“F*k, what is this?”
Lan Xiaoyin was shocked.
At this moment, his lens had been zoomed out to the furthest distance and couldn’t be extended further. However, the beasts were rapidly approaching him.
Soon, all the details of the beasts were incorporated into his lens.
He could clearly see the mania and anger on the faces of these interstellar beasts. It was as if they had lost their minds and the only thought left in their consciousness was to charge forward.
As everyone knew, interstellar beasts were easily angered and they also liked to act in groups. However, this was the first time Lan Xiaoyin and many closed beta players saw it on such a large scale.
This scene reminded many people of the beast wave mentioned by NPCs.
[F*k, is this a beast wave? It is too scary! Who can withstand this? The game group is playing too big. Won’t Roland directly be destroyed?]
[Probably not. Isn’t this far from Roland’s main cities?]
[Isn’t that scarier? According to the design, Escher Star is full of interstellar beasts. If this beast wave can’t be calmed down, it will spread to the main cities sooner or later.]
[Yes, I remember the research master saying in his post that the beast wave that occurred four years ago in the game was from outside Roland’s border. It directly overwhelmed the border defenses and eventually swept over the country.]
[Are you saying that this beast wave is on the same scale as the beast wave that occurred in Roland four years ago?]
[It isn’t clear yet. But if it is, it is likely to be even scarier than the one four years ago.]
Since there were no interstellar beasts in Roland four years ago, it was equivalent to foreign interstellar beasts breaking through the border and traveling a long distance to destroy cities along the way.
In this way, the power became smaller further back. This gave the former emperor time to protect the five main cities in the easternmost area.
However, now Roland’s original territory was densely populated with interstellar beasts. Once those interstellar beasts were involved in the beast wave, the impact on the remaining five main cities of Roland would be unprecedented.
Lan Xiaoyin suddenly thought of a question.
He adjusted the camera in the direction of the interstellar beasts’ impact. Then he said, “Do you think this beast wave will rush to the City of the Braves if it is heading toward Roland?”
[F*k! My house!]
[My land!]
[My big villa!]
[Streamer, don’t be an alarmist!]
“Am I an alarmist?” Lan Xiaoyin said angrily. “The Starry Sky spaceship came from that direction. I also took a video of the City of the Braves on the way. If you don’t believe me, go back and see!”
The mission of the City of the Braves wouldn’t end until three weeks later, but the speed of clearing monsters had slowed down because the faction leader gave up after raising the level of the newcomers.
Then they received the mission of cleaning and defending. It was to clean up and organize the territory they had conquered in the past week. It was to reserve it for future construction, and to prevent it from being taken back by interstellar beasts.
This was also included in the contribution.
This mission didn’t give as high a contribution as clearing monsters, but it had still become the choice of many players despite the difficulty of clearing monsters increasing significantly.
The progress of the cleanup was very fast. Elementalists could control the elements and this would be their territory in the future, so the players were very involved.
The construction of the City of the Braves had always been a topic of discussion on the forum. This was a city that truly belonged to players. How to build it definitely required planning.
Of course, the land hadn’t been distributed to players yet. In addition, how it would be distributed was unknown. Still, this didn’t hinder the players’ enthusiasm for discussion.
However, at this junction, there was actually a beast wave? Weren’t their efforts this week in vain?
[It seems like they will really rush here…]
[I am in the City of the Braves and have already heard the movement. I can hear the sound clearly when I lie on the ground.]
[No way? I worked so hard to increase my contribution to the top 50.]
[Dog planners, come out and die!]
For a time, a large number of related discussion posts emerged on the Starry Sky Forum. At the same time, the major mercenary groups held emergency meetings to gather members and individuals on a large scale to prepare to resist the upcoming beast wave.
This time, the beast wave was coming so fiercely that just watching the video made people’s scalp numb. However, retreating and giving up the land that was finally cleared wasn’t the style of players!
The game group naturally received the news immediately. After obtaining the monitoring data and deducing the causes and consequences, almost everyone familiar with this matter was dumbfounded.
It was all messed up. Everything was out of order!
It had only been a week of the open beta. The ‘monster siege’ event was originally planned to occur at least a year later. How could it be so early?
The level of the players was now generally up to level 20, but forcibly improving it was completely different from accumulating it over time!
Many of their skills hadn’t been learned, equipment hadn’t been acquired and the most important thing was—
The number of players!
There were only 100,000 players. Facing the tens of millions of interstellar beasts, wasn’t it just a drop in the bucket? How could they defend against this?
Yes, how could this be defended?
Xu Yuheng was completely stunned after receiving the news. The beast wave Xiao Li mentioned before was actually true!
He also watched the video of Lan Xiaoyin and recognized it at a glance.
Wasn’t the man with black hair his older brother? After calling and talking to Xu Fengqing, he also confirmed it.
Xu Yuheng didn’t know what to say for a while. Now things had turned and it was his older brother’s turn to influence the progress of the game?
No matter how he thought about it, the game group couldn’t arrange the beast wave to appear at this point in time!
However, now wasn’t the time to talk about this. The two brothers discussed it for a while before they entered the game together.
Aboard the Starry Sky spaceship.
Xu Sili ordered Xiao Wu to send out the flight monitor.
Since he couldn’t operate satellites, he could only equip Xiao Wu with these little things as his ‘eyes.’
Not long after, dozens of surveillance pictures were transmitted back to the light screen on the wall of his room. Each one represented a flight monitor.
Now every screen was filled with densely packed interstellar beasts running in one direction.
Looking at these images, even Chamo’s expression changed.
Xu Sili couldn’t help gritting his teeth.
His plan couldn’t keep up with the changes. Now the beast wave had completely exploded.
On the side, Si Sheng’s expression also became ugly.
He had a sense of it when the lizardman committed suicide, but he hadn’t expected such a crisis.
On the light screen, Xiao Wu’s calculation process appeared. Finally, he came to the conclusion—
“Without any intervention, the beast wave will storm the construction site of the City of Braves in about a day. Then it will continue eastward. After around a month, it will first reach Orchid Moon City. Then it will attack the other four main cities within a week.”
As he explained, demonstration graphics and text appeared simultaneously on the light screen. It explained the current crisis very intuitively.
The City of the Braves hadn’t been built yet and it was of little value to Xu Sili. The most valuable things were the teleportation circle and the underground cave where Xenos lived before.
Now that Xenos was still alive, this place had lost its significance as a memorial.
In other words, there was at least one month left for Xu Sili to deal with it.
This information gave Xu Sili some relief from his tense nerves. Time was limited but it wasn’t a completely desperate situation.
After all, Imperial City had now been upgraded to level 4 while the other main cities had reached level 3. They weren’t as fragile as the main cities on the timeline of the Future Forum.
It wasn’t just the players. The elementalists had also improved their levels. There were five teachers brought back from outside who were at least four star elementalists.
The knowledge and power they could exert were also enormous.
At this time, Si Sheng held his hand.
The man looked serious with a layer of low pressure surrounding his body. He looked at the surveillance on the light screen and said, “Don’t worry. Ah Li, I will take care of them.”
There was a deep chill and a hint of chagrin in his tone. He was obviously blaming himself for not handling the matter well.
Xu Sili was slightly stunned, but quickly figured out why he was like this.
However, he didn’t think he was to blame for this.
Who would’ve thought the lizardmen would be so cunning and set up a program to trigger the beast wave the moment that all of them died?
In the final analysis, this matter was still a problem of the lizardmen. Once this wave was solved, he should make the Bewatt Empire pay for it!
“Don’t care about this for now.”
Xu Sili pressed on the back of his hand and Si Sheng looked sideways at him in confusion.
“Ah Li, this is my responsibility…”
“Don’t think like that.” Xu Sili shook his head. “Your responsibility is only toward me.”
Si Sheng was silent, but the cold ice on his face had obviously melted.
Chamo, “……”
Xu Sili looked at the light screen again. He thought for a while before saying, “This can be regarded as an opportunity.”
Maybe this wave could save them from advancing bit by bit. In any case, these interstellar beasts would be cleared out sooner or later.
“We still have a month to deal with it. There is pressure but there is also motivation. There is such a big mountain pressing down on us. Maybe Roland can add another batch of high star elementalists.”
Xu Sili had completely calmed down.
In the timeline of the Future Forum, the final results were tragic. On the one hand, it was because the main city upgrade was too slow. On the other hand, their information lagged behind.
However, now Roland’s combat effectiveness and defensive strength were no longer what they used to be. In addition, he had Xiao Wu. He actually had a great advantage.
There were also the more than 100,000 players who were two stars or above.
“Roland’s cultivation atmosphere has relaxed recently. It is time to put some pressure on them.”
The participation of the players meant the speed of land recovery had increased rapidly while the casualties of NPCs was almost zero. This was a good thing, but for Roland’s defenders, there must be a psychological gap.
In fact, ordinary soldiers in the army had a higher chance of becoming elementalists than ordinary people.
They fought interstellar beasts all year round and wandered between life and death every day. The probability of breaking through was inherently higher than that of ordinary people, especially now that the level of the main cities had increased and the concentration of elements had increased several times compared to before.
But judging from the current data, things weren’t that ideal.
Xu Sili felt there was a high possibility they had been hit by players and there was a psychological impact.
After all, facing a group of elementals who could learn everything instantly, feel no pain and were relentless when facing the more ferocious beasts, it was completely conceivable that ordinary soldiers would be hit.
It was absolutely not okay to let this continue.
Players would definitely become the mainstay of Roland in the future, but the instability was too great. Roland must have its own local power.
Moreover, NPCs had advantages over players. In terms of health, NPCs of the same level had at least ten times the health of players.
This beast wave was an opportunity.
Of course, the risk was also very high. If the control wasn’t good, he might really cause a big crisis. But…
Wasn’t there Si Sheng?
Xu Sili looked at him and said, “Once I really can’t control it, I need the guardian patron to come out and turn the tide.”
“Ah Sheng, the pressure must be much greater than it is now. You should have no problems, right?”
Si Sheng looked at him seriously and nodded. “I will never let you down.”
Xu Sili couldn’t help smiling.
He felt that there was indeed nothing to worry about. He had almost blind trust in Si Sheng.
In any case, players could be resurrected infinitely. If Si Sheng used a few Thunder Judgments to control the field and then let the players continue to act, could they still lose the main cities?
If that was the case, the players would be too useless.
Xu Sili and Si Sheng made a decision quickly after talking to each other. Their haste made Chamo feel embarrassed.
This was probably the confidence of the strong!
“It looks like you already know.”
Just then, another voice was heard in the room.
Xu Sili’s mind moved. He turned around and saw that his older brother had come online again at some point.
He was standing in place while looking up at the light screen on the wall.
Xu Sili called out to him first. Then he pondered on his brother’s words and couldn’t help raising an eyebrow.
“You know as well?”
Could it be that the game group had informed him?
“Play…”
Xu Fengqing paused. He looked at Si Sheng and the other unfamiliar man and changed his words.
“A brave captured it on video. Now almost everyone knows about it. The major mercenary groups are currently gathering to protect the City of the Braves.”
“They also captured a video of Ah Xe and I being kidnapped by the lizardmen…”
Xu Fengqing pursed his lips.
He had also watched that video. He realized that before he contacted Ah Heng, the young man in front of him already knew they were in danger and sent Si Sheng to rescue them.
He clearly knew that the balance in his heart had completely tilted. However, he wasn’t good at expressing these emotions and wasn’t ready to say them.
Xu Sili was a bit surprised. A player took a video? This was near the elf land, which was a long way from Roland’s border. Could anyone come so far?
Then he suddenly remembered that there was someone locked in a room on the Starry Sky by him.
That’s right, it was that elf player! He must’ve filmed it!
Xu Sili glanced at Asheng and thought about the Tree of Life.
Was it possible to transplant this elf tree to Roland? After all, Asheng could increase the concentration of elements. Then the Tree of Life should have a similar effect…
He was thinking wildly when he heard his oldest brother’s voice again.
“This matter started because of me. I will find a way to help you solve it.”
Xu Fengqing looked at the young man and suddenly whispered, “I won’t let anything happen to you again.”
Xu Sili was startled.
The last words were quiet, but as a sound elementalist, how could he not hear them?
He looked at the man and suddenly grinned. There was no trace of gloom on his face. He said, “Don’t worry, nothing will happen to me this time.”
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