The pale golden light fills the blank world, as if drawing a picture, depicting the story of the last cosmic epoch.

Standing in a wide and magnificent square, standing in the middle of the crowd of people shuttling back and forth, breathing in the air completely different from the earth, and watching the illusory "pieces of paper" flying in the sky, everything here is like a dream.

In fact, this is the dreamland.

A dream farther away than time.

Lu Zhou stretched out his hand and gently plucked a thin "piece of paper" from the air.

This seems to be a propaganda tool made of some kind of self-degradable material, and on that translucent interface, presents today's important news.

[The invincible Imperial fleet has taken over the Sunset Star Zone, and the five-year civil war is over!] Marshal Sainz triumphant! 】

Seeing this, a clear expression appeared on Lu Zhou's face.

In this case, the current point in time should be shortly after the death of General Reinhardt, when the Imperial fleet had just destroyed the last line of defense of the rebels. As a result, the rebels' activities moved from the open to the underground, and they began to try to dismantle the fortress from within.

In addition, with the sudden rise of fleet power, the armed forces that were quickly formed to fight the rebels are beginning to gradually eat away at the empire itself like a tumor that has gone out of control.

Lu Zhou suddenly understood what the observer was saying to him.

It's just that he was still a little surprised that it was the boss he had promoted to suppress General Reinhardt. In this five-year-long war, there must be many stories buried in him that he does not understand......

Looking at the "newspaper" in her hand, Chen Yushan asked curiously.

"Who is General Sainz?"

“…… I guess it's a big man in the Imperial Fleet, and I don't know much about the worldview of this game," he gently sent the film in his hand into the air, watching it turn into a transparent bubble and disappear into the air, Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Let's go, I'll show you around this world." ”

The world is vast.

If it is visited as a scenic spot, I am afraid that I will not be able to finish it in a lifetime.

There are bustling commercial districts, endless farmland, and even man-made mountains and rivers. And unless you're standing on a space station or a spaceship and looking down, you can't tell it's a ring.

Since she came here with the mentality of tourism, in order to let Chen Yushan understand the whole picture of this world most intuitively, Lu Zhou directly took her to the central tower of the section by anti-gravity rail train.

This is the entrance to and from the world of the Ring for ordinary Jialan, and it is also a vital link in the transportation hub of the entire empire.

It is also one of the few places in each sector where you can overlook the whole world.

Standing next to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the central tower, through the glass that weakened the light of the stars, Chen Yushan couldn't take her eyes off the vast scene outside the window, and her bright eyes couldn't help but widen.

After a long pause, she sighed with emotion.

"What a beautiful ......"

Standing next to her, Lu Zhou nodded.

It's just that in addition to emotion, there is some regret in his voice.

"yes...... It's like a miracle. ”

The energy harvesting tower, which extends from the inside to the center, spreads out like a leaf-like membrane, like a towering taiga, rising and falling with the fluctuations of the solar wind. The swaying membranes are like seaweed floating in the deep sea, absorbing the energy of the stars as much as they can, and converting them into various forms of energy, providing an inexhaustible source of energy for the world around the world.

There is no need for nuclear power plants here, and there is no need for anything as backward as fusion reactors.

The whole star is their core, and there is no middleman who makes the difference in energy conversion efficiency, and as long as the star's lifespan does not come to an end, their furnace will not stop. Whether it's antimatter or zero-point energy, it will be overshadowed by this scale of energy—a source of energy that no man-made thing can match.

There is also no need for sunrise and sunset here, it can be day or night 24 hours a day. People who live here do not rely on the change of day and night, but use a standard clock to determine whether the day is over and whether it is time to go to bed.

Not only that, but with the help of the central temperature control system, there is absolutely no such thing as heat accumulation here, whether walking in the middle of poetic farmland or buildings with no end in sight, the temperature is always constant at the most comfortable level for the people here, and the light is definitely not dazzling.

Although Lu Zhou had already browsed the whole picture of this world last time, when he saw all this again, he couldn't help but sigh.

It is worthy of the crystallization of five centuries of wisdom and painstaking efforts of a higher civilization.

One can imagine how much effort those engineers put into building this timeless utopia.

They have created a paradise in the truest sense of the word.

Although he also destroyed it with his own hands......

After coming down from the central tower, Lu Zhou took Chen Yushan to visit the commercial street that is said to be able to meet all shopping needs, as well as the Imperial Park, which is said to be "viewed" from more than a dozen planets.

Throughout the way, the senior sister rarely showed a completely different side from her usual steadyness, looking around excitedly.

"It's incredible, is this really AI-generated?"

Lu Zhou nodded.

It's not lying, it's in a sense.

Looking back at Lu Zhou suddenly, Chen Yushan asked excitedly.

"You say, will our future be like this?"

Lu Zhou: "It's hard to say...... Maybe it will be possible in a dozen centuries. ”

Find a galaxy with a small number of planets, then tear them down with a bomb that sounds awesome at the sound of some kind of name, and build a ring along the habitable zone with some kind of sci-fi space engineering equipment......

But then again, each civilization has different cultures and morals, and its development trajectory does not necessarily have to follow the mold of the same so-called "higher civilization".

Compared with the Jialan Empire, Lu Zhou feels that the earth civilization should be an extroverted kind. Not only will he take the initiative to send "postcards", optimistically believing that the universe is not alone, but he is also keen to study how to use backward chemical thrusters to travel to the world beyond the home planet.

For such a civilization, it may be more enthusiastic about expanding its borders than on a time-consuming and labor-intensive megastructure such as the world ring.

Looking at it this way, compared to this Jialan civilization that is prosperous on the surface but is actually seriously involuted, the earth civilization still has many advantages.

Of course, it's too early to say this, after all, no amount of advantages can stand up to youth. Some of the things seem to be more convincing later.

"More than a dozen centuries later...... It seems that we can only see it in the game. ”

Hearing this emotion from the senior sister, Lu Zhou smiled and did not speak.

So what's not?

Will you still live to that time?

Wouldn't that be an old monster?

After a round trip, the two returned to the park where they had started.

Looking at the vehicles shuttling in the air not far away, Chen Yushan suddenly said with a smile.

"I feel like I have a general understanding of the whole game, although the main story feels a little thinner and the combat system is not visible...... But on the other hand, everything here looks like a whole new world, which should attract the attention of many players who enjoy exploring. ”

Lu Zhou said: "I don't need a lot of people, as long as the number of players is enough to keep my experiment going." Probably...... About 100,000 people. A little more is better, and a little less doesn't matter. ”

Chen Yushan said with a smile: "This is a game of Star Technology's operation and maintenance, let alone 100,000 people, I don't think even 1 million people are a problem." Let's make a bet, I'm willing to bet this game will sell out once it's live! The daily active activity is certainly not less than one million. ”

Lu Zhou: "...... I've never bet on what I'm not good at. ”

Chen Yushan glanced at him helplessly, and muttered.

"It's boring, can't you give me a chance to win you?"

Hearing this, Lu Zhou immediately smiled embarrassedly.

Joke.

Is he the kind of person who will easily show his flaws?

Inexistent.

At this moment, Chen Yushan suddenly thought of something, and said with curiosity on her face.

"By the way, what about your 'reincarnation squad'? Where were they tested? Can you take me over and have a look? ”

"This world has actually just been completed, don't look at me knowing so much about this world, in fact, it is the first time I have entered here." Of course, when he said this, Lu Zhou added in his heart, it is here fifty years later.

Although there was no change between this place at that time and the current place.

"In other words, there are only two of us living in this world now?"

I don't know if it's an illusion, Lu Zhou always felt that when he said this sentence again, the senior sister's tone seemed to be a little happy, or excited.

I didn't quite understand what was so exciting about this thing, but Lu Zhou nodded anyway.

"So to speak."

“…… That's great. ”

suddenly sighed, but I don't know why, at this time, Chen Yushan, who was still very active, suddenly became a little embarrassed.

"Hey ......"

"What's wrong again?"

"What's the point...... Forget it, I won't argue with you about this," muttered dissatisfiedly, and the senior sister continued in a low voice, "Do you feel ......?"

"What do you think?"

“…… Do you feel that the way we are now, it's like we're dating? ”

At the moment when she said this, Chen Yushan felt that her heart was beating faster. Even she herself was taken aback, and she actually threw a straight ball.

However, Lu Zhou's answer was beyond her expectations.

I saw that after thinking seriously for a moment, he suddenly frowned.

"Is there one?"

Seeing that Lu Zhou didn't get it at all, Chen Yushan was slightly stunned at first, and then stomped his foot anxiously after reacting.

"Why not?"

Lu Zhouhan said: "If you go on a date, you have to buy things and watch movies." ”

Chen Yushan: "Go!" ”

“…… Where to go? ”

"Go shopping!"

"I don't have any money."

"I pay!"

"No, I mean...... We don't have any money," Lu Zhou said a little embarrassedly, "or rather, it should be credit." ”

You can't use RMB, right?

In the world, except for rail transit and posters, you don't need to pay extra, everything else requires credits.

There was some subtle embarrassment in the air.

Looking at Chen Yushan, whose expression and movements were suddenly stuck, Lu Zhou was slightly stunned.

This is......

Is this disconnected?

Not really.

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