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n“Did I hear wrongly?”

n“Academician Jiao Changsheng, Elder Meng, Qin Yueyu, and Xu Xue… They are all in your settlement!?”

nDue to the time difference, Ling Chen, who on day duty in Yang City, was standing opposite Ji Ye, agape.

n“Besides, even Brother Jiang and Shang Yan are in your stronghold. This… is indeed the advantage of a perfect evaluation. It completely crushes ordinary settlements!”

nLing Chen sighed.

nAfter confirming a guess from Ling Chen’s answer, Ji Ye asked him in confusion. “Shouldn’t you be crazy busy these few days? Why are you at the base?”

n“Don’t talk about it. I’ve been running out and about for four days. It wasn’t easy for me to apply to return to the base to settle some matters. In the end, I bumped into you coming offline,” Ling Chen said softly.

n“Su Nongying! She’s also in your settlement?”

nWhen he heard Ji Ye mention Su Nongying’s name, Ling Chen looked at Ji Ye with a strange expression.

n“You know her?”

n“Of course I do. Just like you, I personally brought her to the base. Her identity… Hmm, theoretically speaking, this is confidential information. I shouldn’t tell you.”

n“However, you can actually find it online.”

n“Do you know about the Su Bio Corporation? It’s the only company in Yang City that’s also a well-known health supplement company in the country. It’s a family enterprise worth billions.

n“When I came back just now, President Su had just gotten the driver to deliver something to me. He asked me to take care of his daughter on the base. I didn’t accept it in the first place, but now I feel that I’ve suffered a huge loss. With your capabilities, there won’t be any problems at the base.”

nLing Chen joked with a “regretful” tone.

n“I say, Brother, you have to seize the opportunity. Tsk, tsk. There are four beauties—a celebrity, a doctor, a sports champion, and a rich lady!”

nThen, he winked at Ji Ye blink with all his might, completely destroying his squarish face that exuded an air of righteousness.

n“In that case, she should have some management experience…”

nJi Ye said softly as he pondered. He didn’t notice Ling Chen’s expression at all.

n“You’re really… Many of the first batch of players are using the second batch of players to rapidly build up their connections and solve their personal problems. As for you… what should I say about you? Sigh…”

nLing Chen sighed bitterly.

nHe didn’t know what to say about Ji Ye’s character.

n“However, it’s definitely a good thing that Elder Meng is in your stronghold.”

nThen, he changed the topic from the beauty to the old man.

n“Oh?”

n“Wait, you’ll know when you see Director Zhou!”

nLing Chen smiled mysteriously as he kept him hanging.

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n“Academician Jiao actually chose our Yang City. As expected of an expert from our Yang City. He still misses his hometown!”

nIn the director’s office of the Yang City’s Confederation Office, Director Zhou sighed.

n“I’m relieved that Teacher Meng is with you.”

n“You might not be aware. I’m from the first batch of Yang City’s foreign language school, and he taught me personally. Speaking of which, I’m your eldest senior brother!”

nThen, Director Zhou smiled and said to Ji Ye.

n“Then, Senior Brother Zhou should have gathered the relevant information, right?”

nThese words were obvious. Although Ji Ye was used to being alone, it wasn’t like he didn’t know how to interact with others. He naturally changed the way he addressed Ling Chen. At the same time, he understood what Ling Chen meant.

nAfter he went offline, he had already checked for information on the forum.

nHowever, there was no doubt that some information could only be obtained from the Confederation Office.

nFor example, according to the organization’s internal statistics.

nThe second round of candidates consisted of elites and ordinary people. More than half consisted of elites, while the other half seemed to be randomly selected.

nOf course, there was still a restriction on the age of the candidates—above 14 years of age.

nAnother example was that Ji Ye actually found information about the Eagle Man on the bureau’s intranet.

nA settlement in a Western country’s steam era had encountered Eagle Man, and a battle even ensued.

nHowever, the outcome was extremely disastrous. The death ratio was close to five to one!

nThe other party was suspected to be a creature from the “Eastern Fantasy” plane. He had rich combat experience and was completely incomparable to ordinary humans.

nThis made Ji Ye’s expression turn serious.

nAs for the penalty of death, it was slightly different from his original guess. It wasn’t in the form of a city, province, or country, but more like a “human domain.”

nEveryone should be assigned to a “group” after their first choice. After death, they would leave this “group”, and if they died, they would leave a bigger “group”…

nThis was definitely fairer than using regions. After all, there were a few small countries with a population of only a few hundred thousand people. If they were respawned based on region, two penalties would leave them with virtually nothing.

nJi Ye read through the information on the tablet with maximum focus until he received a new message from Director Zhou.

n“I just received news that the Ren Hamlet has been destroyed by ghosts!”

nDirector Zhou was a little surprised.

n“Wasn’t Ninth Uncle holding the fort? Why would it be destroyed by ghosts?”

nJi Ye was stunned.

nHowever, he quickly reacted. This wasn’t a movie. Ninth Uncle didn’t have the protagonist halo. It didn’t mean that he could definitely defeat strange creatures.

n“Actually, strictly speaking, it’s not ghosts, but aliens. The first people to encounter these aliens named them the Soul race. It can use its black soul power to control corpses. It’s also in a state similar to a ghost.

n“Therefore, the means used to deal with the ghosts are very effective against them. When Ninth Uncle went out to clean up the ghosts, he also killed a Soul that suddenly appeared.

n“Then, they were attacked by the entire Soul race!”

nDirector Zhou explained the matter to Ji Ye.

nTo put it simply, Ninth Uncle had been screwed by his new player disciple. At the critical moment, he had taken the wrong artifact, causing him to fail in the battle with the Soul race’s Commander!

nEven though they were in a Republic background, the patrol team in the village had some firearms.

nHowever, against the strange ability of the Soul race, they failed to put up much of a resistance.

nIn the end, Ninth Uncle died, along with the village chief. The village chief’s daughter, the “fiancee” of the Ameagle-borned Chinese—who had been extremely pleased with himself over the past few days—was also dead. Naturally, no one in the Ren Hamlet settlement survived.

n“Also, the reason why it was destroyed so quickly is because of the dissatisfaction of the Ameagle locals in the second batch of players.”

nAlthough the settlement followed a Republic background, due to it being in Ameagle, the second batch of people had a certain proportion of the Ameagle locals. They definitely wouldn’t be happy encountering such a special background. It was inevitable that they would play the role of worsening the situation!

nAlthough Ameagle would definitely think of a way to block this piece of news,

nas the “first settlement” of the entire human race in the Land of Inheritance, it was inevitable that it would receive a lot of hidden attention. Therefore, it wasn’t surprising that Chidragon’s Confederation Office could obtain such insider information.

n“The players in the destroyed settlement can log in after one day. What about the natives? What happened to them?”

nJi Ye looked at Director Zhou.

nIf the Ren Hamlet was destroyed, what was the outcome of the people among them like the famous ‘Ninth Uncle’? Would they have their souls dissipate in the Land of Inheritance like the ghosts in movies?

n“We aren’t sure about that yet!

n“Actually, the settlements that have already been attacked by aliens aren’t limited to Ren Hamlet. This is because any settlement is directly neighboring settlements of other alien species. When encountering a species with higher intelligence, due to fear of each other, most will just employ probes at the current stage.

n“However, if we were to encounter some all brawn, no brain aliens, they might launch an attack without any regard for the consequences from the very beginning, bringing huge trouble. After all, we humans are only at Rank 4 or 5 at the beginning. Furthermore, we don’t have any special abilities. The only good point is that the strongest aliens we have encountered are at Ordinary Rank-9. There aren’t any born at the Easy stage,”

nEldest Senior Brother Zhou hugged a thermos and said worriedly.

n“Oh? Shouldn’t there be some kind of barrier between the settlements, making it difficult to attack in the beginning?” Ji Ye suddenly looked up and asked.

n“I don’t think I’ve heard of that. Many settlements are directly adjacent to each other.”

nDirector Zhou was stunned.

nThen, he frowned and thought for a while before shaking his head.

n“I need to log in. Senior Brother Zhou, I’ll see you next time.”

nJi Ye stood up abruptly and returned the tablet to Director Zhou before turning to open the door.

n“Hello!”

nA handsome young man was about to knock on the door when the door was opened by Ji Ye. He was stunned.

nHowever, he quickly recovered and nodded at Ji Ye with a sunny smile.

n“Hi!”

nJi Ye nodded at him.

nHe recognized this person. His name was Mu Rong, the son of the biggest real estate merchant in Yang City. He was a closed beta player.

n“Uncle Zhou, my father asked me to greet you on his behalf…”

nAfter Ji Ye left, Mu Rong said respectfully to Director Zhou.

n“By the way, Senior Brother Zhou, please inform their families about their situation.”

nAt this moment, Ji Ye seemed to have thought of something as he turned around and said to Director Zhou.

n“Alright, I’ll make arrangements immediately…”

nDirector Zhou nodded. From Ji Ye’s reaction, he could tell that something had happened.

n“Oh, right, what were you saying?”

n“Oh, Uncle Zhou, I want you to help me investigate…”

nYang City’s “Son of Real Estate” Mu Rong started to talk about his matter.

nHowever, for some reason, he felt that something was weird.

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