Ten days have passed since the peace talks with the mysterious inheritance.
Cheng Shaofeng's real body stayed outside the base for 7 days. Shadow Guard 1 took over various affairs in the Red City base. Zero did not detect any suspected fifth-level people coming here to find him.
"It seems that the prestige of the leader of the Human Alliance is indeed high... Since he has not made a move against me during this period, it is unlikely that he will make a move against me in the future."
"I should go back and upgrade the base and unlock some new things..."
Cheng Shaofeng thought so, but he also felt that the fifth-level domainer was too powerful, which brought him great psychological pressure.
Unlike Wu Jie, he is a person who doesn't like to rely on luck for his life.
Unless there is nothing else to do.
"Forget it. What if the other party is targeted by Alliance Leader Thirteen and behaves himself for a while, and then comes to attack me after the storm has passed? No... I'd better stay calm for a while. Anyway, the functions of the base are already very complete, and there is no rush to upgrade it."
When the Scourge Base is being upgraded, his own movements will be restricted, so it is better to find a safe time to go back and upgrade.
"Now that we have enough crystals, keep the 2 million needed to upgrade the base, and think about how to spend the rest..."
In the past 10 days, Cheng Shaofeng has recruited 5,000 new players. The total number of players has now reached 14,000, including 2,000 ammunition soldiers who are specifically responsible for making bullets.
Most of the other newcomers are leveling up in the southern battlefield.
After half a month of fighting against the Zerg, players have become very familiar with the Zerg, and there are many guides on how to kill the Zerg.
"Efficient Upgrade Strategy for Newbies from Level 1 to Level 40"
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The Strongest Profession in the Southern Battlefield - Evil Priest, Large-scale Strategy Guide
"Daily update of the video of decompression by killing monsters in the southern battlefield: I am not a god of magic (daily electronic pickles)"
A large number of players poured into the southern battlefield, all scared by the bugs!
The insect swarm no longer has the majesty and momentum it had when it first invaded. As soon as it appeared, the players came out in droves like dung beetles smelling feces!
In the past, whichever city faced the greater crisis, players would quickly provide support there.
Now it’s... wherever the bugs go, the players just follow them!
Those with quick hands brush more, and those with slow hands brush less.
Currently, the situation in the southern battlefield has become stable, and the Zerg has gradually lost its stamina. According to Zero's data analysis, the daily experience gained by players in the southern battlefield is sharply decreasing. Once the Zerg decides to retreat and confront humans, the players will be in a situation where there are no monsters to kill.
The northern battlefield was the opposite. The zombies had not expected a large-scale invasion recently. They were robbed of their homes by Xufeng and a bunch of players many times, and they got angry and started to attack humans.
So there are monsters that can be killed in the northern battlefield during this period.
"The current situation... There is an abundance of crystals and other materials. Should we continue to recruit more players? We have been doing internal testing... Should we do an open beta?"
Cheng Shaofeng was thinking about this problem.
From the perspective of game making, the testing time for "Apocalypse OL" was not short, almost 3 months.
Now the calls for public beta testing on the official website are getting louder and louder. Cheng Shaofeng sees a large number of such posts every day. For the vast number of cloud players on the earth who are waiting to be fed, it is too difficult to draw a spot for the internal beta test. Public beta testing is still more reliable.
The number of reservations for the game has now reached 100 million!
Because a large number of videos reposting game screens have appeared on the foreign video website YouTube, foreign netizens are very envious, and now the people who have made reservations include both domestic and foreign people.
Cheng Shaofeng hadn't thought about this question before, but he couldn't stand being bombarded by these two words every day, so he has been thinking about it seriously recently... Is it time for a public beta
In another week, he will be able to complete all the ammunition orders for the soldiers and shamans, and will receive a lump sum of 11 million crystals.
Adding in the daily revenue from killing monsters at the base and the Apocalypse Shop and the base's current storage, the base will still have 20 million storage crystals available for free use even if the reserved 2 million is discarded.
It only takes 30 crystals to create a level 1 clone.
20 million crystals can directly summon 666,600 new players.
Even in today's wasteland human world, it is an extremely powerful force. Even if its population is not as large as that of the central city, it is far greater than that of other human cities.
Moreover, it is a force of extraordinary people that anyone can cultivate!
After developing for a period of time and possessing their own high-end combat power, they can even compete with the Human Alliance.
"But a large number of players will bring a lot of problems... management, supply, number of machines... living environment..."
Cheng Shaofeng got a headache just thinking about it.
"I have enough crystals, but I don't have enough supporting facilities for so many players to survive and live."
Just the issue of feeding 660,000 people every day would be enough to drive Cheng Shaofeng to death.
You can't let the players chew on the bark, right
Extreme challenge, looking for food
That's ridiculous.
"And there are too many players, so my command will be much more difficult than it is now..."
"If there aren't enough monsters for them to fight and their levels can't be raised, there will be a lot of idle players, and then... they will definitely make trouble for me."
After thinking it over, Cheng Shaofeng felt that recruiting a large number of players was not reliable and would be a negative benefit for him. He couldn't afford it with his current conditions... and he didn't need so many people.
"But I keep earning crystals, which are more than enough to upgrade my own skills. I feel itchy if I don't have more crystals left to recruit some players."
"Then let's build the infrastructure first and then recruit when we find a suitable opportunity."
Cheng Shaofeng felt that they needed to wait for a good opportunity to support the survival and leveling of new players, otherwise the recruited players would only be a burden to the base.
Good opportunities like the insect swarm in the southern battlefield are the moments for players to shine.
While Cheng Shaofeng was thinking while quantum surfing, a group of extraordinary construction teams came to Hongcheng.
"Boss, where do we start? Where do we go? Where is the material?"
Shadow Guard 1 led them to one of the large warehouses, opened the door, and revealed bundles of black optical cables, which he had purchased from the Central City Caravan and had delivered to them.
"Lay the optical cable from here to Dali City. I've given you the map and route. My people will protect your safety. The construction must be quick. Cost is not a problem."
Shadow Guard 1 waved his hand, and a bionic robot pulled over a box of crystals and gave it to the leader of the construction team. He opened it and smiled widely.
"Okay, boss. We can do it today! There's work for us in the south. We can work together on both sides. We guarantee that you'll have signal within half a month!"
"Well, the faster the better, go ahead!"
This construction team was transferred from the central city. They all have the strength of at least first-level evolvers, and all of them are proficient in block magic.
Any object, once hit by them using the Cube Technique, will be created with neat cracks, and then the entire piece of material will be separated from the whole along the cracks. The surface will be as neat as a cube, and the internal structure will not be destroyed, so the effect of digging or felling can be achieved, so it is called the Cube Technique.
The higher the skill proficiency, the faster the speed of knocking on the gap. It is said that those who are proficient in this field can remove a whole block from the ground with one slap.
However, some materials are too hard and it is slow to knock them by hand, so they also have special tools, such as shovels, pickaxes, axes and other one-star exclusive tools of different shapes, which can greatly increase the speed of block making.
In the wasteland where large machinery cannot easily carry out construction, these people are like human excavators, they are only fast, not slow!
Cheng Shaofeng paid them to dig all the way from Hongcheng to Dalicheng, bury optical cables, and connect the signals on both sides. He could then better control the information on both sides and synchronize the data.
This was something he had wanted to do for a long time, but he had waited until now to get a sufficient amount of crystals on hand before he finally started the work.
"Once the southern battlefield has a signal, my shadow guards can be sent to other places without a signal to act as trinket eyes."
Recently, Shadow Guard 3 has been killing it all on the southern battlefield!
The advanced version of the rebound monster will make all the bugs numb!
Shadow Guard 3 has also accumulated a lot of experience. If he returns to the main body, he can bring all this experience to the main body to help the main body improve its strength.
"The density of bugs has dropped a lot recently... I get less experience from lying around and hanging up every day."
Shadow Guard 3 muttered as he climbed out of a pile of insect corpses, brushed off the various insect brains and body fluids on his body, left the battlefield with his shield in hand, took a peek at the players' regional chat history, and went to find another place with an insect swarm to continue playing.
The biggest advantage of the Shadow Guard 3 BD is that it does not compete for the brain's CPU usage share. You just need to find a good position and lie down. If you encounter danger, the soldier's life-saving skills, Indomitable Will and Constellation Turtle Shell will protect him. At that time, you can quickly operate the Shadow Guard 3 to turn on the Wind Walker and run away.
He has been doing this these days, and he has never failed even when surrounded by fourth-level bugs.
"Continue to test the mysterious inheritance. If they really don't intend to snipe me, I will go back to the city in a few days to upgrade the base, improve skills, and collect Shadow Guard experience. I will get it done in one go."
"It's mainly about the mysterious Zhao Hongwu... I need to know what he is doing now."
If it were someone from another inheritance, no one would dare to guarantee that they could detect the whereabouts of a fifth-level realm master, but Cheng Shaofeng could!
Is it because his ability is greater than that of a fifth-level domain master? Or is it because he has a demon-like brain that can eliminate all impossible conditions and accurately predict the whereabouts of the other party
Neither.
He has a mole.
Open QQ and privately chat with 'Clown King'.
Sentinel: "Are you there? I need your help with something..."
Soon, Cheng Shaofeng got the information he wanted.
Zhao Hongwu has been carrying out a mysterious inheritance recently, and has explicitly asked his subordinates not to have any more grudges with the Natural Disaster Base. The two sides have already reconciled, and on the surface he seems to be a man who keeps his promises.
He himself has been researching skill engraving recently. He has engraved a lot of skills and even the multiple ways of using a skill. He has gradually distributed them to various cities with mysterious heritage, just like a teacher who focuses on studying.
The Clown King didn't know which characteristic of his body was appreciated by Zhao Hongwu, so that he was accepted as his last disciple and inherited his mantle.
The Clown King readily agreed!
When accepting him as an apprentice, Zhao Hongwu had him enter a pool called 'ritual holy water' to be baptized. At that time, a prompt popped up, instructing him to change his job to a hidden profession: mysterious man, and his basic attributes were greatly improved.
But all his Inquisitor skills were washed away, and he could only learn mysterious skills from now on. Fortunately, the skill points he spent were returned.
With Zhao Hongwu's skill engraving and guidance, he quickly mastered multiple skills and multiple schools of thought within the mystery, and also had equipment given by his master: an epic staff and a legendary codex.
You know, Cheng Shaofeng only has one piece of legendary equipment, which is the cursed book he got from Zhao Rujiao.
The gift that Zhao Hongwu gave to his apprentice was a legendary code!
The Clown King exclaimed how cool it was!
If Cheng Shaofeng hadn't been able to unplug his network cable, he would have led the way to the mysterious inheritor on the spot: "Taijun, this way!"
Fortunately, the players just treated this as part of the game plot and did not do anything detrimental to the base.
"The Clown King has established a firm foothold in Mystery. Zhao Hongwu believes that their baptism can wash away our traces. They destroyed the smart watch so that we can't communicate. They gave the Clown King valuable gifts to make him follow Mystery wholeheartedly. But he didn't expect that we can communicate offline. His every move can be told to me through the Clown King..."
"This old Deng planted a spy next to himself and he's so happy about it."
"But since he has been researching his skills, I feel relieved... After the crystals from the base arrive, I will go back and make some changes."
He just wanted to log off QQ and watch some Welfare Girl to relax.
The fox sent a message.
"Sentinel Giant! Help! We encountered a bug in the game! After logging off, our bodies in the game actually moved on their own! We killed the soldiers guarding the city and are now wanted! We can't even go back to the city, there are still Void Spirits outside, and we dare not log off, urgent!"
sentinel:"???"
"Is there such a thing?"
"Don't worry, I'll send someone to pick you up first..."
"Tell me about the bug..."
Cheng Shaofeng immediately asked Wu Jie to contact the Human Alliance and tell the defenders not to attack the peak team, but to enter the city first, otherwise the 10 of them would not be able to hold out for long in the wild.
It is said that there are a lot of phantoms on the Eastern battlefield, and they are good at hiding and their attack methods are very strange.
After listening to the fox demon's speech, Cheng Shaofeng roughly knew what had happened.
They volunteered on behalf of the Natural Disaster Base to support the Eastern Battlefield. At the same time, they also received a request from Cheng Shaofeng to find out the situation on the Eastern Battlefield in order to pave the way for the next development of the base.
After all, places where monsters spawn are Cheng Shaofeng’s future alternative bases.
It would have been a good time to kill monsters during the day, but it was more dangerous there at night, so the ten of them logged off together and went to eat in the city.
Unexpectedly, when I came back online, I found that I had left my residence and was standing on the city wall fighting with the defenders!
There were several human soldiers lying in a pool of blood at their feet, and they were all stunned at the time!
But the defenders were already blood-thirsty and shouted that they were spies of the Void Spirit and shot at them. Seeing this, several people quickly summoned the Bear King and fled the city.
But the nights on the Eastern Front... were especially terrifying.
They encountered a huge challenge, and several people were confused about what happened. They thought that a malicious bug had occurred, so they hurried to tell the Sentinel.
Cheng Shaofeng was also a little puzzled.
"It's impossible for a bug to be a bug... After the player goes offline, the clone is in a static state, how can it move on its own?"