VCRMM: Chapter 380

Xu Sili also knew it was imperative for players to set foot in the universe.

Due to his intervention, the Roland Empire was no longer like the timeline in the Future Forum, where it took two years for players to figure out how to remove the level restrictions. Now players who reached level 50 weren’t everywhere in the Roland Empire, but they at least occupied the top dozens of places on the level list.

As more and more players reached the maximum level, their minds would surely become more active.

According to the news from Xiao Wu, the number of players who wanted to take advantage of the various loopholes in the Bewatt Empire and sneak out for interstellar adventures had increased significantly recently. If the punishment measures weren’t so severe, it was estimated that more players would want to try it.

As for the two players who sneaked out during the Roland defense battle…

He never imagined that there would be players so ruthless as to drift in the universe as corpses for so long. This was much worse than Grumpy Little Rabbit drifting at the bottom of the sea.

Furthermore, those two guys didn’t return with the tour group’s spaceship, and no one knew where they were now….

Thinking of this, Xu Sili shook his head.

Let’s ignore those two guys for now. After all, it wouldn’t be the players who suffered losses.

As for sending players out to take on business and build teleportation circles for other nations… It still required long-term consideration. After all, this depended on how far the planets of the first batch of nations who ordered them were from Escher Star.

If it only took a month or two to fly there? He would be crazy to let players go out on a spaceship.

Imagine accepting a mission in the game, but having to stay on a spaceship for two months without doing anything? Once this mission was released, and it was a mission that had to be done, the planners would definitely be criticized by players.

As for the hidden planners of Starry Sky Age, Xu Sili naturally couldn’t do something that would easily cause public outrage.

So once the time came, he had to wait until the agreed date and use the fixed-point teleporter to send people over.

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Thanks to the increasing availability of raw materials and the accumulation of production experience, the research institute had significantly increased the speed of producing the fixed-point teleporters.

Most of the spare parts were produced by Xiao Wu’s military factory, and the research institute’s work was mainly assembly. Mass production wasn’t possible, but the speed was already exaggerated.

It should be known that the Interstellar Alliance had no more than a hundred fixed-point teleporters. The Roland Empire had produced five from scratch in such a short period of time, and they would only have more in the future.

One of them was in Xu Sili’s hands, which made it convenient for him to go to other planets to play.

The other four had their own uses.

Two were used to send players to the Bewatt Empire to cause trouble, and the other two were used to deliver cargo.

Not far from the Sigta Empire was an asteroid called Orange Clouds. It belonged to the 20th ranked United States of Bekra. It got its name due to the orange clouds in the sky.

Recently, there were always white points of light shining on Orange Clouds.

If they were someone who frequently purchased supplies from the Interstellar Alliance, they would find that the shining light was very similar to the light used by a fixed-point teleporter to deliver items, but it was a bit fainter.

However, the indigenous people of Orange Clouds had already moved away.

At present, those staying on this Orange Clouds star were garrison personnel and intelligent robots from the Roland Empire.

Due to the long-term trade agreements established with the Sigta Empire, and knowing that the Roland Empire wasn’t short of funds, Aunt Val finished consulting Xu Sili and decided to rent an asteroid nearby as a logistics transfer station.

The goods from the Roland Empire were delivered directly to the asteroid. Then the staff would deliver the goods to Sigta Star at the agreed time.

This not only saved a lot of manpower and material resources, but also allowed the rare materials purchased from the Sigta Empire to be sent back to the Roland Empire more quickly. Once more trade channels were established in the future, perhaps the asteroid could be purchased.

At this moment, the Roland Empire established its headquarters base on Orange Clouds.

Li Lai delivered the last batch of goods ordered by the Sigta Empire and sighed with relief. He finally had some free time to sit down and drink a cup of hot tea.

The climate conditions of Orange Clouds weren’t very suitable for living. The temperature was dropping day by day, and it seemed to have entered a small ice age. In addition, the mineral resources had been almost developed, so the local government of the United States of Bekra originally planned to relocate the residents.

So when Val proposed to lease Orange Clouds on behalf of the Roland Empire, the local government agreed without any conditions and the price was very fair.

After being assigned to Orange Clouds, Li Lai had no intention of coming here to enjoy a good life.

Of course, Her Highness didn’t treat them harshly. She gave them high salaries so that their families far away on Escher Star could enjoy better welfare benefits. She also recently sent a magic circle master over.

These magic circle masters were powerful people who could change the climate.

He heard that Roland’s newly built Food City was divided into three areas with different climates. There were not only hot summers but also snowy winters. Moreover, they were adjacent to each other and didn’t interfere with each other.

The magical landscape was created by the magic circle master, Dominic.

Li Lai heard that several magic circle masters who were sent here were the proud disciples of Master Dominic. After they finished their work, the area where the base was located would no longer be affected by cold waves, and their lives would be much better.

Li Lai was very much looking forward to that day. He felt more grateful and respectful toward the Roland imperial family.

Just as he was halfway through drinking his hot tea, a figure walked in from outside the door. It was Lieutenant Colonel Litch, who was also stationed here with him.

“Litch, how did the talk with the Saikon people go?”

In addition to the Sigta Empire, Roland was also striving for trade with other nations.

Princess Val might’ve returned to the Roland Empire, but she had trained her own successors when traveling the stars before. They would take over these tasks.

Lieutenant Colonel Litch was one of them.

Saikon was an inhabited planet in the United States of Bekra, not far from Orange Clouds. Most of the original inhabitants of Orange Clouds had moved to this planet.

It was also due to the help of these residents that Litch got in touch with the people of Saikon.

As one of the most habitable planets in the United States of Bekra, Saikon had a very large population. The demand for food was naturally huge.

Litch really wanted to make this deal so that it could offset some of the rent for Orange Clouds.

However, judging from the look on his face, things didn’t seem to be going well.

“It isn’t very good.”

Litch sighed and took the hot tea that Li Lai handed him, saying, “They prefer to cooperate with the Interstellar Alliance. After all, the Interstellar Alliance has a fixed-point teleporter that can ensure the freshness of ingredients.”

“Even though the Interstellar Alliance charges a lot and requires waiting in line for a while, they still think it is more reliable than being transported by spaceship.”

This was also the most depressing part for Litch.

The Roland Empire also possessed a fixed-point teleporter, but it couldn’t be exposed and naturally couldn’t be put on the negotiation table. So even if he repeatedly assured that the Roland Empire possessed very advanced preservation technology, the other person didn’t acknowledge it.

Of course, cooperation was possible but Saikon lowered the price a lot. This made Litch feel very unhappy.

He had traveled through the universe with Her Highness and was naturally aware of the popularity of fresh fruits and vegetables in various interstellar nations.

In the populous universe, many inhabited planets were already overcrowded. This led to a shrinking area of arable land. Most of the land could only produce stable food crops, while other cash crops had to rely on the supply from specialized planting and breeding planets.

However, the transportation cost between planets was extremely huge.

The technology of storage capsules was relatively mature and had a certain preservation function. Of course, it would still affect the taste after a certain period of time, but apart from the Interstellar Alliance, which nation would be willing to use such an expensive storage capsule specifically to transport food?

A 2,000 cubic meter space capsule, which was equivalent to a three-story warehouse of 200 square meters, cost 120 million cosmic coins. This was the price after a discount from the Interstellar Alliance.

The cost of being able to buy ingredients from the origin directly through the Interstellar Alliance has been reduced a lot for Saikon, and this is because the United States of Bekra has a benefit that it was not low in the interstellar ranking.

Other weaker nations, such as the Sigta Empire, had to figure out their own way due to the long queues.

This was why the Sigta Empire was very happy to cooperate with Roland.

Of course, Saikon’s attitude was so tough because they already had a good supply of goods and were fearless. In addition, the Roland Empire wasn’t strong enough.

Roland might’ve demonstrated its military strength to the entire universe, but not everyone could realize it in time. There were still many people who talked about the interstellar rankings.

During this trip to Saikon, Litch could always feel the superiority of the Bekra people.

He wasn’t greeted with respect and admiration when people found out he was from Roland, a magical civilization. Instead, many people treated him as some type of rare animal. There were always people asking him to perform magic for them, as if he was a performer in a circus.

This was another thing that made him feel depressed, but he found it difficult to say out loud in front of Li Lai, who came from a military background.

Li Lai didn’t know much about business negotiations and could only comfort the other person. “Since that is the case, we can find someone else to cooperate with.”

He was very confident in the crops of the Roland Empire.

Even though what they exported was produced by low-level wood elementalists when they were practicing mobilizing elements, but after tasting and comparing them, he still felt that what Roland produced was better.

This was probably because no chemicals were used in the planting process.

This type of growth-inducing method used the powerful vitality of the wood element to allow the plants to grow rapidly in a short period of time. Thus, they were much fresher and more delicious than those produced on planting stars.

“There are still many inhabited planets near Orange Clouds. The farthest ones can be reached in three or four days. Why do we have to keep staring at Saikon?” Li Lai said, “As long as Roland’s reputation spreads, why worry about not finding a partner?”

“I heard from my brother that His Majesty is strong even against the Interstellar Alliance. We can’t hold His Majesty back.”

Upon hearing this, Litch nodded seriously.

He knew that Lieutenant Colonel Li Lai’s brother was working for His Majesty. He also heard that after the Interstellar Alliance learned that the Guardian was Marshal Si Sheng, they attached great importance to the Roland Empire, so they sent a new liaison officer and transferred the old one.

Once His Majesty learned about this, he directly rejected the new liaison officer.

He also said that if Roland couldn’t even designate a liaison officer then there was no point in cooperating with the Interstellar Alliance.

Given the extent of Saikon’s reliance on the alliance, would they dare to challenge the alliance’s liaison officer like this?

Thinking of this, Litch’s depression was swept away.

That’s right, why hang himself on one tree? The other inhabited planets might belong to small nations and the price they offered might not be high, but small nations also had their advantages. At the very least, their cooperative attitude was more sincere!

As for Saikon, to hell with them! They would regret it later!

What Litch didn’t expect was that Saikon’s attitude would change so quickly.