King from scratch

The former site of the Dwarf Kingdom on the top of the mountains was gradually rebuilt, and the date of the unification celebration of the Dwarf Kingdom was approaching, but the top of the mountains did not become more lively.

Because of the existence of being invited to participate in this celebration, only the Salfa Federation, and they are still on the way, as for the Diman Empire... They actively asked to participate in the celebration, and they are not invited.

In addition, other forces that have been in contact with the Kingdom are either preparing to turn against the Kingdom, or are already ready for war, so it is unrealistic to expect the Arcane Academy and the Everfree Forest to participate in the celebration.

But the dwarves don't care if other people come or not.Preparing a grand celebration and announcing the reunification of the dwarf kingdom to the entire continent is what they care most about right now.

The mission of the Diman Empire stayed temporarily in the renovated building of the dwarves, waiting for the celebration to begin, while observing the connection between the kingdom, the dwarves, and the players.

It can be said that the communication between the Diman Empire and the kingdom failed completely. The king didn't even leave the most basic room for maneuver, and told them straightforwardly that the war between the two countries would definitely break out, and it was only a matter of time.

Of course, the Diman Empire is also very aware of this point. Just knowing this point does not mean that when the war does not break out, it cannot use it to obtain temporary peace and benefits.

A qualified politician would know what to do in such a situation, and the king's performance proved that he was not only not a qualified politician, but even excessively arrogant.

The mission believes that, to some extent, this is extremely beneficial to the empire.

Arrogant leaders will eventually create their own graves in arrogance.

The failure of communication does not mean that the mission of the mission here is over. On the contrary, reaching a temporary peace agreement with the kingdom is not the most important purpose of their mission to the kingdom.

Understanding the opponent who defeated them, finding its weakness, and then establishing a certain connection with the player, copying the kingdom's method of controlling the Black Bloodstone, is the only reason why the Diman Empire was beaten on the left cheek and handed the right cheek.

But another sad news is that players avoid them like vipers...

It's not the mission's fault.Ye Yeye's lesson from the past is too tragic, no one wants to experience the feeling of being blocked by an NPC at the resurrection point, so that when the player sees the mission, they start to be vigilant by reflex.

Not to mention establishing some kind of connection with the players, as long as the conversation deepens, the players will immediately look at them vigilantly with the eyes of "what are you doing, are you trying to destroy my account?"

The vigilance is so high that it is completely opposite to the player's performance when he came to the Diman Empire.

"Obviously, they've learned some sort of lesson."

On a calm day, there was a brief conversation within the mission.

"Although that king is arrogant, he retains a minimum of reason." Hunting Mountain: "At least he knows exactly what the kingdom's trump card is."

"He can't control the crazy and disorderly undead," said another member of the mission: "No matter how he does it now, but according to the characteristics of the undead race, they cannot be enslaved, whether it is short-lived or long-lived. , to the undead race, they are just a passer-by in a long time."

"Will the king be a member of the undead race?" Another member of the mission pondered: "If he is also one of them, it may explain a lot of things that cannot be explained."

A lively voice came from outside, interrupting the conversation of the Diman Empire mission. The mission glanced at each other, left the temporary building, and appeared in the open space surrounded by crowds.

The reason for the crowd's uproar was clear at a glance.

It floated in the sky, casting a huge shadow over the gathered onlookers.

After attracting attention, the huge existence in the air quickly shrank.

It is difficult for an intelligent creature who knows nothing about this to define exactly what this is, but it is not like a flying tool, nor is it like a mechanical creation, but it is more like some kind of living thing, and it has the characteristics of a non-living body at the same time. .

Composed of a special material, after rapidly shrinking into a humanoid creature, the feeling of inhumanity becomes stronger.

After the other party landed, the dwarves surrounded it, looked at it carefully, and came to a conclusion: "Invention of the great scientist?"

Its limbs, facial features, and even hair are almost the same as humans, except that the pupil is composed of a rotating ether pattern.

This is not a robot in the concept of the earth, let alone a bionic man in science fiction. It is far from human beings, and can only be said to have a perfunctory human appearance.

The mission of the Diman Empire watched it from a distance, their brows furrowed.

The Kingdom's contact with the Salfa Federation is definitely bad news for them. After all, the relationship between the Salfa Federation and the Diman Empire is so complicated, and their distance is so close.

After the neural interface stabilized, the other party made a simple self-introduction and explained the purpose of coming: "This is a special form of existence with the ability to communicate and control remotely. We call it the etheric structure. Controlling it is related to The person you are talking to is Anna, one of the great scientists of the Safa Federation, the king invited us to participate in the celebration of the unification of the dwarven kingdom..."

The etheric structure looked around, and one of his eyeballs flew out of the eye socket, and turned around in a circle, bringing the dwarf kingdom architecture that had just taken shape into visual perception.

The metastructure still staying in place continued his words: "It seems that you are doing a good job."

The dwarves were eager to try the hammer. They had never seen the special material that made it up, but it seemed very suitable for forging.

Although eager to try, the dwarves who had suffered in this regard did not rush to get started...

Touching the great scientist's weapon invention without permission is like entering the domain of the mage without permission, and the end will be tragic.

These guys with a passion for knowledge don't have a passion for other people's lives.

"Wow, what was that just now, it's so big."

"Is it the one surrounded by dwarves, squeeze in and have a look."

"Squeeze in and lose your favorability."

"It doesn't matter, just pick up a mission and get back up... Wow, what's this new thing? A robot?"

Accompanied by familiar whispers, the players squeezed into the encirclement of the dwarves.

The disorder of the players has improved a little with the emergence of the public beta, but it cannot be expected that they will immediately change from lunatics to normal people who meet the definition of this world, that is absolutely impossible.

So, as a matter of course, after staring at this new gadget for a few seconds, the players immediately called out their friends to attract other players scattered around, and instantly became the party with the largest number of people on the scene.

So far, the holographic game has opened nearly [-] public test places, and the change in the number of players is difficult to detect due to the vast terrain of the kingdom.

But there are always some clues that can prove that it is happening. For example, the number of players doing dwarf daily tasks on the top of the mountains has gradually increased. Until now, a caller who does not have a built-in call channel can directly call a large group Players, then surround the scene.

The increase in the number of players brought a great sense of security to the players, and the crowd naturally gathered to plan their next actions in front of other npcs.

"Is it weird?"

"It doesn't look aggressive, and the dwarves didn't attack it either..."

"Is it an npc? Do you want to talk to me first? Maybe there is a mission?"

"Have all the NPCs in this world developed to this point? It doesn't look like they are alive."

"Come on a warrior and try."

When the players reach an agreement, some players will take a step forward and try to open the dialogue first.

According to the easiest way for the player to receive the task, the player grinned and asked a friendly question: "Hi, do you need any help?"

Ana, the great scientist who manipulated the metastructure, clearly witnessed this scene through the visual receiver of the metastructure, and realized how unique this race that is gradually becoming famous for its madness on the mainland is.

Anna thought about how to answer the other party's question for two seconds, and that crazy race made the next step before he could react.

"Why didn't you reply, isn't it broken? This looks quite advanced."

The player who quarreled was puzzled by the other party's silence. He reached out and tried to pat it. The world can learn from it. This is definitely a conditioned reflex imprinted in his instinct.

Who hasn't experienced the fantastical reality of a broken TV as a kid and just tapped it?

Although I don't know what caused it to malfunction, but taking a shot is a universal solution.

So, he stretched out his hand and patted the unknown existence with a human appearance in front of him. The feeling he received was a bit strange, neither like metal nor...

Before the player could finish the thought process, the hand on the opponent's shoulder caught fire instantly. In just a few seconds, it was burned into a white light and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Anna swears that the entire process, from the opponent's confrontation to the opponent's death, took only a few minutes, so this is definitely not his unauthorized provocation, but the instinctive defense of the metastructure.

This defense is actually not too strong, but the players are too weak... so the death process becomes extremely fast.

This unexpected development caused lively discussions among the players.

"Is it weird? Are you going to start a group? Finally an elite boss appeared?"

"In other words, after the dwarf kingdom is built, there must be siege monsters."

"This monster's level is a bit high? What was it that burned just now? Fire? How could the fire burn people to death in a few seconds?"

"Has that player been resurrected? Ask about the situation."

In the excitement of the players, some players tried to take the task from the dwarves.

"Kanken, does the dwarf kingdom need our protection?"

"I would gladly fight to defend the dwarf kingdom."

"I'm ready, just waiting for you to speak."

As one of the dwarves who most often send quests to players, Kanken has inexplicably become the target of the players.

Kanken came to the top of the mountains after Anuta unified the dwarf kingdom. He had heard of the madness of the players, but most of the players were very polite when accepting tasks.

This was the first time he faced the sudden disorder of the players, so he needed a little time to react.

He didn't stop the player right away, which was a mistake.

Fortunately, Kumbu arrived in time before the players caused further chaos.

"This is a mission from the Salfa Federation." Kumbu got straight to the point, and pulled up the banner by the way: "You are disturbing the king's guests."

The eager players stopped, took a few glances at the metastructure with a special shape, and approached it again with great interest.

"Let's say it earlier, it's not a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding... buddy, do you need help?"

"So the head of the great scientist is like this? Is the planning brain hole a bit too big? Have you come up with mechanical life?"

"It doesn't look like a machine. Didn't he shrink from big to small just now? It feels like a liquid creature."

"Nonsense, how does this look like a liquid creature? It's stronger than a human."

Kumbu obviously doesn't know enough about the player. The player has become very interested in the special form of npc. The death of the player just now didn't serve as a warning. The player surrounded the metastructures. Try to receive quests from each other.

As for the dwarves?It was already pushed aside.

And the players who keep hearing the news are even expanding the encirclement.

For Anna, this is a rare situation...he is surrounded.

This crazy race is well-deserved, and death cannot deter them, so no matter how powerful it is, it is meaningless to crush them.

He saw with his own eyes that the player who had just died rushed back from afar, and joined the crowd enthusiastically, trying to get close to him.

Although Anna couldn't understand their logic, nor why they wanted to help him so "enthusiastically", everyone could see several distinct characteristics from the players who poured in continuously: greed, fearlessness, and large numbers And full of appeal.

The metastructure remained motionless, as if indifferent to all of this, but Anna himself could no longer hold back his excitement. In the distant Salfa Federation, he leaned forward and stared intently at this distinctive group in the projection.

The first time a great scientist comes into contact with the kingdom, his attention cannot be diverted from the player.

Compared with the existence of players, the special buildings and vehicles in the Kingdom City, and even the roads suspended in the sky are unattractive.

At least the two eyeballs of the metamorphic body are safely parked in the eye sockets, and they have not separated from the main body to collect information, which proves from the side that the other party has little interest in these things.

In fact, Anna was a little surprised. After the players appeared, he almost thought that this is a civilization that favors the evolution of species. Generally, this kind of civilization will evolve a special civilization due to the particularity of the races that make up the civilization. living environment.

For example, Manxing, Floating Abyss, and Undead Canyon, they have evolved special civilizations and living environments because of their special racial nature.

But judging from the series of buildings and facilities he saw after entering the main city, the living standard of the kingdom is at the front end of the mainland. To be precise, it may only be slightly worse than the Salfa Federation.

However, judging from the fact that players are restricted outside the main city, and the biological races in the main city are basically human beings, the dominant race in the kingdom is not the players.

This is enough to make people surprised, a race that can know how threatening they are with just a few seconds of thinking, doesn't belong to the first step in civilization?

Humans cannot suppress the undead race, unless they are not human.

In other words, unless the king's control over the kingdom is strong enough to make the strong bow down to the weak, the appearance of this scene itself does not conform to cognition.

Of course, as the latest outsider in contact with the kingdom, he quickly realized the true meaning of the word miracle——it is a miracle that constantly surpasses the established cognition.

The metaforms took public transportation and arrived in the city center.

Zhe, who was waiting in front of the State Administration Bureau, took two steps forward and introduced himself to the other party: "Zhe, is responsible for handling the affairs of the kingdom."

The metastructure glanced at him, and the ether pattern on the pupils turned, feeding back clear information to the controller and bystanders.

After the others finished their busy work, one after another great scientists joined the onlookers.

"Humans at their peak? Then there are too many humans at their peak." Anna muttered.

Del shrugged: "There are no old people, children... are not normal, this race has no evolutionary process, they directly reach the peak, and then maintain the peak state, no one grows old, and no one is born."

An Lei was thoughtful: "This sounds like a floating abyss, but we all know that plankton are not immortal, they will still go through the cycle of life, but at the end of their lives, they will start a new cycle and start anew. into infancy."

"If a race has neither death nor newborns, then this race will not be as vibrant as we see."

"The undead shouldn't have such surging desires..." Another great scientist said: "Obviously, there are many existences in this kingdom that violate our cognition."

"However, since it is related to the Father God, the existence of these violations of cognition is not surprising. After all, our established cognition comes from the world created by the Father God. Modifying his own previous settings is not a problem for the Father God. Obviously, it's not a problem."

"But everyone knows that God the Father has not been resurrected."

During the daily debate among the great scientists, the metastructure was still going on, and he gestured to Zhe to the eye-catching monument in the direction of the city center to ask for his permission.

Unsanctioned behavior is pretty irrational most of the time - at least on this continent.

Zhe signaled that he could do whatever he wanted.

As a result, the eyeballs left the subject again and approached the monument not far away.

It spiraled up around the main body of the monument, bringing the murals into the visual perception device, and then attracted attention by the few murals from before the dark age.

It indents its distance from the monument, so close that it almost incorporates every tiny trace on the mural.

After waiting for a while, Pupil, who looked around the entire city center, flew back to the main body, ending the tour with a huge amount of information.

He Xingwen met the great scientist for the first time in a familiar conference room.

The table was full of applications to be processed. Apart from the basic furnishings, there was nothing superfluous in the room. Sitting alone at the huge round table, He Xingwen looked a little small.

Just like the data reflected by the big scientists when they saw him for the first time, this is an undoubted human being.

Unlike those 'humans' who were maintained at the peak of human beings, this king is in the growth stage of human beings, and his physical fitness and even his brain's thinking ability have not reached the golden stage of human beings. Even if he reaches the golden stage of human beings, it is unlikely that he will Possess the peak state of the human race.

The peak state of human beings is an extremely demanding stage. Severe exercise, coupled with the inherent physical fitness, can have a physical fitness that exceeds normal people under the circumstances of both coincidence and strength.

However, the people of the kingdom who can be seen everywhere are different. For them, the identity quality of the peak of human beings is like a normal state, which can be seen everywhere.

But in fact, it is not.

According to the king's physical fitness, there is no doubt that he is just an ordinary normal human being.

The Big Scientists are a little suspicious that something is wrong with the data collection and analysis concentrators in the Metaform.

In a kingdom composed of abnormal humans and undead races, the king is an ordinary person?It's like hanging a sign of 'extremely suspicious' on the king.

He Xingwen looked at the etheric structure, as if he saw through it the scientific road that was built on the basis of ether and belonged to a different world.

"Welcome to my kingdom." He Xingwen took the lead to end the exchange of glances. He gestured to the table for the other party to sit down, and then continued: "Based on the current situation, I believe you have seen enough things. Then, Sa Is the Alpha Federation interested in cooperating with the kingdom?"

The etheric body assumes a sitting posture, but for the other party, it consumes more energy to control the power changes in the details.

The Safa Federation likes this kind of direct and efficient dialogue, but for most rulers who think they are in control of everything, they prefer roundabout communication.

"According to what we know, you are cooperating with the Arcane Academy." A steady voice came from the weird figure: "We have some not-so-good pasts with the Arcane Academy, so it may be difficult to cooperate together. "

He Xingwen: "Obviously, the Kingdom's cooperation with the Arcane Academy has encountered a small problem."

After a little silence, the other party continued: "If you mean the small problem caused by the aggressiveness of the kingdom, in fact, the Federation is also thinking about this problem."

"Not long ago, the Diman Empire contacted us." The great scientist's conversation style was very similar to that of He Xingwen, very frank and without detours: "Informed us of the threat posed by the kingdom, and emphasized the aggressiveness of the kingdom .”

He Xingwen became a little interested: "It sounds like the Diman Empire is trying to form an alliance against the Kingdom?"

The great scientist thought for two seconds: "I think he is just interested in Li Wang's new inventions in the field of warfare, and he hopes that the Federation and the Empire can reach some kind of agreement, preferably in the field of invention.

But if we talk about building a unified alliance, the emperor of the Diman Empire will not allow others to lead him, and the Federation obviously will not allow an emperor to re-order us. "

Indeed, it is often extremely difficult to establish alliances between different regimes, especially in a different world where the civilization process has not yet developed to the stage of political struggle.

The law of the jungle is still the mainstream thought in the continent, and this continent has been peaceful for thousands of years, and the desire for war is flourishing in every warlike race.

He Xingwen guessed: "From what you told me directly, the Federation is more inclined to cooperate with the Kingdom?"

It didn't take too long for great scientists to make this decision. This emerging political system, which was born only a few thousand years ago, has not yet become decadent and bloated, and still maintains the vitality of a young political system.

"If the Kingdom is willing to reach an agreement on cooperation with us," the other party said frankly: "The joint research on the Black Blood Stone is the foundation, but we are more curious about the player race. It is not a pure undead race. Some kind of external force interferes with it. , to make it what it is today."

"Of course, this kind of external force is not a bad one, but an unexpected one..." The great scientist's calm tone couldn't help rising, revealing excitement that couldn't be concealed: "A genius-like change."

It's hard not to have bad associations with his excitement.

Those "beyond the limit" products on the product list of Ai Zhijin obviously will not come from Ai Zhijin. Ai Zhijin is not a scholar-type organization, and they do not have enough experience and knowledge to explore a new field.

But the Salfa Federation has them. They not only have a reserve of knowledge, but also have sufficient hands-on ability.

He Xingwen confirmed with the other party: "So, you want to study players?"

"That's right, more in-depth research involving the field of race evolution and the etheric body."

"This kind of behavior..." He Xingwen paused for a few seconds, looking for a suitable wording: "Is it allowed?"

The other party paused for two seconds for this question. Considering that the kingdom is a new civilization, the other party explained: "Obviously, whether it is allowed or not depends on you, because the player is your subject. But most of the time, this is not a... "The other party thought about the wording: "Impermissible behavior."

After the system took over, He Xingwen further explained: "The morality of this world is different from that of the earth. This is a world where strength is absolutely paramount."

He Xingwen has never left the kingdom, which is the kingdom's protection for him, but to a certain extent, this also restrains He Xingwen from a deeper understanding of the world.

"A more direct example, demons." The system said: "In the early days of the closed beta, several demons died in the monster spawning behavior designed by the players, but because the ones who killed the demons were the holy guards, and the holy guards were far stronger than the demons. , so nothing happened, anger, revenge, resentment, nothing."

"Not only is it because of the nature of demons to be weak when they are strong, but also because the lifespan of most races in this world is generally higher than that of the earth. When they live long enough, the attitude of intelligent creatures to death will change accordingly. Especially since the second era Up to today's long-lived species, they have seen too much death and parting."

"Another reason why the ideological trend of supremacy of strength is deeply rooted on the mainland is related to the continuous flow of new civilizations bordering this world after the end of the Dark Ages."

"The collision and integration of civilizations will cause friction. Even the most peaceful civilization acceptance process cannot be without waves. In fact, it is not surprising that a certain civilization will become extinct during the friction. Therefore, civilization and civilization The contact between them will inevitably distinguish between strong and weak, and only then can we find a suitable way to integrate."

"It further reinforces the power-first mindset in this world."

"Of course, at present, all the civilizations bordering this continent are basically the defeated side. In other words, they all belong to the weak."

Under the gaze of the system, He Xingwen suddenly realized another meaning in the other party's words: the kingdom is the only exception, so all this happened before him, temptation, contact, and war.

The original civilization on the mainland tried to absorb the new civilization, but the kingdom had its own way and did not intend to integrate into the old civilization, so the collision of different civilizations became intense.