Soul of Burning Steel

Xiaoguang, that is, a subplant of the will of the blood moon abyss world split beside Joshua, it is actually one with the mother body, essentially the same existence, and it can also be regarded as the observation terminal placed by the other party in the world of Mycroft , used to accompany Joshua and absorb a lot of culture and knowledge about human beings.

On weekdays, Xiaoguang is used as a mascot, floating around in the lord's mansion, but its appearance is fine during the day, but at night it is a bit like a will-o'-the-wisp. There was once a maid who was startled by Xiaoguang wandering in the corridor late at night. Jumping, I accidentally used too much force and pierced through the wall of the Lord's Mansion—but after getting used to it, the attendants in the Lord's Mansion were very willing to buy a little magic chip crumbs as snacks, and feed them to Xiaoguang who occasionally wandered by. .

However, even though it looks cute and feels good to the touch, the essence of Xiaoguang is also an extremely powerful world will, and it can even be said that it is the steel python larva of the future blood moon world.

Its intelligence far exceeds most intelligent life in the conventional sense.

Joshua naturally realized this a long time ago, so he has always specially prepared a lot of related books for Xiao Guang, and occasionally personally taught him about specific creation and biological transformation. After all, blood The Moon Abyss is almost barren now, even the Mother Tree of Life and the small creatures gifted by the elves are not enough. The Blood Moon Abyss must learn to create a complete ecological circle by itself, so that it can escape from the abyss again and become a A truly reborn world.

As for the spiritual terminal, Xiaoguang also has it. In addition to surfing the forum and discussing related extraordinary power issues in professional chat rooms, it can even play fairy cards. Control decks that end the game with board clears and powerful creatures have a current win rate of 63.6%. , it can be said that the winning rate is extremely high.

Naturally, Xiaoguang is undoubtedly a member of the internal beta players of the game "Continent of Disputes".

Joshua naturally knew that Xiaoguang played Continent of Disputes, and also knew that the other party often reached the fourth stage, which was enough to prove that the other party's knowledge reserve, overall view, and social system formulation and planning had reached a very high level, but In the fourth stage of 'war', due to lack of experience, they often fail.

According to Joshua's original design concept, each stage of the "Continent of Disputes" has a corresponding range of knowledge and implications.

Among them, the first stage "spore" is to test the player's knowledge of the basic characteristics and needs of life, induce the player to think about the origin of their own race and civilization, and enhance the player's sense of identity with their own race by building their own life race , to pave the way for further games. This stage is very simple, as long as you know the basic points of "eating", "seeing", "running fast", and "digesting", you can pass the level smoothly.

The second stage, race, is mainly to examine whether players have a thorough understanding of the needs of intelligent life-most novice players are eliminated here, perhaps for a cooler appearance and stronger attack ability , Stronger survival ability, or stronger intelligence, ignores the balance of some life designs, causing fatal weaknesses in one's own race, and then being eliminated by nature.

At this stage, the most important thing is to choose and judge. With a clear mind, players can analyze the race that is most suitable to survive in this world by observing the environment of the whole world. After all, if players insist on choosing amphibious life in the desert world, the race they control may not be able to go ashore in this life, and can only switch to the extremely difficult route of submarine civilization.

And the third stage, the tribe, the link where players fail the most, examines the player's overall view, the establishment of the social system, and the understanding of the instinctive desire of life. Playing to this point, players are not only thinking about the individual they manipulate, but planning for the future of the entire race. At this stage, the player's comprehensive thinking and ability to solve problems are examined. As long as the player is knowledgeable or clear-headed, the step of clearing the level is not easy, but it is not too difficult. It is really not good, play more A few times, then you will definitely understand.

Because the set races are different each time, the shape of the planet is different, the terrain is different, and the gene plug-ins that can be obtained in the first stage are different, so every new game can basically be said to be a brand new challenge. Players who can pass the level 100% , basically can be called an elite, this kind of person can become an outstanding talent in the real world even if he does not practice any extraordinary power.

But the fourth stage, the stage of civilization, not only tests the overall situation, resource operation, strategic scheduling and social planning on a world scale, but also tests whether there are any problems in the previous stages-for example, the first, the second In the second stage, the entire race has fundamental physical defects, such as the extremely low birth rate. In the third stage, it is also a big problem to deal with social conflicts. This determines that when entering the fourth stage, the entire race Whether the world civilization is a unified whole.

Of course, in addition to these, there is the most important point - that is to examine whether the player has strong combat and command capabilities. Only know how to operate, but don't know how to fight, this kind of player will inevitably suffer a bitter end in the fourth stage.

——Those who cannot withstand the flames of war and cope with threats cannot be called civilization at all. They are just deformed giant babies who have been living in the incubator and baby room and have grown too much.

This is the idea that Joshua wants to implicitly hint through the game Continent of Disputes.

And Xiaoguang, after experiencing the first few mistakes and failures, has already summed up a set of unique thinking logic and operation planning, so from the first stage until the fourth stage, it will basically not Making mistakes can allow civilization to develop perfectly and uniformly to the fourth stage, but that's where the problem lies.

Xiaoguang can't fight at all.

Whether it is manipulating the army or playing by himself, Xiaoguang's ability in this area can be said to be very low, and because of his own peculiar shape, it is impossible to copy human combat techniques. There are not many that can be used. Also because of this, because the controller himself knows nothing about combat, Xiaoguang's race is also an overly peaceful creature, and there is no urgency for the threat of war at all.

Just like what Joshua saw last time, a plant intelligence race used by Xiaoguang, just before the invasion of the chaos army from another world, they were still slowly stretching their leaves and roots, as if they didn't care about the existence of the enemy at all...Naturally, one There is no army, no fortress, and most of the technology is lacking in combat. Naturally, such a race is destroyed immediately, and such a plot has appeared at least a dozen times.

But it is such Xiaoguang and race that actually got through the fourth stage, even passed the fifth stage, and completed the internal test copy?

Joshua sneaked his spirit into the magic net, and he was reviewing Xiaoguang's game video and records-the fighter is now very curious about the process of the opponent's clearance.

The incomparably huge amount of information has turned into a torrent of data. If it is an ordinary person, it must have been lost in this storm of information. It is possible to suppress the mental deviation of the warrior, and the information flow in the Continent of Disputes was originally designed by him, so it is impossible to affect him.

So, a few seconds later, Joshua, who had passed through layers of blockades, got the video of Xiaoguang's latest clearance.

Then in the real world, No. 3 in Joshua's life noticed that the soldier's expression froze for a moment.

"What's the matter, Joshua?"

She turned her head and asked a little strangely: "Are there demons acting stupid and provoking crew members of other races? If you want me to say, let them all go out independently, so as not to be so troublesome..."

"……No."

Joshua's expression returned to normal, and he let out a breath: "It's just maybe... I saw the birth of a very gentle demon..."

Magic Net, Continent of Conflict customs clearance video.

It can be seen that a small cell is floating and wandering in the depths of a humid sea and land planet. It is not an element, and it does not have the affinity of other extraordinary energies such as psionic ether. This cell is ordinary. If you have to say something special, it is probably a type of 'fungus'. cell up.

It does not have the mobility of ordinary cells, but it cannot perform photosynthesis and produce organic matter like plant cells. The cells that Xiaoguang set up this time can only float with the ocean currents. With luck, it can get some floating Nutrition, able to divide and reproduce, but bad luck, excessive hunger will even make the cells digest and decompose the same kind... This seems to be completely dependent on luck, the days of floating with the sea lasted for a long time, until one day, the fungal cells controlled by Xiaoguang attached to on a giant multicellular organism.

It was a large piece of primitive sponges and ancient corals attached to the bottom of the sea—when most other creatures had evolved during the game, the cells controlled by Xiaoguang were still in the most basic form, but when they landed on When the sponge pillars and coral layers that looked like plants were on the ground, for Xiaoguang, the game had just begun.

Joshua carefully watched the hundreds of times accelerated game process. He clearly saw that the fungal race controlled by Xiaoguang resided on the gentle sponges and corals. Other cell bodies on the organism, and then slowly erode the sponge and the coral itself-for a sponge that responds extremely slowly and relies entirely on the ocean current itself to obtain nutrients and oxygen in the seawater, there is no way to find that it has been infected by some weird fungus Corrosion, and its instinctive counterattack is not worth mentioning to Xiaoguang who has obtained a large number of gene plug-ins through hunting and parasitism.