Introductions

The others fell silent upon seeing the strange creature.

"What the hell are you?"

Guan Ziyang voiced what everyone was thinking. He sat up, staring in shock at the strange creature.

"While supernatural powers can alter one's appearance," he said, his tone filled with disbelief, "This guy's skin is just too damn ridiculous! Why the hell don't you turn into Bald Qiang (a popular cartoon character known for his bald head)?"

Dora ignored him.

It looked around, its eyes empty and blank, then spoke to itself:

Where are we going?

Its voice was perfectly normal, a normal female voice, with a normal tone.

But paired with that eerie face, it looks even more incongruous.

Have you seen my monkey?

The entire room fell silent.

"It's hard to look at her without feeling stressed," one young man remarked. "Her mental state is just too beautiful."

He sat down without giving Dora another glance.

At this moment, besides Dora, there was another strange-looking fellow on the field, but everyone, including the blind Dora, took their seats.

It seems the Survivor interaction method this time is similar to the last one, still a roundtable discussion.

Ten people sat in a circle around the stone table. After a few seconds of silence, Su Luo tapped the table:

"Now that everyone's here, let's introduce ourselves. I'll go first, Zone 76, the Scholar..."

The young man sitting next to him readily agreed and began to introduce himself:

"Zone 42384, Qing Yunnan, [Mirror Sovereign]..."

As soon as the name was uttered, everyone around him turned to look at him.

This guy was the first Survivor to speak in the World Channel, and also one of the first Survivors to Class Change.

"Zone 76, Han Song." Han Song's voice was somewhat tense, "[Heavenly Fortune Bearer]."

"..."

"... Naiden Beiximo, [The Daoist Many-Spells]."

This was a red-haired American, Su Luo glanced at him a couple more times because of his profession.

Daoist Many-Spells... What a strange name. It doesn't suit her at all.

But a profession isn't determined by one's name.

Of the remaining two, one was shrouded in Mist, and the graceful female body could be vaguely seen within.

"Just call me 'Mist'." Her voice came from within the mist, light and ethereal, as if from a great distance. "No region, no profession."

A very shy man kept moving his mouth...

Hmm? Something's not right.

Su Luo activated his Enhanced Perception, and then he discovered that he couldn't see through the person's mouth at all.

There was a Chaos mass there, something deeper, that kept all prying eyes out.

All right.

This is also an old acquaintance.

[Food].

However, His appearance had completely changed, and Su Luo did not recognize Him at first glance.

[Food] Chao Su Luo smiled slightly, showing no sign of anything unusual.

Finally, it was Dora's turn.

All eyes were on it.

Dora looked back blankly, then spoke in a strange tone:

Everyone say together: Backpack!

"Okay." Qing Yunnan withdrew his gaze expressionlessly. "That concludes the self-introduction session."

"This District War is somewhat similar to the last one—we can't directly engage in combat. The focus of the competition will definitely be on [Civilization Development], and it won't have much to do with our own real-time combat strength."

He paused.

What are your thoughts?

Han Song glanced at Su Luo but didn't say anything. His attitude was clear: he was blindly following Consultant Su.

Kundina Orlando leaned back in her chair, hands clasped, and said calmly, "I don't know much about the Civilization Development. If there's someone knowledgeable, I can help."

Yashan sat Jingjing, showing no intention of speaking.

Guan Ziyang shrugged. "Me too. I'm alright at fighting, but farming is out of the question."

Redhead Naden Beiximo raised his hand. "I've played games, you know, the ones where you make canned goods and boil glass, I can do those."

[Food] Continues chewing, without making a comment.

Dora was lost in thought.

Su Luo glanced around and nodded.

"Then let's look at the rules first," he said. "Thirty minutes of preparation time is enough for us to figure out exactly how this [Civilization Development] works."

"By the way, everyone who's been watching the World Channel should know about the last District War. My style has always been: cooperation and mutual benefit."

After speaking, Su Luo reopened the temporary panel and opened the Civilization Achievement Tree.

Once the tree spread out, it densely covered the entire field of vision.

From the primitive era to the interstellar era and then to the Mist, from tribes to federations, from Tinder to space travel, each stage has countless branches, countless nodes, and countless achievements to unlock.

Su Luo looked at it for a while and felt it was quite useful. She compared it with her own technical achievements.

"Steam, Industrialization, Electrification, Informatization..."

Choosing the technology-related achievement tree, Su Luo discovered that although the technology she possessed could span from the primitive era to the interstellar era, it was still particularly delicate, weak, and simplistic.

If we also consider the technologies we possess but haven't yet mastered, it is indeed more robust, and the branches and upper limits of interstellar civilization have been significantly enhanced.

"I still haven't learned enough..."

Su Luo looked at the dazzling and complex achievement tree and recorded the achievements and technology development branches that she could view.

It's a recurring issue: the Civilization Development and technological breakthroughs can go astray, and people in the process of civilization and development often fail to realize that they've strayed from the right path.

If it continues to deviate, its technology may stagnate or even become extinct at some future stage of civilization.

Therefore, the technology tree provided by this temporary panel is invaluable, and Su Luo naturally studied it word by word.

After looking at the completed tree, Su Luo looked up and saw that everyone had their own things to do, familiarizing themselves with the rules and adjusting their Sanctuary. So she also left the round table and went to her own area to start setting up.

Su Luo's area was empty, while the other people's areas had Sanctuary set up.

It's currently unknown what role the Sanctuary play in this District War, as Survivors have no need for combat.

First is the Mana Pool.

At the core of the auxiliary Mana Pool is a complex device the size of a head, surrounded by intricate Spell runes. Placing the crystal on the ground activates the runes, and the crystal begins to slowly rotate, radiating a faint blue halo outwards.

There was no Mana in the surrounding environment, Yuncang Civilization had not yet built a small nuclear fusion device, so he switched to Solar Mode.

The patterns on the surface of the Mana Pool began to change shape, transforming from an absorptive type to a harvesting type. A faint energy field Diffusion out from the pool, attempting to capture the surrounding light.

But those rays of light passed through the energy field without leaving anything behind.

It cannot absorb light energy.