The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 699 The Ultimate Reward: The Sea of ​​Information Universe

[Task Update -]

Under your guidance and leadership, game developers worldwide have simultaneously entered the era of virtual development, resulting in an explosive growth in virtual games, a surge in virtual world content, and a breakthrough in virtual world resident traffic.

The creative ecosystem of the digital world has been irreversibly altered, and the exponential expansion of the digital world has already begun.

The information carrying capacity of the digital world meets the standards.

Ultimate control over the digital world.

Congratulations! You now hold the world in your hands.

[Task: Virtual Jump (Completed)]

……

Xu Meng was also filled with excitement as she looked at the lines of text that appeared before her.

It's not just about the upcoming mission rewards, but also about the information subtly revealed in the mission evaluation—

The concepts of "irreversible changes in the creative ecosystem" and "exponential expansion of the virtual world" are easy to understand and are the result of my own gradual efforts.

But the "carrying capacity of the digital world" and "ultimate authority"...

This inevitably leads to all sorts of speculation.

Load-bearing capacity?
What does it carry?
Ultimate authority—the entire world was created by oneself, so of course the highest authority is in one's own hands. Why emphasize this specifically?

Could it be that... "ultimate authority" and "highest authority" do not describe the same concept?
Is the special emphasis on these two points perhaps related to the rewards to come?

So what is the reward?
He watched with anticipation.

But unexpectedly, they discovered that this time was different from the previous times. Instead of directly sending the mission reward, a different message appeared—

[A ferryman in the ocean of information.]

Congratulations! You have not only successfully traversed the ocean of information, but also made full use of the gifts it provided to create your own great achievements.

The digital world you've created has already begun to ripple across the ocean of the information universe.

Just one last step away, and you'll be able to push open the door and connect your world to the vast ocean of information.

[This concludes the tutorial on the Game Life development system.]

[The final mission reward will be released soon.]

Xu Meng's eyes widened instantly.

He was caught off guard.

The amount of information conveyed in these few lines is truly immense!

It's bigger than all the previous information combined!
He had wondered where this system came from.

His only clue was that when the system was first activated, it mentioned "a ferryman of the information universe," implying that he had once swum across the information universe.

He didn't know what the Ocean of Information was, but since "information" was mentioned, this system, which was also embodied in the form of "information," was most likely "salvaged" from this ocean.

Of course, using the word "salvage" is somewhat self-aggrandizing.

In fact, in his memory, after the sudden death, he woke up in the office of Zhumeng.

I have no memory of the middle period.

Therefore, the more realistic situation should be: after his sudden death, due to some incomprehensible coincidence, his consciousness did not dissipate, but sank into the sea of ​​information universe, and then drifted in this ocean like a floating corpse.

They happened to bump into a "message in a bottle"—which is this system—and ended up falling into this world together.

After that, it was just a matter of completing tasks. Each time a task was completed, something would be taken out of the bottle.

Now, is this bottle finally going to be emptied out?
Xu Meng was very surprised and very regretful—he had thought the technology in this bottle was endless and he could explore it for a lifetime.

Under his regretful gaze, the last two lines slowly appeared:

[Ultimate Reward: Door, Emergency Key]

[Distribution Begins]

Before Xu Meng could think any further, all the words lost their restraint and scattered into a jumble of radicals and strokes.

Then these text components slowly brightened and coalesced into a glowing cocoon.

"Master, what is this?"

Xiao Meng asked in surprise.

Xu Meng was even more surprised than her, "You can see?"

Previously, the system was only visible to him; no one else could see it, whether in the real world or the virtual world.

“Sure!” Xiaomeng nodded.

But then he quickly added, puzzled, "But I can't see it very clearly. It seems to contain a very powerful and complex program..."

Before Xiaomeng could finish speaking, the "cocoon" suddenly burst open, transforming into a stream of data that shot straight into the sky!

At this very moment, Xu Meng and Xiao Meng are at the top of the Sea of ​​Creativity, watching the creative competition.

Upon seeing this change, I immediately rose to the surface along with it!
But the speed of this light was too fast, and normal ascent could not keep up at all.

So Xu Meng grabbed Xiao Meng's wrist, "Xiao Meng, let's chase after them!"

"Mmm!" Xiaomeng nodded, an excited look on her face.

The next second, the two of them transformed into a shooting star, soaring to an even higher altitude at an astonishing speed!
In less than three seconds, they surged above the sea surface.

Xu Meng was very surprised.

Because the Sea of ​​Creativity has no concept of "sea surface", "seabed", or "coast".

In his design, it is a boundless, endless sea.

There is no such thing as "surfacing".

Many skeptical players tried this during the advanced experience – no matter how high they rose or how deep they sank, they could not reach the surface or the seabed of the Sea of ​​Creativity.

But now, that beam of light shot out of the sea in an instant!
This means that it has broken through the "world" of the sea of ​​creativity.

It also breaks through the limitations of the server.

As a result, all the players in the virtual world saw the light and the shooting star that was relentlessly chasing after it.

In the sea of ​​creativity, there are players who wander around with great enthusiasm, selecting world bubbles;
Players who tried out the game inside Worldbubble;

Players leisurely enjoy skewers on the main street of Mansheng Metropolis;
In London, taking advantage of the major update diverting the attention of British players, players stormed Buckingham Palace for the fifth time;

Lavakol, a player who has completed warrior training and officially become a mercenary, is ready to go to the front lines;

Deep within the Abyss Caverns, a player who ate a mushroom to grow larger in order to fight monsters, only to be crushed by the rising weight and bleed from all seven orifices...

……

Everyone looked up at the same time, gazing at the light and shooting star that shot straight into the sky.

Even in real-world locations like Jinghu Holographic Park and Ningzhou City Central Square, passersby were looking up at the sky.

Even more so, players who play Dragonfighting in real life can see the light that rises straight into the sky behind the dragon when they look up at the Dragon Soul.

At this moment, all places that are connected to the virtual world and have the concept of "sky" exist.

Everyone can see this light!
This is the second major event to break through the "world boundaries" since the Lost Ship crash!

Everyone who saw this light immediately understood:

Xu Meng is making another big move!

But as the light flew higher and higher, the meteor also became higher and smaller, making it impossible to see the details.

This has left users around the world both excited and confused, eager to know what Xu Meng is up to.

What does Xu Meng want to do?
Xu Meng herself didn't know!

He was simply being dragged along by Xiaomeng, who was chasing after him relentlessly.

He had realized that the reward for this ultimate mission was extremely unusual!
This light does not simply fly upwards in a spatial sense.

In Xu Meng's perception, the light flew along, connecting her with each small world, building, NPC, and prop in the virtual world.

This strange feeling sent shivers down Xu Meng's spine.

This is not right.

Logically, since he is not using any auxiliary programs or plugins, he should not be aware of these things.

—This is an ability unique to Xiaomeng, a digital life form!

But during this "ascent", this "perception" becomes stronger and clearer!

At one point, he even saw with his naked eye that the light "broken" through a dense network of code, continuing to rise while also weaving himself into that network.

The moment the thought "What is this doing?" crossed his mind, the answer appeared automatically:

"This light is connecting itself with the entire virtual world; this scene is the process of 'programming' and 'embedding'."

Is this... the world through Xiaomeng's eyes?
Xu Meng was both surprised and delighted.

That's not all!
The technology involved in this "ultimate reward" is simply too advanced!

But considering the entire system is part of the vast ocean of information in the universe—it might even be a product developed by some civilization—it seems understandable that the ultimate reward would be more prestigious.

He wasn't worried that the reward would cause significant damage to the virtual world.

Along with this "digital perception" ability, one's "intuition" and "confidence" also rise.

With [ultimate access] in hand, you can forcibly cut off this process at any time.

It could even turn the world upside down and pull out all the code embedded in the virtual world!

As he appreciates the world from a completely new perspective of digital life, he is pulled by Xiaomeng to keep going upward!
An endless ascent. It's practically a different kind of "ascension"!
Until the light finally stopped.

Hanging high in the sky.

It's not just visually "high"; in Xu Meng's still somewhat unfamiliar "digital senses," that light is also "above" the entire virtual world.

Then, the light began to move horizontally, drawing a line segment one meter long.

At both ends of the line segment, light rays trace a two-meter-long line segment vertically downwards.

Finally, the ends of the two line segments extend laterally and approach each other until they overlap.

A rectangle, two meters high and one meter wide, appeared before Xu Meng's eyes.

"Is this... the door?"

The first reward for the ultimate mission is a door.

but……

"Just drawing a frame with light and calling it a door?"

"There aren't even doorknobs??"

"This is barely a door frame, right???"

He tried to reach for the non-existent door.

Surprisingly, we actually encountered resistance.

—He touched an invisible door.

A line of words appeared on the invisible door—

[The information carrying capacity of the virtual world has met the standards, and the framework has been successfully established.]
[Pouring concrete for the doorway requires confirmation from the person with ultimate authority]
[Enable fill?]
Having come this far, with the door already within reach, Xu Meng's curiosity and desire to explore were already bursting, so why would she give up halfway?

"Turn on."

The door remained still.

Xu Meng was somewhat puzzled.

But the next second, he suddenly lowered his head!
Beneath his feet, and above the heads of hundreds of millions of players, a very thin stream of light simultaneously appeared.

The players seemed oblivious to the thin stream of light, still craning their necks and staring curiously at the points of light in the sky.

But in Xu Meng's eyes, hundreds of millions of streams of light rose from the earth, converging into a surging torrent of silk threads, heading towards the gate in the high heavens!

The unimaginable scene left him stunned.

The torrent of silk threads surged and entwined, quickly reaching their feet and merging into the empty "door frame".

Then a door slowly emerged from the bottom up.

Xu Meng paid no attention to the door, but stared intently at the threads.

At first, he thought it was rapidly flowing code, moving so fast that it exceeded the limits of visual perception, which is why it looked like continuous threads—just like Xiaomeng had done before.

But as he concentrated, the “surge” of the silk threads slowed down in his eyes.

He saw more—

That's not just simple code.

He saw something familiar inside:

That's the information format of the dream machine and the brain's neural signals, the data stream that jumps and changes when the player activates their Nen ability, and even the excited neural signals when lovers were having sex recently...

He suddenly realized—

This is "念" (niàn).

But it's not the Nen ability in the game; rather, it's the electric sparks that flash in the players' minds during the game.

This is……

The idea of ​​data-driven thinking!

This discovery greatly shocked Xu Meng.

What surprised him even more was:
Even with the support of hundreds of millions of people, the filling of this door is still so slow!
"Thank goodness..." Xu Meng couldn't help but think, "Thank goodness I've been selling the Dream Machine with all my might, otherwise it's questionable whether I could even fill this door."

Five minutes later, the door was finally filled.

A white wooden door appeared in front of Xu Meng and Xiao Meng.

Without hesitation, Xu Meng reached out and grasped the brass doorknob.

screw.

It won't turn.

push.

It still can't be pushed.

"?"

Xu Meng laughed in exasperation.

Dude, this is a huge event, with players all over the world watching, the atmosphere is built up to this point, and the door still won't open???

How about playing? !
He was unwilling to give up and gripped the doorknob again.

As his thoughts shifted, the remaining "threads" quickly surged forth, wrapping around his arms and providing him with more strength.

Xu Meng took a deep breath and began to exert her strength!
The threads on the arm began to glow, break, and dissipate.

The door began to tremble.

But it was just a tremor.

There was no sign that it was going to be pushed away.

"Hey, you forced me to do this."

Xu Meng sighed and took out another ultimate reward—

Emergency Key

That was a hammer.

The hammer handle is also engraved with the words: "[Yunmeng products, guaranteed to be of the highest quality]".

This dry humor made Xu Meng laugh twice, speechless.

Then he gripped the hammer.

He had some regrets.

But I still smashed it down hard!

—As with previous system rewards, he not only "received" the reward itself, but also gained knowledge about the reward.

The knowledge of how to shape the "door" and how to mobilize and use the "threads" had already appeared in his mind.

He can smash this door and rebuild it a month later!
"Oh!"

There was a muffled sound.

Several cracks appeared on the door.

The hammer in his hand shattered into countless fragments, dissipating into the air.

"??"

Question marks popped up in Xu Meng's head again.

WTF?

Is the brand "Yunmeng" some kind of knock-off brand?
"Bang!!"

The loud vibration interrupted his reverie.

This time, the noise came from the other side of the door!
The cracks on the door grew rapidly, like a spider web, the fissures widening, and then—

The entire door shattered with a crash!
A wild torrent of data surged forth, crashing into this world!
Xu Meng and Xiao Meng, who were standing in front of the door, were instantly swallowed up.

Players all over the world witnessed the moment when the sky shattered and the torrent surged forth!

The "water" in the ocean of information is flowing into this world!

"Hey, what happened?"

"What's going on? Is there a bug?"

"The sky... has cracked open? Is Mr. Xu going to cosplay as the goddess Nuwa?"

"Wait, why is the area of ​​the fragments getting larger? This isn't normal!"

"Will Mr. Xu run into trouble?"

……

This catastrophic scene made players instinctively worry about Xu Meng's condition.

Xu Meng, at the very center of the torrent, feeling the wild surge of information, took a deep breath.

He felt...

It was incredibly exhilarating!
Beside him, Xiao Meng's eyes were also shining, and her little face was flushed with excitement.

Finally, in front of the two of them, on the other side of the door...

It is a starry sky floating in the ocean.

(End of this chapter)