Realized Game: I Hoarded 10 Billion Defense Towers

But Shen Fei understood that he had improved far more than that. Right now, his damage, which reached into the tens of quadrillions, was enough to annihilate an island hundreds of kilometers wide in a single blow, given its current defense level. If this were a pre-apocalyptic planet, he could probably blast Blue Star into dust with a single strike.

There’s also the [Bloodline Gemstone] and [Monster Nest Energy Block] I got from the Version 4.1 monster tide!

He placed the 500 Defense Towers around him. Just looking at them made Shen Fei happy. Without rushing to put the Defense Towers away, his gaze shifted to the other items in his inventory. Although he had listed a few Bloodline Gemstones and Energy Blocks for sale in the Ninth World to boost its popularity, the vast majority of these two types of items were still sitting in his inventory. Now that he was done with the mandatory quest to save his father, he needed to start thinking about how to use these things. At the same time, it was also time to use the items he had obtained long ago—the ones that could be released to form new Monster Nests.

WHOOSH...

WHOOSH...

WHOOSH...

As Shen Fei examined the large pile of items in his inventory, his thoughts slowly began to take shape.

Alright, the miscellaneous tasks are dealt with! The most important thing now is the special areas! Those guys are so rich, and they actually need to practice Devouring their own kind to level up... There’s something far too mysterious about that place!

As he mulled things over, Shen Fei’s thoughts inevitably drifted back to the Intelligent NPCs and Super Bosses in the special areas. He had known these places were special even before his counter-invasion into the Game World. Now, after what he had just been through, he had a much more visceral sense of their strangeness.

BEEP!

BEEP!

BEEP!

While Shen Fei was lost in thought, he saw an urgent communication request pop up on his personal panel.

"What’s up?"

"Did you decide to get married too, Brother Huang? Consider the two billion a wedding gift from your little bro!"

Seeing the request was from Huang Yi, Shen Fei accepted the call and teased him. He assumed Huang Yi was calling to thank him for the two billion he had just transferred.

"You’re joking, Brother Fei!"

"When I do have my wedding, you’ll definitely be invited~~"

"I’ve received some bad news... The higher-ups discovered it using the Great Xia Divine Artifact, [Chaos Mahjong]! The situation is... not good!!"

After the polite exchange, Huang Yi quickly got to the point. He had contacted Shen Fei this time because something much bigger had happened.

***

"Really?"

Half a minute later, after hearing what Huang Yi had to say, Shen Fei froze.

Contact had been lost with dozens of foreign players who possessed Divine Artifacts.

Previously, the comprehensive Version 4.2 update had restricted players to their own nation’s Forum, preventing access to others. The only way for nations to communicate with each other was through National Treasure Divine Artifacts with the Divine Artifact Link ability. Great Xia’s National Treasure Divine Artifact, [Chaos Mahjong], had always maintained links with the Divine Artifacts of most other nations.

However, after Huang Yi returned from the mandatory quest space, he was questioned by the higher-ups at the Tourism Management Office. Based on his information, they reached a shocking conclusion: human players who possessed Divine Artifacts had died directly inside the Game World!

The previous mandatory quests were conducted on a nation-by-nation basis. Each nation had to send five people to undertake these quests, and the candidates were chosen by the entire populace of their respective countries. In over half of the nations, the wielders of their National Treasure Divine Artifacts were chosen and sent directly into the Game World.

The players from those nations, however, did not have someone as powerful as Shen Fei to save them. Moreover, besides Shen Fei, no one else had mastered the ability to counter-invade the Game World.

Thus, by combining Huang Yi’s intelligence with the discovery that over half of the National Treasure Divine Artifacts had gone silent, the higher-ups at the Great Xia Tourism Management Office arrived at a shocking conclusion—human players who possessed Divine Artifacts had died directly inside the Game World!

The Divine Artifacts they wielded would be lost directly in the Game World and, in all likelihood, had become its spoils of war.

"Holy shit!"

After hearing Huang Yi’s news, Shen Fei was so shocked he was at a loss for words.

He himself had obtained a Divine Artifact from the Game World—the [Zu’an’s Kiss]. He had even left a clone of the [Zu’an’s Kiss] with Gana, who had since recovered her strength. He never imagined that other human players had now left Divine Artifacts from Blue Star behind in the Game World.

Familiar as he was with Version 4.5’s goal of sending players to their deaths, and knowing that the so-called mandatory [Heaven-Opening Gate] quest was a suicide mission for most, Shen Fei instantly determined that the Tourism Management Office’s speculation was correct. The foreign players who had been forced into the Game World with their Divine Artifacts had, in all likelihood, kicked the bucket right there inside it.

What will happen if the NPCs or Super Bosses in the Game World get their hands on Divine Artifacts from Blue Star’s nations? Nearly two hundred countries around the world all had teams forcibly selected to complete the [Heaven-Opening Gate] quest! What kind of chaos has this chain reaction stirred up in the Game World?

Countless speculations surfaced in Shen Fei’s mind because of Huang Yi’s news.

Great Xia’s five-person mandatory [Heaven-Opening Gate] quest had been cleared instantly because he had joined. But he understood that for the teams from other nations, they would need extraordinary luck just to make it out alive. The odds of that were far too low. But even if they ultimately failed the quest,