The three of them went all the way inside from the outside of the zero level of the war fortress.
"Welcome to server 1444, information retrieval..."
An enthusiastic AI synthesized sound sounded when they officially entered the internal area.
Each war fortress is loaded with billions of players in a large leader ship.
This so-called "war fortress" doesn't look very big inside. There are only nine squares on the first floor for players to gather. But in fact, it uses space technology to provide each "player" with an independent space of their own.
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Although Lin Yuedong didn't understand any space magic, he could vaguely sense all this with the intuition of a fifth-level monk.
"Player Lin Yuedong, it has been detected that you are entering the game for the first time. This is your space pass token from the first to the fifth floors. With the token, you can freely teleport in and out of the first floor lobby to the fifth floor lobby from your personal space. Please accept it.
good."
"Player Lin Zilan, it is detected that you are entering the game for the first time. This is your space pass token from the first to the fourth floor. With the token, you can freely teleport in and out of the first floor lobby to the fourth floor lobby from your personal space. Please keep it.
"
Two voices sounded in their heads respectively, and at the same time, there was a long list of digital tokens in their memory.
As long as they are within the scope of the war fortress and recite this string of digital tokens silently in their hearts, they can enter their independent space.
"..."
"Can such a huge system really be established in less than a month?" Lin Yuedong was a little confused.
He remembered that it had been less than four weeks since the last meeting of the Senate was held.
And during this period of time, I didn't hear any news about any major moves by the empire.
It's as if all of this came out of nowhere.
"This is the result of the cooperation between the Empire and Shields." Chen Xi responded.
"Sildes? Are you saying that the War Fortress is the technology of those demons?" Lin Yuedong was stunned.
Hundreds of years ago, when humans left the earth, there was a group of crazy people who neither chose to go to the moon nor stay on the earth. Instead, they took a path that no one before them had imagined.
They created the giant space worm "Sildes" and tried to travel to other space layers.
However, the physical bodies of these monks were too fragile. With the backward space shuttle technology at the time, they could not withstand the pressure of traveling through the space layer with their physical bodies.
So these crazy guys chose to give up their bodies collectively, and only used their souls to board the "Ark" Shields, wandering through space layers one after another to obtain resources and strengthen themselves.
For a long time, the empire's top officials have been in contact with the "people" on Shields and exchanged information with them.
After all, most of them are experts in space layer exploration. Although their number is far less than that of the Empire, their knowledge of space layer coordinates is no less than that of Terra.
The resources and treasures from other worlds are of great value to the monks of the main world.
Some things that are as cheap as dust in other dimension worlds can be sold at a higher price in the main world.
For example, Shields has an asteroid in his hand that is almost entirely composed of gold...
Of course, they will not be stupid enough to expose it directly and destroy the price of gold. Instead, they will strictly keep this secret.
It's just that every time they trade with the empire, they provide a large amount of gold, but it is far from causing a huge price impact.
Although the empire does not use gold as currency, its cultural traditions have not changed for thousands of years, and there are many people who believe that gold is a store of value.
With the empire's market size of one trillion people, it would be no big deal for Shields to dump one or two thousand tons of gold at a time.
Gold, which is completely worthless to them, can be exchanged for a huge amount of materials, technology, and even population if they get it from the empire, making it a hugely profitable deal.
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However, rather than calling them "human beings", most monks who knew about the existence of Sildes preferred to call them "demons".
Because the monks on Shields do not have human bodies, they follow a path similar to that of ghosts and immortals.
Constantly traveling through time, seizing the bodies of other beings, devouring and controlling their civilizations.
In terms of the degree of evil, it is far superior to the Empire.
But because the two have a common origin and a common enemy, a certain guy who cannot be mentioned, Terra and Shields can still maintain a good cooperative relationship.
"That's right, it's them." Chen Xi said with some nostalgia.
She is an old man who has been through everything back then. She has some friendships with some of the senior executives at Shields and knows a lot of inside stories.
Although Lin Yuedong and Lin Zilan are about the same age, their status is too far apart. When the humans on Terra left the earth, he was just an ordinary person, and he was incomparable to Chen Xi, who was already a fourth-level monk.
"Some real immortals from the empire collaborated with several ghost immortals from Shields to reverse-engineer a small part of the game. By modifying the underlying code, they built this war fortress in one day."
Chen Xi quietly told Lin Yuedong this secret, further drawing closer their relationship.
She didn't really happen to pass by and save Lin Yuedong, but she "happened" to come to this area under the guidance of a certain true immortal from the Gray Witch Tower.
"It's a pity that I haven't become an immortal and can't really jump out of the chessboard like those adults." She continued with emotion.
This virtual reality game built with the power of the World-Suppressing Golden Talisman makes it impossible for true immortals to distinguish between virtuality and reality. People like Chen Xi, even if they know that this is just a game, they cannot break away.
Because in their eyes, everything is the same as the real world.
But those who have reached the immortal level are different. If they want to escape, it is not impossible.
The Golden Talisman of Zhenshi is, after all, just an incomplete talisman that has been used once.
What Bai Mo wants to do is to provide a training ground, not create a cage.
So even if he knew that the real immortals of Terra were reverse engineering the game, making modifications and plug-ins, he pretended not to have seen it.
After all, what comes twenty years later is the real evil corpse.
Now it's purely a simulation game.
If they feel that the modified game simulation effect is better, then they can change it.
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"Lord Tianhu is one of a kind in millions, and becoming an immortal is sure to be just around the corner!" Lin Zilan glanced at the social fear master next to her, Lin Yuedong, who didn't understand flattery at all, sighed softly in her heart, and instantly turned into cat-licking mode.
"In honor of your words, these few drops of Emperor Ooze should be considered as a meeting gift for my sister." Chen Xi smiled after hearing this, and took out an amber-like object from the space ring, with a few drops of sparkle sealed inside.