“Let’s go back.”
Xu Sili was floating in the air on a flying saucer. Now he turned to Si Sheng and said this.
They had already seen almost everything about this barren planet.
The members of the Clive star thieves obviously didn’t have the patience to manage it. Looking around, the whole planet was desolate and barren. It was a real uninhabited planet…
Hey, wait.
Xu Sili saw Si Sheng looking down. He followed Si Sheng’s gaze and couldn’t help frowning.
Now, the detection range of his mental strength had expanded a lot. He was floating at a high altitude at the moment, but his mental strength could extend to the ground.
What’s more, there were sound elements everywhere and his hearing was very sensitive.
The figure below was motionless and almost buried in the sand, but when listening carefully, he still heard some subtle movements.
“Is it an escaped star thief?”
This place wasn’t far from the base, and the base buildings were within sight. It wouldn’t be surprising if there were escaped star thieves.
After saying this, Xu Sili casually threw the detection spell over, but the information made him feel confused.
[***]
Name: ***
Race: ***
……
It was all *?
Was this blocked? Or could it not be detected?
This was the first time Xu Sili had encountered such a situation and he was a bit confused.
But one thing was for certain. The two people below were probably not star thieves.
At this time, Si Sheng also shook his head with a strange expression on his face.
“The feeling they give me… is somewhat similar to the braves,” Si Sheng told him.
Xu Sili was even more confused now.
Like the braves? Could it be a GM and that was why he couldn’t see the information of these two people? Then the question was, did Starry Sky Age have GMs?
He thought for a moment before saying, “Let’s fly down and take a look.”
After saying this, Xu Sili reached out and hugged Si Sheng. He put away the flying saucer under his feet.
Si Sheng curled his lips slightly. He turned on the passerby halo, held Xu Sili and slowly landed not far from the two figures.
After landing on the ground, Xu Sili didn’t let go of Si Sheng. He used his mental strength to observe them.
They were two men wearing camouflage uniforms with most of their bodies buried in the sand. They looked very hidden and were difficult to be spotted with the naked eye.
However, to the elementalists who used mental strength to observe, they stood out like light bulbs in the darkness.
The two soldiers buried in the sand didn’t realize that they had been exposed, nor did they notice the arrival of Xu Sili and Si Sheng.
They carefully raised their binoculars and looked at the players running out of the base, feeling that something was wrong.
“Where did these NPCs come from?”
One of the soldiers said, “They don’t look like star thieves! And these clothes… are so weird.”
The players were wearing Western fantasy style clothing. They were very beautiful, but seemed a bit out of place with the primitive style of the barren planet and the sci-fi style of the base.
“It was really strange…”
His companion couldn’t help grumbling.
They were scouts sent out in advance by the army in order to attack the star thieves’ base.
The intelligence that had been collected showed that the main force of the star thieves had left some time ago. There weren’t many star thieves left in the base, but it was still very difficult to break through this fortress relying on their strength.
What’s more, there were hostages inside.
Their mission was to capture the base while ensuring the safety of the hostages.
This was undoubtedly a difficult challenge.
Until now, no detailed plan had been made. After all, for these new recruits, the difficulty of this mission was no longer hell, but devil mode.
The game team hadn’t provided any detailed information. Apart from the fact that this was a base of star thieves and there were innocent hostages inside, they had to collect other information themselves.
The huge gap in scientific and technological levels brought the first difficult-to-overcome difficulties to their intelligence work.
During the scouting phase alone, they had ‘sacrificed’ many people.
The game time had reminded them that in Starry Sky Age, the NPCs were very intelligent. If they alerted the enemy, it was likely to make the rescue more difficult.
But it was hard not to alarm the star thieves.
In fact, on the first day of being dropped on this planet, some scouts were discovered by the defense system of the base.
The unfortunate soldier received concentrated gunfire from the base’s defense tower before he even got close to the base, and he died on the spot. Then the star thieves discovered the enemy invasion and immediately upgraded their defense system.
Fortunately, there were surviving soldiers who saw the range of the protection system and roughly estimated the safe distance.
Safety was temporarily guaranteed, but it was difficult to observe the situation in the base at this distance.
The soldiers adopted various reconnaissance methods, but none of them escaped the enemy’s defense system. Many scouting aircrafts even exploded as soon as they crossed the cordon.
After they alerted the enemy, the obviously powerful star thieves actually retreated into the base and refused to come out!
Such a cautious response made it impossible for the soldiers to sneak in using the star thieves leaving the base.
So how should this battle be fought?
It was worthy of the demon level of difficulty. It was hard to start from the very beginning.
They could only lie in ambush outside the security circle and observe, competing with the star thieves in patience. This could be considered one of their training programs.
The star thieves indeed didn’t have patience. Around a week later, the base, which had kept its door tightly closed, sent out two mechas.
How could a mortal body fight against a steel monster?
The scouts fled quickly, but were found and killed by the enemy. Only one scout ran to the teleportation point and successfully escaped back to the training planet.
For the soldiers who were ‘sacrificed’ during the mission, the mission failed. As a dead person, they could no longer pass on messages to their teammates.
This was a realistic and cruel setting.
Fortunately, the scout brought back intelligence. However, this only made the soldiers more deeply aware of the gap between them.
Should they ask the gaming team to lower the difficulty?
Putting aside whether it could be done or not, even if it could be done, they didn’t have the face to mention it.
After all, this mission was requested by the bigshots to the game company and they were given a reminder before they started.
In any case, the mission was now stuck in the scouting stage, but the soldiers of the scouting battalion didn’t want to give up just like this. The mission was difficult, but it was indeed challenging training.
The two soldiers that Xu Sili and Si Sheng met had been lying here for almost a day and a night.
“These weirdos must be related to the star thieves. Why else didn’t the base’s defense system respond?”
One of the soldiers said.
They had suffered a lot from the base’s defense system. They had tried every possible means, but even the most powerful hackers couldn’t break into the system.
What else could they say except that Starry Sky Age was awesome?
The first batch of people who entered for the trial were all new recruits. After hearing about the difficulties they encountered, some bigshots in this field became interested but the recruits were abused greatly.
Later, the bigshots didn’t insist anymore but went to the team of Starry Sky Age to exchange experiences, leaving them to overcome it on their own.
“All these NPCs ran out…” Another soldier muttered.
They had been waiting here for so long, but they had never seen the star thieves come out like this. The few times they came out, they were all driving mechas.
So…
Could it be that the gaming team felt sorry for them and really lowered the difficulty?
As the two soldiers were at a loss, Xu Sili listened to their conversation and combined it with the clothes they were wearing. He couldn’t help feeling a bit confused.
He remembered the military exercises that his second brother had told him about…
Could these people be the soldiers?
Didn’t his brother say that he had allocated a remote planet for them? How did they end up here?
Then on second thought, Clive Star was indeed very remote.
Xu Sili was speechless.
He looked at it a few more times before turning on the communicator to contact his second brother. Coincidentally, Xu Yuheng also came online to find him.
After the two brothers communicated with each other, Xu Sili finally understood what happened and felt it was very magical.
“Old Wang is having a headache right now. He doesn’t know how to solve this problem.”
Xu Yuheng clicked his tongue.
So, the things they didn’t want to happen were always more likely to happen?
“It is very simple.” Xu Sili looked at the players below, as well as the two bewildered scouts, and said with a smile, “Let’s turn this barren planet into a war instance.”
“What?” Xu Yuheng frowned. “You mean… let the army fight the players?”
“Yes, it should be interesting.”
Xu Sili nodded and told him, “After I report to the Interstellar Alliance, the barren planet will be officially designated as the territory of the Roland Empire. We can do whatever we want with it.”
“Xiao Li, you might not know that the soldiers’ template is different from the players’. Their data is modeled after reality…”
Xu Yuheng said tactfully.
In other words, the soldiers had pitifully weak attributes in front of players and would be badly abused.
Of course, it might be better than being tortured by mechas.
“Some restrictions can be placed on the players that enter here.”
Xu Sili shrugged. “As long as the rewards are generous, players will definitely not mind being a sparring partner.”
“But it is best not to let the players find out the identity of the person they are fighting against.”
After all, it involved the military and things were a bit sensitive.
Xu Yuheng hesitated for a while before nodding. “Okay, I’ll go and discuss it with them.”
The gaming team couldn’t directly change the game settings, but with Xiao Li cooperating with them, many problems could be solved much earlier.
However, before going offline, Xu Yuheng told Xu Sili another piece of good news.
“In around three months, there will be five million new players. You should be prepared in advance. Also…”
Xu Yuheng’s smiling voice came from the communicator.
“Mom and Dad can enter the game.”
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