[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-player-reboot":3,"chapter-player-reboot-player-reboot-chapter-579":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},2272544,4438,"Chapter 579","player-reboot-chapter-579",579,"\u003Cp>Michael stood with relaxed posture, one hand on his hip, the other resting on the hilt of the sword at his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was not tall, barely over one meter sixty; clear sunlight, unobstructed by any atmospheric clouds, streamed from the terminator line and glinted off his silver-white armor, casting a long, narrow shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the surface of the satellite debris, the phase-shifting demon—shrunk to the size of a basketball—still retained most of its intelligence and knew clearly that this very person had destroyed its meticulously planned scheme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, it sprang upward, its body swelling dozens of times in volume, attempting to detonate itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael did not draw his sword, did not retreat; he simply gripped the hilt, stood at a distance, and gently nodded forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One-fifth of the phase-shifting demon’s body was instantly erased; its massive form froze in space, on the verge of explosion but locked in stasis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Holy shit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng, floating in orbit, clicked his tongue and did a quick calculation: Earth’s geostationary orbit was 35,000 kilometers above the surface, Earth’s diameter was 12,000 kilometers; just now, the phase-shifting demon had banished over two thousand artificial satellites; even without accounting for the longer orbital paths of nearby satellites, Michael had effectively traveled 295,000 kilometers in a few breaths, detonating each satellite one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sun Wukong, the legendary first demon of all generations, could only cover 108,000 li in a single somersault—still nowhere near as impressive as this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder everyone says each level after Lv30 is a wall; the gap between Lv33’s Ten Thousand Li Blade Seal and Lv40’s Michael is like the difference between Three Kingdoms: New Era and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, between room-temperature, sugar-free, unchilled cola and ice-cold iced black tea, between Wang Laoer from the village’s toilet-paper literature “My Lower Body” and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was fine before the comparison; now, it was unbearable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Achoo—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the corner of the Special Affairs Bureau’s command hall, Wanli Fengdao, sipping goji and ginseng tea, suddenly sneezed and immediately rubbed his nose hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In space, Michael tapped the hilt again; an invisible force tore the phase-shifting demon in half.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng waved his still-intact right hand, fearing Michael far away couldn’t see, and specifically pulled a large LCD screen from his 3D storage, typing “Stop! Spare Him!” on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael saw the screen and slightly loosened his grip on the hilt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng’s spiritual energy had not fully recovered; he couldn’t use the light-speed elbow strike. He summoned a marginal fighter jet, ordered it to accelerate continuously, and slowly caught up to the satellite debris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He landed on the debris surface; his legs and left arm, recently forged into cannonballs, now had their basic contours regrown and could support his weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're the ant?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael’s voice echoed around him, a cold tone carrying a faint trace of surprise: “The Side of Truth mentioned you to me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Really?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng, in his insect form, rubbed his skull; his palm scraped against the spines on his head, sparking a dense flurry of sparks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, actually, I’m nowhere near as brilliant, clever, prophetic, or strategically gifted as Brother Ce describes me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>???\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You were just being polite, and now you’re bragging?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Michael had a more lively personality, he’d definitely have made a sarcastic remark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Lv40, the strongest on Earth and founder of GOC, paused, then said calmly: “Do you want to kill the phase-shifting demon yourself? It has no regenerative ability; killing it personally should raise your score.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got it. But I want to try something first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng stepped closer to the phase-shifting demon, held aloft by Michael, pressed his gloved hands against the demon’s shriveled, sunken body, and activated the skill [Visualized Memory].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Effect: Extracts the target’s most recent and vivid memory and replays it as a video.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The phase-shifting demon has no self-awareness; it cannot generate emotions like fear, regret, or euphoria. Logically, the only memories it retains are those implanted by its creator...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng muttered, held his breath, ignored the demon’s violent struggles, and carefully searched its mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Found it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng yanked his hands away; above the demon’s head, a video projection appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It showed a highly advanced industrial facility, with silver self-leveling floors made of high-molecular polymer material.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ceiling and walls were lined with intricate metal pipes and biomatter cables.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the demon’s perspective, it appeared to be in a large, elevated cell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through a circular window, three slowly rotating satellites hung on the horizon; outside lay an endless red-soil wasteland, dotted with supermassive reactors, distillation towers, and cooling towers, each at least a thousand meters tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fully automated facility operated without pause, yet what flowed from the discharge ports was not molten iron or chemical feedstock—but thick, black, smoky sludge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the raw material for manufacturing phase-shifting demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng understood at once: Noah of GOC had been right—the phase-shifting demons were indeed conceptual-level living weapons created by an alien civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene shifted: to the left, right, above, and below the demon’s cell, there were row upon row, column upon column of other cells—numbering at least ten thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each cell held numerous types of phase-shifting demons, differing in size, color, and shape, seemingly evolved for different worlds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some even bore limbs and heads resembling humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael stepped half a pace forward and silently activated his video transmission ability, streaming the scene to GOC headquarters’ main screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the volume of each cell represented the power of the contained phase-shifting demon, then that world contained at least two to three thousand transcendent beings above Lv34.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was merely a small section of the alien civilization’s prison zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shhh—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the video, a rapid clatter of footsteps sounded; a colossal entity slowly moved past beneath the prison corridor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It stood eight meters tall, draped in blue fabric, with a snail-like shell on its back—or perhaps a hunched spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its face was obscured by a hood; only two glowing points, likely eyes, were visible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This snail-like behemoth clearly ranked higher than the phase-shifting demons; it moved slowly down the corridor, following some standard protocol, using invisible force to remotely open cell doors and release one demon after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as it was about to pass, it suddenly sensed something, snapped upward from the ground, and fixed its gaze on the cell where the video was being projected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beneath the hood, the two blue eyes flared intensely, flashing at speeds invisible to the human eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A cold, curious gaze pierced through space and time, transcending the killing field’s restrictions, locking onto Earth, locking onto Li Cheng standing on the satellite debris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blue fabric slowly parted; the colossal entity raised a mechanical arm and extended it toward Li Cheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael drew his sword; blazing flames spread a kilometer, tearing through space; the hooded figure recoiled in pain, retracting its mechanical arm, and the memory footage ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng stepped half a pace back; adrenaline surged through his Six-Base neural circuitry, sending tremors through him: “What the hell was that?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The [Visualized Memory] skill originated from the Killing Field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It could, and could only, replay memories—and it was not under Li Cheng’s control; he could not speed up, slow down, or pause it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt worse than KuaiBo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For certain items of Legendary quality, time and causality are not always linear. The phase-shifting demon’s creator, at that moment, knew it was being observed—and reacted accordingly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Michael sheathed his sword, paused, then said calmly: “The good news is, that world’s level cap is also Lv40—just like Earth’s.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1266,"2026-06-19T22:31:26.010Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","d9df6f5d56a2d449cfd27a2acf054f92d6c32f5e4b83dae6ee0fdb56318331b8","player-reboot-chapter-580","player-reboot-chapter-578",612,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplayer-reboot-cover.jpg"]