I'm just an internet cafe owner

This is a consensus among everyone in the internet cafe to help newcomers. They can provide the greatest possible assistance to newcomers, but when it comes to newcomers' choices, they can only tell them where the pitfalls are. However, once a newcomer has determined their development direction, they will absolutely not interfere.

Rimuru looked at the goblins in front of him, and drawing on his own experience playing the game, a sudden inspiration struck him.

"Excellent! I've decided to continue civilization in this world!!!"

Goblins are intelligent, experience fear, and use tools. Although they look a bit green, Rimuru still finds them quite cute.

You should know that Rimuru's computer in his previous life contained a whole computer full of learning materials, and as a modern person, he only liked one kind of thing: beautiful things.

These goblins look pretty cute, so let's use them as a foundation to develop our civilization.

Rimuru followed the goblins to their village, where the village chief, seeing Rimuru's immense power, made a request.

"Strong one! Please save our village!"

Although Tatsumi is human, he appears too weak to the goblins. This leads them to subconsciously assume that Tatsumi is a human captured by Rimuru.

Rimuru listened to everyone's requests and fell into deep thought: "Veldra's disappearance led to the monster invasion? Wait! Is this my fault? Oh no! It's alright, let me resolve this crisis."

"If I help you, what will I get in return?"

After hesitating for a moment, the goblin village chief knelt down and said, "We will offer our loyalty. Please grant us your protection. We will always be loyal to you."

"what…"

Rimuru collapsed to his knees. He had only intended to help with the work for a small fee, but he hadn't expected the other party to pledge allegiance to his entire race.

But it's all for the best. Rimuru, who has traveled to another world, played Civilization, and learned about the wonders of various games through internet cafes, actually has a bold idea: to build a peaceful and developed country like the one he lived in.

Of course, this is not the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is that I hope to be able to play all kinds of games in this world.

Chapter 423 Farming is fun for a while, farming all the time is even more fun

Rimuru has begun to take action. As the saying goes, farming is fun for a while, and farming all the time is even more fun.

Rimuru also had a bold plan: to use goblins as a base, to unite as many monsters as possible, and then establish a country!

Of course, he didn't establish the country to rule the world or for any other lofty goal.

He had only played Civilization in an internet cafe and wanted to continue playing it in this world. In the internet cafe, everyone treated him as an enemy, but in the real world, Rimuru wanted to try seriously creating a civilized nation.

What does the development of civilization require? Population, of course!

Besides population...

"Oh no! My civilization has never developed, and I have absolutely no idea what I'm capable of!!"

Rimuru is in trouble with the entire slime community. In the game, because he is not human, he is targeted from the start. Generally speaking, he cannot even enter the Classical Civilization, let alone develop technology.

"Waaaaah!"

Tatsumi, seeing Rimuru's sudden dejection, took out a book: "Don't worry, if you want to start from scratch, I have some things here that you might find useful."

Rimuru was stunned when he saw the title of the book.

"Hey?"

The book is titled "Essential Technologies for Civilizational Development" and "Even Slave Societies Can Enjoy Life."

Tatsumi considered that some players might not want to use Red Alert technology and would prefer to develop their own technology in their own world. However, there's just too much to cover in Civilization. As a player, simply specifying a strategy and tech tree makes it difficult to remember the principles behind each technology unless you've specifically saved your progress.

However, Tatsumi made a note of it. During the game, he deliberately slowed down the game speed and recorded all the technologies that could be obtained in the early stages.

"Whether it's the magical world or the technological world, I think these most basic things are very important to us."

"Thank you so much, I've been..."

Rimuru wanted to thank Tatsumi properly, but Tatsumi refused: "I'm not helping you for any reward. I'm just making a super basic guide for beginners. If you come up with any good ideas or discover anything useful during your civilization's development, just post them on the forum. Many worlds are currently focused on advancing their technology."

"no problem!"

Rimuru stared at the two books, each larger than himself, feeling his head buzzing. Just as he was about to start reading, his system, the Great Sage, spoke up.

"Learnable knowledge detected, record to complete."

Wow! You're so reliable.

"Humph~"

"...?"

Rimuru paused, wondering what was wrong with his Great Sage? He actually found the sound cute? Had he been single for too long?

Regarding this idea

Rimuru shook his head, convinced it was just his imagination.

While pondering how to build infrastructure, Rimuru decided to help the goblins defeat their enemies.

The enemy was not powerful, just the Fang Wolf Clan. Rimuru simply killed their leader, then devoured him and transformed into his appearance, and thus gained the Fang Wolf Clan's allegiance.

After that, he even learned how to name things. Naming is easy to understand: monsters with names will increase in level, and may even change from inhuman appearances to human bodies and appearances. Of course, some monsters won't change much in appearance after being named, but other aspects may undergo significant changes.

How should I put it? Rimuru felt that this process went very smoothly, so smoothly that it was even simpler than a game.

"Where did something go wrong?"

Rimuru was thinking that the process of subduing the Fang Wolf Clan had gone a little too smoothly, and even the entire race had changed after being named.

The monsters believed in the law of the jungle. Rimuru was strong enough that the named Stormfang Wolf clan submitted to him and obeyed his orders, beginning the construction of the basic infrastructure.

"Let me see how a city should carry out infrastructure development..."

Because I never developed anything while playing Civilization, I knew he had no city planning whatsoever. Although I had some impression of my own world and game experience in my head, directly applying that experience could easily lead to disaster.

Just as he was pondering this, the Great Sage System suddenly shared some data with Rimuru.

"Huh? What's this? A guide to Cities: Skylines on Realistic Difficulty? Great Sage, you're amazing!"

"Humph~"

"?"

Rimuru wondered if it was just his imagination, but ever since Tatsumi left, his system seemed to be acting more and more strangely.

What is this? A haughty, arrogant expression?

However, Rimuru forgot one thing: the Great Sage could "hear" some of his thoughts.

The Great Sage said nothing, only giving him notifications when Rimuru or himself acquired a skill.

However, with so many skills available now, and the occasional strange occurrences while playing the game, Rimuru has completely ignored many of the Great Sage's hints about acquiring skills.

"Huh? Let me see, 'To get rich, build roads first,' hey? This is also a strategy guide made by Tatsumi-senpai?"

Rimuru looked at the names on the guide and his face lit up with admiration. He had played Cities: Skylines before, but that was all. This guide from Kotatsumi was a genuine tutorial on how to modernize a city.

"Let me see, 'To get rich, build roads first'... Building roads and sewers at the same time? Huh? There's actually a way to treat sewage in reality?"

Rimuru was astonished. The entire guide was so detailed that as long as he was willing to use his brain, he could build any city. He even wrote a "deus ex machina" version of pollution control and a normal development version.

Deus Ex is simply purchasing wastewater treatment equipment directly from the machine, as well as the normal development version and the version that uses internet cafe resources for development.

Regardless of the version, Tatsumi's strategy guide recommends prioritizing infrastructure development when resources are plentiful. Also, avoid overly complex underground pipelines, as they will be difficult to maintain in the future.

Looking at these guides, Rimuru's eyes gleamed, and he felt a surge of energy throughout his slime: "Let me see which one works best... I've decided, I'll use the internet cafe version!"

As soon as Rimuru finished speaking, the Great Sage instantly displayed relevant information about city construction.

Everyday water is easy to handle, but dealing with waterless contaminants is simple and brutal. See the buckets and lava in Minecraft? Use water from the buckets in Minecraft to flush contaminants into the lava. If it contains water, it will turn into stone. Once stoned, it will be completely absorbed by the sticky piston, and finally, TNT will explode, followed by lava to destroy it. If there's no water, simply let it flow directly into the lava for complete destruction—truly a unique solution.

“This method is really… amazing.”

Rimuru jumped up excitedly. The water propulsion method in the Minecraft world seemed unscientific, but it was very practical and also brought the joy of hands-on participation.

Chapter 424 The Great Sage is communicating with the Internet Cafe System~

Inside the internet cafe, Rimuru continued playing Civilization.

"Why did this happen? Waaaaaah!!!"

Once again, Rimuru, being a monster, was beaten to death by several surrounding countries.

"Damn it!!"

Rimuru was now filled with murderous intent. After all, it was just a game, and even the real-world mode was just game data. Besides, his own civilization had been wiped out no less than fifty times!

Rimuru had tried fifty times, initially thinking, "Let's give it a try, what if it works?" But today he raised a question to Liu Yuan.

"Boss, why do the NPCs in the game always attack me? Shouldn't communication be considered in the real mode?"

Liu Yuan only had one sentence in response to Rimuru's reply.

"You're dreaming. I'll just ask you one question: In ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, if they saw a powerful country, they didn't even need to think of a reason; they could just use 'those who are not of our race are sure to have different hearts' as the reason to start a war. Would they have fought?"

At that moment, Rimuru realized something. In a game, he wouldn't have been beaten up like this, but in real mode, the characters simulated real life, and he was facing all sorts of powerful figures who wouldn't hesitate to wage war.

again

I said that if I were in their shoes, I might do the same thing.

Since that's the case, then let's kill them. Let's slaughter them until the blood flows like a river.

Rimuru started the game again, this time with a total of twelve civilizations. Rimuru directly used a dimensional reduction attack, deploying his strongest form and killing everyone in all the countries.

Because it was during a game, and the Great Sage was also playing a game at the same time, the data statistics were not synchronized.

"One thousand humans have been killed."

"Ten thousand humans have been killed."

"100,000 humans have been killed."

...

By the end of the day, the Great Sage's automatic mode had recorded over a hundred thousand humans. Adding the various lives killed by the Great Sage himself, Rimuru and the Great Sage combined had killed nearly several hundred million lives.

That's right, the Great Sage has already killed hundreds of millions of people.

Recently, the Great Sage has been playing Red Alert, occasionally engaging in battles with others. A single battle can result in losses ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands. When in a good mood, he might launch a few nuclear bombs at his own base for fun; when in a bad mood, he might launch a few superweapons at other countries.

It's just a game, so there's absolutely nothing to worry about. Besides, the Great Sage has confirmed that kill counts in the real-world mode of internet cafe games are valid in Rimuru's world.

The Great Sage had always locked the kill count to prevent Rimuru from becoming too terrifying in an instant. However, this time, he was playing a game, while Rimuru's mentality collapsed, triggering the Fourth Calamity's Descent mode.

As a shut-in, Rimuru had played a lot of Paradox Interactive games in his previous life. Normally, the number of kills in those games wouldn't be significant, but the games played in internet cafes were like a bug in the world Rimuru now lived in.

After all, what internet cafes tell that world is: "The game is in real mode, so just take the skills and items seriously."