Evil God? My servants are players!

However, Shen Yuan was not optimistic about this situation.

From the players' daily chats, Shen Yuan also learned that during the time he was drifting in the void, his hometown seemed to be developing quite well.

It seems that things are developing quite well back home; productivity has greatly increased and there is no longer a shortage of materials.

This has led to most players losing their concept of money, so there is no situation where a rich guy buys out the entire game.

We may have to wait for some business geniuses to acquire a large amount of gold coins through business and become rich in the game.

Regardless, this update will significantly improve players' combat power and lay the groundwork for Shen Yuan's plan to advance to the surface.

Although staying at home wasn't bad, the astronomical number of existence points required for the fourth layer of the seal still pushed Shen Yuan to continue expanding his sphere of influence.

[Existence Points: 15143] (Two million existence points are needed to break the fourth layer of the seal)

The required number of points has increased tenfold compared to last time.

If we wait for those goblins to slowly generate emotional energy, who knows when that will take.

Furthermore, it's unrealistic to rely on players killing each other to collect presence points.

After all, the eighth and ninth floors have been basically wiped out by the players.

In order to build a monster army, the players even killed all the rats on the ninth floor.

Some players ventured deeper into the insect hive to collect more monsters and haven't returned yet.

To be honest, Shen Yuan was also quite curious about where the wormhole outside the underground city led.

However, what intrigued Shen Yuan even more was:

Judging from what the goblins said, it seemed they couldn't leave the dungeon, which really baffled Shen Yuan.

However, Shen Yuan finally realized something.

What is a dungeon? Why is it a dungeon? There must be a reason, right? Who built the dungeon? What was its purpose?

Moreover, according to those adventurers, there seems to be more than one dungeon.

Although Shen Yuan had previously tried to subtly inquire about the dungeon through the hyacinth, Luna was still unaware of the details.

The prevailing view on the surface is that underground cities are remnants of ancient civilizations.

However, Shen Yuan did not agree with this view.

No matter how you look at it, this underground city can hardly be called a ruin.

Monsters guard the treasure, and dangerous traps are everywhere. Is this an amusement park from a pre-civilization era? It's so ingeniously designed!

Of course, this is just Shen Yuan's judgment based on the underground city he is in; other underground cities may be different.

However, after gaining new power, Shen Yuan spent some existence points to project that power outside the evil god's stronghold.

He began to use his omniscient eye to trace the origin of the dungeon, but the result surprised Shen Yuan.

The tracing has been broken.

Shen Yuan could only trace back to the moment the underground city was formed; before its formation, the underground city did not exist.

The dungeons don't seem to have been created; they appeared out of thin air.

However, from some details, Shen Yuan could also see that the underground city seemed to have been built by some kind of civilization.

Actually, this wasn't the first time Shen Yuan had felt a sense of 'break'.

Shen Yuan had this feeling back when he was summoning players.

At that time, Shen Yuan was trying to find out where his hometown was. He originally wanted to go back to his hometown to develop his career, and maybe his fellow villagers could take care of him.

However, when tracing the connections made by the players, the clues suddenly went cold, just like when they traced the dungeon this time.

Shen Yuan has one redeeming quality regarding all these questions: if he can't figure out the answer, he simply ignores it.

The answer wasn't something I figured out; it was deduced from clues.

The current clues are insufficient to deduce the correct answer.

However, Shen Yuan was not too worried that he and the players would be trapped by the rules of the dungeon.

Although he couldn't trace the origins of the underground city, Shen Yuan still saw through its true nature.

The so-called underground creatures cannot leave; they are simply dependent on others for their existence.

Like the players, they will turn to ashes the moment they leave the dungeon.

Shen Yuan only needs to pay the dungeon creatures enough presence points for them to safely enter and exit the dungeon.

This suggests that the underground city is quite deep.

But let's talk about tomorrow tomorrow. Right now, Shen Yuan needs to update the new system for the players.

Players received a notification after the system update was completed.

【Dear all my companions, greetings. With the completion of the Goblin Quest, the system has been updated to a new version. The update details are as follows:】

[I. Killing monsters will no longer grant skills; instead, you will receive corresponding gold coins. From now on, skills can be purchased with gold coins in the skill shop.]

[II. Affection System Update. After reaching level three affection, players can spend gold to summon ranged attacks.]

[III. Major Map Update. Dungeon levels 1 to 7 and the surface area are unlocked, but players must complete corresponding tasks to unlock these maps.]

[IV. Since most players have not been able to tame goblins, in order to optimize the smoothness of the game, the development team has decided to remove the goblin training system.]

Players who have already tamed goblins will not be affected. As an apology, we will compensate affected players with gold and affinity points.

[V. New main quests and a large number of corresponding side quests will be available.]

[VI. An equipment rental system will be implemented. Players can rent various types of equipment by spending gold coins to address the current issue of players having overly limited equipment options.]

[VII. The level cap has been raised to 30. The number of beta testers has been increased to 200.]

"I'm getting a massive update, like a diarrhea attack! Phase Man, did you see that?"

Looking at the extremely long system announcement, Quanxian Bangua exclaimed in amazement.

"I saw it, I saw it. Although this game is still in closed beta, such a large update is really rare," the Phase Man replied.

"Holy crap! We can buy skills directly now!"

"Holy crap! Your favorability strategy is about to take off!"

"Holy crap! They've finished updating the dungeon map all at once! And they even included the surface area?!"

"Holy crap? What's this equipment rental? What kind of monster update is this?!"

"Holy crap? What's this 'delete goblin raising' thing?"

The fully insured semi-trailer truck, after reviewing its update history, exclaimed in surprise, ultimately concluding:

"Is this the new version that's going to take off?"

"I don't know, maybe the game is trying to put pressure on us, so they're giving us a buff. But this update is still quite generous."

"Apart from that rental system, I really don't understand. Did the production team lose their minds and insist on including equipment rentals?"

"Or are all the equipment rentals for rare and unusual items?"

"That's what the hunky guy in the phase commented."

"Isn't it already implemented? Why don't we just go in and take a look?"

As he spoke, the fully insured semi-trailer opened the newly updated equipment rental system.