A City-State Takes Shape, with Different Perspectives

With a population of 50 million, this is comparable to a megacity.

Online, if these people can be brought together, they are enough to rival the five major offline companies.

As for the imperial court's model, they were no strangers to it.

Although Blue Star is a corporate entity, it has a history of dynasties, City-State, and various types of courts.

Many individual investors excitedly began discussing which system to adopt.

After all, fertility is a man's nature.

Although they can only earn three thousand, it doesn't stop them from criticizing heaven and earth.

Everyone started saying:

"We want to establish a country, but what should we call it?"

"This name must be grand and righteous. Calling this place the Sky Wolf Dynasty sounds like something a barbarian would say."

"Then let's go to the Wang Dynasty."

"You can tell from their voice that they are cultured and have depth."

"Once this dynasty is established, many players from other companies will probably laugh at us for being delusional," someone worried.

"Haha, just do your own thing and let others talk."

"Once our court gets running smoothly, they'll be the ones envious!"

The group of people laughed loudly.

It seemed as if the scene of the imperial court was already unfolding before my eyes.

At this very moment.

The offline world.

In a certain city.

The abnormal incident handling company that Gao Linzhi once visited.

Bai Ze was frowning as he looked at a message.

He was originally just an ordinary Rogue Players.

He rose through the ranks by carefully serving his boss, and now he's become an eccentric exterminator.

With the emergence of strange occurrences offline, he then helped his boss establish this company.

This company is used to hire players who are daring enough, and it mainly focuses on offline business.

The boss said, "Ultimately, it all comes down to who can create greater value in the offline world. Only those who can keep up with the times and gain a foothold will succeed."

That's true.

Originally, some people coveted his gaming privileges, but after he dealt with a few offline monsters, a powerful figure intervened and forbade anyone from attacking him.

Of course, some of the ignorant underlings are beyond our control.

But then the danger wouldn't be so great.

This is because he stood on the side of the trend: solving the bizarre.

The value their company provides is actually quite simple.

It's about solving offline pain points and eliminating the oddities, which will allow us to be accepted by these large companies.

After all, there are many players, but few dare to expel the monsters.

His dedication to solving the problems of unconventional Rogue Players is like finding a treasure.

They stole his gaming privileges and gave them to a cowardly Company Executive Players?

Who will solve that strange phenomenon?

The losses caused to a large company by a single anomaly far exceed the value, connections, and even foundation of a Company Executive Players.

This is what's called shared value; those who understand, understand.

It can be said that Bai Ze, through his courage and ability, carved out a small space for himself to survive.

Of course, this is also based on the fact that he has a boss protecting him.

If there is nothing at all, his value will have no chance to be shown.

He and his boss were actually on the side of compromise.

His boss believed that as long as he demonstrated his value, he could be accepted by a large company and earn his rightful place.

His boss had this idea, naturally because she herself was from a collateral branch of a large family.

She also has a strong desire to return to the main branch of her family.

She wanted her family to acknowledge what she had done.

Yes, Boss Bai Ze is a woman, a woman who got some resources from a large family and then went out to work on her own.

Those resources are essentially a game qualification; as for how that qualification came about, there's no need to ask.

Bai Ze is now available online.

He suddenly saw a message coming from the online activity channel.

"Have you heard? A group of Rogue Players are planning to establish a nation!"

"Really?"

"This is really interesting," a Company Executive Players said disdainfully. "I thought you guys were just joking, but you're actually serious?"

"How can a scattered group build a nation? They're just a disorganized mess, none of them willing to submit to the others."

"Just one question: Who will be the emperor?"

"What benefits can they offer? What resources do they have? Territory, food, gold, firewood... what do freelancers have?"

"Exactly, it's not going to be crowdfunded, is it?"

"Crowdfunding to build a nation, hahaha."

At this point, a Rogue Players retorted, "What's wrong with crowdfunding to build a nation?"

"Where there are people, there is wealth. Currently, each player can bring 7 tourists, which means 7 laborers."

"Online resources are abundant. Just by killing monsters and getting materials, you can sell them to wealthy people, who are willing to pay high prices for online resources."

"Yes, there are companies that specialize in converting online resources into offline currencies."

"That's right, materials like Demon Bone and jade talismans are all available for purchase without reservation."

"Players are still a minority, only a few million. The reason why the economy of casual players couldn't develop in the past was because the security issues couldn't be resolved."

"Individual investors are busy hiding from the wind and rain, and have no interest in making money or contributing to the economy."

"The most significant benefit now is that the game is becoming more and more like a real game. There are now free respawns every day, and after respawning, you can choose to hide in Safe Zone."

"This gives Rogue Players the confidence to operate safely, and with that security, they can focus on developing large-scale commercial ventures."

"You said it."

"Rogue Players are already making a lot of money. Anyone can easily make a fortune offline just by leveling up and increasing their physique."

"Yes, how much offline wealth can one healing talisman generate?"

"Exactly, it's laughable to say that we commoners have no money or food."

"That's right, everyone should be equal. If they can start a company, we can build a nation."

For a time, while there were many Company Executive Players, there were also many principled Rogue Players who wanted to be independent.

After reading the content on the event channel, Bai Ze felt that the break between casual players and Corporate Players was about to enter a new phase.

Although there was great hatred between the two sides in the past, since the individual people were not organized, this hatred could not be put into practice.

In other words, Corporate Players only need to deal with one or two individual players.

Once individual players crowdfund to establish a nation, their first target will be to take revenge on the Corporate Players.

Because this is their consensus: to retaliate against Corporate Players.

Revenge is a very effective adhesive that can quickly bring strangers together.

Bai Ze was well aware of this.

He immediately became worried and then went to the General Manager's office alone.

Inside the General Manager's office sat a young woman in her twenties.

This woman was very beautiful and possessed the air of a well-bred lady.

This same quality was also the reason Bai Ze chose to join their ranks.

To put it bluntly, he also had the desire to be a sycophant.

There are always simps every year, but this year there seem to be more than usual.

This is all perfectly normal.

"Yes, yes. That's all, thank you, thank you." The woman was on the phone.

The call ended shortly after.

"Xiaobai, is something the matter?"

"Miss, it's like this..." Bai Ze then told the young lady what he had seen.

The young lady nodded, her beautiful brows furrowing slightly. "This news is very important."

"For us, this directly involves our transformation."

"Should we continue to align ourselves with large companies, remain neutral, or lean towards individual investors?"

"What should we do?"

Bai Ze was also troubled.

This is a difficult choice.

"By the way, Xiaobai, do you think Sanren Jian Guo has a good future?"

"Establishing a court offline would present many problems, but online, there wouldn't be as many," Bai Ze said tentatively.

After hearing this, the young lady vaguely understood what the other party was thinking.

It seems Bai Ze is inclined to join this new faction.

The other person probably thinks this way because they are also attracted to the same thing.

Individuals want to band together, because only by banding together can they fight against large companies.

The young lady shook her head and said, "But if they establish this new dynasty, will others listen to them?"

Bai Ze thought for a moment and said, "Then we'll have to see what benefits they can offer."

"I think they would be better off establishing a City-State first, one City-State per island, and establishing aristocratic rule."

"Hmph, what difference does that make from the company in the end?" the young lady scoffed.

"The difference is that this time they've become Company Executive," Bai Ze pointed out incisively.

He revealed the true essence of peasant rebellions in ancient times.

The difference from the previous dynasty was that a new person who successfully rebelled became emperor; otherwise, there was no difference.

"That's true, but they still have a few problems to solve," the young lady said, frowning.

"First, food; second, energy."

"Even a City-State is not easy to manage."

"Hundreds of thousands of people is no small number."

Bai Ze nodded and said, "Yes, so they still need to obtain these supplies offline."

"They can't escape being offline in the end."

"We've tested it online, and many modern machines can't be used online because of the Mysterious Energy variables that cause fluctuations in power sources like electricity and fuel."

"Offline, although there are strange invasions, other places can still function normally, and after the strange invasions are quelled, those places can resume industrial production."

The young lady took a deep breath. "That's right, they still need offline supplies, and they need offline stability."

"Therefore, our company's prospects can be described as very good."

"To ensure production, we must solve the anomaly."

Offline industrialization has long been characterized by overproduction.

Therefore, the daily necessities of the online City-State must come from offline sources.

It is difficult for an island to support the consumption of hundreds of thousands of people by relying on its own production.

The food problem alone is difficult to solve.

After all, the biggest problem on the island is the presence of wandering anomalies.

This will make agricultural production very unstable.

A small number of people can still support it, and can even make up for the shortfall with demon flesh.

But with a large population, it naturally becomes unsustainable.

A stable and abundant food source is essential.

This source can only be a large, offline farm.

At this very moment.

Gao Linzhi was also quite interested in this story of a hermit establishing a nation.

After all, this represents the arrival of a new era.

The foundation for this nation-building actually came from game updates.

If the game isn't updated, casual players don't get free resurrections, and there are no visitors, they wouldn't have the courage or the confidence to establish a nation.

Firstly, we don't have enough manpower, and secondly, the Corporate Players would be wiped out if they tried to fight.

Things are different now.

They had free respawns and could respawn in designated Safe Zone, which emboldened them.

At worst, I can die twice a day, leaving one resurrection chance as a redundancy.

They can use their daily respawn rate to fight against the Corporate Players.

This is much better than when Gao Linzhi first arrived in the Skyfall World.

What was Gao Linzhi's situation at the beginning?

A group of mounted Corporate Players hunted down these individual players.

They could only run.

There are no free respawns, and there are no Safe Zone. Only the Patrol Team formed by the villagers of East Wolf Village provide security and order.

And at this time...

The more active members of the community have really started working.

They first organized a conference to discuss the achievements.

Their motive for doing this was actually quite simple: to find a pretext to organize more people, and to rapidly expand their influence and acquire more resources by taking advantage of the new benefits offered by the game.

This title is very important; without it, how can we rally more individual participants?

Why should others listen to you?

This is what is meant by legitimacy.

An online meeting is currently underway.

This meeting was open to the public.

Therefore, it was launched in the event channel.

Others are welcome to observe, but please refrain from interfering.

Player "Gou in Skyfall" spoke up:

"Gentlemen, the reason we, the Wanderer Dynasty, were established is to unite and support each other."

"I'm a veteran player, and also a Rogue Players just trying to survive."

"Before the game was updated, we had no way to revive, so we could only tread carefully and be the Corporate Players's dogs."

"To compromise in order to avoid being killed."

"But things are different now!"

"We can bring our families online, and we can also enter the game's Safe Zone."

"This avoids being hunted by Corporate Players."

"We want to establish our own court so that we will no longer suffer the oppression of Corporate Players!"

"Well said!"

"That's how it should be done!" a group of casual spectators cheered.

"Gou in Skyfall" continued, "Therefore, we need to ensure we control several Safe Zone."

"The Safe Zone is our foundation."

"One island can support 100,000 people. We need to control at least ten islands, a million people, to build a City-State."

At this point, someone worriedly said, "I remember the Safe Zone is mostly controlled by Corporate Players, with only a few controlled by solo players."

"The Wolf Snake Island Safe Zone in 3081 is controlled by independent players."

"Hehe, that is indeed a problem, but don't worry, after some effort, we have secured Safe Zone on dozens of islands."

"Now we hope everyone will log off and switch to our island so we can build our home together."

Clearly, this reveals the true intentions.

This requires utilizing the labor of players and tourists to build their islands.

"Of course, the main focus is on building Safe Zone, not islands."

"After all, there are strange creatures swimming around on the island, so it can't be used as a permanent base."