At Worst, We'll Sink Yuncang Star!

However, not all players retained it. Yun Cangyuan recalled the informal briefing from the medical department:

Some players who were killed by specific means, especially the blood-red dragon, returned to a vegetative state. Others experienced varying degrees of disorientation and memory loss...

The bald captain and his crew seem to have lost some of their intelligence during the final battle...

However, this report does not appear to have appeared in today's meeting's data summary.

The meeting continued to devolve around macro-strategic issues, and as time passed, Yun Cangyuan felt increasingly alienated.

The discussions about fleet formations, world priorities, and contribution allocation acted like a transparent membrane, separating him from the room.

He saw the Pillars occasionally speak, the generals arguing their points, and the civil officials calculating numbers. Everyone was serious and focused, as if they were planning a grand interstellar exercise, rather than a potential war for the survival of a civilization.

He couldn't understand how these people could sit here so calmly discussing the distribution of benefits and losses in the face of the unknown [Ten Thousand Worlds].

Perhaps the idea of "game invasion" is too frivolous, making people unable to feel the Doomsday apocalypse.

General Yun, what are your thoughts?

Beside him, a consultant from Yuncang Intelligence Administration Office was taking notes diligently, while lowering his voice to ask Yun Cangyuan a question.

After all, this was the first time in the history of Yuncang Intelligence Administration Office that he had been allowed to enter a high-level military meeting, so he had to listen carefully.

But that doesn't stop us from chatting.

"General? Me?" Yun Cangyuan found it somewhat amusing.

Yun Cangyuan glanced at him. The advisor's eyes were clear, without the bureaucratic slickness or the soldier's grimness, only the lifeless look unique to a technical worker.

"Yes, General Yun, although you were defeated, you did make a great contribution to getting players into the core. It's just that the final BOSS was too powerful... but that's not your fault."

What is your view on the current situation?

Yun Cangyuan glanced at the note floating in the center of the table.

[World Progress: 85%]

The World Progress has increased to this point, and there are even two successful high-level world walkthroughs, which is a result that was originally reduced by 40%.

The Final Showdown is imminent.

"I feel... this world shouldn't be like this." Yun Cangyuan's voice was very soft.

He knew that many people present could hear him no matter how softly he spoke, but he still couldn't help but speak.

"I don't think it's bad; at least it's lively," the consultant replied with a smile.

Just then, a sharp aura suddenly rose from across the conference table.

"Yun Sha!"

The speaker was a tall man dressed in ancient Knight's heavy armor, whose voice was loud and clear like a bell.

He is [Iron Crown], Pillar representing the Transnational Corporate Consortium, and also Yun Sha's long-time adversary on many issues.

"Since the start of the meeting, what have you been doing besides stargazing? Your silence—does it mean you've accepted all the arrangements, or do you have other plans in mind?"

Yun Sha didn't reply, so Iron Crown pressed his advantage, pointing his finger rudely at the chief advisor at the last seat. "And another thing, haven't you been overstepping your bounds lately? Yuncang Intelligence Administration Office —that's a core co-managed institution of the consortium. What are you trying to do by arbitrarily stuffing their advisors into the highest military council?"

"Not to mention, several of the strategic core members lost in this expedition came from your Qixing Republic! They are all missing and suspected of being captured! Yun Sha, shouldn't you give everyone an explanation? What are you and your Qixing Contract Star plotting? Aren't you one of our Yuncang Union members?"

First label them, then they choose sides; their tactics are still the same as the old generation.

Yun Sha, who had been silent all along, finally turned his gaze away from Yuncang Star, scanned the entire scene, and said indifferently:

I don't want to waste my time here.

"I'm here to attend this meeting."

Yun Sha spoke, his pace calm and his words clear, yet carrying a cold quality that instantly silenced all other noise in the room.

"What we want to see are tangible results: how many Warships will be able to serve normally before the Final Showdown? How are player supplies and new equipment quotas allocated? What are the rosters and budgets for the advanced world's response teams? What are a bunch of analysts, who can't even compare to civilian AI, analyzing here?"

"I didn't come here to sit here and listen to some people repeating common sense from military texts, or—"

The tone of Yun Sha's voice turned cold.

"I'm listening to some idiots discussing options like 'whether to surrender'."

"You've already said whether you want to surrender or not?!"

"No need for all this beating around the bush! I'll just say it straight: Fight!"

"No matter how strong the enemy is, or how disparate our combat strength is..."

"Even if it means destroying every Warship in orbit, emptying every strategic fusion bomb in stockpile, deforming the Earth's crust, boiling the Oceans, and dimming the Yuncang Star— "

Yun Sha turned to look at the Fixed Stars outside the window again.

"At worst, we'll sink Yuncang Star!"

After he finished speaking, the conference room fell into a deathly silence.

In the empty, pristine white space, Song Shige lowered his gaze, his eyes falling on the bracelet on his wrist, its material unknown and its surface gleaming with a cold metallic sheen.

The light screen shifted, revealing clear information: [Identity Confirmed: Main God Proxy (Beginner)].

"Main God Proxy, what a classy title..."

"Why is your identity as Main God Proxy, while my identity after completing my mission is that of Reincarnation?"

Someone nearby complained.

"If you can unleash your ultimate skill and instantly become dozens of times stronger, withstand all the monsters' attacks, drag out the mastermind behind it all, and destroy him, then I'll acknowledge you as the Main God Proxy, and you can become the Chief God's father."

Before Song Shige could respond, a burly man leaning against the broken wall, wiping a Runes broadsword, spoke up in a muffled voice.

These people were Song Shige's teammates in completing the [Suppression Mission], numbering approximately several dozen.

This is different from the first and second main quests in the [Ten Thousand Worlds] where Su Luo is located.

Song Shige and his group initially only had one world's [Suppression Mission]. Only after completing it and obtaining their [identity] did they unlock the next mission.

[Due to unknown disturbances, a bizarre entity has invaded the "K-7713 Material World," disrupting human Order and distorting life forms. Mission: Suppress (or eradicate) the source of the anomaly, cleanse all newly emerging extraordinary systems that this civilization has passively awakened or actively attached to due to the anomaly's Corrosion, and guide/force this world back to a purely technological path of Civilization Development.]

You know what, those weirdos are really tough to deal with. Even some of the Survivors who are the best in their respective worlds have crashed, leaving only a few dozen survivors.

But...

The burly man beside him glanced twice at the Demon King's scarlet Zhanmadao.

Someone single-handedly dragged the source of the strangeness out of the shadows and fought a battle.