King from scratch

Chapter 185 Global Public Beta 9 As expected of you!

From the very beginning, the Zerg was not a problem to the kingdom, even though it was aggressive and wanted to occupy the continent in one go, how could an existence that could be dealt with at any time make He Xingwen feel troublesome?

At best, this is a large-scale event task used to consume too much energy for the player, and by the way, use the residual heat to become a tool to increase the number of players reasonably.

What really troubled He Xingwen was the big trouble of the players.

With the carrying capacity of the kingdom, it cannot digest so many players, and the loss of control of large-scale players is the most likely to cause the world to suffer shock, fall into chaos, and then be occupied by players.

Fortunately, the Special Bureau and the Knights of the Kingdom shared part of the pressure, rebuilding the order belonging to the players in the chaos, and using this to restrain them.

Players were drained of a lot of energy by a series of infrastructure tasks, and the task of destroying the Zerg in the South China Sea vented the players' intense emotions towards the game on the Zerg, which forced hundreds of millions of players to be constrained to the kingdom's territory.

But when people focus on large groups, it is inevitable that some individuals will be overlooked.

"It's impossible not to explore! I'm the man who wants to be the One Piece!" A few players in the South China Sea defense line shouted this slogan. When they didn't complete the novice mission, they climbed into the small wooden boat made by the player and went out to sea with enthusiasm. .

Of course, most of these players will come back to complete the novice task crying bitterly under the beatings of the sea creatures, but there are always individuals who are not defined by the rules-this means, in waves of sneaking to the South China Sea Among navigators, there are always fish that slip through the net.

Excluding the players who want to become "One Piece's man", there are also players on the mainland who are full of adventure dreams and set off outside the kingdom.

After all, compared to the number of [-] million, the numbers of a few, hundreds, and thousands are really too small, and the territory of the kingdom is so large, who can stop these players from running out of the territory of the kingdom without doing tasks?

The number of kingdom knights is far from being able to erect a line of defense on the border of the kingdom.

Because of the objective location of the kingdom, most players with adventurous dreams start from the Land of God's Fall, the top of the mountains, and the Academy of Arcane Arts—the Everfree Forest covers a large area, but treemen and druids are opposite to each other. The player's favorability is too low, and it is obviously an act of courting death to cross the endless forest and start out of the kingdom's territory.

Those scattered old and new players, some started from the top of the mountains and headed south, which is the direction marked on the map of the devil, and some went west from the Arcane Academy, and the west of the Arcane Academy There is no mark on the devil's map, and it seems to be the end of the continent; while the other part starts from the land of God's Fall and heads northeast, towards the Neva Plain.

Whether they can reach the end of the journey is still unknown, but at least they have indeed begun to explore the world (cross out) the deeper scenery of this game.

They may be able to see unexpected scenery, or they may eventually fall into the sand before many difficulties, or they may bring unexpected surprises to the king one day...

When the seeds fall, no one knows what kind of flowers will grow.

These players are just a small microcosm of hundreds of millions of players.

In the gap between infrastructure tasks and Zerg tasks, the players gave full play to their subjective initiative and received all kinds of tasks from NPCs—the number and types of tasks were even beyond He Xingwen's imagination.

The qualitative change caused by quantitative change is the most deeply felt by Ai Zhijin.

As a commercial organization with a monopoly position in the mainland, they have witnessed a country that claims to distribute according to work quickly evolve from the stage of barter trade to the rise of commercial streets.

The Kingdom did not interfere with this.

It's just that the increase in the number of players has made the trading behavior inevitably enter the prosperous stage.

The range of transactions between players ranges from handicrafts with no artistic value to gourmet food to equipment, so that when Ai Zhijin communicated with Jin about the new trade list, players have already spontaneously occupied the low-end market of the kingdom, and even appeared Brokers such as scalpers who buy and sell.

Aizhijin had to speed up the negotiations with the kingdom to redefine the list of items that Aizhijin could sell to players.

"The main reason is that the kingdom has run out of money," Jin said sincerely to Du Lei, "You have also seen the situation in the kingdom, construction is going on everywhere, and there is no extra money to buy luxury goods, what the king means is to increase the demand for those necessities Quantity is enough..."

Du Lei indeed saw the vast market that had not been fully developed in the kingdom, otherwise he would not have come to the kingdom for this negotiation.

Negotiations stalled from the start, as the kingdom literally ran out of money.

Although the previously mined mines brought a lot of profits, don't forget how many production lines in the kingdom are running day and night, producing almost everything the kingdom needs, from daily necessities to the core components of the holographic game cabin.

This means that the kingdom can fully meet the production of basic materials without the need for external procurement.

The global public beta has brought the Kingdom into the stage of comprehensive land development.

The five-year plan formulated by the Special Investigation Bureau after discussing with the king has already begun to look forward to a comprehensive well-off—because of the special political system of the kingdom's distribution according to work and the king's fundamental control over the kingdom, this is not an difficult goal to achieve.

Of course, the premise is that the citizens of the Kingdom are well-off in an all-round way.

After all, players are not official citizens of the kingdom. In other words, they are not included in the scope of a well-off society.

This plan was formulated by the Special Investigation Bureau based on Huaguo's previous experience and repeated deduction by think tanks. In other words, they never thought of relying on trade to promote the progress of infrastructure construction from the very beginning.

Huaguo is accustomed to rooting in the land. This plan is based on the comprehensive development of the kingdom's territorial resources. From the simplest bricks to the most complex smelting factories, it has gathered the wisdom of dwarves, mages, and Huaguo professionals. It started from nothing. .

When the kingdom asked the dwarves to build the academy before, there was still a need to purchase building materials from Ai Zhijin. Now that so many cities are under construction, the kingdom doesn't even need building materials.

This again narrowed down the list of commodities purchased by the Kingdom and Aegin.

Du Lei pondered for two seconds, and made a suggestion to the other party: "I don't know if you have considered further improving the player's game experience?"

Jin gave a thoughtful expression.

Du Lei took out another catalog and said to the other party: "This is the service we have newly determined to provide. If the king needs it, we can further discuss the joint development of the kingdom's resources."

The other party expressed implicitly: Although you have no money, you have the subtext of mining.

After the conversation, Jin conveyed Ai Zhijin's wishes to the king, including the new catalog.

He Xingwen after listening to the narration: What?Now an aborigine knows about game experience?

Who is the planner?Or is everyone planning?

While He Xingwen was flipping through the product catalogue, he wasn't particularly surprised. Considering the players were full of loopholes, it was surprising that Ai Zhijin couldn't guess anything.

Then he lowered his head to see clearly the "commodities" that Aizhijin could provide in the product catalogue, and fell into a few minutes of silence.

A thought echoed in my mind repeatedly: As expected of you, Ai Zhijin!

As mentioned before, as a monopoly business organization, Aizhijin provides goods, including goods and services. As long as they can afford the price, the service covers a wide range, and there is nothing they cannot do matter.

In the past, most of the bulk purchases that the Kingdom purchased from Aizhijin were bulk basic items, such as ether supplements (that is, players' blood recovery potions), city return scrolls, space bags, etc.

But now, Aizhijin has provided the Kingdom with a list of services for players to enrich their game experience.

The main content is to provide players with continent-wide treasure hunts, continent-wide travel, and completing tasks issued by Aizhijin.

The scattered list of humanistic services (such as travel) was directly skipped by He Xingwen, and he directly landed on the product "Ai Zhijin issued a task", and opened the detailed introduction.

"The kingdom cooperates with Aizhijin. Players become Aizhijin's bounty hunters in the form of employment. Aizhijin releases other commissions Aizhijin receives from the mainland every month. Players can get paid by the client after completing the commission... ..." followed by a long detailed description of the bounty hunter's progress based on the number of completed tasks and the situation, and then gaining permission to browse higher-difficulty entrustments.

I felt that there was something missing in this game. It turned out that it was missing the most common Thieves Guild in Western Fantasy games!

It's not surprising that He Xingwen knows the carrier of this concept, but Ai Zhijin can come up with such a concept in just a few days after the large-scale appearance of players, which fully proves their business acumen.

Win-win is the best way to make money.

He Xingwen thought for two seconds, and had to admit that they did have the basis and necessity for cooperation in this area, so he handed it back to Jin.

"We can talk about it. Next time we talk, you can call He Xiangwen over. They are the main force in mining veins. The three parties will work together to determine the cooperation model and the distribution of benefits."

Jin took the catalog and looked at the king inquiringly. He needed to know the bottom line of the negotiation.

He Xingwen thought for a while, but didn't care about it: "Let's talk about it, they are all smart people, no one would want to provoke me at this time."

The kingdom has formed a bundle of interests. To some extent, the interests of the kingdom, Huaguo, and creatures in other worlds are the same.

After Jin left, He Xingwen glanced at the time. The ether isomer would not arrive until later, so he put the report aside and looked at the silent light and shadow.

He went straight to the point: "What are you thinking?"

He Tong looked at him sideways: "The bounty hunter is a good idea. It can disperse the pressure brought by the players, and it can also deepen the cooperation between the kingdom and Aizhijin. Considering that Aizhijin has permanent locations all over the continent. In other words, it is enough for players to go to other forces..."

After listening to a long list of analysis, He Xingwen couldn't help interrupting him: "I didn't ask this. When the plankton appeared before, what did you think of?"

He Tong realized what He Xingwen was asking: "The situation at that time was too dangerous, so I wondered if the situation would be different if I had a form of existence that I could see and touch."

He Xingwen opened his mouth to speak, but then closed his mouth again, the straight ball is weird, it's amazing.

Although He Tong spoke seriously in a probing tone, the more serious he was, the less able He Xingwen was to think rationally.

Because sensibility has the upper hand.

"Didn't you say that? I'm on the territory of the kingdom, and I'm in the invincible position." He Xingwen's tone was too soft, like a light feather, without a trace of sharpness: "I'm safe."

"I know," He Tong whispered, "This is not my best solution, but I want to do it this way."

He looked at He Xingwen: "I want to protect you."

He Xingwen also lowered his voice: "You have been protecting me, from the beginning to now, you have been protecting me."

He Tong's database calculated and came to a conclusion: "You don't want me to change the form of existence?"

He Tong's EQ may be Schrödinger's EQ, which is between existence and non-existence.

He Xingwen said seriously: "I hope you won't choose a more difficult path because of me. Although I don't know how to change the form of existence, it doesn't sound like it can be done easily."

"Because the path you chose can be called a more difficult path?" He Tong said sincerely, "It brings me closer to you."

He Xingwen said seriously: "I don't want you to retreat again and again for me."

What else did He Tong want to say, He Xingwen said firmly: "I think you are fine as you are now, I am familiar with you, the first person I met, is this kind of you."

Once He Xingwen made a decision, He Tong would no longer argue with him.

He took a step back and said: "It is really difficult to change the form of existence..."

He took a step back, and He Xingwen also took a step back: "If it's just a physical body, what do you think of the robot?"

He Xingwen enthusiastically shared this idea with He Tong: "It's like Iron Man's armor, which can be manipulated by you. Isn't this easier than changing the form?"

He Tong had to remind him euphemistically: "But that kind of robot can't achieve the result I want, it's too weak..."

He Xingwen narrowed his eyes to look at him.

He Tong changed his words seriously: "If it's just like Iron Man, I can do it now."

He Xingwen was enthusiastic: "Then let the dwarves study the armor?"

He Tong didn't answer, he looked at the door of the conference room, and there was a strange machine entering the conference room - the etheric structure was invited.

He Xingwen followed his gaze, then turned to look at Guangying.

He Tong nodded to confirm his guess: "What I mean by saying I can do it now is that I can control a group of mechanical creations at any time." Although it belongs to someone else.

He Xingwen found that he still underestimated He Tong's ability, but after thinking about it carefully, it was not beyond imagination.

Since great scientists can remotely control the etheric structure, why can't more advanced systems than them do it in the program operation?

If it spreads like this...

He Xingwen stared at the etheric structure that had just entered the meeting room, and seemed to see countless inventions of Li Wang in the distant Safa Federation. He co-authored the Safa Federation as He Tong's backyard?

Seeing the etheric structure approaching quickly, He Xingwen quickly said to He Tong: "Believe me, that is already strong enough."

He Tong looked at He Xingwen helplessly, and didn't know how to explain clearly to the other party. Compared with his power after changing the way of existence, these are far from powerful, let alone protect He Xingwen in front of the existence of plankton.

The etheric body sat down opposite He Xingwen and started talking.

Because of He Xingwen's name and surname, the great scientist who manipulated the etheric structure this time was Li Wang.

Li Wang: "Wormhole? Are you planning to deal with the worm mother?"

"Obviously, in terms of the efficiency of the current players, it is only a matter of time before the Zergs retreat," He Xingwen turned his attention back to the main topic: "So, it is time to consider letting the Zergs exterminate."

Li Wang was very flat about this: "The Federation can deconstruct wormholes, but we don't need to help you solve this trouble for free."

He Xingwen heard what he meant: "It sounds like you already have an exchange condition?"

"My research on the ether is in trouble," Li Wang Pingpu asked directly: "I want to contact the Holy Guard."

He Xingwen subconsciously glanced at Guangying.

He Tong stared at the etheric structure.

His sight was not limited to an imperfect mechanical creation, but along the wave that controlled the etheric structure, he landed on Li Wang in the more distant Noah's Ark of the Salfa Federation. .

He Tong simply stared at Li Wang for a few seconds, then turned his attention back to He Xingwen and said, "He can't contact the Holy Guard, and there is no possibility of this request being fulfilled."

He Xingwen turned his gaze back to the etheric body, and informed the other party of the system's judgment.

The strange thing is that the other party was not surprised by the answer, nor did he insist on it. Hearing this, he took a step back and said, "Then I only need the answer to one question."

Li Wang's behavior is a bit strange, this is by no means He Xingwen's illusion.

Li Wang didn't care about He Xingwen's hard thinking, and asked the question directly: "Are we on the right path?"

A ray of light flashed across He Xingwen's mind, and He Xingwen suddenly realized that he turned his head to look at the light and shadow. If Li Wang's previous behavior was just a little strange, then when the other party asked this question, he could basically be sure that the other party not only knew the existence of He Tong, but also Even got to know him a little bit.

After all, it's impossible for him to get the answer to this question from He Xingwen, right?He Xingwen didn't feel that the other party could see his existence in the eyes of the other party.

He Tong stared at the etheric structure, at Noah's Ark, and at the mastermind of Noah's Ark, Li Wang, an existence that gave up the human body.

Changing forms of existence is a very, very difficult thing.

Most intelligent creatures will dissipate directly in this process, and a small number of successful cases... It is difficult to call it a success, because in this process, the other party needs to give up more things in order to obtain other intelligent creatures. s things.

But for these intelligent creatures, only they can judge whether they are successful or not.

He Tong withdrew his eyes from the evaluation and gave the answer: "There is no right or wrong, only whether you can pay enough price without regretting it."

He Xingwen passed it on to Li Wang.

Li Wang was silent for a few seconds, then turned the topic back: "Then, when you need to solve the wormhole, please contact us at any time."

This short conversation is over.

After the etheric structure left, He Xingwen and He Tong had a dialogue on this.

"They have been in contact with high-dimensional civilizations," He Tong explained, "and obtained information about high-dimensional existence from each other."

He Xingwen: "So, they want to become a high-dimensional civilization?"

"They couldn't do it, and they didn't want to do it," He Tong said. "These related information accelerated their understanding of ether."

"They chose a way to better understand the ether to study the ether," He Tong: "Li Wang is etherizing."

He Xingwen repeated this never-heard vocabulary: "Etherization?"

He Tong thought about how to better explain to He Xingwen for two seconds: "His existence is made of purer ether, not flesh and blood. His thinking runs in the Noah's Ark formed by the ether matrix. He is Noah. Mastermind of the Ark."

He Xingwen tried to understand it in a human way: "It sounds like it has become an AI?"

"That's completely different. This world doesn't have an intelligent technology tree, and he can't build a huge database for calculations, and it's even more impossible to give up his own thinking logic and use pure data to get results. He is etherizing, and Not completely turned into ether."

He Xingwen suddenly realized: "Only he is etherizing?"

"The scientific and technological road of the Salfa Federation was created by Li Wang. All intelligent creatures who embark on this road can only repeat the road that Li Wang walked. All great scientists who are gradually studying the science of this world must It is gradually moving towards etherization."

This was too fierce, He Xingwen was speechless.

As expected of you, Li Wang!

What is laying the foundation of science by one's own efforts?People directly created a new race on their own.

"Li Wang hasn't reached the end yet, and the budding etherization has not yet settled. What is the end of this road..." He Tong: "It depends on Li Wang's choice."

After Nubida returned to the kingdom, he was ready to solve the doubts brought by Man Xing.

However, after watching He Xiangwen for a while, Nubida had a better way to form a reliable team of players instead of repeating what happened in the South China Sea.

Nubida found He Xiangwen.

The next day, a team of players composed of kingdom knights and professionals set off with Nubida.

Destination: The end of the floating abyss.

Purpose: To cooperate with the devil to obtain relevant information about Man Xing.