The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 667 "It's over! It's all over!!" (Seeking monthly votes at the end of the month!)

Corey King stood atop the city wall, watching the hot air balloons slowly rise into the distant jungle, his face filled with sorrow, as if he had lost his parents.

"Boss, are we really not going to stop them?" he tried to persuade them again.

Xu Meng and Xiao Meng sat on the edge of the hundred-meter-high city wall, their legs dangling in the air, watching with great interest the slowly advancing player formation.

The rocket is launching tomorrow, and all preparations have been completed.

Although the engineers were still very anxious, they kept checking and reviewing, trying to increase the success rate by one percentage point.

Xu Meng, however, did not experience that anxiety.

Ultimately, he has too much money.

The revenue from the [rejuvenation] business continues to reach new highs.

Compared to the revenue figures of this business, even the sales profit of the Dream Machine, whose sales have been soaring, seems somewhat insignificant.

Global sales revenue for holographic media continues to rise, and the profits of lifelike robots are also about to explode...

Even though he spends money recklessly, he still has more and more money in his hands.

I can’t spend it all, I can’t spend it all!
With this unbreakable backing, Xu Mengzhen didn't care about blowing up a few rockets.

Unlimited funds represent unlimited opportunities.

The outcome of "certain success" will not change; the only difference is whether it will happen this time or next time.

Therefore, he was very relaxed and even had the mood to watch the excitement in the virtual world.

Seeing the players' massive army pressing in, all I could feel was anticipation for what was to come.

Kory King looked extremely anxious, but he couldn't just leave it unattended.

Corey King's team has indeed put in a tremendous amount of effort for the city, and he has seen it all.

We can only try to appease them now:

"Don't rush, calm down."

Things may not turn out the way you fear.

He stood up, led Corey King to the other side of the city wall, and looked down at the NPC legions lined up in preparation for battle.

"Look, the troops in the city are also preparing for war. Their combat skills and physical fitness are not much worse than the players', and their teamwork is even more seamless."

"As for the important NPCs you're worried about, don't you know how explosive their stats are, given that you personally designed them?"

"That short sergeant went into the player base and went on a rampage a few days ago, but he came back safe and sound, didn't he?"

Corey King wanted to say: That important NPC almost died outside.

Although he can be resurrected, the fact that he "died" is itself a huge "character breakup"!
A fighter with top-tier combat power can be easily surrounded and killed. What kind of prestige does that have?!

As for numerical explosion...

Does encountering a monster with a mechanic like [Parasitic Vine] really work?

Corey King was highly skeptical!
Xu Meng, however, was not worried at all about the plot going wrong.

They even welcome it.

"Relax, relax."

"Isn't it fascinating to see the characters and stories you designed come to life, interact with players, and weave together another destiny?"

Corey King was speechless.

In the end, all we could say was, "Can we use player accounts instead of developer privileges?"

“Of course,” Xu Meng nodded, “but we can’t use our own developer ‘information advantage’ to gain an advantage.”

Corey King certainly knew this.

This is a clear rule of Dream Building: no member of the development team may use information obtained through company channels to compete with players for opportunities.

Corey King disappeared from the city wall and called for his team to assemble.

Xu Meng then returned to the edge of the city wall and sat down with Xiao Meng to continue watching the excitement.

Xiao Meng happily swung her little legs, then suddenly pointed to the air: "Master, look!"

Xu Meng looked in the direction she was pointing and saw that on the orange-red hot air balloon, which had already risen to a height of several hundred meters, groups of two or three players wearing wingsuits climbed out of the simple baskets.

After waiting for a few seconds, they suddenly jumped down at the same time!

These people had no intention of hiding at all, and dressed in brightly colored wingsuits, they swooped down towards Norringen at high speed!
"Enemy attack!!"

"Airborne attack!!"

"Fire! Fire!! Shoot them down!!"

The soldiers stationed on the city wall quickly spotted the conspicuous attackers and shouted messages to relay the information.

He pointed his rifle at the sky, and the sound of gunfire rang out incessantly.

But that makes no sense.

Wingsuit flying is one of the extreme sports with the highest mortality rate precisely because of its incredible speed!

These players dare to wear such brightly colored wingsuits precisely because of their confidence in their speed.

How can you hit a target traveling at over 50 meters per second?
Before the bullets even reached them, they had already been sent flying more than ten meters away!
The soldiers on the city wall wasted a lot of bullets, only to end up with nothing to show for it.

We could only watch helplessly as these madmen swept overhead, scattering paper packets across the city.

The paper package burst open with a "bang" as it approached the ground.

Green, blue, purple, and yellow powders fluttered down onto the city streets.

Those were highly poisonous mushrooms that everyone dug up in the mushroom forest. After drying and grinding them into powder, they were packaged one by one, just to give these "humanoid monsters" a surprise!
"Wow, they really went to great lengths to annoy the NPCs," Xu Meng couldn't help but complain.

Finding so many poisonous mushrooms in a treacherous mushroom forest, and then drying and grinding them into powder one by one, is no small task; it's troublesome and arduous just thinking about it.

"People aren't afraid of hardship when they're doing bad things!" Xiao Meng succinctly revealed the players' thoughts.

As if to prove Xiaomeng's point of view, all the players who jumped off the hot air balloon in the second round wearing wingsuits were in a half-dead, low-health state.

Xu Meng found it a bit strange: "Don't they restore their full health before the battle starts?"

But when Xiaomeng zoomed in on the image, he immediately understood—

The player's face in the picture has clear plant textures, and small vines occasionally stick out of the nostrils and mouth and dance irregularly in the air.

These players' movements were very uncoordinated; they flew crookedly, and their limbs would twitch from time to time, making them look very strange.

When they threw incendiary bombs into the city, the trajectory of the throws was also very chaotic.

"This is... parasitism?!"

Xu Meng was shocked.

“That’s right, that’s right!” Xiao Meng nodded her little head to confirm for him.

"They allowed themselves to be parasitized?? Just to send the vines into the city? How ruthless!!"

"Not only that!" Xiaomeng shook her little head.

"The parasitic vines have different strengths depending on the organisms they parasitize. People have found that parasitizing players is the easiest way to create elite units, so they use their own bodies to nurture these parasites."

Using one's own body to raise venomous insects?

Xu Meng was so shocked that her mouth dropped open.

The brutality of these people once again exceeded his expectations.

Of course, the main force wouldn't rely solely on wingsuits for the attack; once the hot air balloons reached a sufficient height, they slowly drifted towards the city.

More poisonous mushrooms and parasitic vines are poised to emerge.

The guards on the city wall watched as the city descended into chaos due to the poisonous mushrooms and incendiary bombs, and were forced to raise their cannons and attempt to fire at the hot air balloons in the sky.

Once the hot air balloon reached the top of the giant wall, paratroopers quickly descended from the sky, risking their lives to attack the wall.

Outside the city, the main force of players, now free from artillery suppression, began their charge, pushing catapults, carrying howitzers and RPGs!
Hundreds of people simultaneously pulled out a carrot, summoned their warhorses, and charged into battle as cavalry. The giant, unsurprisingly, reappeared.

But this time, before the steam from their appearance had even dissipated, they were struck in the neck by a series of rockets.

With a deafening explosion, the giant's flesh and blood flew everywhere!
Instead of repairing his body, he collapsed with a thud, his entire body steaming!

"Yay!! I knew giants weren't invincible!"

"We couldn't beat them before because we didn't have enough damage!"

"Even if you blow off their neck or chop off their head, they'll still die!"

"Kill, kill, kill!!"

……

The men were thrilled to see the fallen giant, and their battle cries shook the heavens!
For this siege battle, almost everyone on site had an RPG!

One guy even ate mushrooms while running and instantly grew to over 4 meters tall.

But he didn't stop. Instead, he immediately ate two more of the same mushrooms, and his body grew larger again, reaching a height of 6 meters.

Next are four mushrooms, each 8 meters tall.

Eight mushrooms, 10 meters tall!

This is already a height that allows one to directly confront a small giant!
It's not that he doesn't want to get bigger, it's just that the cost is too high and he can't afford it.

The price of the giant mushroom is rising every day, but the number of mushrooms needed to grow two meters taller doubles, which is unaffordable for most people.

But that’s enough!
A 10-meter-tall guy took a few steps to run up, and with a flying kick, he instantly smashed the head of a 15-meter-tall giant.

Grab the giant's neck with both hands and tear it apart with force!
The giant died instantly!

—Players with superb combat skills can unleash astonishing combat power after growing to their maximum size!

The man even lunged at a 20-meter-tall giant, grabbed its thigh and pulled it to the side, while his own leg hooked around the giant's other leg. He managed to pull the giant, who was twice his size, off balance and crash to the ground.

He didn't need to finish off the giant; the charging players on the ground had already pounced on it and were bombarding the giant's neck with bullets!
The dragon soul also appeared in the sky above the battlefield and launched an attack on the giant.

The dragon soul cannot stray too far from the player, which prevents players on the ground from attacking the 100-meter-high city wall, and even giants can only attack within a range of 30 meters or less.

Even so, it's still a huge help!
Boulders, incendiary bombs, grenade launchers, rocket launchers... the fully upgraded weapons made this charge much smoother for the players than the last one.

The mountain spirit followed the cavalry to the city gate for a final attempt to persuade them to surrender.
"Open the door!! Free trade!!"

However, by this time, fires had broken out everywhere in the city, and many NPCs were delirious, running wildly through the streets, or collapsing while foaming at the mouth.

Molotov cocktails continued to fall.

Paratroopers landed on the city wall, summoned a ferocious dragon, and rushed to guide it to wash the city wall with its dragon breath, occasionally detonating a cannon.

In Fortress City, the casualty figures continue to rise!
The entire garrison was enraged and had no intention of opening the gates to surrender.
"wishful thinking!!"

"You murderous demons! You're going to die!!!"

The mountain spirit was rejected again.

But this time he wasn't angry; instead, he calmly shook his head.

"Incorrect answer."

Then he waved his hand, and everyone started piling bombs onto the city gate.

As expected, the heavy stone door slowly rose again, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed through the doorway once more.

But this time, after the boulder was fully raised, what appeared before the cavalry was no longer panicked players.

Instead, there were three players lying on the ground.

Before them stood three gleaming black Maxim MG08 heavy machine guns!
Before the NPCs could react, the heavy machine gun began spitting fire!
"Da da da da da da da-"

The orange-yellow ammunition belt bounced wildly, and the already deafening machine gun fire echoed and intensified in the narrow doorway, becoming deafening!

The charging warhorses let out tragic neighs and collapsed in the irresistible rain of iron.

The cavalrymen on horseback had lowered their bodies as much as possible, almost completely pressed against their horses' backs.

But faced with this hail of bullets from three heavy machine guns, totaling 1350 rounds of 7.92mm ammunition per minute, there was no chance of survival.

It was as if the Grim Reaper's scythe had swung through the doorway, and rows of cavalrymen fell, their flesh and blood flying everywhere.

Even the players standing behind the heavy machine gun couldn't help but shudder at the sight.

The mountain spirit shook his head and shouted loudly:

"Stop looking! They'll all respawn when the server refreshes tonight! What's there to worry about!"

"Our comrades in the city are still waiting for our support!"

"Now, into the city!!"

The machine gunners, carrying their heavy machine guns, made way for the cavalrymen, who led their warhorses through the city gate, which was littered with the corpses of soldiers and horses, and officially entered the city.

Then, one group charged towards the NPC controlling the city gate's lifting mechanism, while the other group mounted their horses and prepared to charge into the city.

Ahead on the road, NPCs were scattering and fleeing—whether they were ordinary NPCs or NPCs dressed in soldier uniforms, they had basically lost the will to resist.

Except for three soldiers:
A blond-haired young man, a black-haired boy, and a girl wearing a red scarf.

The mountain spirit, standing at the very front of the cavalry, looked at the three men and almost wanted to laugh:
"What, are all the adults in this city dead?"

"You three brats are sent to their deaths?"

He shook his head. "Put down your weapons, move aside, don't get in the way."

"Our goal is the inner city; we don't want to waste time here."

But the three NPCs had no intention of accepting his kindness and stubbornly pointed their knives at him.

The mountain spirit gave up trying to persuade him: "Then just die. You can be resurrected tomorrow anyway."

"Cavalry Regiment! Charge!!!"

With a single lash of his whip, the hundreds of cavalrymen charged forward, their hooves thundering on the stone pavement with astonishing force!
The black-haired boy opposite was so frightened that he kept biting his own hand.

The mountain spirit found it laughable, but still gently tugged at the reins, intending to step over the blond-haired man next to him.

Everyone else has black hair, but you have blond hair; it just doesn't look right!

As the mountain spirit was thinking about these absurd things, it suddenly saw the boy who was "scared and biting his hand" suddenly burst out with a huge amount of water vapor!

The burst of steam shot into the sky, appearing to be as high as 15 meters!

"Holy crap!! A giant?!"

The mountain spirit's mind went completely blank.

He never imagined that those giants were actually transformed humans!
Before you could even think, a giant foot flew out of the steam!

The mountain spirit watched helplessly as the giant foot flew right in front of him, and the next second—he felt as if he had been hit head-on by a speeding train!

His vision went black and he was sent flying high into the air, crashing heavily onto the city wall behind him, splattering blood everywhere.

The body remained hanging on the wall for several seconds before slowly sliding down.

A hideous bloodstain was left on the wall!
The steam completely dissipated.

The full picture of this uninvited guest was finally revealed to the players of the cavalry regiment.

"Roar!!!!"

The giant roared towards the sky and charged fiercely at the unprepared players!

Sixty meters away from the city gate, Corey King slapped himself on the forehead with a loud "smack".

"It's over!"

"It's all over!!"

He transformed in front of everyone!

(End of this chapter)