Red Queen Online! Welcome to the Fully Automated Nuoding City!

In the plaza, the citizens who had just been cheering fervently fell silent in an instant.

The Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Clan?

That was one of the Upper Three Sects! A behemoth entrenched in the Heaven Dou Empire, as formidable as a giant dragon!

They had just witnessed a miracle, but faced with such deep-rooted awe, they couldn't help but feel their hearts pounding with trepidation.

"My god, is the boss planning to go to war directly with the Upper Three Sects?"

"The Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Clan... I've heard that every single one of their clansmen can spit lightning from their mouths; they're as strong as monsters!"

"Can we... can we really do this?"

Whispers began to ripple through the crowd.

Qin Feng took in all these reactions.

He knew that establishing faith was only the first step; to make these civilians, who had been oppressed for thousands of years, truly stand tall, he needed to show them even greater power and a more stable life.

"Brother Wolf." Qin Feng ignored the crowd's chatter and spoke calmly into his communicator.

"Boss, what are your orders?" Grey Wolf's voice came through, with the clacking of a keyboard audible in the background.

"It's time for 'Red Queen' to go online."

"You got it!" Grey Wolf let out a strange cry, his voice filled with the excitement of an inventor about to showcase his work.

"Attention, all residents of Nuoding City!"

"You are about to witness one of my greatest inventions!"

"The Nuoding City Central Artificial Intelligence Management System—'Red Queen'—is officially taking over the city!"

No sooner had Grey Wolf finished speaking.

"Hum—"

The entire city, from the ground to the buildings, saw red streams of data flowing like blood vessels across the surfaces of all alloy structures.

These lights flashed and vanished, so quickly that people thought it was an illusion.

Immediately after, a pleasant yet emotionless synthetic female electronic voice echoed throughout the city.

["Red Queen" system startup complete.]

[City power grid system takeover complete... energy distribution efficiency increased by 17.3%.]

[City water supply and purification system takeover complete... water resource utilization rate increased by 29.1%.]

[City security system takeover complete... surveillance blind spot coverage at 99.98%.]

[Scanning biological data of all citizens...]

The citizens hadn't even realized what was happening.

An auntie who had accidentally sprained her ankle while being trampled in the chaos was sitting on the ground in pain.

Suddenly, on the exterior wall of a building above her head, an inconspicuous module slid open, extending a small mechanical arm.

The tip of the mechanical arm aimed at her injured ankle and sprayed a burst of cool white mist.

"Hiss..."

The auntie gasped, feeling a cool sensation instantly permeate the area; the pain vanished within seconds!

She looked down and saw the swelling on her ankle receding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

[Detected citizen 'Wang Cuihua', ID N-07341, soft tissue contusion on the right ankle. "Nano Medical Gel" spray treatment executed, expected recovery within five minutes.]

The voice of "Red Queen" broadcasted calmly.

Auntie Wang Cuihua was stunned on the spot. She looked at her foot, then looked up at the mechanical arm that had already retracted, her mouth hanging open wide enough to fit an egg.

"The... the immortals have revealed themselves again!"

This moment was like the toppling of a domino.

Similar scenes began to play out all over the city.

A child, excited and accidentally bumping into a wall, scraped his forehead; before he could even cry, a mechanical arm extended from a nearby lamppost and applied an automatic healing bandage to him.

[Detected citizen 'Goudan', ID N-11025, minor epidermal abrasion on the forehead. "Bio-active Bandage" application treatment executed.]

An old man, dizzy from standing too long, had just steadied himself against a wall when a small compartment popped out, containing a cup of glucose water at the perfect temperature.

[Detected citizen 'Zhao Laosi', ID N-01588, low blood sugar and irregular heart rate. Suggest immediate intake of sugar and ten minutes of rest.]

Zhao Laosi took the cup with trembling hands and took a sip; it was sweet.

He wept.

In his sixty years of life, this was the first time someone had handed him a cup of sugar water just as he was about to collapse.

The one who handed him this cup wasn't a person; it was the city itself.

"This... this city... is it alive?"

A young man muttered to himself, voicing the thoughts of everyone present.

They felt as if they were no longer living in a cold, indifferent city, but rather in the embrace of a meticulous "mother."

She knew your name, knew your ailments, and always appeared the moment you needed her.

This feeling was, damn it, just too secure!

[Citizen information entry complete.]

The voice of Red Queen rang out once more.

[Generating "Nuoding City Citizen Electronic ID" based on personal information and allocating basic social welfare.]

[Welfare distribution initiated.]

As the words fell.

"Ding-dong."

A small light screen illuminated the doorway of every relatively intact house in the city.

A man walked up to his door with curiosity, discovering that the screen displayed his name and a line of small text.

[Head of Household: Zhang San, Citizen ID: N-03344. Your basic energy ration for this month: 100 units of electricity, 3 tons of purified water, has been delivered to your residence.]

[Detected your profession as a blacksmith; you have been automatically enrolled in the "First Industrial Park" technical training course. Please report at 9:00 AM tomorrow with your Citizen ID.]

[Detected your son 'Zhang Xiaobao' has reached the age of six; he has been automatically registered for enrollment at the "Nuoding City First Work-Study Academy," starting tomorrow.]

Zhang San stared blankly at the screen, reading it word by word.

By the time he finished reading, this seven-foot-tall man could no longer hold back; he dropped to his knees with a thud and began to wail.

Free electricity! Free water!

They were even providing technical training for a living!

And they were taking care of his son's schooling!

Was this even just living? This was living like a god!

In the past, they lived like dogs.

Now, they lived like human beings! People who were respected and cared for!

"Wuu wuu wuu... Lord Qin Feng! You are our second parent!"

"Whoever dares to go against Lord Qin Feng, I'll be the first to risk my life fighting them!"

"What the hell is the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Clan? Have they ever given us a single unit of electricity? Have they ever given us a single drop of water?"

"Defend Nuoding City! Defend our home!"

The hearts of the people, at this very moment, transformed into a torrent of steel.

Qin Feng stood on the city wall, listening to the thunderous roar from below, his face devoid of much expression.

All of this was within his calculations.

What he wanted was not a group of believers who only knew how to kneel and worship.

What he wanted was an army of civilization, armed with science and knowing exactly what they were fighting for!

"Brother Wolf, the deployment of Red Queen is only the first step."

Qin Feng's voice traveled through the internal channel to the control room on the third underground level.

"I need you to begin the second phase immediately."

"I want every citizen of Nuoding City to become my eyes and my ears."

"I want an intelligence network that covers the entire continent."

Grey Wolf grinned, revealing his signature smile.

"Boss, you're looking to turn the 'entire population into soldiers'!"

"No." Qin Feng shook his head.

"It's the entire population as the 'Fourth Calamity'."

Just then, the emotionless voice of Red Queen suddenly interrupted their communication.

[Warning.]

[Detected high-intensity soul power reaction thirty kilometers outside the city.]

[Target count: one.]

[Energy level assessment: Titled Douluo.]

[Target is approaching at high speed; estimated time of arrival: three minutes.]

On the screen, a glaring red dot was charging straight toward Nuoding City at an astonishing speed.

Behind the dot followed a long string of yellow dots representing soul masters; it was the main force of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Clan.

"Yo-ho, they've arrived quite quickly." Grey Wolf whistled.

"Looking at this formation, they sent an expert ahead to scout the path first?"

Qin Feng looked at that speck of light, and instead of feeling nervous, he revealed a strange expression.

He recognized the signature of this soul power fluctuation.

"No, this isn't here to scout."

Qin Feng turned off the communication and walked down the city wall.

"This is here to... deliver a package."