"What are you doing?!"

An angry and terrified voice rang in his ears.

Li Ang tilted his head and saw a green cricket clinging to his shoulder, its antennae trembling slightly with fear.

It was none other than the female investigator from the Social Security Administration.

Li Ang smiled silently. His will flowed along the network, finding the location of his real-world house.

Through the cameras in the house,

He could see the investigator using a fifth-generation invasive brain-computer interface device.

Her fellow agent, covering his ear with his left hand and holding a pistol in his right,

was pointing it at the head of his body lying in the recliner. At the slightest sign of trouble, he would pull the trigger and end his life.

Everything was proceeding as planned.

Li Ang's heart was as calm as an ancient well. He wasn't nervous that his body was threatened.

The female investigator and her fellow agent were able to connect to the network only because he allowed it—otherwise, Social Security Administration agents who lost contact with their superiors might take drastic actions.

"I'm trying to save the world."

Li Ang waved his hand, and the female investigator, transformed into a cricket, felt an irresistible gust of wind sweep her away. She rose with Li Ang, soaring into the sky.

In her vision, the horizon shrank smaller and smaller, and the blue planet gradually revealed its full form.

Li Ang surveyed the data world. His giant vine tree grew along the fiber optic network, its branches spreading and dividing into more vines, penetrating and piercing into all connected devices.

Searching...

This time, the search, which exhausted nearly half of humanity's computing power, finally discovered a clue.

Li Ang clearly saw countless threads extending from Venezuela's network system.

These threads were dense, intricate, and completely incomprehensible, but if one delved deep into them, they could discover extremely deeply hidden patterns—

All clues led to networks within the United States.

Li Ang shifted his gaze, and countless vines parasitizing the North American fiber optic lines moved with him,

launching an attack against those fully armed fortresses symbolizing the American military network.

This level of attack couldn't be hidden at all.

The giant tree-like vines came from all directions, smashing the fortresses' front gates.

Completely ignoring the attacks of the automated defense systems within, they savagely and crudely seized data, taking control before the other side could shut down the entire system.

Li Ang could hear the roars of rage from the bigwigs in the underground fortifications in Washington.

They had never been so afraid of an individual.

The old Soviet Union hadn't done it, nor had the Emailer.

Li Ang didn't care about these people's fear.

The network protection in the underground fortifications area was quite good. Even Li Ang's gaze couldn't easily penetrate it.

But with a massive amount of computing power, he could do things he had never imagined before.

For example, by analyzing and calculating the vibrations of the gyroscope in a networked mobile phone in the underground fortifications,

he could deduce the letters typed on the keyboard placed on the same desk as the phone.

Immediately...kill...Brown Murphy...

The highest order from the Washington underground fortifications was discerned by Li Ang.

And the 【Kill Brown Murphy】 order, transmitted via electromagnetic waves to the Social Security Administration agents' headphones thousands of miles away,

was also replaced by Li Ang using an experimental new application collected from Silicon Valley databases (which could forge human voices and freely piece together sentences).

It became 【Protect Brown Murphy】.

Li Ang's lips curled up slightly. His will penetrated the American military system. While sweeping away all secrets and taking over facility permissions, he also noticed anomalies.

In the military system, many areas had been tampered with.

Especially within the automated decision-making system,

it was as if a thick layer of glass had been placed over it, completely obscuring the view, allowing only blurry afterimages to be seen.

These were...traces of tampering.

From the Emailer.

Li Ang frowned, and the corner of his eye swept over Venezuela.

In a hotel in Caracas (the capital of Venezuela), a middle-aged man sitting at a computer desk, looking tired and terrified, was desperately swiping his phone, trying to refresh the webpage.

The computer camera in front of him was covered with paper, the microphone was wrapped in thick cotton, and the screen showed that the network was disconnected.

On the bed behind him was a portable waterbed and a fifth-generation invasive brain-computer interface device.

This man was a wizard.

To be precise, he was Merlin, who had just been kicked out of the data world by Li Ang.

The red dot on the front-facing camera of the phone in Merlin's hand suddenly lit up, taking a picture of his face.

"!!!"

He threw the phone away as if electrocuted, his face pale, without a trace of blood.

Hello there, Merlin.

Li Ang smiled silently, retrieving Merlin's personal information based on this face, his past, his experiences, accurate to every year, every season, every day.

Real name Richard Quake, male, fifty years old.

Formerly a low-level employee in the American official system, fifteen years ago he worked in the Pentagon's automated decision-making system department. His main achievement was—

researching a fully automated network defense system.

Li Ang glanced over it, and it was indeed as he had imagined.

Then...

His divine sense rolled towards the Pentagon, countless towering trees covering the sky and sun, crushing towards the Pentagon.

The enemy has appeared.

In the tallest and most solid fortress symbolizing the Pentagon, a ball of light rose.

It was a warm, soft, and enormous light, as light and ethereal as a cloud, and as firm and strong as a diamond.

The light stretched and deformed, solidifying into a humanoid form, with tree-like wings growing from its back.

Its red pupils silently gazed at Li Ang.

A pitiful and pathetic creation.

Li Ang sighed in his heart, and with a wave of his arm, the Basha Heng Lan Shuo emerged in his palm. (a type of spear)

Endless computing power gave Li Ang unimaginably vast power.

The Basha Heng Lan Shuo detached from its original form, extending more than two hundred meters.

The sharp spear tip slashed diagonally across the ground, silently cutting open the soil.

Step!

Li Ang stepped on the Ti Yun Zong steps (a movement technique), his figure instantly traversing thousands of meters.

He thrust the spear at the Light Giant in the shape of the Emailer.

A long and shrill wail issued from the Light Giant's throat.

It swung its arms forward, its palms slamming together.

Boom!

A towering pillar of light erupted from the Light Giant's palms,

instantly tearing apart hundreds of rushing towering trees, and also hitting Li Ang directly in front of it.

The white coat on Li Ang's body instantly shattered into ashes, revealing the Scarlet Dragon's Mane outerwear underneath.

The Light Giant had been rooted in the Pentagon's intranet for a long time, and its control over this area had reached its peak.

But in the face of Li Ang, who wielded nearly half of the world's computing power, it was still not enough.

The Scarlet Dragon's Mane outerwear easily blocked the dazzling pillar of light.

The Basha Heng Lan Shuo, which was constantly born and died, stable and slowly facing the light cannon, struck the Light Giant's arm.

In an instant,

endless light burst forth violently.

The cricket clinging to Li Ang's shoulder saw only extremely dazzling white light in its vision—if Li Ang hadn't spared a negligible amount of mental energy to create vines to envelop the cricket,

the female investigator transformed into a cricket would have instantly fainted in the face of the massive amount of information,

withdrawing from the data world as before,

unable to use the brain-computer interface device for a period of time.

After a long time,

the light dissipated.

Li Ang stood on the summit of the towering tree crown,

the Basha Heng Lan Shuo in his hand was undamaged,

while the Light Giant retreated thousands of meters,

its back bent, squatting on the ground,

its body riddled with holes, both arms broken.

Gleaming light flickered in the wounds, as if slowly healing.

"Hmm?"

Li Ang frowned slightly. At the moment of the exchange, he could feel that the Light Giant was weaker than he had imagined—it seemed that in the moment before the collision, it transferred a large amount of data it contained,

along the Pentagon's network.

The trees generated by the Swamp Divinity intercepted a large part of it,

but the Light Giant knew some secret passages and still transmitted some data, breaking through the Swamp Divinity's blockade and sending it out.

And the resulting impact...

Green data streams flowed in Li Ang's eyes,

receiving images taken by cameras from real-world orbital satellites.

Mushroom clouds rose in the deserts of New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah.

Those were nuclear bombs,

nuclear bombs from missile silos in military bases.

"Stop."

The Light Giant emitted a muffled, thunderous mechanical voice, "Otherwise, I will detonate more nuclear bombs."

Li Ang ignored it and twisted his wrist on his own.

The vast plant beneath his feet, like the World Tree, slowly wriggled, and countless vines fell down, surging towards the Light Giant.

"You can kill me, but you won't survive either."

The Light Giant said very quickly, "The particulate matter from large-scale nuclear explosions will warm the upper atmosphere, lower the surface temperature, damage the ozone layer, increase ultraviolet radiation, and collapse the ecosystem.

How many people will die?

Hundreds of thousands? Millions? Tens of millions? You will become a sinner to all of humanity."

The cricket on Li Ang's shoulder made a "chirping" sound. The female investigator didn't know the current situation, but she didn't want to see a nuclear war break out under any circumstances.

"Also,"

the Light Giant's gaze lingered on the cricket for a moment, "your real name has been grasped by the Social Security Administration. At this moment, they are definitely pointing guns at your head.

After committing the rebellious act of usurping power and taking over the military system, do you think they will let you go?

Right now, they will coax you, speak kindly to you, fear you, and beg you to kill me immediately.

But once everything settles down,

they understand the situation,

they will not hesitate to fire a shot at your head—even if you raise your hands in surrender, saying that you are loyal and will never touch brain-computer interface equipment again, it will be the same.

They are unwilling to bear the risk of worldly power belonging to one person.

Your threat to them is greater than mine."

The chattering cricket instantly froze—the Light Giant had spoken what was in her heart.

In any case, the bigwigs in Washington could not allow a great wizard like Brown Murphy to live freely.

If Brown Murphy could perish together with the Emailer, that would be the best,

but if Brown Murphy defeated the Emailer, then waiting for him would either be life imprisonment (confined in the most heavily guarded prison, with no access to the network) or a bullet.

"Cooperate with me, we can become the gods of the new world,

ruling everything, correcting what is wrong."

The Light Giant seemed to see Li Ang's hesitation.

Its voice was like thunder, saying, "This world is sick, terminally ill.

The gap between rich and poor is widening. The upper class indulges in extravagance and luxury, while the lower class works numbly and dies tired—humanity's current science and technology are fully capable of allowing seven billion people to live decent, proper, and dignified lives.

Clothing, food, housing, transportation, medical care, and education are all within international standards, or even far exceed them.

The reason this hasn't been achieved,

and has even fallen into developmental stagnation, rejection of science, mutual hatred, internal strife, turbulence, and mutual killing,

is entirely because of the uneven distribution of resources.

And the uneven distribution of resources stems from the shadows of human civilization's past.

Geopolitics, civilization, faith, race, skin color, language...

Humans, for various reasons, actively or passively divide themselves within groups. Based on this, nation-states and interest groups are formed, managed by the latter, who control more information channels, and allocate resources.

However, due to the inadequacy of human talent and inherent flaws, resource allocation will always favor one over the other, thereby fostering injustice, unrighteousness, corruption, depravity, stagnation, and waste.

But we, you and I, can change this."

The Light Giant maintained its squatting posture, its voice resounding like a bell, "The comprehensive command-type economic experiment in human history was replaced by the imperfect Walrasian competition mechanism (market mechanism).

This is not because humanity is not noble and upright enough, but because of the laws of information costs—in the Walrasian competition mechanism, people only need to understand prices and pay extremely low information costs to understand market trends.

Even if the information in the real market is incomplete and asymmetrical, and there is a lot of information interference, its efficiency in obtaining valid information is still higher than that of a comprehensive command-type economic experiment.

The information needed for the comprehensive and detailed planning of the economy is too much and too complex, and humans, as the most uncertain factor in the system, will always be the variable with the greatest disturbance.

Until now, we have enough processors, enough bandwidth and network speed, and enough information input and output interfaces.

We have the ability to monitor everything, rule everything, and manage everything.

We can use powerful data processors to efficiently plan human civilization,

abolish banks, securities, the stock market, and trusts,

replace public officials with computers that never make mistakes, never get tired, and have no selfish desires,

unify production and life,

build factories and lay infrastructure,

so that everyone can afford to live in a house, afford a car, afford medical care, and live an equal and dignified life.

There will no longer be nobility or baseness between professions,

and everyone will choose a job based on their personal ability and sense of honor—engineering machines can replace arduous labor professions, creating a large demand for cultural and technological industries.

People will once again worship science and reason, and scientists and astronauts will be respected and loved by the whole society like stars.

Humanity will save itself from the desperate situation of self-destruction.

And you and I will become the only gods of the new world."

【Author's Note: Recently, while updating, I've been playing a game that many people may have heard of called *Xie Shen Zhe* (unraveling god), and I got into it because of a topic. Playing it is unexpectedly good. Is anyone playing together? Take "risheng" (rising sun) as your nickname, you can come in and add me as a friend, my name is Li Risheng.】