If what broke out in America was merely a conflict,

then what happened elsewhere could only be described as war.

In South America, the struggle between the European Heavy Industries Group and the American military-industrial complex came to a head, with both sides dispatching even larger teams of superhumans and regular troops,

officially engaging in combat in cities, fields, and barren mountains.

Forty mid- to high-level superhumans died in a single day.

To gain a war advantage, both sides even resorted to assassination, physically eliminating the management of the opposing interest groups.

As for the ordinary residents of South America, they flocked to the few cities with giant skyscrapers, namely São Paulo, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago...

The population capacity of these city skyscrapers was far from sufficient to accommodate the masses pouring in from all directions.

The security teams of the European Heavy Industries and American military-industrial complex guarding the foot of the city skyscrapers were transferred from abroad.

They were not as "gentle" to these non-native residents

as their American counterparts.

If South American civilians dared to storm the city skyscraper barricades, they would directly use assault rifles and even machine guns to spray fire, driving the crowds back to the city's original slums.

Interest groups like the European Heavy Industries and the American military-industrial complex would never be so humanitarian as to send these ordinary people to the Door World.

All South American people had to stay in South America

to ensure the stability of the increased probability of player qualifications.

As for Australia,

their government officials failed to obtain a Door, only building two city skyscrapers with average defense levels in Sydney and Melbourne.

The wealthy and middle classes of Australia seemed well aware of the fighting power of the Australian army, and had long applied for immigration, moving to Europe or America.

Therefore, the vast Australian land had returned to the hands of the indigenous people – how ironic.

The situation in Southeast Asia was not optimistic.

The long-term weakness of local governments meant they couldn't control the public panic.

At the same time as the conflict broke out in America, smoke and fire rose throughout Southeast Asia.

Opportunists seized the opportunity to take over the army and launch coups.

Some major cities saw waves of smashing, looting, and robbery.

Fortunately, the Special Affairs Bureau (Teshi Ju) had begun evacuating overseas Chinese a year earlier. Most of the overseas Chinese willing to return home recognized the situation, abandoning their fixed assets and returning to their homeland.

Only a few Asians who hated their homeland and their own ethnicity insisted on staying in Southeast Asia.

They were also among the first groups to suffer in the conflict.

As for South Asia, there was nothing worth mentioning.

Whether it was Vietnam, Myanmar, or India and Bangladesh,

riots broke out in their major cities.

On the contrary, there were fewer bloody incidents in remote rural areas for the time being – it would take a few days for the news to spread completely before the ignorant people in the benighted villages could react.

At that time, there would be more South Asian versions of witch trials.

Europe, especially Central and Western Europe,

also faced major tests.

Millions of refugees from West Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe

either took boats, or completed car trips, or walked arduously,

flocking to the borders of Germany, France, and Italy.

These refugees were not only suffering from the ravages of war, but also knew that they could only survive by living in city skyscrapers.

Therefore, they spared no expense to enter developed European countries.

However, this action was met with a head-on blow.

Millions of refugees saw barbed wire full of spikes, several-meter-high concrete walls, and ubiquitous searchlights

as well as heavily armed soldiers on the concrete walls at the border.

European countries, which had warmly welcomed refugees in the past few years, had now completely changed their faces,

not allowing any low-end refugees (not doctors, scientists, or engineers) to enter.

In the past, European countries were willing to treat refugees kindly, sparing no expense to put on a show,

first, to cater to the politically correct white-left wave and reap political dividends,

and second, to obtain low-cost labor to make up for the population collapse caused by low birth rates.

But now, the whole earth was about to become a battlefield, who would care about the refugee problem.

First, it was necessary to ensure that enough native residents survived

before they were qualified to consider developing the country, accommodating more people, and harvesting more player qualifications.

As a result, European countries directly broadcast on television,

announcing national martial law, prohibiting refugees from entering, and strictly investigating undocumented refugees in the country, sending them all back to their hometowns.

Any act of privately sheltering or hiding refugees would be subject to criminal penalties of up to life imprisonment.

At first, European residents who had been immersed in politically correct culture for a long time could not accept these official measures,

and some intellectuals even took to the streets shouting that the Axis dictatorial forces of the twentieth century were back.

For these people, European officials only had one saying – the right to reside in European city skyscrapers and the right to immigrate to the Door World were very limited,

and could only be provided to a portion of their own citizens.

Anyone who sheltered or accommodated refugees was harming the right of other citizens to reside in city skyscrapers and the right to immigrate to the Door World.

Die yourself, or die the refugees.

Most of the European residents, who were used to seeing reports of various strange and abnormal events, obediently shut their mouths and chose to ignore the so-called refugee human rights.

Mutation truly made people wish they could neither live nor die.

Compared to this sense of fear, the showy sympathy in human nature was not worth mentioning at all.

Only a very small number of European people still insisted on speaking out for the refugees who were in trouble on the border line,

holding small-scale marches and demonstrations in city skyscrapers, demanding that officials open the border line and accommodate those poor refugees.

The fate of these people was very simple – they were kicked out of city skyscrapers, or imprisoned on charges of violating public security administration regulations.

As many players had predicted, during these three days,

nearly a million people died worldwide due to unrest and war.

Moreover, due to the collective contraction of overseas military forces by major powers, the reduction of overseas relief efforts, and the transfer of their ships back home,

the Global Supernatural Alliance and the United Nations World Health Organization, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and others were unable to support themselves,

and could not send enough food, medicine, and manpower to underdeveloped regions such as Africa.

In the next few days,

more people would die of disease and starvation.

The preview of just one version update of the Killing Game eliminated hundreds of thousands of people on Earth.

Before the situation stabilized, the casualties on Earth might exceed the sum of the First and Second World Wars...

Even the most optimistic sociologists and economists believed that the concept of a global village was gone forever.

Human civilization had returned to the situation before the Age of Discovery, when they were cut off from each other.

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"Slurp..."

At the exit of Yin City's city skyscraper, Li Ang leaned against the lamppost, leisurely sipping milk tea.

Wang Congshan also stood beside him with a cup of milk tea in her hand. The two of them watched the long convoy of cars, fully loaded with passengers, drive out of the city skyscraper and head north.

The Special Affairs Bureau (Teshi Ju) and the Different Learning Society (Yi Xuehui) finally made a decision to move most of the residents to the Door World.

A small number of residents who were willing to stay on Earth were concentrated in a few city skyscrapers.

"They've all moved away."

Li Ang looked at the dense traffic flowing out of the gate side by side and said with emotion: "I didn't expect it to be so fast."

"Yeah."

Wang Congshan put down her milk tea and said with some sadness: "It's only been a year, and it feels like everything has changed.

First, the townships were abolished, then the city skyscrapers, and now they are collectively moving to the Door World.

I don't know when this wandering will end."

"Um..."

Li Ang thought for a while and asked, "What about your parents?"

"They've already moved away. They took the family channel and were arranged in the First District colony of the New World.

I've been to that place before. The natural environment is much better than Earth. There are large areas of primitive jungle and rivers, lakes and seas. The air is fresh and the products are abundant.

It's just that the wild animals are relatively dense and fierce. Ordinary people still have to live in city skyscrapers."

Wang Congshan waved her hand casually, but there was still a trace of worry on her face.

The exchange between the Door World and the real world was realized by consuming the energy of the Door holder.

This also meant that the more powerful the superhuman, the more toll fees they had to pay, making it more difficult to travel freely between the two worlds.

They were separated by distance, and their fates were unpredictable.

After this parting, they didn't know when they would meet again.

"Do you think life would be better if there had never been a Killing Game?"

Wang Congshan looked into the distance, gazing at the crowds who were reluctant to part through the car windows at the gate, and said softly: "The countryside and towns would still exist, and everyone's daily life would still be playing with their mobile phones, browsing Douyin and Weibo, and playing games.

We should still be preparing for the college entrance examination..."

"I don't need to prepare for the exam."

Li Ang grinned and said casually: "I just need to wear a sweater when I take the exam."

Wang Congshan tilted her head, "Uh? A sweater?"

Li Ang took it for granted and said, "If you can't answer the questions during the exam, just take a bite of the sweater."

"So you can fill yourself with acrylonitrile, so you can answer any question, right?"

The corner of Wang Congshan's eyes twitched, and Li Ang immediately gave a thumbs up and praised: "You really deserve to be the roundworm, pinworm, tapeworm, whipworm, hookworm, and threadworm in my stomach,

I'll give you a thumbs up." (dian bo zan - internet slang for like/thumbs up)

Wang Congshan rolled her eyes, "Why don't I feel praised at all? Do you have to use such disgusting words when you praise people?"

"The person who uses reduplicative words is disgusting."

Li Ang curled his lips and said casually: "If there was no Killing Game and everyone took the normal college entrance examination, what university and major would you prepare to apply for?"

"Um..."

Wang Congshan tilted her head and thought. When their class was promoted to the third year of high school, the teacher asked all the students to fill in their ideal aspirations,

but at that time, Wang Congshan also became a player and just missed it.

"Maybe I'll apply for a literature major?"

She said uncertainly: "Aiya, I don't know, I haven't thought about it much yet.

What about you?"

Li Ang thought for a while, "As a local examinee in Yin City, I must give priority to applying for local schools. For example, Yin City Experimental High School."

"Are you kidding me?"

Wang Congshan said helplessly, "Classic grade repetition, right."

"It's more like probation."

Li Ang waved his hand and said casually: "Of course, with my intelligence, even if I stay in school, I can start a bottom-up wave of resistance.

It shouldn't be a problem to be a class teacher."

Wang Congshan rolled her eyes, "That way you can openly write comments on students' papers, right?"

Honk! Honk!

A long whistle sounded in the distance at the gate passage.

The high-speed train drove out of the city skyscraper and sped north.

The heat from the milk tea slowly rose, blurring the air.

The two of them looked at the human migration spectacle that far exceeded the Spring Festival travel season and fell silent for a while.

Li Ang's eyes flickered, not knowing what he was thinking.

Buzz——

The watch on Wang Congshan's wrist vibrated. The update time of the Killing Game had finally arrived.

Li Ang stopped leaning on the utility pole, stood up straight, and looked into the distance.

There was no earthquake, no landslide, and no celestial phenomenon. Everything was extraordinarily calm.

"The front line has sent back news that the Sky Arena has appeared."

Wang Congshan took a deep breath and pressed the button on her watch.

The small hole on the side of the watch immediately projected a holographic projection.

The holographic projection showed a vast ocean.

Dozens of aircraft carriers and warships from different countries and forces were hovering in the sea area, each ship maintaining a state of combat readiness, vigilantly waiting for something.

Boom!

At the moment when the clock hand returned to twelve o'clock, the sea surface boiled as if it were boiling.

A huge white tower that was unimaginable in size pierced the sea and rose from beneath the sea surface.

Hundreds of meters, thousands of meters,

The white giant tower soared into the clouds, and a huge amount of sea water fell from the surface of the tower, smashing on the broad bedrock that rose from the sea surface along with the tower.

The version update of the Killing Game directly created a large island in the center of the Pacific Ocean.

The buildings on the island were the Sky Arena in the game plaza.

Without any hesitation, the ships of various countries that had been waiting in the surrounding sea area immediately sailed towards the island.

They sent the staff on the ship to take small boats, land on the island full of black reefs, and advance along the passage towards the Sky Arena.

For governments and ordinary people, the Sky Arena in the new version was particularly important because it allowed ordinary people to have the opportunity to be promoted to players.

For players like Li Ang,

their attention was focused on the personal menu.

The schedule of the Siming Battle was finally announced. The whole process was divided into three stages: preliminary round, semi-final, and final.

In the preliminary stage, the player's task was to go to the Sky Arena, participate in one-on-one ring matches, and make their arena floor as high as possible.

The top 2,000 players in the final points will advance to the next round.

The semi-final stage would also be held in the Sky Arena, but the format was more diverse, including one-on-one deathmatch, team mode, random matching mode, and even script mission mode.

Two or more teams competed against each other to obtain victory.

Finally, the system would evaluate and select the top 1,000 players to advance to the final.

This time, the Killing Game directly mentioned in the update description that the final would be like the Door Battle, competing with players from other worlds, and on a larger scale.