelter supervisor.
Faced with the threat of players, Mikkelsen has long had the idea of controlling all mankind. However, the social structure, total population, and distribution range at that time made Mikkelsen unable to do so. But now, when everyone
After being put into a cage, Mikkelsen could definitely say that the entire human civilization was held in the palm of his hand.
The biggest threats to the player are simply exiting the world at any time, not being afraid of death, and having an indistinguishable identity. Mikkelsen has now solved these problems.
All members who enter the shelter have built-in chips for daily life. A chip is required to draw drinking water, a chip is required to obtain food, and chip identification is required to enter and exit every door. This is what Mikkelsen restored based on Carcalf's narrative.
Some functions of the mother world have been removed, and he hopes players can adapt to such operations.
All chip implanters must accept random common sense tests at any time. Once the test fails, the descendant warning will be triggered, and the chip will continuously release microcurrents that are not fatal, but will definitely make players unable to log off with peace of mind.
At that time, some people were also worried that if someone mastered the backdoor of the chip, whether it would cause soft-kill effects on the shelter residents through the chip, but this stupid question was dismissed by Mikkelsen on the spot.
The shelter is completely closed, and there is no way to get in touch with outside signals except the communication room. If something like this happens, it must be the fault of the insider. He himself will have to endure such pain, so everyone can compete with each other for endurance.
Of course, the real reason is that in a sealed environment like a shelter, Mikkelsen doesn't worry about anyone using more energy than him. Theoretically, if everything goes well, he will be the last one alive in the shelter.
He was curious, what would happen if a player planned to target his clone?
Mikkelsen drank whiskey, leaned back on his leather seat, and turned to look at the entire Lost Mountain base.
This is the underground kingdom that he spent twenty years building. It is the place where human civilization is resurrected in the true sense. It is an industrial base in itself, with a lot of laboratories and even various cutting-edge laboratories.
The most valuable thing is that there are supporting personnel here. There are a hundred thousand frozen humans stored under the Lost Mountain base. Chrissy Cunningham has almost no days off during this period and has been constantly using her abilities.
The only thing Wu Qianying regrets is that even though she is so proficient in her abilities, her poor mind cannot fit more laws of thermodynamics, and her abilities have stopped at LV2.
In Wu Qianying's words, as long as she can show one-tenth of Tang Ji's previous energy, she will not be completely unable to understand what entropy increases... Without understanding the concept of entropy, Chris will only be
A natural ice maker.
However, for Mikkelsen, it is not bad to keep the holy essence of Chris in the same state as before. Otherwise, according to Wu Qianying's theory, if it is fast, Chris will be able to contact the time domain at the LV3 stage, and if it is slow, she will be at the LV4 stage.
Although the Seven Deadly Sins have always been the top among superhumans, no one has stipulated that they must be the strongest. At least as far as is known, there are two superhumans who can give people like the Seven Deadly Sins a headache. One is
Surt, the other is Conn the Risen...
But fortunately, one of them listened to Tang Ji's words, and the other was either killed by Tang Ji, or was killed by Tang Ji to learn from him.
Among the currently known superhumans, only a small number are at the LV3 stage, and these people are either extremely consistent with their own abilities, or they happen to be experts in related fields, and it is easy to analyze their own abilities through their past theoretical knowledge.
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Through these people, Wu Qianying believes that the LV3 stage is the first threshold for superhumanity. People who cross it will have a huge improvement in ability, and most people at this stage will find ways to learn from the many fields involved in their abilities.
Find a path to specialization and develop further.
The stronger the initial ability after awakening, the more difficult it is for superhumans to advance. With the exception of the Seven Deadly Sins, Wu Qianying believes that their path to advancement is smoother and maintains high intensity, but there is less randomness and surprise.
, maybe one day in the future they will be constrained by their own abilities and become 'weak'.
"Ah, weak..." Mikkelsen savored the word and crushed the metal wine glass in his hand.
No, he can never be weak. Even if there are players and anger, Mikkelsen will play the cards in his hand clearly and not fall behind, at least not in a clear way.
And the Seven Deadly Sins who are also nesting in the Lost Mountain base, and Annie... As the dream goddess of the Church of the Happy, she is actually somewhat influential around the world. She even absorbed a lot of excitement-seeking people before.
A big shot, as a shallow believer, but because he was controlled by Mikkelsen a while ago, and coupled with the atmosphere of the end of the world, the entire church is half dead, leaving only a group of severe X-addicted patients who can't stop, every day
In the dream, pray to your goddess to answer the prayers of believers as soon as possible.
Of course, Anne is not as honest as she seems. She has been expanding the size of the Church of Joy and focusing on targeting the residents of various shelters. The news about the Apocalypse Day was actually the one she released first.
Anne does not yet have a strategic plan to develop her own power, but Mikkelsen has once again set his sights on her dream network. He regards Anne's dream network as a backup connection network between shelters. Although this network is
The efficiency is very low, and it must rely on Anne to coordinate, but it can at least ensure stability.
"Hello, Nino, I know you are a little scared, but please stay calm. You are currently in your own dream. It is safe here and this is your world." Anne comforted the girl in the dream according to the script.
Nino is the dream network liaison of Vault 190. Of course, her identity is kept secret. Her main task is to report anomalies in the shelter through the dream network after all existing communication facilities are lost.
For Annie, this liaison officer is naturally dispensable, because she has more than 20 believers in Vault 190, and any trouble has been discovered by her long ago.
But Nino himself is also a superhuman, an undercover superhuman whose identity is hidden, a senior agent of the Joint Investigation Office, and one of Mikkelsen's people. Annie had already seen everything about Nino when he invaded her dream.
Her ability is to have a gas state, which is very advantageous in an environment like a shelter. At the same time, she is one of the few shelter residents who has not been implanted with a chip. Her ability allows her to always get rid of the shackles of the chip.
So Mikkelsen made her the liaison of the Dream Network, so that Annie could effectively monitor her and prevent her from becoming a player's arrival window.
"I'm not afraid, get out of my dream now!" Nino showed her privileges without hesitation. Everyone has absolute control over their dreams.
But Anne is one of the Seven Deadly Sins after all. Although she has always shown no threat, even though she is the most normal person among the Seven Deadly Sins...
"Quiet!" Anne shouted, and the entire dreamland was frozen.
Tang Ji can indeed give Anne a real threat in her dreams, but that is because Tang Ji is the strongest-willed person Anne has ever seen. Even if he is not the Seven Deadly Sins, Anne will not take the initiative to enter the dream of such a person.
They almost never dream, and their brain is just another muscle that needs to be exercised.
As for Nino, although she was nominally a senior agent, she relied too much on her own abilities and her career was too smooth. She encountered few setbacks and dangers and had little achievements in willpower. Anne took over easily.
The whole dream.
Annie didn't even bother to waste words with the other party, and directly forced the existence of the Dream Network, her responsibilities, and the tasks she needed to focus on into her sea of consciousness, allowing her to digest it slowly.
To put it simply, Shelter 190 is a shelter located in the extremely cold area of Alaska. It is a semi-buried shelter. It was first converted from the Area 51 secret military base. It has an overall carrying capacity of 33,000 people, of which
Twenty-one thousand people are refrigerated and stored in the underwater part of the base to save energy.
Among the remaining 12,000 people, at least 300 people have been labeled as suspected naturalized people. Nino's task is to determine within 24 hours whether there are really players among these people.
This is a test, a dual test for players and the shelter system. The two Mikkelsens with different identities in Vault 190 are ready to observe and record everything.
If all goes well, after Nino confirms the player's identity, Mikkelsen will shut down the electromagnetic shielding field of the shelter for a moment at the right time, and Tangji will seize that moment and do what he should
things to do.
Tang Ji's few scarlet disciples were evenly dispersed in relatively concentrated areas of the shelter, just to make it easier to handle this kind of thing.
Mikkelsen regards each shelter as his own candy box, where he can play cat and mouse games to his heart's content.
Therefore, after the apocalypse, there will be a real war.
Mikkelsen threw the cup he had accidentally crushed into scrap metal into the trash can. A man wearing a ginger suit similar to his own walked out of the shadows of the office and put a windbreaker on him: "You want
Where are you going sir?"
"Night City, it's time to talk to Tangji." Mikkelsen put on his iconic hat, and then a dimensional gate appeared in front of him.
"Night City, Heywood District, where Mr. Tanguy is most likely to be." The man maintained the dimension door and introduced at the same time. Mikkelsen just nodded and walked over.
And when this Mikkelsen left, another Mikkelsen also walked into the office, sighed and sat in his previous seat, picked up the pile of documents and began to review, as if he had never left.
"Sir, is it still the same as before, black tea with gingerbread?" The man who closed the dimensional door was not surprised, turned to the newcomer Mikkelsen and asked: "Add more sugar, the gingerbread will be toasted a little bit."
"Add more sugar, gingerbread..." Mikkelsen was robbed of his line and waved his hand, and the office immediately fell silent.