The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 589: Defeat (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

The alien orbital strike came too fast and too suddenly, catching the players in the Spreading City completely off guard.

Especially for casual live streamers.

Some of them strolled around, others chatted idly, and suddenly the world lit up.

Completely unaware of what had happened, they were instantly sent back to the respawn point.

Many brands that are bold enough to do live-streaming sales in [free mode] also find that the brightness of their live streams suddenly goes off the charts while they are broadcasting!
It was like someone threw a flashbang into the live stream.

Then came the earth-shaking tremors!

The bewildered livestreamer and their team panicked, repeatedly asking, "What happened? What happened? What went wrong?"

However, there are also experienced teams and streamers with a strong sense of conviction.

The people in the shot were already unsteady on their feet, swaying constantly, yet they still persisted in holding up the product in front of the equally violently shaking camera, loudly reciting the advertising slogan—

"Our products are truly different from others!"

"Its texture is not smooth..."

In the live stream, viewers who were confused typed out a series of question marks.

Remington Arms' livestream room is the most unique.

The moment the explosion occurred, everyone immediately crouched down to take cover, and then the sound of guns being loaded could be heard in the live stream.

By the time the anchor and staff stood up, each of them was armed with an assault rifle. They rushed to the window, their bodies turned sideways to observe the situation.

The viewers from Xia Kingdom typed "666" to show their admiration.

—Although users in Xia Country cannot purchase weapons online through live streaming, that doesn't stop them from spending time in the live streaming room and experiencing the gun culture of a major arms-producing country.

Moreover, you can indeed learn a lot of hardcore knowledge in this live broadcast room!
However, regardless of which livestream room they were watching, the view outside the window was already the scene after the orbital strike—

A city engulfed in flames, buildings teetering on the brink of collapse, crowds fleeing in panic...

A scene of utter devastation!
The viewers in the live stream only knew that Mansheng had been attacked on a large scale, but they didn't know what had happened.

After waiting several more minutes, they could finally see the alien invasion outside the window.

Some unlucky souls were even captured by the gravity weapons of the space carrier, screaming in terror as they were dragged toward the alien mothership.

In the minds of most netizens, "live-streaming e-commerce" is still a highly relatable, everyday scenario.

Although the introduction of holographic equipment and dream-making machines has attracted a large number of brands and live-streaming e-commerce hosts to settle in Mansheng Metropolis.

However, netizens' opinions did not change so quickly.

As a result, many older viewers, upon seeing the realistic scenes, thought that aliens had actually invaded Earth, and were filled with fear for a time.

They even called the local police station.

The livestream hosts were frantically dealing with the unexpected incident while also explaining the situation to their viewers.

Young people are better at it; after the initial shock, they quickly come to their senses.

People quickly left the live stream and searched social networks and gaming forums to find out what had happened.

If you have time, start the Dream Machine; if you don't, open the Illusion Game Suite.

They rushed to the aid of the city that was spreading rapidly.

Especially after Huan Yue and the others' concerns spread, everyone was afraid that the familiar NPCs would be abducted by aliens and never return, so they were even more eager to log in and help.

Players worldwide are extremely anxious.

...except for one person.

Sanjay.

He is now facing a crisis that is even more pressing than the one that spreads everywhere!
On the anthill, after taking a grenade in the face, he died instantly without a doubt.

Adding in the damage caused during the prison break and leaving the city, the total sentence comes to nearly 9 months!

This is already enough to warrant despair.

But what's even more terrifying is that the loud noise and vibration triggered the dream machine's automatic wake-up mechanism, urgently pulling him back to reality from the virtual world.

As I removed the brainwave signal collector and got out of bed, I walked out of the bedroom and saw that my front door had been forcibly kicked open!

A group of masked thugs broke down the door and started beating him mercilessly!
"what!!!"

Sanjay was curled up on the ground, being punched and kicked, crying out in pain.

"Who are you? Why did you break into my house? Why are you hitting me?"

"Stop it! Stop it!"

"I'm sorry, I was wrong, I'm so sorry!"

……

He was in pain and terrified, and he was terrified of the intruders who broke into his home.

But the thugs didn't waste words with him; they just kept beating him.

The thugs only stopped when Sanjay could no longer shout and was curled up on the floor groaning weakly, looking as if he would die if they continued to beat him.

A thug with half his face covered by a black mask said menacingly:

"Consider yourself lucky! The bounty requirements are no murder or maiming. Otherwise, at this price, I'd at least chop off one of your arms!"

Sanjay then noticed:

Surrounding these people, there was someone even recording with a smartphone!
After kicking him again, the thug who had been speaking turned and left.

The others followed behind, laughing and joking as they left.

Sanjay was in excruciating pain and groaned incessantly.

It took him a while to recover before he struggled to get up and go find a doctor.

To his relief, the injuries were all external and none of them were serious.

But he didn't expect—

The next day, the group broke into his door again and beat him up!
Sanjay screamed again and fell to the ground, clutching his head and begging for mercy.

Five minutes later, we finished and called it a day.

The leader tossed out a "new bounty" and turned to leave with his men.

Sanjay, covered in wounds, crawled to seek medical attention.

Day three.

These people came to visit again.

Sanjay resignedly squatted down, burying his head in his hands.

This time, however, they didn't bring the sticks they had used the previous two days; instead, they brought a doctor and medicine.

Sanjay thought these people had a change of heart.

But as soon as the henchman raised his phone to record, he was subjected to another brutal beating!

After beating someone up, they recorded the incident.

The doctor, trembling with fear, opened his medical kit and began to bandage Sanjay.

The gang leader told Sanjay, "I didn't expect you to be a celebrity. There's a bounty on your head every day."

"That's great, I never thought a wallet could fall from the sky."

"Take good care of your injury and don't try to run around. We'll be keeping an eye on you."

……

And so began Sanjay's agonizing daily routine of being brutally beaten, leaving him no time to care about anything in the virtual world...
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Aside from those like Sanjay who were busy taking hits, and a few timid individuals, most netizens went online without fear and joined this battle to defend the sprawling metropolis.

Even with a large influx of reinforcements, the defensive battle did not go very smoothly.

The aliens are incredibly powerful!
The number of fighter jets and drone swarms are lagging behind in both quantity and combat capability.

Those squid-like flying machines possessed astonishing speed and incredible agility.

They can perform various extreme maneuvers anytime and anywhere while flying at high speeds.

Not to mention sharp-angle turns, even a 180-degree turn is smooth and fluid, almost like a living creature swimming in water.

Amidst the densely packed buildings of the sprawling metropolis, they completely outmatched their own fighter jets and drones.

Armored vehicles were blown up by the aliens' laser rifles, and NPC soldiers and players who came to support them were also driven away in panic, suffering heavy casualties!
Instead of rushing to the front lines, Qi Huahua worked with her fans to rescue people from the burning building.

There are simply too few firefighters; even if all of them were deployed, it would be a drop in the ocean.

—Around the center of the orbital bombardment, the burning buildings formed a large circle, and the NPC firefighters couldn't possibly save them all.

However, player volunteers can simultaneously rescue hundreds of burning buildings.

Orange juice was also among the relief supplies.

He put on the Dragon Soul Armor, took a deep breath, and rushed into the fire.

Upon seeing the unconscious NPC, kick the glass, yell, and throw him out the window; someone outside will naturally catch him.

I scanned from the first floor to the top floor, not missing a single room.

If you accidentally die inside, report the progress and let someone else take over.

Often, dozens or even hundreds of NPCs can be rescued from a single building.

Half of them were in a coma and the other half were awake.

Those who were unconscious needed to be carried, while those who were awake were even more troublesome—they were all in a panic and could hardly listen to anything.

You almost have to hold them down by force to prevent them from running around.

After rescuing one building, they immediately escorted them to the nearest air-raid shelter for refuge.

At first, the rescue went relatively smoothly.

They successfully rescued thousands of affected NPCs. But after the aliens destroyed the NPC soldiers, they set their sights on the player rescue team.

Qi Huahua, carrying a little girl on her back, was intercepted by a fully armed alien squad less than 30 meters from the air-raid shelter.

Behind her were hundreds of players and 38 NPCs.

Without hesitation, Qi Huahua threw a grenade.

At the same time, the aliens also threw a grenade.

"boom!"

The two grenades exploded almost simultaneously!

The aliens appeared to be unharmed.

Qi Huahua and the dozen or so people behind her were trapped and died in the same spot!

—The aliens threw a slime grenade!
After the explosion, a large net of slime instantly spreads out, binding all players within its range!
"Disgusting!"

Seven Flower grabbed the slime net and pulled it with all her might.

But no matter what, they couldn't be broken.

He had to pull out his Dragon Soul weapon to barely cut it off.

But at that moment, the alien squad opened fire, green lasers shooting towards the crowd.

Even if you're wearing full armor, one shot will cripple you, and two shots will kill you instantly!
The rescue team's players were already relatively weak in combat, and they also had to focus on protecting the NPCs.

They suffered devastating losses on the spot.

In the end, all of the hundreds of players were wiped out, but only 5 aliens were taken down!

The surviving aliens fired purple flares into the sky, and the alien mothership shot a beam of light from afar.

The surviving NPCs were pulled into the air and slowly flew towards the alien mothership.

The NPCs, captured by gravity, screamed in terror, yet were still unable to resist being swallowed by the mothership.

The player in spirit form was furious:

"Damn it! They're trying to snatch someone right in front of us?!"

"Fuck! Send more people to help!"

"Is anyone else here? Need some tough guys!"

……

This wasn't just a problem encountered by Qihuahua's team; almost every rescue team faced alien interception!
The team's communication channel was filled with calls for backup!
But the response they received was quite unpleasant:

"I can't free my hands! Damn, these aliens are too weird!"

"You can't even kill him by hitting him! He's too tough!"

"These bastards have started spraying poison! Be careful not to inhale the fumes!"

……

Bad news from all directions!

Let alone rescue players with insufficient combat power, even frontline players with extremely high strength were overwhelmed by all sorts of unexpected situations—

Phantom Moon and his bounty hunter friends are fighting against eight aliens.

Because they frequently undertake bounty missions, they possess a considerable number of firearms that can circumvent firearms bans.

However, their weapons have difficulty penetrating the aliens' armor.

The aliens' weapons can destroy their bunkers along with them!
Neither abandoned vehicles nor large chunks of concrete could stop the laser rifle's rapid fire.

"Close the distance! Defeat them quickly!"

"cover me!"

With a shout, Huan Yue was the first to rush towards the alien.

Under the cover of his teammates' firepower, he successfully charged in front of the alien that was neither human nor fish, and whose chin was covered with tentacles, and unleashed both ice and fire swords!

He severed the breathing tube between the mask and the backpack with one cut, and then slashed into the neck with the second.

The alien's neck exploded instantly!

Huan Yue never expected that aliens would burst open when they were cut!

He was immediately sprayed with acidic mucus, his health dropped rapidly, and he also suffered the negative effect of [poisoning].

Weapon durability has plummeted by a third!

Nevertheless, this effectively boosted morale.

The teammates charged out of their cover without fear of death!

Sensing their threat, the remaining aliens manipulated something in front of their chests, and green poisonous mist began to spray from their backpacks.

The poisonous fog quickly spread across the ruined streets, forming a toxic zone.

As long as the player is inside, they will continuously lose health!

In contrast, aliens can continuously regenerate health!

Huan Yue and her teammates are indeed formidable fighters. Despite the unfavorable combat environment, they still managed to achieve a 5-for-8 exchange.

But the moment the last alien fell, the alien mothership that had been hovering above the city fired a plasma cannon at that spot!

Before they could even react, the blazing plasma instantly engulfed Huan Yue and his teammates...

……

If even Huan Yue and her teammates, with their strong characters, are struggling so much, then other players are even more likely to have a hard time.

The Ironblood Company, led by Yanluo, was unable to utilize its strengths after entering a city where firearms were ineffective, and was repeatedly defeated by the aliens.

The valiant sniper led his team into the aliens' midst and fought a chaotic battle, with the exchange ratio almost 30 to 1.

American gamers, who have seen too many popcorn movies about alien invasions, are incredibly excited to have the chance to participate in one themselves.

But after the fight started, he was quickly beaten black and blue, crying and screaming for his parents.

Hiding behind various covers, they cursed wildly, only occasionally peeking out to fire a shot or two.

The Izumo player, driving a hovercar, roared as he charged toward the aliens on the ground.

However, it was instantly pierced by the extremely agile "squid shuttle" in the air and turned into a pile of trash before it even hit the ground.

Both Baekje and Annam players thought of the sewer system of Mansheng City and crawled into the sewers to try to sneak behind enemy lines and launch a pincer attack.

But little did they know that the sewers were already full of venom.

Within the venom, a large number of insect eggs are rhythmically throbbing.

Less than three minutes after they came down, the insect eggs hatched rapidly and began to strangle them!

……

Players worldwide are almost constantly losing ground!

Seeing that it was falling behind in all aspects, the city management council finally launched the second phase—

[The ban on firearms in the sprawling metropolis has been lifted!]
[The city's armory is fully unlocked; all weapons are available for anyone to use!]
[Airspace fully unlocked!]
[Dear citizens, the entire city needs your help!]
On the street, sealed iron gates opened by themselves.

But these voices were drowned out by the massive amount of gunfire!

—The moment the ban on firearms was lifted, the Ironblood Company, which had been retreating steadily, regained its footing and unleashed a dense barrage of bullets at the aliens.

High-powered armor-piercing rounds, anti-material sniper rifles, grenades, and even grenade launchers... all made their appearance.

Compared to before, the firepower has instantly increased several levels!
Not just the Iron-Blooded Company.

Gunshots rang out in every corner of the city!
In the bustling metropolis, the one thing everyone has plenty of is firearms!
Even the players being chased by giant alien bugs in the sewers cursed and turned around to fight back.

They even planted landmines in the sewers!

A violent explosion occurred in the sewer, blasting open the concrete floor and sending out columns of fire several meters high!
……

The players finally got a chance to catch their breath and quickly entered the nearest armory.

Before this, no one knew:

So many armories are hidden beneath the surface of the bustling metropolis!

Upon entering the armory, everyone's pupils dilated with excitement at the sight of the dazzling array of weapons.
Not to mention the densely packed array of various firearms and rows of rocket launchers on the weapon rack.

There are also armored vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns, armed helicopters that can carry more than a dozen people, a large number of suicide drones, and follow-up urban warfare mechanical dogs...

The players' eyes lit up.

Let's go deeper.

Thermite grenades, individual napalm bombs, multi-barrel white phosphorus launchers, multiple rocket launchers, fully automatic shotguns equipped with dragon's breath rounds, self-destructing exoskeleton armor, infrasonic grenades, EMP bombs...

All sorts of weapons never seen before are now appearing before the players all at once, and...

Feel free to use it!

The players, who had just been nearly driven to despair by the aliens, instantly forgot all their frustration.

They rushed towards the weapons they had their eyes on, eager to teach the aliens a lesson!
And that’s not all!
In the world of Lord of War, all fighter pilots flying in the sky suddenly see a system notification—

[The sprawling metropolis is facing an alien invasion and is on the verge of collapse. Should we go to its aid?]
[whether]
At that moment, countless fighter pilots abandoned their teammates fighting on the ground without a second thought, and followed the navigation arrows that appeared in the air, heading straight for the Mansheng Metropolis!

Fighting gamers is nowhere near as satisfying as fighting aliens!

The NPC floor masters above the 200th floor of the Sky Arena also stepped out of the Sky Tower to officially join the battle!

In response, the alien mothership launched a barrage of landing craft in all directions.

More alien warriors emerged from the landing module and set up biological turrets several meters high!

The intensity of the battle has begun to escalate across the board!
(End of this chapter)