Chapter 1
68.951.34, Solar System, Blue Planet
"Ye Bai, have you decided to go to Makul Planet?"
After the communication was connected, the image of an alien sitting on a spaceship jumped into Ye Bai's mind.
This wasn't the first time Ye Bai had used a communication method from ten thousand years ago, but he was still a little uncomfortable with it. The [personal terminal] that was now a must-have for Star Citizens was just like the "system" imagined in online articles ten thousand years ago, with all the panel functions being operated in the mind.
"Yes." After calming down, Ye Bai replied, "I've sent out thousands of resumes in the past two weeks, and this is the only invitation."
The planet Makul mentioned by the other party is an entertainment planet, mainly engaged in species exhibitions. The job provided to Ye Bai there is to show the animals as a "rare species" for aliens to watch, just like humans watch animals in zoos.
"Is there no other way? Didn't the Blue Star Council contact you?"
"Uh...no."
When Aurora heard this, the hair on her head began to flutter like jellyfish tentacles. This is how the people of Phantom Sea express themselves when they are emotionally excited.
Although Ye Bai's work in the laboratory was studied by Aurora, after three years of getting along, the alien scholar had already regarded Ye Bai as a friend.
"I really can't understand. You're the only survivor on Blue Star in ten thousand years. You're their genetic ancestor, so why aren't you being protected? You haven't even received any assistance!"
Ye Bai, the person involved, seemed very calm about this: "Because the Blue Star survivors are not uncommon in the universe, I just happened to stay on Blue Star, and there is not much research value in them."
Ten thousand years ago, Ye Bai chose to freeze his body because he suffered from a terminal illness. More than ten years later, a giant meteorite hit the Blue Planet. Facing the crisis of civilization destruction, humans mastered interstellar travel technology, left the Blue Planet, and never returned.
It was not until three years ago that Ye Bai, the "popsicle", was discovered and cured when the Blue Planet attracted the attention and development of the Star Alliance due to the emergence of a new wormhole in the solar system.
After tens of thousands of years, in the eyes of the new humans who took root and evolved on other planets, the ancient human Ye Bai was just another species with some of the same genetic fragments. He was older than the scattered survivors of the Blue Star during the ethnic changes. As a result, he was too old and could not even be considered a "human".
"In their eyes, I'm probably no different from a monkey." Ye Bai paused. "Plus, when I first woke up three years ago, I had a dispute with the Blue Star Council. It's even more unlikely that they would help me."
Aurora remembered what the dispute was about: "Are you talking about the sale of the property rights?"
"drop--!"
Before Ye Bai could answer, the laboratory sounded a reminder that the rent was due. Then her body shook and she was thrown out of the room uncontrollably.
The moment Ye Bai came into contact with the outdoor environment, his throat and nose began to itch violently.
“Cough cough cough…”
[Turn on the purification module]
As soon as the thought came to his mind, the uncomfortable feeling disappeared. At the same time, Ye Bai saw that the three-digit star coins in his account began to decrease like running water.
This is why Ye Bai had no choice but to work in the interstellar zoo after Aurora’s laboratory was closed.
Just like if a modern person's body traveled directly back to ancient times, the various viruses that modern humans have adapted to would bring huge disasters to that era. Similarly, the viral radiation that the new humans are immune to ten thousand years later is a fatal threat to the "ancient man" Ye Bai.
A systemic allergic reaction will occur after one minute, and fatal shock will occur after three minutes.
Of course Ye Bai didn't want to die. After all, she had only lived for twenty-eight... well, one thousand and twenty-eight years.
But if she left the laboratory's professional equipment and spent her own money to purify the environment, Ye Bai's three years of savings would only be enough for her to stay on Blue Star for three days, so she stayed in the laboratory until the last second of closing.
Aurora also saw Ye Bai's situation, but her project funds had run out, so she could do nothing to help. She could only suggest, "You already have interstellar citizenship. Why not sell the property rights in Antarctica? That should be enough for you to find a habitable planet across the star cluster..."
Before he could finish his words, Aurora noticed that Ye Bai's expression suddenly became strange: "What's wrong?"
Standing outside the laboratory, on the deserted street, Ye Bai suddenly tilted his head slightly, raised his gaze, and looked fixedly at a certain place. He seemed like a sculpture nailed to the spot, motionless.
"Ye Bai?"
Aurora called out again, and Ye Bai on the other side finally came back to his senses as if waking from a dream. With a dazed and incredible look on his face, he asked her, "In the sky, in the sky...what is that?"
This was the first time that Aurora saw Ye Bai with this expression. The long-distance spacecraft was not started. She pressed a button on her seat, and the sealed spacecraft wall next to her turned into a panoramic window.
"Oh... that's the newly erected giant planet gg."
This gg position can be said to be the largest and most influential position on a planet. Through visual conduction technology, people on this planet can see gg content no matter where they are as long as they look up at the sky.
Ye Bai couldn't feel his breath at this moment, his heart seemed to be in his throat, and he could only ask Ji Guang dryly:
"Up there..."
"That's the recently popular StarNet game 'Ten Thousand Worlds'. Based on the existing sample phenomena, it has the effect of improving the player's mental strength regardless of race. It can be basically predicted that this will be the first game to reach the 'interstellar universal' level since the StarNet was covered. I must return to my home planet in advance to join my mentor in establishing the Ten Thousand Worlds research project team." Aurora explained.
StarCraft: All People, Improving Players' Mental Strength Without Discrimination...
Ye Bai's mind was buzzing, and he could only ask the two words he cared about the most in a somewhat dull manner: "...It's called 'Myriad Worlds'?"
"That's right." Aurora thought that this was the first time Ye Bai had walked out of the laboratory in three years, and he was curious about everything in the outside world.
But in fact, what shocked Ye Bai at this moment was far beyond her imagination.
The content on the huge gg promotion in the sky is a strange plant graphic.
This shape resembles a tree, but it grows in three symmetrical directions from the middle, as if the roots of three trees merged together, growing into different trees and branches. These branches sprout from different trunks and then intertwine and connect after growing.
Many interstellar scholars have speculated about this graphic that one sees at first glance after entering the game, but no one can accurately say like Ye Bai that this graphic actually represents three different technological development directions in the game world of "Wanjie", which is commonly known as the "technology tree" in infrastructure games.
Because this graphic was designed by Ye Bai himself, stroke by stroke!
The games in the interstellar era ten thousand years later are completely different from the games ten thousand years ago.
Therefore, no one cares now that Ye Bai was a well-known game producer ten thousand years ago, and no one knows that her latest project, which had not yet been released for public beta, was called "Wanjie".
…
"I decided not to go to Makul Planet..."
The loneliness and confusion that had shrouded Ye Bai's eyes for the past three years seemed to have dissipated like a thick fog, and began to emit a different light.
However, Ye Bai did not receive any response from Aurora. She then looked at the record and saw [Communication disconnected]. It turned out that when she was distracted, the long-distance spacecraft the other party was riding had taken off and automatically disconnected the planet's signal.
Knowing that he couldn't contact the other party in a short time, Ye Bai turned to carefully observe the "Wanjie" gg in the sky.
The graphics she designed now automatically added 'billions' of details, turning from two-dimensional to three-dimensional, strange yet familiar. She couldn't wait to learn more, but Blue Star's public network was equivalent to a local area network, with only the game gg and no more content.
It seems that everything needs to be logged on to the Star Network. At that time, not to mention understanding the information, you can directly enter the game.
But the problem is, it costs 10,000 star coins to register a StarNet account!
Star coins are the universal currency issued by the Star Alliance and have extremely high purchasing power. This price sounds ridiculously expensive - Ye Bai's savings for three years are only a little over 300 star coins, and he would have to work for a hundred years to be able to "go online".
But in fact, this price is very reasonable, because the Star Network connects the entire universe, which is equivalent to the virtual universe. After logging into the Star Network, you can interact in real time no matter where you are. Some backward civilizations are even willing to sell a planet to buy a Star Network account, which is equivalent to the only computer with Internet access in the entire village.
Ten thousand star coins...
Ye Bai's expression changed for a while, and finally, she gritted her teeth and took the initiative to contact the Blue Star Council for the first time.
Back then, due to the appearance of the wormhole, the solar system became the second largest transportation hub in the Milky Way. According to the Star Alliance Treaty, Blue Star became a public planet and belonged to the entire Star Alliance. Even the new humans only had permanent residency and management rights, and did not own the planet. On the contrary, as the only intelligent creature on Blue Star before development, Ye Bai owned the only private property here.
The Antarctic land beneath her when she was frozen.
Nowadays, every inch of land on Blue Star is worth a lot of money. Even a piece of land the size of Ye Bai's body is very valuable.
In fact, when Ye Bai was just thawed, the two new human civilization forces that came here offered to buy her.
Ye Bai refused.
Ye Bai's parents died early, and he started from scratch and achieved financial freedom in his twenties. In addition to luck and talent, he also had a keen intuition that ordinary people did not have.
At that time, she knew nothing about the world ten thousand years later. Her intuition told her that this property right was not only her last bond with Blue Star, but perhaps her only reliance.
Sure enough, because of the ownership of that small piece of land, Ye Bai later registered as an interstellar citizen as an ancient human.
On the contrary, if Ye Bai had sold the property rights before this, her identity would be defined by the two new human civilizations that manage Blue Star.
Ye Baizhen will be protected, and there will be no need to worry about the cost of environmental purification - but whether he is a "human" or a "monkey" depends entirely on the mood of others.
It was precisely because of Ye Bai's refusal that the Blue Star Council subsequently treated her coldly. This might have been an attempt to force her to compromise. She was penniless and had difficulty adapting to the Blue Star environment. Even if she was lucky enough to enter Aurora's laboratory, she would have to bow her head sooner or later.
In fact, just as Aurora had suggested before, now that Ye Bai has citizenship, by selling the property rights, she can have money to buy a spaceship ticket to a remote star field and find a planet with a suitable environment to settle down.
In some less developed civilizations, the exchange rate of star coins is very high. The 300 star coins that Ye Bai has saved over three years is enough for his retirement.
However, even before he chose to temporarily become a monkey in the zoo, Ye Bai had never considered selling the ownership of that insignificant piece of land.
She didn't want to be truly 'without anything' in this era.
Until now, Ye Bai discovered that "Ten Thousand Worlds" born from her hands might also appear in this era.
"I want to sell my property rights in Antarctica."
When Ye Bai said this to the person on the other end of the communication, his hands trembled uncontrollably.
Choosing to sell the property rights to register StarNet was undoubtedly a gamble that would put Ye Bai's life and property at risk. Strangely, what she felt at that moment was not fear, but a long-lost excitement that seemed to bubble up from her blood...
…
The transaction was finally completed at 10,000 star coins. This was Ye Bai's bottom line. There was also competition between the two new human forces within the Blue Star Council, otherwise it would not have been sold at such a high price.
[Received a new transfer: 10,000 Star Coins]
[Please confirm whether to register a StarNet account? It will cost 10,000 StarCoins]
【confirm】
There was no extra helmet. The personal terminal implanted in Ye Bai's neck heated up and took five seconds to upgrade the star network interface.
[Registration successful, welcome to the virtual universe! ]
After his consciousness became blurred for a while, Ye Bai found himself in another world, which was difficult to distinguish from reality with his senses alone.
She didn't spend time researching her virtual personal space, but instead raced to the next step:
【Do you want to log in to the game "Wanjie"? 】
【Linking...】
The stars in front of Ye Bai's eyes turned upside down, as if they were traveling through time. The only thing she saw was the bright red timer above her vision. It was her account balance indicator.
She only has three days left.
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