"As it turns out, the so-called 'nine-nine-six' work system will cause such a great devastation to the ordinary people. It is not a life for human beings at all!
"The entire economic system is based on high welfare. If drastic reforms are carried out recklessly, the lives of the ordinary people will indeed be greatly affected. On the economic report, they are just numbers that can be weighed and sacrificed at any time. But in reality, they are living human beings who have feelings and can complain and even resist!
"Mining on the resource planets at the edge of the cosmos means that they are faced with endless darkness and the threat of a high death rate. Every ton of crystals that are mined will be stained with blood. No wonder most of the people of the Curly Dragon Sector are so upset!
"The Curly Dragon Sector has never developed much space cruising technology in the past thousands of years. It is too difficult to build a space fleet from scratch! The ordinary people may not see any obvious progress even if they live frugally for twenty years. It's like wandering in the dark night and never seeing the direction of dawn. Nobody can bear it! "
When Long Yunxin saw that the character she was playing had turned from a young, pretty, and vigorous girl to a haggard, wrinkled face, and suffocated by the burden of life, she could not help but have complicated thoughts.
The girl was born in the 'golden age' before the shortage of resources. She grew up in a honeypot. Innocent and carefree, she took all the happiness in her life for granted.
However, three days after she married her husband, who was also innocent and kind, the government announced that the Curly Dragon Sector had entered the era of 'glorious march'. Welfare would be significantly reduced, working hours would be extended, savings and national bonds would be compulsory, and all the citizens would have to tighten their belts to support the construction of the space fleet.
When Long Yunxin saw that, she felt that she had brought it upon herself.
It was because she had issued the same policy multiple times when she was the Grand Governor.
At that time, she had viewed the future of the Curly Dragon Sector from a high vantage point, too. She had never considered what such a change meant for the ordinary people.
After entering the era of 'glorious march', the life of the ordinary woman of the Curly Dragon Sector that she played was shattered mercilessly.
The working hours were greatly extended, but the salary was reduced by half. Even the pitiful half had to be divided into another half and forcibly stored in a designated account in the Xing Hai Development Bank for ten years. If they wanted to withdraw it before ten years, not only would there be no interest, even the principal would be reduced by a large chunk!
A lot of resources had been devoted to the construction of the space fleet. Prices were soaring, currencies were depreciating, and everybody was panicking.
Inflation and economic crises would break out every two or three years. In the end, they had to implement strict rationing to barely stabilize the situation.
The veil of warmth between her and her husband was quickly torn to pieces by the harsh reality. Her husband, who had been drained of blood and sweat in the factory during the day, became more and more silent, more and more sensitive, and more and more difficult to approach.
Their marriage and the relationship between their families were on the brink of collapse.
One day, bad news came from the outside world again. The mining starship of the latest model that had been built with tremendous resources was declared a failure again. In the great explosion, the resources that countless people had delivered were all for nothing!
People finally could not hold back the fury in their heart anymore. They marched on the street to protest, including Long Yunxin's' husband '!
Long Yunxin knew that her 'husband' was in a company that was about to go bankrupt because of the shortage of raw materials. He had been in a terrible mood recently. Occasionally, he would stare at the wall and mumble to himself.
Long Yunxin was worried. She walked to the street and shouted her husband's name in the crowded crowd.
A scorching airwave suddenly rose up in front of her, and a cluster of intense black smoke was popping up!
Along with devastating exclamations, Long Yunxin heard the shrieks of crystal bombs tearing apart the air. It was the last sound that she heard in the game.
"Ahhh!"
Long Yunxin was suddenly woken up from the game. She had lost the mentality of a bystander at some point and was completely mired in the game.
As if she had just escaped from a nightmare, she breathed for almost a minute before her heartbeat gradually calmed down.
However, when she filtered the details of the life of an ordinary person, she breathed heavily again.
Because she realized that it was exactly the story where the suppression turned into a massacre when she was playing the second game.
That explains a lot. Everything that I'm going through as an ordinary person right now was caused by myself!
Long Yunxin vaguely figured out the true meaning of the game 'Civilization'.
She was not a fan of simulation operations and strategy games, but she was not averse to role-playing.
Then, she played more than ten different characters in the Curly Dragon civilization. However, they all had one thing in common, which was that they were all unimportant people who just went with the flow.
Some of them were the chairmen of the trade unions who tried their best to fight for more rights for their members.
Some of them were the soldiers in the army who participated in the suppression and the massacre.
Some of them were miners who were mining on the resource planets at the edge of the cosmos, only to be killed miserably deep inside the mother lodes due to accidents.
Some of them were the closest family members of the deceased miners.
The more she got in touch with the social bottom of the Curly Dragon civilization, the more complicated Long Yunxin's mind became.
The resources on a planet are limited. In order for a civilization to flourish and last forever, we have to jump out of the planet!
However, it is not easy to jump out of the planet. It is very possible that we will waste decades of time, consume astronomical resources, and perform tragedies in countless families, only to end up with nothing in the end!
"It is too difficult for a civilization to develop, let alone develop, just to survive in the sea of stars! Too difficult! Too difficult!"
Long Yunxin had a lot of mixed feelings.
She had planned to choose more civilizations and try the life of the ordinary people in the Medicine Fork Sector, the Martial Meritocrats Sector, and even the Sand Primitive Sector.
However, a line of glittering words at the bottom of the main menu attracted her attention.
It seemed that she had met certain conditions during the game just now and activated a brand-new module of the game.
The module was an DLC of the game 'Civilization' named 'Rise of the Imperium'.
Above these words, which were made of steel and emitted a faint smell of smoke, was a black lightning war flag that covered the sky. Below the war flag was a black silhouette in full armor.
In recent years, the rumors about the Imperium of True Human Beings had been spreading all over the three Sectors. Dozens of versions of the story, including the rise of Blackstar the Great, were spreading everywhere.
Long Yunxin immediately guessed that the DLC should be about Wuying Qi's rise after he came to the Star Ocean Republic, stole the highest power, and eventually ascended to the throne and established the Imperium of True Human Beings.
As she expected, according to the introduction of the DLC, 'Rise of the Imperium' was a brand-new world based on the enormous database and computational ability of 'Civilization'. The main map was focused on the Star Ocean Republic, the most prosperous place in the world of human beings.
The players were free to choose the roles that they would play. They could be the representatives of the parliament of the Star Ocean Republic, the leaders of the major sects with a long history, the generals of the central army who guarded the capital, the local leaders of the half-independent worlds at the border … They could accelerate, delay, support, or stop the arrival of the Imperium of True Human Beings in different identities.
Of course, if they were willing, they could also play Wuying Qi himself and experience the black road of rise from the perspective of 'Blackstar the Great'.
However, right now, most of the functional modules were still being perfected, and none of the above identities had been implemented yet. There were only a few roles that the testers could play.
Long Yunxin chose a random one from the list of unattractive names. After a flash of light, she seemed to have entered a brand-new world.
Tremendous streams of information flowed into her brain incessantly.
She was a common citizen of the Star Ocean Republic, and her husband was an experienced specialist in the structure of mines.
Ten years ago, she came to the tiny resource planet with her husband and settled down. She worked in a primary school attached to the mining area and gave birth to two lovely babies, a son and a daughter. Her life was warm and peaceful, as if it would be great if she could stay like that forever.
The war shattered their peaceful life. The resource planet was occupied by the aggressive enemy. The command center that had been deployed on the planet retreated in a hurry, leaving the civilians behind.
They did not give up resistance. Many of the remaining soldiers and the young adults among the civilians crawled into the complicated tunnels and fought hard, defending the dignity of the Star Ocean Republic in vain.
Although her husband did not directly join the underground resistance forces, he provided help for the resistance forces with his professional knowledge. He even turned their home into the secret meeting place of the resistance forces at the risk of his life.
The game devoted a lot of computational ability and special effects to the story of an unknown person, creating a world where it was impossible to distinguish reality from illusion. Long Yunxin felt that it was both real and unreal.
She seemed to 'see' herself holding her daughter and her son, pretending to be taking a walk in front of the house, but in fact, she was keeping an eye out for the members of the resistance group at home.
She could even clearly feel her own tension, worry, anger, and hatred mixed together. It was an indescribable feeling.
Will the enemy discover the existence of the resistance group? How will they retaliate if they do?
"Will our army come back?"
I don't care about myself, but will my son and my daughter be able to return to the embrace of the motherland and grow up safely and healthily?
Long Yunxin considered herself as the character in the game and thought worriedly.
Right then, she suddenly felt that the earth was shivering softly. Then, she smelled an intense burnt smell. Hundreds of deep blue electric arcs dashed out of the horizon, as if ten thousand volcanoes that were filled with lightning were erupting at the same time!
She saw that countless starships of the enemy took off in a hurry, only to be caught, torn apart, and shattered by the electric arcs before they broke out of the boundary of the gravity sphere!
But before she had the chance to cheer, the lightning had turned into an overwhelming tide that swept across the entire planet and swallowed all the enemies, the warriors of the resistance group, and all the civilians including herself and her children!
Long Yunxin struggled out of the game again.
She was as cold as a dead person from head to toe. The only thing that could be heard was the cracking of her teeth.
She knew who she was playing now.
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