To ascend, I had no choice but to create games

Still silence.

Xiemen Waidao silently piloted the spaceship while Mukuai 1234 sat beside him, expressionlessly munching on Xiemen Waidao’s merits.

After eating for a while, Mukuai 1234 sighed and sat a little closer to Xiemen Waidao.

“Don’t lie next time, I know you feel like playing other games is kind of a Minotaur thing to do, but they’re all games from Fang Cheng Studio… there’s no need for that,” said Mukuai 1234.

“Ah, ‘Squirrel Spaceship’ is a game from Fang Cheng Studio?” Xiemen Waidao asked in surprise.

“You didn’t know?”

“I just heard there was a fun game, so I came over to give it a try,” he replied.

“Then you should have realized it when you saw me!”

“Oh, right.”

Looking at the suddenly enlightened Xiemen Waidao, Mukuai 1234 wondered if this guy was too clever for his own good, ending up somewhat dull.

However, after their past grievances thawed, the whole journey instantly became incredibly enjoyable.

With Mukuai 1234 there to explain things and an Alpha to help with piloting, Xiemen Waidao didn’t need to worry about time restrictions with his experimental machine; he could keep playing until he got tired of it.

But that idea was a joke—how could he possibly get tired of it!

Apart from anything else, just being inside the spaceship, beating up enemies while chatting with Mukuai 1234, made Xiemen Waidao feel like he could play forever and ever.

Occasionally, he would self-destruct to set off fireworks, thoroughly enjoying himself here.

Especially since Mukuai 1234 seemed to particularly fancy squirrels; if he wasn’t paying attention, Mukuai 1234 would come over and rub and rub inside the spaceship, making him feel a tickling sensation on his back.

He also quickly discovered the self-destruction tactic; after each death, he’d put all his points into self-destruct and then buy a high-level “taunt” chip.

With the chip’s effect, as soon as he entered the game, it would draw the aggro of all the monsters around him. The beasts rushed him with roars, ferociously attacking Xiemen Waidao’s spaceship and turning into points for him after a burst of white light.

Finally, one by one, the squirrels were rescued, some leaving with gratitude to find Sir Big Tail to claim their spaceships. They then joined the matrix network, piloting the ships and becoming maintenance workers, assisting the new Angel Envoys.

As the spaceship matrix expanded, the increased functionality of the expanding matrix allowed players to find some squirrel locations through the matrix’s awesome computing power. These locations could be marked directly for players to search.

Players were excited about these random tasks, urging each other to hurry and grab them.

Sometimes, the matrix could detect the locations of large Shadow manifestations, looming space fortresses appearing from within, later marked by the matrix as well.

Players exclaimed that a world boss had emerged, urging each other to hurry and claim it.

The Angel Envoys were completely indifferent to death, charging back into the fray after each demise without taking breaks in between, seemingly enjoying the process of dying, giving every maintenance squirrel an indescribable sense of facing something ineffable.

Even though they knew the Envoys were on their side, the feeling was still bizarre, as if they were facing not some communicable creature, but a being willingly meeting death for a purpose.

But no matter what, being able to help was great.

With the expansion of the spaceship matrix, tens of thousands of spaceships eventually encompassed the entire home planet. Scanners continuously used computing power here, making it extremely difficult for these fully operational ships to maintain support.

However, this perseverance finally paid off.

The location of the ancient artifact was discovered at last, and the coordinates of the Squirrel King were also uncovered. The former could temporarily halt the folding of space, while the latter would allow them to welcome their King and survive under his leadership.

Given they were on the edge of the Heavenly Tao network, the harsh environment required a leader, and obedience to this leader—democracy did not exist among the squirrels, they needed a strong and powerful figure to guide them.

And the players grew excited at the news.

The King and the artifact, just the thought alone made it clear that they had to be very important NPCs and artifacts. Obtaining them would surely reward a lot of points, perhaps even enough to redeem the space fortress in an instant, allowing for unrestrained freedom thereafter.

Fueled by the incentives of point rewards, players swarmed towards the destination. Some were even prepared for a shameless ambush on other players along the way, but they retracted quietly under Mukuai’s cold gaze.

As an envoy for Heavenly Tao Tian Xuan, Mukuai had an ethical standard that was perfect for keeping those eccentric players in check.

But when the players finally reached their destination, they found not only the artifact and the Squirrel King.

There lay a massive female figure sprawling across space, her left hand clutching a crystal-like ancient artifact, and a cage floating beside her with a dimly-crowned king unconscious inside.

The woman’s body was colossally large, so much so that the biggest space fortress looked like a basketball next to her, and her body stretching for hundreds of kilometers made her resemble a mountain range floating in the air.

Dressed in black stockings and a black-and-white dress, she looked like a woman who had escaped from a funeral.

Her appearance was also very beautiful, her gigantic stature imbuing her with a divine quality, and her languid expression made her divinity even more apparent.