King from scratch

When He Xingwen received the news from the South China Sea expedition team, Adisseo was signing the agreement made by Zhe Zhuang.

Adisseo, who was dragged out of the forging room, didn't even look at the thick stack of agreements carefully. After knowing the king's intentions, he signed his name without hesitation.

Compared with the demanding mages and druids, it is better to judge.

Adisseo looked around at the suddenly quiet atmosphere, broke the silence, and repeated what Yan had just said: "Some accident happened to the expedition team?"

Yan nodded, not paying attention to the dwarf's sudden presence, and continued to say to the king: "They capsized when they were going deep into the South China Sea."

In fact, the expedition team went deeper into the South China Sea than expected. After all, it belongs to the world of submarine civilization, and they don't welcome outsiders.

Yan continued to report: "The sea creatures hijacked them purposefully."

Hearing this, Adisseo sat upright for a few minutes and smelled gunpowder smoke.

It's not the smoke of the submarine kingdom. The submarine kingdom that lacks a strong connection with the mainland may not know the rise of the kingdom at all, and it is even less likely to engage in targeted hostile actions-besides, what is the submarine civilization doing to conquer the mainland?They are not interested in the mainland.

The smell of gunpowder that Adisseo smelled came from the kingdom.

The kingdom's recent big moves are too imaginative, and the king has never concealed the kingdom's intention to expand its territory rapidly.

Coincidentally, after the Arcane Academy and the Everfree Forest started peace talks, the only thing that borders on the kingdom but has not yet been incorporated into the kingdom's territory is the South China Sea.

Under such circumstances, the sudden occurrence of "undersea organisms hijacking the kingdom's citizens with a purpose" is like giving pillows when you are dozing off—it's the perfect time to give the kingdom a reasonable reason to point the finger at the South China Sea.

Of course, if someone said before that that he wanted to conquer the South China Sea, then the consensus of everyone on this is definitely daydreaming.

The vastness of the South China Sea and the many ferocious unknown creatures on the seabed allow the submarine civilization to exist independently of the continental civilization.

Of course, the more important point is that the races on the mainland cannot survive on the bottom of the sea for a long time, and it is meaningless to conquer a territory that cannot be occupied at all.

Compared with meaninglessness, the price to be paid to conquer it is too great.

For a long time □□ has maintained an independent attribute, belonging to the submarine civilization alone, allowing the continent to be turbulent.

Ai Zhijin has established a trade channel for the South China Sea and the mainland, but it is limited to this.

But now... Adisseo glanced at the young king and had no doubt that this was the king's next target.

Although it is a bit unbelievable, the king seems to be keen to conquer all existences in sight-including the South China Sea where the cost and benefit are completely disproportionate.

Another point that is even more bizarre is that the king tried to complete his conquests in a 'merciful' way.

And he even did.

Although there are countless questions about this, Adisseo has no intention of knowing the answer. With this time, wouldn't it be good for him to study the effective use of the black blood stone?

"Abducted them with a purpose?" He Xingwen glanced at the enthusiastic Yan, not quite sure about his guess: "Are you trying to trick me?"

"I think this is very interesting." Yan didn't deny it. On the contrary, he was a little overexcited: "Although we don't know why they want to hijack the kingdom's expedition team, the current situation is that this group of sea creatures overturned the expedition team." The team's ship, trying to hijack the expedition, discovered Durdolan's presence."

Yan is a militant through and through, and the reason why he is so excited is very simple. He smells the breath of war, victory and glory.

Huang took over Yan's words and calmed down the atmosphere of the conversation again: "The reason why the expedition team contacted the Kingdom is because Du Dolan... entered the sea."

"The problem is indeed a bit big." He Xingwen said objectively: "If you don't pay attention, the civilization of the seabed may be set back a lot."

One of the most well-known characteristics of Du Doran is that there are no other creatures in the sea area where it is located.

In a dormant state, Du Doran will release a layer of self-protection liquid, which is not its venom, but it is enough to leave no survivors in the sea area where it is located.

This is the main reason why the submarine civilization was suppressed by it back then. Who can bear the death of a group of unlucky ghosts?

Of course, this was the characteristic of Du Dolan before its extinction, and Du Dolan after its extinction has obviously improved in this respect. At least the sea area of ​​the kingdom is so crowded, but it is still full of vitality.

But this is just to illustrate another point, how terrible Du Dolan's toxin is-especially in the bottom of the sea, sea water is the best way to spread, enough for Du Dolan to nuke the entire field under the provocation of the enemy.

Huang added: "Fortunately, those underwater creatures are very restrained, and Du Dolan has not yet caused a counterattack."

Adisseo felt sorry for him: "They saved the underwater civilization." At least the civilizations of those nearby underwater kingdoms.

Yan didn't resonate with other people's thoughts, he excitedly hit the point: "King, they threaten the personal safety of the Kingdom's people, I think the Kingdom needs to give them a warning."

Adisseo and the others cast their gazes at Yan, and the meaning of their gazes was clearly discernible, "Didn't you see that you are so inhumane? Are you planning to sacrifice thousands of people to heaven?".

Yan didn't know whether he was so dull that he didn't realize the meaning in their sight, or he was so excited that he ignored the sight of others, he continued: "Let them pay the South China Sea expedition team compensation for mental damage..."

Yan, who was not on the same line as the others at all, spoke quickly: "Of course, it would be even better if they could recognize the reality and take the initiative to seek refuge in the kingdom, but it seems that the races in this world have a hard time recognizing the reality, so I think, first It is more important to establish a contact method with the South China Sea, as for the follow-up..." He said confidently: "Anyway, Du Dolan is already at the bottom of the sea."

This was the idea that immediately hit the South China Sea, and Adisseo turned his attention to the king without any surprise.

He Xingwen put his hand on his chin, ignored Yan's words, and continued with the previous topic: "Let the expedition team exercise restraint and return as soon as possible."

Huang confirmed with the king: "Are you taking Du Dolan back to the voyage directly? They haven't completed their task of exploring the South China Sea..."

Yan straightened his back and applied to the king: "I almost forgot to report to you. Before that, you asked me to organize an expedition team to go to the South China Sea to check the situation. I'm ready and ready to go at any time."

It has been delayed until the endless forest war, is it not ready?It turns out that you've only been back from Everfree Forest for a few days and you're ready?

He Xingwen didn't take Yan seriously about his thoughts—the NPCs may be different, but their loyalty to the kingdom is unquestionable.

Undersea Civilization...

He Xingwen was thinking about this word, and his eyes drifted to the system beside him unconsciously.

It was so purely subconscious that he didn't realize his subconscious action until the system opened his mouth.

System: "I think Yan's proposal is very good."

The system projected the map of this world onto He Xingwen's retina, in which the Land of God's Fall, the Academy of Arcane Arts, the Everfree Forest, and the peaks of the mountains were all dyed the same color, marked as Kingdom territory, while the rest were marked as In a different world territory, the sharp contrast of two different colors on the same map is very visually impactful.

He Xingwen took a look and understood the meaning of the system's words.

After including the Everfree Forest, the Peak of the Mountains, and the Arcane Academy, the territory of the kingdom already occupies almost half of the entire different world.

But it's called "almost" because the other color occupies a larger area of ​​the map than the kingdom.

System: "This is not your problem, your expansion behavior is very efficient."

No, in fact, when the system displayed the results in front of He Xingwen with such an impactful map, He Xingwen didn't even realize that he was only one step away from completing the task...?

"But when you expand, this world also expands." The system had to tell He Xingwen this unfortunate news in a sense.

He zoomed in on the unrefined areas on the edge of the map: "There are still worlds bordering it, but these worlds are becoming more and more difficult to attract the attention of the aborigines. They are used to constantly accepting new civilizations, and the aborigines' The powerful fighting power is enough to make them ignore the dangers brought by the lucky ones left, so... the new civilizations in the marginal areas were ignored."

Indeed, those other races that bordered this world in the early fifth era can still get a chance to be introduced individually on the map drawn by the devil, but the further back the timeline, the more new civilizations appear on the map Fewer, and even a large part of the newly bordered world, at the end got an introduction that even demons don't understand.

System: "In order to maintain the balance of the two worlds and avoid loss of balance due to the expansion of the territory of the other world, I suggest that you take the South China Sea as your next conquest goal."

He Xingwen was still immersed in the shock that he was close to completing the task. In the next second, his gaze swept across the "main task" at the bottom of the thinking palace, and he suddenly calmed down.

[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 - 80% progress.

Obviously, if you get serious, you can get things done quickly.But this is only the first stage. You don't think that the expansion of the kingdom is the end, do you? 】

He Xingwen stared at the words "first stage" for a few seconds. For a moment just now, he thought his story could end like this.

Obviously, he thought too much.

He Xingwen asked the question: "What is the second stage?"

The system can always give answers to all questions: "You can read the second half of the description in the first stage to accept other races from different worlds..."

The map on He Xingwen's retina has changed its color. Different shades of red are distributed irregularly on the map. The color on the Neiva Plain is the darkest, followed by the South China Sea. The areas with the lightest colors are the tops of mountains, The Everfree Forest and the Academy of Arcane Arts.

The Land of God's Fall is excluded because it has no red at all. Among the more or less red distributions, only the Land of God's Fall is blank.

"This is the distribution map of the number of intelligent creatures in other worlds." The system didn't mean to be tricky, and directly revealed the answer: "There are no intelligent creatures in other worlds in the land of God's Fall, but the vast mountain tops and the endless forest are The difference is that the number of intelligent creatures is too small."

The top of the mountain is because it was judged to be resource exhaustion before, and other creatures such as dwarves left here one after another; while the endless forest is caused by the xenophobia of the druids, and the number of plants in the endless forest is far more than that of druids. The number of Rui and tree people.

But plants are not intelligent beings.

He Xingwen understands the existence meaning of the second stage. These territories that nominally belong to the kingdom basically cover a vast area and are sparsely populated. In terms of the number of races, it is far lower than that of the other world.

"Maintaining the balance between the kingdom and the other world is not easy. If you are not careful, it will become a situation where one side assimilates the other because of the imbalance."

Of course, assimilating the Kingdom, a new civilization, as a part of the other world is something that one cannot wish for; but for He Xingwen, he neither wants to be assimilated nor to assimilate to the other world.

Only by maintaining the balance between the two worlds can the other world be saved.

This is the reason why the "game main console" appeared, and it is also what He Xingwen has been doing from the beginning.

After saving the earth, save another world again.

After thinking for a while, He Xingwen returned to the conversation.

The npcs who silently waited for He Xingwen to end the conversation with the unknown existence did not show any abnormality.

Even Adisseo is used to this.

"Since Yan is ready..." He Xingwen: "Then get ready to go."

Just now they said that the expedition team should return immediately, and this attitude changed too quickly. The others muttered in their hearts, guessing that the unknown existence had said something to the king, which caused the king to change his mind.

Yan had the quickest reaction: "I'll go right away..." He stood up, walked a few steps towards the door, stopped again, and asked the king what he meant: "Then what should I do when I arrive in the South China Sea..."

He Xingwen nodded towards him.

Yan received an affirmative answer, immediately put aside other thoughts, and left the room excitedly.

After Yan left, the scene was quiet for a moment. Huang broke the silence and said, "Do you want to let the previous expedition team come back? Or... let them deal with the environment in the South China Sea before the expedition team led by Yan arrives?"

Adisseo's heart skipped a beat, and he looked at Huang with a new look.

Huang's sense of presence is not high. Most of the time, the other party is either helping Zhe to share the documents, or standing beside Yan to deal with his aftermath. It is easy for people to ignore the other party's existence.

But the other party said something very scary just now with a calm face.

Sure enough, these "kingdom citizens" should not be underestimated at all, Adisseo thought so, while silently lowering his sense of existence.

"Let them get in touch with those undersea civilizations to prepare for the follow-up communication." He Xingwen warned Huang: "It's not necessary, I don't want to see large-scale casualties."

Huang understood the king's meaning and left to convey the king's request to the South China Sea expedition team.

There were only two people left at the scene, and Zhe immediately opened his mouth.

"Since the matter of the South China Sea...is on the agenda, I have thought of another matter," Zhe said to the king, "The devil's map should be drawn."

He Xingwen reacted for a few seconds before he remembered what the devil's map was.

It's been almost a hundred chapters. If Zhe hadn't brought it up, He Xingwen would have forgotten that there is still an unfinished task in the name of the devil - a world map down to roads and cities.

"But the devil's understanding of the underwater kingdom..." He Xingwen was halfway through the sentence, feeling that it was meaningless to excuse the devil, so he let Zhe go: "Go and do it."

Chul received the king's order and also left the room.

So, only He Xingwen and Adisseo were left on the scene.

Adisseo realized this belatedly. He looked around the empty room and felt sorry for not leaving earlier.

"If there is nothing wrong..." The dwarf said frankly, "I'll go back to study the black bloodstone?"

He Xingwen didn't answer his words, he stared at Zhe's back for a few seconds, and asked the system uncertainly: "Isn't he taking revenge on the devil because the devil wanted to trick him before?"

What?The devil wanted to trap Zhe before?Zhe still wants to take revenge on the devil?Adisseo pricked up his ears, and couldn't help slowing down his walking pace.

"I think this is only a small part of the reasons," the system said, "Obviously, we don't need to suspect that NPCs have too many ideas of their own, and their loyalty to you is imprinted in the four country settings of the 'Game Main Console'. "

"I wanted to ask a question a long time ago." He Xingwen paused, swallowed the second half of the sentence, cast a glance at Adisseo who was still present, and said, "What is your research on the effective use of black blood stone?" how's it going?"

It's all the damn curiosity.

Adisseo, who didn't leave in time, stopped and briefly introduced to He Xingwen the information that the dwarves had recently obtained from the disassembled and upgraded forging table and the core area of ​​the vehicle, and reported on the efficiency of other production lines, and finally gave a General conclusion: "There has been a breakthrough, but it cannot be used like the tools of the kingdom, as if the black blood stone is not dangerous at all..."

He paused, and asked the question that the dwarf had been curious about for a long time: "Who made these tools that effectively control the energy of the Black Bloodstone?"

Who on earth can be so advanced in the research and utilization of the Black Bloodstone, that even the dwarves and mages can't keep up with each other's footsteps even if they study day and night.

He Xingwen gave the omnipotent answer: "One of the miracles of God the Father."

There is nothing wrong with saying that, this is the change caused by the "master console of the game" upgrading the kingdom, and it is naturally classified as a miracle created by God the Father.

The dwarf fell silent at the answer.

"I still don't understand why Father God fell."

There are so many memories and emotions in this sentence that He Xingwen couldn't react for a while.

For the creations of this world, the meaning of Father God's existence is like the peaceful time of exploring the ether before the dark ages, it remains deeply in their minds, but they can no longer have it.

They lost their creator god, and they lost their elders who led the world to the right path.

After the dwarf left the room, He Xingwen still hadn't recovered from the silence.

The system waited patiently for a moment. After the silence time exceeded a certain limit, he broke the silence and said, "Father God just fell when he should have fallen. He made the best choice for his creation. If he If you are as greedy as the dwarves for the meager temperature and the warmth of intelligent creatures, then this world may no longer exist."

Very rational, and very typical intelligent creature speech.

He Xingwen smiled, put the unnecessary emotions behind him, and continued what he hadn't finished because of the presence of the dwarves.

"One thing, I'm very curious," He Xingwen asked, "Why did the 'Game Master Console' issue those four country settings?"

The system was a little surprised: "That was not promulgated by it, it was transformed from the rules you obtained..."

He Xingwen interrupted him: "But what kind of national setting the rules are transformed into, it has the final say, doesn't it?"

The system objectively said: "With the rigid level of intelligence of the 'game main console', I am afraid that it is impossible to have the self-awareness of 'it has the final say'."

"A 'system' that just does what it's programmed to do, there's nothing questionable about it... Or, what do you think about it?"

When the system said this, He Xingwen became a little unconfident about his original vague guess: "Since we speculate that the npc is the creation of God the Father, and the 'game main console' almost established their respect for me from the very beginning. Absolutely loyal, then do you think..."

"Will I be God the Father?"

The system was a little surprised: "We discussed this before, Father God has completely fallen." He was very sure of this: "If you are related to Father God, the devil cannot be unaware."

"But they didn't realize the connection between the 'game main console' and the Father God." He Xingwen didn't trust Nubida's radar to the Father God very much—after all, the lessons learned from the past were there.

The system paused for two seconds: "My database is very sure that Father God has completely fallen."

The system is always right, and countless experiences in the past have proved this point.

He Xingwen was convinced.

"This is really just a speculative guess," He Xingwen diverted his attention: "Then, what is your best solution for how to include the South China Sea in the kingdom map?"