On the sea near Glass Sea City, a magic ship was sailing slowly. There were no players on the ship, only a small robot sitting on the deck with a fishing rod in his hand.
The little robot was accompanied by the magic core Mike. These two special lives from different civilizations got along quite harmoniously.
The naval battle that was very popular among players could only be carried out once a week and was now in a truce period. Due to Mike’s special nature, he could refuse players’ rentals according to his mood.
Recently, Xiao Wu had been interested in sea fishing so Mike took him out to sea every day.
The dangerous large marine creatures in the waters near Glass Sea City had been basically cleared out by players. As for the fate of these marine beasts—
Glass Sea City held seaside banquets every day, attracting many people to come and eat seafood. It had become Roland’s most popular main city, second only to Imperial City.
It was a pity that Xiao Wu was an intelligent life and had no need for food.
He sat on the deck, fishing and processing the information uploaded by the entire monitoring network while chatting with Mike. His life was the most comfortable.
At this moment, the little robot suddenly tilted his head.
“Black bugs?”
Xiao Wu muttered while integrating the latest information he received. He became a bit unhappy when he saw that these bugs destroyed the spaceship of star thieves.
It had already recorded Blood Dance’s base in his little notebook, let alone the spaceship. These all belonged to Roland, so how could they be destroyed?
“Your Highness Xiao Wu?” Mike noticed his abnormality and asked in a gentle voice.
“It’s nothing. I need to talk to my brother about something, so I won’t go fishing today.”
With this, the little robot put away his fishing rod, left a clone program here and left.
There actually wasn’t much difference between Xiao Wu’s main program and a clone program. However, his intelligence was getting higher and higher, and his personality becoming more real, so the clone program was different from the main program.
“Mike, I want to hear you tell a story~”
Hearing the little robot’s soft and childish voice, Mike said happily, “Okay, what story do you want to hear?”
On the other side, Roland Palace.
Xu Sili was curled up on the sofa, drinking afternoon tea and browsing the forum.
He hadn’t been so leisurely for a long time. Everything was on the right track and had made a good start. There shouldn’t be any other trouble as long as things continued to develop.
Adrian finally agreed to the mecha competition, but the location this time would be arranged by the Interstellar Alliance.
Xu Sili naturally agreed.
According to the distance, it took three months to reach the designated location from the Roland Empire, so the team he sent out still had three months to train.
The Interstellar Alliance tried many times to test if Roland really had a way to travel freely in the universe without being restricted by distance, but Xu Sili didn’t give in.
The Roland Empire had already demonstrated enough strength. There was no need to put all the good things on the table. After all, one must always be on guard against others.
Xu Sili also saw the update of the home system.
This was proposed by him and his second brother, and now the game team had finally implemented it.
According to predictions, this function would greatly improve the utilization rate of homes and would also usher in a new wave of popularity for the home system. It would be very profitable if used well.
Xu Sili would also cooperate to introduce some preferential land policies and activities, so that every player could own a property.
However, Xu Sili wasn’t satisfied with this.
Now the home system was only for players. Was it possible for NPCs to enjoy this benefit as well?
NPCs didn’t have a control panel like he did, but what if players could bring their friends back home? Just like Su Mo took Chi Yu and the others on a business trip, the safety of NPCs going out would be greatly improved if he could bring NPCs back to Roland through their homes.
Xu Sili now had a deep affection for Roland and regarded every NPC as a living being. He was willing to do his utmost to ensure the safety of every NPC.
What’s more, the NPCs who could be sent out must be very capable and outstanding. He couldn’t bear to see anything happen to them.
However, he had to take it one step at a time. The game team hadn’t developed this function yet. It would take some time to update it.
Xu Sili was actually looking forward to it.
If the final product was released, would he be able to use this function? Once he went out with Si Sheng in the future, he could return to his house at any time to rest. It was very convenient just thinking about it.
He was now browsing the forum to look up relevant information.
Unfortunately, in the other timeline, there was no home system function. This also led to many players rarely returning to this novice planet after leaving Roland. Most of them changed factions.
During that time, there were many forces, the gaming culture was more radical and the entire interstellar world was in chaos due to the players.
Xu Sili was very alert to this, so he was always very cautious when sending players to the interstellar space.
However, Roland was now having more contact with other players and more players would enter the universe. He could no longer continue to keep players firmly under Roland’s control. It would be bad if players showed any rebellious emotions.
This meant he had been thinking recently about how to open up this stage step by step.
For the newcomers who just entered the game, don’t even think about leaving. First, focus on improving reputation and level in Roland.
Xu Sili thought about it and felt that perhaps he could combine it with the home system to set a mandatory rule for players.
As he was thinking this, the communicator suddenly rang. After he clicked to agree, a little boy with silver hair and purple eyes appeared on the screen.
“Brother!”
Looking at the calmer little boy, Xu Sili smiled and asked, “Xiao Wu, is something wrong?”
“Yes! The two braves on the Blood Dance spaceship used a special method to return to Roland. I gathered information from them that a strange black bug appeared in the universe.”
Xiao Wu played the image of the black beetle.
“The two braves seem to take these bugs very seriously. Judging from the images they sent back, the destructive power of the bugs is indeed astonishing.”
“I’ve already kept the braves under close surveillance. Brother, do you want to capture them and disinfect them? They might not have insect eggs on them, but I think we should take precautions.”
Xu Sili looked at the video sent back by Xiao Wu. The video showed black beetles gnawing at the hull of the spaceship and fighting with the star thieves. It gave him goosebumps.
This video was indeed unfriendly for people with a phobia of bugs.
He agreed without thinking after hearing Xiao Wu’s proposal.
“Send out robots immediately to control them. Don’t leave any places they have been to or anything they’ve used untouched.”
Xu Sili’s voice was solemn.
As Xiao Wu followed the other, Xu Sili opened the future forum and entered the keywords to search.
Anything that could attract the players’ attention was definitely not an ordinary bug. Moreover, this type of bug had such strong destructive power and appeared suddenly. It gave Xu Sili a bad feeling.
Sure enough, he quickly found posts related to bugs on the forum.
They were the zergs.
Xu Sili’s expression turned ugly.
In the future forum timeline, the game progressed slowly because players spent a lot of time exploring how to remove the level limit.
Players knew a lot of interstellar information in advance due to the Bewatt Empire, but they only officially set foot in the interstellar world after a large number of players joined the Bewatt Empire. This was five or six years after the server was launched.
The first major event that players encountered after entering the interstellar space through Bewatt was the zerg invasion!
At that time, all the interstellar planets were shrouded in the shadow of the zerg, and a large number of warriors were urgently needed to go to the disaster-stricken planets to fight. For players, this was undoubtedly a very suitable task.
Not only could they quickly accumulate reputation, but there were also a large number of rewards that could quickly help them gain a foothold in the interstellar world.
In that timeline, Roland gradually gained a foothold in the interstellar space by sending troops to help suffering nations eliminate the zerg.
Compared to the timeline in which Xu Sili intervened, the Roland Empire in the future forum had it many times more difficult.
Every time he saw related posts, Xu Sili felt sorry for Joan in that world.
He inherited the throne and led the empire alone. Later, he broke off all relations with Si Sheng. No one knew how he managed to survive on his own.
Fortunately, Roland managed to survive in the end. It wasn’t particularly powerful, but as the birthplace of players, it was still supported by many players.
Thanks to the participation of hundreds of millions of undead troops, the zerg were finally suppressed. All the interstellar nations paid a heavy price, but the zerg were at least under control.
There were sporadic rebounds in some areas, but once they occurred, they would be eliminated by players who heard the news and wouldn’t cause much trouble afterwards.
This result also made Xu Sili breathe a sigh of relief.
Well, compared to the zerg, the fourth natural disaster was indeed more terrifying.
According to the speculation on the timeline, the zerg should’ve just appeared or appeared not long ago. At least judging from the posts on the future forum, the zerg hadn’t invaded Roland.
Perhaps it was due to there being no home system, combined with the unique geographical environment of Escher Star…
In this way, disinfection work must be done thoroughly for the players who returned through the home system!
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