[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-player-reboot":3,"chapter-player-reboot-player-reboot-chapter-549":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Player Reboot",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2272514,4438,"Chapter 549: Evacuation","player-reboot-chapter-549",549,"\u003Cp>If the entire mission was arranged by Optimus Prime, then he indeed thought very thoroughly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The amethyst forest is remote, devoid of life and predators, and its upper layers are suspected to connect to magma layers, continuously heating the crystal columns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The nascent mechanical civilization can obtain cheap, long-term electrical energy through technologies similar to molten salt thermal storage, sufficient for them to grow into adulthood and re-climb the technological tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Copperplate-engraved books emerged within the city’s buildings, their technological level roughly equivalent to Astronaut Will’s era—complete with radio communication, chemical engineering, and mechanical manufacturing; with effort, they could even build nuclear power plants and artificial satellites.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire process may take ten or even several decades; after that, they must rely on themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng gazed thoughtfully down at the town; Optimus Prime had not left the mechanical civilization overly advanced technology, for mastering technology to drastically alter the environment would draw attention from other Killing Fields entities and invite danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s better to develop slowly in a remote corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for information about sudden calamity, extinction, and annihilation—the Information Integration Glasses saw clearly: the tall tower at the city’s center, disguised as a clock tower, was in fact a towering war colossus, slumbering like a high-level transcendent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If outsiders discovered this city, deemed its defenses weak, and attempted to invade,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the war colossus would suddenly awaken, rise from within the clock tower, and obliterate every hostile target within sight with terrifying firepower composed of naval guns, torpedoes, missiles, lasers, and even hydrogen bombs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘In the Civilization Game, villagers shared with you that nuclear fusion technology is real.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng silently scoffed in his mind, gave two casual orders to the mechanical civilization to conceal their location from the outside world—including from him—and then boarded the Edge Fighter with Grey Rain, leaving the amethyst forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they departed, adhering to the principle of seeing a task through to the end, he and Frog God used levitation engines to relocate tens of thousands of tons of amethyst rock back to their original positions, sealing the passage opened by the light-speed elbow strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time the mechanical civilization can drill their way out of the rock layer themselves, they will likely have gained sufficient self-defense capability within the Killing Field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flying back along the same route to Dreamland, Li Cheng and Grey Rain stepped calmly from the fighter; only Wanli Fengdao, Griffon, and Mian Yue remained. ‘Where are the others?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Claudia left after completing her mission. Lei Yesi and White Horse Tomb suffered severe injuries and returned to Earth first for emergency treatment in the Killing Field. They set up a beacon and left.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wanli Fengdao, missing one arm and drenched in blood, bit open a tube of adhesive, smeared it over the stump of his shoulder to staunch the bleeding, and declined the bear-goblin arm Li Cheng offered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Dreamland’s colored mist once again spread, swallowing all the metal structures that had fallen from the Alpha Serpent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A kilometer beyond the mist, a modular structure resembling a small signal tower stood upright on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the beacon—GOC-made, inexpensive, capable of emitting radio signals like an aircraft’s black box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The difference: a black box works for only three months after power loss, while this beacon transmits a signal every few hours, extending its operational life to two years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If sunlight, geothermal energy, or any other power source is nearby, it can operate for over ten years without supervision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It aids scattered exploration teams by increasing the chance of finding this location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon discovery, the team that placed the beacon receives rewards based on the site’s value.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Griffon gazed at the giant metal structures faintly visible within the mist, sighed slightly, and turned to say seriously: ‘The Fungus King and Centipede have also evacuated. Thank you this time.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She and Mian Yue exchanged information and learned that this mission was actually a triple-combined one: the appearance of the Alpha Serpent was no accident—it was part of the mission itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Players barely survived; completing the mission was pure profit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Just mutual aid.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng waved his hand; without the non-human players providing gas cylinders and drawing fire, he wouldn’t have cleared it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘By the way, I’m still curious.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mian Yue, sitting on a rock, squinted and asked: ‘What did Astronaut Will say to you in the end?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was known that Dreamland was Will’s memory, that Will became a Level 40 transcendent after his homeland’s destruction, and that even after dying and spanning tens of thousands of years, he still pushed forward a certain plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She wasn’t worried about Will’s resurrection: first, they had no conflicting interests; when Will became a transcendent, Mian Yue’s world had not yet been chosen by the Killing Field. Second, a timespan of tens of thousands of years was too vast—even if Will could resurrect using residual essence, he would no longer be the same Level 40.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Well…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng laughed it off. ‘In his final moments, he asked me to find his computer left somewhere, reboot it, and delete his browsing history.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘So rebooting like that? Trying to leave a clean reputation behind?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wanli Fengdao rolled his eyes—he knew Li Cheng was lying—but since he didn’t want to say, fine. ‘I’m leaving. Talk in the friend channel if anything comes up.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘We’ll set up a beacon and leave too.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mian Yue stood up from the rock, pulled a straw man hanging on a wooden frame from her inventory slot, and planted it on the low slope beside the mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The straw man looked crudely made, wearing a ill-fitting handmade sweater, but it intermittently emitted spiritual energy signals, broadcasting hundreds of kilometers away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the two worlds followed different technological paths, their thinking converged: both used beacons to guide exploration teams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laymen see the spectacle; experts see the mechanics. From the frequency and range of the straw man’s spiritual broadcast, one could tell that Griffon’s world and modern Earth had no technological gap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘So this is convergent evolution?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grey Rain’s expression was wise as he squinted thoughtfully: ‘Whales and dolphins among mammals, ichthyosaurs among reptiles, evolved streamlined bodies like fish to adapt to aquatic environments;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the pangolin of Asia and the anteater of South America evolved identical long tongues to feed on termites;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>when I play games, I always meet teammates just like me.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>?? You’re proud of that, are you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mian Yue, Wanli Fengdao, and others wore strange expressions, exchanged brief farewells, and vanished from the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grey Rain, noticing Li Cheng still standing there, asked in confusion, ‘Aren’t we leaving?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘One last thing.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng pulled out an NFC card, swiped it against the Heat Death Corridor, summoned Frog God, and instructed him to release a counter-gravity field toward the depths of Dreamland’s mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Massive metal structures, like mountains, floated upward, slowly drifting out of the colored fog under gravitational guidance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the Alpha Serpent’s outer shell had been absorbed by Dreamland, erased as if wiped by an eraser. Even so, the salvaged metal components totaled twenty million kilograms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Top Secret: Runaway Dreamland, 48 Hours, 200 Million Kilograms of Dreamy Evacuation.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng rubbed his hands eagerly, directing Frog God to load all metal components into the 3D storage unit and called Grey Rain back into the electronic pet egg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before returning to the real world, he glanced around and tossed the signal station and straw man into Dreamland’s mist, lest explorers discover the site and jeopardize the nascent mechanical civilization far away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dreamland returned to stillness. Half a minute after Li Cheng vanished, a humanoid figure wrapped in tattered cloth, face obscured, stepped forward slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It stared at the spot where Li Cheng and Grey Rain had disappeared, silent. Then it raised its wrinkled hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The signal station and straw man, already discarded into the mist, floated back into the air and re-planted themselves into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beep. Beep. Beep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Electromagnetic and spiritual energy signals continued to echo across the wasteland.\u003C\u002Fp>",1333,"2026-06-19T22:31:26.010Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","50e2b56506f9b0e1be1a09194d2fafc659d4cf313c66197dcc3205ca057f1e25","player-reboot-chapter-550","player-reboot-chapter-548",612,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplayer-reboot-cover.jpg"]