Energy Ores were actually Star Cores!
Xu Sili looked at the information that he had just found. His beautiful purple eyes lit up slightly, and he smiled slightly.
He had seen the post about collecting Star Cores before, but he had never tried to find out what a Star Core was. He thought that it was just a normal material.
His curiosity was piqued, so he looked up what a Star Core was, and he made an unexpected discovery.
Star Cores were similar to the inner cores of beasts. They were produced by Interstellar Beasts in the wild. They were classified according to the Interstellar Beast's level.
A Level 3 Energy Ores were required to upgrade to a Level 3 Main City, which was a Three-Star Beast's Star Core!
He had never thought of such a common setting before.
After all, the players' main mission was to destroy the Interstellar Beasts. Other than the main mission, the Interstellar Beasts must have other things that attracted the players.
This Star Core was a very important material.
It could be used to create equipment, upgrade Main Cities, activate and maintain the operation of formations, and was even one of the important materials to create battleships and spaceships.
In the later stages, when the players entered the universe and started to come into contact with Mechs, the Star Core became a very rare Mech material and Energy Ores.
In the beginning, the Roland Empire accumulated some initial wealth by selling Star Cores. After it developed rapidly, it was no longer sold as a strategic resource reserve.
In short, Star Cores had many uses!
Until now, no one in the Roland Empire knew about this because its use was only discovered by the players after the open beta.
Xu Sili could not help but admire the players' imagination.
Of course, it could also be that this setting was based on some games or novels in the past, so the players could easily associate it.
After knowing this information, Xu Sili hurriedly closed the post, and then looked in the Treasury panel.
Since the opening of the Faction Warehouse, he could check all his current assets in the panel, which was very convenient.
After browsing from the beginning, Xu Sili blinked.
Nothing?
He rummaged through the entire treasury but found no trace of the Star Core.
He was stunned for a while, but soon he understood.
The use of a Star Core had not been discovered yet. The meat and bones of the Interstellar Beasts were treasures, and even their fur was very rare material. But a Star Core …
It was probably disposed of like garbage.
Thinking about this, Xu Sili could not help but feel heartache.
It had been almost a hundred years since the natural disaster. How many interstellar beasts had he killed?
Not a single Star Core was left …
Xu Sili didn't dare to think about it anymore. He turned around and sent a message to Wen Jishan, asking him to issue an order that in the future, all interstellar beasts must have their cores dug out and handed over to the government.
It would take some time for the policy to be announced, so he posted another mission on the mercenary platform to purchase Star Cores.
One star core was worth 100 points, two star cores were worth 1000 points, three star cores were worth 10000 points …
And so on.
This price was a little high at the moment. After all, they had been treated as garbage in the past. Suddenly, someone was buying at a high price. No matter how one thought about it, there was a problem.
However, Xu Sili also had his own persistence.
He admired and was soft-hearted towards these mercenaries who lived on the edge of their blades, so he didn't trick them.
Of course, if someone deliberately refused to sell and wanted to raise the price, he would just let them rot in his hands. After all, when the policy was implemented, the army and players would continuously provide him with Star Cores.
The purchasing location was the headquarters of the Mercenary Association. There were robots helping him collect the goods, so he didn't have to worry about that.
After posting the mission, Xu Sili looked at the elite life profession mission.
Out of the 38 players left, only 24 had reached Level 5. Among them, there were about five to six Wood Elementalists and Fire Elementalists.
Xu Sili wasn't greedy. He wanted to recruit these people to help him create the first batch of blood potions.
With this batch of blood potions, whether it was the soldiers at the frontline or the escort team deep in the forest, the survival rate would be greatly increased.
As for the newly obtained blue potion formula …
Xu Sili hesitated for a while, but he still sent a copy to Su Lin.
Although this kid wasn't an NPC with special talents, he had surprised him twice. The first time was in the snow valley, and the second time was in the blood potion.
He had a passion for research. Perhaps he could throw all the research and development work to him.
However …
Xu Sili couldn't bear to see the haggard appearance of the three kids, especially Su Lin. His face was so thin that there was no flesh left.
They were still 16 or 17 years old …
He thought about it and put down the milk tea in his hand. He said, "Si Sheng, let's go."
Si Sheng got up and followed him. He watched as the young man walked slowly on the street and walked in the direction they came from. He didn't ask anything and just followed silently.
Xu Sili didn't return to the small wooden house.
He stopped in the woods behind the small wooden house. The weather was getting colder, but the trees were still green. It would take a while for the trees to turn yellow.
The environment here was good.
Xu Sili took a deep breath and extended his mental strength.
Now that he was Level 19, his mental strength could detect up to 50 meters away. Su Lin's small wooden house was within his detection range.
Every time Xu Sili used his mental strength to detect, he felt that it was very strange. After penetrating the wooden planks, the scene in the small wooden house appeared faintly in his mind.
The details weren't particularly clear, but he could clearly "see" Su Lin and the others.
Seeing that they were seriously making the potion, Xu Sili smiled slightly. With a slight thought, he used a leader skill that he hadn't used before.
[Pointers]
Description: You can designate a person and strengthen one of their attributes for a short period of time. The strengthening lasts for 10 minutes.
Special effect: Ignore level difference.
Magic consumption: 500 points.
He designated Su Lin and strengthened his Intelligence and Spirit. Then, he used [Insight] and found that …
Su Lin's Intelligence and Spirit attributes were directly increased by ten times.
Xu Sili couldn't help but be speechless.
This strengthening is too awesome!
He couldn't help but glance at Si Sheng. He thought to himself, If I use this skill on Si Sheng, wouldn't I be invincible?
Even if it's only for 10 minutes, it's still awesome!
No, it's not just awesome, it's godly.
After all, Si Sheng now had more than 1 million HP. If he strengthened his physique tenfold, wouldn't he have more than 10 million HP?
That's terrifying.
Xu Sili was shocked by this idea of his, but … it was indeed feasible.
If the original Snow Roland hadn't colluded with the enemy and wasn't killed, with the two leader skills [Insight] and [Pointers], coupled with Si Sheng's support, he could be said to be invincible in the later stages of the game with the addition of the Fourth Disaster!
The game team had spent a lot of effort on this character. Unfortunately …
Xu Sili shook his head and continued to focus on Su Lin and the other two.
Su Lin was looking at the communication device. Perhaps he was looking at the recipe that he had just sent.
With the support of his skills, he could clearly see that Su Lin's expression suddenly changed. Then, he took out a pen and paper and scribbled down the recipe.
The Intelligence and Spirit attributes could improve one's thinking ability and make the brain clearer. This was something that Xu Sili deeply experienced.
He didn't know what kind of inspiration Su Lin would be able to get from the 10-minute duration.
Xu Sili didn't pay much attention to it. What he could gain from it all depended on Su Lin's own luck.
He retracted his attention and looked at Su Lin's status bar. He was overly tired and his HP was decreasing at a very slow rate.
Eh, wait a minute …
Xu Sili was slightly stunned. He saw that Su Lin's HP cap was decreasing instead of increasing!
Although it wasn't very fast, Xu Sili was still shocked.
He never thought that the HP cap could decrease. He frowned and thought for a while. He quickly understood.
HP was actually HP and represented vitality. Su Lin had been researching day and night and hadn't gotten enough rest. In fact, his body had been greatly depleted.
This also affected his lifespan, which was why his HP cap was decreasing.
Xu Sili pursed his lips.
Although he urgently needed the MP Recovery Potion, this didn't mean that he wanted Su Lin to sacrifice his HP to do such a thing.
Draining the pond to catch all the fish was not a wise thing to do.
He looked at Su Ye and Gu Lie next to him. The MP Recovery Potion was obviously made by them. Even without Su Lin's participation, they seemed to be at ease.
After thinking for a while, Xu Sili paid attention to Su Lin. Then, he opened his mouth slightly and began to sing in a low voice.
"Roland's Goodnight Song".
It was a very peaceful and gentle song. It could make the listener feel as if they had returned to their mother's warm embrace and unknowingly fell into a deep sleep.
Currently, he could already limit the range of his skills to a specific person.
Seeing Su Lin suddenly stop writing, his eyelids began to droop, but he tried his best to resist sleepiness. In the end, he had no choice but to fall asleep. Xu Sili couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.
If he had known earlier, he wouldn't have enhanced his attributes so early.
Ten minutes. He only maintained the [Inspiration Burst] state for two minutes. However, in these two minutes, Su Lin's HP cap had decreased by 100.
Of course, compared to the total amount, it was not a big deal. However, who knew if there would be any side effects?
Xu Sili didn't want to gamble. He still quite liked Su Lin.
He just didn't know if the loss of HP cap was due to the negative effect of [Pointers] or Su Lin's physique.
He noted this question down and decided to experiment later.
Su Lin fell into a deep sleep. Xu Sili's Lullaby was quickly finished, but he didn't stop. Instead, he continued to sing "Germinal."
Since Germinal was a skill that could restore HP, it should be beneficial to life. Anyway, there was no harm in listening to it more. It could also increase elemental affinity.
This time, even Su Ye and Gu Lie heard the song.
Gu Lie muttered as he controlled the fire element, "Is the mayor playing 'Germinal' again? I feel that today's version is better than the previous version. "
Su Ye's face was calm as she focused on the crucible.
"Focus, don't be distracted."
After being reprimanded, Gu Lie couldn't help but twitch his mouth. However, the current him wasn't like the time when he was in school. He didn't go tit for tat with Su Ye.
Although he was clearly unhappy, the red-haired boy only responded with a low "Oh."
It was quiet inside and outside the small wooden house. Only Xu Sili's voice echoed in the ears of the three boys.
After their HP was restored to its peak, the song continued to stimulate their bodies, subtly increasing their elemental affinity.
After a long time, Xu Sili finally stopped singing.
The three boys in the small wooden house had already reached their peak state. Even the negative buff on Su Lin had disappeared.
He looked away with satisfaction and turned his head to see Si Sheng looking at him intently.
Xu Sili felt a little uncomfortable being stared at. He asked, "What's wrong?"
Si Sheng smiled slightly. "Your Majesty sang really well."
Xu Sili blinked. Huh? That's not right …
"You can hear me sing?"
Although he had opened his mouth to sing, the range of his movements wasn't very big. This was because he was mainly controlling the sound element. He didn't need to make his voice very loud …
However, Xu Sili quickly thought of something.
This freakishly strong man could also control the sound element! It wasn't strange at all that he could hear his voice.
Xu Sili twitched his mouth and avoided eye contact to hide his embarrassment.
Seeing him avoid eye contact, Si Sheng didn't say anything. He lowered his eyelashes slightly, covering his beautiful grayish-blue eyes.
His thin lips were slightly pursed, and his handsome face once again showed a hint of depression and grievance. He looked like an abandoned puppy.
Xu Sili glanced at him and couldn't help but bite his lip.
He couldn't stand Si Sheng like this … It was so strange.
He turned to leave, but before he could take a step, he couldn't help but turn back and ask, "What's wrong with you?"
He was probably waiting for him to ask. When he heard his question, Si Sheng looked up with his deep, starry eyes and looked at him quietly.
Xu Sili's heart skipped a beat.
His deep voice rang out softly in the small forest.
"I hope that one day, Your Majesty will sing for me."
After saying that, he added with special emphasis, "Only for this official."
Xu Sili stared at him blankly.
The man's voice echoed in the forest. The sound element clearly hit his eardrums, but it also seemed to hit his heart directly.
"Lub-dub —"
His heart skipped a beat.
Xu Sili looked into Si Sheng's eyes, which reflected his appearance. The dazed young man was at a loss.
After looking at each other for a long time, he seemed to have thought of something and hurriedly looked away. "Uh … let's go back. We've been out for a long time …"
He didn't continue his sentence.
Si Sheng lowered his eyelashes slightly to hide the darkness in his eyes.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
He didn't force him and used his mind to summon the shadow leopard.
The shadow leopard landed on the grass, and its green eyes moved between the two of them. It could clearly feel that the atmosphere was a little strange.
It didn't dare to say anything and obediently lay on the ground, fulfilling its duty as a mount.
Xu Sili climbed up first.
Si Sheng landed behind him and hugged him with one hand, trapping him in his arms. He was already used to this, but at this moment, he inexplicably felt his face heat up.
Suppressing that strange feeling, Xu Sili ordered Jiu Yue to take off.
The shadow leopard was already used to listening to him. After being together for so long, it already understood that it could ignore its master's words, but it definitely couldn't ignore this little emperor.
It growled in response, then its shadow wings grew and it flew into the blue sky.
The harmonious atmosphere was no longer there, and at this moment, it seemed a little stiff.
The two masters didn't speak, so the shadow leopard didn't dare to make a sound. But when it entered the palace, it suddenly had a bad feeling.
It couldn't be considered a crisis. It was just an inexplicable uncomfortable feeling, as if something unpleasant was about to happen.
The shadow leopard frowned and wanted to investigate further, but Si Sheng had already put it back into the contract space.
Jiu Yue had no choice but to wait until the next opportunity to come out and take a look.
Xu Sili returned to his bedroom. After sending Si Sheng away, his strange mood didn't subside.
Recently, he was …
Getting weirder and weirder!
The young man paced back and forth in his bedroom and finally decided to go to the secret room to continue watching the players' escort progress.
In the surveillance video, a long canyon that could only accommodate one person appeared. The middle section of the canyon was bigger, and the escort team of nearly 200 people were gathered in this canyon.
And at the entrance of the canyon …
"Roar —"
An unknown interstellar beast was stuck there, roaring angrily and wanting to break in. And the players and NPCs …
Were beating it up?
That's right, because the entrance of the canyon was narrow, the interstellar beast couldn't break in immediately, and the vice-captain, who was a metal-type warrior, blocked the front.
The vice-captain had strengthened his body with the metal element, and there were two Light Elementalists continuously casting Light Healing at him. Araiko was also standing behind him, casting Healing Stream on him from time to time.
So, although he would occasionally be wounded, he still managed to get a lot of aggro on him.
Behind him, his comrades kept shooting at the interstellar beast with laser guns. Not long after, there was an unwilling roar —
The interstellar beast fell to the ground, its head blown off by a player.
This player was the young man named Hua Sui.
"F * ck, Hua Sui stole the kill again!"
"So what? Everyone's EXP is divided equally. If it's killed by an NPC, we won't get any EXP."
"Master Hua, you're awesome!"
Hua Sui raised his chin with a cold expression.
Looking at this scene, Xu Sili was a little dumbfounded.
That's not right, aren't you guys in a hurry? Why are you suddenly here … Using a bug to level up?
What made him even more dumbfounded was that a female player walked up and touched the interstellar beast, and then the behemoth-like interstellar beast … disappeared!
Xu Sili blinked and quickly sensed something.
He opened the faction storage and found that there were a few more interstellar beast corpses in his storage, and the energy needed for the laser gun was much less.
Seeing this, he suddenly understood …
So, after the players killed the monsters, they directly handed the corpses to the country in exchange for reputation, then used the reputation to exchange for energy to replenish supplies, and let the NPCs be free laborers to help them level up?
He had to admit that this was a really good idea.
Looking at Li Lai's expression, it was obvious that he was convinced by the players.
So, how did they discuss the action plan? Didn't they say on the shuttle that this operation was to keep advancing and not to fight the interstellar beasts no matter how strong or weak they were?
In the monitor, Li Lai flew out of the canyon again and quickly lured another interstellar beast back. He familiarly let the vice-captain block it and then continued to fight the monsters.
Xu Sili was speechless.
The players were the best!
These 81 players were going to be led astray by the NPCs.
But …
The stronger the players were, the more likely they would be able to complete this escort mission without any losses. This was a good idea.
Xu Sili didn't care if the players' strength was unbalanced or not. Players who could create benefits for him were good players, and he didn't mind providing benefits to such people.
Looking at the huge consumption of energy, he went on the Star Web and ordered another batch, which would probably arrive the next day.
Xu Sili looked at the extra interstellar beast corpses in the faction storage and found that they were basically one or two stars.
He couldn't help but twitch his mouth.
A three-star beast was needed to upgrade the imperial city to level three. Thinking about the frozen beast that was cut in half by Si Sheng, Xu Sili felt his heart ache.
It was a level three star core, and he didn't pick it up!
Xu Sili looked at it for a while, then looked away in boredom and looked at the monitor of the Glazed Ocean City team.
They obviously didn't find such a good terrain here, so they were still on the road. There weren't any casualties yet, but he felt that …
The same situation would probably happen here soon.
After all, the players were all in cahoots.
After three days, Xu Sili still didn't find a three-star beast's star core.
The interstellar beasts blocking the road were basically one or two stars, and there were very few three-star beasts. The frozen beast from last time was the first and only three-star beast they encountered this year.
According to Wen Jishan, it took a lot of soldiers to take it down.
As for the interstellar beasts that they killed in the past, some of their star cores were left behind.
Star cores were very ornamental, so they were considered rare gems that were circulated among the nobles. It would take time to collect them now.
Also, not everyone was willing to take them out.
This made Xu Sili feel troubled.
In the end, he thought of Si Sheng.
Anyway, Si Sheng was so strong, so it would be easy for him to bring back a three-star beast.
Also, the flying monitor had captured a three-star rock beast. With Si Sheng's strength close to eight stars, it would be more than enough to deal with a three-star beast.
Thus, he sent a message to Si Sheng and sent him the information about the rock beast. He told him to go to the border of Orchid City immediately and bring back a three-star core.
Si Sheng accepted the order and left the inner city, heading to the border to hunt for three-star beasts.
Xu Sili waited for the star core while following up on the construction of Doha Town.
As the Elementalist team grew, the construction speed increased day by day. The influx of people from the slums also allowed the town's population to meet the requirements for leveling up.
As long as they solved the problem of food and clothing, Doha Town would be able to level up to Level 2 very soon. When that time came, Si Sheng would bring back the star core, and the town would be able to level up to Level 3 Imperial City!
Xu Sili thought about the future and continued to pay attention to the situation of the escort team.
The two team leaders were still rational and weren't completely fooled by the players. When they felt that it was about time, they continued on their way.
However, their condition was obviously much better because —
The resources that could be exchanged in the faction storage were all used up or thrown away by the players in advance. This greatly reduced the burden on the Warriors.
In addition, in these three days, Xu Sili had a new batch of blood potions and restricted them to only the players of the escort team. This was to prevent the players from the other main cities from snatching them up.
With the protection of the blood potions, the Warriors could effectively preserve their lives when they were attacked. With Araiko and the two Light Healers, when they reached a safe zone, they would be strong again!
However, as the environment became more and more dangerous, the Healing Stream and Healing Light spells gradually couldn't keep up. They could only rely on the blood potions to hang on.
Fortunately, until they passed through the Morris Mountains, other than a dozen players who had "gloriously sacrificed" themselves, there were no Warriors who died.
Of course, the players didn't care. After all, they could be resurrected. However, the Warriors were very depressed. Some of them had already established deep friendships with the players, and even considered them to be best friends in life and death.
Faced with the continuous "deaths" of their teammates, their emotions were greatly affected.
Although the players later explained that these people could be resurrected, none of the Warriors believed them at all. They only felt that the players were too sad and had started to imagine things.
The players were driven crazy, but they couldn't prove themselves —
This was because most of the players who died were directly killed by the Interstellar Beasts. In such a dangerous situation, it was difficult for their teammates to retrieve their bodies.
Unable to explain clearly, the players could only give up. Anyway, they would understand when they saw the players in the future.
However, in general, in the escort team, no players treated the NPCs as emotionless data anymore.
The friendship cultivated in the midst of danger was deep and sincere, and it was unforgettable.
Xu Sili could feel the change in him.
He was naturally gratified and happy. However, he soon received a piece of news that made him even happier —
Under Nia's treatment, Cha Mo finally regained consciousness!
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