Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
While Li Ang was farting in the classroom, the system prompt that had not budged for a long time finally went back online.
[The source connection system has been debugged, and the system template has been officially launched. Players can inquire about basic information.]
It was finally there…
Li Ang took a deep breath and walked out of the classroom before talking to the system prompt in his mind.
“Who launched this game called Earth Killing Field? God? Ancient God? Or aliens?”
[Player has insufficient authority. Unable to inquire about related information.]
“What is the ultimate purpose of this game?”
[Player has insufficient authority. Unable to inquire about related information.]
“How many rounds of killing fields have been held in the history of Earth?”
[Six large-scale killing fields have been held in the history of Earth. The first was about 485 million years to 542 million years ago. The second was about 363 million years to 439 million years ago. The third was about 146 million to 208 million years ago. The fourth was about 65 million years to 66 million years ago. The fifth was about 2.5 million to 50 million years ago. The sixth was about 24,000 to 135,000 years ago.]
Li Ang narrowed his eyes. “That means the first one took place during the Cambrian explosion of arthropods, mollusks, and annelids.
The second one took place during the Silurian period and the Devonian period. During this period, green algae emerged on the mainland and evolved into ferns. They established a terrestrial system with the first insects, and vertebrates began to dominate the ocean. Fish and animals evolved into primitive amphibians and began to thrive on land.
The third one took place in the Jurassic period. The forests and vegetation on the Pangaea were lush, the climate was warm and humid, and the dinosaurs became the rulers.
The fourth one happened before the asteroid hit Earth and caused the fifth mass extinction. Since then, dinosaurs, who were the terrestrial rulers, have completely disappeared. The small terrestrial animals that survived grew well on the ruins of the dinosaur era.
During the fifth one, primates evolved quickly into apes, Propliopithecus, Aegyptopithecus, Dryopithecus, Australopithecus, and then humans.
The sixth one was a competition between Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. Ultimately, the Homo Sapiens emerged victorious while the Neanderthals lost and went extinct.”
If what the system had said was true, then the killing fields covered almost more than half of the evolutionary history of species on Earth and might even go further. It was believed that these killing fields had played a great role in the history of the evolution of biological creatures on Earth.
“How was the sixth killing field carried out?”
[The system would randomly select native residents to be promoted to players, and players would complete various quests given by the system to obtain rewards. Non-players could only obtain qualifications by killing players. Player qualifications could not be inherited through one’s bloodline, nor could they be transferred.]
“How would the game end?”
[The system determined whether the progress of the game was up to standard. If the player community failed to complete the final quest within the specified time limit, the system would attack Earth’s ecosystem in an all-round manner and exterminate the species of the player community.]
[Similar to the Ordovician global temperature drop that exterminated invertebrates, the Devonian oceans receded and caused marine life, such as the Dunkleosteus and Materpiscis, to go extinct. The Permian continental drift caused the extinction of arthropods such as the Trilobites and Eurypterids. The Triassic oceans lacked oxygen and caused the Brachiopods and Gastropods to go extinct, while the Cretaceous meteorite struck and caused the dinosaurs to go extinct.]
“Hold on. The players of the fifth and sixth games must have been apemen, right? Have humans also experienced system extinction?”
[73,500 years ago, the system determined the body of the players of the sixth killing field. After humans failed to complete the process, ecosystem extinction was implemented.
Mount Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia erupted for seven consecutive days. The volcanic ashes covered half of Earth’s sky, causing it to enter a glacial period that caused 99% of humanity to go extinct.]
Li Ang was not surprised. The catastrophe caused by the eruption of Mount Toba 70,000 years ago had indeed caused the human population to go extinct to the point that only a few thousand individuals had been left. It would not be an exaggeration to consider that period the most dangerous moment in human history.
“After the sixth one, what other killing fields occurred?”
[After the sixth one, the system believed that large-scale killing fields could not select excellent players, so it changed the game format and periodically held small-scale killing fields.
These small-scale games were intermittent in civilizations around the world, ranging from a hundred years to a few years. Some gods, devils, demons, and heroes in human mythology and epic poems were all players of the killing fields.]
“I see.”
Li Ang nodded his head. This could explain why the extraordinary power in history had appeared and disappeared from time to time.
“What about now? When is the current game going to start? How many players are there so far?”
[This is the seventh round of the killing field. It started seven months ago. There is no comment on the current players’ scale.]
“Okay.”
Li Ang tapped the table lightly with his knuckles. Just seven months ago, urban legends had started to become popular.
An expert in the field would be the first to know the change. Since the killing field would eventually determine the life or death of human civilization, the State Apparatus with stronger organizational power and more professional intelligence must have had more information and taken corresponding measures based on this information.
For example, each player with an official background had a connected think tank that could be dispatched to establish a professional intelligence organization, inspect and screen potential players among the public, or form a strategic team of players with official background.
Philosophers, historians, mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, psychologists…
Compared to a giant creature with thousands of hands, feet, eyes, and heads like the State Apparatus, the ‘excellent players’ selected from ordinary people were still ordinary.
Under the strong observation of the think tank team, individual players with insufficient intelligence had no advantage whatsoever, even if they had mastered extraordinary power that was above the standard.
The biggest difference between organizational power, human society, and primitive creatures was that humans had strong unprecedented organizational power.
This organizational power was undoubtedly a good thing for the collective strategy game of human civilization. However, when it came to an individual player, this powerful organizational power had also sealed off the possibility of becoming an extraordinary person, a Buddha, or an ancestor without restraint.
Even individual players had to withstand pressure and threats coming from outside the killing field at a time when the situation was not yet clear.
For example, the inspection and screening of the State Apparatus was not necessarily a bad thing.
If a business organization spy became aware of the change of the times, that would absolutely be a bad thing.
A terrorist with an unclear mind or other players with errant thoughts could cause the same result.
Thus, in summary, individual players were still hiding their identities at the moment…
“One last question. What is the specific format the system uses to issue quests?”
[There are three types. The first type is a routine quest that is triggered randomly by the player on a daily basis. The player can choose to accept it or not. There are rewards for completing these quests and no penalty if the player fails.]
[The second type is a mandatory quest issued randomly by the system. The player must complete the quest goal. There is a reward for completing it, but the player will be obliterated for failing.]
[The third type is a scripted quest. The quest scene does not necessarily happen on the real Earth and is randomly generated by the system. The player will play a certain role according to the script. There are rewards for completing the quest, but punishment will be handed out randomly by the system for failing.]
“Oh?”
Li Ang raised his eyebrows. The first and second quest formats were easy to understand. However, the scripted quest sounded a bit strange.
Just as he was about to continue asking questions, the system issued a reminder.
[The conditions necessary to trigger the quest have been met. Quest Type: Routine Quest]
[Quest Name: The Thing Behind]
[Quest Objective: Eliminate the possessive ghost in the Yin City Experimental Middle School 0/1]
[Quest Reward 1: The player’s authority will increase and the personal panel will open]
[Quest Reward 2: In addition to eliminating the spirit, an additional reward of 45 EXP will be given]
[Quest Reward 3: 100 Game Credits]
[Quest Reward 4: Random Normal Grade Item*1]
[Accept/Reject]