King from scratch

After confirming the start time of the public beta, He Xingwen returned to the Kingdom with the awareness to deal with a lot of problems.

"What else is there?" He Xingwen took a sip of water, sat up straight, and prepared to continue working.

Zhe opened the chair, sat aside, and thought about the words: "The things that need your permission have already been approved. Regarding other trivial matters after the sudden expansion of the kingdom, I can handle whatever I can decide..."

It was rare for him to appear hesitant to speak.

He Xingwen, who has been busy all day and is still full of various things to be done in the kingdom, has no interest in going around in circles. He cast a glance at the system.

The eyes of the system and He Xingwen intersected, and the blurred light and shadow could not distinguish the expression, but they could still catch the other party's gaze.

It was that kind of gaze that He Xingwen had never felt from other people.

There it was again, that weird feeling.Before He Xingwen could express any more emotions about this subtle sense of strangeness, the system dragged everything back into the business.

"According to my analysis..." The huge amount of data was flushed from the system's database, and it was concluded: "He came for other races in the kingdom, and he has a personal opinion on these races."

The tone of the system is a bit subtle: "Obviously an existence that obeys instructions, but in the end it will become more like a human being because it has its own point of view."

He Xingwen understood, and passed the steps to Zhe: "How about those other races in the kingdom...?"

Zhe, who was thinking hard about how to express his thoughts, breathed a sigh of relief, and smoothly followed He Xingwen's question: "Their reaction to this expansion of the kingdom is too ordinary."

"Considering the kingdom's next expansion strategy, I think you need to have a dialogue with them to confirm their obedience."

"The kingdom's next expansion strategy..." He Xingwen repeated Zhe's words: "Expansion strategy?"

Zhe was even more puzzled: "Isn't the expansion of the kingdom aimed at starting an all-out war?"

He paused, and continued: "The kingdom has just begun to conquer the world. 12 people are waiting for the next order. The kingdom's next goal is to continue to expand... Isn't it?"

No, all of this is just because the kingdom has been renewed...

When He Xingwen came up with this natural idea, the system reminded He Xingwen: "If you still remember the four country settings you created at the beginning of the game..."

"National Setting 1: Your people are always eager to conquer more lands."

He Xingwen remembered those few national settings that had completely lost their sense of existence recently.

He Xingwen covered his forehead and made a meaningless sound, and waved at Chaozhe feebly.

Zhe stood up and was about to leave when He Xingwen sat upright again and confirmed, "Is this your personal idea, or..."

Zhe stopped, bent slightly towards the king, and gave the king a knowing blow.

"Everyone has the same idea as me." Zhe smiled: "We are fighting for you, for the glory of the king, and for the victory of the kingdom."

It was a surging, undisguised ambition for war and victory, and it was also a fierce emotion that He Xingwen had never seen in them.

He Xingwen was stunned for two seconds, then waved at him again, signaling him to disappear from before him quickly.

Zhe Gang turned around and heard a new order from the king again.

"Go and call Nubida and the others, and I'll have a meeting with them."

Zhe nodded, took two steps, stopped in response, and confirmed with the king: "Do you mean to gather the demons together, or to gather all the other races in the kingdom together?"

He Xingwen: "Call the person in charge of each race, let's have a meeting, and correct everyone's perception of all this."

When Zhe hurriedly took the order to leave, He Xingwen cast his gaze towards the system, subconsciously looking for an answer: "Will this country's setting have any impact on our goals?"

The system reminded him: "Have you completed the first stage of the main mission?"

He Xingwen looked at the task reminder at the bottom of the thinking palace.

[Main task (uniqueness): To ensure that the kingdom is not assimilated into a part of another world by another world.

The first stage: Expand the kingdom's territory and accept other races from other worlds - 40% progress.

You don't think it's over after unifying the dwarven kingdom, do you?Look at the map, this is the beginning. 】

Although the system cannot see He Xingwen's thinking palace, it does not prevent him from accurately knowing the progress: "For our ultimate goal, this will not have any impact. After all, expanding the kingdom's territory is part of the plan."

"The only difference is that they don't mind using bloody wars to dedicate territory to you, while you are more inclined to expand peacefully."

If it were someone else, this appeasement policy would lead to merciless criticism from the system, but if it was He Xingwen...

He made this choice only because he has noble morality, who can criticize him for being too noble?

The system is very clear about its own double standard, and has no intention of changing it - after all, there is always someone who is unique to you.

All principles can be easily changed in front of him, let alone a small double standard.

He euphemistically reminded He Xingwen: "But the essence of peaceful expansion is still expansion. In the final analysis, it is still the result of absolute power crushing."

"When peaceful expansion is not possible, a war, or many wars, is an inevitable process."

He Xingwen thought for two seconds, and confirmed with the system: "So, the establishment of the national political system, the renewal of the kingdom, the expansion of the territory, the surge in the number of NPCs, the opening of the public beta, and the arrival of countless players, this series of chain reactions is for..."

He Xingwen stared at the light and shadow, as if he could see the change of the opponent's expression from the blurred shadow, very seriously: "Preparing for the next war?"

The system corrected his words: "Everything is to fulfill your original wish."

After a few seconds of silence at the scene, He Xingwen asked uncertainly, "Playing... playing a holographic game?"

If the people in the other world knew the reason for all these indiscriminate disasters, if the people on the earth knew that the great changes in the revival of spiritual energy came only because some people wanted to play a holographic game at first...

After a subtle silence, the system: "Almost."

The system's vague answer was very suspicious, He Xingwen glanced at the system: "Huh?"

The system looks at the sky and the earth, but it doesn't look at He Xingwen: "It almost means... your original wish was almost to play a holographic game. Of course, to be more accurate, it can also be said to be to save the earth."

How is playing a holographic game the same as saving the planet?

It's not the same thing at all.

He Xingwen stared at the rare system showing a guilty conscience for a while, and suddenly changed the subject: "I found that after the upgrade, you are more human." To be precise, it is almost like a human being.

System: "There is nothing special about human beings, and it is very easy to imitate. It's just that I was not familiar with the emotional module before, which made me seem a little rigid at the beginning."

He Xingwen: "So the upgrading process of intelligent life is to imitate human beings?"

Saying this is like drawing the conclusion that human beings are the center of the universe, and it is taken for granted that the highest form of existence of all life is the form of existence of human beings.

But considering that the system itself exists in a dimension higher than human beings, there is absolutely no need for the other party to imitate more backward life forms.

The system did deny this guess: "No."

The light and shadow moved slightly, taking a step towards He Xingwen, keeping the distance at the optimal solution calculated by the system.

"My choice is based on the fact that you prefer humans."

He Xingwen was slightly taken aback, but it was hard for him not to agree with the system's words: "Indeed, the preferences of all creatures tend to be of the same race."

He paused for two seconds, feeling that the system's words were a bit strange: "But even if you have nothing in common with human beings in terms of thinking and expression, I will still like you."

The system affirms this: "Of course, who doesn't like me?" Even the worst intelligent creature will like a near-omnipotent tool.

"You sound a little narcissistic when you say that." He Xingwen grasped the problem: "But I don't like your status as a tool to be used." He spread his hands towards the system: "You are not really a tool, even if your mood swings No matter how obvious it is, you are also an intelligent creature with emotions."

The system thought for two seconds: "So you said, 'Even if you don't have any similarities with human thinking patterns and expressions, I will still like you.' Does that mean you like me?"

He Xingwen was about to answer his question.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk"

There was a knock on the door, and Zhe reminded He Xingwen through the half-closed door: "Your Majesty, everyone is here."

"I see." He Xingwen stood up and said to the system, "Don't you like me?"

The light and shadow paused beside the chair, like a sculpture suddenly silent.

He Xingwen patted him on the shoulder—of course, his hand passed through the light and shadow again as a matter of course, and a strange tactile sensation came from the nerve endings.

"So, you should give yourself a name." He Xingwen withdrew his hand, walked out, and said: "The system is not a name at all, it can only be regarded as a definition. But the name is different. It means that you are The only one."

He Xingwen walked for a while and found that the system was still in place, motionless.

He Xingwen, who had no idea that he had caused a data storm in the system's database lightly, stopped: "What's wrong?"

The paused light and shadow looked at He Xingwen: "I don't know why, it feels a little strange."

He Xingwen rubbed his chin and guessed, "Because of the name? Could it be that in your built-in program setting, naming is a switch for self-awakening?"

He said to himself to deny this guess: "No, you have evolved to this level, don't tell me you haven't awakened yourself yet?"

"It has nothing to do with the name," the system recorded in detail the feelings of the turbulent waves in the database just now in the "Error Reporting Record", He Xingwen explained: "When you said you liked me, my program became a little strange."

He Xingwen thought for two seconds, and beckoned to the system. The light and shadow floated forward and stopped beside He Xingwen.

He Xingwen coaxed him: "It's okay, more people will like you in the future."

The system perceives complex data fluctuations, and quickly realizes that they are not talking about the same topic.

He Xingwen: "I thought you didn't care about other people at all."

He glanced at Guangying who was following behind him obediently: "I didn't expect to care about the fact that no one likes you..." This sounds like the emotion that only the most hypocritical human beings will have.

He Xingwen said as he walked, "If this is also a step towards simulating the expression of human emotions, then you can definitely graduate."

"I think the point is not that no one likes me," the system quickly sorted out the logic: "The point is who is the one who likes me."

The conversation was interrupted because He Xingwen arrived at the destination.

He Xingwen pushed open the door, and creatures of different races sitting around the round table cast their gazes at him.

Nubida, who was sitting at the bottom of him, was the first to speak, and he flattered him when he came up: "I haven't seen you for a long time, His Majesty the King has indeed become more and more handsome."

He Xingwen stared at the greasy Nubida, feeling that it was meaningless to go around in front of this group of long-lived species whose average age was several thousand years old.

So he went straight to the point: "The reason why I called you here..."

As he spoke, he looked around at all the intelligent beings sitting at the table.

The mages, druids, and Thor Jin who are not listening at all; the dwarves who are listening very seriously, but most of the time they listen to it for nothing; But most of the time it is not a decent demon.

Such a table of intelligent creatures really makes people inexplicably worried about the future of this world.

He Xingwen: "As you can see, the kingdom has expanded and many new changes have taken place, but this is just the beginning."

He Xingwen tried to reach an agreement with them: "The goal of the kingdom is to conquer half of the continent, whether through war or other means."

Nubida rubbed his chin: "You only intend to conquer half of the continent?"

He said sadly: "I think our vision can be broader. From the current point of view, there is no obstacle for the kingdom to conquer the entire continent. Why should we keep half of it?"

Other races cast their gazes at the devil one after another: Isn't it too natural for you to think of yourself as a member of the kingdom to make plans?

He Xingwen ignored the devil, and continued: "I want to know your opinions on this..." He Xingwen called by name: "Mage?"

It's been a long time since I mentioned it, and I didn't expect that I would face this kind of problem head-on one day.

He pretended to cough a few times to give himself room to think before he said slowly, "You mean by asking, the Kingdom's next goal is the Arcane Academy?"

Nubida was on the side, with a strong sense of presence.

Although no one asked any questions at all, they still conscientiously made suggestions for the kingdom: "I'm afraid this is a bit difficult. The ethernet of the Arcane Academy is a strategic existence, with comprehensive defense and long-range attack capabilities. In addition, the mages' research on ether, Once the army enters the Arcane Academy, I am afraid that they will directly encounter death in the next second..."

Nubida lowered his voice pretentiously, and reminded He Xingwen under the premise that everyone could hear: "Besides, don't you still want the mage to study the black bloodstone for you? Anyway, wait until the research results come out, and then turn your face against it." Do you recognize someone?"

The devil didn't think about the Kingdom, but wished that the Kingdom and the Academy of Arcane Arts could not fight each other, and fought back and forth face to face.

"It's not the next goal. Judging from the geographical location of the Arcane Academy, this is an unavoidable future." He Xingwen said unhurriedly: "Based on this, I think it is necessary to know your thoughts on this."

Duoti coughed a few more times, and turned the flames of war on the Druid who was out of the way: "What do the Druid think?"

Lincoln, who was suddenly named, thought for a few seconds and gave an affirmative answer: "We don't approve of this kind of expansion. This is an undoubted declaration of war."

Do more to reduce the sense of existence, and hand over the confrontation to the druid and the king.

"If the kingdom's territory expands to the Everfree Forest, it means..." He Xingwen plainly said: "As a part of the kingdom's territory, the Everfree Forest will usher in the resurgence of extinct plants."

Lincoln stared at He Xingwen for two seconds without saying a word.

He Xingwen continued: "It also means that the kingdom will no longer reject druids and treants."

"I need to discuss with the Treeman." Lincoln, who was not good at negotiating, turned his back very quickly.

Nubida, who watched this scene, followed immediately, and said to He Xingwen worriedly: "But there is a serious problem in Everfree Forest, if it is not resolved, it may not be possible to achieve peaceful reunification.

Druids are divided into extremists and centrists. As the name suggests, extremists have very extreme attitudes towards plants and intelligent creatures. They will never compromise. I doubt whether the results of the druids' consultation will be as you wish. "

He Xingwen once again ignored the demon, turned his head to look at Duoti who lowered his sense of existence: "Mage?"

Duoti looked around at all the people present, and his eyes paused on the dwarf. The top of the mountains was the one that had the least problem with the expansion of the kingdom. After all, the dwarf had already made a choice.

The mage who couldn't bring disaster to the east had no choice but to answer this question head-on: "If the territory of the kingdom invades the territory of the Arcane Academy without permission, then the Arcane Academy will consider this an act of declaration of war and suspend all cooperation between us and the kingdom. cooperation to attack the kingdom’s people and the kingdom’s territory.”

He Xingwen understood his attitude towards this, and did not rush to give a response, but brought up another matter and said: "The reason why I called everyone together is to inform you of another situation."

Nubida conscientiously fulfilled the duty of being a fan, and when the atmosphere at the scene had dropped to freezing point, and almost two races had already expressed their war intentions, he said, "What's the situation? We need to get everyone together?"

He pretentiously guessed: "Isn't it because the kingdom is going to expand next time?"

"That's not true," He Xingwen took a sip of water: "I think you have noticed that the players have disappeared from the kingdom."

As soon as the term "player" appeared, everyone cheered up silently.

"This is because, after this period of adaptation, players are already familiar with this continent," He Xingwen said: "So, a large number of players will appear in the kingdom soon."

"How much is the large number?" Nubida snapped his fingers and said, "I asked Zhe before. After the expansion of the kingdom, the total number of players in the kingdom is currently around 12. Will the number of players that will appear next be higher than it or more than it?" Low?"

12w?Who is this looking down upon?

The total population of the third-tier cities in Huaguo can be several million. According to the arrangement of the Special Investigation Bureau, grassroots cadres, members of the organization, and people from the party will all enter the holographic game. This number alone is heading towards several million.

Of course, limited by the production efficiency of the holographic game cabin, the number of people pouring in at the beginning of the public beta will definitely not reach this level, but even so, 12w?

He Xingwen: "It's higher than it."

Nubida persistently wanted an answer: "How much higher?"

He Xingwen thought about the wording: "It's hard to say." The main reason why it's hard to say is that I'm afraid of scaring them.

Considering that the king didn't know much about the mainland, Nubida kindly explained to him that they would not be easily frightened: "There are also undead races on the mainland, and there are countless undead in the Canyon of the Dead. Their number may exceed your imagination. .”

He Xingwen, who was thinking about how to describe the number of players so as not to have too much impact on the aborigines of the other world, was relieved: "The number of players should be about the same as the number of undead."

The scene fell into absolute silence.

He Xingwen took a sip of water before realizing that the scene seemed a little too quiet.

He looked around and noticed that everyone's expressions were a bit grim, so he decided to liven up the atmosphere: "So, you asked me why I didn't conquer the entire continent?"

He Xingwen joked, "Because it's meaningless to fight against the Canyon of the Undead and the Floating Abyss."

But Nubida was obviously not in the mood for joking, he licked his lips, not sure: "Is this a threat?"

He Xingwen put down his tea cup, a little surprised: "Why? The reason why I mentioned this is to avoid any accidents caused by too many players, so I hope you can..." He took out a stack of thick tea from the side book, and handed it to Nubida: "Let's study."

Nubida looked down at the book in his hand, and there was a large line of "Player Operation Rules" written in common language.

Open the table of contents, subtitles pop up in front of you.

"The Right Way to Communicate with Players"

"How to make better use of players' weaknesses"

"When surrounded by players, do the following"

"If the player wants to attack you in an organized way, please follow the steps below"

"Some effective ways to silence or even leave players when they are too loud"

"How to use the smallest reward items to stimulate the greatest enthusiasm of players"

"Detailed explanation of some nouns commonly used by players"

He handed the stack of books in his hand to the others present, stared at the title for a few seconds, and suddenly realized that the meaning of this title is how they can better use the characteristics of the players to manipulate disordered players to achieve orderly results.

The scene fell silent, only the sound of flipping books echoed in the room.

Judging from the way they carefully flipped through the books, these intelligent creatures must study the rules of operation carefully and become an excellent game npc.

He Xingwen was very pleased with this scene, and did not forget to turn back to the topic and remind the mage: "About your previous reply, I hope you can think about it again."

"In view of the huge threat to the Kingdom from the mage towers and ethernets all over the territory of the Arcane Academy, once a war breaks out, I will consider transferring all players to the front line as the main force to launch an attack."

Everyone cast their gazes at him, and He Xingwen put great pressure on them calmly: "I have been trying my best to reduce deaths and complete the expansion of the kingdom's territory under the premise of peace as much as possible. I hope you can feel my heart."

"Don't repeat what happened to the Diman Empire and cause unnecessary death."