Raising Humanity
Chapter 38

These Players Really Plan to Overthrow Me!

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Xu Zhi was still looking forward to it.

Actually, the emergence of the Evil Eye had brought so many surprises. He hoped that more extraordinary species like it would appear. After all, there were quite a few talented people online.

After all, it was impossible for him alone to evolve countless species and create a world. That was too complex and required endless wisdom. He could only borrow the talents of others to help him create a complete sandbox world.

The Second Beta Test had actually already begun.

Just before Xu Zhi had breakfast and saw off the Three Witches, a group of fifty new internal testers who had passed the screening had already entered the sandbox and begun their pitch-black evolutionary lives.

And the other old players had also entered the sandbox.

"Damn, the content of the Second Beta Test is much richer! There's even opening music."

"Yeah, it's much more abundant now. It even has opening music right from the start. It's Beethoven's Symphony of Fate. Does this symbolize the bumpy road of our evolution as spores?"

The old players discussed among themselves, also hearing the music that resounded nearby as the Three Witches were seen off in their little sandbox.

The new players had obviously studied through cramming. The server opened at five in the morning, and they had entered the game. Now, four hours later, they had already evolved eyes and were marveling at the species-rich ocean, looking around everywhere.

"This is virtual reality! Complete physical sensation! It's a real second world!"

"Hahaha, I feel like I'm covered in the scent of RMB! Every word I say, every evolution, and even the environment I touch, uses 600,000 yuan worth of computing resources to instantly calculate a real second world for me!"

A bunch of silly players.

They hadn't spent a single cent. This was his yard, okay?

Did they really think it was a virtual game world?

Xu Zhi silently sat in the yard, eating an apple, crossing his legs, and looking at the sandbox in the distance, looking like a feudal landlord supervising his workers. "All of you, get moving! Create all kinds of species for me."

A group of ant-evolved creatures also noticed Xu Zhi, the supervisor, and couldn't help but secretly observe and whisper, "Holy crap! We finally saw the legendary giant with our own eyes. He's really huge."

"He's eating an apple again. Isn't that some kind of hidden plot? I'm going to join in the fun. I might be able to change my job to a hidden evolution Spore profession."

"Don't. The old players have all gone there. They basically get trampled to death. Besides, this game is too free. There are many things we haven't discovered yet. It's very mysterious."

The Second Beta Test had begun, and the first batch of internal testers were also under intense pressure.

Now, a spot was so precious. According to the industry bigshots, they basically all understood that one player was worth 600,000 yuan, comparable to the data computing volume of half a large online game. This sandbox game world could only run by burning a large amount of RMB every moment.

Chen Wenshan, as the leading big brother and the most senior hardcore player, the well-known star player in the forum—Mount Akina Speed, naturally wouldn't relax either.

He was now frantically studying Evolutionary Cytology, Origin of Species, Biological Molecular Structure, The Rational Structure of Biological Skeletal Mechanics, and The Evolutionary History of Neurotoxins. His dormitory was already filled with more than a dozen thick professional books from home and abroad.

Being able to attend a famous university in Kyoto, he was also a reading genius who scored 656 points in the college entrance examination. Now, he was just addicted to the game. At this time, he had taken out the energy he had back then for the college entrance examination.

"This time, the evolution must first take the arthropod route, eat plankton, and evolve bones!"

"Then, switch to a vegetarian route, evolve an abdominal cavity structure, then degenerate the exoskeleton, eliminate this transitional equipment, evolve into a vertebrate, then climb onto land, walk into the swamp, and take the neurotoxin route. At this time, in order to evolve a venom sac, I should start preying on swamp frogs..."

He planned it step by step. These days, his hair had thinned a lot, vaguely resembling Xu Zhi's sparse hairstyle back then. He had drawn densely packed diagrams on more than a dozen pages of books.

Different environments, different foods, and evolving different biological organ structures first would cause different evolutionary directions. This was like a huge evolutionary branch tree, as dense as stars.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that this was the most profound subject in the world, and it would be difficult to exhaust its possibilities even after a lifetime of research.

In the end, Chen Wenshan formulated a plan, with more than a dozen pages of evolutionary process papers: "After planning for so long, it's time to implement my Funeral Chicken Plan to poison the BOSS!"

That's right, he was going to do something that would shock the entire game sandbox on the first day of the Second Beta Test!

The official planner had released a new achievement system to evolve species with extraordinary potential.

And what was the limit for extraordinary potential? Unknown.

If his evolved species could poison the BOSS, he would definitely be the first to get that achievement system! This was the safest way to get it!

Of course, he wouldn't joke around like he did at the beginning and evolve a shit-like species, because it wouldn't look appetizing at all. He wanted to evolve a species that looked delicious and had a strong poison.

That's right, he wanted to become the first player to get an achievement in the Spore Evolution game!

And the huge mysterious reward mentioned in the achievement, with the conscience of this game, where a single player's spot had 600,000 data computing resources, this reward would definitely be unbelievably good!!

He entered the game.

"Please evolve your eyes!"

He had already entered the restart stage and was a new Spore, just for this moment.

It was five in the morning when the Second Beta Test server reopened. While the new players were still exploring, he restarted the game. Now, ten hours had passed, and it was already past three in the afternoon.

"Finally succeeded, although there are still some flaws..."

Chen Wenshan was incredibly excited. As a hardcore player, he had spent ten hours grinding! His current species appearance was that of a delicious-looking, fiery red rooster. As the king, he controlled a small rooster population.

"It's time to show those new Second Beta Test players the awesomeness of us First Beta Test veterans. I'm going to perform a poisoning of the yard's giant boss for the newbies!" Chen Wenshan revealed a mischievous smile.

That's right, after preparing for so long, he was about to make waves, to do something earth-shattering! So, he posted on the forum and started a live stream.

[Spore EvolutionSecond Beta Test Day 1, Mount Akina Speed, Decided to Show New Players a Fireworks Display, Taking Down the Giant Boss Eating Apples in the Yard Online!]

As soon as this post came out, the entire forum exploded.

Everyone knew that the fastest progress of those First Beta Test players was still just some clumsy, deformed creatures, constantly being eliminated by natural selection.

Recharge and Chop Hands: "Bro, your evolutionary theory is so smooth! Are you about to win a Nobel Prize? You've already evolved a terrifyingly powerful species and started fighting bosses?"

Little Brain Tiger Goes Down the Mountain: "Newbie just started evolving eyes and is still reading the basic evolutionary book Origin of Species recommended by you bigshots on the forum, can't help but tremble."

Everyone was in disbelief!

They knew how huge that giant was from the game videos.

Currently, all the players' evolutionary techniques were immature, resulting in deformed species. The largest creature evolved was the size of a beetle, not even reaching his foot. The other creatures were basically the size of ants. How could they possibly challenge the boss?

But some of the internal testers instantly reacted.

My Hunyuan Thunderbolt Hand, About to Evolve into a Kun: "Bro, are you serious about the joke you made before? Putting poop in the ten-thousand-foot giant boss's food, and poison in the poop? (Wry smile)"

Cute Girl Wants to Evolve into a Dragon, Endorsing Legendary Web Games: "Holy crap! Holy crap! Oh my god! Is Mount Akina Bro really planning to poison him? Has he evolved a neurotoxic species? And called it Funeral Chicken? (Wry smile)"

What plan? Poop in the food? Poison in the poop? It sounded extremely vicious!

On the forum, a group of various uninformed netizens inquired and couldn't help but marvel, giving a thumbs up and praising the game's freedom as truly terrifying, completely simulating reality. They had actually thought of fancy ways to evolve neurotoxic species and start poisoning the boss.

Mount Akina Speed: "I hope everyone can cooperate with me. Are there any martyrs willing to control their own species to try out the strength of my toxin? Of course, it would be best if the 'king' of the species personally tried it, adjusted to 100% haptic feedback, and described the feeling of being poisoned to death."

Countless people just responded with "Hehe."

No one was willing to use the king of their species to test the poison, and adjust it to 100% haptic feedback. Wouldn't that be extremely painful? But some people still controlled their species, some of their Spores, to help test it. The toxicity was indeed earth-shattering, killing a large number of them instantly.

Then, because their species population was too small, they quickly went extinct, being eliminated by the survival of the fittest.

They couldn't help but cry and wail.

Mount Akina Speed: "Hahaha, brother, your sacrifice was glorious. My toxin is very useful! Then let's start the next step of the plan. It's already past four o'clock. According to my usual secret observations of this boss's daily routine, he's about to eat his lunch box at five o'clock. Brothers, please help transport me to that giant bench in the yard. I'll secretly jump into his lunch box, sacrifice myself for justice, cut my flesh to feed the eagles, and poison him to death!"

A group of onlookers, various idlers, immediately shouted "Bigshot 666."

"We'll help!"

"Second Beta Test Day 1, watch bigshot self-destruct and poison the giant boss!"

Then a group of players also excitedly formed an "ant moving house" formation, sprinting towards the edge of the chair, starting to prepare to do something big on the first day of the Second Beta Test, poisoning the apple-eating BOSS.

Xu Zhi: "??????"

Of course, he also browsed the game forum, wanting to see the feedback from the players on the first day of the Second Beta Test. Who knew he would just happen to see a post from a certain stubborn, silly player.

And now, he was sitting at the entrance of the yard's chair, munching on an apple, watching in the sandbox in front of him as a group of strange ant species hid in the miniature forest, huddled together, secretly observing him, and enthusiastically live-streaming, studying how to take down him, the super-large giant BOSS.

He was dumbfounded. "I'm just sitting next to you, watching your sandbox evolution. What did I do to provoke you?"

Xu Zhi was immediately shocked:

This silly player, Mount Akina Speed, still hadn't given up. I just kindly opened the Second Beta Test for you, increasing the number of game players, and you repay kindness with enmity, now wanting to jump into my loving dinner and then poison me?!

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