While busy with his own affairs, Li Ang hadn't forgotten to keep an eye on the outside world.

Since the official announcement of the Killing Game and the declaration of establishing a Global Supernatural Alliance, the waves it stirred up had not ceased.

First came the riots.

The unrest in major European cities, initially suppressed by local authorities, quickly resurfaced.

All sorts of demons and monsters came out.

There were staunch doomsday believers, opportunists exploiting doomsday theories for profit, self-proclaimed prophets of the apocalypse with ulterior motives, conspiracy theorists who distrusted the authorities, and ignorant, superstitious ordinary people.

These people were numerous in Europe. They either held up signs in the streets proclaiming their beliefs or spread sensational rumors online.

After the European authorities arrested the most radical groups, a remnant remained.

These people had also learned to be clever, no longer daring to provoke the armored vehicles stationed on the main streets of the cities.

They wandered the streets in groups of two or three, holding up signs – truly just wandering, very zen, basically just asking people to sign petitions.

The demands for signatures were diverse.

Some demanded that everyone unite, form community alliances, and protect themselves.

Some demanded that the authorities disclose more information about the inner workings of the Killing Game.

Some demanded that the authorities find a way to make them Players.

Some demanded that the authorities recognize them as prophets of the apocalypse.

Some demanded that the authorities lower oil prices and raise taxes on capitalists (? The minds of the European people were truly bizarre).

Some demanded that the authorities defend women's rights and address gender discrimination in the workplace (God knows how these Europeans connected the slightly lower proportion of female Players in the Killing Game with gender discrimination in the workplace).

These people caused small to medium-sized riots in major European cities, but for now, the situation was still under control.

As for America,

Firearms transactions reached new heights, and gun shop sales in various cities soared as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

Private security companies experienced a second spring, and many wealthy areas began to hire more professional security teams to patrol the neighborhoods twenty-four hours a day.

Books on the occult, especially those on defending against dark magic, were selling like hotcakes in bookstores.

Salt (which, according to the occult, can prevent demons from invading homes), iron rods (which, according to the occult, can kill demons), crucifixes, and talismans of unknown origin were also selling well.

The nuclear fallout shelter projects that were once popular in America were brought up again.

Many American families living in the countryside began to store supplies, dig cellars, and purchase radiation protection equipment (they believed that the prevalence of supernatural elements could trigger a global nuclear war).

Of course, the most popular were the various churches. Priests were overjoyed to see a dramatic increase in the number of people coming to pray every day, and holy water was in short supply.

In addition, American doomsday believers also emerged, even more extreme than their Old World European counterparts. Some even styled themselves as modern-day Noahs, running off to the mountains in droves to establish survivor colonies or doomsday arks.

Places like Africa and South America remained as turbulent as ever. They had been living in purgatory even before the authorities acknowledged the Killing Game, so there was no real difference – except for the fact that some Player-led armed forces were even more rampant.

As an aside, some giant European and American conglomerates, such as pharmaceutical companies, were expanding their laboratory scale in Africa and South America amidst the chaos, and hiring security companies to defend their assets.

The Killing Game would bring various novel technologies to the world, the most promising and fastest-acting of which was in the field of medicine.

And the best way to utilize and digest these medical technologies was to conduct large-scale experiments. The chaotic situation in Africa and South America provided the best experimental environment for pharmaceutical laboratories.

How much is a life worth?

Among these pharmaceutical monopoly groups, the most low-key and fastest-growing was gen-sys Biotechnology Company.

This company seemed to have digested some of the technologies obtained from the Killing Game.

They claimed to have made breakthrough progress in artificial stem cells, and would soon be able to officially launch a series of commercially available prevention and treatment procedures for diseases such as stomach ailments, heart disease, high blood sugar, and high blood pressure.

They even hoped to use stem cells for large-scale artificial organ cultivation within a few years, completely realizing the goal of replacing any diseased organ.

In addition to the pharmaceutical monopoly groups, other monopoly groups were also unwilling to be outdone, especially the American companies specializing in the production of automated robotic arms, which further expanded their factory scale.

They completely drove a large number of workers out of factories in other industries, which also triggered large-scale protests.

And Silicon Valley's interest in weak artificial intelligence and strong artificial intelligence further increased.

Many companies that already had a research foundation in this area either received large investments or were directly acquired, and the stock market reports looked extremely good.

As for Prometheus Laboratories, a company that had sprung up in recent months, it officially announced that a new type of building material they had recently developed could now be put into formal use.

This material was extremely lightweight, durable, low in cost, and easy to manufacture. With this material, it was easy to build buildings over a kilometer high, and it could even be used to build a super-giant, modern city capable of accommodating millions of people.

Of course, at the same time that Prometheus Laboratories announced the commercial use of this new type of building material, a laboratory with official backing in Yin City also developed a material similar to that of Prometheus Laboratories.

There was no doubt that this was probably a new technology that both sides had obtained from the same Killing Game script world.

The clamor around the world did not affect the establishment of the Global Supernatural Alliance.

This organization was located at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, and was under the jurisdiction of the Global Special Events Coordination and Management Committee.

Its main members were the official supernatural agencies of various regions,

Such as the Special Affairs Bureau, the Special Incident Division of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, the German Bureau for Anomalous Affairs, and the Japanese Bureau for Anomalous Affairs.

In addition, the Global Supernatural Alliance also absorbed some secret organizations from all over the world.

Such as the Golmorgan Ancient Saint Order, the Knights Templar Priory, the Inquisition, and the Whale Song, among others.

This was not to say that official agencies were willing to lower their status and join forces with secret organizations.

Rather, the organizational structure, members, and purposes of these secret organizations varied greatly. Instead of letting them develop in the dark, it was better to make things clear at this time, cooperate together, exchange information, and prevent the Killing Game from destroying human social order.

Wan Jia Xiong Meng

Wan Jia Xiong Meng