"But as soon as I got there, I realized I'd been tricked. What were all those things?! A bunch of yellow boxes taking up an entire room. When I opened them, they were full of books. The Emperor's Inner Canon, the Twenty-Four Histories, the Analects, and stuff like that, I couldn't understand a word of them."

"Then there were all sorts of transparent bottles and jars of various sizes, which took up almost half the room. Later I learned that those things were called glassware, used for experiments."

"In short, the three rooms were just filled with small things; the black box wasn't there at all. So I just said, 'If you want more space, you have to trade me for that black box!'"

"He was clearly stunned and asked if I still wanted to see the little figures exercising. Of course, I admitted it."

"I didn't expect him to become so cunning. He said he'd let me watch an episode if he gave me a room. But every time I made him take the box with him because he needed to take it back... What about electricity? I forgot."

Jiang Hao asked, "Are you charging it?"

The city lord of Jinling City quickly nodded and said, "Yes, yes, yes, it's charging!"

"So I had no choice but to agree in order to see those two little people. So I gave him the three rooms next to that house as well, so he could watch three episodes."

Jiang Hao would call the city lord of Jinling City the most wasteful spendthrift in history!

"Then he disappeared. I waited a little while and he reappeared, holding that black box in his hand."

"After he opened the box and let the two little figures move, I lost interest in watching him. After I finished watching an episode, I noticed that he was disappearing and reappearing, and each time he appeared, he was carrying something in his hand."

"I noticed that the things he was carrying were different from before. There was a microscope, a telescope, and some servers, all of which looked strange. Of course, I only learned the names of these things later. At the time, I just thought the things he was carrying were weird. To me, as long as they weren't black boxes, they were just useless junk. I asked him to help me turn on another episode, and then I ignored him."

"Who knew that as I was looking at it, the black box suddenly turned black. I couldn't see the little figure inside anymore. He said something about his brain running out of power and that he needed to go back to recharge it. Then he left and never came back. I waited for a long time but he didn't come back, so I just left the room."

Hearing this, Jiang Hao became curious and wanted to know how the hell someone who played games managed to move all those labs over there. After all, some of the equipment was quite large; how could one person possibly move it?

And most importantly, most modern experiments require electricity! Especially wind tunnel experiments; without sufficient power, they're just a pile of scrap metal. How the hell do people solve this when they're playing games?

Jiang Hao listened with curiosity as the city lord continued.

"After another half day, he finally came to see me again. This time he was carrying a silver box. He opened it and showed it to me, and there were more than three hundred of them inside, all of them with little figures. My goodness, I immediately gave him the entire area behind the mage section. But he said that this box also needed to be charged, and even if there were many episodes inside, I wouldn't be able to watch them all. He asked me if I wanted to watch them all without charging them."

"Having to take the phone away to recharge after watching just one episode is just not satisfying! Of course I wanted to, so I nodded."

"He said he had a way to solve the problem, but on the condition that I lend him a small airship that was parked next to the air dock."

"I was going to refuse, but he actually opened the little figures inside and made them move. How could I refuse? So I immediately had my guards bring him an airship."

"He disappeared for a short while, then came back and asked if I had any blueprints for building airships. I was really enjoying reading them, so to keep him from bothering me, I had my guards go to the shipyard and get him a copy of all the blueprints. He didn't come back for a long time after that. I finished watching one episode and then started watching the next one myself. I'd already learned from him how to make the little people move, wasn't that awesome?"

Jiang Hao thought to himself, "Compared to this, your extravagant spending is the coolest thing ever, okay?"

"I watched three little figures exercising in a row, and then the white box turned black. According to him, it meant the power was out. When I looked up, I saw that he had returned, but he was busy moving things. Every time he appeared, he would bring something over, then disappear, and then reappear with some strange things. I was wondering at the time, how could one person have so many things to move?"

"Later I learned that your country's leaders were already aware of the impending merging of the two worlds at that time. Regardless of who the hell convinced your leaders through the game, the relocation of the laboratory began from that point on."

"Not long after, a lot of adventurers suddenly appeared at the door. They went into the house in groups of two or three, took things from the house, and walked out. I saw that he didn't stop me, so I didn't bother. I asked him to help me take the white box away to charge it. After he disappeared for a while, he came back and said that the generator was almost finished. Once it was finished, we wouldn't have to take the box back to charge it. But we were still missing the crystals from the airship's energy box. I knew he wanted the energy crystals to be broken quickly."

“Energy crystal fragments are very precious! I didn’t want to give it to him. But when I thought about how I could keep looking at the little figure in the box without having to take it away to charge it, I gave him a gold-grade energy crystal fragment.”

Jiang Hao was speechless. Gold-grade energy crystal fragments were hard to come by. According to the city lord of Jinling City, to obtain one, one had to exchange it for the lives of five gold-grade personal guards. He never expected that this guy would only hesitate for a moment before giving up the lives of his five subordinates.

It seems this guy has a lecherous side; we have to be wary of him!

"After he disappeared, he brought some more things in, saying that with the energy crystals, the generator would be ready soon, and I could just wait patiently. Then he continued moving things around, and the players at the door lined up, carrying their stuff away. I got bored, so I got up and wandered around, and I saw there were at least a thousand players. They were going in and out of the building behind the mage area, doing something I didn't know. Later I found out they were setting up a laboratory. Some of the larger items had already been disassembled to make it easier to move in, and they were reassembling them."

Jiang Hao gasped, "Thousands of players? Who are they?"

The city lord of Jinling City said, "When I saw their health bars, I saw the words 'Prosperous World' below them. I knew what those four words meant; they represented an adventurer's guild."

"They did much more than that. I heard that there were tens of thousands of adventurers in this guild, but not many of them entered Jinling City at the time. They sent 1,000 people to help organize the laboratory, and left several hundred people behind. Instead of fighting monsters or leveling up, they ran back and forth between the newbie village and the Eastern Kingdom, collecting plants, stones, soil and the like. Later I found out that they were collecting experimental samples."

Jiang Hao felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

At the start of the server launch, three of the four major guilds in the Shanghai region were focused on leveling up and fighting monsters, while Shengshi Tianxia remained silent, seemingly disappearing from the game. Even when rumors circulated that they were no longer viable and destined to be eliminated by the game, they never uttered a word in defense.

It turns out they were busy preparing an escape route for the people of Rabbit Kingdom.

Jiang Hao's eyes reddened, and hot tears filled his eyes.