This time I chose Paladin

But at least as far as he could see, there were few responses.

Even according to some people's reactions...if he wasn't Nie Weiyang, those people might have kicked him out of the settlement.

There are too many people in this world who want to be local tyrants. In the minds of such people, the collapse of social structure is actually a good thing.

When Nie Weiyang set out again, the sky was getting light again.

The sun rose as usual today. He climbed over the mountain and looked ahead.

There was an empty city standing on the plain.

T6-C3510, here we are.

"Звёздноелето (Summer of Stars)"-АллаПугачёва/Ритм

Atomic Heart and its soundtrack once again proved to the world that the Maozi's art skill tree and their light industry are opposite (not so

Chapter 74 What kind of network are you connected to? ! !

T6-C3510 is a comprehensive living city and the closest pre-civilized city to Langcheng.

The city was eerily quiet.

The streets are paved with neat stone bricks, and the buildings on both sides are neither too high nor too low. The beige walls and brown floor tiles complement each other, creating a peaceful and warm atmosphere. The doors and windows on both sides of the road are closed, and the clean glass reflects the blue sky.

The black railway lights stood straight, the traffic lights changed as usual, but there was no traffic at the intersection, no footsteps on the sidewalk. The awnings of the cafes hung quietly, the tables clean as new; the park benches were empty, and the swings were motionless, yet it felt as if someone had just pushed them.

In the distant city center, a tall tower stands, its glass curtain wall reflecting the flowing clouds.

The elevators might still be running, the observation deck might still be rotating, but no tourists were pressing buttons, and no staff were on duty in the control room. The signal lights at the top of the tower flickered, like some kind of regular breathing, but no one responded.

The whole city seemed to be paused, leaving only buildings, streets and silent sunshine.

Nie Weiyang stepped onto the stone bricks.

Nie Weiyang had been here once in his previous life, but only once - so he didn't really know the map of the city very well. He only knew that it contained most of the common facilities.

Including shelters.

Yes, there's a shelter here. It's numbered '3539' and its type is 'Speed'. Passing the test rewards Agility and Endurance. Nie Weiyang had come here to farm this shelter for the initial rewards.

Now, there is no one else in the city.

Among this generation of humans, Nie Weiyang was the first to enter this place. As he stepped inside, the wind blew up a few leaves and gently dropped them at the other end of the street. The long pause ended, and everything restarted.

He quickly climbed up a small residential building, scanning the surroundings and comparing them with his mental image. Soon, he had a rough map in his mind and looked toward the distant towers in the city center.

This tall tower is like a silver sword, piercing straight into the sky. At the center of the tower is a column surrounded by a glass curtain wall. As it rises in height, it gradually narrows and finally turns into a sharp apex. The outer periphery is reinforced by eight staggered steel frames, which emit a cold metallic luster in the sun.

The middle section of the tower is surrounded by several protruding platforms, which are densely covered with disc-shaped satellite antennas and spider-web-like signal transmitters. Higher up, a row of red warning lights flash regularly, and the red light is hard to ignore regardless of day or night.

As early as last night, Nie Weiyang had already seen it from a distance on the mountain, but he hadn't entered it at night. After nightfall, the entire tower would be illuminated by spotlights at its base, its steel frame outlining sharp geometric lines in the darkness, becoming the most striking landmark in the entire city. And in this city that could accommodate millions of people, no fewer than twenty [CSSS-Cordons] would be deployed around the tower. They would crisscross the streets between districts, patrolling endlessly until dawn.

The most important thing is that as long as the combat state of a cordon is triggered, the tower will continuously refresh new cordons and may even release other attacks.

Nie Weiyang was confident that he wouldn't trigger the cordon if he entered the city at night, but why bother? He wasn't interested in infrastructure that only opened at night. Wouldn't it be better to just rest outside the city and come in openly during the day?

Nie Weiyang rode his bicycle through the long street towards the tower.

Under the gaze of the azure sky and white clouds, the empty city was filled with only the sound of spinning bicycle chains. The feeling of being watched lingered, but as Nie Weiyang approached the tower, it began to fade, then become intermittent. Finally, as Nie Weiyang reached the foot of the tower and ascended the first step, the Skywalker's sense of being watched vanished.

This is natural. The prying eyes of foreign demons will of course be blocked by local signal towers.

Yes, this tall tower is a signal tower, and its civilian name is 'City Voice Radio Station'.

【[City Voice Radio Station]-

The creature of the deceased wisdom. --

Listen to the voices and spread the truth.

The introduction was brief, but it said it all: the function of the City Voice was to gather the voices of the city's citizens, extract information, transform it into "truth," and then "broadcast" it. It was a massive reality-rewriting facility. However, control once rested with the city's residents, but now... at least not with humans like Nie Weiyang, who had arrived from another Earth.

In the new world, night is synonymous with danger. So, isn’t it normal that the sounds of the city at night also become dangerous?

Nie Weiyang came here to open the panoramic map of the C3510 city, a function that can only be activated through the City Voice host. Without this function, finding a car factory would be a hassle.

As he pushed open the door and entered the tower, the city's sounds faintly emanated, like the subtle hum of electricity flowing through metal, as if welcoming the arrival of another human. Nie Weiyang quickly walked towards the stairs, but after a few steps, he suddenly fell silent and looked towards the elevator.

In the previous life, these elevators were almost impossible to use unless you had a [CSSS Staff Serial Identification Card].

Without the certificate, outsiders will be expelled from the elevator and can only take the stairs... But there is another situation. If you already have a certificate or are eligible to have a certificate, you may be able to apply for a new identity certificate.

It wouldn't hurt to try it anyway, and there was no one watching around, so Nie Weiyang pressed the elevator button and got in.

The interior of this elevator is very spacious, and it has double doors at the front and back. He directly pressed the button for the top floor, which is the sightseeing floor. It is far away from the main unit located underground, but two floors down there is a staff operating terminal that is directly connected to the main unit.

A gentle female voice rang out in the elevator: "Hello, this elevator is reserved for urban residents in C3510. Your identity is not registered. Please show your CSSS employment certificate."

This voice is not AI, it is just a built-in voice.

"It's lost." Nie Weiyang said confidently, "You can get a replacement here, right?"

'Lost ID', 'Apply for a replacement'... After extracting these keywords, the gentle female voice was silent for a moment, then said, "Please wait, we are checking your registration information..."

Nie Weiyang actually didn't want it to find out anything, he just planned to try to temporarily obtain permission through other means.

This city had only just appeared. Unless it was connected to the outside world, his query wouldn't yield any real results. And as far as he knew, the world's internet servers hadn't been restarted yet, so it was impossible for these cities to be connected.

What he didn't expect was that after more than ten seconds, the female voice sounded again:

"…Query completed. Welcome to the T6-C3510 Comprehensive City, respected [Administrator No. ].

"Your access level is orange. You can access all non-core confidential areas within the city. Your ID is being reissued and will be delivered in ten minutes. You can operate the city's facilities without a ID. Enjoy your visit."

"..."

Nie Weiyang slowly raised his head and glanced at the camera in the elevator.

——You are really online.

This is not right! The server is not open. What network are you connected to? ! !

Chapter 75 City Voice Radio Station

No, no, no... How could the City Voice host know about Administrator No. 2?

No, even if the New World Internet Server is turned on, it shouldn't know about Administrator No. 2!

Nie Weiyang has always known that this inexplicably solidified BOSS identity must be hiding some kind of secret, and he even knew that there must be something wrong with the fact that his mental power was shown to be unreadable, but now this problem went beyond his assumptions.

Information, heat, demons—these things share one thing in common: they can't be without reason. The New World is experiencing unusual heat rises and falls, a natural crisis facing all of humanity. There's also the threat of demons from beyond time and space, a danger currently unknown to only a handful of people. Now, there's another problem, one known only to Nie Weiyang: without network support, how does information exchange between these hosts?

As the elevator went up, information in Nie Weiyang's mind raced, but nothing seemed unusual on the surface.

For any matter, simply discarding distracting information and clarifying the chain of processes and internal and external relationships can greatly reduce the difficulty of speculation. With sufficient information, materialistic thinking is the best way to solve problems...

Nie Weiyang sorted out his thoughts repeatedly in his mind.

— Put aside subjective factors, let go of emotional interference, and only put objective conditions and factors that you can understand and control into a table. Stop unrealistic fantasies, and you will truly find and solve problems...

In the elevator, the young man frowned and closed his eyes, his sunglasses hiding this rare change in his expression.

Now, he has a guess...

...Netherworld.

That place that had not been truly explored even twenty years after the previous life, now all wireless signals are directed there, because there is indeed a huge information distribution center there, but its true appearance is still unknown.

If there's a place in the New World where information can flow freely across the internet, it's the Netherworld. As creatures of a lost wisdom, even the cordons can be equipped with Netherworld signal transceivers. How could the City Voice, a massive signal tower capable of creating and releasing even more cordons, be without this device?

Therefore, it is reasonable to say that it is information obtained from the underworld.

But this raises another question: If the information comes from the Netherworld, then why does the Netherworld have the information that 'Nie Weiyang = Administrator No. 2'?

Currently, the only ones who know this information are the shelter system, the terrain editor, and... the "New World" game itself.

But the terrain editor is part of the planet's native control system, not the Underworld. The Sanctuary is said to be part of the CSSS, but it's actually more of a standalone system... Could it be that New World's gameplay system itself is connected to the Underworld? Then why does it appear to be a game that fits the stereotype?

Too many questions, too little evidence. Nie Weiyang sincerely felt that he didn't know enough. He summarized these doubts and then put them aside for the time being, waiting for more information.

The elevator door opened and a beam of light shone in.

Nie Weiyang walked out of the elevator and looked around. The scenery on the observation deck was beautiful. He could see how the lush forest wrapped around the wilderness, and how the wilderness surrounded the deserted city.

When one stands at such a height, the wind blowing through one's clothes, a sense of heroic spirit surges from one's chest. The desire to ascend to a height, to gaze into the distance, to soar into the sky, is an instinct etched in human blood.

After taking a look, Nie Weiyang walked down two floors, found the control terminal, and sat on the chair.

"Hello, respected Administrator No. 2..."

"Wait a moment," Nie Weiyang said. "From now on, you are prohibited from calling me the Second Administrator unless I'm wearing the Second Administrator uniform. Also, in addition to my administrator ID, please give me a CSSS Security System Staff ID."

The host calmly accepted the command: "Yes. Please reset your private alias."

"Nie."

"Okay, dear Mr. Nie, the alias has been set. Please proceed with your operation."

A light screen projected an operating interface. A huge three-dimensional map of the city stood in the middle. Most of the functions on both sides were unusable. Nie Weiyang swiped through them and found a usable function.

【[City Voice Today’s Broadcast]

Play any audio and get the city's response.

·Use to synchronize the current city map. 】

This is it.

He was about to click on the today's broadcast function, but suddenly paused: What should I play?

Although this function can be used even with just a cough, Nie Weiyang thought about it and smiled, then pulled out a wire from the operating terminal and connected it to the Walkman on his waist.

It is forbidden to play songs on demand. Of course, you cannot play songs on demand on your Walkman, but there is no need to play songs on demand.

A melodious, silent music echoed in the city. The peaceful music progressed with the progress bar, and the light notes jumped between the wind and clouds, the trees and the river. Nie Weiyang took out a thermos cup, but did not unscrew the lid. He just slowly stroked its texture, the texture from the earth's light industry.

Later on, there were fewer and fewer such things.

When the progress bar finished, he put away the thermos, disconnected the connection, opened his map function to check, stood up with satisfaction, and prepared to close the operating terminal and go somewhere else to have a look.

But the scene displayed on the terminal map made him exclaim "Huh?"

Several red dots of varying sizes appeared on the edge of the vast city map, advancing along the road toward the city. Above them, a label floated: [Invaders].