Soon, a month had passed.
In the game, it was equivalent to twenty months.
During this time, Li Dong launched a series of diplomatic actions, the content of which was roughly the same: to neighboring countries, he expressed the hope to establish a non-aggression, long-term peaceful bilateral relationship, strengthen bilateral economic and trade cooperation, and even establish regional economic and trade organizations, to complement each other and bring economic growth.
It just so happened that the Bregslo Kingdom was surrounded by many small countries, and their military power was far inferior to the Bregslo Kingdom. Li Dong believed that his invitation to strengthen economic and trade cooperation should receive a positive response.
"I'm sorry, but there is no need to strengthen economic and trade cooperation between the two countries."
"Our industrial and agricultural industries can't withstand the impact of your country's cheap goods. Maintaining the status quo is enough."
There were even arrogant and rude remarks. "Our country has no interest in your country's goods, but there is a disputed territory of 300,000 square kilometers. If Bregslo is willing to return this territory, the two sides can establish comprehensive economic and trade relations."
This led to a large number of voices in the Bregslo Kingdom to use force to punish the provocateurs, which made Li Dong feel quite pressured.
"Don't I just want to use economic cooperation to make everyone's cake bigger and increase the resources and wealth in our hands? Although the economic growth brought by this is only equivalent to a few percent of GDP, at least the cake will be bigger. "
Li Dong shook his head. A few percent was also an improvement. Almost none of the modern wars brought huge wealth, and usually only bloody losses.
Doing what Li Dong did, on the contrary, could get some positive ratings.
It was just that the players who controlled other countries didn't care about the small profits at all. They wanted to eat fat in one go and dominate the entire planet.
Therefore, only a dozen or so small non-neighboring countries responded and agreed to strengthen economic and trade relations.
But at this time, after finding enough reasons to declare war, the war still inevitably broke out.
However, in order to avoid low ratings or withdrawal from the game, the major countries signed the "No Use of Nuclear Weapons Treaty," which was scheduled to use only conventional weapons to fight a war with limited destructive power.
Three superpowers, fifteen major countries, 48 medium-sized countries, and more than ten billion people were all involved.
All kinds of stealth fighters, mecha legions, heavy tank legions … and other sharp weapons, after being put into the battlefield, were still terrifyingly efficient in reaping lives.
After only a month of fighting (equivalent to 20 months in the game), more than 200 million people had been lost. The participating countries were all furious, and there were many voices of whether or not to use nuclear weapons.
Li Dong, on the other hand, pulled together an alliance of neutral countries. Three major countries and ten middle-sized countries joined in, strictly adhering to the principle of neutrality, but maintaining the state of "all citizens are soldiers". Once a neutral country is invaded, the other neutral countries are obligated to provide assistance, which is "joint self-defense" … Li Dong pulled together a relatively large force.
On the 66th day of the internal testing.
A player made an explosive post on the forum:
"Alien forces are about to arrive"
The post said, "I control a superpower in the game and have the ability to build large-scale observation facilities in space."
"Yesterday, an official from the astronomy department told me that the space telescope discovered a huge alien fleet rapidly approaching Planet Nidru."
"They are expected to arrive in three days. If we don't establish perfect defense measures during this time, the alien fleet will drive straight in like a sword, piercing into the heart of Planet Nidru, wiping out all the forces and occupying the planet."
"I think this is the purpose of Xing Hai Technologies. Humans are not a threat. Aliens are the biggest enemy and the ultimate challenge!"
"If we can't reach an agreement in a short period of time and concentrate all resources and strength to resist the challenge, there is no doubt that destruction will befall us! As for the game score, it's impossible to get much. "
"Hurry up and stop the war! Don't consume too much resources in killing each other. Concentrate all your forces together. We must withstand the attack of the alien fleet before the end of the internal testing. At that time, the system will reward us with points and scores! "
The alien fleet.
All the players were taken aback.
"What kind of godly twist is Xing Hai Technologies playing? Even aliens have appeared. I've just destroyed five countries. "
"The main enemy now is the aliens. Stop the ongoing war immediately?"
"In this round of the internal testing, the astronomy department also said that they found abnormalities in space and observed many red dots."
"Stop the war? That's impossible! The country I control is a democracy. Now the parliament is controlled by fanatical soldiers. Once I stop the war, I will immediately step down! "
"They're already in a killing frenzy. They can't stop at all."
"This is bad! All the nuclear weapons have been used. It's impossible to stop the aliens. "
…
"They've even arranged for alien forces?"
"The so-called 'ultimate challenge' is probably that wave of aliens." Li Dong shook his head.
He finally understood the intention of Xing Hai Technologies. They wanted to use a small test to tell the players that war could never be solved simply. They also needed to have wisdom in other aspects.
For example, diplomacy, economic and trade exchanges, cultural exchanges, and so on.
This was the true meaning of Galaxy Era. It was also in line with the specific situation in reality.
It was not just a pure war.
…
Very soon.
The internal testing was on the 93rd day. It could be said that it was coming to an end.
Of the 50 million players who participated in the test, less than one in ten thousand were still struggling in the game.
Around 10 o 'clock in the morning.
Li Dong took off the virtual helmet on his head and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Cai Qinghai quickly leaned over and asked, "How is it, boss? What score did you get? Did you survive that wave of aliens? "
"No," Li Dong said helplessly.
"The aliens are too strong. They integrated all their forces and launched all the nuclear weapons, but it was useless. Only half of the alien fleet was destroyed. In the end, after a few days of guerrilla warfare on land, everyone died."
"How many points did you get?" Liu Yichen, his roommate, asked.
"Resource points: 0 + reputation points: 87,000 + time points: 9,300 … a total of 96,000 points. I got an A- grade evaluation."
"F * ck, boss. Isn't your reputation points too exaggerated? 87,000. According to the conversion formula, you've united 8.7 billion humans to your side, listened to your orders, and dealt a heavy blow to the aliens … How did you do it? "Cai Qinghai exclaimed.
"President, among the people I know, the one with the highest score only got 36,000 points. Aren't you exaggerating?" Mu Wanqiu, who was in the chat group, was also very surprised.
"It's just so-so."
Li Dong smiled modestly. "I very much agree with what Big Boss Chen said: The most precious resource is nothing else but people! If we follow this principle, we can always achieve some unexpected results. "
Especially in times of crisis, the importance of people was even greater. If enough people were united, enough resources would be gathered.
"Hmm."
Cai Qinghai, Liu Yichen, and Mu Wanqiu all nodded thoughtfully.
The closed beta testing of the large-scale online virtual game "Galaxy Era" was basically over.
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