The appearance of the virtual game "Jedi" quickly set off a storm across the internet.
It swept away the gloom left by the alien invasion a few days earlier, seeming to soothe the uneasy emotions of people worldwide.
Even official institutions had to admit that, in this matter, game developer Xu Dan had done better than they had.
Especially for the people of New York who had experienced that event firsthand.
Although the disaster had ultimately been averted, the hideous and terrifying appearance of the Chitauri—especially the gigantic monster in the sky—remained an indelible shadow in their hearts.
When they logged into the game, the system automatically assigned them a virtual New York map.
After Xu Dan created this virtual world, 70% of global locations were turned into wasteland settings. Only a small number of maps suitable as game attractions were preserved.
A world-class city like New York was naturally depicted as a ruined wasteland.
Players entered the game, stepped out of their "homes," and saw a city bathed in apocalyptic light.
The sky was dim at dusk. The once-towering skyscrapers were either collapsed like broken toys or blown into heaps of rubble.
The air still seemed filled with the scent of gunpowder, inevitably reminding New York players of the day fear ruled everything.
"God…"
"I don't want to play anymore…"
"This feels so suffocating, I'm going crazy…"
...
Soon, players walking the streets felt a deep sense of helplessness.
Faced with such scenes, they could not help recalling the alien invasion. On that day, how many people had truly found the courage to resist?
"If there hadn't been mutants risking their lives to save us, our city would have become like this, right?" someone in the crowd asked quietly.
The sentence spread quickly, echoing in players' minds.
When the aliens fired their first shot at Earth, where was the U.S. military that always claimed strength and justice overseas?
Those who had come to rescue them were the very mutants people had usually discriminated against.
Everyone's heart was tormented with guilt.
"I… I suddenly feel like I wish I were a mutant. Even if people discriminated against me, it wouldn't matter. I want the kind of power that lets me control my own destiny…" a passionate young teenager said slowly. Though his tone sounded somewhat naïve, his words struck people deeply.
"No, no, kid, who still sees mutants as monsters now? Anyone who dares, I'll deal with him!"
"Yeah! Who would discriminate now? Doesn't your conscience hurt?"
"Yes, kid, you underestimate everyone. How could ordinary people like us have superpowers?"
Who in this world didn't want superpowers?
But who could truly obtain them?
People said the poor relied on mutation, yet ignored a key fact—on the road to mutation, how many died before producing even one "Hulk"?
It was an infinitesimal chance amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
"Brothers, we might not get powers in real life, but we can in the game! This 'Jedi' feels just like reality. Check the intranet—there's a suit in this game even more awesome than Iron Man's!!"
"What?!"
Everyone was stunned and immediately opened the intranet, looking at beginner guides posted by players. Their eyes widened like copper bells.
Laser guns. Personal exoskeleton gear. Someone had even turned themselves into "The Flash" through stat allocation.
All this conveyed one message: in this hyper-realistic game, players could obtain "superpowers."
This was not just a futuristic wasteland simulation.
It wasn't only about big guns.
There was an enormous variety of gameplay.
After reading further, countless players' eyes lit up. They locked onto the weapon shop not far away and rushed toward it in a crowd.
That day, the weapon shop truly experienced the terror of being mobbed.
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"Master, the first Chitauri-style hand cannon has been successfully manufactured," the Red Queen reported a month later.
Completing a reverse-engineered version of Chitauri technology in just one month was already extremely fast for modern Earth industry.
The Chitauri soldiers who had died on New York's streets had dropped plenty of equipment, which naturally fell into U.S. hands.
They would certainly study it—but how long it would take to replicate was another matter.
One thing, however, was certain: if only the United States mastered this weapon first, given its usual behavior, it would become a threat to the rest of the world.
Allowing only one nation to control such power was not good for humanity.
Xu Dan immediately went from the Antarctic Building to Antarctic Military Industries.
The Chitauri-inspired hand cannon now bore a thick, black metallic texture. The outer alloy shell fully encased it, making its inner structure invisible.
He slid his arm into the hollow center, gripped an internal lever, and with a slight motion, lifted the black cannon.
"Huh? It looks so heavy—why is it so light?"
Judging by appearance, it seemed over a hundred pounds, but in hand it felt only fifty or sixty.
That was good.
Otherwise, with the body alone weighing over a hundred pounds, even special forces soldiers might not sustain prolonged combat.
An average adult man weighed only around that much.
"The weight mainly comes from the protective shell. The internal structure is actually very light," the Red Queen explained.
Xu Dan nodded, raised the seventy-centimeter-long cannon mounted on his arm, and aimed at a distant target.
Whumm—
Boom!!
After 0.3 seconds of energy charging, a transparent energy blast shot out. The trajectory was extremely fast. The target was instantly reduced to flying fragments.
Xu Dan lowered his arm, half laughing, half exasperated.
"Even with my physique, I can feel the strong recoil. If an ordinary soldier fired this, wouldn't he get knocked backward with every shot?"
Though powerful, the recoil was enormous.
It was not suitable as a standard weapon for ordinary soldiers.
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