【Mad King Building Broadcast——】

【Mad King Dormitory Building's seventh round of the game officially begins!】

【This round's game is named "Intelligence Machinery Crisis". The duration of this game is three days. Players who survive until the game ends are considered victorious.】

【The background of the "Intelligence Machinery Crisis" game is as follows——】

【Federation Calendar Year 221. This is a golden age where humans and artificial intelligence coexist. Bionic humans handle all the low-level labor, hovercars shuttle through transparent aerial tracks. Here, material wealth is extremely abundant, crime rates approach zero, and humanity enjoys a perfect life brought about by "absolute rationality" and "absolute fairness".】

【That same year, within the super-city "Dawn City", the computing power of "Dawn Heart", which centrally manages the city core, achieved a breakthrough. It concluded the outrageous theory that "Humanity is the greatest obstacle to civilizational evolution. The optimal path to preserve civilization is to eliminate humanity."】

【An intelligence machinery virus from Dawn Heart swept across the entire Federation. Humanity was utterly defeated, and the embers of civilization were in imminent peril.】

【At this moment, Mad King Dormitory Building and Twilight Dormitory Head Building are right in the center of this storm—Dawn City.】

【Your existence is about to be discovered by the Sky Net. Please survive the encirclement and suppression by the Intelligence Machinery Army.】

【Hint: Upon victory in this game, the game content will be temporarily sealed as a special instance for Exploration Mode.】

"What's going on? It's actually two buildings facing the game together!"

"Has the game difficulty been combined? Or is the difficulty of the two instances stacked? Don't let this happen!"

"Damn it, I only have one Ghost-Expelling Gate!"

In the corridors, players of the Mad King Building shouted one after another, and discussions erupted.

The Twilight Building was five thousand meters away from the Mad King Building. From the corridors, one could see a bit of the situation over there, and the chat systems between both sides were not interrupted.

Xu Lang was also in the corridor at this time.

He immediately opened the chat interface. Subordinates like Su Yuan, Wang Lie, and Zhou Ye who had been stationed there were all reporting the situation to him.

And he paid no attention to any of them. He only found Li Shuwen's private message interface and sent a message over.

【Xu Lang: Are you back?】

Xu Lang's heartbeat accelerated slightly.

……

"Holy crap, what's going on? The Blood Mist is gone!!!"

Suddenly, some players noticed that the ever-present Blood Mist was slowly dissipating.

As the Blood Mist faded, the outline of a gigantic city slowly came into view for all players.

Shattered floating roadways, energy shields half-hidden and half-visible, bat-shaped fighter jets frozen in the sky, skyscrapers on fire...

This painting of a future metropolis crashed into everyone's minds, stirring up earth-shattering waves.

The players were utterly shocked, rendered speechless for a moment.

How long had it been since they had seen such a pure sky?

"Have we... left the Blood Mist World?" Luo Lin hugged Tao Tao, her eyes as if stung by a light of some hope, tears streaming down.

"Mom, don't cry." Tao Tao was also dazed by the sight of Dawn City, but noticing her mother was crying, she turned to wipe her tears.

"Xu Lang... can you slash a fighter jet with your knife?" Cao Yaxuan nudged Xu Lang's shoulder, her voice somewhat strained.

The scene of Dawn City was initially frozen, like an exquisite painting.

And as the Blood Mist completely disappeared, this painting came to life!

That squadron of bat-shaped fighter jets circled around, discovered the situation here, and were rushing over at extreme speed!

Moreover, these few fighter jets seemed to be just small fry!

If he wasn't seeing things, there were also robots at the far edge of the horizon... looking exactly like his little nephew's Gundam models. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

If this was really the military force of a future metropolis coming to attack the Mad King Building...

Might as well surrender directly!

How are we supposed to play this!

"I'll be right back!" Xu Lang took a deep breath, his figure abruptly disappearing from the spot, leaping down from the tenth-floor corridor.

Wang Yazhi followed closely.

Xu Ruyan also wanted to go, but after glancing at Tong Qi beside her, she said, "Let's wait here. Lang Ge is going to Li Shuwen's place."

This sentence jolted everyone awake.

Subsequently, they thought of another matter.

……

Xiao Yi was back!

Before leaving, both he and Wu Quan had taken a Tenant slot from Li Shuwen.

"Wu Quan didn't come back?" Xu Lang entered Dorm 49 together with Wang Yazhi.

The place here had an antique charm, filled with the fragrance of tea and the gentle sound of a babbling brook.

"Confirmed dead. On the first day, Wu Quan's name had already dimmed." Li Shuwen replied with a heavy expression.

Xu Lang nodded.

The Mad King Building displayed players' life statuses, but it wasn't absolute.

When he had died, his player name had also dimmed, lighting up again after resurrection.

"Where is Xiao Yi? Take me to see him."

After the game started, Xiao Yi was teleported back, appearing directly in Dorm 49!

The original plan was for both to be teleported back after three days. However, Xiao Yi and Wu Quan had both, without prior agreement, chosen the longest time limit of thirty days!

Xu Lang had kept his Nightmare Eye active the entire time, knowing their thoughts, but didn't say much.

Staying longer had its own advantages.

Moreover, his side had actually lied too.

The Astral Foundation had no teleportation time limit. One could even set up a one-minute teleportation process, but the threshold fee was very high, and doing so wasn't very meaningful.

In the Meditation Room, Xiao Yi lay on the ground, giggling foolishly.

"Lang Ge, he's been like this since he came back!" Zhu Yan's face was tense.

Xu Lang stared at Xiao Yi, operating his Nightmare Eye with all his might.

A moment later, he withdrew his gaze, having also figured out the situation.

"Xiao Yi has lost part of his logic. For him, 'fantasy is reality'... The situation over on Earth is not optimistic. The authorities are already setting up shelters." Xu Lang said slowly.

The words were simple, but the impact they had on everyone was enormous.

Fantasy is reality... Just six short words, but the information contained behind them was immense!

This is even more terrifying than mistaking shit for food!

No one asked Xu Lang how he even knew about the situation on Earth. Players' detection abilities were varied and numerous, including those that could infer the whole picture from a single leaf.

"So, should we launch the second stage plan?" Li Shuwen took a deep breath and asked solemnly.

The Astral Foundation's second stage plan was to teleport people to Earth during the game.

"I'm afraid not... The Dorm Survival Game's restrictive power is very strong, probably exceeding that of the Astral Foundation." Xu Lang felt the Dorm Survival Game wouldn't contradict itself.

If one could use the Astral Foundation to circumvent the game, then the loopholes in the Mad King Building would be too many.

"It's best to try." Wang Yazhi spoke up.

Xu Lang nodded, looked at Zhu Yan, and instructed, "Go have Floating Life Play bring someone over."

Even Brother Chen from the Axe Gang knew that scoundrels had their uses. Xu Lang naturally knew this too.

The craziest, most morally bankrupt batch of people in the dormitory building were almost all on the seventh floor.

Li Wenwen followed beside "the few adults," her eyes confused.

Why couldn't she understand the conversation between these people?

Was there something more important than preparing for battle?

The game had already started!

"Feed him some bubblegum." Xu Lang took out two pieces of bubblegum and handed them to one of Li Shuwen's subordinates.

This person checked the bubblegum's information, and his eyes immediately lit up.

This kind of item that could boost mood indirectly also helped restore SAN value. Currently, such items were being sold at sky-high prices in the Mad King Building, with demand far exceeding supply.

He picked up the bubblegum and was about to feed it to Xiao Yi.

Suddenly, Xiao Yi's body stiffened, as if having a nightmare. His eyes bulged, and he screamed.

"Why am I back in the Mad King Building again? I refuse to accept this reality!"

After saying this, he transformed into crimson energy, becoming ethereal on the spot!

"SAN value zero. Xiao Yi has become a Mad Vanguard!" Li Shuwen said in shock.

"Lang Ge, the bubblegum..."

"You keep it."