Volume 8: War and Peace Chapter 48: Turbulent Reality
Since Yu Bin's rebirth, almost three years have passed. Under the influence of his growing butterfly, the situation in the whole world is also very different from the previous life.
In previous lives, it took nearly six years for humans to come into contact with the world of Ntagree until they fully accepted this incredible fact. From careful exploration at the beginning, to full devotion in the later stage, the entire human society is like touching any new thing, and the world of Entagri has been accepted from strange to familiar, little by little.
However, in this life, because of Yu Bin's existence, this process has been greatly shortened, and the problems that should have erupted little by little in the process of slowly understanding have naturally converged.
The most obvious point is that the process of exploring the world of Entagri in the previous life followed the law from the people to the government, from the individual to the state, first some lucky people who happened to get the ring entered it by chance, as the number of players gradually increased, some small groups began to form and look for some support in reality, and then large institutions and national governments began to intervene.
In this process, although there were a lot of unpleasant noises, and even a chaotic era that lasted for more than two years, it was in this process of gradual deepening and slow expansion that the entire player group began to grow slowly, increasing their power step by step, until the two worlds began to merge.
And in this life, because of the appearance of Yu Bin, this process was completely subverted. Whether it's for his own safety or for other purposes, the moment Yu Bin establishes the Devouring Serpent, it means that the state forces begin to intervene in the process in advance, relying on the vast power at the disposal of various governments, most players are included in effective management from the beginning.
This change is undoubtedly advantageous compared to the chaotic situation in the previous life. On the one hand, the early intervention of national forces effectively avoids the chaos and consumption within the players, so that players do not need to spend a lot of energy on their own safety and security, so that they can invest more power to explore the secrets of the world of Ntagre. On the other hand, relying on the effective management of the government also significantly reduces the problems generated by players in the real world, and few people will be stupid to provoke the government's bottom line in the face of violent institutions in the hands of the state.
But there is never anything in this world that has only good and no harm.
The early intervention of state forces has produced obvious results in regulating the behavior of players and ensuring social order. At the same time, however, it fuels the government's appetite for violence.
One of the most important questions is, how can the government stop the physically strengthened offenders?
In the past, no matter what kind of crime this criminal committed, whether it was robbery or murder, for the government, as long as the police and even the army were dispatched, it could be solved. In the face of firearms, even the world boxing champion can't withstand the endless bullets.
However, as governments learn more about the world of Entagre, a pressing problem arises for them, and that is that the average police system is no longer able to cope with the harm caused by some players.
In fact, as the player's physical attributes in reality are strengthened to 15 points, ordinary police pistol bullets can no longer cause fatal damage to them, and once the reinforcement exceeds 20 points, even a 7mm caliber military rifle bullet cannot ensure that it penetrates the human body, and there is a high probability that it will not be able to penetrate due to the compactness of the muscle tissue, and finally can only leave a bullet hole on the player's body with a depth of about 5 cm.
Players whose strength attribute is strengthened to 15 are already comparable to trained special forces, and more than 20 enhancements are enough to smash tempered glass with their fists. In the face of such damage, ordinary police officers can no longer compete, and the dispatch of troops will cause excess force, which is very likely to cause ordinary people to suffer more damage in the end.
For example, if a physically enhanced player robs a store in a downtown area, how does the government respond?
Dispatch the police? Unfortunately, a normal patrol officer is unable to pose a lethal threat to this player, either in terms of personal force or firearms. However, if the armed police with heavy equipment are dispatched, it is very likely to cause accidental injuries to the surrounding civilians.
If this happens only once in a while, it can be treated as a special case. However, as the number of players who come into contact with the world of Ntagre grows and grows, this is bound to become the norm, forcing governments to find new ways to deal with the problem.
And this so-called new measure, needless to say, can probably be guessed - the use of the same strengthened violent organs!
This is an inevitability, and in fact the governments of previous lives did the same. The only difference is that in previous lives, governments were able to gain a lot of power-up experience from ordinary players because of their late exposure to the world of Ntagre, which allowed them to find a safe means of powering up without spending a lot of money and time.
In this life, because there are not enough ordinary players to provide early samples and enhancement experience, governments have to use their own means to explore the technology of flesh enhancement.
Although in this process, Yu Bin secretly guided the Devouring Snake to provide a lot of help to governments, but even so, it did not fundamentally solve the problem.
Even with Yu Bin's technology and knowledge, coupled with the financial resources possessed by the Body-Eater Serpent, with the support of the Seventh Apostle Wellington Hemmer and hundreds of research bases around the world, it still took the Body-Eater Snake more than a year and the cost of more than 100,000 deaths to develop a complete and safe technology for strengthening the flesh, which can not only ensure that players can strengthen themselves to the maximum extent through the ring, It can also give players who don't have rings a decent boost.
Of course, it is impossible for the Devouring Snake to transfer this technology to governments in vain, and even so, in order to obtain some information about physical enhancement from the hands of the Devouring Snake, the major countries in the world, led by the United States, still pay a lot of money.
For governments, however, this alone is not enough. As a result, a large number of institutions in the name of academia or research have sprung up. Behind these institutions is often a consortium, or even the support of the state, to conduct corresponding research in physical strengthening.
As a consequence of these large number of research institutes, many players who are used as test subjects fail to strengthen or even over-strengthen for various reasons, and eventually become monster-like mutants.
This happens from time to time, even within the Eater Serpent, let alone private research institutes that are more technologically backward and have more brutal methods. However, because these private research institutes lack sufficient strength, they often choose to abandon the way they deal with those failed products.
And these players, who have been reduced to defective products due to the failure of enhancement, have become a major cancer in the entire world at present.
They have resentment and extreme hatred towards the institutes, the so-called researchers, and even the governments. What's more, some players who have become mutants for various reasons have extended this hatred to the entire human community. In their eyes, those ordinary people who enjoy an ordinary peaceful life and do not need to worry about life and death are the root cause of them to become mutants.
All kinds of destruction, riots, and even anti-. The government armed forces are endless.
This change is something that has never been seen in a previous life. In previous lives, when the number of mutants began to increase, most ordinary players also had some strength, which made those mutants not so lethal to ordinary people. However, in this life, because of the advanced behavior of various research institutions, the power possessed by mutants has formed an absolute advantage over ordinary players.
That's why this time the mutants openly attacked the Pentagon and the White House, and even wanted to kidnap the president.
In fact, similar things have happened before, most recently on the same day that Yu Bin and Shen Tianyi arrived in Hong Kong, a group called Shinrikyo, with the help of some mutants, tried to seize weapons and overthrow the Hong Kong government. The incident ended in the defeat of Shinrikyo, with 79 rioters, including six mutants, killed, and the Hong Kong government paid the price of 33 armed police officers and five soldiers.
According to the news brought by the poisonous bees, the number of mutants who attacked the United States this time was as many as dozens of people, in addition to nearly a thousand ordinary anti-mutants. Government militants are mixed in. Had it not been for the U.S. government's eventual use of heavy weapons at the risk of the Pentagon's destruction, this attack would most likely have become the world's first success story.
Even so, the U.S. government paid a terrible price for the attack. More than a third of the Pentagon's area is unusable because of severe damage. Shengton was even reduced to a battlefield for a time. In the course of the incident, the US government dispatched more than 50 tanks and armored vehicles, 20 planes, and nearly 10,000 troops, and it took nearly three days to completely wipe out the attackers.
For this reason, the US Government paid the price of more than 3,000 casualties, more than half of the tanks and armored vehicles involved in the battle, and in particular, nearly 300 of the dead were specially trained and strengthened soldiers by the US Government.
This shows the power of the mutants!
Only then did Yu Bin understand why the poisonous bee said a big thing. This attack is equivalent to openly announcing the existence of mutants to the entire human race, as well as the powerful power they have, what kind of impact this will have on the entire human society, and what kind of impact it will have on mutants around the world, just thinking about it can make Yu Bin shudder!
Before that, many people thought that mutants were players who failed in the process of flesh enhancement. Since it is a loser, it is obvious that it cannot be compared to a player who has successfully completed a physical enhancement.
But Yu Bin wants to say that this is completely the self-deception of those ordinary players! As a reborn, as an apostle of the Devouring Serpent, and most importantly, as an existence that can be called the highest level of enhancement in the world today, Yu Bin can clearly tell them that any mutant is much more powerful than ordinary players under the same enhancement conditions!
Although the enhancement of the player in the world of Entagri is reflected in the strength of the body, in fact, according to the experiments of Yu Bin and the Devouring Snake, this enhancement is still based on the strength of the soul.
The higher the player's soul strength, the higher the level of reinforcement they can withstand.
And the alienation that occurs in the mutant is the consequence of the strength that exceeds the strength of the soul.
For example, if a player's soul strength, that is, the upper limit of soul energy, is 100, then it can be assumed that the maximum strength of their physical enhancement can also reach 100 (this 100 refers to the upper limit of the total attributes, which is actually not that high), and at a soul strength of 100, the player can either strengthen each of the five attributes to 20 points, or enhance the individual attributes to 100 points (provided that the sum of the attributes does not exceed 100 points).
At this time, the player's strength and soul strength are at a limit, and if they continue to strengthen, the strength will exceed the soul strength, resulting in the player's alienation.
This alienation is not obvious at first, it may just be a little bit of enlargement of a finger, or a little hardening of the skin, but as the degree of reinforcement continues to increase, the alienation will become more and more obvious until it shows some kind of physical mutation.
This is called over-intensification!
In addition, there is another reason for the alienation, that is, the soul strength is reduced, resulting in the original matching enhancement higher than the soul strength.
Strictly speaking, the poisonous bee is also a mutant, because her strength also exceeds the strength of the soul, but not by a large margin. According to the results of the Body Devouring Snake's research, if the enhancement does not exceed 5% of the soul strength, the alienation does not show obvious physical characteristics.
But even so, alienation is not a good thing for a player. In most cases, the life expectancy of the mutant will be reduced as a result, and even physical rejection will occur. This is the instinct of life, and the human body is always unconsciously expelling things that are harmful to itself, and even does not hesitate to increase the number of cell divisions and shorten the life span.
And the existence of a soul strength like Yu Bin that greatly exceeds that of ordinary players, even if the strength is maintained at a low level, its absolute value is still much higher than that of ordinary players with high strength, which shows how important soul strength is to the strength of a player.