Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 545 Deviation
Since most disputes cannot be resolved in a single gladiatorial contest, and even if multiple gladiatorial contests are required, scheduling them in one day is not appropriate... Therefore, in such situations, ensuring that the mechanical dragons get enough rest becomes an important issue.

Both the Allied Powers and the United States equipped their arenas with extremely luxurious living facilities. In layman's terms, these were grand mansions specifically for the mechanical dragons; even high-ranking officials couldn't afford to live there without holding a relevant position!
Mu Xiang is now lying on the bed in the big house, recalling what he observed during the day and the many problems.

At first glance, the setup for the mecha gladiatorial combat seemed fine: a host, referees, spectators, and mecha dragons from two different countries. The host was responsible for introducing the two competitors and handling various miscellaneous tasks, including reading advertisements, and occasionally providing commentary; however, there was no interaction between the host and the mecha dragons, with the referees acting as their intermediaries.

The referees come from the referee committee, that goes without saying... but where does the referee committee come from?

The phone that Chu Xuan modified is now in Liu Xi's hands. As a veteran member of the roving group, one of her tasks is to use this phone to capture information from the network in this world and then inform Mu Xiang.

If Mu Xiang hadn't done it himself, the best solution would have been to hand it over to Zhao Yingkong… Back when Chu Xuan was still around, Zhao Yingkong was second only to him in hacking skills. Well, besides the two of them, it seems no one else on the Zhongzhou team dared to claim they knew these things.

However, after the division of labor, giving the phone to Zhao Yingkong restricted the other groups. Unfortunately, while the original version of this phone was easy to obtain, essentially like roadside electronic waste to the Zhongzhou team; the one phone, modified by Chu Xuan with significantly enhanced performance and functionality, was the only one of its kind.

So the final result is that Zhao Yingkong follows Mu Xiang, and in addition to playing the mechanical dragon, she also needs to master the computer technology of this world to obtain more information; while Liu Xi uses that mobile phone and her terrifying computing power to filter the content on the Internet.

Indeed, as they predicted, the history of the internet is not long when looking back from their time, but the increase in the total amount of information is terrifying. And from the 21st to the 26th century, the expansion of information cannot be described in terms of geometric multiples; the sheer volume is also quite staggering.

But... even with that phone, searching was extremely difficult.

Chu Xuan referenced numerous technologies from various high-tech information technology exchange items and blueprints (he squeezed Mu Xiang out of a hefty sum during the exchange) before finally developing the extended framework for this phone… Essentially, this unique phone is an integration of many high-tech technologies from the Main God's domain. Just like the web scraping and intrusion technology in the original work, Chu Xuan also equipped the phone's program with risk assessment.

Normally, this phone displays a green light when infiltrating a network, indicating a smooth process; a yellow light means the speed is not ideal, but there is basically no risk; a red light means that its information has been exposed, and it may even have failed to infiltrate the network. Mu Xiang has used it for so long, and it has always shown a green light... but in this world, it mainly shows a yellow light, and sometimes it even turns red.

With address simulation and information recasting technology, even if the phone fails to infiltrate, the harvest will be less than satisfactory, but it can still escape from the enemy's network defense mechanism... However, after entering this world, it will even give an advance warning of the possibility of escape failure.

Judging from Liu Xi's feedback, the network technology in this world is quite advanced, so advanced that even with this phone, there's a possibility of making a mistake...

But when Mu Xiang asked Zhao Yingkong, her answer was completely different… After using the equipment of this world to access the internet, she didn't discover any secrets. Mastering the information technology of this era wasn't difficult; much of the logic was still inherited from 20th-century technology.

It could even be said that, apart from the information volume expanding by tens of millions of times, the progress of the internet in this era is not even commensurate with the changes of the past five hundred years. This is a paradox about the internet... Mu Xiang believed that they would not make any basic mistakes, so the answer was obvious: the internet in this world is far more complex than it appears on the surface.

Perfect evidence of this is that when Liu Xi was searching for information about the referee committee, her phone would inevitably go from yellow to red, and she would be warned that if she didn't destroy the records, she would be locked out... The information that was forcibly seized without regard to the risks was also of no use.

This network information even included numerous internal networks of the Allies and the United States, but very little of it was related to the Tribunal. At first glance, the Tribunal seemed to exist as if it did not.

Apart from public hearings triggered by major gladiatorial disputes, the referee committee doesn't even show up... and in international gladiatorial combat, they are merely mentioned by name.

This organization, which wields terrifying coercive power over the Allies and the United States concerning their territories, can conveniently remain hidden... and in this world, there isn't even any discussion about it!

As for the referee in charge of the actual matches, it was quite bizarre... Some time ago, after a gladiatorial contest on the Eastern Front, Zero used a Gauss sniper rifle to kill that referee. But apart from the gunshot causing a commotion on the perimeter and attracting the attention of the venue security, nothing else happened.

As if no one noticed that the referee was dead, the aircraft carried the referee's body away, a scene that made Zhang Jie's heart tremble.

In his words... it was as if the referee and the others were from two different worlds, and apart from a little interaction during the game, they were completely unrelated.

[If that's the case, why was there a hearing after the accident in the movie...? Alexander also mentioned that the Allies and the United States needed a tribunal to adjudicate disputes.]

[Judging from her feedback, it seems the Tribunal doesn't even exist in this world; all useful information about it is hidden beneath the seemingly ordinary network... But this is different from the Tribunal's powerful influence, after all, it even broadcasts its hearings live.]

The only explanation I can think of right now is that it's related to the referee committee and only appears when necessary... otherwise, it's not necessary and thus remains hidden. But this undoubtedly goes against the understanding of the entire world. Could it be that some external force has already managed to trap Earth in this carefully woven cage of perception?

"I need to ask Alexander tonight..." Mu Xiang opened his eyes and muttered to himself.

(End of this chapter)