The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 646 Defection! Rout! Death Star! Metal Necromancer!
It wasn't just Yama who was shocked.

The entire command team was so shocked by the series of unexpected events that they were speechless.

Even the command channel fell silent.

Then a somewhat unfamiliar loud laugh rang out on the channel:

"Haha, good afternoon everyone! Did you miss me?!"

"Okay, probably not, since many of you don't know me yet."

"Now, allow me to introduce you to—"

Suddenly, a loud burst of music filled the quiet voice channel!

Accompanied by rousing music, a male voice, filled with emotion, loudly recited—

"In the PC gaming era, we could beat professional gamers until they bled, even through the internet!"

"Successfully scammed the Digital Emperor and Digital Life and made a clean getaway!"

"Black gamers will always be the best niggers!"

"[Good morning, New York!] The initiator of the operation..."

……

This medley of performances left Yama speechless.

He already knows who this person is...

Most of the other players also knew about it.

But after everyone vaguely realized what he had done, they didn't rush to interrupt him, but patiently waited for him to finish his monologue.

Happy Superman has been holding back for so long, just waiting for this opportunity to make his appearance, and he really needs to speak his mind!
He almost lost his breath reading through that long list of titles.

Fortunately, I managed to finish reading it in the end:
"...Captain of [Braised Shrimp in Oil]: Happy Superman Guo Zirui!"

A question mark appeared above Yama's head.

He had a lot of questions to ask, but the first thing he blurted out was:

"Wait, weren't you called Happy Superman? You even changed your ID to make it easier to pronounce? And... are you planning to register your real name online?"

"Cough cough cough!" Guo Zirui, who was already a little short of breath, was choked and coughed repeatedly when he was teased like that.

"Stop talking nonsense! There's a war going on right now!" Qi Huahua couldn't help but interrupt. "Yanluo, you're the commander! Be serious, okay?!"

"Right, right, I almost forgot!" Reminded, Yama immediately issued the command—

"Fire at full power!"

"Fire out all the last of our energy and shells!"

Then he turned to Guo Zirui and asked, "What exactly is going on? Is the shrimp-man warship that just fired the cannon in your hands?"

"Of course not!" Guo Zirui immediately denied.

"?" Yama was very surprised. "No? Then what happened?"

"It's in 'our' hands! [We]! The Braised Shrimp is a spaceship of democratic deliberation!" Guo Zirui emphasized.

Yama:"???"

Brave Sniper: "???"

Cat Tea: "???"

Zhang Siming: "???"

……

"Is this the time to talk about this?!" Yama finally lost his temper. "This is a time to race against time. If you want to conduct political experiments, wait until after the war, brother!"

"Stop keeping me in suspense, just get to the point, okay?"

"After the battle is over, I'll bring a whole regiment to listen to your story!"

"Okay, okay." Happy Superman nodded repeatedly. "But I still have to say this: I really have to emphasize this! The fact that we were able to get this ship is entirely due to everyone's huge time, energy and effort. It really can't be attributed to me alone."

"To put it simply, on the day the Plans Shrimp Man invaded, we stormed into the spaceship and destroyed the gravity weapon used to capture NPCs. Afterwards, we tried to break into the command center but failed, so we've been lurking inside the spaceship ever since..."
-

The problems that Happy Superman faced back then were far more severe than those faced by players who are now directly stealing ships.

After destroying the gravity weapon, they had fewer than 40 people left, their weapons and ammunition were almost used up, and they no longer had powerful weapons like the [Peregrine Armor].

Taking down the spaceship was hopeless, and the unfamiliarity with the spaceship's terrain made guerrilla warfare impossible.

After their spaceship was shot down by the main force outside and then shakily took off again, they were left with almost only one choice:

They are sent to their deaths, and then reborn back on Earth.

Everyone else thought the same thing.

But Guo Zirui had a different idea: Could they impersonate prisoners and infiltrate to try to turn the shrimp people against them?
He successfully persuaded everyone to stay and work as slave laborers.

This is a very difficult choice.

The difficulty lies not in the boring tasks or the limited scope of activities—the Shrimp Man's "Declaration of Slavery" was not lying; the slave laborers were simply bored with their work, and their treatment was actually quite good.

Not only do they have double dorm rooms, but they even pay salaries!
Of course, it's the shrimp people's currency.

What truly shook them was the continuous updates of city reconstruction, large-scale land reclamation, new games, and new maps.

They were trapped on the spaceship and could only watch others play.

It was truly excruciating.

Many people couldn't stand it and gradually chose to die and return to the surface to be reborn, joining the lively pioneering effort.

—In order not to affect the remaining brothers, players who wanted to die didn't even dare to find a lowly person to kill them, and could only commit suicide secretly.

The remaining 18 people waited until the release of Resonance in the Deep and Under the Rock before they were able to return to the surface and play the new games using the [key] function.

Of course, their main focus remains on the spaceship.

—After the key is synthesized, the location of the door from which they first left will be automatically recorded. With this function, they can travel back and forth between the Shrimp Man Spaceship, the Lost Ship, and Cliff Town.

It was this agonizing journey together that made Happy Superman repeatedly emphasize:
They took down the spaceship together!
As for their method of turning the shrimp people against their cause, it's actually not complicated at all—

Step 1: Find a shrimp person with relatively high intelligence and status.

Step 2: Interact with him frequently to further improve his intelligence level.

Step 3: Tell him, "We can provide you with a better habitat to thrive, whether it's near the sea or a great river! We can resolve the conflict between the two races through peaceful means."

Happy Superman believes that a shrimp-human race would definitely yearn to live near water, compared to the moon and outer space where there is not a drop of water!

that's the truth.

They succeeded quite easily, managing to win over a shrimp-man squad leader.

Once the first NPC is won over, the rest is simple: use this springboard to gradually win over the higher-ranking shrimp people using the same method.

Ultimately, they managed to gain control of the entire spaceship before the war broke out.

And at the crucial moment, he delivered a fatal backstab to the other shrimp people!

Add to that the sudden appearance of someone jumping into the lost ship at the very center of the array...

While achieving amazing results, they also disrupted the shrimp people's tactical plans!

"Brilliant!!"

Yama praised him lavishly without reservation.

In the live streams of various streamers, viewers showered them with compliments!
Because their appearance was absolutely crucial!

It even became the key to turning the tide of the battle—

The destruction of one-third of the warships was a loss that the shrimp people could no longer bear.

Ignoring Ktoyo's attempts to stop them, several spaceships turned around and flew away, trying to escape the battlefield.

Another ship wanted to disregard everything and head towards the vast ocean of the planet below.

Two other ships attempted to escape to the already established lunar base.

The shrimp-men's fleet was in complete chaos.

They didn't even dare to try attacking the enormous, yet motionless, Lost Ship.

Players and dwarves seized this opportunity to launch a full-scale attack!

The Plans Shrimp Man army suffered a crushing defeat.

The last thing Ktoyo could do was to order all warships to retreat to the lunar base!
The players, of course, were unwilling to let them retreat so easily.

Apart from Happy Superman's Braised Shrimp, all the other spaceships were firmly pinned down.

Until all three fleets approached the moon.

A blinding white light rose from the moon's surface, instantly obliterating a dwarven escort ship, forcing the pursuing players and dwarves to halt. ...

"Holy crap! A lunar cannon!?"

On the first shrimp-man warship that the players and dwarves had successfully captured together, Yama and the other players were shocked.

The dwarf in the iron can standing next to them saw yet another frigate explode, and in a fit of rage, he ripped off his helmet and roared, "Damn it, just you wait!"

He raised his wrist, and an image of a female dwarf rose from the holographic terminal:
"Gwyndorine! Report to headquarters and activate the Death Star!"

"Smash this moon to pieces!!!"

"?" The surrounding players stared in surprise.

"No! The moon can't be blown up!" Yama shook his head in opposition without even thinking.

But the players standing next to him were all incredibly excited:
"Great! That's great!"

"A single shot shatters the moon?! What kind of cannon is that powerful?!"

"Wow, the Death Star! That sounds incredibly cool! Let's fight! I want to see it!"

"A single shot spanning 10 billion kilometers, shattering the moon? Please fire!!"

……

Yama was already having a headache, and when he heard these powerful people who believed that "range is truth and caliber is justice" adding fuel to the fire, he felt like his head was about to explode.

I had no choice but to shout it out loud:
"Wait!! All of you, wait the hell out of here!"

"The moon must not be blown up!"

"This is a ready-made base!"

"Even putting that aside, the captured NPCs are still on the moon!"

"Think about those NPCs, think about the strippers, think about Tang Qian, and then think about those monster girls..."

……

Yanluo kept shouting loudly, while simultaneously posting in the main chat channel visible only to players: "[That cannon isn't going anywhere; there will be plenty of opportunities to see it fire!]"
Everyone then fell silent, filled with deep regret.

Yama went to great lengths to persuade this stubborn dwarf named [Dovak] to give up destroying the moon.

This is no easy task.

Thanks to the support of more ground players, and the arrival of Qihuahua, the dwarves were finally persuaded to stop.

—Not only did they abandon the idea of ​​destroying the moon, but they also had the idea of ​​directly "smashing" a Molten-class mothership down into the moon, destroying the entire Shrimp Man base.

Afterwards, by using the shrimp people from Happy Superman's side as intermediaries, they successfully brought all three parties to the negotiating table, attempting to achieve their respective demands through negotiation.

Players need to reclaim space, the moon, and the captured NPCs.

Shrimp people need living space.

As for the dwarves... Dowak initially demanded "fuck the shrimps and die," but later changed it to demanding war reparations.

To better achieve their goal, the players even sought out Liu Guang, who was described as "Su Qin reborn," "the seal of the six tribes," and "the hand of the king of the Kingdom of Apomei," to join the negotiations.

However, Liu Guang was not in Africa at this time, but on the Titan Ring.

Many players participated in this major event, so his appearance on the space station was not surprising.

But this surprised the dwarves.

Dovak looked at the holographic image with a suspicious expression and said, "Your people are... on the Titan Ring?"

"This is company property! You are not authorized to log in without permission!"

The players on the space station were stunned for a moment.

Someone immediately retorted:
"What company property? We clearly picked this up on the synchronous track!"

"That's right, that's right, you say so, right?"

"Call it and see if it answers."

……

Dovak blinked: "Then I'll... shout it out?"

Standing on the space station, Liu Guang suddenly had a bad feeling.

But the dwarf had already spoken: "Captain Dovark of the Deeprock Mining Company's Furnace-class warship [Fury], calling the Titan Ring, please respond."

Without the slightest delay, the Titan Ring immediately responded to Dovark's call:

"Titan Ring received!"

"Captain Dovak, what are your orders?"

"Huh?" The guy who had suggested that Dovak "shout" was dumbfounded when he heard the AI's response on his side.

Behind them, someone was already shouting frantically, "Pull the power! Pull the power now!!"

"How do I pull it? Where's the switch?"

"How should I know? Go find them!"

……

Liu Guang sighed.

“Mr. Dovak, let’s focus on more important matters first.”

"You are the captain of the Fury, and you have just achieved a major victory. Now is the time to make every effort to secure the results. Don't let these trivial matters affect the negotiations."

"Given our camaraderie for fighting side by side, the issue of the Titan Ring can be discussed privately after the shrimp people problem is resolved."

Upon hearing this, Dovak wiggled his long beard and quickly moved on from the topic, focusing on the upcoming negotiations.

The shrimp people, who had been driven to a dead end, had little room for negotiation.

Soon, under pressure from the players and dwarves, the prisoners were returned, a large number of technical blueprints were shared, and the entire management team, led by Ktoyo, was ousted and replaced by the captain of the Braised Shrimp, [Hotal].

In addition to the technology, the dwarves, led by Dovark, also received three Shrimp-men warships and a large amount of valuable resources.

Of course, the shrimp people didn't come away empty-handed.

Based on the principle of "protecting NPC diversity," the players fulfilled their promise to the shrimp people, agreeing to give them a piece of land near the water to live on.

After the shrimp people have moved out, the lunar base will be handed over to the player.
-

After the negotiations concluded, the shrimp man was kicked out of the meeting.

The players and the dwarves then began to discuss the issues that had been left unresolved earlier.

The ownership of the Titan Rings.

But looking at Liu Guang, and then at the other men around him with their explosive individual combat power, each one capable of single-handedly raiding a spaceship, Dovak suddenly changed the subject:
"To be honest, we didn't expect you to be able to fly into space so quickly."

"According to the company's assessment, it will be at least half a century before you are able to intervene in space warfare."

"Since you have such war potential, it wouldn't be unreasonable to give you the Titan Ring as a congratulatory gift for a surface civilization to step into space."

"I just hope you don't let your guard down and develop a sizable space military force as soon as possible so that you can fight alongside us soon."

"Fight side by side?" Yama frowned. "Fight whom? Shrimp people?"

Dovak shook his head: "Of course not."

"These shrimp people are nothing but a pack of stray dogs after the destruction of civilization; they are nothing to fear."

"The reason we're having such a tough time is because the company's main forces are all at the edge of the galaxy, defending against those steel skeletons."

"A steel skeleton? What's that?" Yama frowned even more deeply.

Dovak looked up into his eyes and, with unprecedented seriousness, uttered four words: "Metal Necromancer."

……

……

After the ownership of the Titan Ring was determined, both sides called a retreat.

Thus, this grand space battle has officially come to an end.

The news revealed by the dwarves did not dampen the players' spirits.

—It's just a new monster!
Why would a player be afraid of a lot of monsters?
Just kill it!
Of course, that's all in the future.

As for now——

"Brothers! The monster girls are back!"

"Tonight at the otherworldly massage parlor, see you there!"

The anticipation for this event is even greater than the rewards for the world quest [Outside the Cradle]!
(End of this chapter)