Xu Yuheng left the company and drove directly to the game research and development center.
He couldn’t go to a buyer to obtain it but this didn’t mean the factory didn’t have it or the R&D center didn’t have it. In any case, there must be a few spare machines left.
He contacted Old Wang while waiting at the traffic light.
Due to him, the game group’s suggestion to delete the file and restart had been repeatedly rejected. Now Old Wang was particularly unwilling to see him and his tone was much colder than before.
In the face of this veteran-level figure, Xu Yuheng still didn’t dare to snub him. It was just that he always insisted on waiting for the open beta and he would use the data to prove he was right.
It was just a game cabin. Even if Old Wang didn’t want to deal with him, Old Wang still agreed and asked him to find time to go to the game’s research and development center to pick one up.
“There is no time like the present. I’ll go there later,” Xu Yuheng said cheekily.
“Whatever you want.” Then Old Wang hung up the phone.
Xu Yuheng shook his head. He thought about how he could get the game cabin immediately and his mood became happy. He contacted the staff of the game cabin’s installation team and went to the R&D center with him.
They probably hadn’t expected him to go so soon. By the time he arrived at the R&D center, the staff over there had just received the news.
“Elder Wang has already explained it. Xiao Xu, you wait a while, I will arrange it.”
Xu Yuheng didn’t urge them and patiently waited about five minutes. Then several people from the R&D center moved the game cabin out and handed it over to him.
“Once the factory ships the goods, I will make it up with two of them.” Xu Yuheng signed his name and made a promise carefully.
The installer who came with him carried the game cabin out to the truck and followed Xu Yuheng back to the Xu house. Then they moved it into Xu Fengqing’s room.
After the boot test and some simple settings, Xu Yuheng sent the installer away. Then he waited for his older brother to come home in a satisfied manner.
In the past few months, Xu Fengqing had been so busy that he had been spending almost all his time in the company. He had a lounge in the office and no shortage of places to sleep.
Now that he was finally idle, he was ordered by Mother Xu to go home for the night.
When he returned home in the evening, Xu Fengqing could obviously feel the pride in Xu Yuheng’s eyes and he had a vague guess in his heart.
Sure enough, he returned to his room after dinner and he saw the game cabin that had been installed. Xu Yuheng came uninvited, knocked on his door and walked in.
Xu Yuheng adjusted his glasses, raised his chin slightly and said, “The game cabin is here. It is agreed. You will enter Starry Sky Age with me on the day of the open beta.”
Looking at his victorious posture, Xu Fengqing didn’t say much.
He nodded, took off his suit jacket and loosened his tie. He saw that Xu Yuheng was still standing in place and couldn’t help saying, “You can go out now.”
Xu Yuheng, “……”
Seeing his calm and unruffled appearance, he had the feeling of punching cotton and was a bit bored.
“You promised to do it,” he stressed again.
“Yes.” Xu Fengqing nodded. He continued to unbutton the sleeves of his shirt, as if preparing to take a bath.
Seeing the obvious tiredness on his face, Xu Yuheng pursed his lips. In the end, he was a bit distressed and he said, “Okay, you have a good rest. I’ll find you when the time comes.”
The day of the open beta happened to be a Saturday so there was no need to worry about work. As a boss, he didn’t need to run the company every day. It was the same to do some work at home.
Xu Yuheng left his older brother’s room and closed the door thoughtfully when he left.
Looking at the closed door, Xu Fengqing’s movements slowly stopped and his eyes fell on the brand-new game cabin.
The metallic shell full of technology shimmered slightly in the room, as if to herald some new change.
Xu Fengqing stared at it for a while before he withdrew his gaze. He continued to roll up his sleeves as he walked to the wine cabinet and pulled out the vodka. He opened the cap, poured it into a glass, raised his head and drank it in one gulp.
The spicy alcohol irritated his nerves. He didn’t know if it was the alcohol coming up that made his eyes a bit red.
Meanwhile, on the spaceship.
When the alarm in the nutrition cabin sounded, Xu Sili’s heart thumped. He hurriedly threw the Insight technique at Aunt Val and saw that her health bar had started dropping.
The ‘sleeping’ debuff of her status bar was faint, as if it was about to disappear at any time.
What was going on?
Seeing that Val’s health bar had fallen by half in just a few seconds, Xu Sili was startled. He hurriedly took out the flute of the god of music and started to play Sprouting at the fastest speed.
Due to Sprouting’s health return effect, the rate of reduction of Val’s health bar slowed down.
However, it wasn’t enough.
The speed at which her health fell was faster than what Xu Sili restored. It had slowed down but there would always be a time when it would run out.
Xu Sili was anxious.
At this moment, Si Sheng stepped forward and placed his palm on the nutrition cabin. It lit up with a blue shimmer.
The double stacking of water healing and Sprouting meant the decline of Val’s health bar finally stopped.
Xu Sili was slightly relieved when he saw this.
At this time, Dr Ding and Aina heard the sirens and also rushed over.
“What’s wrong? What happened to Val?” Dr Ding asked anxiously.
However, once he saw the scene in the room, he closed his mouth and hurriedly ran to the nutrition cabin to check Val’s physical data.
“Her spiritual sea is violently shaking!” Dr Ding was dumbfounded. “If it keeps shaking like this, she is likely to die because of the collapse of the spiritual sea!”
The spiritual sea was the concept of an alien power system.
They believed that spiritual power was stored in the spiritual sea and was the source of the spiritual power in a human body. Val Roland had been unconscious due to a spiritual sea disorder caused by serious injuries.
Dr Ding didn’t understand why her spiritual sea suddenly started to shake. This was something that had never happened in the last ten years.
He wasn’t an expert in medicine and was helpless at this moment. Originally, he had a medical companion but after being kidnapped by the star thieves, the medical staff took advantage of the chaos and fled, leaving him and his ‘sister’ to be detained by the star thieves.
Now… what to do now?
Seeing his bewildered state, Aina comforted him. “His Majesty and the marshal are rescuing her. You don’t have to worry too much.”
As an original five star elementalist, her power might currently be suppressed at three stars but her vision and sensitivity to the elements were still keen.
She could feel that due to the intervention of the emperor and the marshal, Her Highness Val’s body had barely reached a balance. There should be no danger to her life in a short period of time.
Dr Ding looked at her and then at the data displayed on the instrument. The spiritual sea was still shaking but the vital signs were indeed barely maintained at normal levels.
This discovery made him relax slightly.
He raised his eyes to stare at the woman suspended in the nutrient solution. His eyes were full of worry. At the same time, he realized something.
Val… she wanted to wake up, right?
If anyone could see Val’s spiritual sea at the moment, they would see that this place was constantly collapsing in the shock and was quickly repaired by the intertwined blue and purple power.
In this process, after undergoing countless collapses and repairs, the inner walls of her spiritual sea gradually became stable and tough.
The originally disordered spiritual sea also seemed to be slowly sorted out in the shock.
It wasn’t known how long it took but the Starry Sky had already crossed the atmosphere, passed through the safe passage, returned to Imperial City smoothly and unknowingly landed in the canyon where the military factory was located.
Then the situation of Val Roland finally changed significantly.
Xu Sili stared at her health bar the whole time and he soon found that her health bar was no longer like before. It was not trying desperately to fall but faintly showed a tendency to rise.
His spirits lifted and he continued to play Sprouting. Si Sheng’s water healing technique also continued.
At this moment, a night had passed. Through the glass window, he could see the rising sun.
After a night of not sleeping, Xu Sili could only forcibly raise his spirits. He only stopped to quickly drink a few bottles of health medicine and blue medicine to restore energy and mana, before quickly continuing to use Sprouting.
It was just that Aunt Val’s state was repeated. It was obviously improved just now but her breathing soon became weak again. It was as if her will to survive had retreated.
Xu Sili was secretly anxious. He thought of something and quickly played the flute while distracted to communicate with Si Sheng with spiritual power.
Si Sheng answered and waved his hand. The shadow leopard jumped out of the void and received an order. Then he turned into a shadow and left the spaceship, soon turning into black lightning that flew away in the air.
Dr Ding didn’t know what they were doing when they sent the shadow leopard out. He wondered to himself if Roland was hiding some powerful doctor. Aina and the others also speculated that the emperor was looking for more water healing techniques.
However, they all guessed wrong.
It didn’t take long for them to feel a sudden space distortion and then a crack was torn open.
First, a silver-gray giant wolf jumped out. Before they could raise the defense, they saw the shadow leopard also jump out with someone on its back.
On the back of the shadow leopard was a delicate-looking little boy with black hair and purple eyes.
Dr Ding couldn’t help being stunned when he saw the appearance of the little boy.
“Imperial Brother!”
Joan saw the scene in front of him and was stunned for a moment. Then he saw Xu Sili’s figure and his expression changed to joy and excitement.
His imperial brother had been gone for almost two months. He missed his brother every day and even had nightmares at night out of fear he would be in danger in outer space.
He was afraid that his only loved one would leave.
Fortunately, his imperial brother had returned safely now. He also asked September and Chamo to bring him over as soon as possible!
The little boy jumped off the back of the shadow leopard and happily ran to his brother, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time. Then he saw the woman in the nutrition cabin.
She looked so beautiful…
Joan thought this in his heart. Then looking at her, he felt a bit close to her for no reason.
At this time, Xu Sili stopped playing.
it was because his Sprouting was no longer effective.
Val Roland’s health bar was full but the breath in her body was getting weaker and weaker. This was the first time he had encountered this situation and he really didn’t know what to do.
Xu Sili’s heart was full of emotion as he looked at this woman who had been sleeping for nearly ten years and thought of her solitary defense of her homeland, adapting to learning and working hard to contribute to Roland in an interstellar society with no relatives and complete strangers.
In the timeline of the future forum, Val Roland shouldn’t have survived in the end or it would’ve been impossible that there was no information about her…
Was there still no way to save her in this timeline?
Xu Sili lowered his head and looked at the little boy standing beside him. The boy who turned 11 years old was almost up to his chest.
After breaking through one star, Joan had grown up very quickly and became more like a little adult.
“Imperial Brother…”
Joan looked at the woman and felt her aura gradually fading. Then he glanced at Xu Sili with some anxiety.
Xu Sili touched the top of his head.
This was a bit cruel to the child. He might lose her as soon as he obtained her… but he couldn’t watch Val Roland die with regret.
Little Joan was her child, her bloodline. Even her sudden change was because he mentioned Joan before.
She should really want to see her child…
“Little Joan.” Xu Sili pointed to Val Roland and said, “Call her Mom.”
“Mom?” Joan tilted his head in confusion.
At this moment, the weak woman in the nutrition cabin suddenly exploded with amazing energy.
Bang, bang!
The nutrient cabin made of special and sturdy materials suddenly cracked. In the uproar, the glass shattered and fell. The nutrient solution fell down along with it.
Si Sheng instinctively protected Xu Sili and retreated. Joan also blocked in front of him, looking defensive.
Then he saw the woman lying at the bottom of the nutrition cabin, struggling to open her eyes. Her beautiful purple eyes looked at Joan with a bit of confusion but her voice made a weak sound.
“Child… my child…”
Joan looked at her in a stunned manner. He didn’t know why but he suddenly felt that his nose was a bit sore and wanted to cry a bit.
He opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say.
On the side, Dr Ding had already burst into tears the moment Val woke up.
There were still two days left before the open beta.
Xu Yuheng always felt that his oldest brother would change his mind temporarily so he kept talking about it in front of his brother every day.
However, Xu Fengqing didn’t respond. He let Xu Yuheng babble as much as he liked and was still able to focus on his own affairs. This made Xu Yuheng even more nervous.
Finally, on the morning of the open beta, Xu Yuheng got up early in the morning. Once it finally reached the server opening time, he hurriedly urged Xu Fengqing to enter the game.
He made sure that his oldest brother was lying in the game cabin and happily walked out of the room, ready to enter the game as well and take his older brother to see Xiao Li.
As for which city Xu Fengqing was born in, it didn’t matter to him. After all, every main city now had a teleportation circle.
At most, transfer some coins to him for the teleportation fee and it would only take a few minutes to travel between the two cities.
Just as Xu Yuheng was about to enter the game cabin, he received a call from the game’s research and development center.
“Mr Xiao Xu, the game cabin we gave you before shouldn’t have been put into use yet, right?”
Listening to the other person’s eager tone, Xu Yuheng frowned. “What’s wrong? Is there a problem with the quality?”
“There is no problem with the quality. It is just that the game cabin is bound to a character with relatively powerful attributes… the original plan was to not release it until a year or two later… who knew…”
“You mistakenly gave it to me?” Xu Yuheng touched his chin.
“Yes. Can you return it?” The staff member in charge of this was on the verge of crying.
“But it has already been bound to the game.”
Xu Yuheng said, “Don’t worry. It won’t affect the balance of the game.”
His older brother didn’t like to play games. When he and Xiao Li recognized each other, he might just be a casual player in Starry Sky Age. He would just give Xiao Li advice and the probability of fighting should be very small.
“Okay, I will no longer talk to you,” Xu Yuheng said. “I’m going to enter the game.”
Then he hung up the phone and lay down in the game cabin.
The open beta of Starry Sky Age officially began.
After the familiar opening animation, Xu Yuheng entered the game.
Once he opened his eyes again, he found that he was no longer in the hotel room on Kechibal Star, but at the birth point in the central town of Orchid Moon City.
The 100,000 players were evenly distributed among the five main cities. The area around him was already crowded with new players.
These players were also familiar with the novelty of the holographic game and gathered around the birth point.
Xu Yuheng squeezed out of the summoning formation with difficulty. He just wanted to contact his older brother to add him as a friend when Baifeng’s message was received.
“Brother Yu, did you see the forum?!”
“Fk, fk, someone among the new players has drawn a hidden race!”
Xu Yuheng saw this message and his heart suddenly thumped.
Proofreader: Purichan
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