The helicopter raced forward, quickly reaching its destination and landing on the Special Affairs Bureau’s helipad.

Li Ang and Chaichai descended from the helipad, Xing Hechou was already waiting below, leading the two into the headquarters building of the Special Affairs Bureau, not heading to the command hall, but winding through the corridors, twisting and turning,

finally pushing through a door into an unremarkable office.

In the middle of the office was a rectangular conference table, surrounded by the heads of various departments of the Special Affairs Bureau—many of the people inside had already been replaced.

Bai Haozheng and Scholar Zhu were also present and greeted Li Ang with a friendly wave,

At the head of the conference table sat Cold Waterstone in a suit—he was now in charge of this place.

"You’re here."

Cold Waterstone nodded to Li Ang and looked at Bai Haozheng, who then used telekinesis to form a hand and pressed the button on the projector in the center of the conference table.

Embedded in the conference table were twenty-four small projectors, each emitting light, forming a clear three-dimensional projection above the table.

The image showed an island lush with green vegetation, surrounded by vast blue seawater,

Around the island, dozens of modern steel warships were anchored,

The warships displayed flags belonging to several powerful nations and the Global Occult Coalition,

Several of the ships were tightly clustered together,

Their decks melted and fused by alchemy, forming a giant sea fortress.

The object surrounded by all the steel warships was not the island, but a patch of shimmering sea not far from the island.

"This is, the Mayotte Archipelago..."

Li Ang recognized the shape of the island at a glance,

The Mayotte Archipelago is located between the African Continent and the Madagascar Islands,

Its economy used to rely mainly on agriculture, exporting vanilla, coffee, and copra, it was a French overseas region.

Not long after the battle for the Portal, the Mayotte Archipelago suddenly experienced an earthquake, causing a tsunami that engulfed many coastal facilities, resulting in over fifteen hundred casualties and over two thousand people missing.

Considerable evidence indicates that the earthquake and tsunami were not purely geological disasters, the main cause of the disaster was the Star Gate.

Beneath the sea surface not far from the Mayotte Archipelago, there is a vortex-like Portal, the Portal itself has not fully stabilized, sometimes expanding, sometimes contracting, drawing in seawater and causing disasters.

"That’s right."

Bai Haozheng nodded and said to Li Ang, "Nearly two months have passed since the anomaly at the Mayotte Archipelago.

At the time, in some videos uploaded by ordinary people to the internet, you could see beside the Star Gate, several luminous tall humanoid shadows surrounding the Star Gate itself.

Subsequently, the Global Occult Coalition stated that the specific nature of the starlight vortex was uncertain, not ruling out the possibility of it being a Portal.

However, most organizational bodies, including ours, know that it is actually the same Star Gate that players acquired from the Portal battle.

And more than just the Mayotte Archipelago,

Across the world, at least thirty-seven uncontrolled Star Gates spontaneously appeared after the Portal battle.

These are only the ones discovered by various organizations, if including those that refreshed in obscure corners and went undiscovered,

The total could be forty or even over fifty."

"Fifty Star Gates?"

Li Ang furrowed his brows, the Portal battle distributed only twenty Portals to the top twenty performing players, the numbers don’t match.

"Yes."

Bai Haozheng took a deep breath and explained: "Brother Li, you should also have a Portal in your possession, so you should know the specific nature of the Portal, right?

Each Star Gate leads to a separate world or dimension.

The type of world each Star Gate connects to varies,

The user can control the opening, closing, expanding, and contracting of the Star Gate.

All actions consume the user’s spiritual power.

The user and other creatures, objects,

Can also enter the Star Gate world,

And this process will also consume the user’s spiritual power.

The higher the life level of the creatures entering the Star Gate, the greater the energy consumed.

These are the general rules of the Star Gate as we know them."

Bai Haozheng looked at Li Ang,

Li Ang understood his intent and nodded, "The same information that I know."

"Despite the many limitations in using a Star Gate, it cannot be denied that each Star Gate can provide massive resources sufficient to propel an entire civilization to make tremendous progress."

Bai Haozheng said solemnly: "After the mass appearance of Star Gates, we exchanged information immediately with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Global Occult Coalition.

Discovering that the known Star Gates do not lead to the same world.

Some Star Gates connect to a complete, habitable planet ideal for colonization, with climate, temperature, and gravity conditions perfectly suitable for humans;

Some Star Gates link to some peculiar dimension, filled with minerals or gases of high value to specific players.

In other words, the Star Gates held by the Earth faction lead to different areas.

Whereas those thirty-seven uncontrolled Star Gates collectively lead to Earth.

There are four possible explanations.

One, this is simply a probability event.

The Game of Killing has countless parallel worlds, the players in these worlds also competed in their Portal battles and received their rewards.

All players opened their Portals simultaneously, coinciding with thirty-seven of them connecting to Earth.

However, this seems unlikely,

Because in the known Portal Worlds, there’s only the initial Star Gate as the sole entry, making it a low probability.

Two, this is some special game mechanic of the Game of Killing that we haven’t uncovered.

Our think tank believes that among the billion worlds the Game of Killing connects,

There are [Main Dimensions] and [Secondary Dimensions] attributes.

[Main Dimensions] such as Earth, can filter, produce players, and host Portal battles.

[Secondary Dimensions], similar to the story worlds players have explored,

Have a very low probability of producing players, maybe even an inability to produce players—some story worlds might inherently be incomplete, isolated like illusions.

These uncontrolled Star Gates,

Are an assault from [Secondary Dimensions] upon a [Main Dimension].

The third possibility is similar to the second,

The Game of Killing holds an event simultaneously across all worlds at intervals,

After a Portal battle concludes,

[Main Dimensions] and [Main Dimensions] connect through Star Gates,

Conducting an even crueler filtering and selection,

Which is warfare.

In the Lost World, the world of Magic Sunflowers where the Desolated Lion resides, was once a [Main Dimension] that engaged in war.

And the fourth possibility is also the worst one.

This is not war, but a premeditated invasion.

Other [Main Dimension] worlds may have developed beyond Earth’s level, they might already possess this information, assembling forces in preparation for a massive invasion."