The next day, Qing Yan arrived at the card illusion as promised.
Then under Lilith’s expectant gaze, she spent a dozen daily orders and dozens of real coins to buy a bunch of raw materials for making milk tea—
Yes! The system mall didn’t sell milk tea!
Qing Yan could only miserably prepare it on the spot in the illusion world. Fortunately, she found the formula and there were girls in the group who taught her step by step.
Preparing milk tea didn’t require a high technical content. The most important thing was the formula. Qing Yan might not have the formula for Roland’s milk tea store, but she used one from reality.
However, with the same ingredients, the milk tea prepared was almost the same as in reality.
Lilith’s eyes widened when she saw Qing Yan take out a bunch of ingredients and start making the mixture without saying a word. Then she thought of Xu Sili’s words and felt relieved again.
Finally, during her lecture that day, a cup of milk tea was placed on her desk.
Every time there was a break and the students were asked to stop and take notes, she would happily hold up the cup of milk tea, bite the straw and take two sips.
Due to the special nature of the card illusion, she didn’t have to worry about the changes in the temperature of the milk tea affecting the taste. It was so delicious every time she drank it.
Moreover, she wouldn’t become fat.
Soon, Qing Yan became one of Lilith’s favorite students. Lilith looked forward to her arrival every day.
However, the situation changed around a week later when the second player to complete the job transfer mission came to the illusion world.
To be honest, Lilith had a good temper as a mentor. Especially after receiving her special attention, Qing Yan lived a very nourishing life every day.
In one week, her entry progress was close to 70%. However, there was suddenly a competitor and she soon faced thee crisis of falling out of favor because—
The new player was better at cooking than her!
Qing Yan had no choice but to start practicing her skills harder in order to win Lilith’s favor again.
As time passed, more and more players came to the illusion world to learn cards. They tried their best to make Lilith happy. It was probably impossible for Qing Yan to regain her attention.
Xu Sili paid attention to it for a while before he stopped caring.
The function of purchasing food in the mall had been opened to players, but he still placed some restrictions on this. Otherwise, he was worried that sooner or later, Lilith’s illusion would be overwhelmed by the food given to her by players.
After all, there was no shortage of players in the game, especially the players of Starry Sky Age.
Escher coins were so valuable among players due to the existence of the god-tier players.
Xu Sili also heard from his second brother that some players had earned a house through Starry Sky Age because they posted it on the forum to show off. Finally, this emerged from the game circle and caused widespread discussion.
Ordinary players could also make money in Starry Sky Age. It might not be as exaggerated as tens or millions, but the money earned by playing the game for a few hours at night was more than that earned by working during the day.
Everyone opened a thread for discussion.
The reason why ordinary players in Starry Sky Age could make money was because the game didn’t have any cheat programs. At the very least, no one had succeeded in making it yet.
In addition, every person had only one account. This prevented a studio from opening multiple accounts to compete with players. Of course, if the studio wanted to grab a game warehouse or game helmet then it also depended on luck.
This left the game market in short supply for a long time. In addition to Escher coins, there were now more people making their own equipment. This meant there was a market for various materials and blueprints.
Most ordinary players would also spend money in the game after making money in the game. After all, Starry Sky Age was so attractive and every detail was full of temptation.
This created a virtuous cycle.
Once more and more people entered the game in the future, Xu Sili believed that his second brother’s vision of Starry Sky Age becoming the ‘second world of humanity’ would definitely come true.
After all, in his opinion, Starry Sky Age was indeed an extremely real world.
Even if it originated from a virtual world, perhaps it had evolved into a parallel universe? Or from the beginning, this was a real world. It was just that the two worlds were connected through some means.
Xu Sili had never given up on thinking about the nature of the world, but he had no way to draw correct conclusions.
Maybe once he stayed in this world for a while and became stronger, he could finally find the answer.
After helping Lilith solve this small problem, Xu Sili thought about Lilith in the timeline of the future forum.
He opened the forum and took a look. Unexpectedly, he discovered that—
The future players had actually found her!
Without his intervention, the Lilith card was still in Kuris’ hands. He had ten years of training and was much stronger than he was now.
However, it was the fourth natural disaster that targeted him.
In the timeline of the future forum, players had spread across the stars and became the targets that all natives didn’t dare to provoke.
After all, the players in that timeline hadn’t been guided by Xu Sili. Their relationship with the NPCs was even worse.
It might only be a part of the players, but it was obviously much larger than those in Xu Sili’s timeline.
They were dangerous elements who launched sneak attacks and wanted to directly occupy a main city in the early stages of the game. How could they become more peaceful after the interstellar map was opened?
As a game, that timeline might be more attractive to players. After all, Xu Sili had read so many posts. Without his intervention, the daily lives of the players were actually much more exciting.
Not only did they fight interstellar beasts, but they also provoked NPCs. Not only could they take advantage of the Roland camp, but they could also be a double agent and play tricks in the Bewatt camp.
The Roland Empire in that timeline was full of unpredictable battles and blood. It was a very typical StarCraft game.
Now…
Starry Sky Age had been turned into a casual style of infrastructure farming by him.
Xu Sili didn’t know what the players thought, but he didn’t feel bad. He even hoped that such peaceful development could continue.
He continued to browse the forum.
Players had already focused on Kuris and made careful plans to get rid of Kuris and directly grab the card mentor.
Xu Sili watched with interest. He even participated in the discussion, reminding them of the card skills that Kuris might have. Then…
He was overwhelmed by a large army.
Xu Sili sighed and chose a few questions to reply to. After all, these were his and Si Sheng’s CP fans. They were quite cute.
He concentrated on browsing the forum, so he didn’t notice that Si Sheng had closed his eyes again and had a weird expression from time to time.
Si Sheng had never found a chance to tell Xu Sili about it, but every time Xu Sili browsed that platform, Si Sheng couldn’t help watching it secretly.
He had memorized a lot of words now, but he still couldn’t understand the specific meaning of the words.
Xu Sili knew nothing about this. It was also because he had full trust in the game system.
He didn’t know that Si Sheng was already powerful enough to crack the system and sense the future forum through the connection between them.
At this time, the reminder of the larger army meant he finally remembered a certain ranking list.
Due to some strange desire to win, he really paid too much for this ranking. Later, in order to prevent himself from being so carried away by this vanity that he did something irreparable, he decisively stopped opening it.
Time passed and he gradually forgot about this matter.
However, now he remembered this matter again. He wanted to open it and take a look, because—
[Poster, the popularity ranking of the Si x Snow CP has risen. Why haven’t you updated it yet?]
[That’s right. Isn’t such a thing worthy of celebration? How can it not be updated?]
Oh, the popularity ranking had risen again?
Xu Sili touched his chin. He remembered that he was in tenth place before. He must’ve advanced a lot this time, so fans used this matter to urge the update, right?
Could it be that they… finally won first place?
Xu Sili couldn’t wait to open the fan section and the CP popularity rankings. Then he was shocked to see—
1st place: Si Sheng x Mu Xingzhou (Prosperity together).
……
5th place: Si Sheng X Snow (Si Snow).
Xu Sili almost coughed up a mouthful of old blood. He was only in 5th place. What was there to be happy about?!
His expression was ugly. However, he was so focused on the forum that he didn’t notice…
Si Sheng, who was beside him, had an even uglier expression.
This ranking list was clearly presented to him at a glance. Due to his photographic memory, he could even remember this ranking at a glance. What was outrageous was…
He saw that on this list, his name appeared 20-30 times in the top 50. The top ten all started with him.
He didn’t understand what CP popularity ranking meant, but he instinctively felt unhappy when looking at this row of names.
He also noticed that he and Ah Li were ranked very low.
He didn’t understand why Ah Li used the name ‘Snow’ but Si Sheng knew this was him.
Si Sheng’s eyes widened and he looked sideways at the silver-haired young man beside him.
His cheeks were slightly bulging and he looked very angry. Then he angrily closed the platform interface.
“Ah Li?”
Si Sheng called out to him.
Xu Sili came back to his senses and saw Si Sheng’s strange expression of concern. He had to tell himself that the Si Sheng of that timeline wasn’t his Ah Sheng.
There was no need to be angry just because he was in a CP with others!
Ah, no, he still felt so bad!
“Si Sheng, I am going out to calm down. Don’t follow me yet.”
Xu Sili got up suddenly, left the palace and strode toward the garden. In any case, there were very few people in the entire Roland Empire who could deal with him now. There was no need to worry about his safety.
What’s more, Si Sheng’s spiritual power could cover the entire palace at any time.
Si Sheng probably understood why he was sulking. To be honest, he also felt suffocated when he saw the ranking list.
In particular, not only were his and Ah Li’s names not on it, but even Ah Li’s pseudonym wasn’t in first place!
Of course, he felt that Ah Li must not be angry just because of this.
Si Sheng stood there, frowning and thinking.
The key to all the problems was to figure out the meaning of these unknown words, but… who could he ask?
At this time, the guard outside the palace made an announcement.
“Your Majesty, the brave called Yushu Linfeng has asked to see you!”
It was Second Brother!
Si Sheng’s gray-blue eyes brightened slightly and he quickly invited Xu Yuheng in.
Xu Yuheng saw that he was the only one in the palace and couldn’t help looking strange. He came to see his brother, not Si Sheng. He couldn’t help asking, “Where is Xiao Li?”
“Ah Li isn’t in his palace.”
Si Sheng looked at Xu Yuheng and said thoughtfully, “Second Brother, I have some questions. I hope you can help me answer them.”
“What questions?”
“You know… this CP is good to ship. What does it mean?”
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