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Chapter 1386: Chapter 1248: Aliens Breakout!

Chapter 1386: Chapter 1248: Aliens Breakout!

On July 1, [Return to the Stars] reached 60% progress and unlocked a trailer for a DLC—

“Extreme Racing: Star Ocean”

Players would be able to drive their own cars, racing across various extraordinary celestial bodies.

Or even racing spaceships.

This isn’t just about environmental and visual changes—although these changes can bring about a grand and spectacular, fresh visual experience, what’s more special is the influence that the celestial bodies themselves have on the race track.

Gravity, air pressure, meteor showers, planetary disasters…

and other situations difficult to imagine on Earth can all be experienced on the interstellar race track.

The trailer also specifically showcased an ingenious [Star Ring Circuit].

Racers stomped on the accelerator over huge chunks of broken ice, speeding wildly, leaping over obstacles, a perfect combination of thrill and fantasy, instantly making countless racing players’ hearts surge with excitement.

Not just them, even players who had never taken a driving test in reality were equally looking forward to it, working even harder to progress in the game!

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On July 4, [Return to the Stars] reached 70% progress, unlocking a trailer for a new game—

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At first, when players saw yet another spaceship on the screen, crashing on a desolate asteroid, they complained: “This again?

Why does your spaceship crash every day?”

But as the trailer continued to play, players saw the unlucky bunch burrow into the asteroid, start mining on the spot, producing oxygen, building houses, laying pipes, climbing the tech tree, creating small people…

rapidly developing an extremely orderly, aesthetically pleasing, perfectly square underground base that could satisfy anyone with OCD, one by one they were all dumbfounded.

At first, they thought it was another “Wall of Life,” but it turned out to be something completely different!

The Industrial Faction and Farming Faction were instantly filled with anticipation!

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On July 6, progress reached 80%.

The trailer this time still opened with an interstellar spaceship.

The moment players saw the spaceship, stereotypes immediately came to mind: “When will this one crash?”

But this time, they had guessed wrong.

This was a large migration spaceship, almost a city floating in the universe—just slightly smaller than [Space City] in terms of volume.

As for the gameplay, it was a bit special: it was both a casual and hardcore game.

Players could treat it as a mere “space travel simulator,” experiencing the rich and interesting life of a space migrant.

They could also play as a “starship repair simulator,” taking on the role of an engineer, experiencing the various complex and difficult problems that a spaceship could encounter while flying through space, and personally get their hands dirty, figuring out ways to solve those problems.

The game’s name was simple and rustic, called “New Immigrant”!

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When the new workday arrived on July 8, players had pushed the progress to 90%!

[Cradle Plan] reappeared.

This time, naturally, it was the 10 games that everyone had voted for themselves.

A long time had passed since the trial play, and the development teams had all improved their games and carefully added many new scenes into the trailers for the players to see.

The most worrisome “Origami Kingdom” also saw the kid fellas successfully complete the game—Mavis also made a little effort inside.

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All these new games, new content, their online dates were all [Return to the Stars Day].

Players were no longer anxious about it because the arrival of that day was no longer far off.

Even after the progress reached 90% and NPCs in Cyber Chang’an waged a large-scale civil war, greatly impeding the players’ steps in advancing, it didn’t dampen everyone’s enthusiasm.

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Meanwhile, during the players’ intense effort to progress, there were also a few minor incidents.

Lincoln’s usual “diligence” took Henry by surprise.

It wasn’t just because of Lincoln’s sudden earnestness; it was also because he had appeared at the scene of [Digital Life] transformation without notifying anyone—

The staff had just closed the hatch and pressed the start button when, upon looking up, they were startled to see Lincoln right beside them.

The sudden presence of the top technical staff was scary enough.

If this “technical staff” vanished silently from the “security bubble,” crossed two provinces in an instant, and popped up in a secret sanatorium in Ludu, that was even scarier!

When Henry received the news, his first reaction wasn’t concern for Lincoln’s safety—he hadn’t really worried about that for some time now, nor was it to blame the Security team for a lack of vigilance—let’s not say that the bubble was only for external security, even if it was for internal, it wouldn’t be able to stop Lincoln.

His first reaction was: Was there a problem with the sanatorium and the person undergoing the digital life transformation?!

If not, why would Lincoln suddenly appear there?!

Henry rushed over almost instantly.

But by the time he arrived, Lincoln had already left for Yu Central.

—He had only glanced at the white-haired old gentleman in the pod to confirm he was the same person as in the information, checked the work log briefly, and then quickly left.

Henry had no choice but to chase after him again.

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In such a cat-and-mouse pursuit, Henry followed Lincoln’s tail across five provinces before they finally met up successfully.

“Are you on some sort of incognito visit?” Henry teased immediately, “If you really wanted to see the front line, just tell me, and no one would have stopped you.”

No one would stop me, but to see the most genuine situation, I really had to go “incognito.”

This thought flashed through Lincoln’s mind.

When he spoke, however, he said, “I’ve been lying down too long and wanted to get out for a walk, and take Princess for a stroll in the process.”

He was very satisfied with the results of this sudden surprise inspection and felt much more at ease.

Afterward, he checked various parts of the project with Henry, showing a level of diligence that was nearly unthinkable, leaving Henry utterly confused.

But after repeatedly confirming there were no issues, he could only attribute it to Lincoln’s whim.

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Little Chun also returned to Xiajing City for several days during a break from treatment.

The couple went straight to Lincoln’s house after landing, only to learn that Lincoln was not in Xiajing City at the time.

Unable to meet Lincoln, they shared their joy with colleagues instead.

Quentina joyfully organized a celebration for Little Chun, whose game led the team in launching limited-time benefits, showering the players with a round of perks.

Upon receiving the news, Lincoln also remotely participated in the celebration using his Headband.

This time, he could finally clearly sense that Little Chun’s physical condition had greatly changed.

She became much more energetic, and even her character setting was shifting from “gentle wife” towards “lively big sister.”

After expressing this thought to Camille Victoria, the Little Princess rolled her eyes at him several times, none too pleased.

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Finally, a minor incident also occurred in [Space City]—

The Alien that had been captured by players and transported to Space City, which had been locked in a Glass cage and put on display for ticket-buying visitors…

Escaped.

Initially, it didn’t attract much attention from the players.

After all, it was just an elite monster; in a [Space City] regularly hosting tens of thousands of players online, how much of a stir could it cause?

But they quickly realized:

They were terribly wrong!