Above the gray fog

Chapter 1317 One Hundred and Twenty Years (Two Chapters Combined into One)

"There is no Novice Village in the Other Shore Game. The small village you mentioned is the place I have been looking for for a hundred years." Ikaros could not hide his excitement.

Lin Shan just responded lightly, "Oh." His voice was calm. Even if there was no Novice Village, this small village was almost the same as a Novice Village. Apart from accidentally getting a hatchet, he got nothing else.

As if remembering something, Lin Shan reminded, "You have to pay attention. There are other players in this village. I met one last time. We killed each other once. Later, something happened and I never logged into the 'Other Shore Game' again."

Hearing this, Ikaros's expression suddenly became serious. "This is an extremely rare civilized gathering place in the Other Shore Game. It is not surprising that there are other players. They may even have established a base here. We have to be extra careful." Her words were full of vigilance.

Lin Shan didn't pay much attention to it and continued to control his little black man to wander around the village. Although there were many secrets in the "Other Side Game", they had nothing to do with him. He was in a real gaming mentality.

Suddenly, a prompt popped up on the game interface.

[You found a bloodstain on the ground. ]

[What do you plan to do...]

Lin Shan made a choice almost without thinking, [Check the bloodstain. ]

On the game screen, his little black man squatted down and carefully observed the bloodstains on the ground, and prompts followed one after another.

[This bloodstain has not completely dried up, and contains a pheromone that you cannot interpret. The bleeding creature is a "non-existent creature" that you cannot understand. ]

[The traces around show that a battle took place here not long ago. ]

[You raised your head and searched every corner of the village. You noticed that there were fewer creatures in the village than the first time you visited. You thought to yourself that this village may have experienced some unknown crisis. This kind of thing may be very common in the void. ］

The subtitles on the screen kept updating. Ikaros turned his head and glanced at Lin Shan's computer curiously, "What did you find? Why are there so many prompts?"

"No big discovery." Lin Shan responded casually.

Ikaros seemed unconvinced. She followed her little black man and walked to Lin Shan's character, squatting down to examine the bloodstain.

Only two simple words popped up on her screen: [Bloodstain].

Looking at the large subtitles on the screen in front of Lin Shan and the two words she saw, the round halo on her head turned into a big question mark floating on her head.

"Don't ask, I don't know either. Maybe my game character has special abilities." Lin Shan responded in advance before Ikaros asked.

Ikaros looked strange, "It seems that I really found a good teammate."

Lin Shan ignored it and continued to control the little black man to explore the village of the 'Other Side Game'.

His fingertips tapped the keyboard. Although he didn't care, the curiosity in his eyes drove him to search every corner carefully unconsciously.

Ikaros always had a serious face. This game was as serious to her as reality.

Suddenly, a new prompt popped up on Lin Shan's screen:

[You heard a faint murmur, which seemed to come from the front.]

In front of the little black man was a simple pixel building.

Lin Shan hesitated for a moment and asked Ikaros to come over here, "Come here, there seems to be something going on here."

"I'm coming." The village was not too big. Ikaros controlled the little black man to quickly come to Lin Shan's little black man, "I bought some equipment and got some news from some villagers. This village is called Xiangrui Village, and the village has no contact with the outside world."

"Can you talk to the villagers here?" Lin Shan was surprised. He had just tried to talk to a few villagers in this village, but the prompt he got was the same as the first time he entered the village - [The villagers are unwilling to pay attention to you. ]

"Why not? The villagers here are all intelligent creatures, and I found that they are all very powerful. At my current level, I may not be able to beat any villager in this village." Ikaros controlled the little black man to stand side by side with Lin Shan's little black man, "What's wrong? Is there anything going on?"

"I just received a prompt that there is something inside." Lin Shan said.

"Is there something?" Ikaros looked at the pixel hut in front of him. The door of the hut was shaky and seemed to fall down at any time.

She frowned, "We have to be careful, there is really something inside, I feel the danger."

The two little black men entered the hut side by side.

[The house was filled with dust, and the air was filled with an indescribable old atmosphere. ]

[You noticed that there was a cracked floor in the center of the room, and there seemed to be bursts of light coming out of the cracks. ]

[Do you want to go down and take a look? ] The game selection prompt suddenly appeared.

Lin Shan chose "yes" without hesitation. If it was reality, he might still have concerns, but this is a game. If you die, you die. Anyway, you can be resurrected.

His little black man began to climb down the crack carefully, and Ikaros's game character followed closely behind.

[As you go deeper, the light becomes dimmer, but the whispering becomes clearer.]

[You come to a huge underground space.]

[A mural appears in front of you.]

The real Ikaros has moved to Lin Shan's side. She stared at the subtitles that kept popping up on Lin Shan's screen, then compared them with the few words on her computer screen, and remained silent.

[The mural seemed to come alive, it was a monster in the void! ]

A twisted bright red font suddenly jumped out.

Then came the darkness on Lin Shan's screen.

[You were killed by other players, dropped a hatchet, no experience loss. ]

[Resurrection time: 23:59:58. ]

Ikaros hurriedly turned back to look at his computer.

[You were killed by other players, dropped 'Kiss of the Forgotten River' and 'Song of the Siren', experience loss: 1000. ]

[Resurrection time: 71:59:57. ]

"I..." Ikaros almost swore, but as an angel, she was not used to such behavior. She sighed deeply, "This is a set trap. The system prompts that it was killed by the player, not the monster. This tunnel must be a trap left by other players on the other side!"

Lin Shan expressed sympathy for her, thinking that she couldn't even say "Fuck", it was really pitiful.

The quick end of the game was completely within Lin Shan's expectations. Lin Shan stood up and patted the computer desk lightly. The next moment, the computer, keyboard and related equipment on the desk disappeared without a trace and were put into his storage space.

"Let's stop the game today and continue next time." Lin Shan said lightly.

"Are you leaving now?" Ikaros opened his eyes slightly, looking a little indignant. This person actually wanted to leave after taking the things. How would he fulfill the two conditions he promised before?

"I still have some business to deal with. Let's contact each other in the 'Other Shore Game'. Don't worry, I won't go back on my promise to you." Lin Shan understood Ikaros's concerns, and he made a promise to reassure her.

"Well... well, let's contact each other in the game." Ikaros' eyes flickered, and finally she could only nod helplessly. She knew very well that Lin Shan's game character could trigger so many detailed introductions, which was definitely not simple, and it violated the norm.

This was not her first time to contact the 'Other Shore Game', and she could even be called a senior player in the game, but she had never seen such a thing.

This ability is undoubtedly of great value for exploring the 'Other Shore Game'. Ikaros wanted Lin Shan to stay, but she knew that no matter what she said, Lin Shan would not stay. If the relationship was strained, both of them might lose in the end.

"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing." Just as Lin Shan was about to take Zhao Xiaoan away, his steps suddenly paused.

"What is it?" Ikaros asked quickly, with a little hope in his heart that Lin Shan might have regretted it again and decided to stay.

"I play the 'Other Side Game' for a big part of the reason, which is an item in the game, called 'Lucky Sign'. I hope you can pay attention to it. If you give it to me, I can agree to a request that is not too excessive. Just like that, I'm leaving." Lin Shan waved his hand without looking back, and left with Zhao Xiaoan.

"This is the first time I've seen someone do something so cool." Zhao Xiaoan said with a smile as soon as he left the house.

"This is a transaction, not a deal." Lin Shan glanced at her and quickly moved to the place where he had thrown the bracelet.

The mental power penetrated the body and covered the human race in the bracelet.

"There are really many people who have mutated." Lin Shan said to himself.

"This is called awakening, because the legacy released by the corpse below." Zhao Xiaoan corrected.

"Well..." Lin Shan touched his chin. The benefit of this legacy to the human race is even greater than going out to plunder. In this case, it is better to let the human race stay here for the time being.

"In the short term, it is like this, but whether or not they can awaken depends on their luck. As time goes by, the number of awakeners will eventually reach a limit, and this limit will not be too high." Zhao Xiaoan added.

"Can the abilities they gain after awakening be passed on?" Lin Shan asked.

"It is possible." Zhao Xiaoan answered concisely.

"Okay, you wait for me here." Lin Shan nodded slightly, and then returned to the position of the angels.

Ikaros was still outside the building just now, looking a little dazed, as if weighing the gains and losses after Lin Shan left.

Suddenly, her eyes turned to the side, and with the fluctuation of space, Lin Shan's figure appeared again.

"You..."

"There is one more thing I forgot to say. I decided to place the human race here. Here are the coordinates. Please help me take care of it." Lin Shan said directly.

"Got it." Ikaros agreed with a little displeasure.

Before she continued to speak, Lin Shan disappeared again.

Ikaros' wings flapped silently a few times, expressing that she was not in a good mood at the moment. Her sight crossed the long distance and fixed on the distant starship.

Inside the Dakong.

"What are the plans next?" Zhao Xiaoan asked.

"There is no specific plan. I will go wherever I want to go. I will clean up the underworld, continue to develop the game of heaven, and bring all the surrounding civilizations under my command."

"Yes." Zhao Xiaoan replied.

In a trance, a hundred years have passed.

A hundred years is just a blink of an eye for the universe, but for Lin Shan and Zhao Xiaoan, they have done a lot in this hundred years. The two of them have crossed dozens of large domains and found a total of more than 3,000 galaxies with civilizations. These galaxies have their own characteristics, diverse civilization forms, and different levels of science and technology and cultural backgrounds.

There are more than 100 large domains and nearly 2 million galaxies around, which are actually within the human circle, but they are extremely far away from the Apostle Galaxy. The human circle controlled by the giants is just a star field, and one-third of the large domain is just a small corner for the real human circle.

Among the more than 100 large domains and nearly 10 million galaxies in the human circle, there are less than 4,000 galaxies with civilizations.

There are hundreds of civilizations contained in these 4,000 galaxies, and countless creatures, including civilizations with relatively advanced technological development. Lin Shan spent some time connecting them together to form a temporary small circle, led by the Heavenly Kingdom Church composed of devout believers.

In the process of establishing contact, Lin Shan and Zhao Xiaoan adopted flexible and changeable strategies. They forced the promotion of technical exchanges between scientific and technological civilizations, allowing these civilizations to solve the problems in development. For extraordinary civilizations, they adopted a plundering policy and gathered all resources to the human race. For some primitive civilizations, they taught them the basic knowledge of farming, construction and social management like wise elders, and guided them on the road of rapid development.

Lin Shan and Zhao Xiaoan also paid special attention to maintaining the independence and diversity of the civilizations of each galaxy, avoiding excessive intervention that would lead to cultural homogenization. They established communication stations in each galaxy. These communication stations are both trade centers and windows for cultural exchange, allowing civilizations in different galaxies to freely exchange ideas and culture, while also monitoring the peace between galaxies.

Most of these processes were handled by Lin Shan himself. Although there were clones to help, it took a lot of time. Because of this, the devout believers would continue to produce.

Lin Shan could clearly feel that the progress of the mysterious authority had reached 15%, and these civilizations were still developing. If they developed to the limit, they could even reach nearly 30%.

In order to maintain the connection between these galaxies, Lin Shan and Zhao Xiaoan created a complex communication network with scientific and technological civilization as the hub to complete cross-galaxy communication. They also established a cross-galaxy peacekeeping team composed of elites from various galaxies to deal with possible conflicts and emergencies. This team composed of gods was completely under the Heavenly Kingdom Church. Most of the obedient gods were afraid of being killed.

The regime established by Lin Shan can be described as a powerful one, but it is very effective and rapid.

As time goes by, it is the 120th year.

The connection between the star systems gradually deepened, forming a grand alliance. The names of Lin Shan and Zhao Xiaoan resounded in thousands of star systems. They were regarded as the founders of the alliance and the greatest explorers.

If Lin Shan wanted, he could even lead these forces to attack the Apostle Star System.

Of course, Lin Shan would not do this. The Apostle Star System is backed by the Crystal World, and it is not something that a small circle can deal with.

Before being promoted, every believer is a valuable resource. If they die, the vacant position must be filled by new believers. If the vacancy is not filled, the progress of authority cannot continue to move forward.

It is good that the Crystal World does not cause trouble for him. In the short term, Lin Shan will definitely not think of starting a war.