Brain Exploder
In fact, more than ninety percent of the players in the faction had been mobilized here to participate in this "Civilization War" instance.
Fighting bugs had been unavoidable. Given the players' levels and strength back then, they couldn't even qualify as cannon fodder.
The enemy possessed genuine large-scale instant-kill capabilities.
But as the players' levels rose, once most of them had reached Level 75–85, they could officially participate in the Civilization War.
Moreover, this time, High Engineer hadn't used the players as cannon fodder.
Several tens of millions of above-average Engineers were being used as ordinary troops. No Level Three civilization would be so extravagant.
In fact, these players had been distributed across dozens of planets and a hundred thousand space structures. Behind defensive lines armed to the teeth, they resisted wave after wave of attacks from the virus-mechanical army.
"The front line is collapsing way too damn fast!"
"Mechanical Planets 30 through 40 have all fallen."
"As expected, Level Three hackers really have no future."
"What about those information lifeforms?"
"They aren't participating."
"They aren't participating!? Fuck! How can they sit this out!? You raise troops for a thousand days to use them for one!"
"If you really have time to waste, why not divert more computing power and build me more Cyber Killers?"
"Huh? Didn't your Planet 37 disappear?"
"We only lost the planet's mainframe to a hack. Who said being hacked meant we were completely finished?"
At that moment, in hundreds and thousands of player groups on the forums, all kinds of "ding-ding-dong-dong" notification sounds began flooding in frantically.
Experienced veteran players had already formed all kinds of combat teams, combat groups, and even large combat planetary groups. Inexperienced players were still running around recruiting people.
Players were variables.
Du Zhaodi didn't know this.