Disaster Simulator, global collapse begins.

The final convergence of these two storylines deeply moved me. The same story, viewed from an adventurer's perspective, is a great heroic legend, a story you can still tell your grandchildren when you're old and worn out, a legendary experience you might only participate in once in your life; but viewed from a ruler's perspective, it's just a boring document you need to sign, an ordinary story of an unknown person, and 50 archers that you can easily give away.

The legend of an ordinary person, the daily life of a ruler. The tension between the two is very strong; I think even the production team probably didn't expect it to have this effect.

This also prompted me to reflect on "grand narratives." I won't go into my thoughts here, but I'll just talk about this particular issue—it's not about games or politics, but about "narrative" and how individuals perceive the world. I think everyone will have their own insights.

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Instead of blindly pursuing grandiose and empty rhetoric, stacking boxes to become stronger, and leveling up to be invincible... I will write stories about ordinary people.

It uses an ordinary story to create a grand backdrop, but the ending is an attempt that fails.

Indeed, innovation is something only big shots can do. Only those with their own fan base can make various innovative breakthroughs; those who fail simply can't handle it.

I'm wrong.

They'll do it again next time.

"Just wondering, do you prefer an author who loves to come up with all sorts of new ideas, or a more conventional author?"

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Chapter 164 This man comes from the future!

Is this man from the future?

Upon hearing such outrageous words, everyone's first reaction was disbelief, even though Chen Jie had just lit up the night sky over the entire Eurasian continent.

"Kruman Williams, a renowned biologist, currently works at the Federal Fort Derek Biological Laboratory. The man beside me is also Kruman, who came from the future with me..."

"Ken Komura, a materials science researcher from the Kingdom of Yagi..."

"Zheng Tianjiao, a software technology expert from the Vermilion Bird Kingdom..."

To enhance his persuasiveness, Chen Jie also brought out experts from these parallel worlds.

Through their personal terminals, the Umbrella Corporation had prepared their statements in advance. When contacting various countries, they would claim to come from the same destroyed world and travel back using some strange artifact.

Although we don't know what the real bizarre resurgence looks like, it's never wrong to exaggerate the strength of the enemy.

This should be taken seriously by all countries.

If someone like the Prophet were to emerge who gains abilities through boasting, then we'd have no choice but to accept defeat and ask the all-powerful God to shoot an arrow across the world.

"I believe that many people, including those who know these people and even those of you who are themselves, are wondering about this."

"We come from a world that has been largely destroyed by demons and monsters."

Chen Jie began playing a slideshow, which featured ruins of various cities, with no trace of Photoshop or special effects.

After all, these photos are real.

Time and again, I traversed the simulated apocalypse, recording the scenes with my terminal. Once bustling cities were now in ruins, and barbarism had once again invaded the territory of civilization, creating a stunningly beautiful apocalyptic scene.

The scene shifts to the Umbrella Corporation headquarters, a massive building constructed entirely of Soul-like steel, resembling a giant steel fortress.

"This is the protective umbrella."

From this angle, you can also see the Empire State Building, which is mostly broken.

"Among the few remaining human resistance groups in the apocalypse, by chance, we learned of a sinister plan: to travel back in time and eliminate us resistance fighters..."

Next, Chen Jie told a heavily modified version of the Terminator story.

The supernatural being came to kill him and his parents when he was a child. At this time, Ellie appeared. After a series of complex struggles, Umbrella successfully eliminated the supernatural being that had the ability to travel through time. At the same time, most of the organization also traveled to the past.

We hope to unite all nations and change the future!

1 million, 2 million... Several video websites have already crashed. This is not the fake number they usually boast about, but a real surge of traffic.

Chen Jie then showcased flying cars, nanomachines, miniaturized controlled nuclear fusion, and a battle between powered armored humans and mechanical guards inside a crystal palace…

People finally understand why it was placed in international waters.

The scale was enormous, almost like a military exercise. If such military strength were exposed within a country, that country's leaders would probably go crazy.

To be honest, even just what's been exposed so far is already overwhelming for major powers.

However, they have already started contacting each other privately through various channels and with their protectors.

The response to this protection umbrella is to treat all countries equally, without contacting any particular country individually, and will only continue to discuss various issues in public meetings.

Chen Jie and the employees of these Umbrella Corporation did not return to the Federation for the time being. Who knew what complicated situation might be there? With the flow of Soul Steel, they used the Crystal Palace as a foundation to temporarily build a small house.

After a series of consultations among various countries, a global representative conference will be held at the United Nations building in three days, and Chen Jie and other experts from the protection umbrella will be specially invited to attend.

Those bewildered experts from this world were also invited to the building by various countries and research institutes.

Each of them was instilled with numerous tasks by their respective countries and organizations, including meeting, negotiating, and searching for loopholes and discords in each other's words by those who claimed to be their future selves.

As time was running out.

Upon arriving in international waters, the fleets of various nations surrounding and observing the Crystal Castle suddenly noticed that the nanomechanical structures covering its surface had transformed into a futuristic-looking spaceship.

And so, they flew towards New York.

That's right, this is blatant showing off of technology.

The United Nations building is located in Manhattan, which is quite close to Chen Jie's building. If it weren't so conspicuous and watched by so many people, he could have easily ridden a shared bike there in an hour, and even grabbed a sandwich from SBWAY along the way.

The spaceship landed above the public entrance to the United Nations headquarters, from where you can still see the famous knotted pistol sculpture.

In order to attract attention, Chen Jie took out a small amount of Originium from the dimensional rift and stuffed it into the etching engine.

The light that was originally impossible to capture was thus shaped, creating a long staircase of light.

The Umbrella Corporation team entered the building.

Hours before the meeting, according to the agreed-upon procedure, the experts from the protective umbrella would meet with another me.

With the help of personal terminals, even if the bizarre resurgence is a lie, everyone's story will remain consistent.

On Chen Jie's side, before the formal public meeting, various countries would hold a small meeting with him that would not be broadcast live.

"To be honest, I have absolutely no desire to get involved in your political struggles." Chen Jie decided to take the initiative and avoid being drawn into areas he was not good at.

"A strange resurgence, terrifying things emerge from the human heart, and you politicians, and those capitalists who do business... these are the two groups of people most resented."

"At that time, more than 90% of you will die, and die a terrible death. This will be the beginning of the collapse of the future civilized order."

Chen Jie played a royal flush, a move that would kill everyone, and it was incredibly effective.

The words that the politicians from various countries had prepared were immediately cut off.

"The disaster is scheduled to begin on April 8, 2036, which is less than three months away."

“I know what you want,” he said, taking out a piece of Soul Steel from the dimensional rift. The Soul Steel transformed into various models. “I can open up all technologies, including nuclear fusion, to all countries free of charge.”

Even if you manage to intimidate them with the threat of death, it's only a temporary verbal victory.

These political creatures are essentially never willing to act until they see a clear benefit; everyone wants to be the first to obtain a commitment from the other, and no one wants to make a commitment voluntarily.

To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, he's a scumbag who only wants to receive and doesn't want to give.

How can a group of such scumbags possibly have a meaningful conversation when they're all talking about what they want? This is one of the reasons why the United Nations has gradually lost its original purpose and become a place for endless bickering in recent years.

Chen Jie is different.

He only cares about efficiency.

Furthermore, in the simulated timeline, he never cared about revealing any secrets.

Need technology?

Okay, take them all.

Anyway, he had plenty of bait.

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Chapter 165 United Nations Special Disaster Research and Response Headquarters

Chen Jie doesn't understand any profound principles.

As a seasoned angler, he only knows that if you want to catch fish, you can't skimp on baiting!

Only by being generous with the bait and preparing the groundbait well can you attract more and farther fish. When they are enjoying the food, they won't be so careful to distinguish whether there is a hook on the bait.

These politicians are like fish; they eat until they're stuffed to death without ever realizing they're full.

On one hand, there is the threat to their own lives; on the other hand, there is the allure of technology that is a century ahead or even more.

The five gangsters took the lead, and their underlings followed suit.

The subsequent public meetings were very harmonious, with Chen Jie meeting cordially with representatives from various countries, shaking hands and signing agreements to jointly address the impending challenges.

It has the greatest impact on the lives of ordinary people.

It's probably the martial arts manual and training methods that Umbrella Corporation has made public!

In the demonstration, the young man named Eto was able to overturn trucks and tear apart tanks with his bare hands, perfectly fulfilling people's imagination of super soldiers.

The key point is that Chen Jie, the leader of the protective umbrella, explained that as long as one is willing to put in the effort to cultivate, everyone can possess this power.

Ah... he just deliberately ignored something called talent.

Only those with exceptional talent can achieve the ability to tear apart a tank with their bare hands within a few years, which is equivalent to B-level combat power. Those with slightly less talent may need to work hard for more than ten or even several decades.

Those with very poor talent might need hundreds of years to reach Rank B.

That makes sense; everyone can possess this power. But since people don't live for hundreds of years, it's no longer a problem with Chen Jie and martial arts.

In fact, during the initial negotiations, various countries were reluctant to allow this martial art to spread.

However, Chen Jie overruled the objections, stating that these martial arts skills are highly dependent on talent. Instead of having special forces train these skills, countries should instead spread them out and select highly talented individuals from the general public to form special forces.

In fact, even if other countries disagree, he will still insist on spreading martial arts.

This has almost become something he does in every simulation: using the collective wisdom to nurture and feed back, and then arranging for the people under the umbrella to reap the rewards as the simulation nears its end!

The martial arts currently being disseminated, and those brought from the Honkai world just a dozen or so times before the simulations, have already been updated several times.

Of course, this model of leveraging global wisdom for development also has its limits.

The improvement in martial arts skills in recent simulations has become increasingly smaller. On the one hand, the time period for each simulation is fixed, and people's thinking and wisdom are within that time period. On the other hand, you can't get to the top even if you step on your own foot.

For martial arts based on Honkai energy to advance further, it would require at least several hundred years of development, like when the prophet went into hiding, and the emergence of an outstanding genius before a breakthrough could be possible.

Six days later, the White Eagle Federation's expert fleet was the first to arrive at Crystal Island.

In fact, the Suzaku Kingdom mobilized even faster, but it was quite far away, separated by most of the Pacific Ocean...

The mobilization order was of wartime scale, and all major powers demonstrated mobilization capabilities commensurate with their size.

No matter what you were researching before, how important your research projects were, or how much you boasted about them, I'm sorry, but now the country needs you to research something else.

Because they didn't know how to study the supernatural (in fact, even the Protector didn't know), the experts they recruited came from all walks of life.

Broadly speaking, physics, chemistry, and biology are traditionally categorized into many subcategories and interdisciplinary fields.

All countries adhere to the principle that if a discipline exists, an expert must be present. It is better to have them idle and receive a salary than to be without the necessary professionals in case of an emergency.

After all, it concerns the lives of these politicians.

Even historians, mythologists who study local folklore and mysticism, and so on, are included.

Led by the Umbrella Corporation, this organization, temporarily affiliated with the United Nations and established by various countries, is called the United Nations Special Disaster Research and Response Headquarters (UNST).

It is abbreviated as NSDRRD, or simply called SDRRD.

The headquarters is located at the crystal castle that the fairy Ellie shot out with an arrow.

The crystal pillar that pierces the seabed is strong enough, and countries will bring their huge research ships to the vicinity of the crystal pillar. This floating platform will serve as their respective research facilities.

The alliance's experts were the first to witness this miracle.

The ship beneath their feet seemed to come alive; as the metal writhed, it was transformed into a soul-like steel structure and fixed to the crystal pillar.

In the future, ships from other countries will do the same, eventually piecing together a huge island to serve as the headquarters of SDRRD.

Chen Jie kept his promise.

After the arrival of federal experts, the entire database on the surface of the Umbrella was opened to them.

These are the culmination of over a century of technological development by the Earth Alliance after the Umbrella Corporation unified countries around the world!

One by one, technologies and data were transmitted back, and regardless of their accuracy, they had to be packaged up and sent back for further evaluation.