Minecraft players are invading the worlds.

Surrounding her were dozens of new players dressed in various styles and sporting all sorts of bizarre IDs.

Some of these people were holding blueprints and gesturing, while others were pointing at the rough-hewn buildings around them.

The moment Xu Tian appeared at the door, the previously noisy hall fell silent for a second.

Immediately afterwards, someone in the crowd, with sharp eyes, noticed Xu Tian's face and the top-quality enchanted equipment he was wearing. They immediately shouted at the top of their lungs in an excited tone.

"Holy crap, it's Aibo, the live Aibo is here."

"It really is Aibo, oh my god, I finally met the big shot in person."

"Love broadcasting, love broadcasting, look here, I'm a ten-year fan of your live stream."

Chapter 222 Completed

Upon hearing this, Xu Tian was taken aback. As a ten-year veteran fan, it was questionable whether the game would even last a month.

Dozens of architecture players, who had just entered the game and were finding everything incredibly novel, immediately abandoned their investigation of the surrounding environment and swarmed over, surrounding Xu Tian completely.

Clara, squeezed to the periphery of the crowd, watched this scene with deep confusion and bewilderment in her eyes.

She tilted her head, gently tapping her delicate chin with one hand, and muttered to herself.

"Aibo? What a strange name! Is it an ancient title representing supreme glory? Or some kind of mysterious honorific?"

"Why do these newly arrived masters all seem to like calling all the people of the world 'Aibo'? The culture of strangers is truly profound..."

Clara, of course, couldn't possibly know any of this.

Faced with this group of players who were being overly enthusiastic, Xu Tian helplessly reached out and gestured for everyone to be quiet.

"Alright, alright, brothers, welcome to this world full of endless possibilities."

Xu Tian glanced around at everyone and calmly and steadily got to the point.

"When we recruited everyone on Douyin before, you all had a pretty good understanding of the situation. Now, you should have all carefully read the details and specific requirements of the epic city-building mission that was just released, right?"

Upon hearing that serious matters were being discussed, these professional gamers immediately dropped their playful smiles and became serious.

Among the crowd, a burly player with a very down-to-earth ID on his head, 【AAA House Cat Bro】, stepped out from the crowd.

He patted his broad chest and solemnly assured Xu Tian.

"Aibo, don't worry, we've already studied the task requirements repeatedly, and there's absolutely no difficulty in it."

Cat Brother pulled out a sketch from his backpack, which he didn't know where he got it from, and started gesturing as he spoke.

"This kind of comprehensive urban planning that combines residential areas, commercial areas and defense lines is a piece of cake in the eyes of us civil engineering veterans and design institute experts."

"As long as you can provide us with enough manpower to collect blocks and guarantee logistics, we dare to pledge that we will present this City of Hope to you perfectly within three months."

When Cat Bro said this, his face was filled with strong confidence, and the other building players around him nodded in agreement, saying that a three-month construction period was already considered an extremely compressed Chinese speed for a city of this size.

However, upon hearing the three-month timeframe, Xu Tian's brows furrowed slightly, almost imperceptibly.

He quickly began to calculate in his mind.

"Three months? For real-world engineering or ordinary construction games, building a city from scratch in three months is indeed a miraculous efficiency."

"However, these newcomers have clearly not fully adapted to the crazy pace of this world yet."

Xu Tian shook his head inwardly.

"They have no idea how terrifyingly fast these combat-oriented players, who are already bloodthirsty, are developing. With the continuous intervention of various technology modules and magic modules, their productivity and destructive power are skyrocketing every day."

Xu Tian had no doubt that if the main city were allowed to be built slowly for three months, it would be a disaster.

By the time the city is completed, those warmongers on the front lines will probably have already breached all the strongholds on the edge of the map.

At that time, this painstakingly built main city will be reduced to a large, decorative figurine with no strategic value.

Seeing Xu Tian remain silent and seemingly dissatisfied, [AAA House Cat Bro] immediately became anxious.

He quickly stepped forward, trying to explain.

“Aibo, this construction schedule is really not slow. You have to understand, this is a fully functional main city that can accommodate hundreds or even thousands of people. Just the underground drainage system, the laying of power lines, and the blast resistance testing of those defensive walls will take a lot of time…”

Xu Tian raised his hand, interrupting Cat Brother's words.

“You misunderstood. It’s not that I think three months is too slow. On the contrary, I’m afraid that after three months, this city will not be able to meet our expansion needs at all.”

Xu Tian looked intently at the group of professional architects and planners before him, and solemnly stated his true requirements.

"You can go ahead and plan and do it yourselves, no problem. But I have only one core, hard requirement."

"When designing the basic framework and blueprints of this main city, you absolutely cannot design it as a rigid, closed-loop city with fixed boundaries."

"You must make it into an open, modular main city that is like cell division, capable of infinite expansion and seamless growth based on future situations."

Xu Tian pointed to the ground beneath his feet.

"You must understand that this will be the core city where we conquer the world and face countless alien races. In the future, there will not only be a few hundred people here, but possibly tens of thousands, millions, and even all kinds of huge war vehicles will rise up here."

"If you set the framework rigidly from the beginning, you will have to tear it down and start over if you want to expand it later, and that is the most fatal mistake."

Upon hearing Xu Tian's insightful remarks, the building enthusiasts, who had initially been quite smug, were all stunned.

Following Xu Tian's train of thought, and considering the game's absurd degree of freedom and unknown module limits, they suddenly realized the truth.

"Yeah, this isn't your average farming game."

"Got it, we totally get it, brothers. We have to overturn the conservative plan we just came up with and redesign a super blueprint that can devour the entire continent."

Seeing this group of architecture enthusiasts fall into an even more heated discussion, and even start drawing new topological diagrams on the ground with sticks, Xu Tian nodded in satisfaction.

"Alright, three months it is. Slow and steady wins the race. As long as the framework is right, you can do whatever you want. If you need any materials, the whole server will do it for you."

The group nodded haphazardly, completely absorbed in the fervor of conceiving a grand plan. While discussing it intensely, they marched in a large, imposing manner toward the vast open space outside their territory, preparing to begin on-site surveying.

Watching their departing figures, Xu Tian turned his head and looked at Clara, who had been standing quietly to the side waiting for orders.

Clara.

Xu Tian called out.

"Yes, sir."

Clara immediately bowed respectfully.

"Go and make arrangements right now. The courses for the humans that I previously arranged to attend in classrooms will be temporarily suspended."

Chapter 223 The Nation's One Shot Changes Hands

Xu Tian issued instructions methodically.

"Organize all the able-bodied young men and women and have them assist the group of planners, follow their instructions, and do the work of collecting blocks and building houses."

Xu Tian paused, his tone becoming more resolute.

“Tell them that this is building a home that belongs to them, a home that can forever protect them from being bullied by other races, and that they will no longer have to travel back and forth between the two places.”

Upon hearing Xu Tian's words, Clara's beautiful eyes flashed with an undisguised look of excitement and gratitude.

"Yes, kind sir, I will go and mobilize all my compatriots. Everyone will do their best to build the City of Hope."

Clara bowed deeply and quickly ran towards the area where the NPCs lived.

Watching Clara's departing figure, Xu Tian secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, Clara is very smart and sensible. With her acting as a lubricant, she facilitated the communication between the players and the human NPCs, saving me a lot of trouble and management work."

The city's construction was on track. Xu Tian shook his head, putting aside these tedious thoughts, and turned to walk towards his territory.

I'm going to research how to deal with the goat-man boss we might encounter next.

Meanwhile, on the other side, at the edge of the central base, there was a flat open space that the players had specially cleared out for sparring and testing damage.

In the center of this open space, Qingchen was holding a long spear that was flashing with fire, practicing with his eyes closed as if no one else was around.

"Whoosh!"

Each thrust, each sweep, contained a strange rhythm, as if it had merged with the surrounding wind.

Just as Lu Chen finished a sharp counterattack and was about to stop and adjust his breathing,

His keen intuition suddenly made him pause slightly.

He felt a sense of oppression looming over him from the shadows of the nearby woods.

Lu Chen immediately stopped what he was doing, slowly turned around, and looked in the direction of that feeling.

A figure emerged slowly from the shadows of the woods.

That was a new player with the simple ID "Dawn" above his head.

When Lu Chen saw the person's attire clearly, his eye twitched slightly.

The equipment worn by this player named Dawn was simply appalling.

He wore a tattered leather hat with almost no durability left and cracks all over its surface, and a rough linen garment with no defensive attributes was haphazardly thrown over his body.

Even more outrageous, the weapon he was holding upside down was actually an ordinary spear.

There wasn't a single piece of enchanted equipment on his body that shone, not even a single basic affix.

"Which newbie is this, just starting out in the game?"

Lu Chen was secretly puzzled.

Just then, a soft "ding" sounded, and an application popped up on the virtual system interface in front of Lu Chen.

The player named Dawn actually sent him a private message.

[Dawn: Kid, you're practicing really hard, and your movements are pretty good too. Want to spar with me?]

Upon seeing this highly provocative message, and looking at the other party's trashy equipment that could easily send them flying with a single touch, Lu Chen not only wasn't angry, but actually found it somewhat amusing.

He had seen far too many newbies who were so arrogant and thought they could challenge veteran players as soon as they entered the game.

However, since he was idle anyway, Lu Chen didn't mind teaching this newcomer a lesson and letting him know what the wickedness of society was like.

Lu Chen casually replied with a message.

[Qingchen: Okay, but seeing how bad your equipment is, without even a single stat bonus, to be fair, I won't use any of that equipment when we fight later. We'll just rely on pure marksmanship.]