For humanity, burn the stars.

Noah's Ark continued its smooth journey through the starry sky, and two more days passed quickly.

At this moment, we are not far from the shattered star system 'Felix'.

During this time, Qin Heling also kept spying on the screen, collecting a lot of information from forums and channels.

Fortunately, this place is no different from the game in his past life.

He used to be outside the game, but now he's inside it.

For example, just like in the previous life, the world inside the game has a different time rate than the world outside the game.

This is the time difference flow system, designed to allow players to play more within a fixed time frame.

Let's take resurrection as an example.

If a player dies, Qin Heling will have to retrieve the system copy containing their data and then use active substances to regenerate their original body.

Because of the player's unique characteristics, Qin Heling can completely disregard the development of the clone's brain and set the cloning pod to its fastest speed.

Therefore, if you only care about physical shaping, it only takes a week.

In other words, players' resurrections currently have a one-week cooldown in the game.

If you don't prepare frozen meat in advance, you can only shorten the time if you wait for cloning technology to be upgraded.

However, due to the influence of real-world differential time, players actually only need to wait for a shorter time.

Therefore, the time spent on the road earlier is nothing to the players.

They had only just finished exploring the base during the beginner phase, and there was no indication that they found it too boring and quit the game.

After confirming the speed difference, Qin Heling breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, players won't stand for boredom.

Unfortunately, there wasn't much for the players to do during the voyage.

Fortunately, they will soon enter the Shattered Starfield and head to the planet he has planned for development.

When that time comes, players' energy and curiosity will be fully released, transforming into an addiction to the game.

Qin Heling smiled slightly as he looked at the asteroid belt that appeared during the spacecraft's exploration.

If players are feeling bored, this is the perfect opportunity to give them something to do and let them experience the charm of the starry sky.

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"I'm such a noob," he said, stepping out of the cloning chamber and stroking his chin as he pondered seriously.

Despite using a "noob" nickname, he's actually a pretty good player, and he's very willing to explore the game's mechanics.

For example, having learned from previous conversations that the players were clones, he took the opportunity of maintaining the mission to investigate further.

Of the more than 100 cloning pods, 20 are taking an extremely slow time to develop; they may be the new NPCs of the future.

The remaining 80 cloning pods should be the ones that produced this batch of players, and the numbers match.

But this time, only 65 cloning chambers were in high-speed production.

I found this rather strange.

Is it because the number of closed beta test slots varies each time? Or is it to reserve slots for players who want to revive?

Moreover, aside from the meticulous planning of these incubation chambers, he didn't discover a single clipping or bug during this period.

Realizing how incompetent I am, I quickly posted my guess on the forum.

The realism of this game may go far beyond just its production technology.

In the post, he analyzed what he had seen and proved that the game's logic was very rigorous.

I wonder if the technology aspects will be so rigorous, or if it's just a completely fictional concept?

Other players, though unsure why they should explore this, also started posting about it.

"I agree with the original poster. I've taken on maintenance tasks before, and I felt the number was a bit odd."

"No, are you guys just bored? Instead of spending your time doing more equipment inventory, you'd be lucky to get a hands-on lesson from Miss Adela!"

"I feel that tasks involving producing equipment are the most efficient and easiest way to earn points."

"Holy crap, they finally handed over Fen Jue!"

"I knew it! I never saw those two missions every time I went there! You guys are awful!"

Just as players were discussing it, a new post popped up.

"Come quick to the porthole, the asteroid belt is visible to the naked eye!"

Upon hearing this, the numerous players who were browsing the comments and forums were immediately taken aback.

Those without tasks at hand headed straight for the initial assembly point, looking ahead through the large portholes.

In front of Noah's Ark, a dense asteroid belt had already appeared.

Those lifeless, cold, fragmented asteroids are a symbol of danger in space; millions of fragments could weave together a death zone.

But in the eyes of the players, this proves that they are about to arrive at a new map!

"This is that so-called shattered star field? It's certainly shattered enough."

"Finally, can we start exploring? My greatsword is itching for a fight!"

"I just took a look, and it seems the products for the manufacturing missions are all equipment provided to us after we landed on the planet."

Suddenly, a somewhat out-of-place message appeared in the channel:

"If I were pursued by both a cute, humanoid alien and a gentle, considerate, non-human alien, which one would I choose?"

"...Dude, your XP is a bit too weird. Earth civilization might as well just be destroyed."

As the players were discussing animatedly in the channel, [Gummy Bear] suddenly spoke up, reminding everyone:

"No, I'm saying..."

"Did our spaceship make no attempt to dodge and just crash into the asteroid belt?"

Upon hearing this, players fell silent for a moment, both in the chat channel and in the game.

The next moment, the players practically pressed their eyes against the portholes, all looking ahead.

Indeed, just as he had said, their spaceship was getting closer and closer to the asteroid belt.

It's important to understand that on the scale of outer space, what is visible to the naked eye is already an extremely close distance.

At this distance, it is necessary to start taking evasive action in advance.

If we get any closer, there is a risk that we could be destroyed at any moment.

However, under their watchful eyes, the spaceship drove straight into the dense asteroid belt with almost no deceleration, with debris of varying sizes flying past at high speed.

Meanwhile, the other players who had tasks had finished their work and came to the porthole to watch excitedly.

"Wow, are all asteroids different? That takes a lot of computing power!"

"How could that be? I think it's just a sticker."

However, as if in response to his words, suddenly, a very fast-moving fragment grazed past Noah's Ark.

Because of the close proximity, the spacecraft automatically activated its protective shield, but the cabin still felt a slight tremor due to the orbital shift.

"Holy crap! It's not a sticker!"

"No, no, let's think about whether we can survive first!"

"Why didn't the spaceship even try to dodge?"

As the asteroid grazed past, players who initially thought it was just a cutscene suddenly felt tense.

Seeing this, Qin Heling smiled slightly.

Just then, Qin Heling's voice came over the loudspeaker:

"Fellow countrymen, unfortunately, at this most critical moment, the spacecraft's autopilot has malfunctioned."

"So I will now take control of the spaceship myself. Please remain calm and hold onto your companions for balance."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Heling calmly and proactively turned off the autopilot.

A control lever then rose from beneath the panel and was firmly grasped in his hand.

How could the spaceship's system be so prone to error? He was just saying that on purpose.

On the one hand, players have become somewhat bored with their routines during this period and need some novelty.

On the other hand, it is also to increase the presence of himself as the leader of the faction in the eyes of the players.

Moreover, after waiting for so long, it's not just the players who are getting bored.