Gamers Are Fierce-Chapter 790 - 788 Prediction

The lively din of morning reading echoed from the classroom as "Li Ang" walked leisurely past the corridor, hands clasped behind her back, like a leader inspecting the place.

Class five, class six, class seven... Here we are.

Miss Chai took a deep breath, stepped boldly into the classroom, found her seat, and sat down.

Wang Congshan, sitting beside her, glanced at her but said nothing, continuing to recite notes with her eyes closed and in a loud voice.

Didn't she notice anything?

Chaichai breathed a sigh of relief, a surge of confidence washing over her. She placed her backpack in front of her, unzipped it, and took out textbooks, notes, and homework.

It had to be said that although Li Ang's attitude toward his studies was rather lax—sleeping in class and playing with erasers during exams—his textbooks were still neat and clean. Furthermore, his handwriting in the notes was clear and easy to read.

Moreover, the night before, Li Ang had also briefed her on some important points, like the abbreviations in his notes; for example, a specific character combined with a '+' symbol stood for capitalism, and so on.

It's just a simple morning reading session, isn't it?

How could it trouble the most trusted lieutenant of the Lord of the Swamp, the Bug Nest Priestess, the wandering Messiah, the compiler of Chai's Revelation, the King Glory Diamond Goalkeeper, the Alipay Gold Member, the unilateral cooling mobile air conditioner cum pillow, the Doghouse Lord—Saint Curvy Chai?

Miss Chai curled her lips into a smile, flipped open her notes, and began to read, "Invest in high-tech as the driving force of economic development! Promote the rapid growth of strategic emerging industries and advanced manufacturing! Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries! These are significant measures to speed up the transformation of economic development methods!"

"Lady Saint! You're wrong, wrong!" the Brain Worm urgently said. "The others are reciting literature! You are reading high school politics!"

"Huh?"

Miss Chai stiffened. Wang Congshan gave her a strange look. In the same moment, Miss Chai closed her notes with one hand, took out a steel water bottle from the left pocket of her backpack with the other, unscrewed the cap, and took a sip of water.

She turned to meet Wang Congshan's gaze and said with a slight smile, "I ordered too much takeout last night. I thought about taking some digestive tablets but found them too dry, so I had some Golden Throat lozenges instead. Now I'm just testing my voice."

"Are you a rooster?" Wang Congshan commented indifferently, harboring no suspicions, and turned her head to continue her morning reading.

Phew. Once again, she'd passed the test.

Chaichai nodded to herself, inwardly pleased and confident. No one understands Li Ang better than I do.

I wonder how Chaichai is doing...

Fully equipped, Li Ang sat on the living room sofa, turned off the spare smartphone he had been using to browse forum webpages, and sighed.

The notice for the second stage of the competition could arrive at any time, making it inconvenient for him to go out.

He had learned from a mole that the Special Affairs Bureau had begun to gradually integrate a newly developed supercomputer with the Skynet surveillance system.

Once the integration was complete, the Skynet surveillance system's monitoring capabilities would drastically increase, with countless surveillance cameras spread across the city and even rural towns providing uninterrupted 24-hour monitoring.

The old Skynet System was able to lock down an individual's identity information based on hair type, eyes, ears, hairstyle, arm length, leg length, and walking gait. Wearing a mask or sunglasses wouldn't help.

With the addition of a supercomputer, it could even connect the information collected by surveillance cameras with the citizen database in real-time. The System could precisely lock onto each person exposed under surveillance cameras, find their personal information, and know what they were doing at that very moment. It would know which mode of transportation they were using, where they had come from, where they were headed, which streets they had passed through, and which products they had bought.

It could even predict potential, yet-to-occur violent crimes based on big data analysis.

The vast amount of data involved was astronomical, and the extremely sophisticated artificial intelligence technology used went beyond the scope of this era.

According to the Mule and some intelligence organizations' speculations, the Special Affairs Bureau was likely employing some kind of near-future technology from the killing field game, as that would be the only explanation that made sense.

For the common folk, the enhanced Skynet System's launch undoubtedly made urban life safer.

For instance, some potential criminals might have just bought a kitchen knife from a street-side shop. However, due to their grimacing facial micro-expressions at the time, emotional fluctuations displayed in their gait, previously published hateful comments online, and a history of domestic violence accusations, they might be labeled as key objects of surveillance by the police, who had already noticed them. Before they could commit a crime, officers would be dispatched to apprehend them.

The act of preempting crimes provoked quite a stir abroad. Some foreign media painted it as an infringement of citizens' rights, loudly proclaiming "the big brother is watching you!" and sternly criticizing the Skynet System.

As for the Eastern populace... apart from a minority of public intellectuals who were biased in their thinking, the overwhelming majority of ordinary people still hoped to see the upgraded Skynet System go live. This would not only help the Special Affairs Bureau deal with anomalies but also significantly reduce crime rates, making cities and towns safer.

As for the freedom foreign media talked about? Firms like Facebook, Apple, and even the Pentagon—when have they ever stopped covertly collecting user data? These slogans sound nice, but even the foreigners themselves don't believe them.

However, for players, dealing with the Skynet System was a bit tricky. Surveillance cameras would lock on to personal information based on one's appearance, meaning that usual disguise methods were no longer viable. If one were to disguise as another real person, Skynet would directly detect it, and if they were to disguise as a non-existent person, Skynet would be just as highly alert.

This was very, very troublesome.

It's not like one could replace all the neighbors in the nearby community with mimetic Worms like in a sci-fi horror novel, right?

Li Ang was no devil.

If he replaced the entire neighborhood, who would make him grilled cold noodles? Who would prepare his lemon-flavored chicken feet? Who would make him chive boxes?

Nutrition must be ensured.

After all, Chaichai is the daughter of a wealthy family, well-educated, and with the Brain Worm to assist her, she shouldn't encounter any problems...

Li Ang reassured himself with that thought and placed his phone on the coffee table.

[The second stage of the realm's corridor battle has officially begun. Competition rules are available for consultation in the personal panel notification section.]

[Participation request has been approved.]

[Search for opponent succeeded.]

[Countdown to entering the Realms Corridor: 3 minutes. Please prepare for battle.]

The System's notification rang out unexpectedly in his ears. Li Ang, wearing the Mirage Dragon Red Mane Coat, looked serious as he stood up from the couch. So soon?

The 3 minutes passed in a flash. Li Ang left a note on the coffee table and, through the Divine Power Connection, sent out instructions to the aerial Bug Nest units flying high above Yin City, telling them to remind Chaichai when his match was starting and to improvise if anything came up.