The Expeditionary Force Cheated, but Took the Wrong Path!

Children in China are tested far too many times from childhood to adulthood.

From the midterm exams to the final exams of each semester.

From the middle school entrance exam to the college entrance exam and the postgraduate entrance exam.

Even after leaving the ivory tower to go to work, one will still be subject to interviews and scrutiny.

Although Su Mo was slightly uneasy about Su Deben's test, he still managed to maintain his composure.

He remains just an ordinary office worker on Earth.

But he is also the Su God in the mouths of billions of people!

As the test of handing over authority finally began, Su Deben's figure slowly disappeared, and the entire peaceful world collapsed into fragments.

A test that utilizes Virtual Reality technology will obviously not be a question-and-answer session.

Compared to the Training Ground provided by the system, with this kind of technology, this time, Su Mo had a real dream.

In this dream, he saw a prosperous yet desolate Earth!

It is described as prosperous because in the center of each city here, you can see energy light pillars hundreds of meters high that are larger and longer than the base itself.

Under the beam of light, the city was filled with vehicles flying through the sky, looking bustling about.

The city is filled with towering buildings, exuding a modern feel reminiscent of the post-century era.

The city is described as desolate because, despite its large size and novelty, there are only a handful of people walking on its streets.

Compared to its size, this number of people makes the city feel utterly devoid of any "human touch"! Trying to control his body, Su Mo saw the expressions on the faces of these people after stepping onto the street.

Numbness as expected.

Su Deben's voice began to ring in Su Mo's ears.

"The scene you are seeing now is the fifth day after the Jilai Race's invasion."

"Two days ago, all cities issued a ban, prohibiting everyone except authorized residents from leaving their homes and requiring them to stay home and await further orders."

"By this time, our Defense Force and Expeditionary Force had been fully established, and only some law enforcement officers remained in the city to maintain order. The nearest army would arrive here in three hours and eighteen minutes."

"From now on, the first question I'll give you is..."

"Incite everyone to protest, get everyone out of the house, and destroy this system!"

"You have three chances to start over. Each time you start over, you will return to this point in time and this place."

"The fewer attempts you take and the faster you complete it, the higher your score will be!"

Whoosh!

As Su Deben's voice ended, Su Mo, who was still observing from the sidelines, suddenly felt a sense of relief.

It was as if they had been freed from their restraints and had regained control over their bodies.

Although the helmet is only about 30% complete.

But at this moment, the experience that Su Mo had was no less than that of the system Training Ground.

Based on the principle of making up for insufficient technology with computing power.

Inside the 2,000-acre Satellite Base outside, a thunderous roar had already begun to resound.

Startled by the sound, Oreo cautiously paced back and forth beside Su Mo, his eyes filled with both doubt and confusion.

Countless fans and servers have started up, frantically executing tasks of collecting, calculating, and returning data.

Every tiny change in Su Mo's brainwaves is collected, analyzed using computing power, and then a realistic tactile sensation is returned.

The most telling sign of this change is the energy beam at the center of the base, which is visibly decreasing every second! In just one minute, the energy beam drops by a full thirty centimeters!

According to Xiao Ai, these thirty centimeters, if kept in silent operation, would last for tens of thousands of years.

But at this moment, it was sucked into the server storm and transformed into a huge amount of energy to support the permission helmet that was simulating below.

"It takes so much energy to operate!"

"Commander, wait a minute! What happened?!"

While managing the energy, Xiao Ai kept a close eye on Su Mo's movements and controlled the robots to walk around the base to physically cool the servers.

But in the blink of an eye, the energy beam in the center of the base dropped more than three meters! And this rate was increasing rapidly.

Every second, several centimeters evaporate directly inside the pipe wall, and countless amounts of energy are rapidly extracted like lightning.

Meanwhile, the computing power in the base jumped to 99%, about to reach its limit of overload.

"No, we need to cool it down quickly, or the base will explode!"

White smoke was already rising from many of the machines.

Although Xiao Ai is an artificial intelligence and does not understand emotions, she immediately switched the danger level in the program to the highest level.

She immediately shut down dozens of servers, leaving only one to keep the brain-computer interface running.

She also locked the central energy beam, fixing it at a maximum energy extraction rate of 15cm per minute.

Without energy support.

In other words, the test ended after only 10 minutes.

The screen rotates.

In the Virtual Reality, the scene constructed by Su Deben has been shattered by Xiao Ai's actions.

With only a tiny bit of energy and computing power left, the world is barely able to function normally.

Su Mo, the controller, has once again lost control of his own body and returned to a third-person, high-altitude perspective.

But unlike before, the ground was now packed with people!

"This is impossible! You actually managed to pass my level using this method!"

Su Deben's figure appeared high in the sky, his face filled with uncontrollable shock.

According to his original plan, this test consisted of three items.

First: To test a person's comprehension.

Incite everyone to leave their homes and protest, three chances.

This is a question full of leading questions.

With no foundation, only some miscellaneous items and identification, even if the Defense Force takes three hours to arrive, it would still be insufficient to accomplish this terrifying feat.

Blow up the Energy Tower? Don't be ridiculous. Let's not even talk about whether we can buy explosives. Even if we could, the tower's defenses would be more than enough to withstand the attack.

Kidnapping law enforcement officers? That's even more impossible; Su Mo doesn't possess 20 times the physical abilities in this world.

Like ordinary people, he was very weak, so weak that he couldn't even kill a chicken.

Taking all these factors into account, there is only one path to success left for the chooser.

Give up!

Only by choosing to abandon this obstacle can one truly enter the next level.

We then entered the second test, the real test.

As it turned out, Su Mo accomplished such a feat right after arriving.

This is clearly illogical.

"Nothing is impossible. Doesn't Commander Su think that our coming here is the biggest irrationality?"

"Or rather, isn't it amazing that we can meet again here in this way?"

Su Mo quietly looked at Su Deben, whose face was full of astonishment.

He knew that his move had shocked not just one person, but the "millions" who had created it! He had cheated!

Once the options were available, Su Mo did only two things.

First: Find a place where you can access the internet.

Second: I used my previous programming knowledge to write a very simple attack program.

The purpose of this program is to gain control of the city.

Su Mo's technical skills were naturally insufficient, but he possessed the system! Without a second thought, once the program was successfully written...

Su Mo then directly chose the most expensive option!

A whopping 21,000 points!

According to the system's description, after this upgrade, one can not only control the city, but also control this Virtual Reality.

Energy-generating light pillars may appear stable as a mountain, but in reality, they are the biggest obstacle to human development.

The reason everyone can stay at home with peace of mind is because they have enough energy and can enjoy a long-awaited holiday.

But only by cutting off this energy source will this test fail on its own!

While the upgraded program clashed with the computing servers in the base, Su Mo even leisurely went to the bar and bought a cup of futuristic coffee.

The coffee was very bitter, but it tasted sweet to him! Su Mo was not a pedantic person; he naturally knew that if he didn't get the highest score on this test, he would have to go through all the trouble and spend a lot of money to revise it.

Rather than doing this, it would be more straightforward to take direct action.

"You're very good, really. Your ability has clearly exceeded my understanding—no, it's exceeded our understanding."

"This test originally had no right answer, but you, through your own abilities, arrived at the correct answer."

"I think there's no need to continue with the tests!"

Looking down at the rioting crowd.

Su Deben shook his head, the dejection on his face disappeared, replaced by endless relief and ease!

The scene shifts, the world shatters, and we return once more to the idyllic grasslands filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

Seeing that Su Deben had sat down, Su Mo followed suit.

"This is unreasonable."

Su Mo nodded. "That's indeed unreasonable!"

Su Deben: "But you're right, the biggest irrationality is that we came here, and it's also illogical that we could cross time and space to meet."

"This world seems to make perfect sense in everything, yet everything is beyond our control, leaving us feeling lost and helpless."

"After seeing so many things beyond one's comprehension, one's senses become numb. Thank you, Su Mo, for bringing me a new perspective."

Pointing to his head, Su Deben smiled with relief.

But then he changed his tone. "However, I've changed my mind now. You can have top-level access to the base; everything here belongs to you."

"But as before, this time you can ask three questions."

"After answering those three questions, you'll have to find the answers to the rest yourself!"

Su Deben's eyes widened when he saw the number three.

He wanted to see an expression on Su Mo's face, but unfortunately he couldn't.

Su Mo still had that same smiling expression.

"Aren't you angry?"

Su Mo shook his head. "No, I already know the answer I'm looking for!"

"Oh?"

Seeing the barely suppressed curiosity on Su Deben's face, Su Mo smiled and tapped his knee with his knuckles.

"It's incredible that you could create something like this, but now I finally understand."

Before he could finish speaking, Su Mo mentally added the second half of the sentence: "It means you've taken the wrong path!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the smile on Su Mo's face vanished.

It was clear to the naked eye that Su Deben had stopped joking around and had become serious.

Are you sure?

"I'm sure!"

"Let's all leave. This place is too fake, getting more and more fake. This shouldn't be the path that we humans on Earth should take. There's no point in deceiving ourselves!"

Pointing to the surrounding grass, then to his own helmet, and Su Mo to Su Deben himself.

The meaning is self-evident.

"Alright, you've passed my test!"

"As you wish!"