Three Kingdoms Mythology World.

"Phew!! We've finally arrived... According to the scouts, the feudal lords who set off for Luoyang have been here for quite some time now." Zhang Xueying, weary from her journey, sighed with a touch of fatigue.

"We can't afford to use too many military talismans, there's nothing we can do. Those feudal lords have deep pockets." Beitang Xue sighed softly.

"So what's next? Should we contact Lin Mu?" Zhang Xueying asked, a blush rising on her face.

“Of course we need to contact them. This capital city of Luoyang feels very eerie, shrouded in gloom. And look, there’s not a drop of rain outside the city, but it’s pouring inside, with rainwater constantly gushing out. There’s not a soul in sight, and the atmosphere is very oppressive,” Beitang Xue said, her brows furrowed.

"Ahem... Go and make the contact." With that, Beitang Xue gently nudged Zhang Xueying's hand with her elbow, speaking meaningfully.

"Hmph! I'll go, I'll go..."

"Lord Lin Mu, we have arrived outside Luoyang City. What are your instructions?" Zhang Xueying sent a message to Lin Mu.

"You must enter the city immediately and begin a thorough search for the meteorite."

"A meteorite?!" Zhang Xueying was slightly surprised.

“Yes! I’ll buy it at a high price! I can exchange it for a spot in the Zhou Tian Moving Technique training program! To show my sincerity, there’s no limit to the number!!!” Lin Mu replied instantly.

"You can gather more players and make a profit from the price difference!" Lin Mu sent another message.

They already knew about the meteorite falling from the sky in Luoyang, the capital city. They caused quite a stir because of it, and many players hidden within Luoyang were unfortunately hit or burned to death – the initial estimate is over seven million players… Not only that, but after their deaths, they were exonerated, a price they paid extremely high!
The capital city of Luoyang has now become a no-go zone for players, and even those players who were still hiding in the city are frantically fleeing Luoyang...

Now Lin Mu is actually telling them to go into the city, and to find meteorites!

"Be careful when searching for meteorites. Some meteorites are filled with terrifying aura. Martial generals below the Xuan rank will die if they touch them. I have already lost thousands of people."

"Furthermore, the deeper the meteorite hits the ground, the greater its value. I'll buy them at high prices. A meteorite over ten zhang (approximately 33 meters) can be exchanged for five spots to learn a cultivation technique; one between five and ten zhang can be exchanged for three; and one zhang or more can be exchanged for one spot. There's no limit, dear!" Lin Mu even acted as a customer service representative to collect meteorites...

“We can break them apart, but they don’t have to be whole. Even a complete backpack wouldn’t be enough to hold them all. We’ll collect smaller meteorites too, and we’ll calculate the quota for that later! You can also talk to Ji Beiqin and Jiang Chenglong about it. Of course, you can take them all for yourselves, but the entire city of Luoyang is too big. You hundreds of thousands of people probably can’t handle it all in just over ten days.”

Lin Mu kept sending messages, as if they had been prepared in advance.

"Special reminder: watch out for strong winds, explosions, and landslides!" Lin Mu sent another message instantly.

Zhang Xueying stared wide-eyed at the endless stream of messages.

"What's wrong?" Beitang Xue asked, frowning as she pulled Zhang Xueying aside.

"Lin Mu told us to go into the city to collect meteorites. He buys them in unlimited quantities and can even exchange them for a chance to learn the Zhou Tian Transport Technique!" Zhang Xueying said eagerly.

"Hiss!!!" Beitang Xue gasped upon hearing this.

"How was it calculated?" Beitang Xue immediately reacted and asked anxiously.

Zhang Xueying directly stated Lin Mu's price... and then gave him all the information, including his reminders.

"It seems meteorites aren't so easy to get. But for the chance to learn the Zhou Tian Transport Technique, I'll give it my all!" Beitang Xue said through gritted teeth.

"Call for backup! I'm about to call for backup!" Beitang Xue said again.

"Won't it take a long time for others to come from the territory?" Zhang Xueying asked doubtfully.

“Hehe…I have 500,000 ordinary citizens hidden in the nearby mountains…” Beitang Xue said with a sly smile.

"You...you..." Zhang Xueying hadn't expected Beitang Xue to be so...and so prescient!

"These people aren't going to the battlefield; they're basically NPCs. I'd be heartbroken if even one of them died," Beitang Xue chuckled.

The troops they led were prepared for battle and had already prepared to die. The ordinary citizens hidden within, however, were not prepared to die; this was their hidden strength, and therefore they were generally not exposed.

"Sister Xueying, you take the troops into Luoyang to collect meteorites. I'll have the lieutenants take the troops in, and I'll go find the local people," Beitang Xue instructed.

"Okay." Zhang Xueying nodded, her face full of thought.

Soon, Zhang Xueying led her troops into the city.

The water in the passageway leading into the city was already knee-deep, which shows how heavy the rain was and how long it had been falling...

After a considerable amount of time, the players finally entered the city.

Upon entering the city, Zhang Xueying spotted a crater, clearly a meteorite crater. But this crater was gushing boiling water… it looked like a dangerous place. Its excavation would be extremely difficult.

"My lord, there are some small meteorites in the houses ahead that are relatively easy to collect," someone reported shortly after.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Xueying began to issue orders, and hundreds of thousands of people began to disperse to collect meteorites. Zhang Xueying arrived at the crater where boiling water was bubbling, her brows furrowed as she looked at it.

She had a premonition that the meteorite in this crater was worth five spots for learning the Zhou Tian Transport Technique, but the difficulty of digging it out seemed harder than climbing to heaven...

"Let the professionals take a look and see if they can excavate the meteorite from the crater!"

"No... Summon those eight Earth-rank generals and let you use your attacks to bombard them!" Zhang Xueying changed her mind.

Soon, several burly figures approached and began attacking the pit. A powerful surge of earth energy erupted, causing rainwater, mud, and rocks to splash up all around them...

Outside, Zhang Xueying had the soldiers build flood control dikes and rain shelters to prevent more rainwater from flowing in.

Even so, it took eight Earth-ranked generals a full two hours to dig up the meteorite, break it into pieces, and collect it.

Even so, Zhang Xueying felt it was all worth it. Five spots to learn the Zhou Tian Transporting Technique were secured!

"My lord, after patrolling the surrounding area for ten miles, there are at least seven hundred such pits... some are even smaller... and there are even more of them..." a player reported to Zhang Xueying.

"So many... No wonder all those players are dead... This density is terrifying, but the fact that the overall framework of Luoyang, the capital, has been preserved is equally terrifying," Zhang Xueying exclaimed.

"There are many more of these impact craters, and our 400,000 troops don't feel enough!"

One pit required eight Earth-rank generals, plus 137 others to assist in pulling, digging, and blocking the rainwater. Not to mention how inefficient those below the Earth rank would be... She didn't have many Earth-rank generals...

It's important to understand that the deeper the digging goes, the greater the physical and mental exertion required. Ordinary soldiers simply can't keep up, making manual digging more cost-effective later on. This is because the deeper the digging, the greater the influence of some kind of mystical force.

"Forty meters... that deep... at most six of these teams can be formed a day, and that's without sleep. My troops can probably form ten such teams... that's sixty a day... the others are even less efficient, I don't know if they can even form one a day... a thousand men per team, that's four hundred teams..."

"Forget it, even if each team makes one a day, 410 teams can make 460 a day... that's 2,000 learning slots. If we do this for ten days... that's 20,000! Wow... we're rich!!"

Zhang Xueying kept working out the algorithm in her mind...

Then, her staff sent her more precise data, and she began to quickly redeploy her team...

And so, under the gray, foggy, rainy sky, 800,000 people toiled away...

During the event, some of the pits inexplicably exploded, resulting in the deaths of many players... and surprisingly, the deceased players were also wiped out...

However, instead of focusing on the rewards, Zhang Xueying gritted her teeth and urged everyone to speed up. She assured everyone that there would be no shortage of compensation for those who died in battle, and even temporarily created a generous bonus, which boosted the morale of all the players.

If you can't kill them, then kill them!

Soon, the day's work came to an end, but a quick tally of the data made Zhang Xueying frown.

On the first day, only 190 meteorites between 5 and 10 zhang in length were unearthed... This is far from the ideal number. Indeed, only practice reveals the truth... This involves 400,000 people!!

Moreover, there were hundreds of casualties... and this happened even though it was unavoidable given the circumstances...

During this time, she contacted Lin Mu to inquire about some details. She learned that Lin Mu, a Daoist, had managed to collect all the meteorites within a radius of over ten miles in just three days with 600,000 people—that was the difference!
If it were them going to Lin Mu's place, it would definitely take them several months... Ordinary backpacks couldn't hold meteorites; they had to rely on spatial bracelets and rings to collect them...

Afterwards, based on some experience provided by Lin Mu, she directly sent people down into the pit to use the power of the earth to break the meteorite, and then pulled it up piece by piece. The efficiency was indeed much higher... However, she had too few earth-rank generals, and with the heavy rain, the time spent pumping water was quite long, so the efficiency wasn't very high...

However, the daily opportunities to learn the techniques still excited her greatly.

These are skill learning slots that can enhance a family's foundation and increase the cohesion of players in their territory! The skills learned aren't just useful in the real world, they're also useful in the mythical world… Their army has so few generals; their biggest constraint is the availability of skills…

At the same time, she also learned from Lin Mu that their excavation time might not be very long... Lin Mu didn't specify how long, but they didn't have much time left...

Helpless, she contacted Ji Beiqin, Jiang Chenglong, and others to come to Luoyang, the capital, to collect meteorites, and the price was revealed... When they learned of the price, they went crazy... They didn't even know if the grain they looted at Hulao Pass could be exchanged for a thousand study spots... Now, they could earn hundreds a day without offending anyone... Lin Mu, Lin Mu, why didn't you say so sooner...

Ji Beiqin, Jiang Chenglong, Xuan Yuan Changying, and others marched frantically toward Luoyang...

And so, more and more players flocked to Luoyang, the capital city, even those who had joined Dong Zhuo's camp, such as the first-ranked Zhao Qiyin, were heading there. Following the "Heroes Against Dong Zhuo" event, the second grand feast for the entire player community had begun!

After finishing, Zhang Xueying led a portion of her soldiers up to the city wall.

The meteorites that struck the city wall didn't leave deep craters, as if the city wall were much, much thicker than the earth...

After easily dealing with the meteorites on the city wall, Zhang Xueying left the city wall at Lin Mu's suggestion and headed to Dong Zhuo's palace.

Meanwhile, Beitang Xue went to the Yuan family mansion...

(Some readers have commented that it took Lin Mu's 600,000 troops six days to excavate all the nearby meteorites, suggesting this was a way of suppressing Lin Mu... We need to consider the depth of the meteorites' impact, the temperature of the celestial fire... Not all meteorites hit the city walls like they did, only creating small craters. Some meteorites were so deep that ordinary soldiers couldn't even make contact with them... Some were very deep and covered by rainwater, making them even more difficult... Although there were generals like Taishi Ci and Yu Jin, a distance of tens of meters couldn't be cleared in a single move... A few days is actually quite fast. Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu didn't bother with it not because they didn't know its value, but because they felt time was too tight and chose to ignore it for the time being.) (End of Chapter)