Realized Game: I Hoarded 10 Billion Defense Towers

[DING!]

[The number of planetary Secret Realms has reached 100,000!]

[A mandatory mission is hereby issued—Enter a Secret Realm!]

[Enter a Secret Realm: All players with a personal panel, regardless of location, must complete one mission to enter a Secret Realm! The number of people, size of the realm, and method are not restricted. Time limit: 168 hours!]

[When the countdown ends, those who have not completed the mission to enter a Secret Realm will be—OBLITERATED!]

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Lines of text scrolled before Shen Fei’s shocked eyes. He hadn’t expected that after the 4.4 update, the 4.5 mission version would also start causing trouble. In his mind, Version 4.5 was one that drove people toward evil, deliberately making them do bad things. He hadn’t thought that another mission would arrive so soon after the mandatory five-person mission was issued, especially right after a wave of 4.4 updates. And it wasn’t just any mission—it was another mandatory one, this time for every single player.

"Brother!"

While Shen Fei was still stunned, Sun Yu and the others turned to look at him, as he had yet to leave. They had just seen the Heaven-Reaching Tower Secret Realm and decided there was no rush to enter it. None of them had expected a mandatory mission to enter a Secret Realm would suddenly appear. Whether they wanted to or not, they had to enter one now.

"Don’t panic," Shen Fei frowned as he addressed their expectant gazes. "First, get a headcount. We have seven days to complete the mandatory mission, so there’s no need to rush. Let’s talk with players from other places first..."

Although the mandatory mission forced everyone to enter a Secret Realm at least once, whether they wanted to or not, there was no need to rush. After all, the countdown was 168 hours—seven days. There was enough time.

What worried Shen Fei wasn’t the players in Qing City entering a Secret Realm. The mission’s appearance immediately made him think of players in other locations. The Heaven-Reaching Tower, while a special Secret Realm, was terrifying. If you entered and failed to clear it, the monsters would be unleashed upon the real world, multiplied ten-thousand-fold. But regardless, the players in Qing City, including those within an 8,000-kilometer radius, at least had a Secret Realm they could enter. The real trouble was any place that had no Secret Realms at all, where none had materialized. Even if they wanted to complete the mission, they couldn’t.

More importantly, Father Shen, Zhao Li, Huang Yi, and the others had been pulled into some unknown space for their own mandatory mission. They almost certainly had no Secret Realms nearby to enter for this new task. As players, their personal panels would also display this new mandatory quest, but their environment might not have any realms they could access. The appearance of this new mandatory mission made Shen Fei feel an even greater urgency to rescue his father and Zhao Li’s group.

I have to help the five of them complete that "Heaven-Opening Gate" mission. Then, I have to make sure they also complete their task to enter a Secret Realm before the 168-hour countdown ends...

The sudden 4.5 update filled Shen Fei’s heart with an even greater sense of urgency.

"Alright, you all gather information first!" he instructed Sun Yu and the others. "Don’t rush into the Heaven-Reaching Tower! If there are other, smaller Secret Realms near Qing City, you can go ahead and try those out when you have a moment!"

Done with the small talk, Shen Fei directly teleported to [Yang City], and from there, he took a Teleportation Array and arrived at [Ye City] in Songhai.

At this moment, he had three things he needed to accomplish immediately.

First, he had to go to Hang City and figure out why [Lin’an City]—occupied by the Beauty Snake and under the complete control of his Mind Control Tower—was being counted as his territory.

Second, he had to quickly open the [Ninth World] to establish direct trade and communication, allowing for the exchange of supplies. With the arrival of the Secret Realms, it was crucial that the communication channels between players were wide open.

Third, after accomplishing the first two tasks, he had to immediately go after the five-person [Heaven-Opening Gate] group, who had been abducted to who-knows-where.

Of these three tasks, one was a deeper investigation into the version’s mechanics; one concerned the success rate of the mandatory mission for all players; and the last one was the most important. In fact, completing the first two tasks would also help him accomplish the third.

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WHOOSH...

Although the full rollout of Version 4.3 meant Teleportation Arrays could no longer be used freely unless one’s name was on a Neutral City’s whitelist, this was not a problem for Shen Fei. The moment the update went live, the other four Neutral Cities with Teleportation Arrays had immediately placed his name at the very top of their free-access lists. When Shen Fei had gifted the arrays, he had stipulated that each city reserve three teleportation slots for him. The cities had set up his personal slot immediately, without him even having to ask.

That was why, with but a thought, Shen Fei found himself standing on the walls of Songhai.

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"Brother Chongtian!"

Standing on the walls of Songhai, Shen Fei was surprised to find Zhao Li’s girlfriend blocking his path just as he was about to quickly teleport to [Lin’an City] in Hang City.

"Please look at this! Do you want to use it? Brother Zhao gave this to me before he left!"

"That can wait," Shen Fei replied, glancing at the item she was offering. "We’ll deal with it after I bring Zhao Li and the others back!"

What she was showing him was an item called a Secret Realm Teleportation Gate. It was an item that, as long as one knew a Secret Realm’s name...