At that moment, far away on Mars, the Main Base was operating peacefully as usual.
After the players withdrew, most of the lord players gradually began to get used to it. Although they no longer had new territories to develop or new channels for registering people, they had more time to study their civilization's technology.
After all, everyone believed that the New World would eventually open again. When that happened, whoever had accumulated better technology would be able to gain an advantage in the New World. Even taking the worst-case scenario into account, if the New World never reopened, continuing to research civilization technology would still allow them to break through Mars's limitations and expand into outer space.
Besides, they were not completely idle now.
In recent days, the lords of the Five Great Cities had suddenly begun taking action. They successively took the initiative to contact these lord players, with their sights set on the idle population in the lord players' hands.
Yes, idle. Most of the outsiders withdrawn from the New World were now in a state of idleness. Apart from a small number of beastmen with shaman talents, who were hired at high wages to participate in agricultural construction and elemental cultivation, most of the enhanced population basically had nothing to do.
Some might ask why they did not let this idle population mine.
That had to do with the Mining Public Ownership system. According to the laws of the Star Sea city, private players currently had no rights to mine Energy Ore. The Five Great Cities had mining rights, but had to hand over eighty percent of the proceeds. Furthermore, mine development was strictly restricted. An application had to be submitted for every mine, and an energy plant could only be built after approval was granted.