Warning! Warning! A large-scale energy attack has occurred in the West China Experimental Zone. The intelligent risk assessment indicates an extremely high risk level. Please immediately shut down the power supply in the West China Region West China Region!
At the highest command center, a notification from the highest intelligence system immediately summoned several senior officers to the command room, where they engaged in a heated discussion.
The Supreme Command Center is the department responsible for the entire energy operation of the Central China Region the Data City. Its address is encrypted multiple times and its IP address changes frequently. It is guarded by ten specific military commanders on rotation. This place has a special status, but it is rarely used in practice. Its use is only approved when major energy policies are implemented.
However, such policies are basically discussed and decided upon by the parliament, and then documents are issued. The commanders here are only responsible for implementing them.
Most of the time, this is just a symbolic department.
However, the security measures here remain extremely tight because this place holds the highest executive authority. When Central China is in a special situation, the decisions made here almost determine the fate of the Central China Region.
For example, the intelligent system should execute the shutdown request at this time!
The authority to shut down an area is the highest executive authority, requiring the simultaneous signatures of ten commanders to execute. This is because the consequences involved are too severe and it can only be used in times of national crisis. In fact, since the establishment of the Supreme Command Center in Central China Region, this authority has never been used.
Shutting down means completely turning off the energy in a region, also known as unplugging the power!
Once the energy to that area is cut off, all data processing within that area will cease completely. As for what will happen to the data life within, no one knows.
This is a method even more threatening than nuclear weapons; it was originally used by the entire data leadership to restrict those high-level combatants in the virtual world.
If a top-tier Virtual Realm warrior like Zhang Zhengyuan were to leak his abilities and refuse to submit to the Federation, the destructive power he posed to the Data City would be terrifying. This mechanism exists to constrain such individuals; once the power is cut off, even the most powerful data lifeforms become rootless and adrift.
"Top Alert? What on earth happened?"
Of the ten commanders, only one was a woman. If Wu Xiaoli were here, she would definitely recognize her because this person looked very much like Wu Xiaoli. This was Wu Qian Wu Family was on duty as the commander of the command center.
Although they look similar in age, Wu Qian is actually over 100 years old, two generations older than Wu Xiaoli.
"What happened? Commander Wu doesn't know?" A tall man asked with a grim face. "What could possibly go wrong in the West China Region these days? Of course, it's a project overseen by your Wu Family's niece that could cause such a huge commotion."
"My little niece doesn't have that kind of ability!" Wu Qian said coldly. "Everyone knows how that project was approved. Half of the top executives in Central China are there now. Do you think my niece can make the decisions?"
"Alright!" In the command center, a short young man with a solemn expression looked somewhat like Hou Tianhua, who was sitting in a wheelchair. He was Hou Family Tianhua's rotating commander. Although he looked young and immature, he was actually a hundred years old and held a very high position in the Hou Family.
Federation regulations, commanders are not allowed to enter the virtual world. Those on duty here are people from major families who are willing to give up the benefits of the Virtual Realm, and their status cannot be too low. Those who can come here, whether from their families or from the government, are highly respected people.
"What time is it? Are we still going to investigate responsibility at this point?" The Hou Family frowned deeply. "The key question is, what do we do now?"
"What to do? Execute it, of course!" Wu Qian said without hesitation. "A Level 1 alert has never been issued before, which shows how troublesome the mess they've caused is. If we don't shut it down quickly, it could become uncontrollable!"
"Shut down? Are you sure?" Another commander frowned. " West China has a regular active population of around 300 million, and it has the most research laboratories. The energy station for the Virtual Realm of the Jade Dynasty is also there. If it's shut down, do you know how much turmoil it will cause?"
"Moreover, because half of the senior management was assisting with that project, it would be very difficult if it were shut down."
"So what?" Wu Qian said coldly, "I opposed that project from the beginning, saying it was extremely risky. That madman Zhang Zhengyuan insisted on gambling with everyone's lives, and now that they've lost, what can they say? Who knows what kind of thing they put in there? If we don't shut it down now, once that thing arrives, it won't be something that can be solved by closing down just one West China Region!"
"This"
"Let's vote!" The Hou Family took a deep breath. "No matter what, this decision is too momentous. Once it begins, there's no turning back, and we will bear a tremendous historical responsibility. Let's vote. Same rules as before, red and blue votes. Red votes mean agreeing with Commander Wu's statement to shut down West China; blue votes mean we need to find another way!"
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Jiangnan
When Chen Qing stepped into that vortex, besides the King of Qin, there were several unexpected onlookers.
It was the same Mr. Heavenly Secrets secretly sneaked into Jiangnan to meet Jiang Xiaoling.
Is it really possible?
Behind Heavenly Secrets, there was another unexpected figure: Wang Ye!
"Why not?" Heavenly Secrets laughed. "As long as Flying Star has coordinates, it can traverse all things. The mark you left on Chen Qing should be usable no matter where he goes, right?"
Wang Ye glanced deeply at Heavenly Secrets, then at the spot where Chen Qing had left, and fell into deep thought.
He followed Heavenly Secrets because Heavenly Secrets said he would reveal the truth of this world, and at this moment, he claimed: the place Chen Qing entered was the truth of this world!!
For some reason, the world revealed beyond the vortex filled him with a strange sense of dread, as well as a strange longing.
His intuition told him that what Heavenly Secrets said was true, and that the place Chen Qing was going to was the truth he had been searching for!
Heavenly Secrets looked at the hesitant Wang Ye without saying a word or urging him, because he didn't know what the consequences would be.
After all, these are two different worlds. This is the so-called Virtual Realm; will the rules that work here still apply outside?
To be honest, he himself found it absurd.
However, numerous intelligence reports indicate that it is indeed possible!
There are many people in the Federation District who have returned from the Virtual Realm. With them came their completely altered genetic algorithms and the supernatural powers they brought from the Virtual Realm.
The reason behind it remains unknown, but that is the truth.
So Heavenly Secrets wondered, if the supernatural powers of the Virtual Realm could be used in the Data City, then at the beginning of the interdimensional passage, would Wang Ye's Flying Star also have the ability to traverse between the two worlds?
As soon as this bold conjecture came out, he used his innate supernatural abilities to divine it.
The divination results were far beyond what was expected.
It actually works!
He didn't know if his supernatural powers were valid at this moment, because they involved the outside world. His mysterious and profound fortune-telling abilities shouldn't be able to predict the outside world. After all, when the code was designed, the answers about divination were given to him by the AI while running the game world, so he could grasp some of the future.
But the Virtual Realm is the Virtual Realm, and the outside world is the outside world. How can the intelligence in the Virtual Realm synchronize with the computational data from the outside world?
He didn't understand the Heavenly Secrets, but he wanted to give it a try.
It had been a long time since he had felt this excited.
This bold attempt, this unprecedented and whimsical idea, excited him so much that he couldn't sleep for several days. Although he appeared completely calm at the moment, he was actually so excited that he almost tore his shoes apart with his toes.
Finally, almost half an hour after Chen Qing disappeared, just as the vortex was getting smaller and smaller, Wang Ye suddenly opened his eyes.
A ray of starlight emanated from him, causing Heavenly Secrets beside him to reveal an excited smile.
Sure enough, Wang Ye, like himself, has that adventurous and exploratory personality at heart; he'll definitely do it.
"Senior," Wang Ye said softly, "You said that if we die in that world, will there be reincarnation?"
"I don't think so," Heavenly Secrets said hesitantly.
"Really?" Wang Ye laughed, "That's really exciting. Have you thought it through, senior?"
"I've been waiting for you to make up your mind."
"Okay!" Wang Ye smiled.
In his memory, when he escaped from the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley, he was as weak as an ordinary insect, but he still fled Jiangnan without hesitation. Heavenly Secrets was right, he was an adventurous person at heart!