Fantasy Game: Infinite City

The main engine room of the crashed spacecraft.

"So how did you know about this place?"

"Infinite City has released a new version of the development log, which mentioned this place. They will prepare a super-large copy, including multiple landable planets. However, the development log said that this new copy is only one-third complete, so I came to try my luck."

"Is there code for writing a copy in the development log?"

"Almost. I just added a number after my past experience. The development log says there are at least 9 planets that can be explored. The number I added after the main code is 11."

"Try your luck?! You're really brave."

"Not really. If the code was wrong, the previous transmission would not have been successful. But judging from the results, my bet was right. By the way, how is the research going? Can it be started?"

Garcia was half-inserted into the shut-down reactor, trying to find out why the engine couldn't operate, as mentioned in the engineer's log. However, after a careful inspection, there was nothing suspicious about the engine and everything was normal.

"The problem may not be with the engine. There's nothing suspicious about the reactor. We may have to go to the spacecraft's main control room to take a look."

Leaving the engine room and walking towards the main control room of the spacecraft, Garcia and Han Zu began to communicate and analyze the engineer's log they had just seen.

"According to what is written in the log, that device that is similar to a hibernation capsule and has the ability to teleport should be some type of gaming capsule. Is this something that was done by the people from Infinite Company?"

"You're right, Garcia. I think so too. But judging by the results, we are very lucky. The people from Infinity Company probably haven't started to develop here yet. This planet may be the only place they haven't reached out to, except for that black shadow."

"But the log mentioned that the gunboat that came to support the survivors was also attacked by other spacecraft. Could Infinity have landed on this planet somewhere else?"

"No, the soldiers mentioned in the log should be the scavengers of Infinite Company. Although I haven't seen them in person, according to normal logic, they should have strong abilities, so they can go to other unknown places without any scruples or even protective measures. The price of obtaining such abilities is huge. No matter how powerful Infinite Company is, it is impossible for the entire company to be so powerful. The main employees should still be ordinary people."

"So judging from the fact that the scavengers didn't snatch the vaccine, they didn't come back here after losing the game cabin they used for teleportation. That means they haven't discovered that this planet is poisonous yet. And the people on the Infinite Company's spaceship should be mostly ordinary people. They don't have the same strong physical fitness as the scavengers, and they won't risk landing here before getting intelligence from the scavengers. In other words, the Infinite Company has no idea what's happening here?"

"Yes, we are lucky. We still have some time. The only bargaining chips we can use are the Gift of the Realm of Death and the information gap. We must hurry up. Although the people from the Infinite Company have not landed here yet, they should have left their location coordinates here. We must hurry up."

"The date displayed on the terminal where I was viewing the log was March 3th. It has been four days since the end of the log. Will we make it in time?"

"We still have time. The test time listed in the Infinite City development log is still half a month. If we average the time, it should take them about a week to come back, which means we have less than three days left. Whether my plan succeeds or not, we have to leave before the time is up. We can't let the people at Infinite Company know what we are doing."

Hearing Han Zu's inference, Garcia quickened his pace. Now was one of the few times when Unlimited Company had no idea what they were doing. Every second counted and there was no time to waste.

After arriving at the main control room of the spacecraft, the two of them investigated the interior of the control room separately. Han Zu wanted to ask the two hounds to help search, but the hounds still did not come out. Han Zu sensed that the air here would indeed cause harm to them, so he gave up this approach.

However, there are alternative ways. With the help of Garcia, Han Zu's elite soldiers can execute complex commands. With their help, the progress of investigation and search is much faster. One group of Han Zu, one group of Garcia, one group of machine gunners, and one group of flamethrowers are divided into four teams. They carried out a carpet search in the spacecraft and completed the investigation of the entire spacecraft within a few hours.

The two teams of soldiers found the game cabin that had been disassembled into parts and sealed in various places on the spacecraft. Han Zu asked them to destroy all the main parts of the game cabin, which might buy Han Zu and his team some time. Garcia found some remaining vaccines and a small amount of raw materials in the medical cabin of the spacecraft. She was modifying the formula of the vaccine and adding other things to the vaccine to make it highly toxic. Han Zu and Garcia did not need this thing to move freely in the air of this planet, but these vaccines could be used to eliminate some people from the Infinite Company who might use them to land on the planet.

Han Zu went around and came back to the engine. He searched the place again. Using the physical characteristics of war instinct, Han Zu searched around the important range he had obtained. Sure enough, he found something abnormal on the bulkhead behind the engine.

"Squeak~click..."

After lifting the cabin wall, Han Zu indeed found something inside. The force field generating device he had seen on the space station where he had met Maxi before was the one that could distort cognition. Han Zu grabbed the core of the force field generator and took it out. A faint wave brushed across his body, and Han Zu's mind became clearer. This time he successfully found an energy blocking device at the bottom of the inner side of the reactor shell.

"boom!"

"Alright Han Zu! The reactor can be started normally! What is that force field device? I clearly remember that I searched for the location of the energy blocking device, but I didn't see it."

Han Zu played with the core of the force field generator, tossing it back and forth like a coin, answering Garcia's question.

"This thing is a device that can distort cognition. I don't really understand how it works, but judging from our previous blind behavior, it is indeed very effective."

"Then how did you discover it? If, as you said, this force field can distort perception."

Han Zu also felt a little strange. He found the force field generator by relying on his physical characteristics. However, according to what Han Zu and his friends had discussed before, regarding the inference of Infinite Company, Infinite Company should know about his abilities. He had been to the space station before and knew about the existence of this force field generator. They should have considered strengthening the function of the force field generator so that it could also affect him. So Han Zu was at a loss. He shook his head at Garcia.

"This force field generator is obviously different from the one I saw on the space station before. It should be an enhanced version. I can't figure it out."

But Garcia seemed to have figured out the reason.

"Remember the metaphor you told me before, the one about the fish tank? You compared the Gift of the Dead Realm to a tool in the fish tank. It seems that your statement is a bit wrong."

"What do you mean?"

Garcia set up the reactor, stretched out a finger and tapped the reactor shell, and said to Han Zu,

"Since you compare yourself to a person outside the fish tank, then the tool in the fish tank should not be the Gift of the Dead Realm, but the other abilities we need to acquire first, which are the tools in the fish tank. The Gift of the Dead Realm should be the remote control that you, standing outside the fish tank, subconsciously hold in your hand to drain the water from the fish tank."

"You mean, the Gift of the Realm of Death has subconsciously changed my abilities, and they are beyond the scope of what Infinite Company originally controlled?"

"That's right, but the effect is not ideal because the concentration of the Gift of the Dead Realm is not high. It should be evenly distributed among all your abilities, and your current concentration is not enough to completely change them. So if we want to truly have the capital to fight against the Infinite Company, we still have to rely on the Gift of the Dead Realm. I guess the reason you want to obtain these other powers is essentially to find the existence of the Gift of the Dead Realm faster, right? After all, relying on luck alone is not as simple as finding a needle in a haystack."

Han Zu nodded, agreeing with Garcia's statement.

"Okay, now that the reactor is operational, what do we do now?"

"First, we just need to adjust the power to the same level as the energy machine we used before. The power provided by the reactor is very strong, so this is not difficult to achieve."

"I see you didn't destroy the force field generator. Do you want to lure the shadow over here and use this force field to distort its cognition and prevent it from escaping?"

"Yes, after it starts absorbing the energy of the reactor, we will restart the force field generator to trap it here, and then quickly increase the output power of the reactor so that its absorption capacity reaches the maximum threshold, preferably a little bit beyond it, so that it will no longer have the extra strength to resist, and I can start trying to absorb it."

"So what do you need me to do in the meantime?"

"In order to operate perfectly in secret, the force field of this force field generator does not cover a large area. It only covers the main engine room where the reactor is located. I need you to leave here before the force field generator works, control the output power of the reactor through the main control room, and then leave the spacecraft immediately."

"Do you think the absorption capacity of that shadow might be higher than the maximum power that the reactor can output? Isn't this... too much? Since it didn't appear when you dropped the nuclear bomb, it should be certain that it can't absorb that much energy at once. The energy that this reactor can provide is much greater than the energy produced by your nuclear bomb. After all, it is the power source of a large spaceship, not to mention a spaceship with the ability to jump."

"I know that it doesn't take that much energy just to absorb the shadow, but have you forgotten that we have to figure out how to leave here without attracting the attention of Infinity Corporation?"

With Han Zu's reminder, Garcia remembered that the game cabin portal they used to get here had been destroyed due to the black shadow's strange absorption ability, and the game cabin that was disassembled into parts on the spaceship was also destroyed by Han Zu. However, even if it was not destroyed, they absolutely could not leave here through it. Doing so would be equivalent to telling Infinite Company that we are doing something under your nose.

"So you want to attract the attention of Infinity by overloading the ship's reactor, and then find another way to leave here?"

"Yes, that's enough, let's stop here. We should act now. Time waits for no one."

After the final confirmation, Han Zu and Garcia began their actions step by step. Garcia went to the main control room, while Han Zu hid behind the reactor.

"Om~~"

As the reactor was restarted, it officially began to operate with a hum and emitted light. As the output power gradually increased, the heat in the engine room also gradually increased.

"coming!"

Through the open hatch, Han Zu saw that the lighting facilities in the spacecraft passage were disturbed and became flickering. Not long after, a black shadow appeared from the corner. It moved slowly, but its actual speed was very fast. It soon came to the side of the reactor whose shell had been removed and was in operation. The black shadow began to wriggle, and half of its body turned into a thick silk-like film, gradually covering the reactor.