Chapter 266
Ye Bai could see scattered fragments of memories, a vague impression of entering the cryogenic sleep chamber, but the details eluded her.
The earlier memories felt like thin, fleeting impressions, while the rest of her life’s recollections were crystal clear.
She remembered the bitter taste of coffee during those late nights coding before freezing, the thrill of crafting the unique intelligent logic chain for the divine realm's NPCs, and the chilling sensation when a new human placed a personal terminal against her neck to awaken her in Antarctica after millennia… These details were vivid in her mind.
Yet, while she knew she had entered the cryogenic chamber, she couldn’t recall more specifics like she could with her other memories. It was as if her recollection had reverted to the level of her F-class mental capacity at that time.
This was clearly not normal.
A flood of thoughts surged through Ye Bai’s mind. Perhaps she had truly experienced amnesia, and something unknown had happened during that period; otherwise, it wouldn’t explain why her soul’s activity level exceeded ten thousand years.
Her mental energy had always been different from any other spirit she had encountered. Was it because she had surpassed the limits of her soul? Was the warning from the Starry Church, the reminder in the torrent of information to "not be discovered," related to this?
The class change tasks in the myriad realms, the blueprints for the Source Wells, and the countless years of evolution in the divine realm… could they also be influenced by her amnesia?
She felt a vague sense that the clues were beginning to connect, but as she sorted through the information, Ye Bai discovered an undeniable contradiction in the details—
The main control terminal reported that her soul had been active for over eleven thousand years.
Blue Star had encountered a meteorite more than a decade after Ye Bai was frozen. Human technology had exploded and then returned due to the emergence of wormholes. Even if there were potential discrepancies in the recorded timeline, the difference could only be a hundred years at most, not over a thousand.
A difference of over a thousand years compared to a hundred years was a tenfold gap. How could such a discrepancy arise?
One question after another coalesced in Ye Bai’s mind, culminating in a new, deeper doubt…
Was she truly the person she believed herself to be?
…
When Ye Bai logged in, the city of Baiye had welcomed a new day.
She checked the countdown for the key to the King’s Treasure; there were still over six days left. Considering the time it might take to traverse the Source Wells, it was time to prepare for departure.
There were still many mysteries between the game and reality, but Ye Bai had a gut feeling that these mysteries were intricately connected in ways she didn’t yet understand.
The greatest secret of the divine realm was the truth about the King and the Great Annihilation. Ye Bai hoped that this journey into the divine realm would help unravel her doubts.
However, before heading to the divine realm, there was, of course, one important matter she couldn’t forget.
Ye Bai left the lord’s mansion and made her way to the Tree of Creation, greeting the residents along the way.
After waving back at them, she arrived at the Tree of Creation and touched its trunk.
【The conditions for upgrading to level eight territory have been met. Would you like to upgrade?】
【Yes】
After a moment, the previously stalled “full-time education rate” that had prevented Baiye City from upgrading was finally satisfied. But just as she confirmed the upgrade, a new prompt appeared.
【The conditions for upgrading to level nine territory have been met. Would you like to upgrade?】
【Yes】
The conditions for upgrading to level nine territory required a Void Capture Device and 150 level 60 combat units. Normally, the transition from level eight to nine was a period for players to compete for resource points, focusing on military development.
Thanks to Ye Bai’s relentless grinding of dungeons, Baiye City had now met both conditions.
A flash of light illuminated the area, and the sound of bells echoed throughout the town once more.
For the residents, this was no longer a novelty. They organized their tasks methodically in preparation for the evening’s lockdown, while the warriors, treated as experience babies by their lord, were all eager to show their skills.
Besides the NPCs, the players who had been driven out of the territory also understood the familiar scene:
Baiye had returned from an outing, so Baiye City was about to upgrade again.
**Chapter 182**
From a level seven territory, Baiye City had jumped two levels to become a level nine territory, and that night, the strength of the monsters attacking the city increased once more.
That evening, alongside a swarm of elite monsters ranging from level 50 to 60 emerging from the rifts in the void, there was also a three-headed, flying beast boss—the mutated Chimera.
【Mutated Chimera】
Level: 70
Health: 6,000,000/6,000,000
Skills: Inspire, Magic Immunity I, Poison Flame Breath
Weaknesses: Heads, Wings, Heart
The Inspire skill could enhance the attack damage of surrounding monsters, while Magic Immunity I meant it was immune to all first-tier magic. Poison Flame Breath was its signature area attack.
However, this time, Ye Bai wasn’t going to face it alone. Baiye City now had over four hundred combat units, with nearly three hundred of them reaching level 60, making them among the top-tier troops in the myriad realms.
Not to mention the economic support of Baiye City, which had been continuously capturing resource points at maximum efficiency, yielding a wealth of high-level resources. The best attributes of mass-produced equipment were prioritized for the warriors, while the second-tier gear was sold to players.
With battle formations and various combat machinery, Baiye City’s military strength could easily conquer an NPC town. Once their knowledge base was sufficient, they could even challenge the main city.
With such a setup, even facing a level 70 siege boss, Baiye City was ready to respond.
Elite warriors charged out of the outer city to confront the Chimera, while other areas were assigned troops to battle the elite monsters.
“One, two, three, battle formation! Raise shields!”
Seeing the mutated Chimera open its mouth in the sky, Blaze shouted immediately. The next moment, a green flame, laced with poison and curses, spewed forth onto the shields raised by the soldiers of Baiye City.
“Boom!”
The defensive formation invented by Blaze reduced damage by 50%, while the rare-grade equipment, the 【Xuanjia Shield】, crafted from deep gold, provided strong magic resistance and damage reduction. At this stage, only the high-level warriors of Baiye City could wield this equipment, making it the envy of countless players.
The reason it was so coveted was that while there were many high-level equipment pieces in the myriad realms, Baiye City’s gear could be mass-produced. Ye Bai, as a player, could direct the mass production of equipment with specific attributes, making it incredibly practical for players who could buy it as long as they had the money.
In contrast, NPC towns had their own development patterns. They could either obtain equipment through limited quests or buy it, but the high-level equipment available in shops had random attributes. Just like Ye Bai’s Snow-colored Sword, most players needed luck to find gear that suited them in the shops.
Thus, Baiye City, with its continuously upgrading industry, had become the largest equipment wholesaler in the entire Blue Star server. Many players from other regions, unable to find suitable gear, even paid extra shipping fees to have acquaintances “shop online” for them.
Of course, the mass-produced equipment available for players was sold only after meeting the needs of Baiye City, so at this stage, the players watching the territory upgrade could only envy the 【Xuanjia Shield】 from a distance.
Withstanding the Chimera’s attack, the warriors behind the shield suffered minimal damage from the boss’s signature skill, mostly from the poison and curses carried by the flames.
At that moment, a light shone down, enveloping the front-line stealth warriors, releasing a 【Dispel】 spell cast by five newly promoted magic apprentices from Baiye City.
Ye Bai had placed great emphasis on talent cultivation since she unlocked educational technology, and now the first batch of flowers had bloomed.
Having gained extraordinary knowledge and established the territory’s initial academy, the participants in this battle included the first batch of magic apprentices, alchemists, and warlocks from the academy.
The magic apprentices became the logistical spellcasters on the main battlefield against the Chimera, while the alchemists and warlocks played supporting roles on the flanks—alchemists operated combat machinery to assist in battle, occasionally creating explosions, while warlocks unleashed various supernatural abilities on the battlefield, weakening and disrupting the monster horde, causing them to turn on each other.
Ye Bai herself did not directly engage but observed the battle from the heights of the city walls, occasionally intervening at critical moments to provide support.
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