Gale had actually overthought one thing.
The dogshit planners were busy. It was impossible for them to keep an eye on any one player's specific actions in the game.
Ever since the game launched, Chu Guang's decisions had basically been broad strategic deployments.
This included steering public opinion in the "other world," releasing limited information to make mainstream society believe that the indecipherable "Wasteland OL" was the work of an extraterrestrial civilization.
And one that was at least neutral in its stance, continuously extending goodwill.
Based on that underlying logic, the think tanks of various countries and the major media outlets online added their own interpretations.
For example, some believed it was a warning from "Big Brother," foreshadowing that Earth would enter an age of prosperity, only to rapidly decline after it.
Others believed it was guidance from an advanced civilization. Aliens were searching neighboring universes for friends who shared their values, and perhaps cargo ships exchanging goods would soon dock in synchronous orbit.
Of course, some believed it was meant to fatten up the people of Earth so they would taste better... but that interpretation did not hold up either.
After all, traveling all that way just to eat one's fill was rather boring. It would be better to build a ranch nearby.
Others with more imaginative ideas set their sights five light-years away, believing the extraterrestrial civilization was there, and that it was the "Gaia" that had appeared in the game.
Chu Guang did not know whether Gaia existed in that world, nor did he care how the think tanks of various countries analyzed things, what interests entangled the various factions, or what any particular person thought.
To him, someone who already lived in this world, those were all meaningless matters.
They could believe whatever they wished to