275: Chapter 275 The Gameplay I'm Best At

The screen displayed various current data reports for Earth, as well as the combat losses and logistical supply status of the Southern District Expeditionary Force.

"Your Excellency Administrator, according to the current data projections..."

AI Morning Star's virtual image stood beside Chen Xi, her voice carrying a trace of undisguised concern.

"Although we successfully killed the [Star Abyss Tyrant] and temporarily sealed the rift of the Void Abyss, the overall foundation of Earth's civilization is still far too weak."

Morning Star's slender fingers slid across the screen, bringing up a brutal bar chart.

"Currently, the entire Earth has fewer than a hundred thousand Professionals with combat power over Lv. 50; top-tier combatants over Lv. 80 are even fewer. Looking at the entire Milky Way, or even those mid-tier alien civilizations on the Orion Arm, Lv. 80 Silicon-based Warriors or Mutants are merely 'high-level cannon fodder' in their regular interstellar fleets."

"If we follow Earth's current pace of running dungeons and grinding monsters to level up... even with sufficient resources, it would take at least three hundred years to raise an army capable of going toe-to-toe with high-level alien civilizations in an interstellar war."

"Three hundred years? That's too long."

Chen Xi shook his head, a trace of heart-stopping madness and defiance flashing in his crimson-gold eyes.

"Those hungry wolves in the universe won't give us three hundred years to develop. Since the conventional evolution route won't work, we'll flip the table entirely and switch to the way we humans are most skillful at playing."

"The most skillful way to play?" A calculation lag flashed through the logical center of the super AI Morning Star. "Your Excellency Administrator, do you mean..."

"Morning Star, do you remember who the most fanatical, destructive, and death-defying group of humans was in the Old Era, over a hundred years ago before the Great Cataclysm?"

The corners of Chen Xi's mouth slowly curled into an extremely dangerous arc.

Morning Star's database searched rapidly. After a moment, she hesitantly provided a term:

"Are you referring to... 'Gamers'?"

"Exactly!"

Chen Xi stood up abruptly, his eyes erupting with a divine light of creation more dazzling than a supernova.

"In this universe, any carbon-based or silicon-based lifeform will feel fear toward death and shrink back because of pain. However, there is a kind of existence that can stay awake for a month straight for a few measly experience points; they can smile while launching ten thousand suicidal charges against an invincible god just to drop a piece of top-tier equipment!"

"As long as you give them a health bar and a respawn point, they can treat the entire universe like a playground and grind it to dust!"

Chen Xi's right hand suddenly grabbed at the void, and the highest authority of the [civilization seed editor] was instantly pushed to its limit!

"Since Earth's physical constitution can't keep up with the intensity of interstellar war, I'll just give them cheats! I'll forcibly turn this brutal interstellar expedition into a [Full-Dive VRMMO] participated in by all of humanity!"

"[Miracle Creation: Hyper-Dimensional Logic Overwrite]!"

"Using the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain] as the server motherboard! Using the mental seas of Earth's eight billion humans as the client!"

"Congeal for me—!!!"

Rumble—!!!

Along with Chen Xi's near-manic roar, he took the massive residual energy of the high-dimensional divinity he had just extracted from the Star Abyss Tyrant and the core law of "hundred-fold time flow" from within the Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain, kneading them together without reservation.

An ultimate mythic card, deep blue in color with countless data codes composed of 0s and 1s flowing across its surface and radiating an aura capable of changing the course of Earth's civilization, was born in Chen Xi's palm!

[Mythic Grade · Civilization Leap Card — [The Fourth Calamity: Advent Network]!]

[Card Trait 1: Mental Projection: Can forcibly take over the subconscious network of all sentient beings on a designated planet. While the host is in a state of sleep, their soul consciousness will be stripped with 100% zero loss and descend into the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain] in the materialized form of a 'Mental Projection' across galaxies!]

[Card Trait 2: Law Solidification: Any kills made, skills comprehended, or combat experience gained by the Mental Projection within the Divine Domain will be perfectly synchronized to the physical body on Earth at a 1:1 ratio upon waking!]

[Card Trait 3: Immortality: Within the Divine Domain, even if the Mental Projection is torn to pieces, it will not lead to true death. It will only consume a certain amount of mental power and recongeal at a Divine Domain respawn point after a 2-hour 'Respawn Cooldown'!]

[Additional Buff: Time flow within the Divine Domain is 100 times that of the outside world! Experience gain efficiency increased by 500%!]

"This... this fundamentally violates the universe's law of conservation of energy!"

AI Morning Star looked at this card, which was so heaven-defying it was outrageous; her virtual holographic image was trembling violently. As a high-dimensional AI, she naturally understood what this card meant. It meant that Earthlings had completely found a bug in the universe! Using the extremely low cost of a "headache" and a "two-hour cooldown" to trade for the opportunity for infinite trial and error and infinite growth within a hundred-fold time frame!

"To hell with energy conservation! In my editor, I am the only truth!"

Chen Xi laughed wildly and directly slammed the card [The Fourth Calamity: Advent Network] into the core control hub of the Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain!

Buzz————!!!!!

At this moment, Earth.

In the Dragon Kingdom during the dead of night, whether in the bustling Imperial Capital or remote safety zone towns, the smart bracelets on the wrists of billions of sleeping or late-night-grinding Professionals and civilians suddenly lit up with a piercing blue light simultaneously.

Deep within everyone's minds, a majestic, domineering, yet endlessly seductive voice rang out at once:

[Ding! Highest Administrator command detected!]

[Earth Civilization version hotfix completed! Large-scale realistic interstellar immersive game "Star Sea Expedition: Divine Domain Advent" officially enters Open Beta!]

[Here, death is no longer the end; here, a hundred-fold time allows you to change your fate against the heavens! Here, you can become a god just by slaying monsters!]

[Warriors of Earth, do you choose to... log in to the game?!]

"Holy crap? What's going on? Am I dreaming?"

"Full-Dive VRMMO? No level loss on death? And you can bring attributes back to reality?!"

"Damn it! I've been a Lv. 10 bottom-tier brick-mover in the slums for ten years. Even if I die in a dream today, I'm clicking 'Yes'!"

"Brothers! Charge! For the Horde... er, wait, for Earth!!!"

That night, Earth reached a boiling point.

Billions of Earthlings, from elderly seniors to hot-blooded youths, clutching an ultimate desire for power, frantically pressed that blue-glowing [Login] button.

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