Mythological origins

The three of them went all the way inside from the outer perimeter of the zeroth floor of the war fortress.

"Welcome to server 1444, information is being retrieved..."

An enthusiastic AI synthesized voice sounded when they officially entered the inner area.

Each war fortress is loaded with billions of players in a Daqian flagship.

This so-called "war fortress" seems small inside, with only nine squares for players to gather on the first floor, but in fact, it uses space technology to arrange an independent space for each "player".

Although Lin Yuedong does not understand any space magic, he can vaguely perceive all this with the intuition of a fifth-level cultivator.

"Player Lin Yuedong, it is detected that you are entering the game for the first time. This is your space pass token for the first to fifth floors. With the token, you can freely teleport from the personal space to the first floor hall to the fifth floor hall. Please keep it."

"Player Lin Zilan, it is detected that you are entering the game for the first time. This is your space pass token for the first to fourth floors. With the token, you can freely teleport from the personal space to the first floor hall to the fourth floor hall. Please keep it."

The two voices sounded in their minds, and at the same time, a long string of digital tokens appeared in their memories.

As long as they are within the range of the war fortress and silently recite this string of digital tokens in their hearts, they can enter their independent space.

"..."

"Such a huge system can really be built in less than a month?" Lin Yuedong was a little confused.

He remembered that it was less than four weeks from the last meeting of the Senate to this moment.

And during this period of time, there was no news of any major actions by the empire.

It seemed that all 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 that group of demons?" Lin Yuedong was stunned.

Hundreds of years ago, when humans left the earth, there was a group of crazy people who chose neither to go to the moon nor to stay on the earth, but took a path that their predecessors had never imagined.

They created a giant space worm "Sildes" and tried to go to other space layers.

But the bodies of these monks were too fragile. With the backward space shuttle technology at that time, they could not bear the pressure of shuttling space layers with their bodies.

So these crazy guys chose to collectively give up their bodies and only board the "Ark" Sildes in the form of souls, wandering in one space layer after another to obtain resources and strengthen themselves.

For a long time, the top leaders of the empire have been in contact with the "people" on Sildes and exchanged what they have with them.

After all, most of them are experts in space layer exploration. Although their number is far less than that of the empire, the coordinates of the space layers they master are not inferior to Terra at all.

The resources and treasures from other worlds are very valuable to the monks of the main world.

Some things that are as cheap as dirt in other space worlds may be sold at a good price in the main world.

For example, in the hands of Shields, there is an asteroid that is almost entirely made of gold...

Of course, they will not be stupid enough to expose it directly and destroy the price of gold in one wave, but strictly keep this secret.

It is just that every time they trade with the Empire, they provide a batch of gold that is not cheap, but far from causing a huge price impact.

Although the Empire does not use gold as currency, the cultural tradition of thousands of years has not changed, and many people believe that gold is a good store of value.     With the market size of the Empire's trillions of people, it is not a big deal for Shields to sell 10,000 to 20,000 tons of gold every time.

Gold, which is completely worthless to them, can be exchanged for a large amount of materials, technology, and even population in the Empire, which is a profitable business.

...

However, compared to calling them "people", most monks who know the existence of Shields prefer to call them "Demons".

Because the monks on Shields do not have human bodies, they follow a path similar to the Ghost Immortal Path.

Constantly traveling through time, seizing the bodies of other lives, devouring and controlling their civilization.

In terms of the degree of evil, it is far better than the Empire.

But because the two have a common origin and a common enemy, a guy who cannot be mentioned, Terra and Shields can still maintain a good cooperative relationship.

"Yes, it's them." Chen Xi said with a little nostalgia.

She is an old man who experienced everything back then, and she has some friendship with some old senior executives on Shields and knows a lot of inside information.

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 couldn't compare with Chen Xi, who was already a fourth-level cultivator.

"Some true immortals of the Empire cooperated with several ghost immortals of Shields to reverse crack a small part of the content of this game, and built this war fortress within a day by modifying the underlying code."

Chen Xi quietly told Lin Yuedong this secret, further bringing them closer.

She didn't just happen to pass by and save Lin Yuedong, but was guided by a true immortal from the Gray Witch Tower and "happened" to come to this area.

"It's a pity that I haven't become an immortal yet, so I can't really jump out of the chessboard like those adults." She continued to sigh.

This virtual reality game built with the power of the Golden Talisman, there is no way for people below the level of True Immortal to distinguish between virtual and reality. For people like Chen Xi, even if they know that this is just a game, they cannot get out of it.

Because everything is the same as the real world in their eyes.

But those who have already reached the level of Immortal are different. If they want to get out, it is not impossible.

The Golden Talisman is, after all, just a talisman that has been used once and is not complete.

What Bai Mo wants to do is just to provide a trial field, not to create a cage.

So even if he knows that the True Immortals of Terra are reverse engineering the game, making modifications and plug-ins, he pretends not to see it.

After all, the real evil corpses will come after 20 years.

Now it is purely a simulation game.

If they think the simulation effect of the modified game is better, then they can modify it.

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"Master Tianhu is so heroic that he will surely become an immortal soon!" Lin Zilan glanced at the social phobia expert beside him, Lin Yuedong, who didn't know how to flatter, and sighed in her heart, instantly turning into a cat-licking mode.

"Thank you for your words, these few drops of Emperor's Flowing Liquid will be a gift to you, my sister." Chen Xi smiled after hearing this, and took out an amber-like object from the space ring, which contained a few drops of sparkling liquid.