There's something wrong with me

Chapter 217 Large-Scale Collection and Drill

Zhang Feng's arrangement was transferred to the data center's security department through Lao Liu, and the personnel list was finally submitted.

Wait until the arrangements are completed.

"Disaster drill?"

Upon hearing this personnel deployment, the security supervisor glanced at the list on the screen and discovered that it consisted of the base's most elite personnel.

Listening to what Mr. Zhang and Mr. Liu meant, it seems they wanted to have a nationwide live stream and compete with grassroots teams.
So, it seems that there are very few people on their side, only a little over ten thousand.

But the person in charge also knew that this was definitely a 'dimensional reduction attack'.

Because these 10,000 people have participated in various virtual disaster drills over the past ten years.

Whether it's an individual or a small team, or a collaborative team effort.

Or it could be a solo action after the team is unexpectedly scattered.

They are all top-notch.

His abilities are outstanding.

This includes a virtual trial against an alien civilization.

The researchers inside also have a certain degree of self-protection ability.

Of course, their regular virtual workouts do not affect their real-world work.

Currently, data center staff are required to work eight-hour workdays.

Furthermore, some scientific research can now be conducted in the virtual world.

With the added pressure of a simulated alien civilization attacking them, they might just break through.

In any case, each research group in the research hall has its own research methods.

Zhang Feng didn't care about these things; he simply stipulated that everyone was not allowed to stay in the research hall in reality for 8 hours.

In the virtual world, it's up to you.

Because when they are mentally exhausted, a notification will sound to indicate that they are offline, giving them time to copy information.

Even if it's not copied, it's preserved in the virtual world.

As for the possibility of suddenly breaking through and then being forcibly logged out, that won't happen.

After all, in the virtual world, as long as they can think of something, it can be visualized in the virtual world.

Therefore, there is no factor that could cause scientific progress to be suddenly interrupted.

The same principle applies to breakthroughs in martial arts skills for special forces personnel.

Just like Zhang Feng's breakthrough in the adventure world, all you need is memories and knowledge.

With knowledge, reality can quickly catch up.

The integration of virtual spiritual technology with extraordinary real-life experiences has become increasingly sophisticated after more than a decade of refinement.

Ultimately, apart from the Golden Core Four-Dimensional technology five years ago, the past ten years or so have seen reality rapidly absorbing superconductivity and previous technologies.

The potential risks of forcing growth have been largely eliminated.

I'll be close to fully understanding it soon.

Because it has been nearly thirty years since the awakening of the extraordinary.

The foundation of the Federation is becoming increasingly solid.

However, the public is probably unaware of the federal government's capabilities, nor is they aware that the federal government is already engaged in simulated combat with aliens.

Therefore, Zhang Feng wanted to take advantage of this large-scale training exercise to give the public some understanding of the Federation's strength and to make everyone feel a greater sense of honor and belonging to their 'big family, the Federation'.

This was actually part of the plan long ago.

However, Zhang Feng felt that he was too weak and not skillful enough before, so he kept suppressing it.

……

Under Zhang Feng's plan, and after comprehensive optimization by the planning department, it was further improved.

There is also the testing and addition of causal variable rules.

The next day at noon.

An official announcement has been released.

That is the virtual world of the official 'External Civilization Drill' and 'Natural Disaster Drill', which will be fully open to social players and will feature a 'team ranking' leaderboard.

This is part of the planning department's plan, and it's meant to be an encouragement, to give everyone some understanding of their own roles.

As for the teams, they are actually various official teams and ordinary gangs from the general public.

Of course, it is also possible for private gangs to come together and form a larger virtual gang.

This guild doesn't even have a 'guild creation order'.

The official statement also emphasized that 'building a guild' does not require any additional money or other regulations.

All it takes is for a group of people to want to form a gang, and with a single thought, their gang is formed.

In contrast, if they want to leave the gang or betray it, it's just a matter of a thought, and they won't be punished in the virtual world.

A complete simulation.

Also today.

When the news of the drills being open to the world came out, most people were stunned.

It's important to know that this data should all be considered 'secret'.

But the current opening up seems to be a kind of signal.

This is a major update for the virtual world!
This 'virtual flood' ranking has already taken into account, and various teams from the public have been ranked on the list.

This list can be viewed on the official website.

The team ranked first is called 'Hengshi Gang'.

Their number is 124.

You can see the specific rankings and data by clicking on the list.

And it happened that afternoon.

With the official rankings released.

Many people clicked on it out of curiosity and saw the specific 'rescue information' inside.

(Champion: Hengshi Gang)
(Team size: 124)

(Saving everyday survival supplies: 12 tons)
(Rescue of scientific instruments: 0 items)
……

"In one city, only... this many people were saved?"

When the public saw this information, they stared wide-eyed, unable to believe that they were ranked first with such an outrageous score.

Subsequently, they made it a habit to leave messages on the platform, and these messages were anonymous to the public.

(Holy crap, just like the live streams I've seen, they're all playing city battle royale, right?)
(Disaster World mode completed, the pro players are awesome!)
(To be honest, after seeing such a disaster scene, I don't want to live with those expert guys.)
(You took the game seriously, didn't you?)

(To refute the comment above, it's not about whether it's serious or not, but rather a person's first choice. If it were me, I would choose to save the city.)

(What era are we living in? How can there still be saints?)
(Is this what they call a saint? If those who save people from disasters are saints, then professions like firefighters and doctors wouldn't need to exist.)

(Yes, some people are ridiculous. They always talk about the Holy Mother. If you are an ordinary person, you'd better pray during a disaster. You've encountered the 'Holy Mother' you're talking about.)
(I support the guy upstairs. The person who shouts "Mother Mary" the loudest is often the first to beg her to let him live, because he is selfish. And if he is selfish, he is definitely afraid of death.)

As the topic of the Virgin Mary unfolded, the comments section went off-topic.

Many people are arguing about it.

However, most people with sound values ​​remain silent because they know that "Saint Mary" is actually a positive term, representing benevolence and greatness.

It's just that it's been distorted by the twisted internet of decades ago, turning into a kind of moral high ground of criticism.

Judging from the statements of these anonymous individuals, many people still do not understand.

at the same time.

These people, who mostly remained silent, then looked at the second-place team, an abstract group called (Beg for mercy, Shout out), with 351 members.

(Rescue supplies: 11 tons)
(Research: 0 items)
Second place is also outrageous.

Even the guys who didn't comment were confused, thinking that none of the players were good people.

If you scroll down to the very bottom of the rankings, you'll find the last one.

This is a team called 'Super Destroyers'.

There are 1571 members.

(Rescue supplies: -1568 tons)
(Scientific research: -116 items)
To be honest, when this result came out...

Most people found it funny, feeling that everyone was just making a fuss and engaging in a battle.

Including the past month, the virtual world has also been live-streaming.

The public witnessed all the gangs engaging in a frenzied killing spree.

The reason why the first and second teams are able to save supplies is because they are afraid of starving to death in the real simulation.

Many teams live on a whim, treating it like a post-apocalyptic looting game.

Furthermore, even if a flood comes, they can still go out to sea to fish.

Their strong physique and combat capabilities make them completely unafraid of these minor disasters.

After all, people who can afford to buy helmets have a certain amount of financial resources.

In addition to the various medicines and training methods available in reality, anyone who is dedicated to martial arts training can improve significantly.

This also means that even the player with the lowest physical constitution to enter the game has a constitution of '20+'.

Faced with these floods, the 20 teams had many strong members to rely on.

There's nothing to be afraid of.

And after looking at the entire list...

Ultimately, in the minds of all the people, this perfectly good disaster relief simulator was successfully turned into a city brawl.

With the strength of these five million martial artists, the land was already littered with corpses and ruins before the flood even arrived.

They have already demolished a large part of the city.

And so it came to this result.

Most people who begin to practice Taoist and Buddhist principles are pondering and feel that this is absolutely wrong.

However, it also makes sense that since players are 'players' and not official figures, they can do this. This is a big philosophical question, and there is no absolute right or wrong answer, but it has made many people start to examine themselves.

Furthermore, the official team also released a questionnaire about mindset.

As long as you answer honestly and meet the verification standards, and have more than ten people sign, you will be rewarded with a spirit stone.

If you don't have any friends, you'll need previous teacher/student verification.

This is also the strategy of the planning department, which directly put forward a major practice about the mindset of the whole world.

After all, in reality, the current situation leans more towards a 'cultivation civilization' for all of humanity.

This is not the original reality; no one cultivates immortality anymore, so a simple ideological education suffices.

If we don't address the issue of mindset now, then in the future, when the strength of the entire population increases and the Earth is divided into separate planets, with each planet having its own 'autonomous' colonies that the federation can't control, this will become a major problem.

This includes feedback on the public's mindset, as well as expressions of emotions and desires.

Data centers are collecting data.

Zhang Feng was also looking at it. Firstly, to integrate his own soul (Nascent Soul), he needed data related to 'spirit and emotion' as further analysis of the soul.

Secondly, like the planning department, we should take preventative measures.

In contemporary cultivation practices, more emphasis is placed on 'mental character'.

Of course, many people who want to destroy the world wouldn't dare to say it outright in such an official questionnaire.

……

In the days that followed, most of the virtual buildings were updated to accommodate the access permissions of non-players.

This includes ideas for resetting the world of floods, along with adding virtual citizens.

At Zhang Feng's instruction, the task was also given to the public, who were allowed to create their own favorite characters and place them in the virtual world as the 'rescue difficulty' for official drills.

This interaction between the federal government and the public, in particular, thoroughly ignited the enthusiasm of many people, who then began writing character sketches and submitting manuscripts.

The virtual building will be generated as realistically as possible and then sent to their phones for them to debug and modify.

However, it cannot be written too outrageously, such as creating a divine dragon and giving it 1000 bodies.

Because this official drill was conducted with all official personnel 'suppressing all physical limitations', only the most basic level 10 was used.

Furthermore, virtual citizens must also suppress 'most physical attributes', with a maximum of 30.

This maximizes the preservation of 'knowledge and collaboration'.

This also indirectly increases the difficulty of the rescue.

After all, it would be terrifying if a group of 30 people were to cause trouble during the rescue plan.

……

Also that evening.

The opening ceremony was broadcast globally by directors and the official live stream.

Most of the federal population also stayed in front of their phones, TVs, and computers, watching as more than 10,000 disguised data center personnel were dispersed and descended on the outskirts of the city.

In the upper right corner of the screen, a disaster countdown was displayed.

Furthermore, through continuous live camera work and announcers revealing the official positions of personnel within this virtual world, the virtual world is presented in a captivating manner.

Everyone knows that 'official players' don't have a very powerful status in this world.

Even the highest-ranking 'Captain Zhao' is just a lowly law enforcement officer here.

But in reality, his official position within the Federation is 'Commander-in-Chief of the Data Center and the War Against Foreign Civilizations.'

In the virtual world, because of the 'blurring' process, both information and faces are modified and processed.

And this moment.

In everyone's observation.

Under the director's deliberate camera angles.

Most of the footage was focused on Captain Zhao.

Captain Zhao didn't seem to be anything special, but he quickly found the deputy commander and the others.

The remaining people who had arrived from different places also slowly gathered here through some gestures.

After that, to all the people present, it was just a few glances and simple exchanges between them.

And the gesture is different each time.

But after a few gestures, to the astonishment of the crowd, some official players who had just arrived at the gathering actually managed to create some simple rune weapons using superconducting items found in ordinary supermarkets.

Combat power is generated in an instant.

at the same time.

With everyone's strong 'hand-crafting ability' and excellent teamwork, this is remarkable.

Some players edited misanthropic individuals, while others formed groups that used "X-ray vision cheats" to cause trouble from the start, targeting official players.

But before they could even get close to Captain Zhao's inner circle, the special forces on the periphery easily subdued them.

Perspective is permitted, but only for a maximum of 500 people.

Otherwise, if all five million people could see through things, they wouldn't want to live anymore, and the system couldn't continue.

And in the short span of one day that followed,

After a quick discussion, more than 10,000 people split up and began to close down, suppress, and cooperate with others in the city.

After some minor turmoil.

Captain Zhao and his associates easily took over the city's official command and several large manufacturing plants.

The Federation's decisiveness, iron will, and skillful tactics of forming alliances were on full display in this one day.

So, you've cleared the level.

Whether it's leading the people to higher ground or setting up dome structures by the sea, everything will proceed smoothly.

Online communities also began offering their congratulations in advance, expressing their joy at being born into such a powerful federation.

However, at this time of national celebration...

However, several messages, as if pre-arranged, were simultaneously released in the live stream chat.

(Although the virtual characters you set up have all stopped working, the three hundred people our company has set up are still operating in secret. Their goal is to sabotage the rescue efforts.)
(Although the virtual characters you created...)
The continuous stream of hundreds of comments indicates that the rescue operation is not yet over.

When people see government officials in the virtual world working together on reconstruction and rescue, they feel happy, encouraged, and proud.

Just at this moment.

When everyone sees these people saying such things.

It is undoubtedly uncomfortable.

Even though everyone wanted to make things difficult for the official team before, now that the difficulties have been overcome, most people don't want others to add to the difficulty.

This feeling is awkward, but it's a true reflection of how some people feel.

And everyone watched the live stream with even greater anxiety, wanting to know how the officials would resolve these issues.

(Could we switch perspectives...?)
(I want to see 300 people!)

Many more people left comments in the live chat, wanting to see the perspective of those three hundred people.

at the same time.

As the number of comments increased, the official response was timely, and to satisfy everyone's curiosity, the focus was shifted to the three hundred people.

But with this look...

Everyone stopped talking.

They stopped talking about the 300 troublemakers who had spoken earlier.

Because the camera panned.

This was a rather dimly lit factory, and in the factory's open space, three hundred people were squatting with their heads in their hands.

"Name, age".

A special forces officer is currently questioning them, asking, "Tell me honestly, are there any accomplices involved in this plan?"

In the routine drills of official personnel.

Let alone three hundred troublemakers, they could even slowly uncover the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations infiltrating Earth.

Therefore, investigating and tracing these people is extremely easy.

(Soldiers are really amazing!)

(May the Federation prosper!)

At that moment, a barrage of comments appeared in the live chat, treating the troublemakers as clowns.

……

The time to come.

People kept checking the live stream to see how the rescue was progressing.

The outcome was exactly as expected.

Officials easily implemented the mass migration and basic urban support plan.

The fully functional factory facilities and research equipment allowed the dome material to be quickly spread along the entire seaside, forming a relatively complete drainage system.

After all, when the seawater surges in together, it can amount to tens of millions of tons.

Such an impact is definitely better for attracting traffic than for blocking it directly.

The final result was as predicted by the officials: the dome could not stop the seawater with its enormous kinetic energy.

However, after blocking the impact and diverting the flow, the damage to seaside buildings is not so great.

In addition, all supplies were transferred, and the people were either transferred on their own or forcibly moved while bound.

This rescue operation was perfect in terms of personnel rescue.

The federal public also witnessed that unified action is the foundation for preventing disasters.

This nationwide teaching program has also been included in the mandatory courses related to martial arts.

Furthermore, Zhang Feng obtained the data he wanted through this exercise.

(End of this chapter)