King from scratch

"Kingdom update?"

He Xingwen sat up from the bed as soon as he saw the familiar furnishings. He asked repeatedly: "What does it mean to detect new people and renew the kingdom?"

"I am very willing to answer your doubts, but before that, please allow me to explain another thing to you." The system's speech speed is still unhurried, as if all sudden changes cannot affect him.

"I am about to enter the update of the intelligence level. During the program update, I will fall into a short-term non-response state and cannot provide you with protection."

"But please rest assured, your priority is above everything else. If necessary, I will cut off the update program at any time to ensure your safety."

"This is just a necessary update program." The system explained sternly: "It is used to expand the game content and provide players with a better gaming experience."

Game update is not an incomprehensible term, it's just a little strange to put it here.

It is too real, and it easily confuses the boundary between the game and reality, so that after being suddenly kicked out of the game, people's first reaction is not the game update, but something wrong with the kingdom.

"I'm about to enter a non-responsive state," the system didn't have much time—in fact, he was supposed to update with the kingdom, but considering human beings' ability to bear and the emotional factors that accompany it, he forced the update to be postponed, why? Xingwen made a simple explanation.

"Currently it is impossible to evaluate the duration of the unresponsive state, please wait patiently for the update to complete."

"The update program is starting, countdown: ten, nine, eight..."

The mechanical sound completely fell silent, and the world returned to calm.

After confirming that His Majesty's current mental state was not good, Shao Ming fell into an urgent sense of crisis.

As the only government employee who had contact with His Majesty the King, he understood the meaning of His Majesty's existence better than anyone else.

This may be the limit that human civilization can produce, a genius who is truly ahead of the times.

This point of view has been recognized at the national level. In the initial cooperation, the drawings delivered by His Majesty the King easily crossed the technical barriers and turned the gadget from imagination into reality.

This is the proof of the other party, proving that he has enough knowledge reserves to create holographic games by himself.

This is also the sincerity of the other party. When no one found him, he chose to talk to the country about this so-called "promotion of holographic games."

And after he proved himself and fully expressed his sincerity, the whole country immediately moved, and countless thin threads extended to everyone, weaving a dense web.

And Shao Ming and Wu Xing are just two insignificant lines.

In view of the current situation and the special meaning represented by the other party, they should have more backup plans, but the crux of the problem is that His Majesty the King is very likely, no, to be precise, it is basically certain that there is a problem with his mental state.

Genius is always accompanied by tragedy.

When God opened a window for them, he must have forgotten to add some protective measures to that window, so that those star-studded geniuses always fell under the pity of others.

This directly affects the choices that countries make.

"The first priority is to keep him alive."

This is the highest instruction Shao Ming has received, and it is also one of the sources of his anxiety.

After finishing the first contact with His Majesty the King, he began to wait for the second contact.

But His Majesty the King did not contact him or update the video, and he disappeared.

A whole week has passed since His Majesty's last update.

They have not received any information from His Majesty the King.

He Xingwen didn't lose contact on purpose, but before the system upgrade was completed, for safety reasons, he kept a cautious silence.

This made his life this week extremely regular, and most of his time was spent in the library.

In fact, he was a little surprised that everything had become so dull after the system went silent.

It even made him recall what it was like before the system came along.

He then had to come to the regrettable conclusion that it was he, not the world, that had changed.

The world is still the same as every summer vacation, full of free youth.

When he turned on the phone, those messages popped up one after another. Invitations to games, invitations to go out to play, and even short-distance travel invitations flooded his social network.

He Xingwen patiently rejected all the invitations, deleted all the games on his phone, and went straight into the library.

Life is still the same, but he has stepped into a new world, so everything has changed.

An expanding kingdom, a future full of challenges, and a world that has yet to be revealed...

He Xingwen turned the pages of the book and focused his attention on the difficult words.

"Contractor?"

He Xingwen paused, put the book back on the shelf, and walked out of the library.

The system is still as usual, as if this short period of non-response has not affected him in any way: "The upgrade process took longer than I judged, long time no see."

He Xingwen put on the earphones and looked at the time: "Considering the time it takes for the game to load, a week's upgrade time is not too long."

"From the perspective of program and calculation, it is indeed not too long, but from the perspective of personal emotion..." The voice of the system suddenly became a little lower, and there was a gentleness that He Xingwen had never seen before: "It has been long enough."

"Is it my illusion, or are you really..." He Xingwen thought about the adjective: "More human?"

"My intelligence has increased."

So he becomes more of an intelligent being with emotions.

He Xingwen said objectively: "At some point, machines are more trustworthy than humans because they have not yet learned to deceive."

"Humans, on the other hand, are naturally good at deceiving their own kind."

The system understands the subtext he didn't say: "My loyalty to you has nothing to do with the degree of intelligence. It is the initial code in the core program. Unless the program crashes, nothing can shake it."

The changes after the game update are beyond He Xingwen's imagination.

When He Xingwen looked into the distance, he could barely catch a speck of yellow sand at the end of his line of sight, and he couldn't even be sure if the spot of yellow sand was his eyesight because the distance was too far.

"Congratulations, Contractor, your kingdom has taken a new step. From a small village with a few people to a real city, your kingdom is on the way to prosperity. May you always protect them."

The words of the system confirmed that what he saw was not an illusion, but reality.

In front of him stood a real city, surrounded by thick walls, towering towers on both sides, and a lingering chill.

Outside the city wall, the forest in the distance is endless, becoming a forest in the true sense.

Streams, to be precise, are rushing rivers extending from the forest, flowing further and further into the sea.

Half of the sea disappears into the desert, while the other half occupies the outermost quarter of the oasis.

If this was originally an oasis in the desert, now it cuts the desert.

It shouldn't even be called an oasis anymore, it's another land that borders the desert.

Complicated thoughts flashed by, and He Xingwen realized another problem.

It's so quiet here, it's as quiet as if the whole world has pressed the pause button, there is no human voice, no sound of wind blowing, everything is frozen at a certain moment.

The system spoke appropriately: "You have accepted a dwarf as your subject, and your kingdom is becoming more racially diverse."

"The lost civilization is recovering, and the forgotten race is waiting for your call."

"May your glory rest on them too."

After a brief pause, He Xingwen: "Speak human."

System: "You can recruit other races."

"Other races?"

He Xingwen stepped into the city.

"What race they belong to is up to you."

The interior of the city is extremely empty because there are no traces of human life. The roads extend in all directions, the spacious main roads, exquisite single-family villas, and the round machines hanging high on both sides of the road give off a faint light; there are complicated lines buried under the ground, connecting The whole city; the delivery vehicles parked at the starting point are wrapped in a steel shell.

He Xingwen was walking on the road, feeling a sense of interlacing time and space.

Steam and machinery are intertwined, advanced and backward alternate, so that it is impossible to determine which stage of civilization this city is in.

middle Ages?

He Xingwen glanced at the delivery vehicle parked at the corner of the street. The steel shell concealed its complex internal structure, but even so, He Xingwen was still sure that it was definitely not a product driven by steam.

Just like the existence of black bloodstone and ether, this world has its own civilization process.

The civilization progress of the earth cannot be analogized to its civilization progress.

He Xingwen's goal is very clear, and the end of the city's main road is also very clear.

In the very heart of the city, the cathedral, the grandest of all buildings, is the end of the road.

The cabin changed its crumbling appearance and transformed into the most eye-catching building in the city.

The towering tip pierces into the sky, the surface of the majestic and majestic church is covered with reliefs full of holiness, the white gate is wide open, and golden light flows from behind the gate, suspending everything at this moment.

Apparently, while it looks like a church, like its original log cabin appearance, it never had any real purpose.

Behind its door is the main control area of ​​the entire game, not a church that spreads faith.

The pattern on He Xingwen's hand emerged with golden light, and the golden light in the altar responded accordingly.

"Currently the number of recoverable subjects is: 125.

The current number of subjects that can be revived by the rules is: 1. (Currently available rules: 0.)

The current number of subjects that can be recruited is: 0. (Insufficient prerequisites, unable to recruit)”

"My dear king, your kingdom is moving towards racial diversity, and the lost civilization from beyond sends you greetings.

Are lost civilizations recruited? "