[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-player-reboot":3,"chapter-player-reboot-player-reboot-chapter-593":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},2272558,4438,"Chapter 593","player-reboot-chapter-593",593,"\u003Cp>If possible, Li Cheng absolutely did not want to show up in person; he’d rather spend that time posting online some outrageous remarks like “Clowns rule the halls, masters wander the streets, and the Four Saints of Zhangyang have lost one—no longer worth it,” just to relax, or tighten more bolts on the Embroidered Uniform Guard’s war vehicles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he couldn’t truly ignore it—not only because Wu Quan belonged to the Special Affairs Bureau and owed him a favor, but also because Ada was an important member of the Whale Song Guild; if she were captured by the Dream Curse, the Whale Song Guild would truly lose its mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering the Dream Curse wouldn’t kill players immediately but instead control them, waiting to send them to the next scenario mission, this meant the Whale Song Guild had ample time to mount a rescue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To prevent the Toy Factory from being exposed, Li Cheng had no choice but to act.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tung... Bone?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Quan and Abdullah recognized the legendary skeletal knight, their expressions stunned, unable to believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the players, Ada, the strongest scout, was already severely injured and could only see the skeletal knight’s back, draped in a tattered cloak full of holes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng hovered above the swamp water using his levitation engine, wearing armor that was, in fact, hastily welded together from rebar, steel bars, and steel plates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He ground down the weld seams and sprayed on a coat of Vanta Black paint—this paint absorbs 99.9% of incident light, including visible, ultraviolet, and infrared radiation. Adding carbonyl iron also enabled it to absorb electromagnetic waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His own head was hidden within the neck section of the armor; the skull above the neck came from a discarded American veteran’s corpse stored in a refrigerator freezer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the red glow inside the skull, it was merely a red electronic candle used during holidays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Senior Tung Bone, that house is strange!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Quan, panicked, instinctively shifted his arm forward, crawling two meters; Li Cheng immediately used his levitation engine to drift forward the exact same distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ten-Eye Communication Earpiece was still active; getting too close might make Customer Service Xiao Yuan notice something off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uhh...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The giant ghostly infant, floating in midair, sucked its thumb, its navel still attached by an umbilical cord; with innocent, pure eyes, it stared at the skeletal knight, then opened its monstrous maw and bit down hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Watch out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Al Qian instinctively cried out; she didn’t know the skeletal knight’s identity, but from Wu Quan and Abdullah’s reactions, he must be some high-level player above Lv20?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps a native powerhouse of the Killing Ground?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a semi-cyborg, her spinal chip partially regulated her metabolism, giving her greater resistance to muscle relaxants than natural humans; now regaining partial control of her body, she instinctively summoned her powered exoskeleton and fired a hostile aerial missile from the rocket launcher mounted on her shoulder at the ghost infant’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holy shit, lady, stop messing around!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng internally screamed in protest—his makeshift cosplay armor couldn’t withstand the blast wave of a missile. He thrust his left fist forward, seemingly ordinary, but infused with condensed Qi internal explosion power; one strike shattered the ghost infant’s forehead like an overinflated balloon, sending it flying backward, writhing irregularly above the swamp in Brownian motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the skeletal knight’s right hand seized the hostile aerial missile. In the corner unseen by Al Qian and the others—and by Customer Service Xiao Yuan—a hidden ape-descended gun in his palm fired several rounds at point-blank range, shrinking the missile into a firecracker branded 【Old Black Double Pop】 and casually snuffing out its burning fuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng slightly turned his head, the eye sockets emitting a chilling red glow, then turned back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To onlookers, this scene appeared as the skeletal knight effortlessly catching the missile and reducing it to nothingness, then glaring at the human players with disapproval—actually, Li Cheng dared not fully turn his head, fearing they’d spot the red LED electronic candles installed in the skull’s eye sockets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Quan pulled Al Qian aside and said gravely: “Senior Tung Bone is a native powerhouse of the Killing Ground. He existed long before human players even appeared—thousands of years ago.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abdullah added with deep reverence: “Flame Bay was the first hidden realm discovered. Now it’s jointly managed and operated by multiple guilds, including our Saladin’s Eagle, the Royal Ecclesiastical Knights, the Federal Investigation Bureau, and GRU.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s what the official forum says.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in truth, Flame Bay was originally occupied by a divine abomination. Tung Bone appeared, slew the abomination, and walked away. Only then did human players get a chance to scavenge—the four-kilometer-long sea monster skeleton, used as a breakwater at the bay’s harbor, stands as proof of that legendary battle.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Abdullah took a deep breath, adjusted his red-and-white checkered headscarf, and said solemnly: “Legend says a plague abomination once stung Senior Tung Bone; after five days of agonizing struggle, the plague abomination died.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Medusa glanced at Tung Bone from afar—and turned to stone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tung Bone never breathes; he merely intermittently captures air.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tung Bone never swings his sword; his sword moves itself out of sheer terror of him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tung Bone can defeat the highest-tier security guard army in ten seconds—nine of those seconds are spent waiting for the guards to muster the courage to charge him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The founder of Saladin’s Eagle had likely witnessed firsthand Tung Bone slaying the sea monster abomination and had bragged about it endlessly to his inner circle; Abdullah’s tale was vivid and convincing, leaving listeners stunned—even Li Cheng couldn’t help internally muttering that Saladin was clearly a bone-deep braggart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mold infesting the crude house remained unmoved by the ghost infant’s death; instead, it dripped strands of mycelium into the spirits’ bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The grotesque spirits emitted even denser dark, malevolent energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small amount of this evil energy seeped into the swamp water, instantly killing countless aquatic creatures, whose corpses floated to the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the cover of night, the swamp fell utterly silent—no insects chirped, no birds called. All the spirits leaned forward in unison, then surged forward!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ghost bride floated gracefully forward, lifting her wedding gown; the man-eating giant serpent glided across the water, its patterned back resembling floating driftwood;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hellish monk clutched a Rubik’s Cube, unleashing a skin-stripping curse; a humanoid abomination composed of countless flies buzzed toward them with a deafening hum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A true scene of a hundred ghosts marching at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng did not dodge or retreat; he simply raised his skeletal hand toward the sky and pressed down casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the Embroidered Uniform Guard war vehicles, deployed via the [Ten Thousand Ancient Battles Map] in the sky, fired simultaneously. Invisible vector projectiles struck the spirits with pinpoint accuracy, tearing and shattering them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few spirits lacked physical form or possessed self-healing abilities; they partially submerged in the water and accelerated toward Li Cheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Cheng still did not retreat; he gripped the hilt of his greatsword and gently tapped its blade against the water’s surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, every spirit submerged in the water was forcibly expelled—even the fly abomination shrieked in agony, unable to maintain its form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So... strong...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Al Qian felt her organic and electronic brains both crashing; she couldn’t comprehend Tung Bone’s movements, nor sense any spiritual energy fluctuation from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course she couldn’t—Li Cheng had summoned the Farmhand via summoning magic, who now wore sunglasses and lurked beneath the water, whipping his leather lash until it smoked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black spirit? (Candyman, American folk horror, a black demon with a hook)—three lashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Non-human spirit? Not even human anymore—five lashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>White spirit? How dare you—how white could you be compared to my Farmhand? Extra crime, ten lashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every spirit, regardless of race, was brutally whipped, naturally rising to the surface to endure further bombardment.\u003C\u002Fp>",1315,"2026-06-19T22:31:26.010Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","5d170a7699fc92ec42e6021dc2bbaf422075bb2dd9defd2edc3f6a97e32e8217","player-reboot-chapter-594","player-reboot-chapter-592",612,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplayer-reboot-cover.jpg"]