Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1401: Chapter 1261 [Return to the Stars] – Progress 100%!

Chapter 1401: Chapter 1261 [Return to the Stars] – Progress 100%!

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Borrowing a laboratory or personnel usually isn’t a hassle,

but if the target is a nuclear fusion laboratory…

that becomes very tricky!

Therefore, Henry decided: he would start by trying to borrow the particle laboratory and the positron testing research team.

These two sound very high-tech indeed— and they actually are, but precisely because they are so advanced and cutting-edge, they tend to be more theoretical with no concrete output— and even in the foreseeable future, they are not expected to produce any practical results.

This does not mean they are unimportant, but it does make borrowing from them much easier.

Of course, before borrowing personnel, one must report up the chain of command!

Reporting, holding meetings, establishing special working groups, assembling expert panels.

These preparatory steps are essential.

However, due to Lincoln’s special status, these preparation steps will be completed very quickly!

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As Lincoln began to take major actions in reality, the excitement in the virtual world didn’t diminish in the slightest.

The global war between players and aliens continued to rage on.

Following [Pandora]’s successful recapture by players with the assistance of the planet’s will, Eva, the second to meet the “occupation conditions” was unsurprisingly [Cyber Chang’an].

Whether it was the level of attention from players or the combat power of NPC forces, Cyber Chang’an was second to none!

It was no surprise that it was the second to fulfill the conditions.

Three hours later, the great purge finished, and [Cyber Chang’an] officially became a player-occupied area.

After that, the player forces began to divide—

Indeed, most people continued to fight in the next world due to a sense of mission to save the world and the allure of store points, battling the alien forces to the ends of the world!

But a considerable portion of players remained focused solely on building the space elevator, pushing forward the progress of [Return to the Stars].

—If not for the alien invasion threatening the space elevator, many wouldn’t even bother with the alien issue at all.

These players had their minds filled with the over twenty new games that the virtual world would launch all at once after [Return to the Stars] was completed, leaving no room for anything else.

This somewhat affected the speed at which players counterattacked the aliens.

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Not until the next day did a third area meet the occupation conditions—

[Virtual Xiajing].

As the reflection of the Daxia Capital in the virtual world, Daxia players would certainly not stand by and watch aliens wreak havoc here.

Over sixty percent of the players coming from the Cyber Chang’an diversion chose this as their main battlefield.

Upon meeting the occupation conditions and after all aliens were marked on the map, it meant entering the final phase of the encirclement and purge, with many players joining in to clean up the last of the aliens for occupation points.

So, as expected: [Virtual Xiajing] was reclaimed by the players!

Seeing Daxia players recapture the “capital,” players from other countries were certainly not to be outdone, immediately calling on their national players to take action to “recapture their capitals.”

But they overlooked one issue—

The success of the Daxia players was due to the sheer number of players and their strong unity!

What Daxia players could achieve didn’t mean they could do the same; it was a different matter altogether!

And the final results proved: they really couldn’t do it.

The fourth to meet the occupation conditions was not Virtual Tokyo, Virtual Berlin, Virtual Paris, or any other city, but the center of the virtual world—

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[Metropolis]

Due to its excessive prosperity, the number of NPCs and players that resided here was staggeringly higher than anywhere else, resulting in particularly severe damage when the alien disaster struck.

So despite the tireless efforts of countless players, it remained in fourth place.

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After that came another territory belonging to Daxia: [Virtual Hong Kong].

This area was actually divided into two.

The city zone of Virtual Hong Kong had long been reclaimed by the players.

A group of players driving mechs of various sizes and models found that exterminating the aliens was utterly stress-free!

——Although giant mechs were not allowed in the public map’s city zone, players could easily suppress the aliens using medium and small-sized mechs.

Before the aliens’ acid could corrode the mechs, players would punch them to death without even needing to use weapons.

The real trouble was on the other end of the time-space rift—the world belonging to the monsters.

In the monsters’ world, the aliens, after rounds of mutations and evolution, began to showcase forms as massive as the monsters themselves, with their combat power climbing higher and higher.

But the good news was: both the Pioneers and the monsters regarded the aliens as enemies, avoiding the players from facing adversaries on two fronts.

And since the monsters’ combat power was off the charts, players who had grown accustomed to this intensity within this world didn’t panic when faced with the oversized aliens.

The way they fought the monsters before was the same way they fought the aliens now!

After defeating the giant aliens, the remaining small-fry aliens could be crushed underfoot by the dozen, utterly unable to withstand an attack!

Yun Luo, a female player who once led a craze by ruthlessly beating down Izumo players in the [World Mobile Ball Championships], and who had become a professional mobile ball player, was particularly outstanding.

With her extraordinary nervous system providing exceptional reflexes and mesmerizing mech driving skills, she significantly increased her fanbase.

Even Henry, who was busily running around, made a point of calling her, and through Cloud Dream’s channels, sent an invitation letter to Yun Luo.

It was through this that Lincoln learned: after the “fly instrument trooper unit,” the military finally entertained the idea of an “Armor Troop.”

——The “fly instrument trooper unit” was the private nickname many military personnel had for the Unmanned Combat Troop.

Correspondingly, “Armor Troop” should also have an official name, but learning that this was merely a combat unit in the planning stages, still in its experimental verification phase, Lincoln didn’t pay much attention to it.

He was equally busy, spending considerable time on study.

Before all the experiment sites and personnel were in place, he needed to fully absorb the information on the Positron Reaction Furnace and digest it completely.

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After [Virtual Hong Kong], the players’ pace of “reclaiming lost territory” noticeably slowed down.

Especially in those worlds with relatively outdated weaponry, where they could only use small-caliber firearms or even cold weapons, the counterattack proved quite challenging.

When the progress of [Return to the Stars] reached 98%, the battle line nearly came to a halt.

——Everyone was rushing to progress through the World Mission, eager to complete the Space Elevator as soon as possible.

The last 2% of progress took the players another workday.

The moment that dreadful 10 billion progress bar was finally filled, the densely packed players in the task square instantly let out cheer that lasted throughout the day!

Billions of players worldwide cooperated in unison, overcoming incredible difficulties and setbacks over a full 21 days; they had finally completed this epic achievement on this day—

Repairing the Space Elevator!

Opening the path to the stars!

At this moment, the sense of accomplishment from “completing this task” alone brought more joy to the players than the anticipation for the last trailer.

Even the excitement of over 20 new games to be released in the future couldn’t compare to the exhilaration of this moment!