Chapter 1297: Hotter than Expected

When the news reached Jiang Chen, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

Also puzzled by how the players in the Chinese region managed to build a Seagull-class within twelve hours of opening the server, Jiang Chen found Lilith, who was lying on the sofa secretly observing every player, and asked her about herself Confused.

Lilith quickly answered Jiang Chen's question.

"The player who built the first Seagull-class starship is the president of an online game club called 'For Honor'. This club has been focusing on future technology games since its establishment four years ago. Its core members are about two years old. There are more than a hundred people, and there are more than a thousand peripheral members. This club has been active since the earliest 'New Era' mobile game, and it has grown to this day and even has its own homepage and forum."

After hearing what Lilith said, Jiang Chen immediately understood.

This situation is also very common in other games, that is, at the beginning of the game, everyone's funds are concentrated on a few core members, and they quickly break out of the "Novice Village" and win the top few in the entire server. After the legion is established, they can Go back and help those younger brothers who have contributed resources.

In an online game like Galaxy's Edge that emphasizes economy and resources, the benefits of owning a transport ship in the early stages are undoubtedly huge.

At this moment, no player has switched careers to become a pirate. By traveling twice between several cities in the Earth Federation, it is easy to quickly accumulate a sum of initial funds and snowball the advantage.

Although this kind of gameplay disrupts the balance of the game, it is within the allowable range of the game rules, so the operations team did not interfere.

"Actually, I thought it was your ship at first." Jiang Chen, who already understood what was going on, joked while looking at Lilith lying on the sofa.

"Participating in the game since it first started operating will affect the balance too much. I'll go in and take a look after half a year. Now I'm mainly attacking the god-level continent." Lilith, wearing a helmet, said expressionlessly.

Rather than becoming number one in the game or achieving certain achievements, she pays more attention to the fun of the game itself, especially the "fun" of participating in human social activities. After all, worldly interests and honors have no meaning to advanced artificial intelligence.

To put it simply, her gaming attitude is more towards casual players.

It's just a more powerful one.

…

As of the morning of June 2, according to data investigated by the Operations Department.

On several well-known virtual product trading platforms around the world, the exchange rate between credit points and the Singapore dollar, the currency used by Galaxy Edge, has almost reached a sky-high price of 50:1, and is often still priceless.

Obviously, the tycoons and major professional gamer clubs around the world were stimulated by the miracle of a certain Chinese player taking the first Seagull-class starship in twelve hours, and they all spent their money on the game and tried their best to win the game. He finally managed to build the first 500,000-ton ship.

In terms of players, the statistics compiled by the Operations Department were much higher than Xia Shiyu's prediction, with the global average number of daily online users stabilizing at over 150 million.

The reason why such a situation occurs, according to the analysis of the operations team, may be related to the fact that the development of space resources happens to be a hot spot of global attention recently.

Leaving the edge of the galaxy to Lilith to keep an eye on, Jiang Chen quickly returned the focus of his work to the star ring trade.

Just two days ago, a ship loaded with arms departed from Anga Island and headed to Madagascar in southern Africa.

Since the fall of the Rothschilds, Madagascar's political situation has been under the control of the Star Circle Trade.

In the military base that Star Ring Trading seized from Arrowhead Company, there are now more than 10,000 mercenaries of different skin colors gathered. These people are all personnel outside the Star Ring Trading establishment. They can also be said to be the overseas reserves of Star Ring Trading.

As the regional influence of Star Ring Trade gradually expands, and after last year’s Dnieper River Offensive in Ukraine, Star Ring Trade can no longer use the name private military contractor as a cover for diplomatic immunity as before.

Everyone is not stupid. Now the international community has generally regarded the Star Ring Trade as the army of the new country. Under such circumstances, if Starlink Trading wants to wear an exoskeleton openly and airborne from synchronous orbit to the territory of another country, it will have to withstand diplomatic and public pressure from the international community.

Therefore, these non-staff personnel, who were originally regarded as reserves and maintained in overseas military bases, once again have a place to use.

Most of these mercenaries are usually black uncles from Africa, and a small number of white people from Madagascar or South Africa. For those living on and off the poverty line, the nationality of the new country and the official establishment of the Star Ring Trade are what they dream of.

For these two things, they would even risk their lives.

Although they do not have the protection of an exoskeleton and the excellent performance of the Ripper rifle, the E-class genetic medicine has brought them considerable advantages. The future military industry has also specially designed some low-recognition but quite practical high-tech equipment for them to enhance their combat effectiveness and battlefield survivability.

The size of this force is less than 20,000, and it usually appears in hot spots around the world, performing some dirty work for the Star Ring trade that is inconvenient for the regular army.

For example, their next stop is Syria.

As an exchange of interests between Starlink Trade and Russia on the South American issue, they do not need to abide by international law and the spirit of humanitarianism. They will use the simplest and most straightforward method to eliminate extreme terrorist organizations and less extreme opposition groups. Lose.

If you are unlucky, you may even have a fight with the Turkish army.

Of course, the bad luck mentioned here refers to the Turks.

In the study room of the villa.

After gently knocking on the door, Ayesha walked to Jiang Chen's desk.

"Nayef asked us when we were going to start taking action. He was already ready. A railway in northern Saudi Arabia can help us transport people and equipment from the Red Sea coast to the Jordanian border. After entering eastern Jordan, there will be a An arms dealer familiar with the local situation guided us through no man's land to southern Syria."

Putting down the document on the Mars colony development report in his hand, Jiang Chen looked at Aisha who was standing in front of the desk, thought for a moment and then spoke.

"Tell him not to worry. Our people have already assembled in Madagascar. When the U.S. election enters the final stage, our people will board the ship and head to the Red Sea. When the U.S. election is over and the old and new governments begin the transfer of power, we have already moved Syria All the troubles are solved.”

Among all the options, this is the one Jiang Chen can think of that has the least impact on the situation.

If Kennedy Jr. is finally elected, the United States is willing to repair relations with the new country and join the Earth Defense Alliance unconditionally. He is also willing to put aside the prejudices of the past and set his sights on the longer-term future.

At that time, in order to minimize the differences between the two countries on international affairs, the best way is to remove all the issues that are most likely to cause differences between the two countries before Mr. Kennedy Jr. completes the handover of power with the previous term. solve……