Monsters Are Coming-Chapter 1062 - 287: Dimensional Reduction of Civilization, This Makes No Sense!
The Monster composed of Dark Energy touched the Blue Screen Bomb while charging, and countless error codes suddenly appeared within its body, like chains wrapped around it, then its body turned into pixel blocks, disintegrating amidst the system crash sound effects.
The whole war was one-sided, akin to crushing.
The core troops summoned by the Shadow Empire on the main battlefield were formatted and annihilated in large swathes by the "Anti-Virus Program" tanks.
When the Rune Empire’s data torrent engulfed the Shadow Empire’s main city, the battlefield statistics showed the loss ratio between both sides reached an astonishing 32,000:3,879,000.
The Shadow Roar only left one sentence before the civilization was annihilated:
"How is this a supermodel, it must be cheating, right?"
Subsequently, the Shadow Empire disappeared from the map.
But what puzzled Kong Jie was, he surprisingly devoured all of the Shadow Empire’s resources in this war.
This did not match the game settings.
In the previous generations of the game settings, when civilizations controlled by players fought against enemy civilizations, even if completely annihilated, they would only lose one-tenth of their resources, and then refresh at a random location among the seven continents.
This setting ensured players could recover without starting anew each time they failed.
War losses were only on resources.
Additionally, the functional buildings that were destroyed could be repaired with resources, without needing reconstruction.
Yet in this round, he actually devoured all of the Shadow Empire’s resources, and upon checking the values displayed on the resource bar again, Kong Jie was completely dumbfounded.
What Kong Jie didn’t know was that, after logging out from the game, "Shadow Roar" also fell into a state of confusion.
Upon re-entering the game, a text popped up on his mind-screen:
[Game data corrupted, all lost, please create a new civilization to start the game.]
Originally, he thought that after re-entering the game, he would start anew at a random location.
Unexpectedly, after grinding for half a day, all data was lost. This war shattered his mindset.
"What kind of lousy game, just launched and already has such a serious BUG!"
The more Shadow Roar thought about it, the angrier he became. He started pounding his desk forcefully and then helplessly chose to restart the game, but the available options were still the original seven civilizations, without any Virtual Rune Empire choice.
On the other side, under Kong Jie’s control, the Rune Empire enters a furious expansion phase after the war.
In the following days.
The data-driven "Civilization Trait Advantages" spread the Empire like a virus, where the Assimilation Beacon was planted, the land automatically transformed into Rune territory.
Forests were reorganized into Rune lumber mills in the data stream, mountains decomposed into modular mines, even rivers were encoded into energy transport networks.
In just 12 months, the empire’s territory quadrupled, pushing the border to the northwest corner of the continent, the "Ashen Rift."
Just as the data-driven expansion touched the ancient ruins deep within the Rift Valley, Kong Jie triggered a Hidden Task in "Civilization War."
An option prompt appeared on his retina:
[In the Ashen Rift lies the sealed ancient Demon Clan "Rock Heart Clan," do you wish to continue exploring this area? Continuing exploration may release the Rock Heart Clan, posing a civilization annihilation risk. Yes/No.]
Confronted with the option, Kong Jie, brimming with confidence, chose to continue exploring, immediately triggering the hidden conditions.
[Ashen Rift seal lifted, Rock Heart Clan revives, Rune Empire is about to undergo Demon Clan invasion.]
Facing the sudden hidden easter egg crisis, Kong Jie opted for direct confrontation.
Yet he found that the advantages of data troops were unable to be fully realized in warfare, facing the Rock Core Demon, neither Firewall nor virus were effective, and in various war assessments, the Rock Core Demon’s ability priorities overshadowed the data troops under his control.
When the Rock Core Demon activated the "Earth Vein Destruction" civilization special ability, the entire vanguard army’s data structure collapsed and was destroyed in swathes.
Kong Jie watched helplessly as the empire’s expanded territory over 12 months lost more than half in two weeks.
At this point, he had two choices, abandon the war and migrate, which could minimize the resource loss from civilization annihilation.
The exact amount of losses that could be recovered would depend on whether the Rock Core Demon Clan would pursue during migration.
Or negotiate for surrender, but the outcome was unknown. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
Surrender could include proposing conditions such as submitting part of the resources, agreeing to which could grant a certain period of truce.
If the opponent refuses, the war will continue, possibly culminating in civilization annihilation, and then refreshing at a random location.
Just as Kong Jie hesitated on how to choose, a dialogue box suddenly popped up on his retina.
Illusion (Fire Seed Source): Greetings, Governor, I need your assistance.
The sudden dialogue box caught Kong Jie off guard.
Illusion is the name of the Rune Empire’s altar, and also the only preserved Fire Seed in the intro background of the Rune Empire.
What he didn’t expect was that Illusion could initiate dialogue with him.
"Does this game have an AI dialogue function?"
Curiously, he typed a line of text:
"Illusion, what help do you need from me?"
Illusion: Governor, the device you’re using is outdated, its information processing abilities can no longer meet the increasingly large demands of the empire’s development. We hope you can upgrade the configuration.
Illusion’s response left Kong Jie puzzled.
"What do you mean? Have I not built important functional buildings?"
Illusion: It’s unrelated to the content in the virtual scene. We hope you can upgrade the information processing ability of the real-world device, preferably by replacing it with a new high-performance device.
Illusion’s reply left Kong Jie utterly stunned.
Upon first seeing Illusion’s request.
He thought it was a cue from the game, reminder through Illusion dialogue as his civilization’s developmental direction was erroneous.
But unexpectedly... he was actually disliked by the civilization he created in the game for having a light-brain configuration that was too low.
This doesn’t make sense!
