Help me? What the hell
Jiang Qiao kept trying to catch that vague voice, which kept repeating the words "Please save me". The repeated voices started out as a female voice, then became a male voice later, and included children, kids, and the elderly.
It feels like there are millions of people repeating these three words in my mind.
Jiang Qiao concentrated his attention and tried to talk to the voice, but the next second, what came to his mind was...'I really want to eat roasted whole lamb. The roasted whole lamb in that restaurant must be delicious if it is coated with sauce.'
Stop it! You useless goddess, what else is on your mind besides roasted whole lamb
Jiang Qiao really wanted to tap Hai Lan's forehead with his finger, but he couldn't do it now. If he did, the connection would be broken. Then Hai Lan used her strength to prove that she was thinking about more than just the roasted whole lamb.
There are also potato chips, fried chicken, Coke and... three coordinates.
coordinate
Hai Lan was still capable of doing some work. Jiang Qiao quickly grasped the three coordinates found by Hai Lan and wrote them down. When Jiang Qiao opened his eyes again, the shouting voice gradually disappeared from Jiang Qiao's mind.
"Which side should we help?" Hai Lan opened her eyes, and the first thing she said was not the roasted whole lamb.
Jiang Qiao opened the portal and pulled Hai Lan back to the Astrology Tower of the Holy Spirit's original plane, and then began this conversation.
"We help both sides. I told you, I want everything on this island."
Jiang Qiao opened his system book, and the projection of Brand Island appeared in front of Jiang Qiao.
What Hai Lan meant by "helping that side" was actually to make a choice between the Mother Earth and Brand Island.
The original commission from Mother Earth was for Jiang Qiao to purify the crystal plague on the island, which is also the main task that Jiang Qiao has announced to the players at this stage.
But just now, after Hai Lan swallowed the core crystal of the Sky Frost Dragon, he heard a cry for help... from the Brand Island.
This cry for help did not come from any creature on Brand Island, but from the entire island!
The island was also asking Jiang Qiao for help, and the island also issued a main task to Jiang Qiao, which was those three coordinates.
The three coordinates that Hai Lan marked for Jiang Qiao were located in the Spirit Vein Forest, the crystal land in the center of Brand Island, and an area named Black Soil Swamp by Jiang Qiao.
The coordinates of these three areas happen to form a line... As for the meaning of these three coordinates, they are the places where Brand Island's consciousness can still barely maintain sanity.
That's right... stay rational. Brand Island has its own thoughts, but its thoughts have entered a state of rampage. Its manifestation is that the monsters on the island infected by crystals will indiscriminately attack all creatures.
The Spirit Vein Forest, the Crystal Land in the center of Brand Island, and the Black Soil Swamp are the three areas where Brand Island’s thinking is still preserved.
This is why the core crystal of the Spirit Vein Forest is not in the body of a monster, but is controlled by the Spell Thieves. The area where the Spell Thieves' city is built is in the core crystal area of Brand Island.
If Brand Island is regarded as a god, it should be a god like a slime monster. It has a strong learning ability and is uncontrollably absorbing the power of the world.
Jiang Qiao was not sure if this was the source of the crystal disease, but the Spell Thief and a group of people infected with the crystal disease could be considered believers of Brand Island.
But Brand Island's consciousness itself is harmless. To be more precise, there is no thought of "wanting to hurt the other party" in his mind. It is like a newborn baby who goes berserk because his power is too strong and he cannot control himself.
It's not just its strength that's out of control, but also its ability to learn, which can be seen from the abilities possessed by the Spell Thieves.
The spell thieves are endlessly imitating the power of others, and this imitation sometimes hurts the spell thieves themselves. Brand Island is now in this... pain.
"So how should we save this...island?" Hai Lan listened to Jiang Qiao's explanation for so long but still didn't understand what Jiang Qiao was talking about.
"Just make it completely transformed into your follower." Jiang Qiao flipped the pages of the system book, and a row of data appeared for each of the three areas: the Spiritual Vein Forest of Brand Island, the Crystal Land, and the Black Soil Swamp.
Assimilation value 15.1%, assimilation value 41.1%, assimilation value 0%.
These three areas refer to the assimilation values of the Spirit Vein Forest, Crystal Land and Black Soil Swamp respectively.
"Should I now ask what this assimilation value attribute means?" Hai Lan asked.
"This attribute means... the control progress of Brand Island." Jiang Qiao said after thinking for a while.
"You can imagine Brand Island as a baby. This baby now has three stepfathers. The first stepfather is me, the God Eater, and the players. The second stepfather is the Spell Thieves. The third stepfather... has not appeared yet. These three stepfathers all want Brand Island, the baby, to become like themselves so that they can control the tens of millions of assets left to Brand Island by his biological father."
"What about the gods of this world? We are the nanny who is annoyed by Brand Island. Aren't we more like killers hired to kill this baby?" Hai Lan asked.
"We are assassins hired to kill the baby's bodyguards, not the baby itself. The gods of this world intend to directly rob the property left by the baby's biological father! Instead of taking care of the baby and then taking the property like the thieves of law, but... the baby's bodyguards, that is, the crystal disease, do not allow the gods to do so. Even if the gods get close to the baby, they may be killed by the bodyguards."
Jiang Qiao didn't know if Hai Lan understood this description. To put it simply... there was a being that didn't belong to this world lurking in Brand Island, but it was still very weak, so weak that it couldn't control its own power and would even be tortured by its own powerful power.
The gods of this world want to obtain this power, but just getting close could lead to infection by the crystal disease, so they let the holy spirits come to weaken the crystal disease, and then find a way to occupy the power buried under the island.
Jiang Qiao guessed that letting the Chosen One sacrifice to the Sky Frost Dragon was one of the means. The Sky Frost Dragon was equivalent to the embodiment of the chaotic consciousness of Brand Island. If the Shadow Chosen One could control the Sky Frost Dragon by some means... it would be tantamount to stealing one seventh of the power of Brand Island.
"So what should we do next...to take away the baby's property?" Hai Lan guessed that Jiang Qiao wanted to take it all.
"You are stupid. Brand Island itself is a very important resource. The power it possesses is secondary. So what we have to do is to become the designated stepfather of the baby! Let it follow us willingly, and then its property will rightfully belong to us!" Jiang Qiao said.
"But the specific operation method..." Hai Lan looked at the three assimilation values thoughtfully.
"Let's teach Brand Island our values and perspectives on life. That's what it means when it asks for help... Players only need to expand their bases in the Spiritual Forest, recruit new Crystal Disease infected people, or raise creatures on this island as pets. This will increase the assimilation value of the region, and Brand Island will learn the players' way of life... no... existence."
Jiang Qiao couldn't regard the learning on Brand Island as ordinary learning. The learning on this island was a law-like concept, just like the thieves could imitate the skills of players without any reason.
Brand Island is also learning the abilities of the God Eater.
"To put it simply, we need to teach this island how to be a good server. After it has learned it, we can directly transfer it to our main world or the other world," Jiang Qiao said.
"Will it really be so smooth? Do the Spell Thief and other gods know this?" Hai Lan asked again.
"The Spell Thieves definitely know, and they want to control Brand Island's consciousness. At this stage, the gods just want to steal Brand Island's power. I just don't know if they will... continue to play the role of a cruel stepfather in the future."
Jiang Qiao took a look at the black soil swamp area on the map. This area has not been developed by anyone so far. As long as any god leads his people to this area, Brand Island will gradually begin to learn of the existence of this group of people.
"But I have to admit that... at this stage, Brand Island favors the Spell Thieves. I still need to explore the specific method of improving the assimilation value, but what we have to do next is to vigorously encourage players to build strongholds! This is always right!" Jiang Qiao turned his gaze to the Spirit Vein Forest area again.
Players have now established thirty-four strongholds in the Spirit Vein Forest, and Jiang Qiao can see the assimilation value contributed by these strongholds on the projection.
Among them, the stronghold of Coke Mania made the little baby Brand Island very happy, with an assimilation value of 5.1%. The second was the stronghold of the Leaping Nuclear Guild, with an assimilation value of 4.1%.
"The more people are infected with the crystal disease, the higher the bonus of each building in the base will be?" Jiang Qiao guessed the means of increasing the assimilation value.
Jiang Qiao closed the system book in his hand, opened the Holy Spirit Forum and began to browse a series of news and information related to Brand Island.
One of the posts caught Jiang Qiao's attention.
"The stronghold has been built but there is no ranking list or rating. The monster siege event has only been triggered once or twice. I beg you to spawn a few monsters at the door of my stronghold, the newly built cannon is about to rust." Posted by: Zanxin.
'Be careful or a bunch of Overlord monsters will spawn and destroy your base.' Replied by: Cruel Moonlight.
'I've never seen such a strange request. Ten thousand people wrote books and planned to kill monsters and demolished the base of the Abyss Temple. 'Replier: The dog is not delicious
'Most players build strongholds just to build beautiful big houses. I think there should be a stronghold ranking system. I want to see what the stronghold attributes of the big guys are like.' Reply: Haskabi.
Jiang Qiao looked at this post and fell into deep thought. If... the monsters on Brand Island were also the embodiment of the island's consciousness, would these monsters also be able to increase their assimilation value when fighting with the Holy Spirit
"But let's make the ranking list first, and think about it after the monsters attack the city." Jiang Qiao knew that playing games without any excitement was indeed... boring, but there were still many farming players.
In short, everything comes one by one.
(End of this chapter)