Return (Part 1)

It's time to go back!

Lord Xi Ye thought to himself, watching the busy crowd outside the base.

According to the smart prompts, there are over 100,000 people queuing outside, and 6,000 citizens have signed contracts inside the base. The base is now almost at its limit.

The nutrient pods in the base have required queuing since last week, and the Hulk's pickaxes are gradually becoming insufficient. Fire Ant Mine is a high-energy ore that requires specific pickaxes to mine, and the mining process still causes some damage to the pickaxes. Therefore, while the ore reserves are increasing, the consumption of pickaxes is also very high.

Then there's the issue of accommodation. Although players can log off, their bodies don't disappear after logging off, so they pile up in the base. In the beginning, when there were few people, the base could manage, but as more and more people came, the base naturally couldn't hold them all.

The Hulks are fine; most of their log-off locations have been moved to the mining factory. Even if it's full, the players inside can throw them outside the factory. Anyway, those guys are thick-skinned and won't get sunburned. But the other two races can't do that.

The Developers, needless to say, don't have special spacesuits. If they go out, they'll explode into minced meat due to the light gravity. The Elves can't be thrown outside either, which has led to the base being full of Elf Balls these days. He now has to walk carefully in the base, afraid of accidentally stepping on and killing two of them...

So the accommodation problem is also urgent!

Then there are some miscellaneous issues, such as the successful pilot of crops requiring large-scale planting, so he needs to buy seeds and special fertilizers. The species from the successful pilot of biological specimens also need to be increased in quantity. Then he needs to buy an energy field, and some basic object production tools also need to be purchased.

And then... he's been away from home for 10,000 years, and it's time to go back once.

He has to take two followers and a large amount of Fire Ant Mine crystal back. Buying so many things will cost money, but he definitely doesn't have any. The two old guys in the family are probably out of power, so getting money from the family is probably impossible. The only remaining channel is loans.

But loans require sufficient collateral. In the Federation's major banks, interstellar lords have priority loan channels, with low interest rates and fast disbursement. But the premise is that you can't try to get something for nothing. You must first prove to the bank that you won't become a bad debt!

So he has to bring some capital that can prove his potential: a high-quality Hulk and Fire Ant crystal mine, plus a guarantee of an eighth-level life planet. That should be enough to get a considerable loan.

After making up his mind, Lord Xi Ye returned to the base, selected a few followers, choosing the top three on the honorlist (Honor Rankings): [Yu Nv Wu Gua], who was first in points, [King of Liver Kings], who was second, and [Little Fairy with Athlete's Foot], who was third. But then he thought about only taking the Hulk and the Developer. The Elf players might cause trouble later, so he finally added [My Ancestor Lu Benwei Didn't Cheat], who was first in Elf points.

When the few heard that the lord was taking them to the Great Federation, they immediately showed excitement, thinking: Can they finally see the big background of this game?

The surrounding people had expressions of envy, jealousy, and hatred.

"What is this? A hidden mission?"

"I'll go, as expected, high points are useful! Huh? Why can that Lu guy go too? His points aren't even half as high as mine."

"Probably taking care of the Elf players. Sigh, if I had known that the Elf players had so little competitiveness, I wouldn't have chosen this stupid Hulk bloodline. I'm exhausted every day and still suppressed by a liver king who doesn't care about his life."

"Huh? You weren't saying that when you were drying the Elf..."

"So, this game's inability to pay-to-win is a major flaw. I'm a rich ninth-generation, and I have to mine for points with you poor saps? How can I enjoy pretending to be cool?"

"Exactly, trash game, all you know is mining every day. Isn't being a celebrity fun, or is my spending money not happy enough? I came to this damn game to be a coolie? I'll uninstall this lame (shitty) game later!"

The surrounding people looked at these two with disdain. These two guys, who claimed to be rich Nth-generation, had been shouting about uninstalling the game for half a month, and every time they ended up mining more diligently than anyone else.

In fact, everyone can understand. Since the advent of the intelligent era, the average human physique has been declining rapidly. More than 90% of young people are in a sub-healthy state. It's rare to have a game with such a realistic somatosensory experience. In this game, they have a strong physique and inexhaustible strength. This feeling is truly incomparable to the kidney-depleted body in reality.

Sometimes they even think, if this world were real, that would be great...

Lord Xi Ye naturally couldn't understand the players' thoughts. At this time, his mind was full of thoughts about returning home.

Of course, he couldn't fly back. Who knows how far this place is from the Federation? If it weren't for that wormhole, he might not have been able to fly here even in 100,000 years.

Since he can't fly back, he can only use teleportation!

The Celestial Group Academy gives each graduating student a teleportation device. The coordinates for returning are set at the location of the school's Reception Department. The teleportation energy is free, and students who teleport back will receive a warm welcome.

Even when he was still studying, he often saw some teachers pulling senior students who came out of the portals to share their stories of how they started their careers. This would reignite the aspirations of students who often felt that tuition was expensive and studies were difficult.

As for why they were so generous, Lord Xi Ye only understood after he began wandering, because anyone who had the face to teleport back was a potential stock that could add bricks and tiles to the school in the future!

Imagine when you teleport back, facing enthusiastic teachers and junior students with expectant faces, would you have the nerve to say that you were wandering outside without making a name for yourself and were preparing to go home and sponge off your parents?

Perhaps other majors can be down and out, can shamelessly go home and sponge off their parents, but Celestial Group students absolutely cannot!

Since its inception, the Celestial Group school has gone through countless epochs. Those who come out are either overlords or interstellar legends who influence an era. Today, the Celestial Group's territory spans the universe, and there is almost no room for other races to struggle. As a result, the Federation has almost defaulted to the idea that only the Celestial Group can become lords.

Now in the Federation, except for a few extremely ancient existences, all interstellar lords are Celestials!

This kind of environment leads to the fact that Celestial Group graduates can only be kings, and there is no possibility of being someone else's lackey. Almost in the eyes of the world, the Celestial Group is the boss, the local emperor, and the top group of people in the universe. Therefore, countless families sell their properties to send their children to the Celestial Academy, just hoping that their family can also be related to royalty!

Not even allowed to lower your face to work for others, and still go home to sponge off your parents? You'd probably be spat to death!

Lord Xi Ye also realized after graduation that this race is not as glamorous as it seems on the surface... at least not everyone is so glamorous. In their class's Celestial Group, except for a few with rich family backgrounds, most of them were still drifting in the universe like he was before.

Students who haven't made a name for themselves will never have the nerve to teleport back. Once they decide to travel the stars, there are only two paths in front of them!

Either return home in glory, or die in a foreign land