Li Ang left the undersea insect nest, ascended to the surface, and pulled the trigger towards the distant horizon, using the Bullet Teleportation technique to teleport again near the Longqing cruise ship. He stepped on the invisible stairs and returned to the cabin.

"A'Chai, are you playing video games again?"

As soon as he opened the door, he saw Chai Chai rummaging through the storage room for the PS5 that had been collecting dust for a while due to the lack of new games. She connected it to the Sony 90-inch ultra-high-definition TV provided by Liu Wudai for free.

"No, I'm using it as a set-top box to watch TV shows."

Chai Chai continued to tinker with the PS5 without turning her head. After successfully turning it on, she shouted "Yay!" while looking at the Sony logo on the screen. She turned around, jumped into the sofa, picked up a bucket of popcorn and a Coke, and transformed into the lazy bum that Li Ang was most familiar with.

The effects of the Killing Game on the world were all-encompassing. The influx of a large number of novel items made the development of scientific theories and technologies advance by leaps and bounds.

New scientific research results were published and new technologies were realized every day.

The most obvious examples were city skyscrapers and the military equipment renewal plans of various countries.

Individual firearms, armor, protective gear, positioning devices, communication devices, armed helicopters, transport helicopters, attack aircraft, early warning aircraft, drones, electronic warfare aircraft, bombers, destroyers, frigates, cruisers...

In order to keep up with the rapid strengthening of the Transcendent and the rapid increase in the scale of mutations,

major official organizations were adopting a "rather have it and not need it" attitude, innovating and upgrading their armed forces regardless of cost.

Although these conventional military forces still seemed somewhat cumbersome to the Transcendent at the top of the pyramid,

the overall military strength was much stronger than it had been two years ago.

In addition to the military innovations, some technological achievements had also trickled down to civilian goods.

Previously, Prometheus Laboratory had successfully developed next-generation VR technology through reverse engineering of items from the Killing Game.

Now, users only needed to wear a helmet to see clear VR images comparable to the real world.

The helmet could emit odors to simulate the smells of the VR environment.

Paired with a full-coverage bodysuit that could simulate touch (with motion capture and positioning systems),

and a small area of anti-gravity levitation pads,

users could even move freely, walk, and jump within a 3*3m range,

seeing, hearing, smelling, and touching everything programmed.

This technology was originally for employee training of new Transcendent under Prometheus Laboratory,

Later, they developed better and more mature neural connection technology (similar to Sheng Nanwang's collective dream-building). They lowered the confidentiality level of this VR technology,

and collaborated with some electronic product hardware manufacturers to put related products on the civilian market under the guise of "gaming equipment."

The VR helmets they sold were naturally a castrated version of the training model,

significantly weakening the realistic effects of the VR and tactile bodysuit,

and replacing the anti-gravity levitation pads with sliding carpets that could automatically detect and slide in the opposite direction of the user's movement.

Even so, this VR set still required a living room-sized space, with a standard price of more than 15,000 yuan.

First-line players who were constantly on script missions naturally didn't have much interest in this kind of toy,

but game enthusiasts among ordinary people had discovered a new world—

better chips, better graphics cards, paired with automatic sliding carpets, VR helmets, and bodysuits that could perfectly capture every movement and use electric shocks to create the sensation of touch in the muscles.

Game enthusiasts could finally play ultra-realistic VR games in their own living rooms.

At first, these VR games were just things like "realistic fighting," "realistic weapon combat," and "realistic archery,"

but soon, another Transcendent organization entered the field.

They were the Whale Song.

This Transcendent organization, composed of programmers, had obtained a large number of equipment and props related to modern computer technology through the Killing Game, and stood at the forefront of electronic information science and technology.

They freely published a set of game engines on platforms such as GitHub.

The lighting and physical destruction effects of this game engine far exceeded all competing products on the market, and were compatible with the new VR systems provided by Prometheus and other companies.

Game development companies and game developers could use it at will.

Most importantly, the Whale Song organization also provided a similarly free artificial intelligence game creation assistant on the cloud platform.

This AI could analyze photos and images, and according to the images,

automatically generate modeling engineering files,

and give priority to simulating the physical collision effects of objects based on the laws of physics in the real world.

If it was an object that did not exist in the real world (such as a fire-breathing dragon), then conditions could be entered separately for simulation.

For game developers, this technology was no less than a world-shattering event.

They only needed to import a large number of photos of guns, cars, balls, trees, flowers, plants, and water into the artificial intelligence processing library to generate the desired virtual world effects with one click,

greatly shortening the game development cycle, reducing difficulty, and saving costs.

Game manufacturers and game enthusiasts were grateful for the Whale Song organization's selfless dedication.

All programmers in the world took joining the Whale Song organization as their lifelong goal.

(The Whale Song organization was semi-open, and sometimes recruited ordinary programmers)

As a result, after the Whale Song organization freely provided the game engine, a large number of new games and remakes of old games sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Realistic *Pokémon*, where players could see Pikachu jumping around and squatting on their shoulders after putting on a VR helmet.

Role-playing, action games, sports competitions, racing, first-person shooters...

Realistic *GTA5*, where players could parkour, shoot, run casinos in Los Santos, and even street race (requiring additional real-world seats).

Realistic *Resident Evil*, where players could roll and run at will, make tactical moves, and maneuver with monsters in the Spencer Mansion.

Realistic *Yu-Gi-Oh!*, where all the cards had movie effects, and when necessary, they could flip the table and punch their opponents in the face.

As soon as the new VR system came out, it achieved a dimensionality reduction strike on the original electronic games in terms of experience.

High-tech game manufacturers had been able to allow players to connect remotely in the VR world,

and play gun battles or MOBA games.

Li Ang saw a lot of related news on civilian media and forums. Global game enthusiasts were in a collective frenzy. Even some ordinary people who were not game enthusiasts had joined the new VR system.

(The new VR technology can not only be used to play games, but also to watch scenery, take remote online classes, connect home appliances, and perform remote surgery, etc.)

However, Chai Chai wasn't that enthusiastic about this technology.

Although the new VR technology among the people looked very good, it was not 100% realistic after all, and could only achieve about 70% at most.

It was far inferior to real script missions,

and even the virtual reality technology used in the Special Affairs Bureau training grounds.

After experiencing 100% reality, playing this 70% virtual reality always felt a bit lacking. Chai Chai planned to wait for VR to develop better before going to play to her heart's content.

"Look, look, the show is starting."

Chai Chai stared at the screen with her eyes shining while drinking Coke.

"What show?"

Li Ang asked casually, "Is it *Forging Competition* or *Wild Chase*? It can't be the second half of the second season of *Wind Chasers*, is it?"

"Of course not. *Wild Chase* is outdated, and new episodes of *Wind Chasers* haven't come out yet."

Chai Chai stared at the TV screen without turning her head and said, "This is a sister program to *Master Chef*, called *Alien Feast*."

"What?"

Li Ang was stunned. He saw an aerial shot of the sea appear on the TV.

The upper part of the screen first showed the logos of the Watchers Guild and Netflix,

indicating that it was invested by Netflix and filmed by the Watchers Guild.

Then the lower part of the screen projected the title of the show, *Alien Feast*.

As the two lines of subtitles gradually faded, an English narration was also heard from the TV.

"For a long time, the nature we are familiar with has been the only source of food for human civilization.

In order to obtain food, we collect, plant, mine, fish, and hunt.

In order to cook food, we invented cooking, frying, steaming, stewing, braising, and scalding.

And now, we are about to explore the boundaries of food and cooking, to explore the unknown tastes of mankind."

Along with the deep, magnetic male voice, the screen suddenly switched to a medium-sized fishing boat with three middle-aged men standing on it.

The one in the middle was wearing a host's uniform, with the Watchers Guild logo pinned to his chest, looking like a host.

The two next to him,

one white, one yellow, were both wearing chef's uniforms.

Li Ang asked with a head full of question marks, "What is this show?"

Chai Chai said while eating popcorn, "You'll know when you watch it."

The host on the screen continued, "Friends of the audience, welcome to the latest episode of *Alien Feast*. I don't know what you think of the two-headed deer venison dish from Chernobyl in the last episode? Is it the sashimi with soy sauce and garlic, or the Scottish-style stewed venison, which do you prefer?

The voting window will close after this episode airs. Please send your preferred results to our show's operations office in the form of SMS, email, or online voting. We will randomly select ten lucky viewers to give away this episode's delicacies."

The host said with a smile, "Okay, without further ado, let's come to today's show.

Now standing next to me are two of the world's most famous chefs.

Please introduce yourselves to the audience."

The white chef on the left nodded and said, "Hello everyone, I'm Kevin Giles. I own three Michelin three-star restaurants around the world and have 25 years of culinary history."

The yellow chef on the right waved and said, "Hello everyone, I'm Ouyang Cheng, a master chef, proficient in Shandong cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, Jiangsu cuisine, and Sichuan cuisine."

"What is this? A food show?"

Li Ang was a little baffled. There were food shows every day. Chai Chai had been addicted to them before, and had even burst into a three-minute passion, wanting to learn to cook.

Chai Chai made a hush gesture, "Shh, keep watching, this show is very interesting."

The host continued on the screen, "...Today, we will still follow the old rule, and the production team will provide the two chefs with the same rare ingredient, so that the two chefs can use their own creativity to cook their specialty dishes.

Friends of the audience can vote to participate in the event and have a chance to win food prizes.

Okay, let's take a look at today's ingredients."

The camera turned to the back of the medium-sized fishing boat, where two...fish? were hanging on the trawl gantry.

That's right,

two strangely shaped fish were hanging on the two iron hooks of the fishing boat's trawl gantry.

Their overall outlines were similar to fish, but the scales on their bodies were morbidly pale and would fall off with a touch.

Their two fish eyes were turbid and pale.

Below the fins, spider-like legs grew out, constantly wriggling and shaking.

The fish's back was covered with a layer of hair-like black hair. Only when you got closer could you find that it was not hair, but slender nerves exposed to the outside.

"Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah."

Perhaps because the hooks pierced their gills, the two fish stared with dead fish eyes, opened their mouths and cried out, making strange infant-like cries. Their tails twitched, and scales rustled and fell.

"Holy crap."

Even though Li Ang himself was a master of bio-modification technology, he was still shocked when he saw these so bizarre fish, "What is this thing?

Junji Ito's fish?"

"These are the mutant fish that appeared after the sewage leak on the east coast of Sun Island half a month ago."

The host on the TV screen answered Li Ang's doubts, and said in a serious manner, "The sewage discharged by the shameless and immoral Tokyo Electric Power Company of Sun Island,

polluted the waters of the Pacific Ocean, and under the influence of the Killing Game, spawned a Grade A mutation called Aobōzu.

Although the Global Supernatural Alliance and the Sun Island Abnormal Affairs Investigation Bureau quickly resolved the Grade A mutation,

the pollution effect produced by the mutation still spread out, causing genetic mutations in deep-sea fish.

Some fish have become this strange.

Our *Alien Feast* program, in the spirit of nothing is inedible, nothing is uncookable, will demonstrate to you today how to cook this new type of food so that it tastes good."

???

Li Ang looked at the two deformed fish hanging on the screen that were constantly screaming, and raised his eyebrows high.

Chai Chai explained with gusto next to him, "This show is super explosive. Unlike *Master Chef*, which is also produced by the Watchers Guild,

*Master Chef* focuses on cooking delicious food. Each episode must produce a god-level delicacy that emits golden light and makes people addicted to it and explode their clothes.

And this show pursues a freakishness,

nuclear radiation-contaminated deer,

horses infected by the Ju-On curse,

cannibal flowers, corpse fragrant konjac,

devil eggs summoned by the hell demon array,

cows that have failed in biochemical modification,

basically, he can make you see any ingredient you can think of.

If it weren't for fear of bad influence, this show could even invite Transcendent with rapid self-healing ability to perform an on-the-spot performance of cutting off their own kidneys for barbecue.

I've been watching this show recently to eat."

Li Ang smacked his lips and looked at the two chefs on the TV screen who were seriously discussing whether the deformed fish should be steamed, boiled, or fried. He didn't know what to say, "Are there no side effects after eating this thing?

Like growing extra eyes or ears after eating it."

"Of course there are."

Chai Chai said as a matter of course, "But the Watchers Guild is rich and powerful, and is equipped with professional logistics doctors.

The last time the host tried an egg dish made with demon eggs,

he grew a second strange head on the spot.

As a result, the doctor next to him went up and chopped off the second head with a surgical knife, and then released a holy light to eliminate the effect."

"...Okay."

Li Ang shook his head, and sighed that people are really getting more and more unscrupulous now. Just as he was about to complain, he heard a system prompt in his ear.

[Task trigger conditions have been met]

[Task type: Script Task (Team)]

[Task name: Sea of Behemoths]

[Task objective: Wait for teleportation in the marine environment at 20:00 tonight]

[Task reward: Will be announced when the next task prompt is received]

[Failure penalty: Randomly destroy a certain number of the player's personally bound items]