socalfunplaces Chapter 107 L Company's Winged Tiger and Rule Overriding
Chapter 107 L Company's Winged Tiger and Rule Overriding
Chapter 107 L Company's Winged Tiger and Rule Overriding
The muffled roar of an engine echoed through the enclosed tunnel. A heavy truck painted in dark gray camouflage was speeding along, the runes engraved on the interior walls of the truck bed shimmering with a faint blue light in the dim light.
The fully armed GOC containment team was staring intently at the temporary storage unit in the center of the carriage, which was secured by layers of chains.
The air was thick with a suffocating tension, as if they were escorting not cargo, but a nuclear bomb that could explode at any moment.
In fact, this thing is even more disgusting than a nuclear bomb.
If you can see through the specially reinforced shell, you can see the high-risk anomalous entity known as "Schadenfreude" (codename 05-76).
It has a very deceptive appearance.
Because it looks like a rectangular machine box covered in rust that was salvaged from a junkyard.
The box is about two meters tall, with a huge metal keychain on top that looks like a wind-up toy.
On the front of the box, there is a huge keyhole that looks like an old-fashioned pinhole camera.
"Sizzle—Sizzle—"
Deep inside the keyhole, a gray, bloodshot mechanical eyeball was moving erratically.
It is spying, searching, and yearning for the meeting of eyes.
According to archival records, this anomaly was first discovered deep within the ruins of an underground energy company in South Korea called "L Company".
Its characteristics are extremely deadly, and it is full of wicked and perverse pleasures.
It possesses a strong voyeuristic desire, yet also an extremely contradictory killing instinct.
When someone is watching it, it behaves like a dead thing, quietly staying in the corner, even closing its eye. But once the gaze is shifted, or if the person within its perception range is not watching it, the eye in the keyhole will instantly become bloodshot and turn red, locking onto its target.
Immediately afterwards, countless sharp but rusty mechanical saws and meat grinders will extend from inside the box, instantly traversing space at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye, dismembering the victim into a pile of indistinguishable human-shaped pieces of flesh.
It craves to be noticed, yet hates to be ignored.
She's practically a twisted, attention-seeking cyber yandere.
Meanwhile, the temporary leader of the operation was not wearing a uniform in the passenger seat of the escort vehicle.
He was wearing a red trench coat that seemed out of place at the moment, with an unlit cigarette dangling from his mouth, and his eyes were as fierce as a tiger that had just devoured someone.
Commander of the Alliance Asia Division Task Force, codenamed "Winged Tiger," Lei Heng.
"What bad luck."
Lei Heng glanced back at the "scrap metal" that had been forcibly stuffed into the storage cabinet and couldn't resist taking a bite.
This thing is really troublesome.
Lei Heng put in a lot of effort to drag it out of the ruins of that damned L Company.
After several vanguard members proved the contradictory rules of "don't look away" and "don't stare" with their lives, Lei Heng, wielding his big knife, played a deadly game of "Red Light, Green Light" with this thing.
"This piece of junk is as hard as a turtle shell."
Lei Heng touched a tear in his trench coat, a mark left by a chainsaw.
"My slash could cut through a tank's armor, but when I hit this thing, it just made a noise. I finally managed to take it apart, and this bastard can transform?"
Despite suffering fatal injuries, the monster known as "Schadenfreude" did not die.
It collapsed directly into an "egg" with a smooth, obsidian-like surface.
It was an absolutely rigid body.
Fire, water, acid etching, and laser cutting are all ineffective.
Moreover, the egg was constantly emitting those nauseating, abnormal energy fluctuations.
It seems that if given just a few days, it will hatch and raise its butcher's knife again.
"It's like a sewer rat that has no ability but insists on disgusting you."
Lei Heng complained in a tone of extreme disgust, yet tinged with helplessness, "You can't break it, and you can't kill it."
"If I didn't have to rush to the next mission, I would really like to throw it into the steel furnace and burn it for forty-nine days."
Because we had no other choice and were pressed for time.
Lei Heng had no choice but to pay out of his own pocket to install a portable, stable anchor for this "egg".
It's applied like a plaster to suppress its recovery speed as much as possible, ensuring that it won't suddenly pop out and surprise people before it reaches Director Pei's laboratory.
"Hopefully it can last until we get there." Lei Heng glanced at the remaining battery of the SRA. "Let's leave this troublesome matter to that supervisor who likes to tinker with blocks."
Meanwhile, in the underground laboratory.
"Well then, since we're all ready, let's give it another try, Minnie."
Pei Qi stood in front of the control panel, talking to himself in the air.
"Three thousand high-frequency redstone pulses at full power—shouldn't that be enough this time?"
Pei Qi took a deep breath and placed his palm on the red lever.
This is his second experiment to "artificially create real-world stuttering".
"Snap!"
The lever drops.
"Buzzing sound, loud and clear—!!!"
The entire laboratory was instantly engulfed by tremendous noise and red flashes.
The roar of thousands of redstone components operating simultaneously, and the shrieking sound emitted during high-frequency switching, is enough to cause tinnitus in ordinary people instantly.
However, the "lag" that Pei Qi had hoped for did not happen.
There was no sluggishness, nor did any purple-black cubes appear. The reality remained ridiculously smooth.
"Did I fail again? —"
Just as Pei Qi was about to shut down his computer, Angela's report stunned him.
"Manager Pei, abnormal data detected. Although there is no lag in reality, fluctuations in all non-referenced reality within the Redstone signal coverage area have been forcibly leveled out."
"What do you mean?"
"Simply put, the moment you pulled the lever, the anomalous entity at the next temporary storage point—codenamed 'Schadenfreude'—froze."
This is the second time this anomaly has been observed.
The monster, which had already recovered from its "egg" form, was now restless in the containment cabinet, its grip on the steel plates making a squeaking sound.
The instant the redstone frequency was activated, gloating seemed to have its soul ripped out, or rather, it was "held down" by some higher-level rule, instantly plunging into an eerie silence.
It's important to understand that even when basking in the SRA's reality-stabilizing anchor, gloating can still easily tear through steel plates through unconscious actions.
But now, it's as honest as a real piece of scrap metal.
"Redstone signal — has it suppressed an anomaly?"
Pei Qi's mind raced, and his Minecraft player instincts helped him grasp the key point.
In Minecraft, redstone represents logic and updates. High-frequency redstone operations mean performing a strong, forced refresh of a block.
"If we consider the real world as a program, then anomalies are bugs. While my device didn't crash the server, it acted like a frantically running antivirus software," forcefully suppressing those physically incompatible bugs by performing thousands of forced refreshes per second!
This is not a lag issue.
This is rule overriding.