The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 650 A Flight Log Worth a Million!

"A secret city? I don't see it?"

Electro-Edison is unbelievable.

"Wait a minute! Isn't the secret city located beneath the Abyss? Could they have made a mistake?"

Of the star developers involved in the development of [The Frontier], only Corey King and Cade Hawke, a married couple, have not yet produced any results.

It's understandable that Cade Hawke and Sofia are busy having and raising children, and there's no progress.

But Corey King didn't have a baby; it doesn't make sense that he hadn't achieved anything while everyone else had.

In addition, Xu Meng said that there was an unknown city that was secretly updated into the virtual world.

When these clues are put together, it becomes clear to everyone:

Corey King's team's development achievement is most likely that undiscovered secret city!
As for the city's location...

The explorers on the surface have not found anything yet, so of course it must be hidden at the bottom of the Abyss Cave!

It hasn't been found yet, only because the cave exploration was interrupted by [Eternal Sleeping Clover].

Many players are now obsessed with establishing permanent bases in the [Glass of Giants], hoping that once Dream completes its research and testing on "secondary dream entry" and restores the ecology of the eternally sleeping four-leaf clover, it can immediately enter the dream here for an experience.

The number of players who continued exploring decreased significantly, as they were left frustrated by the soaring exploration difficulty.

The supplies and items purchased with a large amount of credits were all consumed below, resulting in heavy losses.

But the greater the losses, the more firmly everyone believes:
There must be something good at the bottom of the Abyss!
What could be a better reward for the brave than "an unknown city"?
As this continued day after day, more and more players became convinced that the city was located at the bottom of the Abyss Cave.

Edison listened to electronic music so much that he subconsciously thought that's how it was.

But now, someone suddenly tells him that they saw that city on the surface of the earth!
Moreover, it was seen through someone else's live stream from the crashing Lost Ship!

But he was clearly standing in front of the huge porthole the whole time, so why didn't he see it?
He can't understand!
His teammate hesitated for a few seconds, then couldn't help but point it out: "Didn't you close your eyes at the end?"

"I..." Electro Edison was speechless.

He switched to Mengjin and easily found relevant posts:

[Anyone free? Is that white circle flashing across the screen a city?]
The poster's ID seems familiar: [花舟].

She posted a short, eight-second video showing what she saw when she pressed her face against the porthole window and looked down.

After watching this video, Edison, the electronic music enthusiast, was left with only a question mark on his face.

Where are the cities?
Where is the white circle?

He had to slow down the video, playing it at 0.5x speed, before he finally saw the fleeting white circle in the dark green, blurred forest at the 5-second mark.

That's it?

He couldn't see any connection between that thing and the city.

Soon, a big shot appeared, imported the video Huazhou uploaded into editing software, and examined it frame by frame with a magnifying glass.

After identifying the keyframes, another round of image quality restoration was carried out.

The final result was—

A city surrounded by a giant white wall, and inside the city, there is an inner city enclosed by a ring of high walls.

The city is densely packed with rooftops, suggesting a large population.

There was also a faint trail of smoke extending outwards from the Great Ring Road, which the bigwigs guessed was a group of people leaving the city.

Faced with this overwhelming evidence, Electro Edison quickly accepted reality.

I also forgave myself for my mistake—not to mention with my eyes closed, even with my eyes wide open, it would be difficult to see that fleeting white circle, let alone realize that the white circle might be a city and post a message asking for help to process the image.

He quickly rushed to the control panel, which was not yet completely shut down, and exported the flight log and detailed crash trajectory to the memory card.

—Other players might not be able to do it.

Most players use their precious storage slots to store weapons and valuable items, and very few people would store things like memory cards, which are almost never used, like EDM Edison.

After quickly completing the data recording, Edison threw the memory card into the storage compartment.

Then, with a flick of his right hand, a handsome greatsword wreathed in ice and fire appeared in his hand.

Before anyone else could react, he unleashed a powerful strike at the control panel!
"Oh!"

There was a loud bang.

The monitor, which was displaying numerous red error messages, went completely black.

The control panel, which was already on the verge of collapse, was now completely destroyed.

"Huh?" Several teammates looked at him in surprise. "Why are you smashing the control panel?"

With a casual toss, the greatsword in Edison's hand returned to his storage compartment.

Then he took out the memory card containing the only flight log and showed it to the viewers in the live stream:

"Look, the flight logs and detailed crash track are all here."

"Once you get this logbook, you'll be the first to find that city, and if you're lucky, you might even get the [Honorary Player] title!"

"But now, this is the only record!"

"If you want it, use your key and come to the Lost Ship!"

"If we can plug the leak and save this sunken spaceship, we can obtain this key to becoming an [Honorary Player]!"

“I am now starting a project on [Treasure Island].

"If the spaceship is successfully rescued, all players who participated in the rescue will receive this record."

"But if the rescue fails and the lost ship is submerged by the sea, I will drown on this ship with my records! Anyone who wants the log will have to bring their own diving equipment to salvage it!"

After EDM Edison finished speaking, not only were the viewers in the live stream extremely surprised, but his teammates were also dumbfounded.

Disapproval was clearly visible on their faces.

"Aren't you afraid of being targeted for revenge for doing this?"

His teammate, who was the first to discover the situation, advised him, "Right now, countless people are eagerly awaiting clues to find that city."

Another teammate looked at the memory card in his hand, stammering, "You... do you know how much this record can sell for?"

"Take it to Youkexin Auction House, it might fetch hundreds of thousands, even millions! Cash!!!"

"You have no idea how much those rich players crave [honored player] status!"

"Wouldn't it be better to auction it off and then split the money?"

In the team channel, people who aren't in the live stream camera speak more directly:
"If you don't think selling it for money is good, can't we keep it for ourselves?"

"Go back to town now to buy supplies and head out to find that city! Don't forget, you're not an honorary player yourself!"

"This might be the closest we've ever come to becoming an honored player!"

"That's right! You're wasting your time here. Someone else will be out there searching the place in their spaceship, and we'll find it first. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity will be completely wasted!"

"This is the result of everyone's hard work; you can't just make that decision so casually!"

The teammates chimed in with their opinions in the team chat.

While some people support Edison's electronic music, the opposition is significantly greater.

Clearly, this unexpected, potentially million-dollar flight log had a significant impact on their mindset.

The core command team for this operation to repair the lost ship's warp drive consisted of only eight people.

If the record were auctioned off, one person could potentially receive hundreds of thousands.

If there are many wealthy people, it's not impossible for the value to double!

With such temptation before them, not everyone can remain unmoved.

But the electronic Edison was just too fast.

Before they could act, the control panel was destroyed, and the only remaining record was in the hands of Electro Edison.

Even the electronic music Edison has publicly announced how he will handle this log.

The viewers in the live stream are now completely excited, shouting "It's a deal!"

The faster players had already teleported over with various tools, pouring into the spaceship in large numbers to try and plug the leaks.

It was already extremely difficult to persuade Edison to change his mind.

Watching tens of thousands of coins and the "Honorary Player" title slip away was incredibly painful.

Everyone's face was stiff.

But that's exactly what the electronic music Edison wanted to achieve.

He can "conduct scientific research" in the virtual world and command tens of thousands of people in BOSS battles, so his brain is undoubtedly top-notch.

It's just that I don't usually like to use my brain that much when playing games.

Now, an unexpected event has occurred, affecting the game login pods of tens of millions of players in the entire virtual world, the unknown city that hundreds of millions of players have been searching for, flight logs worth millions, the invaluable but equally precious [Honorary Player] title, and the efforts of many players in repairing the Lost Ship...

This extremely complicated situation instantly brought him to his senses.

then……

They skipped the explanation and discussion and forcibly linked "saving the spaceship" and "obtaining the log" together!
Giving a million-dollar log to a few people is neither fair (ignoring the contributions of other players in fixing the engine) nor easy to cause controversy.

But if it's offered as a bounty to tens of thousands of people, it's just a fun activity in the game world, and most likely no one will make a big deal out of it.

He thought well.

But he underestimated the allure of money!
Before he could convince his teammates in the command channel, he heard heavy footsteps behind him!
He reacted extremely quickly, immediately withdrawing his hand, clenching the memory card he was showing to the live stream camera in his fist, and pulling it back to his chest.

The next moment, a hand flew past him, just missing the memory card.

If he had been even a second slower, this card would have changed hands!
Electro Edison reacted quickly, but he only managed to save the memory card; his back was still slashed and bleeding!
Looking back, there were already more than a dozen players wielding knives and guns!
Without exception, the players wielding melee weapons charged towards Electro Edison. Just as they raised their swords, gunshots rang out behind them.

The bullet bypassed these people and went straight for the electronic music Edison!
—In the process, it also managed to shoot through several players who were blocking its trajectory.

Edison was too late to dodge, but at the crucial moment, he once again made the right decision—

Return the memory card to the storage compartment.

The memory card itself is almost worthless, costing 10 credits in the city of Mansheng.

These are ordinary items that cannot be dropped when a player dies.

Previously, when EDM Edison threatened that newcomers would need to dive to retrieve the card, he didn't mean that the card would be revealed after he died. Rather, he meant that he decided to secretly leave the card here before he died!
At the crucial moment, a teammate suddenly rushed up and stood in front of him!

—A teammate who desperately craves the [Honorary Player] title.

A hail of bullets pierced through the dragon soul armor that had only just materialized halfway, and entered his body.

Blood flew everywhere.

Health bar plummeted.

Electro Edison was surprised for a moment, but he immediately reacted, summoning the Dragon Soul Armor while taking out weapons from his storage compartment.

As his teammate lay dying, spitting out blood, he said to Electro Edison, "Damn it! Next time there's a chance for an honorary player, you have to take me with you!"

After saying that, his legs went weak and he died on the spot.

However, he did not fall to the ground—before he fell, Electro Edison reached out and caught him.

"Don't worry about me! Run! Everyone here wants the log!" The teammate in spirit form urged anxiously in the team chat.

"I know! I can borrow the body!" The gunshot was loud, and Electro-Edison had to shout in response.

The teammate in spirit form: "Huh?"

He understood the next second:

More bullets came flying in, riddling his body with holes and sending blood mist flying everywhere!
The melee players who had already rushed close had no concept of "respecting the dead" at all, and their swords, spears, and halberds were used to slash at the corpse that Electro Edison was holding up in front of him without any mercy.

Blood splattered again!
Electro-Edison, carrying his teammate's corpse, quickly dodged.

The teammate in spirit form stared wide-eyed for a long while before finally uttering a single sentence:
"You fucking..."

Electro-Edison had no time to pay him any attention and shouted again:
"These people are trying to steal everyone's logs! Do you even want your logs back?!"

"If you want them, then hurry up and kill them!"

"Kill them! Protect me! Everyone has a chance to get the log!"

"If I get ambushed and killed at my respawn point, I won't be able to keep this log!"

Things developed so fast that many people hadn't even realized what was going on and were just standing on the sidelines watching the spectacle.

Upon hearing what the electronic music Edison said, they quickly grasped the key point and pulled out their weapons to join the battle!

Gunfire erupted from the bridge!
However, most of the people at the scene were just casual observers, lacking any organization, which quickly led to another problem:
At first, it was still possible to distinguish who to attack—whoever attacked the electronic music Edison was the target. But soon the scene descended into chaos, making it difficult to differentiate between friend and foe.

In the end, they simply started shooting everyone who had a gun!

The scene was in complete chaos.

Meanwhile, in the crew rest area located in the middle of the spacecraft, hatches were opened one by one.

Players are arriving at the Lost Ship in droves.

Some people went straight to the bridge to find the "Electronic Edison" as soon as they opened the door, while others filled their storage compartments with tools such as iron sheets, welding torches, hammers, and waterproof glue, and headed straight to the stern to plug the leaks. Many people even put on diving suits before they came, so they could dive down directly into flooded areas.

The seawater rushed in very quickly.

Players are flooding in even faster!

This is a battle against the sea, a race against time!

At this very moment, many people are still scheming and fighting over that million-dollar flight log!

(End of this chapter)