Chapter Forty: Mission in Progress (2)

This was a rare battle between top-tier players and a high-level NPC.

Ordinary missions rarely managed to draw in so many players above Level 40.

Under normal circumstances, the Mechanical Legion would not have been deployed either.

The great battle ended with more than half the top-tier players dead or wounded, while the Mechanical Legion lost thirty percent of its mechanical lifeforms.

And most importantly, Mr. G had successfully escaped once again.

In terms of combat power alone, the top-tier players were naturally no match for the Mechanical Legion. But they had plenty of outrageous tricks, especially when it came to escaping: short-range spatial movement, magnetic repulsion, matter transfer, clones, transformations, and so on.

The Paradise-level mission continued—

This time, the players fled into the only high-difficulty map on the planet. It was the Odyke Continent that Gao Gong had once visited—or, more accurately, the S-rank Continent.

Even the players at their current level did not dare to set foot here lightly.

This place was the hardest of the high-difficulty dungeons.

The main reason they had come here was that the mission difficulty had increased.

"The armed space station has begun recovering."

"Monitoring satellites are searching for you. They're currently screening all the new continents."

"Be careful. The Electronic Network Department has already sent out at least ten teams of high-level AIs. Don't connect to the network under any circumstances!"

This was where the benefits of the game forum became apparent.

Some of the top-tier players had not directly participated in the mission, but they were distributed among nearly every organization on the planet.

The Memory Regulation Department, the Humanity Experiment Department, the Electronic Network Department, the Machine Consciousness Department...

It was thanks to these people's warnings that the top-tier players did not run around like headless flies.

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