39. Earth 2.0
"No, no, the house is going to collapse! The oxygen level outside is 30%!"
The animal special effect for "Old Wang the Gardener" is a large, burly water buffalo. At this moment, the water buffalo is sitting on the ground, hugging its huge head, looking completely panicked.
Outside the window, a giant millipede, as tall as a three-story building, flashed by, and then the entire house began to shake even more violently.
Pi Min quickly activated the warp drive, inputting the coordinates of "Gardener Old Wang" at top speed. He then summoned the first batch of fifty armed robots, created for testing purposes, to be on standby. Just in case, he even summoned the medical robots from the medical wing to be on standby as well.
After a familiar tremor, the boundless cosmos outside the window disappeared, and what appeared before everyone was the surface of the planet where Old Wang was located.
To facilitate the rescue, Pi Min always set the landing point close to the residence of the person being rescued. At this moment, they stopped in the crater caused by the impact on Lao Wang's residence, with the docking point facing the door of Lao Wang's residence.
When Pi Min led Dan Dan and fifty armed robots into Lao Wang's residence, the water buffalo, who had been clutching his head and shouting for help, collapsed to the ground, his body twitching slightly.
Seeing the large hole in the window, Pi Min immediately realized it was oxygen poisoning and hurriedly ordered Dandan to drag the person into the docking compartment as quickly as possible. The hatch closed again, and the waiting medical robots immediately swarmed in, stuffing the person into the medical compartment to begin emergency treatment.
Fortunately, the rescue was timely, and Lao Wang's oxygen poisoning was not severe. The excessive oxygen atoms did not have time to cause fatal damage to his lungs. He regained consciousness after only a short rest in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
Just as everyone was staring intently at the medical pod, anxiously waiting for Old Wang to wake up, the fifty armed robots that had been dispatched had completed the extermination of the swarm of centipedes outside, and the house that had been shaking incessantly in the live broadcast finally fell completely silent.
From the omniscient perspective of the live stream, Old Wang's residence was almost completely buried by countless millipede corpses. Fearing that leaving the corpses would attract other predators, fifty armed robots were laboriously moving the mountain of corpses, preparing to pile them together and incinerate them with high-energy beams.
Just when everyone thought the dust had settled, the light outside the window suddenly dimmed.
Pi Min quickly switched to the God's-eye view of the live stream and took a look. What she saw made her gasp in shock.
In the azure sky, a giant dragonfly-like insect with a wingspan of over ten meters was swooping down towards their location with lightning speed.
"Quickly, scatter, stay away from the insect corpses, and hide yourselves!" Realizing what the giant dragonfly was about to do, Pi Min hurriedly gave the order to the armed robots outside.
The armed robots are programmed to obey orders absolutely. Upon receiving a command, they quickly disperse and move away from the insect corpses as fast as possible.
The giant dragonflies on this planet look like dragonflies on Earth, and their behavior patterns are similar. Once one appears, another follows. Groups of giant dragonflies appear above the crater, casting moving shadows outside the window.
Outside the window, the wind howled, and the large dragonfly picked up pieces of millipede corpses, quickly clearing the scene of insect carcasses. If it weren't for the light yellow scum left on the ground from when the millipedes died, everyone would have thought that the scene of their residence being buried by insect corpses was just a hallucination.
After confirming there was no danger, the armed robots, who had been ordered to remain hidden, gradually emerged from their bunkers to continue cleaning up the traces of the recent battle. Once they had burned the remains left by the centipedes and made sure no more predators would be attracted, the fifty armed robots returned to base.
Only then did Pimin finally have the opportunity to observe everything on this planet from the perspective of a lander.
Old Wang's landing point should be in a rainforest. Apart from the crater created by the meteorite impact on Old Wang's residence, the surrounding area for hundreds of miles is a lush green. Countless plants similar to the prehistoric Lepidoptera, Reed, Glowwood, and Kodak trees grow freely on the land, with the highest canopy reaching hundreds of meters.
Looking at the countless giant insects moving through the rainforest, everything before her eyes was exactly the same as the prehistoric Earth she had seen in documentaries.
Just as she was busy marveling at the magnificent scenery on the planet, she suddenly heard the game system's notification sound.
[Player "Gardener Old Wang" gifted all his assets to player "Playful and Happy". According to the rules of the Cosmic Drifting game, player "Playful and Happy" automatically gained the status of the first resident of Great 05 and became the master of Great 05.]
Old Wang handed over all his assets with both hands, which didn't surprise Pi Min. She was already familiar with this process. What surprised her was the identity of the owner of Grete 05.
So becoming the ruler of a planet is such a simple thing? She was completely fooled by someone else's status as the ruler of a planet before.
[Grete 05 is the star map designation for this planet. As the owner of Grete 05, the player "Playful and Happy" has the right to name this planet. Would you like to rename it?]
【yes! 】
"Grete 05 has been renamed Earth 2.0."
[Planet ownership transfer and renaming complete. Earth 2.0's information on all star maps in the universe will be updated synchronously.]
The unexpected game notification sound made Pi Min stare wide-eyed in disbelief.
Is this really just a game? It's amazing how well it's done.
Pi Min suddenly remembered that the Empress had said she loved Earth, and that it was because she loved Earth that she proposed to that man.
But since Grete 05 exists in space, there must also be other Earth-like planets.
The fact that the official developers of the Cosmic Drift game could choose to give a player a habitable planet at will means that such Earth-like planets are not a scarce resource in space.
Even an ordinary Earthling like her could so easily become the master of Greed 05, yet His Majesty went to great lengths to obtain Earth...
The only difference between Earth and this planet is whether there is intelligent life on it.
Therefore, what is truly valuable is not the Earth, but the people of the Earth!
Pimin thought that suddenly becoming the master of a planet was shocking enough, but little did she know that something even more shocking was yet to come.
When "Gardener Old Wang" officially confirmed joining the residence, the game's notification sound rang in her ears again.
[The number of members in the residence has exceeded one hundred, and the residence level has been upgraded to Lv3, transforming it from a regular residence into a starship. The position of Captain has been unlocked. Captain, please "have a little fun" and name your starship.]
"Homeland".
The game system has automatically assigned positions to members based on their respective areas of expertise.
With a flash of light, the group of people, who were originally dressed in a mess and gathered together like refugees, were instantly changed into uniforms, with even identification tags hanging on their chests.
Mechanic, engineer, repairman, planter, logistics manager, chief scientist, chief safety officer...
Pi Min glanced at them briefly and was shocked to discover that none of the positions listed on the name tags matched. If she hadn't noticed the discrepancy by now, she would be far too oblivious.
"Therefore, the spaceship's main computer does not treat people according to their severity, but rather according to their usefulness."
The spaceship's mainframe remained completely calm in the face of her questioning.
Yes, there are just too many requests for help. The AI automatically filters out the most useful people from those seeking help, prioritizing them based on age, gender, education level, and health condition, and saving the most helpful people first.
Although Pi Min still firmly believes that a person's value should not be measured by whether or not they are useful, what else can she do now that things have come to this? Even if she were sent back to the past and asked to pick out ninety-odd people from the billions of dead, she wouldn't know where to begin.
She should instead thank the AI for making the decision for her, saving her the time she would have wasted by hesitating.
"Alright then." Pi Min was in low spirits, but the high-dimensional players watching the live stream suddenly erupted.
[Wait, even though we're both starship-class spaceships, why isn't my spaceship's mainframe as intelligent?]
[Mine too. Forget about finding the optimal solution, I'm lucky if my spaceship's mainframe doesn't cause me any trouble.]
Is it really true that fools are blessed?
[No way, you guys don't really think the 10% initial favorability rating between the major factions is just for show? Should we pause the game and check the manufacturer of your spaceship's mainframe?]
...
Whether other high-dimensional players saw it or not, Pi Min couldn't help but secretly check the manufacturer of his spaceship's mainframe.
Phantom Star Manufacturing.
Thinking back to the goodwill points he had gained from the attention of the Star Lord Calcifer, Pimin suddenly realized.
I can't believe it!
[Dear players, please pause the game. What is about to happen concerns the fate of all humanity. To demonstrate our compassion for players in this region, the game developers have decided to pause the game and broadcast the event live.]
When the game's official, emotionless notification sound rang out, the long-silent game streamer's livestream room suddenly opened.
The figures appearing on the screen are none other than the Lord of Earth and Empress Camille of the Thetian Empire.
The others on the starship had never seen Kami before and did not know His Majesty's identity, so they naturally did not react.
But Pi Min had seen them before, and not only had she seen them, she had even witnessed their methods firsthand. The moment she saw the two people in the live stream, she instinctively held her breath.
The empress, whose beauty seemed unreal, still maintained the same composed and elegant demeanor she had when she first met her. At this moment, she was smiling as she looked at the ruler of Earth before her, her gaze as if she were looking at a mischievous child.
"I merely went to inspect my territory on the other side of the universe, and you've already caused this mess. My sweetheart, you're so naughty."
"What did I do?" The Lord of Earth smiled broadly, neither humble nor arrogant. "I merely evicted a group of rogue tenants."
Her Majesty the Empress's gaze turned cold: "You don't really think that sending all of humanity on a space drifting game will allow them to escape my grasp, do you?"
The Lord of Earth did not answer, but stared intently at the Queen before him with his smiling eyes.
As if sensing the provocation in his eyes, Her Majesty the Empress sighed deeply: "I do not want to push things to the extreme. The conditions remain the same as before. As long as you can lead all of humanity out of the game and voluntarily become my consort, from now on, Earth will be the protected area of the Thetian Gods."
Her Majesty the Queen's eyes were full of expectation, but unfortunately, the Lord of Earth shook his head solemnly upon hearing this: "I'm sorry, my answer is the same as before, I have someone I like."
Rejected by the man in front of all humanity, the Empress's smile, which had been maintained with composure, froze instantly, and her tone turned unfriendly: "I have investigated thoroughly, and you do not have any ex-girlfriends at all."
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty. Unfortunately, I do not have pica; my sexual orientation is towards human women."
The Lord of Earth's gaze was cold and distant, and as he spoke, he even emphasized the word "humanity."
"Fine, fine, fine!" After being rejected repeatedly, Her Majesty the Empress was finally enraged and suddenly began to laugh hysterically. Her exaggerated and shrill laughter echoed throughout the live broadcast room.
When the smile vanished from her stunning face, her amber eyes were filled only with boundless rage and murderous intent.
"If that's the case, then let human women become extinct!"
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