Chapter 491 - Chapter 491: 490, Monster manufacturing completed 7 days later (Update 3/13)_1

Chapter 491: 490, Monster manufacturing completed 7 days later (Update 3/13)_1

For the following seven days, players in the game were leveling up like crazy. Those who reached level 50 rushed to the Pandamen continent to undertake the power manifestation task.

Meanwhile, a large number of players were engaged in constructing plantations and helping players who owned territories to develop their lands.

These three activities constituted the main routines for most players in the game.

As for Su Yu, he spent the majority of his time refining materials in the Mage Tower, learning skills, and laying a solid foundation.

The remaining small fraction of time was spent on accepting tasks from Alyssa that could gain him a considerable amount of experience points. These tasks included large-scale farming, water conservancy construction, and infrastructure building.

The game world hadn’t reached the age of large machinery yet, so most works were done manually, involving tens of thousands of players in each major project.

As the person in charge, Su Yu didn’t intend to profit from these projects. In fact, he invested a lot of his own money into many of them.

The advantage was that these large projects granted him a substantial amount of experience points, enabling him to meet the increasing demand for experience points by Morning Star, thus preventing her from interrupting her cultivation progress.

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The game world was relatively calm, but there was a hint of impending turbulence in the real world.

There were both good and bad events occurring in the real world.

Let’s start with the positives.

There were three pieces of good news.

The first piece of good news: the Yunlu Mountain Base had not been attacked by terrorists over the following seven days.

A large number of players who had met the manifestation requirements arrived at Yunlu Mountain for power manifestation, and the process was progressing smoothly.

The second piece of good news: Priest players who had mastered [Thought Stealing] actively joined the “Bug Elimination Actions” organized by the related departments after they manifested their strength.

To target internal and external appeasers, especially those posing a significant threat to the Blue Star Base, an action team consisting of over a hundred experienced officers was formed. It was their primary mission to deal with these appeasers.

Priest players cleverly used [Thought Stealing]. The appeasers had nowhere to hide. Once they captured one of the underlings, they could trace it all the way to the top, capturing the “big fish,” which greatly deterred the appeasers’ arrogance.

As the number of Priest players who could perform [Thought Stealing] increased, the survival soil for the appeasers would continue to shrink. Their disappearing in China was only a matter of time.

The third piece of good news: on the fourth day, Zhong Feng, Sky Dragon, and Mr. Meng all successfully manifested their strength.

In order to further motivate everyone to level up, the United Government rewarded each of the three with 10 tons of strategic reserve gold.

After receiving the gold, they each went to the [Icy Camp] and the [Flame Camp] to exchange for two [Frost Dragons] and one [Flame Phoenix].

The three men, riding their respective mounts, circled high in the sky over Yunlu Mountain. This spectacle was a huge visual shock to the players at the base.

After this scene was published online, it caused a heated discussion.

Everyone’s enthusiasm for leveling up was reignited. Some players would just stay in the leveling area non-stop for 12 hours to gain experience points, hoping that one day they could ride on such beautiful dragons and phoenixes.

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Now, let’s talk about the negatives.

There were two pieces of bad news.

The first one was the mischief caused by the appeasers behind the scenes.

It seemed like the domestic appeasers knew that if they did not make a move now, it would become increasingly difficult to act in the future. So, they launched frequent terrorist attacks in various cities.

In just a week, they launched as many as 68 terrorist attacks, two of which resulted in major casualties. In each event, hundreds of innocent civilians were killed.

Furthermore, they did not only launch terrorist attacks, but also carried out a series of malicious acts such as kidnappings, extortions, unlawful imprisonments, and enforced brainwashing.

The appeasers’ disturbances caused public panic and social disorder.

People were afraid to go to crowded places and preferred to stay at home playing games, which made society very desolate.

As for the second piece of bad news.

This was a very important and strange event that could affect the hearts of people all over the world – all the monsters manufactured by the Skru bases were completed!

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The date was October 10th, the 30th day since the “Gravity Funnel” plan by the Skru people was proposed.

At 8 o’clock in the morning, media all over the world were eagerly reporting a significant news – the monsters in the Skru bases had “come alive”!

Su Yu was among the first to receive the news.

At midnight on October 10th, unlike his usual routine, he entered the game to practice refining materials. This was because he knew that a major event would occur today and decided to spend his game time in advance.

At 8 o’clock in the morning, Su Yu received a message from Katyusha (Xue Wenli’s game name), indicating that the big event had arrived.

He immediately logged out of the game and returned to the real world.

Returning to reality, Cat Morning Star also jumped on his shoulder from the pet space, her whiskers pricking his cheek, “Nemesis, something big is happening today, right?”

“Of course.” Su Yu nodded as he held Morning Star and sat in front of the computer.

He opened the Central Video channel. The robot host “Hua Hua” on Central Video was using her monotone, icy electronic voice to broadcast the news:

“According to reports by ‘Blue Star Frontier’, all 3533 monsters manufactured in Skru bases worldwide have been completed. Our front-line reporter Wu Cheng risked his life to capture precious images of the monsters. Take a look.”

In the past 30 days, Su Yu, Morning Star, and Tina collectively secured 203 Spiritual Spring Eyes, including two large Spiritual Spring Eyes and 201 small ones. As of now, 3533 Skru bases remained.

The screen switched to a low-resolution image captured on location.

Through the image, one could vaguely see a 40-meter-tall monster in a Skru base far from the camera, roaring loudly in the “Monster Factory”.

Previously, these monsters would not move while being manufactured. Now that they had started moving, it could be preliminarily concluded that the Skru people had finished manufacturing the monsters.

As for when exactly the Skru would release these monsters, where they would be released, and whether they would use the Gravity Funnel to destroy a country, these were all unknowns at the moment and depended on their mood.

After showing several sets of monster videos, the emotionless host “Hua Hua” said, “Currently, the risk of monster attacks in our Huaxia battle zone is not high. In particular, densely populated areas east of the Huhuanyong Line are unlikely to be attacked by monsters.”

“However, to be safe, please try to stay indoors in the next few days. Listen to the instructions from the United Government. In case of emergencies, please follow the arrangements of the rescue workers, do not panic, and evacuate from dangerous areas in an orderly manner…”

Having listened to this, Su Yu turned off the news channel.

Everything about the monster army that the Skru people were about to dispatch was still unknown, but one thing was certain, that is, the Skru people would not place the “Gravity Funnel” within Huaxia Nation’s territory, as they had already promised Prime Minister Cao Cao, and they were not likely to go back on their word.

The rest could only be speculated.

Su Yu rubbed Morning Star. He was now going to a meeting with the relevant departments to discuss countermeasures and develop a series of response plans based on the Skru people’s arrangements.

He hoped that the human world could withstand this round of attack as much as possible.