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Chapter 336: White Embers

At the same time that Samuel saw Chen Chen, Chen Chen was reclining lazily in a black seat in the Spire Experimental Base in Africa.

At this time, there was also a silver-white Rubik's Cube in front of him and the figure displayed by the Rubik's Cube was Samuel, who was thousands of miles away.

This silver Rubik's Cube retrieved from the world of Prometheus turned out to be not only a holographic recording device but also a communication tool. As long as the two devices were connected by a communication signal, they could effectively function as a phone call.

At this moment, Chen Chen was holding his chin with one hand and chuckled. "Samuel, you are deteriorating as you live. When your daughter was still in a wheelchair, weren't you very strong? Why are you now reduced to this mess?"

"Your Excellency Chen Chen, since you already know everything, please help me and rescue my daughter. As long as you rescue my daughter, I'm willing to do anything for you. I can even go to Africa for research!"

Samuel was crying bitterly and vowing loudly, not minding that his embarrassed pathetic side was exposed before Chen Chen.

"We can endure any suffering when we don't harbor any hopes, but if we're trapped in love and tenderness, tsk tsk..."

Chen Chen shook his head with an indifferent expression. "Samuel, there's no shortage of talents in God's Forbidden Zone now. Using yourself to trade with me? How much exactly do you think you're worth?"

"I..."

Samuel opened his mouth but he did not say anything. He still remembered that as early as a year ago, he had declined Chen Chen's invitation and actively chose to stay away from the core of God's Forbidden Zone, becoming someone at the margins.

At that time, Chen Chen reminded him that if this is the case, Samuel would just enjoy the rest of his life over there.

"It's not impossible for me to help you."

After thinking about it, Chen Chen suddenly changed his tone and said temptingly, "I have a new experiment that needs manpower. If you're willing to participate, as a reward, I can help you save your daughter..."

"I'm willing to participate!"

Without even thinking about it, Samuel agreed at once. "No matter what the experiment is, I'm willing to participate. Please can you..."

"Hold on a moment!"

Before Samuel was finished, Chen Chen interrupted his hasty promise. "I'll make it clear first. I need a group of professional researchers for this experiment and these researchers will experience great risk during the experiment. In the worst case, you might even die. Are you sure you want to participate?"

Samuel was stunned for a moment. "What kind of experiment is it? Is it to study the Blacklight virus in the most advanced biosafety laboratory?"

"No, compared with this experiment, the danger of the Blacklight virus is only at the level of junior high school students."

Chen Chen shook his head and said slowly, methodically, "The new experiment is an information hazard experiment. Researchers will be exposed to a kind of information that is extremely lethal to humans. The entire test site will be set up on an isolated island. Any sign of leakage and I'll directly sink the island and destroy everything on it!"

After hearing this, Samuel was shocked immediately. He knew that although the man in front of him was young, he had never lied. Since Chen Chen had said this, it could only indicate that the experiment was really dangerous to the extreme!

Nonetheless, thinking of his daughter Annie's sweet smile, Samuel gritted his teeth and said loudly, "Your Excellency Chen Chen, as long as I'm willing to participate in your experiment, will you save my daughter?"

"Of course, not only can I save her, but I can even guarantee that your daughter will be completely unharmed."

Chen Chen nodded.

"In that case, I promise you!"

At this point, Samuel finally stopped hesitating. He said fiercely, "I'm willing to participate in this experiment. I only ask that you can rescue my daughter from those guys!"

Following that, Samuel explained everything about how they had kidnapped his daughter, then seized him and brought him to the Alps. From what he had said, the other party seemed to be a joint group of several environmental organizations, funded by the consortium behind them, forming as a group of resistance organizations dedicated to rebelling against Chen Chen's Blacklight Biotechnology.

The name of this organization was White Embers.

"Black light and white embers..."

Chen Chen read it out in Chinese and then smiled. "It's a very good name. So they kidnapped your daughter. What do they want you to do?"

"They want me to send an invitation letter, inviting you to come to Zurich."

Samuel said bitterly, "According to them, they have tried to infiltrate your Eco Science City, but they haven't been able to succeed, so they want you to come to Switzerland.

"After I invite you, they'll set up an ambush to assassinate you, because this group of people understands that you're the soul of Blackwatch. If the company loses you, Blackwatch will immediately fall apart, and at the same time, there'll never be any medicinal products that will transcend eras. This will thus protect the earth and nature..."

Upon hearing this, Chen Chen could only chuckle involuntarily. This sort of dim-witted plan was truly something only an extreme organization of crooked nuts would do.

He still recalled that he once watched a movie called Transcendence. The protagonist in the film was a brilliantly talented scientist who was feared by a group of people because he had developed super artificial intelligence. These people all joined forces and formed an anti-science organization.

This organization took advantage of a speech given by the protagonist to successfully assassinate him, using a bullet smeared with radioactive material to shoot the protagonist.

Although the bullet missed his vital parts, the radioactive material destroyed the protagonist's body, leaving him with only one month to live.

Before he died, the protagonist's wife used the immature consciousness upload technology developed by the protagonist to successfully transform the protagonist's consciousness into a program and transferred it to the computer so that the protagonist became a set of data, an existence between life and death.

Even so, the anti-science organization did not stop there. After learning of all this, it began to hunt down the protagonist and his wife and kidnapped the protagonist's friends.

Thus, the protagonist took advantage of his talents and advantages to hide in an undeveloped remote area in the west and began to develop himself...

This was not the most outrageous part. The most outrageous thing was that in the end, not only the protagonist's friends but also the protagonist's wife were brainwashed by the anti-science organization and they too, went against the protagonist.

Ultimately, the protagonist's wife and friends united with the anti-science organization and successfully killed the protagonist, destroying and ruining everything the protagonist had developed.

Now, Chen Chen was like the protagonist in the movie and this "White Embers" was the resistance organization in the movie that feared the protagonist's technology and would destroy the protagonist at all costs.

However, would the fate that befell the protagonist happen to Chen Chen himself as well?

As he thought of this, there was an icy glint in Chen Chen's eyes.

"Since they've asked you to invite me to Switzerland, we might as well do that..."

Chen Chen began to tell Samuel what to do next. After he had given the instructions, Chen Chen ignored the man's pitiful gaze and ended the communication directly.

"Sir Godfather, in the conversation just now, Samuel didn't hide anything from you."

Little X's voice rang out and she exclaimed, "It seems that this man is still relatively loyal to you. Perhaps he's grateful to you for your help."

"Does this count as loyalty?"

Chen Chen could not help but sneered when he heard these words. "It's a pity he has such a weak brain. The fact that he's being used by us goes without saying, but he's also used by his daughter. How pitiful."

"Perhaps he's just unhinged by his own concern. He never imagined that the daughter he cared about is one of the masterminds behind this incident."

Little X sounded a little sorry for him. "Then what do you plan to do with this girl named Annie? After all, you've made a promise to Samuel."

"I only promised to save her, but what will happen after she's rescued is beyond the scope of the promise."

Chen Chen said with an aloof expression, "In fact, it depends on Samuel's luck. If our subsequent experiments are successful, Samuel can become the first batch of core researchers to study memetic effects. Naturally, his daughter's status would also rise in accordance. Out of goodwill to her father, I can give her an amnestic procedure to erase the memory of her being one of our enemies."

"But what if these experiments fail?"

Little X asked.

"If it all fails, Samuel, as one of the researchers, will naturally not be able to survive, so there would be no need for us to keep his daughter around. Let's deal with it as how it should be then."

As he spoke, Chen Chen asked again, "By the way, what's the situation with Wynn?"

"Based on the monitoring of the Black Knights, Mr. Wynn is still hesitating. He's debating whether he should tell you all this."

Little X said, "As for his son, I've searched through the Internet and couldn't find him. It seems that he was kidnapped by the White Embers."

"Then we'll leave him alone for now, and let him choose."

Chen Chen could not be bothered with all this and only said, "If he chooses to betray us, you know what to do."

"I know."

Little X replied and then reminded Chen Chen again, "By the way, just this morning, the first batch of metal germanium I bought has arrived. It's now in the casting stage and the manufacturing of the Gantz server will probably be completed tonight."

"So fast?"

Chen Chen was taken aback when he heard this. "Is the Gantz server so easy to make?"

"After all, it's just making a mini Gantz server. Its mass is only one percent of its former size. The signal from this server can only cover the area of Switzerland."

Little X explained, "As for the patterns upon its surface, as long as we have high-precision machines, they can be easily carved out. Coupled with the efficiency of my side, it's not that absurd to build a Gantz server overnight."

"Sure enough, I've always felt that this kind of thing is deliberately designed in a form that can be easily replicated by humans..."

Chen Chen frowned. "What about the E language? If you don't control the E language, you can't control the Gantz server."

"I've already tried to convert the source code of my clone X-112 into E language. When the Gantz server is finished being set up, I can also complete that at the same time."

Little X explained.

"Very good."

Chen Chen breathed out after hearing this. "Then bring me for a look."

With that said, he walked out of the room directly and walked in the direction of the elevator.

Ten minutes later, Chen Chen successfully returned to the surface and Cheng Cao had also been waiting in the vehicle for a long time.

At this time, Chen Chen's vehicle was no longer the Wrangler — it had been replaced by an undistinguished Passat and it was still a bulletproof version. This would evade the detection of many professional spies in the Eco Science City. It could also ensure Chen Chen's safety during this particular period.

After half an hour, Chen Chen came to the industrial park.

The industrial park at this time was even larger than it was a few months ago. More than a hundred large and small factories stood here and countless cooling towers stood against the horizon like pillars of the sky. At the same time, the billowing white fog was spouted right above them, directly causing the sky to become cloudy all year round.

At this time, in the depths of this industrial park, in one of the carving factories, several advanced carving equipment were modifying and operating upon a huge metal cylinder ten meters high and two meters wide.

By the side were hundreds of Black Knights controlling the operation of the machinery. Standing below this huge metal column, the entire group was like a bunch of mice, appearing to be tiny and insignificant.

With the continuous cutting and engraving of the machine tool, the metal cylinder soon revealed its overall outline. It was a spiral spire constructed out of two intertwining helixes, like the shape of a DNA nucleic acid strand.

When Chen Chen walked into the processing plant, this was what he saw.

This spire-shaped metal cylinder weighed at least ten tons. Its style was very peculiar. It looked as if it was divided into separate sections. When the carving of the shape was finished, there would be many small engraving machines making various patterns on its surface.

Even just a glance at these patterns gave Chen Chen an ominous feeling.

In Chen Chen's view, these patterns were full of evil.

"This is the Gantz server we built with the first batch of germanium metal."

Little X explained, "According to the structure diagram we got from the Dimension of Gantz, it's made of thousands of germanium metal blocks. These metal blocks can be accumulated like building blocks, but because there was a discrepancy after they were put together, it needs to be polished now."

"But if the Gantz server is made up of small pieces of metal, how can the blocks be put together as one?"

Chen Chen frowned. "I remember that the Gantz server I destroyed back then was not made up of individual blocks."

"I don't know about all that anymore."

Little X shook her head. "Perhaps there are some secrets hidden in it that we don't know or it's a result of all these patterns. After all, this is a brand-new scientific system. We're at a complete blank with these technologies. I can only make it according to the information given."

Chen Chen nodded after hearing this.

Indeed, Little X was right. The technology of the Gantz series was beyond the imagination of human beings. Humans could only imitate blindly when it came to manufacturing these technologies, but they could not separate and research the technology within it, let alone apply it in other areas.

hapter 337: Assassination

A week later.

A tall man stood in the corner by the exit of Zurich Airport, seemingly waiting for the return of his lover.

This man had long blond hair, which was slicked back with cream and there was a ghost of a smile flitting at the corner of his mouth, which gave him the air of a medieval British aristocrat.

The girls and ladies who came and went at the airport would inadvertently look over, their gazes attempting to linger on the man's face for a few more seconds.

This was not to blame them. After all, it was human nature to yearn for beauty and this blond man in front of them would score highly in terms of temperament and image.

In the crowd, the blond man with a warm smile swept his eyes past each passenger who had walked out of the airport. Everyone received almost the same gaze and no one received anything extra.

No matter how one looked at it, this blond man must just be waiting for his wife or a friend.

The passengers passed by him one by one, but the blond man did not look restless at all. He did not even look at the watch on his wrist but waited with a heart full of patience.

This serious manner of his made those single women who were stunned by his appearance secretly jealous. How they wondered, what sort of woman would have such a man waiting for her?

It was a pity that this man was just a passer-by in everyone's life after all. All they could do was just brush shoulders with this perfect man and then completely forget about the whole thing.

In this manner, about fifteen minutes passed again.

Just when batch after batch of passengers had gone through the airport, finally, a young man with Chinese features appeared in the crowd.

This young man was about 1.8 meters tall with a slender frame, but one could not make out his face clearly.

This was because he wore a duckbill cap, which shielded his entire face in shadows.

Although his face could not be discerned, there were strapping men in black suits secretly following him on all sides. Their positions suggested that they were protecting him in the middle.

The four bodyguards exuded a faint bloodthirsty aura. It was a presence that could only be emitted by people who had seen blood. It was just that ordinary people could not smell or detect this aura. Only people in the same line of work or those capable professionals who were trained and highly observant, were able to sense this.

At this time, the blond man standing at the exit of the airport had a smile on his face. As usual, he swept his gaze over the Chinese youth, without stopping at all, and then continued to scan the crowds.

Obviously, the Chinese young man was not the one he was looking for.

Therefore, the two passed each other in this manner, just like the tens of thousands of other people in this airport. Their encounter was just a coincidence and no story would be born from this.

It was not until the Chinese youth had walked away and could no longer be seen that the blond man frowned. He looked at his watch, then took out his cell phone to make a call, and then left with a look of evident disappointment.

It seemed that the person he was waiting for had not come. The other party had missed the appointment.

Next, the blond young man drove straight out of the airport in a car, went around the Zurich ring road, and after many turns, finally reached the foothills of the Alps.

After half an hour, the blond man returned to the wooden house where Wynn had been interrogated.

At this time, the two blonde women in the wooden house were fiddling with the radio on the table, and beside them, there was another blonde woman.

This blonde young woman looked extremely young. She seemed to be only about twenty years old, with tiny freckles on her face, as cute as a button.

At the present moment, the young woman was sitting on a high chair at one side, her long and fair legs dangling and swaying, full of seductive youth and vitality.

This young woman was like a ripe juicy peach.

"Annie, why did you come?"

When the blond youth saw the girl, he frowned at once. "Your father may request to see you at any time, and now you should be getting ready."

"I'm ready, Brother Fisher."

The girl chuckled with a look of indifference.

Seeing this, the blond man could only purse his lips, revealing a helpless expression.

"Alright, if you guys want to flirt, I suggest that you go out."

One of the blonde women who were playing with the radio turned her head, looking expectant. "Fisher, you said you want to observe the man up close before he dies. What's the result? Have you seen him?"

"I've seen him."

Fisher could not help but chortle when he heard these words. He folded his arms and leaned lazily on the door frame. "Although the Chinese man's looks were a bit obscured, he truly has a unique presence..."

"Unique presence?"

The girl called Annie appeared to be curious. "I've also seen him. He came to my house to invite my dad, but I didn't know who he was at the time. I only know that my dad refused his invitation in the end."

"This indicates that your father still carries some weight in the eyes of that man."

Fisher nodded. "This is why we pretended to kidnap you and forced your father to invite that man to Switzerland. However, after seeing this man today, I realized that he's indeed a genius. Because despite my mastery of behavioral psychology, I found that I couldn't see through him."

"Not even you can see through him?"

Annie looked astonished. "Brother Fisher, are you thinking too highly of this guy? When I first saw him, I only thought he was very ordinary."

"That's the truth."

Fisher frowned when he heard these words. "Annie, don't underestimate our enemy. He was able to start from scratch and individually create a force with an influence comparable to a world-class pharmaceutical company. How can he be that simple? I'm afraid that his capabilities won't be much more inferior to mine."

"Fine, I know!"

Annie snorted twice and then retorted again. "Anyway, now that he has come to Switzerland, he's already dead meat. Brother Fisher, just wait for good news from us!"

"I hope so."

Fischer nodded. Indeed, although the other party had brought bodyguards, in the face of the joint funding of multiple consortia, coupled with the secret support of the European government, Fisher really could not imagine how the man named Chen Chen would possibly be able to survive.

Thinking of this, Fisher turned his head and looked at a picture of a young Chinese man in the wooden house.

In the photo, the young man's expression seemed ominous. His eyes were as deep as bottomless pools and there was a dark glint in them.

As he gazed at this legendary young man, a glimmer of jealousy flashed in Fisher's eyes, and then he chuckled softly. "Even if you have the strongest ability, being able to unite a dozen financial groups to protect yourself, even if you have a talent that is capable of developing a potion that would change the world, it's a pity that ultimately, you're in our way.

"Since you're in our way, you must be prepared to be thoroughly crushed to death by us..."

At this moment, there was a rhythmic beeping sound coming from the radio transceiver that the blonde woman was using.

This kind of sound was very familiar to anyone who had watched a movie. Everyone knew what it was called. However, when hearing this sound, everyone including Fisher and Annie looked up in pure excitement as they listened in silence.

After a while, one of the blonde women recovered from her excitement and said loudly, "The message from Team B says that the target has rented a five-star presidential suite in Caesars Hotel, but they didn't stay there. Instead, after renting the suite, they've headed directly to Samuel's house!"

"In that case, let's begin the plan."

A cruel smile curled up at the corner of Fisher's mouth. "Let the operating team be divided into four groups. The first group shall lie in wait outside Samuel's house and be ready for any opportunity to kill him in one strike!

"The second group shall wait to ambush him in the hotel as a standby, in case the first group has an accident and the plan is canceled.

"The third group, as agreed, is lying in ambush near the embassy of Mainland China. If the assassination fails, he'll go to the embassy to seek asylum. This group is to intercept and kill him just as he's about to arrive at the embassy, and prevent him from entering as far as they can...

"As for the last group, let them wait inside the embassy. Don't worry, the officials there will turn a blind eye..."

After finishing all the arrangements, Fisher secretly sighed. Although it was not the first time he was giving orders, this was the first time he was attempting to control a person's life in his own hands.

He must admit that this feeling was pretty good.

"Brother Fisher, my father..."

Just then, Annie reminded in a low voice, "Please try not to bring any harm to my father's life."

"I'm sorry, I can't guarantee that."

Fisher shook his head and said sternly, "You care about your father's life, then do you care about the lives of my subordinates? Perhaps if they held back even the slightest, it'd cause someone to die in action. Have you ever considered that, if this mission fails because we're looking out for your father, then you and I both have sinned against the entire world..."

"In that case... Alright."

Hearing these words, Annie had to lower her head, somewhat dejected. "Then please go all out, Brother Fisher. I think my father should understand the painful struggles his daughter had to endure!"

"That's more like it."

Fisher rubbed Annie's head and suddenly the girl blushed all over. She could not help turning around and running away.

A cold smirk appeared on Fisher's face when Annie had left. He nodded at the two blonde women, then turned and left the wooden house.

This time, he wanted to appreciate the death of his prey up close...

...

An hour later, when Fisher appeared near Samuel's villa in his limited-edition car with all electronic equipment removed, he had found the most comfortable position, propped his legs up, and reclined his seat halfway down.

At this time, there was already a hand-held walkie-talkie in front of him and the walkie-talkie continuously crackled as it provided updates marred by static.

"The first group is already in place, the sniper is ready...

"The target is found. The target is currently located in the living room of Samuel's house. The two parties seem to be talking.

"Sniper is in position. The shot may be taken at any time...

"The detonation team is in place and one hundred kilograms of explosives have been placed in Samuel's home. If the sniper fails, the explosives will be detonated and the villa will be destroyed directly before the situation becomes irredeemable..."

"The pursuit group is in place. If the opponent escapes by chance, the pursuit group will take to the road to chase and kill the target as far as possible!"

This is only the first group. Fisher has considered all the possibilities. The only flaw was that the government itself could not assist him directly.

Although the European government was eager for Chen Chen to die, they could not possibly take action personally. After all, even the walls have ears. If this news was leaked out, the impact on the reputation of the entire European Continent would far exceed the threat posed by Chen Chen.

Therefore, the only help that the European Continent's government could provide was to facilitate the activities of the "White Embers" as much as possible.

Currently, after everyone was in place, someone on the intercom started asking Fisher, "Sir, shall we start now?

"Let's start!"

Fisher pressed the voice button and gave the final order.

Immediately, within a few seconds, Fisher heard a thunderous explosion not far from the front left of him!

It was the sound of a Remington sniper rifle.

"Is it done?"

At the same time he heard the gunshots, Fisher fixed his eyes on the distant villa, waiting for the next update in the situation.

However, the only update Fisher got was the sniper's quietly relieved voice, saying, "I've successfully hit the target's head. If there's no mistake, the opponent should be dead."

"Dead?"

Fisher was astounded when he heard this.

He had even prepared for the failure of the first set of actions. After all, the other guy was not an ordinary person, but a wizard who founded a legendary pharmaceutical company.

It was just that this triumph came too abruptly. Fisher could not come to terms with it for a moment and even though that the update was fake.

"Yes, sir."

The walkie-talkie repeated its previous statement. "I can see from the scope that the target's brain has been completely shattered when the Remington sniper rifle fired the bullet. I've successfully completed the mission!"

"Very well done. Now please withdraw and leave the scene immediately."

Seeing that the sniper was asserting this so solemnly, Fisher understood that this group of people had no reason to deceive him. Some of their lives and families were even in Fisher's very hands. This group of killers wanted to protect themselves from punishment, so their only option was to flee the scene...

At the same time Fisher gave the order, the first group had already begun to retreat.

More than ten minutes later, ambulances and police cars came over. The police began to cordon off the scene and the ambulance brought the dead target back to the morgue.

To make sure the target had not escaped like a snake shedding its skin, Fisher simply took this opportunity to infiltrate Samuel's house and take some blood samples.

At this time, several policemen in Samuel's house were closely investigating. As the lowest level of the political system, they certainly did not know that the murder was related to their own higher-ups, so they were conducting the investigation conscientiously.

Fisher had also sent an insider who worked at the police station.

Something like a blood sample was easy enough to extract. After all, although the assassination scene was so bloody, this meant that there was also more blood and brain plasma on the ground. A little bit here and there would not be missed by anyone.

Chapter 338: Black Sphere

The task of taking the samples was very easy. When the policeman who hidden the samples on himself left the scene, no one noticed anything.

The DNA test for this sample would be processed in an underground hospital that had not been registered by the local government and genetic comparison would be performed there.

The target of the comparison was the DNA record of Chen Chen obtained by the White Embers from Mainland China.

After Fisher sat in the car and silently watched the insider leave the scene, he did not linger at the scene and drove away from the area.

When he returned to the wooden cabin stronghold, Fisher did not feel any excitement, but frowned constantly as if he had not quite figured it out.

He silently looked at the guards around the cabin but found that there was still nothing unusual, both in terms of these guards and the surrounding environment.

Perhaps he was thinking too much...

Fisher shook his head and returned to the cabin. The two blonde women turned their heads and looked over at the same time.

"I heard that you've succeeded?"

A blonde woman asked.

"Yes, we should have succeeded."

Fisher nodded. "The fellow Samuel invited the target to his home and then the sniper we arranged got a headshot. He can't be any deader than he is."

"Then why do you look unhappy?"

The blonde woman was relieved and seemed to relax visibly. "Our main goal has been completed. After this, the company will be headless. In less than half a year, it'll be torn apart because of internal fighting and government intervention, isn't that right?"

"I know, it's just..."

Fisher frowned. "Don't you think that guy died too easily?"

"Easily?"

"Yes, I admit that our White Embers' activities are very secretive. Not only did we avoid the Internet and satellite networks, but we also completely concealed every single trace with the help of this continent's government. But after all, the other party is the founder of Blackwatch."

Fisher was a little disturbed. "Could he really be eliminated by us, just like that, with barely a squeak?

"Then what do you expect of him? Do you think all this is just a trap?" The blonde woman was puzzled.

"I don't know."

Fisher shook his head and explained resolutely, "If we had used several of our backups, even the last trump card in the embassy, before we managed to kill our target, I wouldn't doubt it at all. But now we've killed him off without using the backup methods at all. This is what makes me so uneasy."

"Don't scare yourself, Fisher."

The blonde woman then persuaded with a smile. "Getting worked up over that has no meaning at all. Let's look at the DNA testing. This is something that will not deceive us... Whether the mission is a success or a failure, we'll soon get the answer."

Fisher reluctantly nodded and said no more.

The three people remained sitting in front of the radio transceiver, waiting from morning to evening.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, finally, the radio sent a message composed of a series of beeps again.

Fischer turned on the device quickly as if in a conditioned reflex and started accepting the signals with a solemn expression.

After the signal was deciphered and reconstructed, only five words were obtained —

"DNA sample is a match."

At the moment they saw these words, the three of them were frozen as if they had turned to stone. Then the two blonde women could not refrain from jumping up and high-fiving each other. "We've won, we've really won!"

"We've won, Fisher, we've won, we've gotten rid Chen Chen!"

The bright laughter of the two young women rang throughout the entire cabin. Even Fisher on the side was surprised at first, but then he had to accept this truth.

The man named Chen Chen was really dead.

"It seems that I was worrying for nothing."

Fischer exhaled and slowly got used to this reality and then said to the two blonde women who were celebrating raucously, "Pass this news to the top. Presumably, they'll be able to sleep well after receiving this news..."

"Do we still use the radio?"

The blonde woman broke out of her cheering and grinned with a flushed face. "Or should we use mobile phones, Facebook, Twitter?"

"What are you talking about."

When Fisher heard this, his face turned dark and serious instantly. "This isn't the time to let down our guard. Don't forget, the actual scary thing about this company is its pervasive network strength. Even if the founder has died, within the next few days they can still maintain a stable operation. If we want to return to living in public, we have to at least wait until the company is annexed by the local government. Understand?"

"Got it..."

After hearing all this, the two of them recovered from their previous excitement and sat again in front of the radio transceiver, sending messages obediently.

"There's no point then..."

At the same time, Chen Chen, who was far away in Africa, silently watched the conversation between Fisher and two blonde women on the screen, with a sorry look. "Are they going to be so strict about things? This is a bit troublesome."

"It doesn't matter, Sir Godfather."

Little X's voice immediately chimed in. "He can persist and the people around him can persist, but it doesn't mean that his subordinates and his superiors can also persist so well."

As Little X spoke, a list was slowly printed out from the printer. It was a long list with the names of at least five hundred people. "This is the record of all the White Embers members that have been exposed in Switzerland. These people are all hidden around Zurich. Most of them are just doing auxiliary work. There are only about a hundred actual core participants."

As she spoke, Little X suddenly corrected herself. "Your Godfather, a correction. I've just retrieved a message using the keywords 'Chen Chen's death'. This message was sent by the head of a Swiss financial group to a member of another financial group.

"At present, this message is spread continuously and very quickly at that. Our method has succeeded. With your feigned death, it's easy to track down the forces behind White Embers."

Chen Chen nodded then. "It seems that Fisher's painstaking planning has failed. In that case, we can spring the trap."

"Are we rounding up all the participants in White Embers?"

Little X asked.

"No, for the ones behind the entire thing, we'll leave them alone for now. We just have to bring Fisher to the 'playground' that was prepared."

Chen Chen could not help but broke out into a cold smirk. "As for the group of people behind White Embers, I have other plans..."

In accordance with Chen Chen's order, on the small road leading to the cabin, a pickup truck with its engine roaring, carrying some cargo, drove over the bumps on the path, gradually approaching the cabin.

There was no lack of White Embers sentries on the way to the cabin, but what was strange was that as the pickup truck approached, those sentries vanished without a sound along the way.

This was not to say that these sentries were killed by someone, but that they really disappeared. First, the sound of the pickup was heard by these sentries who came out to investigate. However, in the next second, there was only a click and the firearms that the sentries were holding dropped to the ground while they had disappeared...

This strange phenomenon kept recurring beside the pickup truck. It was as if the pickup truck was driving into an uninhabited region and it finally reached the front of the cabin, which was the central headquarters of the White Embers.

"Why is there the sound of a car here?"

Inside the cabin, Fisher and the other two also heard the sound of the engine approaching from a distance. The three looked at each other and Fisher immediately shouted toward the door, "John, what's going on outside?"

Even so, no one answered him from outside.

Fisher's expression turned completely solemn.

He slowly drew his pistol, walked carefully to the window, and looked out, only to see a dark red cross-country pickup truck parked outside the cabin, with its constantly roaring engine.

Other than that, there was nothing outside the cabin.

Yes, the sentries guarding outside the cabin had all disappeared without a trace.

"What the h*ll is going on?"

Fisher looked even more perplexed. He stared at the pickup outside the window, wearing a grim, suspicious expression.

If the pickup truck was an enemy, the guards outside the cabin would naturally have attacked the opponent. If this was an ally instead, then why would the guards outside the door collectively disappear?

Just when Fisher was flooded with puzzlement, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be some kind of cargo in the trunk of the pickup truck.

Was that a black ball, in total pitch-black, fixed to the top of the trunk?

This was the only thought in Fischer's mind because, in the next second, he suddenly heard two feminine exclamations behind him. Their voices were not filled with misery, but rather a sort of disbelief.

Fisher quickly turned around and looked behind him.

Nonetheless, there was nothing behind him...

The two high-level White Embers members had vanished under Fisher's nose.

"How can this be..."

Fisher's pupils shrank and he murmured in a low voice. In the next second, he noticed a sudden inexplicable chill emanating from the lower half of his body.

Fisher lowered his head subconsciously, only to see that his lower body was vanishing continuously and the speed of this disappearance was extremely fast. A ripple of blue light surged up, and in an instant, most of Fisher's body had disappeared!

The main thing was, he could still sense his own body!

Fisher's heart clenched in alarm. He could not react in time and only felt the blue light flashed over him. Then, his vision changed completely, going from the previous cabin to a dark and cold room!

At this sudden switch in space-time, he felt dizzy and his vision blurred. Only then did he realize that he was not alone. There were dozens of people here.

"John, Jennifer, you guys..."

Fisher glanced at everyone in a dumbfounded manner. At this moment, everyone looked at him as if he were a ghost, including the two blonde women who had disappeared just now, and the guards who were outside the cabin before.

In a dimly lit room less than 100 square meters in size, the place was already densely crowded with people.

"It's that thing, that thing brought us here!"

Just when Fisher was staring with mouth agape, about to ask what in the world was going on, a blonde woman named Jennifer suddenly pointed at something behind Fisher. "Everyone said that it brought us here, and I saw it with my own eyes. It emitted a blue light, and then you appeared here!"

Following the answer of the blonde woman, Fisher quickly turned his head, only to see that behind him, there was a pitch-black sphere about one meter in diameter!

It was the same as the black ball he had just seen on the pickup truck!

"We're not on land!"

Just then, someone shouted again, "The floor of the room is swaying slowly. Although it's a very subtle movement, I can guarantee that we're not on land, but on a ship!"

That person's words broke them out of their reverie, including Fisher. Everyone started looking all over the place for an exit, but apart from a locked steel door, the entire room had no entrance or exit.

At this time, Fisher had already taken this opportunity, when everyone was panicking, to pull aside his most trusted subordinate and the two blonde women. He lowered his voice and asked, "Who knows what happened just now? Why did we suddenly appear here?"

Everyone shook their heads blankly and then someone suddenly said, "Obviously, us coming here must be related to the pickup. Everyone encountered the pickup truck before they found themselves in this d*mn place!"

Fisher instantly nodded and agreed, "You're right, I realized that too."

With that said, he pointed to the black ball nearby that was surrounded by the crowd of people. "It's that thing. When I was observing the pickup just now, I noticed that this thing was also on the trunk of the pickup."

"In that case, our appearance here is linked to that black ball?"

The blonde woman tamped down the panic in her heart and quickly asked, "Then does anyone know what this is, why it's able to transmit us from where we were to this place in an instant, and what its purpose is?"

"Gantz..."

At this moment, a young man who had been silent on the side suddenly whispered, "I know what this black sphere is, it's called Gantz..."

"What!"

Fisher's eyes suddenly lit up and he squeezed the young man's shoulders like a drowning man clutching at a straw. "Albo, what are you talking about?"

"This black sphere is called Gantz!"

The youth's eyes gleamed with fear as he murmured, "This is something that first appeared in a comic. It can teleport humans at any time, transporting humanity to various dangerous places to fight against aliens... I can't believe this is true, that Gantz exists in the world. I can't believe it..."

At this point, the young man's face was seized by terror. He broke free of Fisher and curled up at once in the corner of the room.

"D*mn it, Albo, what are you talking about?"

Fisher felt even more lost. What comic, what Gantz? As he had never been exposed to such information before, he had no idea what the other guy was saying.

"What he means is that Gantz is a comic."

Just then, another man who seemed very calm came over. Fisher knew him and only recalled that he was also one of the members of the White Embers, but his name would not come to mind.

At this time, the man was speaking in a steady voice, "I've also read this non-mainstream manga. It was created by a Japanese manga artist in 2000. It tells the story of a black sphere that constantly collects people that were about to die, gathering all of them to complete the tasks issued by the black sphere.

"And this black sphere is called Gantz..."

Chapter 339: I Want to Play a Game

A few days ago.

Inside the Spire Experimental Base, Chen Chen looked at the two black spheres taken from the Gantz dimension again, wearing an anguished look.

The little bit of electricity he had painstaking accumulated was used up again.

In addition to the one extracted before, Chen Chen now had three black spheres.

"We can only extract the black spheres."

Little X said somewhat ruefully, "After all, there"s no close-up shot of the Gantz satellite in the movie Gantz. We can't extract it. Although we have also obtained the blueprint of the satellite, it's relatively challenging to reproduce this kind of satellite."

"Indeed, without a Gantz satellite, long-distance teleportation is impossible."

Chen Chen nodded. If there was a Gantz satellite to act as the hub, the target could be transmitted to any designated location as long as it was within the signal radiation range of the Gantz server.

If there was no Gantz satellite for support, only point-to-point teleportation could be performed, that was, the mutual teleportation between two Gantz black spheres.

Of course, if they did not even have a Gantz server, then the Gantz spheres were essentially useless junk.

Thinking of this, Chen Chen raised his head and looked at the corner of the three laboratories, where a spiral cone full of weird intricate patterns was placed quietly.

This was the Gantz server manufactured by Little X. Except for its size being much smaller than the one that Chen Chen saw in the world of Gantz, the rest of it was the same in appearance and design.

Moreover, the artificial intelligence in this server was X-112, which had been transformed into E language.

Now everything was in place and they only lacked one final piece.

After the conversation between Chen Chen and Little X, three naked men walked in from outside the door, nodded toward Chen Chen, then turned around and walked toward the three black spheres.

As if in response, the three black spheres suddenly gave a click, and two rows of display shelves suddenly spread out on both sides of each black sphere, exposing an internal gap.

From Chen Chen's point of view, he could faintly make out that it was a seat, just that the space was a little smaller.

Immediately, the three naked men got in without hesitation and curled up in the narrow gaps.

Then the two rows of display racks suddenly closed and the entire Gantz sphere shrank back into a perfect ball shape again.

"The 'CPU' has entered."

Little X reminded. "The black spheres indeed use human brains as their CPU. It may be the reason the dimension in Gantz didn't have powerful artificial intelligence. Therefore, you can only rely on the human brain to perform the astronomical calculations needed for teleporting matter.

"After all, the human brain has about 100 billion neurons. Each neuron is equivalent to a microprocessor, which is much stronger than a computer's transistor, and each neuron is connected to hundreds of nearby neurons. It's hundreds of times more complex than the connection of a computer transistor. Once this is borrowed by the black sphere, amazing computing power can be unleashed.

"In other words, the brain is the most complex computer created by nature."

Chen Chen nodded and said, "Are these people my clones?"

Little X replied, "Yes, all the clones in the T-virus experiment have brains, so they can act as the CPUs of the black spheres."

Hearing this, Chen Chen looked at the Gantz server at the side again and said excitedly, "In that case, let's start the experiment process. As long as the experiment is successful, it means that we'll no longer be restricted in terms of transportation and can deploy our forces globally..."

...

A few days later, in the present.

In the Gulf of Lion, France, a huge black ship was anchored in the port, attracting the attention of countless tourists there.

This was located in the European Mediterranean area while the Gulf of Lion was located on the southern coast of France, only 200 kilometers away from Switzerland.

The huge black ship had been inspected by the authorities before, so it could be anchored in the port. At this time, the huge black ship that had been parked here overnight suddenly emitted a deafening whistle, started up again, and began to leave the port.

Just like when it came, it did not carry a single passenger when it left as if it was so out of step with this world that it left by itself.

The name of this huge ship was the Blacklight, the world's largest private cruise ship.

What everyone did not know was that hundreds of people were being held in the depths of the cargo warehouse in this cruise ship.

"What kind of joke is this, what Gantz, what comic... What the h*ll are you talking about!"

In the dark and damp cargo warehouse of the cruise ship, a plump man with large limbs and a face twisted in panic clung tightly to another man.

The man who was grabbed wore an extremely cold expression. Even with someone practically throttling him, he just smiled faintly. "I've already explained it. If you still don't understand, then that's your problem."

As he spoke, he slowly stretched out his hand and grasped the other man's wrist. In the next second, the face of the plump, large-limbed man twitched, and his complexion instantly turned from red to white. An incredulous look flashed in his eyes.

What he felt was as if his wrist was being clenched by a pair of iron tongs. A heartrending agony tore through him and he had to let go of his grip and released the other man.

"D*mn it, let go!

"Agh... Let go, let me go..."

Even so, the man's grip on his wrist was still not loosened. The severe pain caused him to curl up subconsciously, unable to exert even a trace of strength...

"That's enough, you can let go now!"

At this moment, Fisher stepped forward from one side and patted the man on the shoulder. "The situation is unclear now. This is no time to fight!"

The man turned his head when he heard the words, and shot a mild look at Fisher before releasing his grip.

At once, the large-limbed man quickly cradled his wrist and hurriedly backed away as if the man in front of him was a devil.

The sight of this surprised many people. After all, compared to the strong man who was close to two meters tall and sturdily built, the other man in front of him was only of medium build and did not even have defined muscles, being quite thin.

Who would have thought that this ordinary physique contained such a formidable explosive strength...

"My good man, what's your name?"

Fisher was also secretly surprised, but on the surface, he was the leader of the White Embers organization, after all, so he just said in the manner of a higher-up, "Are you also a member of the organization? Why haven't I seen you in the White Embers?"

"I'm just a minor figure."

The man shook his head and did not change his attitude just because of Fisher's friendliness, only saying, "My name is Stephen, Mr. Fisher."

"Very well, Stephen, now can you continue to tell us what this strange 'Gantz' comic is about?"

Fisher did not seem to mind about the man's cold attitude but instead displayed an expression of appreciation. "Please?"

"If you insist."

Stephen nodded and began speaking again, "The setting of 'Gantz' is in 1999 AD, which is more than 20 years ago, when the human government created this kind of black sphere to select a super fighter. This is to withstand a catastrophe that is about to emerge in the future..."

"What sort of joke is this, how can humans create such a thing!"

But before he had finished talking, someone retorted again. A young black man pointed to the black sphere in the distance and said in an accent, "Who here thinks that this d*mn thing can be created by humans? It's able to teleport a person from the land to a ship in an instant? Brother, are you kidding me?"

"Alright, shall we listen to Stephen's talk before asking questions?"

Fisher frowned and a glum look flashed across his features. Faced with this sort of unknown, even his leader's identity could not quite keep this group of people under control...

However, just before he finished speaking, a whistling sound suddenly came from above them. At the same time, there was a vibration throughout the gloomy room and the sound of ocean waves.

Everyone was shocked. Someone spoke aloud, "The ship is moving!" Everyone suddenly panicked again, scattering around like crazy, looking for an exit.

"Everyone, keep quiet, let's all calm down. The situation hasn't yet reached its worst..."

Fisher wanted to continue to rally the troops, but this group of people was not soldiers after all, but a group of dangerous desperadoes. At this point, almost no one obeyed his instructions.

Nonetheless, in this chaos, the only thing Fisher was pleased to note was that the two blonde women and several guards trained by him were still following him silently.

In addition, Stephen was also standing there, a far cry from the panicking crowd.

"Stephen, do you have any theories and suggestions for the present?"

Fisher stared wildly at the man's eyes, half bewildered and half forceful. "Tell me. If we can survive and leave this place, I'll repay you with so much money that you can't finish spending it in a lifetime!"

"My guess is that someone has learned the technology in the comics and replicated the technology of the black sphere, which led to what is happening now."

Stephen wore a thoughtful look. "And haven't you noticed that when this ship started off just now, the swaying was much more minimal compared to the ships I usually board. It seems that only those giant cruise ships will behave in this manner at sea."

"Cruise ship?"

Fisher was taken aback for a moment, then he seemed to realize something, and there was a flash of panic in his eyes. "Blackwatch's cruise ship... the Blacklight?"

"Very possibly."

Stephen nodded when he heard these words and said softly, "Haven't we just made a move attacking Blackwatch? Then it should be normal for the other party to counterattack. The only difference is that you didn't seem to expect that their counterattack would be this swift."

"Impossible!"

Fisher shook his head, saying in disbelief, "We've killed the helm of this company and their senior management should've promptly descended into a mess. How could they immediately counterattack? And how could they have known it was me... Impossible!"

"In that case, I don't know. I can only guess as much."

Stephen was not interested in defending his opinion at all. He just smiled coldly, turned and walked to the corner of the room, and rested in silence.

Fisher was in the same situation, but when he considered that the ones who captured them might be his very own target — Blacklight Biotechnology — Fisher's heart was completely muddled. This meant that there was no room for reconciliation between Blackwatch and this group of captured persons. Simply put, everyone here including him was as good as dead!

"Could that really be the case?"

Fisher muttered in a low voice. He looked at the maddening crowd all around him and only felt a clamor of noise in his brain. He almost wanted to take out his gun and kill them all, but when he subconsciously touched his waist, he immediately realized that his gun had disappeared.

He still remembered that before he was teleported here, the gun was clearly in his hand, but at this point, any metal object he used to carry was no longer with him, let alone the gun.

"Does Blackwatch already have technology that surpasses the Earth Federation?"

Stephen's analysis was still resounding in his ears and it felt like there was a fog before Fisher's eyes. If this was the case, it was very likely that even the person he had killed was a fake...

From beginning to end, the other guy had played with him like a cat toying with a mouse, just waiting for him to contact the high-level members, to seize everyone behind the scenes of the White Embers in one fell swoop.

Yes, the other guy must have had this in mind...

As he realized this, Fisher's heart turned into a slab of ice.

However, just as everyone was screaming themselves hoarse, their minds about to snap, there was a sudden burst of music.

It was a special kind of music. If one heard it in normal times, it would seem to be just a conventional tune. Even the key was as simple as a children's song. Still, at this time, in line with everyone's hysterical mood, there was something unspeakably eerie and conspicuous about it.

"I'm my mother's darling, I pee in the toilet, I don't poop everywhere, I'm a civilized youngster..."

"Oh f*ck, my brothers, let's goooo!"

"Lu Benwei[1] rocks, Lu Benwei rocks, Lu Benwei rocks, Lu Benwei rocks, Lu Benwei rocks!!!"

"What the h*ll are you being so loud for!"

"The only heartthrob of Social Shake[2] is DYZSY!"

"You look at me, and I look at you too!"

...

"Chinese? Japanese?"

There was a burst of weird musical sounds and everyone who had been so noisy was now completely quiet. Everyone looked at each other in silence with a dazed expression.

Although they could not understand those strange words, they could tell that it sounded like the language of Mainland China or the East China Sea Continent.

Just when everyone was flummoxed, a line of English words suddenly appeared on the surface of the black sphere...

"Your lives have ended. How you use your new lives is entirely up to me. That's the theory, anyway."

Among the crowd, Stephen, who had been standing silently in the distance, observing everything coolly, suddenly narrowed his eyes and murmured in a low voice, "Sure enough, this is the opening text of the black sphere, but the words have changed from Japanese to English..."

When they saw this line of words, everyone was in an uproar. Some begged for mercy, some cursed and scolded, and some even rushed up frantically, kicking the black sphere incessantly.

It was just that no matter how they kicked it, they could not leave a single mark on this perfectly round black ball.

Seeing this scene, some wary people who were secretly observing, including Fisher, became more convinced that this was a high-tech tool far exceeding the Earth Federation.

Still, this line of words was not displayed for long, because the words only appeared for thirty seconds before disappearing again. At the same time, a strange, funny puppet face suddenly appeared on the black sphere's screen.

With the appearance of the puppet face, a deep and heavy voice followed...

"I want to play a game..."

Chapter 340: Game Rules

Even in the Mainland, on the other side of the planet, there was almost no one who had not heard of the famous movie Saw, let alone Europe, which was connected to North American culture.

As this familiar and peculiar puppet face emerged from the black sphere, many people subconsciously stepped back, away from the black sphere in front of them.

This was a warning instinct against danger.

At the same time, the puppet in the black sphere also opened its simple mouth and a gloomy and hoarse electric voice slowly rang out:

"Dear members of the 'White Embers' organization, I want to play a game with you..."

This voice was no different from Jigsaw in Saw.

"My name is 'Gantz', as some of you said. I come from a combination of comics and movies. You can call me 'Gantz' or you can call me "G' for short. Of course, I prefer the term 'Gantz'."

"You're the one who kidnapped us here?"

As the voice emanated from the black sphere, several people began to come to their senses. They rushed forward one by one and tried to put on a fierce front. "Let us return at once. What do you want to do?"

However, these people were eventually stopped by the people beside them.

"Don't be impulsive, just listen to him, buddy!"

After a while, these people cooled down from their agitated mob mentality.

"Very well, it seems that some people have calmed down their hot heads."

On the black sphere, the strange puppet laughed softly. "Very well, I like people who can think, because as long as their luck isn't too bad, they often live to the end. After all, those who die first are often those who like to lose their cool."

After the black sphere spoke, everyone suddenly quarreled loudly again, "Wait, what do you mean by live to the end? Do you want to kill us?"

Seeing this, Fisher on the side shot a glance at the people behind him, then he walked directly in front of the crowd and said loudly, "Now we're imprisoned here. The only way to save ourselves is to calm down!"

As he spoke, the few people who had followed Fisher's order also walked to Fisher's side and blocked everyone.

Intimidated by Fisher's leader status, everyone was controlled once again.

The black sphere ignored the quarrel and spoke again indifferently, "Maybe you haven't figured out the situation, but I suggest that you still listen carefully because every word I say next is related to your life and death..."

The black sphere continued slowly. "Except for some mercenaries and killers, most of you are from the Environmental Protection Association. Among these, the 'Voluntary Human Extinction' organization has the most members.

"You take the protection of the earth as your responsibility and under the banner of returning the earth to nature, you're constantly convincing others to stop reproducing, giving yourself the good name of 'altruism'.

"But I think that both human beings and other life forms are essentially egoistic.

"The meaning of life is to go on living and the most fundamental means of the continuation of life is to collect energy from the outside world. This is inherently a self-interested behavior. This is true for all life, without any exception."

The two blonde women next to Fisher instinctively wanted to rebut, but the black sphere continued to speak:

"I know that in your sociology books, it has been mentioned that human beings are the only creatures with 'altruistic behaviors'— lower creatures are like wildebeests. Their numbers and scale are ten times or a hundred times that of predators, but they can only be reduced to being prey. Even over millennia, it's impossible for them to rise.

"Humans are different. Since the era of the apes, humans have assisted each other. Even the top predators dare not rashly attack the ape tribe, because they know that attacking one member of the Homo sapiens will cause the whole group to attack. This group of upright monkeys won't just disperse like the wildebeest...

"The reason why human beings are more able to help each other and face danger than those herbivores is that the brain has evolved a special empathy mechanism during this period. This will induce a reaction of pity when humans see their own kind facing dangers and difficulties, thus prompting them to lend a helping hand."

The black sphere continued. "So, textbooks have always shown that there are obvious altruistic behaviors in human society. This is because altruistic behaviors are beneficial to the entire population. Members help each other and collectively resist crises, thus the whole tribe becomes stronger..."

Just when everyone was listening intently and thoughtfully, the black sphere's voice suddenly changed, saying in a soft tone, "But all this is an illusion."

Everyone's expressions suddenly changed.

"I know that many public figures like to get involved with charity and ordinary people too. After helping people in trouble, it's easy to get positive feedback, that is, gratitude and rewards from others.

"This kind of behavior will be enhanced by genes and the human brain will also evolve to feel pleasure at being thanked. Therefore, what makes us happy isn't helping others, but the response others give to you after you've lent a helping hand.

"However, if after giving a helping hand to someone, that person reacts coldly to you or even mocks and ridicules you, then the emotion generated by your brain isn't pleasure, but anger...

"Ah.

"Therefore, any seemingly altruistic behavior among humans is an egoistic behavior. Even if it's charity, it's also for the purpose of gaining social approval which is ultimately an egoistic goal."

After hearing the black sphere's words, the crowd erupted into noise again. Some people loudly rebuked this as sophistry, but some people could not help but look rather pensive.

The black sphere did not explain anything, but only lowered its voice. "I know that many people wouldn't agree with my point of view. Therefore, I want to play a game with you, a game that tests humanity's 'egoistic behavior' and 'altruistic behavior'.

"The rules of the game are as such —"

"In five days, you'll be sent to a small deserted island." As this was said, the image on the black sphere flashed and turned into a distant view of an unknown island on the sea.

They could see that this small island was full of lush jungle, surrounded by golden sandy beaches, and deep in the island was a small hill covered by trees. They could even still see a river flowing on the island.

"This island, which I named Gantz Island, has an area of about 35 square kilometers, which is about the size of an island map in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and there are at least a thousand such unknown islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

"But don't worry, I'm not sending you here for you to kill each other like a game. That's a very tasteless affair... In five days, all players will land on the island and I'll give each person in this group of players a communication device. Not only can the communication device show you everyone's location, but each communication device also contains an electronic coded image.

"The use of this decoded image will be to turn on the signal tower on the island."

The black sphere began to explain the rules, "On this Gantz Island, there are a total of two hundred signal towers, evenly distributed in each corner of the island. You only need to find one of the signal towers and click on the electronic coded image in your hand to light them up. Each picture can only light up one signal tower once.

"A word of warning, however: this image has a special curse. Once you use it to light up the signal tower, it'll cause you to be contaminated with a curse called 'Filth'."

"Curse?"

Disbelief flashed across many of their faces.

"This is a special curse."

The black sphere explained, "After being infected with the curse, the player will be turned into ashes within one day and die a miserable death. There's only one way to stop this, which lies at the top of the hill in the middle of the island.

"On the top of the island, there's a safe zone surrounded by metal statues, where the curse cannot spread.

"Of course, the safe zone can only prevent the spread of the curse, but it cannot completely eradicate the curse. If the player leaves the safe zone, the curse will continue..."

When they heard this, everyone's faces shifted again.

"Of course, if a player wants to win, it isn't that difficult."

The black sphere ignored the increasingly horrified looks on their faces and went on to say, "There are only 200 signal towers on the island. As long as all the signal towers are lit, then those players who haven't used the communication device can safely leave the island."

"Hold on!"

At this moment, someone finally could not hold back. A middle-aged man with a hooked nose came up and asked loudly, "Then what about those who light up the signal towers? Can't they leave the island?"

"No, because they have been infected with the curse. This curse can only be contained in the safe zone of the island. Once they leave the safe zone, they'll all die within one day..."

The black sphere replied curtly.

"What kind of sh*tty rule is that..."

Upon hearing this, the crowd boiled over once again. After all, how many people in this world would be willing to sacrifice themselves and happily let the others leave?

"This is what you call altruistic behavior."

Hearing that they were arguing again, the black sphere remained unruffled. "You have a total of five hundred and fifty people in this group. As long as you sacrifice two hundred people, the remaining three hundred and fifty people can survive. This is a good trade, isn't it?

"In addition, the environment on the island is also very fertile. There's endless seafood on the beach as well as countless wild fruits in the mountains and forests. You can eat your fill of these foods. The only negative aspect is that on the island there are five special residents."

Special residents?

Everyone was startled again as vague, terrible associations came to mind.

There was another flash in the black sphere's image. A man with pale skin, wearing a black trench coat, appeared on the screen.

This man wore no expression, but the muscles on his body were so developed that even wearing a trench coat could not conceal his perfect contours.

"Ty, Tyrant?"

"Impossible!"

"The monster in Resident Evil?"

Seeing this, the crowd screeched again and countless people started questioning loudly.

"These five residents have very violent tempers. They harbor deep hostility toward outsiders. As long as they see you, they'll quickly launch into the most exhausting pursuit. Please believe me, if you're without any firearms, even a squad of one hundred people can't beat it in hand-to-hand combat..."

The black sphere said faintly, "The only good news is that these five original residents will only kill one person each time, then they'll stop. They randomly wander around all corners of the island. The only place they will not set foot in is the safe zone on the top of the hill..."

At this time, everyone was completely befuddled. Fisher asked a few of his men to protect him, then squeezed to the front of the black sphere, and suddenly asked, "Uh... Mr. Gantz, I want to ask, is there a time limit for this 'game'?"

"No, even if it takes you a year to light up all the signal towers, it's considered that you have completed the task, but..."

The black sphere said, and suddenly laughed lowly, "I almost forgot, there's a rule I haven't told you, that is, if a player who lights the signal tower dies, no matter in what manner, the signal tower they lit up will become ineffective. This will require another communication device to light up."

"What?"

Everyone wailed again and Fisher's pupils shrank even more. He immediately figured out that, in this case, to ensure that the illuminated signal towers were not extinguished, it was necessary to ensure that all the people who lit the signal towers remained alive. Namely, they must be located in the safe zone.

Those who were not cursed must provide food for this group of people or at least provide them with enough food before all the signal towers were lit, to prevent them from starving to death and causing the signal tower to fail.

"What if we snatch someone else's communication device to light the signal tower?"

Just then, another man asked this and the malice in his words made the others frown.

"There's no point in that."

However, the black sphere replied, "Even if a player snatches someone else's communication device to light the signal tower, it's still the player who is infected with the curse, not the owner of the communication device. However, the player who loses the communication device will become the number one target of the five original residents on the island, who will hunt down this player tirelessly until the player is killed or the player has fled to the safe zone."

Hearing this, Fisher felt a chill again, because this put an end to the idea that one person could attempt self-sacrifice, using dozens of communication devices to light up those signal towers.

This was because not only the person who lit up the signal towers would die, but those who donated the communication device would also be in danger of being hunted down by the Tyrants.

"These are all the rules of the game five days later."

At this time, the black sphere said again, "This game is a contest of 'egoistic behavior' and 'altruistic behavior'. As people who believe in altruistic behavior, will you let others sacrifice themselves and huddle behind the hero, becoming an egoist that you so loathe?

"Or do you mean to have the courage to explore all the truths of altruism at the expense of your life?

"Everyone, you'll be tested and your resolve will be tested. There are no words that can become the truth by default. If you want to make it the truth, you can only put it into practice continuously. Whether you live or die, you have the right to choose..."

After the speech given by the black sphere, the entire Blacklight had begun to sail grandly toward an exit in the Mediterranean Sea, riding the wind and waves.

If one turned to look back behind the Blacklight, one would only see the flat horizon of the ocean, where a red setting sun had stained the whole sky, turning the Blacklight into a massive ship cast in a bloody hue...