Bazel looked at the numbers in his account and suspected that he was blinded. He couldn’t help pausing the communication. He turned his head and asked the housekeeper robot he had brought from home.
“Robert, did I just receive a money transfer?”
“Yes, Master.”
The voice of the housekeeper robot had a distinctly mechanical feel. It answered questions with a sense of trustworthiness.
“That transfer… was it 10 billion cosmic coins?” Bazel asked again.
“That’s right, Master.”
Hearing the accurate answer, Bazel couldn’t help gasping.
He had lived in the Flanders Interstellar Federation and was also quite wealthy. However, 10 billion cosmic coins was a huge amount of money that he would never earn in his life!
His Majesty…
Did he go to steal money? Otherwise, where did he get so many cosmic coins? Bazel’s group of five had gone collecting donations. If people gave them face then they could only raise a few million.
Bazel’s heart trembled. At the same time, he felt a sense of being trusted.
Originally, he only came to Roland to rebuild the main city of his homeland and continue the inheritance of his homeland. Then at this moment, he suddenly felt a sense of belonging.
At the very least, Roland’s little emperor didn’t care about old grudges and still believed in him so much…
The emperor directly transferred 10 billion into his account!
Bazel was very confused. This was 10 billion cosmic coins! It wasn’t the messy currency of a small nation that couldn’t be used on other planets. It was cosmic coins!
As the interstellar universal money, the value of the cosmic coin was very high. It could be used directly in more than 160 nations of the Interstellar Alliance and more than a dozen galaxies.
Some small nations didn’t have foreign trade channels and it was difficult to earn the 10 million Interstellar Alliance fees a year.
Meanwhile, his Majesty actually sent 10 billion at once…
Bazel couldn’t figure it out. What exactly did Roland rely on to make so much money? Could it be that His Majesty earned so much just by singing?
If it was earned by singing, why let Bazel donate to Roland through the Interstellar League in the form of fundraising?
Donations through the Interstellar Alliance were subjected to a handling fee. Only 0.01% was charged but since the amount was so large, the handling fee was also considerable.
Bazel was shocked and puzzled for a while. Then he controlled his expression and restarted the communication.
On the other side, Xu Sili saw that Bazel’s image had frozen and couldn’t help being a bit dazed.
Was the communicator broken?
After asking Xiao Wu, it was revealed that the old man had paused the communication, but he didn’t hang up.
Xu Sili understood the reason after thinking about it.
Just then, Bazel’s image moved again.
“Your Majesty, I’m sorry. The signal on my side didn’t seem very good just now.”
The old gentleman stroked his long beard. His face wasn’t red and his heart wasn’t beating quickly.
Xu Sili nodded and didn’t expose him. He just asked, “Did you receive the transfer I sent you?”
Speaking of that 10 billion, Bazel’s heart couldn’t help trembling again.
He tried to maintain his composure and nodded. “Yes, Your Majesty. I just received it.”
“Yes.” Xu Sili carefully observed his expression. He suddenly asked with some bad intentions, “Do you think this much is enough? Or do you need a bit more?”
“Huh? Even more?”
Bazel’s eyes widened and he couldn’t maintain his calm expression.
Xu Sili smiled in his heart but he had an innocent look on his face. He nodded and said, “If it isn’t enough, I naturally have some more.”
The milk tea stores of the Fox’s House were really popular.
It was only sold on the Star Network and it was cheap, but who made the population of the universe so high? There were trillions of intelligent creatures and the popularity of the Star Network was very high.
There were many imitations right now. After all, it was difficult to block the formula of the milk tea. Even so, the Fox’s House was the founder. Combine this with Si Sheng’s advertisement during the Genius Competition and people would naturally think of the Fox’s House as long as milk tea was mentioned.
There were also the special snacks he launched later such as the spicy strips, sour bamboo shoots and spicy dried fish. This made people more and more addictive when eating it and they became popular with the help of the milk tea.
In just two or three months, he earned over 100 billion cosmic coins. The income from the Fox’s House stores alone was enough for him to support the Roland Empire.
It was just that Roland didn’t have enough strength at the moment. Before it could really develop, he couldn’t expose the fact that he was the behind-the-scenes boss of the Fox’s House.
Bazel looked at the little emperor and wanted to question it. Then as soon as he opened his mouth, he heard a ding-dong sound again.
[You have received a payment. It is a total of 10,000,000,000 cosmic coins. Please pay attention to check it.]
He felt directly numb when looking at the familiar number.
Xu Sili said, “You can take your time. Do it in batches. A one-time donation is too eye-catching.”
Bazel couldn’t hold back.
“Your Majesty, you have so much money… Where did it come from? Is it convenient to reveal this?”
Xu Sili stared deeply at him. Before Bazel could become nervous, Xu Sili said, “I met star thieves on the way to pick you up on Kechibal Star.”
Bazel was stunned before asking urgently, “And then?”
“They kidnapped me,” Xu Sili said. “In return, I took their base.”
Bazel, “……”
Xu Sili’s short words made him feel ups and downs. His heart went up and down.
But…
“You just said that you took the base of the star thieves?” He couldn’t help confirming it again. “Which star thief force was it?”
“The Flaming Fox.”
Xu Sili grinned. “The harvest from their headquarters is quite good, but it isn’t easy to publicize it to the outside world.”
Speaking of which, the card of the Flaming Star Base was still collected in his space capsule. There were also many scientific research talents who had been kidnapped by the Flaming Fox group in the card. He had to find a time to release them.
Xu Sili stroked his chin.
These people should be arranged in Dr Ding’s research institute. This old man was still a lone commander right now. It was pitiful.
As for Bazel, he no longer knew what type of expression to use to face the emperor.
Flaming Fox, one of the two major forces of the star thieves.
Compared with the cruel and domineering Blood Dance, the Flaming Fox group was more cunning and had always been a headache for interstellar countries. The Interstellar Alliance had sent teams to destroy them many times, but they couldn’t be destroyed. Their headquarters had always been a mystery.
Now His Majesty told him that on the way to pick them up, he took the headquarters of the Flaming Fox. Now he had to deal with the stolen money?
Bazel could only say…
Well done!
He didn’t know how His Majesty did it, but he knew it must have something to do with Marshal Si Sheng.
This person was very strong.
Even at his age, Bazel had never encountered a strength like this. Just standing in front of the marshal made him feel suffocated.
Therefore, he was only slightly surprised that they could take the headquarters of the Flaming Fox. He was far less shocked about this than His Majesty’s 20 billion cosmic coins.
“Your Majesty, I see.” Bazel nodded. “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of this well.”
Xu Sili was satisfied.
“Then I’ll wait for your good news,” he said in a good mood. “By the way, how is your research on the underwater breathing potions?”
“Reporting to Your Majesty, the formula has been deduced. I just need time to explore the dosage of various materials.”
The recipe had been handed down a long time ago and was relatively unpopular. Bazel had seen it in an ancient book by chance. He just hadn’t managed to make it and it still needed to be experimented with.
Xu Sili nodded.
Regarding this potion, he had also searched the future Starry Sky Forum. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find the specific recipe. It was as if the owner didn’t share it.
As for the ocean, the players in the future forum timeline only started to explore it four or five years after the start of the open beta.
In the beginning of the game, the players who played the rare race, the sea elves, naturally fell into bad luck. It was said that only a few of them persisted. Through the method of death, resurrection, death and resurrection, they managed to reach the shore with great difficulty.
Their attributes might be better than ordinary players but the identity of the sea elves also brought many inconveniences to their land life.
It wasn’t until later, when players started to explore the ocean, that they really shone. However, by that time, the NPCs of the sea elves race were basically dead.
Xu Sili felt embarrassed every time he thought about it.
In that timeline, Ah Sheng wasn’t brought back to the palace by him. Chamo wasn’t healed by him in advance and naturally wouldn’t follow him to Glass Sea City, nor would he pick up Sea Song.
Therefore, Sea Song most likely didn’t survive.
Xu Sili shook his head and stopped thinking about it. He exchanged a few more words with Bazel before ending the call.
He turned around and saw Si Sheng holding a brand-new card in his hand. Xu Sili’s eyes lit up and he leaned over to look. “Ah Sheng, what type of card is this?”
Si Sheng glanced sideways at him and didn’t answer. Finally, he picked up an illusion card similar to Lilith’s card next to him.
Then he stacked the two cards together.
Xu Sili watched intently. He suddenly felt some shaking in front of him. The next moment, his whole body started to sink, as if he had fallen into the sea and was submerged by the raging sea water.
The feeling of suffocation enveloped him. He knew it was an illusion, but his limbs still moved uncontrollably as he struggled.
At this time, he felt a palm touch his cheek. The pain of not being able to breathe disappeared.
Once he opened his eyes and looked up, he saw the blond-haired man suspended in the blue water. His gray-blue eyes were slightly curved and became deeper and more charming in the water.
Si Sheng looked at him, leaned over and kissed him softly on the lips.
Then all sights disappeared.
Xu Sili blinked and looked left and right. He was still in his bedroom and there was no sea water at all.
The only constant was that the man in front of him was holding his face with one hand and kissing him.
“You’re distracted again,” Si Sheng stepped back and accused.
Xu Sili was speechless. Just like this, anyone would be distracted, okay?
In the bright sea water, the man’s blond hair floated in the currents. His whole body looked like it was plated with light. It was indeed so handsome that it moved his heart.
Xu Sili approached and pulled out the cards in his hand that had changed back to two. He turned around and lay in Si Sheng’s arms, studying the two cards in his hand.
The magic card was the sea, making people feel that they were in the sea and about to suffocate. It was a relatively powerful control card.
It was just that the magic card had one feature—it couldn’t be linked.
In other words, everyone saw the scene independently. High-level magic cards from card masters like Lilith could only be used by one person at a time. This was why Lilith was surprised when she saw Si Sheng accompanying Xu Sili to enter her card.
The card illusion that Xu Sili wanted to do now was to allow Lilith to teach multiple people at the same time. Otherwise, one-on-one lessons were too wasteful.
After all, most of the teaching for the one and two star card master stages was theoretical knowledge. There was no need for one-on-one tutoring.
Xu Sili held up the card that Si Sheng had newly made.
They had just clearly entered the same illusion space. In other words, Si Sheng had succeeded!
He carefully looked at the patterns on the cards. Based on his current level as a card master, he could only understand around half of them. Even so, this still benefited him a lot.
“Ah Sheng, you are simply amazing!”
Xu Sili didn’t hesitate to praise him. He turned around and kissed Si Sheng a few times on the face.
Si Sheng smiled and looked at the card in his hand. “This is an auxiliary card. After overlapping it with a magic card, it can form an illusion zone that is already ten meters in diameter.”
“As long as you enter the range of the illusion zone, your spiritual power will be guided to the same illusion. If your spirit is strong enough, you can leave on your own.”
Of course, currently on Escher Star, he was probably the only one with this level of spiritual strength.
Xu Sili nodded again and again when he heard it. A diameter of ten meters was enough for 20 or 30 children. In any case, Lilith was only one person and couldn’t teach too many people at a time.
“Very good. I’ll arrange it right away!”
Seeing the excited look of the young man, Si Sheng raised an eyebrow slightly and reminded, “Your previous promise… you haven’t forgotten, right?”
Xu Sili paused. He looked at Si Sheng’s smiling eyes and pursed his mouth. “I know. I’ll download it from the Star Network later.”
He promised last time that if Si Sheng managed to help him with the card illusion, he would buy the latest ‘real game’ released and play it together when the Genius Competition was over.
Si Sheng was satisfied.
He hugged the young man in front of him. He squinted while rubbing happily against Xu Sili’s face, as if having him meant having the whole world.
Xu Sili sighed but the smile on his face never disappeared.
Everything in the game was proceeding in an orderly manner, but in the Starry Sky Forum, there was a heated discussion due to the system mall launched today.
The system mall was something that the closed beta players had been waiting a long time for. Even open beta players had been calling for the system mall to go online quickly.
Speaking of which, they had never seen a game merchant who didn’t like to make money like Starry Sky Age.
Shouldn’t such an important setting like the system mall be synchronized with the first moment of the open beta? Starry Sky Age delayed it for a few days. Then players found that…
They couldn’t even recharge to buy Escher coins?
The purchased diamond coins could only be circulated between players? What a joke!
The players who were eagerly preparing to buy coins with their huge sums of money were dumbfounded.
No, what did they want to do with such a big system mall that was only used to sell fashion?
Fashion was certainly essential but…
What about game currency? What about equipped weapons? What about pets? If not these, at least sell some potions!
Health medicine and magic medicine could be exchanged through the faction warehouse, but it required increasing reputation! Wasn’t it cool to have in-game purchases? The game group was doing something!
The players had a very tough attitude in the beginning. Then they found that the officials weren’t paying attention to them and unknowingly softened their attitude.
[I won’t scold the dog planners any longer. Please give me a chance to spend money.]
[I have already recharged 100,000 diamond coins. Dog planners, I advise you to open the equipment and weapons mall quickly, otherwise, I will kneel down and beg you.]
[However, look at the fashion that has just been launched.]
Players never imagined that one day, they would kneel down and beg the game group to let them spend money.
The key point was that the game group wouldn’t make any money in this way!
Later, the officials issued an announcement explaining the reasons why traditional game products weren’t launched in the mall. They hoped that the players could obtain them in the game through their own efforts, which was also a type of fun.
[I never thought I would meet such a conscientious game company. I can’t bear to scold the dog planners.]
[Question, is this using love to generate electricity in Starry Sky Age? If you don’t sell these things, what does Starry Sky Age rely on to make money? The game cabin is very expensive for some people, but I think it is cheap in terms of the game experience.]
[Yes, I heard that a game helmet will be launched later. They can’t make money at all.]
The game group hadn’t expected that the players would worry about this. They had been scolded since the beginning of the closed beta so they actually felt a bit moved right now.
However, Starry Sky Age definitely wanted to make money.
So the next day, they went live with a new feature.
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