Free Play Zone, Emerald Cluster, Rosender Star.

This is a resource planet located in the inner ring area of the star cluster, which was occupied by a cluster-level civilization called "Thunder Horn" early on, and transformed into a temporary base camp for the exploration army, which is heavily defended and hoards a large number of materials and troops.

At this moment, the leadership of the Thunderhorn Civilization Exploration Army gathered in the headquarters fortress conference room.

"What do you think of the two stronghold planets in the Central region that have been invaded by a series of different organizations hired by the Super Cluster Alliance?"

The commander-in-chief pressed his hands on the conference table, and his sharp gaze looked around at the high-level people present.

Bang!

A high-ranking commander with a beard like a steel needle slammed the table and said angrily, "Do you still need to discuss? Organize a crusade now! My troops are guarding one of the strongholds, which has been completely wiped out and must fight back! ”

Another tall and thin officer with a calm temperament stroked the lightning-shaped blue horn on his head (this action is similar to that of a cosmic human touching his beard), and said slowly: "I think we should wait for the time being, the first is that the actions of the Super Star Cluster Alliance are premeditated and have strategic intentions, even if we take them back, we will be attacked again, and the second is that the Central Region is currently in chaos due to the attack of the Super Star Cluster Alliance, and it is being transformed into a self-reserved place by the Super Star Cluster Alliance, which is too dangerous and not suitable for rash action." ”

Now, the fourth phase of exploration has been completed, and each of the four star clusters in the Free Play Zone has a unified regional division. There are dozens or hundreds of galaxies in a star cluster, which are divided into four layers from the outside to the inside, such as the outer rim region, the inner ring region, the middle ring region and the core region.

At present, the main strategic goal of the Super Cluster Alliance is to completely control the core and central areas, have a stable rear base camp, and then use space teleportation methods such as stargate passages to maintain supply and transportation lines.

Although this will be encircled, there is no way for the Super Star Cluster Alliance to come, attacking cities and grabbing land is the main goal, and fighting guerrilla warfare is not suitable for them, no matter which area they occupy, they will be besieged.

"So what do you say? Do you want to send it to the stronghold and let my people die in vain?! The fiery officer of the steel needle beard rebuked angrily.

"Commander-in-Chief?" The calm senior and thin officer turned his head, "I should be the same as you think." ”

Hearing this, the commander-in-chief nodded slowly and said, "I am also in favor of waiting, the situation is still unclear." ”

"It's all fighting, what's still unclear?!" The fiery officer shouted.

The commander-in-chief said patiently:

"In this turmoil, we are not the protagonists, the three major civilizations and the Super Star Cluster Alliance are the protagonists, chess players, although the fourth phase is called the free competition zone, but we, the forces that came to pan for gold and occupy the land, are just chess pieces that take the initiative to enter the chessboard, and are far from being able to determine the overall situation, so we have to wait now and wait for the three major civilizations to respond."

"So we have to count on the three major civilizations to take action on behalf of our suffering forces and start a war with the Super Star Cluster Alliance?"

"Of course not, the three major civilizations will not end up in person easily, after all, the principle of the free competition zone is not yet torn apart, and the Super Star Cluster Alliance has recruited so many proxy forces, on the one hand, it is to strengthen itself, and on the other hand, it also hints at the rules of the game, everyone uses agents to compete...... And when the two armies of their two families began to fight in earnest, the situation would enter another more intense level, and it was not yet time. ”

The calm tall and thin officer nodded: "Yes, so chess pieces like us are now waiting for the commander's order, when the three major civilizations react, that is, when we choose a side, then we will no longer be alone, and we will immediately have a large number of teammates." ”

The high-level leaders of the Thunderhorn Civilization Exploration Army present nodded one after another.

Although he is unwilling to act as a pawn, when he chooses to enter the free competition zone, he is equivalent to taking the initiative to enter the game, which is the rule of the game formulated by the three major civilizations. Of course, there are a lot of benefits, and only those who are willing to be pawns can obtain the benefits of shining in the world, and how much they can take is still up to their ability.

Drip, drip!

At this moment, a virtual screen popped up in the center of the conference table, on which was a notice issued by the three major civilizations to the whole universe, and the bright title jumped into everyone's eyes:

"Supplementary Regulations on the Anti-Monopoly Program Explored in the Fourth Phase of the Shining World"!

"It's coming!"

The commander-in-chief's eyes flashed, and he read the announcement with everyone, and they all showed expressions of "sure enough".

The content of this announcement can be roughly summarized in several points: first, it characterizes the events of the previous night as the beginning of malicious competition and malicious monopoly, and believes that the Super Star Cluster Alliance violates the "Free Exploration Regulations"; Second, order the Super Cluster Alliance to immediately stop its malicious expansion, which is strongly condemned on behalf of all civilizations in the universe; Third, if the Supercluster Alliance is unrepentant and insists on going its own way, they will begin to sanction and redistribute the territory occupied by the Supercluster Alliance.

In the appendix of the announcement, there is a plan for the implementation of sanctions and redistribution, and the Red Empire, together with the other two civilizations, expressed its unwillingness to destroy the "Free Exploration Regulations" in person, so it encourages all forces in the free competition zone to launch a siege on the Super Star Cluster Alliance, and give special support based on merit.

At the same time, in the distribution plan of the territory, it was stated that the planets that the various forces had taken back from the Super Star Cluster Alliance would not be recovered, and as for those who helped the Super Star Cluster Alliance, they would reclaim the territory as appropriate afterwards...... All in all, it is to use inducements and other means to draw a blank check to ask various forces to attack the Super Cluster Alliance, and increase the difficulty of the Super Star Cluster Alliance to win over agents.

Either choose the three major civilizations, or choose the Super Star Cluster Alliance, ordinary forces have no third way to go, if they all want to stay neutral and stay away from the turmoil, the result is that the territory is gradually eroded by the Super Star Cluster Alliance, which is also the confidence of the three major civilizations to implement this decision - no one wants the results of their own exploration to be snatched away, and no one wants to be out.

And if there is really a 1 in 10 million probability that everyone would rather give up their territory than get involved in the turmoil, then the three major civilizations will send regular armies into the city, and after overturning the super star cluster, they will not take out the territory and distribute it to other forces, and occupy it justifiably to complete the "redistribution".

As for the third-party super A-level forces, they are an alternative existence in this turmoil, only they have the ability to be neutral, and the three major civilizations and the super star cluster alliance will also avoid the territory occupied by the super A-level forces to a certain extent.

And this is the impact of the establishment of the Development Federation, which has been different from the trend of the previous life, and the butterfly effect has begun to be highlighted!

Of course, the premise is that many super A-level people try to watch as much as possible, and the forces under their command can take the opportunity to expand, but they can't go too far to rob while the fire is hot, and there must be a degree.

"Insidious strategy."

The commander-in-chief stroked his horn, snorted coldly, suddenly raised his voice, and said loudly: "Organize the fleet to march towards the Central area, the time has come, we now have enough indirect allies." ”

Everyone stood up suddenly and gave a military salute in unison.

"Understood!"

……

On the other side, the Blackstar Legion is stationed in the Emerald Cluster's exploration front stronghold.

The outbreak of the incident on the eve caused an uproar among the Legion players, and a large number of players gathered to explore the front line, and the hall was full of dark and oppressive Legion players with different equipment, and there was a lot of discussion, noisy and noisy.

"What are you doing, I didn't have time to go online on a business trip a few days ago, why did the world change a lot as soon as I came back? Are these guild alliances playing snakes? ”

"The Super Star Cluster Alliance wants to unify the Free Competition Zone, how did the Northern Front and the Pan-Commerce Federation get online?"

"I looked at the forums, and they seem to have gotten the main war mission from the Supercluster."

"But we don't have any related tasks, so don't you have to choose the Super Star Cluster Alliance for this main story?"

"That's not necessarily, hasn't there been a big guy who has analyzed the current situation, the three major civilizations will definitely not give up, we in the Black Star Legion, we should naturally stand on the side of the three major civilizations."

Everyone was chattering and discussing, and at this moment, the floating screen in the hall popped up the announcement of the three major civilizations, attracting everyone's attention.

After the audience was over, the atmosphere was hot again.

"Haha, I'll just say that such a big situation can't be a one-sided main plot."

"So this is a faction war, and the three major civilizations and the superstar cluster are two opponents respectively?"

"We're going to fight a national war!"

Countless players are excited.

But after a while, the panel still didn't move, and gradually some people became confused.

"That's not right, didn't you say faction war, why didn't we receive the relevant main quest?"

"Do you have to trigger it? But who is it going to trigger? ”

"We're members of the Legion, maybe we won't have a mission until the Legion makes an official announcement?"

Just when everyone was in shock, the Philip subprogram of everyone's communicator suddenly jumped out and issued a proclamation:

[Blackstar Legion Battle Pass]

[In view of the outbreak of contradictions between the three major civilizations and the Super Star Cluster Alliance, the Legion decided to carry out an armed crusade against the Modo Civilization Exploration Force, the reason is detailed in the appendix "Kunde Civilization" [Fold/Expand], when carrying out targeted strikes on the area occupied by the Modo civilization, there is no need to care about the impact on other super star cluster civilizations, if there are other forces to prevent our actions, we can attack together.] Expelling and injuring the Modo civilization is our primary strategic goal, and legion-affiliated organizations can act on their own without deviating from the strategy]

As soon as the announcement was issued, a mission popped up on the boards of all clan players at the same time - to start a faction war with the Mordo civilization.

Aside from the specific requirements, the form is no different from the main quest that Super Cluster Alliance players get.

Seeing this, many people smiled happily.

"That's right, that's right, sure enough, after the legion makes an announcement, we will have the main quest."

"It turns out that the Modo civilization has a grudge against us?"

"Hey, I see that you just haven't carefully read the backstory of the version update, the Modo civilization conspiracy to use a Kunde civilization that shines in the world, and almost wiped out the people, and it is very cheap, and it deserves to be beaten."

Countless Legion players are in high spirits and eager to enter the Central area immediately.

However, what they didn't know was that the mission they triggered was actually problematic and not the main line of the battle between the three major civilizations and the Super Star Cluster Alliance.

Normal vassals of the three major civilizations or mercenaries of the Super Star Cluster Alliance, they will not be assigned the task of which civilization they want to fight, but as long as they help their own forces expand and kill any of the people of the opposing camp, they can improve the mission evaluation.

Legion players get the same mission, although the mode is the same, but the goal is simply the Modo civilization.

Because of the position of the united front, super A-level forces such as the Black Star Legion cannot respond to the call of the Red Empire and cannot take the initiative to get involved in the turmoil, so normally, the legion players do not have the main quest for the struggle between the two camps!

……

"Thankfully, brother, I'm ...... witty"

Looking at the same excited reactions of the legion players in the forum, Han Xiao in the room secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

As early as when the Development Federation asked all members to be neutral, Han Xiao realized that the Black Star Legion might not be able to join the main plot of the battle between the three major civilizations and the Super Star Cluster Alliance this time, and as the vice president, if he wanted to maintain his status and right to speak, he must obey the collective decision of the united front.

He guessed this follow-up impact at the time, so he deliberately left the Modo civilization as a goal, so that the three major civilizations and development federations felt that it was a personal vendetta.

In this way, he can justify a war mission that will be mistaken for the main story by Legion players. Although the mission objective is simpler than the real main story, players can only accept it.

Without this imitation of the main story, there will inevitably be a large number of Legion players who have not joined the Legion for a long time to be disappointed, and there is no doubt that in order to participate in the First World Service War, there will definitely be people who will switch sides. After his own operation, the negative impact was minimized, although the specific tasks were different, but at least they were able to enter the national war, which was enough to meet the needs of the vast majority of clan players.

At the same time, this can also be compared with other super A-level forces, most of the super A-level factions cannot participate in the main story, but the Black Star Legion has a fake main line, so that it can attract some players from other camps to switch to the Legion.

On the other hand, players in the previous life during the national war period had a lot of room for free play, and the good point was to fight vertically and horizontally, and the bad point was to fight for themselves, and the main line they imitated had a strong goal, and the final effect was to unite the power of tens of millions of players in the legion, concentrate resources on Modo, and have a greater chance of completing the [Kunde Leader's Last Wish] task!

In this way, this hidden danger is basically solved.

"United Front, United Front ......"

Han Xiao muttered twice, a little helpless.

Now the united front has become a new shackle, and it can be maintained for now, but as this clause affects the interests of more members, problems will inevitably arise, and it is estimated that the three major civilizations also have plans to drag down the unity of the super-A-class group.

To be honest, as far as it stands, he feels that the chances of reaching an agreement between the Development Federation and the three civilizations are low, and there is a strong conflict of interest between the demands of the two sides.

On the side of the association, because of the different needs, the collective resolution reached so far is naturally not the best plan, but can only be said to be a plan that no one strongly opposes.

The Development Federation wants the three major civilizations to unconditionally lift the monopoly of knowledge, and then talk about other cooperation, which is a reasonable appeal in the eyes of the super A-level, because their ultimate knowledge is obtained through meritorious service, and they have paid enough for many years, and they have already gathered the ultimate knowledge, but they are not allowed to teach it.

Only by breaking the monopoly of the three civilizations can the shackles of the camp be lifted, so that the association itself spreads knowledge, so that the current and future super-A level no longer needs to work for the three civilizations to obtain the ultimate knowledge, after all, most people are not citizens of the three civilizations in the first place, and they have no responsibility to dedicate. In this way, if someone wants to join the three major civilizations in the future, they will only be looking for a backer, and there is no longer a certain necessity.

However, even if Han Xiao thought about it with his toes, he knew that the chances of the three major civilizations agreeing were very small.

Unconditional? Even he thinks he's thinking about fart!

However, as the vice president, he has the obligation to convey collective resolutions, and at the same time, he cannot advocate on behalf of so many people, so he can only truthfully convey the meaning of the association.

According to Han Xiao's own thoughts, it was actually not bad to agree to the deal proposed by the three major civilizations, and to deal with the super star cluster in exchange for them to lift the monopoly of knowledge. However, most people disagree, first, because they are unwilling to destroy their original intentions, second, they do not want to take the risk of getting involved in this kind of turmoil, and third, they have different positions...... If the two sides had been at a stalemate, Han Xiao could basically conclude that the final result would be that the Super A-level Association could not bear it anymore and began to impart knowledge in private, while the three major civilizations took the opportunity to make trouble.

"It's difficult, it's difficult...... But luckily it's nothing to me. ”

Han Xiao shook his head.

The first is that he has all the ultimate knowledge, but he doesn't care so much about the monopoly of knowledge.

Secondly, he knows where the turning point of this matter is, so he doesn't care about the problems that are exposed now.

"It's far from time to wait for the Super Scourge or the sprouts of the World Tree to emerge to break the current pattern...... Speaking of which, I don't know if the covenant has succeeded. ”

Han Xiao pursed his lips.

Putting aside the idea for a moment, he thought for a while, picked up the communicator, and dialed a person's number.

In the turmoil of the Super Star Cluster Alliance, the super A-level outside the descendants of the two sides will not intervene in this turmoil, but there will definitely be a very small number of people who will make trouble in private, and Sorokin, who hugs the thighs of the three major civilizations, must be one of them.

The interests of the two are aligned, and this time they may be able to quietly cooperate and beat Modo into pigskin.

Moreover, Han Xiao already had a bold guess about Sorokin's identity.

"Just enough to verify ......," Han Xiao said secretly.