The Game of Global Mining

The Siren flew down, picked up the floating spice, took a look at it, and threw it away with a look of disdain: "Is this the treasure you were talking about?"

Not helping, just making trouble!

Chun got anxious: "In the human world... this is... expensive!"

Fortunately, Bai was sensible: "President, I'll help out!"

The Siren chuckled: "What boring humans! I better go collect some energy instead..."

With that said, the Siren flew to the little island, took out a gemstone, and started casting a spell.

Luckily, soaking in the seawater helped, and Chun, who was sobering up, kept digging and finally managed to salvage all 34 remaining pieces back to the hull.

As for where to hide them? It seems like they can only hide them in Evil Spirit City once night falls.

Buried together with them was also the Barnacle Armor from Old Whale. The original plan was for Sherry to learn Alchemy to use it as a material to practice potions, but now it seems as the President, she doesn't even know what she's doing or if she has time to learn?

Ah, I promised to support her studies, but being President is like studying sociology, it's still support. At least she learned asset restructuring, right?

Just salvage everything back, there're plenty of doctors on the island, let them study it.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, Old Whale suddenly said: "I've received a call from the Daughter of the Sea, I have to go back."

Uh... really hard to let go.

Chun immediately prepared a script for Old Whale: "When you go back, they'll all notice you've become stronger. Just say you encountered a Sea Monster blocking your path while chasing the Siren, you ate it, but the Siren got away."

Old Whale said: "Got it, see you next time!"

After speaking, a tidal power surged over his entire body, and he quickly disappeared into the horizon.

...

When Chun finished salvaging all the large barnacles, it was already 6:30 PM. The Siren was still engrossed in the gemstone spell, with the entire scene around the little island blurring and forming a cyclone continuously injecting into the gemstone, probably still busy.

Might as well log off for dinner, a bowl of instant noodles wasn't enough at noon.

Chun greeted Aileen: "I'm heading to rest, can you keep an eye on things here?"

Aileen replied moodily: "Keep an eye on the bitch, huh? Whatever, I'm off to the village to open a dance class..."

Ah...

Why is this different from the imagined harem...

...

On his way downstairs, the internet cafe finally returned to its usual peace.

"Brother Chun's here!"

The Great God's voice had turned hoarse: "Brother Chun, going off for food?"

Chun couldn't help but laugh: "Great God's throat?"

Everyone laughed loudly: "Being a small squad leader for a day got the Great God so excited he's lost his voice!"

"Still, a squad leader commanding tens of thousands on the national server..."

"Exactly, instead of commanding the intense battle in the Main City, you command them to mine in the countryside."

Chun saw everyone's AFK screens: "Is everyone mining in the village?"

"Yes, the Royal Family's Black Iron Division has thousands here mining, completing merit tasks."

Oh?

Upon learning about the medium-grade ore in the meteorite from the Siren, known as Secret Iron and Mithril, Chun had more ideas about this Canyon Village — the rugged and steep terrain of the canyon sharply contrasted with the surrounding hills, likely made by a meteorite impact. The village's location likely sits on a meteorite crater! With Secret Iron present, could there really be no Mithril or Magic Gold?

Chun could completely understand the village chief's feelings now, just as frightened as he was! The village chief's actions could be inferred.

The old foreman said the first village chief, Malagobi, was the head of a Mercenary Corps, so the villagers were likely his close mercenary subordinates. And a mercenary team couldn't be all Warriors; there had to be various Mages and Physicians.

Therefore, the descendants of these villagers must hide various ancestral Mages and Physicians, each preserving their strength, all acting like fools! Judging from the monster siege's performance, they'd rather all dig underground, giving up the village's surface, refusing to reveal their true abilities...

This means as long as players trigger a deep enough storyline, it's possible to learn Mage and Physician skills without going to other cities, right here in this village — and these descendants from the pioneering Mercenary Corps are not the watered-down recent city-established Mages and Physicians, but possibly the ancestral level!

The more Chun thought about it, the more deeply he pondered, the more terrifying it became! Wasn't Aileen's bat transformation debt collection too rash? Can't these pretending families see through her?

If one generation doesn't outshine the previous, it's fine if they can't see through.

If every generation surpasses the previous, and they do notice, then perhaps...

Perhaps it's even better! Following their ancestral logic of playing dumb, definitely wouldn't immediately expose it, but pretend not to know without making sudden moves, or suspect this bat was sent by the Blood Race's Demon King boss, or by the Animal Protection Association...

In short, the more they observe, the stronger Aileen becomes, the more alarmed they will be, the more they'll actively make decisions...

So, the breakthrough point might really not need one's own efforts to collect debts, just need Aileen to become stronger...

While deep in thought, Feng Xingcuo shouted in the village channel:

"Bilenna has started becoming a Skill Tutor, teaching female players to dance! As long as you reach 1000 fan points, you can learn; this is a hidden life profession! Female players, sign up and join the group..."

Holy Shit! Aileen really acts promptly!

The internet cafe was in an uproar: "Holy Shit, why do only female players get to learn? Male players can't?"

"The classes are publicly sold, is this even a hidden profession anymore?"

Afraid male players learning it would be the Dance of Evil Spirits?

Chun couldn't help but laugh: "Are there a lot of female players in the village?"

"About a few thousand, but their fan points are low."

"Speaking of which, Jiang Moyu's professional girl group might want to come learn, but they're locked down in Silver City and can't move..."

"Hey, you guys are really out of the loop, what do you mean professional girl group? Ever heard of the Saintess Celestial Corps of the national server? Now that the game has been running for so long, they should make a comeback riding the waves, right."

"What? Never heard of them!"

"No shit, when they were hot as game streamers, you were probably still in middle school!"

"Talking about Xuewei, huh? Holy Shit, from what year are we talking, they're already in their 30s, heading towards 40s now! Those lining up chasing them back then now look down on everyone, but then the simp economy suddenly collapsed, and they all became Saintesses!"

Xuewei? Chun felt a pang! Although he didn't play games, he actually knew a classmate in it, back during class reunions, she was even promoting her streamer team, but at that time he was a Senior Engineer, completely on a different page — could she still not be married after all these years?

"What Saintesses, don't speak carelessly! Be careful Red Book Net exposes you! I feel the Saintess's grace still lingers!"

Everyone laughed uproariously: "We actually think she's very compatible in age with Brother Chun!"

Holy Shit!

Chun couldn't hold it anymore: "How did this get related to me? I'm off to eat, you guys take your time..."

As Chun left the internet cafe, he saw the security team again.

Both sides nodded, a familiar greeting.

Honestly, is this really an event by a security company?