Look at this street, it’s covered in gold, no wonder San Francisco is called San Francisco.

Li Cheng thought casually, put on an Anti-toxic Mask, and with a thought, the Alpha Python lowered its head and spewed out a high-energy beam, sweeping across the street.

The professional players were vomiting and sick, draining seventy percent of their strength, unable to fly away to escape. Even those who tried to block with a shield didn’t have enough strength to hold it, and were burned to ashes by the high-energy beam.

"Anonymous, are you still not taking action?!"

Brother Bing roared towards the sky, and up high, wrapped entirely in a black hooded cloak, maintaining invisibility, unaffected by the poison gas, the Anonymous player finally moved.

He raised his hand and summoned a... over two-meter-tall vertical metal pod.

Wait, is this damn thing a Time Machine?

Li Cheng’s pupils shrank sharply, the metal pod Anonymous took out was exactly like the one placed in the dumplings’ bedroom in Family Guy,

its surface even retained the white paint stains accidentally spilled by Sunset Melting Gold while impersonating a repairman.

Alpha decisively abandoned chasing the surviving players and suddenly lifted the snake head, but Anonymous was one step ahead and drilled into the Time Machine.

In the next moment, dazzling light lit up around the Time Machine, and as the pod door opened, two black-robed figures walked out from within.

Their height, body shape, and spiritual power fluctuation characteristics were completely identical, both raising their palms to release seven purple petals.

The petals stretched and expanded, generating seven layers of ring barriers in front, named [Heavenly Covering Seven Rings], originating from the Trojan War, a shield of hero Ajax, having unparalleled defensive power against thrown weapons.

Alpha Snake Head switched breath modes, from the original low-powered low-temperature plasma to high-temperature plasma over ten thousand degrees Celsius.

Like the sun’s violent brightness, it pierced the closed eyelids of the still living professional players below, forcibly injecting photons into the visual nerves, the brain stopping all thought, leaving only pure, unadulterated whiteness in space.

Buzz!

Two [Heavenly Covering Seven Rings], a total of fourteen layers of barriers, were penetrated and shattered by the raging energy just as the beam was about to destroy the Time Machine,

the mechanical pod door was pushed open again, and a freshly minted Anonymous walked out, raising his hand to summon a round copper shield with Medusa’s image,

named [Aegis Shield], in mythology, a defensive tool of Zeus or Goddess Athena.

No matter which one, the Aegis Shield has exaggerated defensive power, absorbing and neutralizing the Alpha beam by melting over 80% of itself.

Clang clang clang—

The third Anonymous dropped the melted Aegis Shield, lowered his arm, looking down at the Alpha snake head dissipated due to energy exhaustion, and Li Cheng with a slightly furrowed brow.

Throughout the finals, those rare united professional teams attacking outsiders,

those temporarily strengthened, sponsored by Skytop Company items, professional players were just a facade.

The real killer move of the internet supervision department was actually this Anonymous player.

"So, are you some kind of esports goat invited out by the United Government? Five-time champion, six-time champion, eight-time champion, all-around champ or something."

Li Cheng paused, shook his head and said, "It doesn’t matter, you are just an amplifier chosen by the United Government."

The original Time Machine in Family Guy is quite mind-boggling, requiring just a little uranium to start.

Above, you can reach the Cretaceous, Middle Ages, World War II, everything.

Below, the future, near future, too can come and go freely.

The key is that it can change the timeline, allowing multiple beings to appear in the same time and space without disappearing and vanishing.

"Home game is ultimately just a virtual world simulated by quantum computers, switching game scenes to return to the Cretaceous or whatever is one thing.

Absolutely cannot reverse time, allowing multiple beings to exist simultaneously."

Li Cheng said indifferently, "Because of this, the Time Machine here is essentially a time-space scene switching machine, plus an consciousness duplication machine.

The you who walked out of the pod is not you arriving from the past or future,

but merely a replicant infused with your consciousness and memories, imbued with Magic Power Value."

Li Cheng spoke quickly, his tone inexplicably carrying a hint of sympathy.

Different time isotopes, and replicants, their performance forms are similar, but their essence is entirely different.

The fate waiting for the replicants is only one, to be completely destroyed and erased, will not hinder the original.

The internet supervision department must have explained the situation to this Anonymous player before coming.

The latter also has ample awareness, willingly bearing the risk to stop Earth from being recklessly disrupted by travelers from the Otherworld again.

"This is the necessary cost, and I am willing to become that cost."

Anonymous responded calmly, the Time Machine behind him activated multiple times, from which the fourth, fifth, sixth... a total of twenty duplicants walked out.

’Really putting in quite the effort.’

Li Cheng chuckled twice dryly, he probably guessed the underlying principle—the Skytop Company’s interference in the finals has a limit,

only when most professional player avatars are destroyed, freeing up interference quota, the Time Machine can be used.

Combined with the final’s ending standard, where only one team remains on the field, is precisely for this moment, to deliver the verdict.

"Mountain, Opening, Axe!"

The foremost Anonymous player raised his arm high, the Hand Axe floating above his palm slowly descending, rapidly expanding.

The Hand Axe blade is wide and the spine thick, back with fish-shaped decorative head and tail curving up, the blade side adorned with lotus and thunder cloud patterns, precisely the Mountain Opening Axe of True Monarch Erlang from Guan River Mouth in Black Myth.

When it strikes the ground, the axe head has already surpassed fifty meters in length, even if it’s only a data-composed replica, lacking magic assistance, it still carries overwhelming force, crashing heavily on the gray rain before the villa small house.

"Croak!"

Li Cheng waved his hand, summoning the diligent Frog God from the Heat Death Corridor.

The latter’s eyes burst with intense light, its vocal sac inflating, as the surrounding rubble floated and rapidly whirled around it.

The Frog God divided half the street into over fifty zones, each with different gravity directions, making the Mountain Opening Axe deviate a bit with every meter it fell due to the abnormal strengthened gravity.

Boom!

The axe blade crashed onto a neighbor’s lawn, still over twenty meters from the villa,

The cracks from the massive impact spread along the edge, cracking the road, causing houses to collapse, and even flipping earthworms and insects in the soil.

Yet the villa remained unharmed.

As a consumption-type replica, the Mountain Opening Axe slowly dissipated, but the anonymous player was not alone.

"Mountain! Opening! Axe!"

Another giant axe slammed down, the Frog God’s veins bulging as it continued to output gravity, deflecting the axe blade.

The third axe, fourth axe... the entire street was razed to the ground by the axe blade’s shockwaves, with all surviving professional players flying off,

While the Frog God, who had blocked a full five chops, lay still in its place,

Its huge body became stiff and faded visibly, leaving only pure white ash that dispersed in the wind.

The Ape-man Degeneration Gun emptied its magazine, blocking three Mountain Opening Axe strikes.

The combination of the Dragon Breath, Barrage Splendor, and Rooting in Stone Technique skills blocked another four.

"...Phew."

Li Cheng slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, his titanium alloy arm bone shattered, leaving only a mere two hundred points of Spiritual Power Value, including the hidden backup energy.

The anonymous player high up in the air was similarly unsettled, as only one Mountain Opening Axe could exist at a time. He could clearly feel that as time passed, his and the replica’s cells were self-destructing.

"Let’s see how long you can last!"

The anonymous player roared fiercely, the axe blade plummeting straight down.

Alpha Snake Head and Frog God were still waiting for resurrection in the Heat Death Corridor, and the group wasn’t repaired yet, so summoning them was useless,

Was there really no other option...?

Li Cheng’s eyes widened as he abruptly raised his right hand, pointing it forward.

’What’s he doing? Is he planning to perform a traditional German salute in front of billions of viewers to forcefully stop the finals?’

The doubt flickered in the anonymous player’s mind, but the Skytop Company server had long been taken over by unknown forces, and even company engineers couldn’t fully control the finals schedule, so it was naturally impossible to stop suddenly.

The giant axe continued its descent, and a dark shadow, traveling at several Mach speeds, whizzed through the building ruins.

Was that... Wanli Sealed Blade?

The unremarkable, disheveled, and scruffy Brother Blade statue flew straight towards Li Cheng, its head firmly grasped by his hand, smacked against the concrete ground with a crash,

It stood half a head taller than the Gray Rain still cutting the wooden door.

[Swallow Return], a skill effect that lets an item of yours fly back no matter how far away it is.

Brother Blade voluntarily turned into a statue, his self-consciousness entering stasis, equivalent to a dead object.

In the killing field’s judgment, if a teammate dies, their drop items can be picked up by other players.

Somewhat a form of objectifying males... maybe.

Boom!

The giant axe struck Brother Blade’s statue right on its forehead.

With hardness comparable to the Insect Transformation Form + Rooting in Stone Technique statue, it wasn’t smashed into the ground but instead bounced 30 meters away on the spot—

The concrete pavement in front of the wooden door, included in the villa’s range, was also unbreakable.

"In prosperous times, Sunset Melting Gold; in adversity, White Horse Tombstone. In dire straits, I rely on you, Brother Blade."

Li Cheng caught Brother Blade’s statue, gratefully patting him on the shoulder.

Brother Blade’s face still bore a faint smile, though a crack ran from his forehead to his nose.

"Mountain Opening Axe!"

The anonymous player roared again, convinced that the statue, being too rigid, couldn’t withstand more attacks.

However...

Hiss.

The sound of the wooden door burning through, like a thunderclap, erupted as Gray Rain coolly handed the Furnace of Eight Trigrams to Li Cheng, revealing a tiny hole with a diameter of no more than 0.5 centimeters on the door’s surface.

’Wait, wasn’t the door-breaking progress still at a quarter? There should be at least 40 seconds left...’

The anonymous player’s doubt lingered in his throat,

"You really believed it was at a quarter?"

Gray Rain grinned, his liquid metal fingers passing through the hole, clicking open the door lock.

The next moment, the door was violently flung open by a gust from inside, and the seemingly suspended time within the house finally began to flow.

The curtains fluttered, the air conditioning hummed,

In the far corner of the room, the blurry figure lying on the bed, wearing connected devices, slowly raised its head.