Chapter 5: Di Zhao

Di Zhong Village, 300 meters underground.

Qi Sheng stood in front of the blue crystal containment wall, his gaze sweeping toward the three Origin Monster souls that had been contained and imprisoned. Their backs were connected to a soft tube extending from the crystal wall, continuously extracting a certain scarlet energy.

Closing his eyes, scarlet flames instantly climbed all over his body.

His head transformed into burning scarlet flames, changing between reality and illusion, and three small light spheres rotating around his body appeared.

Switching to Di Zhao form, digitized information fed back by the Guide appeared in Qi Sheng's mind.

[Monster King: Di Zhao]:

Controlling Origin Land:

Di Zhong Village (Territory Trait: Life Reshaping)

Territory Resistance to Black Tide Consumption: 1000 Sacrifice Power/day

Servants: Nine Yin, Yan Ming, Guide, Super Dimension.

Sacrifice Power Pool Remaining: 130,428.

Containment Wall Sacrifice Power Output: 30 points/hour.

Contained Origins: Gargoyle (Petrification), Black-Armored Snake (Venom), Owl-Headed Demon (Grudge Chant)

Although he inherited the origin of Di Zhao and became the new Di Zhao.

But at this stage, his strength was not strong.

The previous Di Zhao decomposed his own power into countless Origin Monsters over ten thousand years ago, scattering them across the Monster World.

As the new Di Zhao, he only inherited the solid origin but lost countless power traits that had been decomposed.

The original intention of recruiting players was to let them explore the Monster World after it had been ravaged by the black tide and contain the Origin Power lost by Di Zhao, which were the Origin Monsters.

Every time an Origin Monster was contained, his strength would be partially enhanced, and he would also gain a power trait lost by Di Zhao.

Besides that, the Origin Monsters evolved from Di Zhao's power could produce 10 points of Sacrifice Power per hour after being imprisoned in the containment wall.

The Gargoyle, Black-Armored Snake, and Owl-Headed Demon, these three contained Origin Monsters, could produce 30 points of Sacrifice Power per hour, producing 720 points of Sacrifice Power per day.

But the daily Sacrifice Power expenditure for Di Zhong Village to resist the black tide was 1000 points, so at this stage, expenditure was greater than income.

The remaining Sacrifice Power would soon be exhausted, and he needed more revenue channels.

This was also one of the reasons why he chose to impersonate the highly popular "Dark Lands" to recruit players, hoping to create more Sacrifice Power output through players.

Another reason for recruiting players was that he needed more domain nodes.

The Monster World is tens of thousands of times larger than Earth, and the world is pieced together from countless domain nodes. Each origin node retains rule traits controlled by Di Zhao.

For example, the rule trait of this territory, Di Zhong Village, is "Life Reshaping."

The fact that players can resurrect is achieved through the trait power provided by Di Zhong Village.

There are many similar territories in the Monster World, and he needs players to occupy the domain nodes that have been eroded by the terrifying black tide, integrate them into Di Zhong Village, and bring more territory traits.

First, contain Origins.

Second, recover domain nodes.

These are the two most important reasons why he recruits players.

If the plan succeeds, he will become the true Di Zhao God and gain the powerful strength to face the terrifying black tide.

[Boss, the players recruited this time created 32 points of Sacrifice Power revenue for you in just half a day. Not bad.]

Just then, the Guide water ball floating beside him suddenly spoke.

"Still too slow. I have to recruit more players."

The 32 points of Sacrifice Power in the Guide's mouth referred to the Sacrifice Power obtained after refining the energy produced by Li Zheng and other players killing a large number of Cursed Soldiers. He would extract 30% of the revenue and send it to the Sacrifice Power pool beneath Di Zhong Village.

He had carefully considered this setting.

Extracting too much would not be conducive to player growth, and extracting too little would not offset the daily Sacrifice Power expenditure of Di Zhong Village.

30% was just right.

Switching to human form, the scarlet flames on his head extinguished, and the three light spheres circling his body also dissipated.

[When do you plan to start the new recruitment?]

"Now!"

With a wave of his hand, a space teleportation formation appeared beneath Qi Sheng's feet.

After a brief spatial distortion, he returned to his bedroom in the real world.

He had already formulated a clear plan for how to recruit more players.

In the early stage, he would use the popular name of "Dark Lands" to attract new players.

Players wanted virtual reality, but what he gave them was a real world.

The target this time was still the group of people who wanted to play "Dark Lands" but couldn't due to the high price.

This group generally had played virtual reality games and had a certain technical foundation, allowing them to quickly adapt to the game environment and grow rapidly.

Compared to pure pay-to-win players, this group was more suitable for the early development of the Monster World.

He had 130,000 Sacrifice Power in his hands. Creating each monster body required 1000 Sacrifice Power energy, so he could recruit at most 130 more players.

Added to the consumption of maintaining the operation of Di Zhong Village's defensive barrier, he could only issue a limited number of qualification slots for the time being.

[Kindergarten Small Class Passionate Chat Group (Online: 38)]

Kindergarten Principal (Group Owner): (News Link) Latest news: The Moon-Eclipse Race behind "Dark Lands" has issued another 1 million game purchase slots to our Human Federation!

Small Class - Black Ball: I don't want to hear this news. Clearly, I am not among the 1 million slots, and the price is even more discouraging (Sigh.jpg).

Small Class - Hammer: I saw this news. Rumor has it that the top brass of the Human Federation hoped to apply for more slots, wanting to use the virtual environment for experiments, but were rejected by the Moon-Eclipse Race.

Small Class - Don't Nap: Eh, who told us we couldn't develop a virtual reality game with high realism like "Dark Lands."

Small Class - Drunk Milk: I have a proposal. Since everyone wants to play but can't experience the game content due to insufficient funds, I suggest we pool our money to buy a copy of Dark Lands and gift it to me. I will experience the game content on behalf of everyone, carrying your passion and desire to play happily in "Dark Lands."

Small Class - Cute Baby replies to Small Class - Drunk Milk: I agree with pooling money, but why is the person enjoying it you and not me (Angry slap on the table.jpg)

Just as the group members were wailing that the price of "Dark Lands" was too expensive, a line of small text popped up at the bottom of the chat group:

[Welfare Worker passed verification and joined the chat group.]

Kindergarten Principal (Group Owner): Who is this? I checked the verification information, and it didn't show who approved the application?

Small Class - Don't Nap: Blind guess, the newcomer is a porn guy, holding a large inventory of colored videos and colored pictures, so he calls himself Welfare Worker... I represent the group members in expressing a warm welcome.

Small Class - Black Ball: @Welfare Worker, why isn't the newcomer talking? Start your welfare session. I’m ready.

Under the constant @ of the group members, Qi Sheng sent the first message after joining the group:

Welfare Worker: I have the good stuff you all want on hand. Wait a moment and I’ll send it to everyone.

Small Class - Drunk Milk: We all know you have it, but we hope it’s free. This group doesn't welcome movie sellers, only free welfare brothers.

Welfare Worker: Do you want to play Dark Lands?

Kindergarten Principal (Group Owner): Buddy, are you going to tell us next that you can buy official qualifications at a discount (Laughing spray.jpg)

Welfare Worker: It’s fate. I’ll give everyone a super welfare. I’ve sent the link to download the cracked version of "Dark Lands" to the group. If you want to play, you can download it at any time (Link: *****).

Seeing the download link for "Dark Lands," the originally lively group instantly went quiet, and then the group owner broke the silence first.

Kindergarten Principal (Group Owner): @Welfare Worker, get out! Sending you a plane ticket. This scam technique is 500 years behind the times. Whoever falls for it is an idiot.

[Hint: Group member "Welfare Worker" has been kicked from the group chat]

Small Class - Cute Baby: This guy is too impatient. He’s far inferior to the scammer who joined our group a year ago. I still clearly remember that scammer stayed with us for 3 months, occasionally sending red envelope welfare, and suddenly one day said he had an internal discount recharge channel for "Bloodthirsty Maniac." I believed him at the time, and ended up getting scammed for 800.

Kindergarten Principal: Hahaha, I remember the one who got scammed the worst was Drunk Milk, who transferred 3000 to buy a discount recharge.

Small Class - Drunk Milk: Society is dangerous. Thinking about it makes my heart ache. After that, my innocence disappeared... The more I think about it, the angrier I get. I’m going to enter the link, collect the content, and report it to the Federation Cyber Police. The internet is real-name authenticated, so I hope to catch the scammer and put him on trial.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 8 =====