Chapter 15 The Mayotte Islands

The helicopter sped along, quickly reaching its destination and landing on the Special Affairs Bureau's helipad.

Li Ang and Chai Chai stepped off the helipad, where Xing Hechou was already waiting. He led them into the Special Affairs Bureau headquarters building, bypassing the command hall and winding through the corridors.

Finally, he opened a door and entered an unremarkable office.

In the center of the office was a rectangular conference table, surrounded by the heads of various departments of the Special Affairs Bureau—many new faces among them.

Bai Haozheng and Zhu Xuemin were also present, and they friendly raised their hands in greeting upon seeing Li Ang.

At the head of the conference table sat Han Shuishi, dressed in a suit—he was now the person in charge here.

"You've arrived."

Han Shuishi nodded at Li Ang and looked at Bai Haozheng, who used his telekinetic power to form a hand and press the projector button in the center of the conference table.

Twenty-four small projectors embedded in the conference table emitted light, creating a clear three-dimensional projection above the table.

The image was of an island covered in green vegetation, surrounded by a vast expanse of azure sea.

Dozens of modern steel warships were anchored around the island.

The flags hanging on the sides of the ships belonged to several major powers and the Global Supernatural Alliance.

Several of the ships were tightly clustered together.

Their decks were melted and connected by alchemy, forming a giant sea fortress.

The object surrounded by all the steel warships was not the island itself, but a patch of sea surface not far from the island, radiating a faint light.

"This is, the Mayotte Islands..."

Li Ang recognized the shape of the island at a glance.

The Mayotte Islands are located between the African continent and the Madagascar archipelago.

Its economy used to be mainly agricultural, exporting vanilla, coffee, and copra, and it is a French overseas region.

Not long after the Doorway Contest, the Mayotte Islands suddenly experienced an earthquake, causing a tsunami that engulfed a large number of coastal facilities, resulting in more than 1,500 casualties and more than 2,000 missing.

There is considerable evidence to suggest that the earthquake and tsunami were not simply geological disasters; the main cause of the disaster was a stargate.

Below the sea surface not far from the Mayotte Islands, there is a vortex-shaped doorway. The doorway itself has not completely stabilized, sometimes expanding and sometimes contracting, absorbing seawater and causing disasters.

"That's right."

Bai Haozheng nodded and said to Li Ang, "Nearly two months have passed since the Mayotte Islands incident.

At that time, in some videos uploaded to the website by ordinary people, several glowing, tall humanoid figures could be seen beside the stargate, guarding the stargate itself.

Afterward, the Global Supernatural Alliance stated that they were temporarily uncertain about the nature of the starlight vortex and did not deny the possibility of it being a doorway.

However, most organizations, including us, know that it is actually a stargate, the same as the one players obtained from the Doorway Contest.

Moreover, it's not just the Mayotte Islands.

Worldwide, there are at least thirty-seven uncontrolled stargates that have appeared out of thin air one after another since the Doorway Contest.

This is just what various organizations have discovered. If we also count the stargates that refresh in remote corners and have not been discovered,

the total number may be forty, or even more than fifty."

"Fifty stargates?"

Li Ang frowned. The Doorway Contest issued a total of twenty doorways to the top twenty players in the final rankings, so the numbers don't match.

"Yes."

Bai Haozheng took a deep breath and explained, "Brother Li, you should also have a doorway in your hand. Do you know the specific nature of the doorways?

Behind each stargate is an independent world or plane.

The types of worlds connected by different stargates are different.

Users can control the opening, closing, expansion, and shrinking of the stargate.

All actions consume the user's own spiritual energy.

Users, as well as other creatures and objects,

can also enter the stargate world.

This process also consumes the user's spiritual energy.

And the higher the life level of the creatures entering the stargate, the greater the energy consumed.

The above is what we know, the universal rules of stargates."

Bai Haozheng looked at Li Ang.

Li Ang naturally understood the other party's intention and nodded, "The same as what I know."

"Although there are many restrictions on the use of stargates, it is undeniable that each stargate can provide a huge amount of resources, enough to make the entire civilization make great progress."

Bai Haozheng said in a deep voice, "After the large number of stargates appeared, we and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Global Supernatural Alliance organizations exchanged information as soon as possible.

We discovered that the known stargates do not lead to the same world.

Some stargates are complete, habitable planets suitable for colonization, with climate, temperature, gravity, and other conditions that are extremely suitable for humans;

some stargates connect to a strange plane, which is full of minerals or gases of extremely high value to specific players.

In other words, the stargates in the hands of the Earth camp lead to different regions.

And the thirty-seven uncontrolled stargates all lead to Earth.

There are four possibilities for this.

One, this is a simple probability event.

The Killing Game exists in countless parallel worlds, and the players in these worlds also held their Doorway Contests and received their rewards.

All the players opened their doorways at the same time, and it just so happened that thirty-seven of them all connected to Earth.

But this is unlikely,

because among the doorway worlds we know, there is only the initial stargate, such an entrance, the probability is relatively low.

Two, this is some special Killing Game mechanism that we have not yet explored.

Our think tank believes that the billions of worlds connected by the Killing Game,

have the two attributes of [Main Plane] and [Secondary Plane].

The [Main Plane], such as Earth, can conduct screening, produce players, and hold Doorway Contests.

And the [Secondary Plane] is similar to the script worlds that players have explored.

The probability of producing players is extremely low, or even completely impossible—perhaps some script worlds themselves are incomplete, separated alone, like phantom existences.

These uncontrolled stargates,

are an attack by the [Secondary Plane] world on the [Main Plane].

The third possibility is similar to the second possibility,

The Killing Game is held simultaneously in all worlds every once in a while,

When the Doorway Contest ends,

[Main Plane] and [Main Plane] will be connected together through stargates,

to carry out more cruel filtering and screening,

which is war.

In the Lost World, the Devil Sunflower World where Huang Shi was located was a [Main Plane] that had once experienced war.

And the fourth possibility is also the worst.

This is not a war, but a long-planned invasion.

Other [Main Plane] worlds may be more developed than Earth, they may have known this information for a long time and are gathering forces to prepare for a large-scale invasion.”