On the first day the Overseas Channel opened, Xi Ye had already made extensive preparations, bribing most of the overseas regulators with money. Even though many people online were calling it a scam riddled with fraud, in capitalist countries, as long as you had money, those outside opinions were nothing. The game still appeared openly on the major overseas virtual platforms.
As long as it appeared on a platform, no matter how many people scorned it or refused to believe in it, there would still be a small number of people who clicked in with the attitude of giving it a try. After all, trying it out was free, right?
Thus, in just one day, the overseas channel for Star Sea still accumulated over a million people in the queue. Xi Ye and Intelligence carefully selected candidates from among them, screening them based on factors such as birthplace, occupation, age, and family and social influence. Just as they had done in Central China, they tried their best to scatter and conceal the initial personnel among the grassroots population.
This could minimize the chances of influential foreigners noticing the game, but choosing people from remote areas often had its drawbacks as well...
The lower average quality, along with a lack of motivation and ambition, meant that the overall quality of those recruited was rather ordinary.
Although D-Earthlings had excellent potential, there were still huge differences between individuals. Xi Ye planned to build a diverse cosmic civilization with D-Earthlings at its core, and he intended to make use of every high-potential D-Earthling. That did not mean he would absorb all the inferior ones as well. At least for now, he lacked the resources to cultivate everyone indiscriminately, especially at this stage.
Xi Ye's faction was currently laying its foundation. The people recruited