Ling Xiaole paused for a moment and said, "If you are still suspicious, we can arrange for you to run into the 'former soldiers of the Imperium'. With your capabilities, you will be able to tell whether or not their deep-rooted hatred for the Imperium is faked after a few words."
Li Yao thought for a moment and shook his head. "That will be unnecessary. Let's go to the 'Civilization Center' as soon as possible. I can't wait any longer."
Heiye Lan was the pilot of the strongest Colossus in the captured claw fleet of the Imperium. She was also the daughter of the commander of the Black Wind Fleet.
Even if she did not know the bottom-level soldiers, it was possible that they would not recognize her.
Naturally, before they jumped to the Dragon Snake Space Zone, Li Yao had asked Long Yangjun to deeply disguise Heiye Lan's face and give her a fake name, too.
However, judging from Heiye Lan's unsteady belief right now, it was very likely that she would be seen through if she were to talk and laugh with the few 'former soldiers of the Imperium'.
How should he put it? The New Federation after a hundred years was indeed more advanced and perfect than Li Yao had imagined. However, many aspects, such as the statue whose head was full of coins, felt strange to him.
The dominator of three Sectors, the father of 'Civilization', and even … the father of the New Federation?
Li Yao shuddered in silence.
If his internal organs had goosebumps, they would've been standing on end right now.
Those titles gave him the feeling that he had been dead for a hundred years and had become an out-and-out 'ancient person'.
He could understand it. Perhaps it was because of the need to unite the seven Sectors. Perhaps it was because certain heroes of the past had to be deified in order to resist the Imperium. Or maybe it was because the interest groups that were attached to him, such as the Glorious Sunlight Group, Skyfire, the Double Dragons Union, the Grand Desolate War Institution, and so on, had been promoting him in secret for better development. Eventually, the image of 'Vulture Li Yao' was sent to the altar.
He could understand this, but it didn't mean that he would be bound by this altar. In his heart, he still preferred to wear beach pants and eat iced watermelon, slowly exploring this interesting and strange new world in a more low-key way.
Therefore, it was better not to expose any loopholes for now.
Otherwise … with the density of the audience and the importance that people attached to 'luck', he would probably be smashed to death by the overwhelming coins in five minutes.
Inside the lobby of the 'Civilization' game …
This was a magnificent palace. It was so deep that one could not see the end of it. The 3D cabins on both sides were densely packed like honeycombs. They were all equipped with the most advanced immersive game systems. The players could fly to the upper floors easily through the floating discs that could come and go as they pleased.
At the center of the lobby was the arena and the activity area. Many experts of the game would choose to compete in the fierce DLCs in the arenas, such as the Virtual Crystal Suit Battles, the Colossus Battles, the space fleet encounters, and so on. Next to the arenas, the young men and women in fancy clothes who were dressed as game characters were cheering for them. The atmosphere could not have been more lively. No wonder so many people were still craving for the 'Civilization' game center when every household had a game cabin.
Above their heads were thousands of enormous 3D light beams. Every 3D light beam was in the shape of a round ball, like a colorful giant jellyfish. They were expanding, swallowing, rolling, and extending tentacles of light, congregating into a colorful, splendid ocean of light.
Despite Li Yao's computational ability, he still felt dizzy the moment he stepped into the lobby of the game. It was too much for his eyes to take in.
He was like a tiny fish that had barged into a boundless tide of giant jellyfish all of a sudden. Inside the translucent body of every 'giant jellyfish' next to him and above his head, a vivid, marvelous world was being nurtured, developed, collided, and perished!
There was a saying in the world of ancient Cultivators.
One grain of sand, one world; one flower, one pagoda.
It was a training term that the Cultivators used to cleanse their soul. But in the modern society of Cultivators, with the outbreak of advanced technology and information technology, it was turned into a real reality.
Every giant 3D light beam represented the world that a player was immersed in, and it bloomed slowly.
It could be seen that a lot of players had chosen to enter the world of 'The Imperium's Retaliation'. They were either commanders, captains, or the most excellent cannoneers, power specialists, and commandos on the starships. Together with the countless players on the opposite side, they were putting on a splendid show together.
Some players, on the other hand, had chosen the worlds of business simulation. They were working hard on their own 'careers' on the resource planets, ranches, carriers, and metropolises that existed in the real world in the seven Sectors of the Federation.
The data and random events in the game were real, but the difficulty of the game could be adjusted at will, and the time of the game could be accelerated. The mainframe crystal processor could even deduce the ending of the game for a long time instead of the players. It was not too boring.
A lot of players, on the other hand, were not playing a pure virtual game but choosing to experience a real life. It was not their own life but the life of a different world and a different class.
Ling Xiaole gave Li Yao an example. A miner living on the surface of the Uranian Ring Sector might never go to the Forest Ocean Sector in person and experience the feeling of the natives of the Forest Ocean Sector galloping in the vast primitive forest on the neck of a beast because of the travel expenses and the vacation arrangements.
But it did not matter. Through certain DLCs of 'Civilization', he could be a native of the Forest Ocean Sector, a native of the Flying Star Sector, a native of the Heaven's Origin Sector, or a native of the Blood Demon Sector. In only one second, he would be able to appreciate the splendid forest, the splendid desert, the bizarre Blood Demon Sector, and the super cities where the skyscrapers in the Tian Yuan Realm extended all the way from the underground to beyond the atmosphere!
"The data of all the worlds are real. Some of them are even changing in real time. A certain player in the Tian Yuan Realm will record the scenery of a certain place in the Tian Yuan Realm through the crystal camera that he carries with him and upload it to the crystal processor and the light circuits. In the Uranian Ring Sector, the Forest Ocean Sector, the Nether World Sector, the Blood Demon Sector … Countless players are doing the same in every world. Everything that the 'eyes' of all the players see is combined into the entire 'Civilization'."
Ling Xiaole declared proudly. "From that point of view, every citizen of the federation is a producer of 'Civilization' right now. It is everybody who has been perfecting the world with their own hard work so that the virtual world will have a certain reality that surpasses reality!
Li Yao watched, felt, and groped attentively. Glittering new worlds were blossoming deep inside his eyes.
"There's also the competition of 'The Imperium's Retaliation' that is going on right now. Although the difficulty of the game that some players have chosen is not high and the tactics are very naïve, the data is mostly real."
Ling Xiaole continued, "The data is collected from other DLCs. It is the essence of all the data in the past decades. For example, there was an DLC named 'Starship Commander' before. Countless players provided tremendous data about every post on a starship over the past decades. After all the data was packaged, it could be distributed to every starship in the DLC of 'The Imperium's Retaliation' as a unified 'data package'.
"In such a way, even if an ordinary player is engaged in a relatively low-level competition, the status and changes of all the starships under his command will not be deduced by the crystal processor but the real reactions made by other 'living' players a long time ago.
"In such a way, we have ensured that the ordinary players can get the most real experience even in a standalone game.
"In such a way, the billions of players will play the game day after day and year after year and make all kinds of decisions. Some of the decisions may be wrong, hilarious, or absurd, but does it matter? All we need to do is to find the 0.00001% correct decision! "
Ling Xiaole smiled confidently and guided Li Yao and Heiye Lan to the depths of the hall.
Very soon, the three of them reached the center of the hall.
Li Yao, however, was deeply attracted by the three particularly magnificent light beams above his head.
He discovered that the three worlds of light beams, each of which was almost fifty meters in diameter, were the center of the hall. The other worlds of light beams triggered by the players were all floating around them.
Li Yao craned his neck and observed for a long time. The more he looked at them, the more familiar he found them. He couldn't help but ask, "What are they?"
"They are three very ancient DLCs. One might even say that they are the starting point of the entire 'Civilization'."
Indescribable pride beamed out of Ling Xiaole's watery eyes again. She said, "More than a hundred years ago, Vulture Li Yao, the greatest hero of the old Federation, encountered the Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium on Kunlun. In order to brainwash him, the Immortal Cultivators showed him the history of the decline of some civilizations of the Cultivators, including the Curly Dragon civilization, the Medicine Fork civilization, the Martial Meritocrats civilization, and the Sand Primitive civilization.
"When the game 'Civilization' was first made, the solutions to save the three civilizations of the Cultivators became the content of the first batch of DLCs.
"At that time, the game 'Civilization' had just taken off. The players were of different levels. Even the professional politicians or the experts in the Nascent Soul Stage who boasted remarkable computational ability did not have a clear idea about the problems that a civilization might encounter in its thousand years of development.
"Therefore, for decades, the most difficult DLCs and the subsequent upgraded versions that were more complicated, difficult, and realistic were never cracked by anybody.
"However, as the popularity of 'Civilization' and the participation of new worlds, the players' level improved nonstop. Finally, somebody came up with a solution.
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