The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 632 Virtual Territory, Cave Exploration Craze (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
The development of African content has been fully launched, but suddenly they realized that they were going in the wrong direction.

When Lu Ming announced the news, the entire development team was a little stunned.

But since things have come to this point, we can only turn around again.

And to avoid any further accidents, they immediately issued a public announcement, thus establishing this point in time.

[A new chapter in "Sailing the Blue Seas" confirmed: European strife!]
To all players:
The fierce war in Benin has come to an initial end, with European colonial forces being swept out of Benin by players with overwhelming force.

The British Royal African Company, French West Africa, French Central Africa, Western Sahara... and even as far away as the British Isles and European countries, have all heard of Benin's disastrous defeat.

On the vast land of Africa, bloodsucking, oppression, and colonization have not yet ended, but in West Africa, in the Gulf of Benin, the first ray of dawn for freedom has already risen.

But at the same time, we witnessed a historic shift in the winds of change together with everyone—

More than 800 million warriors have turned their attention to the front lines.

The colonial powers, no longer targeting the wider areas of West Africa, were unwilling to remain in place and wait for a counterattack from the colonial powers.

Their blades are already pointed at the European continent.

Their answer was to use offense as a form of defense.

More than ten million warriors also expressed their desire to counterattack Europe on Treasure Island and Mengjin.

Therefore, the development team will devote all its efforts to the development of the latest chapter: [Europa Universalis].

Captains, sailors, and adventurers, see you in Europe!
Lu Ming and his team didn't even have time to do the CG; they had to issue a text announcement first to finalize the matter.

He only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming the successful release of the announcement and seeing players rushing to the comments section to share their thoughts.

The comments section was buzzing with activity from the players.

Liu Guang was still not giving up and kept posting: "Unify Africa, my friend! Don't you want to unify Africa?"

Unfortunately, no one paid him any attention.

Everyone was quite excited by the idea of ​​"conquering Europe":
"Brothers! Europe! 19th-century Europe!!"

"The Hundred Days' Reign, the February Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the London cholera outbreak, the Paris Commune... Wow, things are getting lively!"

"Good heavens! I'm just saying good heavens! So much content, can the development team handle it all?"

"@Lu Ming, will you be making historical figures? I want to collect them!"

……

On overseas social media, the atmosphere created by this announcement was quite different from that on Xia Kingdom's side—

It wasn't a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere; instead, it felt a bit tense.

Previously, it could be described as virtual warfare and empty talk.

But now that the announcement has been made, everyone immediately sensed the smell of gunpowder from the war!

For European netizens, this will be a world war sweeping across Europe!

—It only happens in the virtual world.

However, the virtual world is becoming increasingly important and is no longer just a simple video game.

Even in our "virtual territory," not an inch should be ceded!
Considering the development efficiency of Dream Building, we must now begin recruiting and preparing war supplies!

In an instant, the prices of various war supplies skyrocketed in the world of "Sailing the Blue Sea"!
Even before the version has been updated, small-scale but ongoing conflicts have already begun.
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After resolving a business guild crisis and participating in a long and legendary battle, Qi Huahua finally returned to Ya Yuan Town.

One of the three ships she threw out as bait to buy time was destroyed.

The remaining two ships were frozen in the sea, but they thawed and regained their freedom an hour later.

Although it was an unexpected disaster, the losses were still manageable.

—Incidentally, the [Polaris Merchant Guild] also sent Fernand, who caused all this, a bill demanding compensation for the ship's damage.

The Chamber of Commerce will refuse to provide him with any services until he completes the compensation.

For Qihuahua, that was the end of the things that needed her attention.

You can then free up your hands to continue fighting bugs with your friends.

—She took some time to try the "fearless" mode, which was actually a "coward" mode.

In that mode, all the insects turn into crabs of all sizes, and heavy weapons can smash them open to produce a crazy amount of crab roe, which looks extremely abstract.

She then switched back to the insects.

"Hey Aki, what are you doing?" she messaged Brave Sniper. "Leveling up? Leveling up?"

The valiant sniper didn't reply for a long time.

Qi Huahua made a barrage of calls: "Are you there? Are you there?"

"Are you idling to tease your wife?"

"?"

"Really not here?"

"If you keep slacking off like this, when will you ever be able to advance to an A-level mining slave, fight your way into space, and overthrow the oppression of workers by Deep Rock Mining?"

"With such low awareness, it's hard for the organization to entrust you with important tasks..."

She sent a bunch of messages, but the valiant sniper didn't reply.

"Okay, looks like you're really busy." Nana shook her head. "Should I join a random group? Or should I just explore the town properly?"

"To be honest, I haven't had the time to explore this town properly yet."

The viewers naturally wanted to play with her and suggested that she team up with her fans to fight bugs.

Just as Qi Huahua was hesitating, the valiant sniper suddenly called via voice communication:

"Wait a minute, Flower! We're being chased by monsters on the second level of the Abyss! I'm about to die. Let's talk after I survive!"

Seven Flower blinked, her face full of confusion: "The Great Cave of the Abyss? Not the mine in 'Under the Deep Rock'?"

"No, that's not it." The valiant sniper said he didn't have time to chat, but his actions betrayed his true feelings. "We're a team! How can we abandon our teammates and rush to level up alone?"

"To be honest," Qi Huahua said, not believing her at all.

"Okay... Holy crap! Wait, fuck you! Do you have any more medicine? Give me some!"

The battle is raging on the side of the valiant sniper.

Qi Huahua also heard strange beast roars, the sound of rocks cracking and rolling, and what sounded like the wind flapping wings.

"Um...why don't you guys finish first?"

"This is unstoppable!" shouted the valiant sniper. "Phantom Moon has stirred up a hornet's nest! We're being chased by ten thousand monsters!"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Huan Yue's voice rang out from not far away. "You were the one who saw that fruit looked nice and insisted that I pick it! Who the hell would have thought that fruit was bait for a man-eating flower!"

"Holy crap! The dragon's here! What's all the noise about?!" Orange Juice's voice chimed in.

"A dragon?" Seven Flower Flower exclaimed in surprise.

Are there dragons in the Abyss Cave?
She immediately forgot her original plan and switched to the live stream of the valiant sniper.

The live stream footage was truly explosive!

Three people are running for their lives.

Behind them were enormous plants that made a rumbling sound when they ran.

"A plant riot?"

Qi Huahua stared in shock at the massive tree that was running wildly with its roots, the thick vines that danced like octopus tentacles, the plant lizard covered in fiery red fruit whose abundant fruit shimmered enticingly as it ran, and the grotesque, man-eating flower with its mouth wide open...

She was completely stunned. As for the "dragon" the orange juice had mentioned, she had seen it too:
It was a giant plant dragon, nearly twice the height of all the other plants. When it flapped its wings, it didn't create a gale, but instead released a large amount of yellowish-green plant spores.

These spores drifted out in a flurry, creating a spore rain in the underground forest.

These spores are incredibly resilient. Wherever they land—on soil, rocks, trees, or even on a thriving living plant—they will immediately take root, grow, and bloom into large, pink flowers.

In the blink of an eye, this underground forest, whose location was unknown, transformed into a vast sea of ​​pink flowers.

It was so beautiful that Qi Huahua couldn't take her eyes off it.

But this blissful moment lasted only a few seconds before the terrible change occurred again:
Those plants covered in flowers quickly withered and decayed.

Even the raging tree and the "lizard" had shriveled up, their skin loosened, and their steps faltered, as if a large amount of their life force had been drained away.

But they did not die.

After their bodies shrank by a third, they became old and frail, but their "eyes" began to emit an ominous dark red light.

The pursuit of the valiant three-man sniper squad became sluggish and clumsy... yet they became even more fearless!

"Damn it!" Orange Juice cursed, dodging a sudden slash from the valiant sniper.

"People can be controlled??" he exclaimed in surprise.

Judging from the appearance of those pink plant monsters, they have clearly been transformed into puppets of the giant dragon.

But he never expected that even players could be controlled!
The valiant sniper, positioned furthest back, has now turned completely pink – his head, face, and body are covered in tiny pink flowers.

His exposed skin was wrinkled, making him look more like a man in his seventies or eighties than a young man in his twenties.

Watching the old man version of the heroic sniper chase and bite his teammates like a zombie, Hua Hua took a screenshot.

With the age threshold for "rejuvenation" lowered to 30, we've seen many people who have rejuvenated, but it's rare to see someone go from a young person to an old man.

Orange juice ran and jumped.

While dodging the crazed, brave sniper to avoid being bitten, she hurriedly plucked the pink flowers off her body.

At the critical moment, Huan Yue turned around and unleashed a powerful slash without hesitation!

A flash of light appeared, and the blade passed right through the neck of the sluggish but valiant sniper.

The valiant sniper had been chased for so long that his health bar was already low, and then the plant dragon's spores took away a large portion of his maximum health.

The head flew off instantly after being hit by this critical strike to a weak point.

The scene wasn't particularly bloody—the head flying through the air and the rest of the body quickly turned into pink flowers, scattering like dandelions.

The valiant sniper, whose negative status had been taken away by death, was finally able to speak normally: "Was it really that ruthless?"

"I'll be free in 5 more seconds!"

Huan Yue and Orange Juice were too busy to pay him any attention.

Because after he died, his body turned into dandelions, which covered both of them.

It also takes root and grows rapidly.

Their strength quickly waned, and they were eventually overtaken by a large swarm of plants behind them, which tightened around them and lifted them into the air.

The plant dragon slowly ascended into the air, gracefully glided over, and swallowed the two of them whole.

From the perspective of their spirits after death, they saw the plant dragon return to its nest contentedly.

The plants that had been running wildly also came to their senses, slowly dispersed, found a place to take root, and remained still.

Qi Huahua closed the live stream and switched back to the game view.

While waiting to be resurrected, I discovered that a team invitation had already been sent.

The moment she agreed to join the team, the valiant sniper was resurrected in the neighbor's yard.

Phantom Moon and orange juice followed closely behind.

All three of them were silent.

Seven Flowers is alright.

After all, it wasn't her who died.

She broke the silence first: "So... why aren't you mining? Why are you running into the big cave? Did Deeprock Mining's landing craft malfunction?"

Her first thought was that Deep Rock Mining was unreliable, even their landing craft was a rip-off, leaving them stranded halfway through the journey.

“No.” The valiant sniper shook his head, looking exhausted, and plopped down on the ground. “We went to explore on our own initiative.”

"You're probably busy with 'Sailing on the Blue Sea' and haven't been paying much attention to this."

"What do you mean?" Qi Huahua asked, somewhat puzzled.

Seeing that she really had no idea, the valiant sniper started explaining from the beginning: "Didn't Boss Xu say before that he secretly updated a city? This attracted a lot of people to explore the virtual world."

"But the exploration didn't go very smoothly - the rainforest was too dangerous, and players who weren't strong enough could hardly move an inch."

Upon hearing this, Qi Huahua immediately recalled her previous experiences of wanting to go to the Lost Ship but dying on the way time and time again, and nodded in deep sympathy.

"The other new players, whose characters weren't upgraded at all, were even worse off."

"In the end, they all decided to come to Yayuan Town."

"After all, there's such a big hole here, and everyone is curious about what's inside, so we decided to explore it."

At this point, Orange Juice interjected, "Many people suspect that the secret city that Boss Xu mentioned might be hidden on one of the levels of this large cave."

“That’s quite possible.” The valiant sniper nodded in agreement. “Given Mr. Xu’s personality, it’s unlikely he would just randomly shove someone into a spot and let everyone search aimlessly.”

Qi Huahua thought about it and agreed: "So, this place has now become a gathering place for pioneers?"

She looked back at Yayuan Town, wondering if it was even more lively now.

But Yayuan Town is always crowded, so there's no noticeable change.

She shook her head in disappointment and asked again, "Has anyone found any clues?"

"Absolutely not!" Orange Juice exclaimed dramatically. "The difficulty of exploring this huge cave is off the charts!"

"You must explore deep into the caves like an NPC cave explorer, step by step. No shortcuts are allowed!"

"Is that possible?" Qi Huahua was deeply skeptical.

"Isn't 'Under the Deep Rock' a game where you can go straight to the fifth floor? There's absolutely no chance to cheat?"

“No,” Orange Juice sighed. “Once you leave Deeprock Mining’s landing module, you will be immediately affected by the depth.”

“NPC cave explorers call this ‘rising load’. The impact is relatively small when descending, but it becomes very serious when returning.”

"But if there is no gradual adaptation process before breaking through the landing module and going deep underground, the negative impact will be explosive."

"If you look for it now, you can still find the video of Nanshan falling to the fourth level and blood gushing from every pore on his body at the same time—but right now you can only find the censored version, the uncensored version is too brutal."

Qi Huahua shuddered as she imagined the horrific scene of someone spurting blood from their eyes, nose, mouth, and ears, with blood seeping from every pore on their body.

"Forget it, I won't watch the video..."

"Since it's so difficult, why don't we join the NPCs' team and go down with the skilled cave explorers?"

The three brutes were taken aback upon hearing this and turned to look at Qi Huahua.

"...What's wrong? Is it not okay?" Nanaka asked, puzzled.

"Why not?!" Orange Juice suddenly exclaimed, her eyes lighting up with excitement!
"genius!"

"Let's go! Let's go ask the Cave Explorers Association!"

(End of this chapter)