Game: Civilization Paradise

「Inside the Star Wish Cafe」

An Qing, completely bewildered, asked Mira,

"What’s going on?"

"No idea. Maybe the equipment is just old."

"The equipment better not fail. We haven’t even done this mission yet."

"That’s what I was thinking, too."

Mira sighed.

「In the central control room.」

Fakam and the others waited patiently for the equipment to restart.

But the next second, all their wristbands vibrated and displayed a notification.

"Notice: Mission failed."

"What’s going on? Why did the mission fail?"

Seeing the message on his wristband, Fakam’s expression instantly darkened. He glared at everyone present, his eyes filled with killing intent as he demanded an answer.

"Impossible. There’s no one else around here!"

Farina looked around. It was only their own people, and besides, only the two of them were in front of the console.

Sun Zhou watched this unfold and said in shock,

"It looks like someone snatched the mission! The Star God Guild’s mission failed?"

In that instant, the entire livestream chat exploded.

"Holy shit, who was that?!"

"Which badass pulled that off?"

"Was it Red Ghost?"

"Red Ghost my ass! Even Red Ghost would get the shit beaten out of him in a situation like this."

"Wait, then who the hell stole the mission?"

"Oh mighty one, I bow to you!"

...

「In the Star Wish Cafe.」

"No way, the Star God Guild’s mission got snatched?"

"Who did it?"

"How did they manage that?"

"No idea."

...

An Qing, Mira, and the others were stunned, discussing it among themselves with looks of disbelief.

Just then, they saw Gefens walk up to Sun Zhou and say, right in his face,

"Mr. Sun Zhou, the livestream ends here. Please turn it off!"

Sun Zhou was about to argue, but when he saw the murderous look on Gefens’ face, he immediately nodded and agreed.

"Okay!"

SNAP—

The livestream feed was instantly cut.

"What the hell!"

"Don’t stop streaming! Let us see who stole it!"

"Ouch, sore losers. Weren’t they all arrogant about livestreaming the record a minute ago? Now that they’re humiliated, they shut it down."

"Exactly!"

...

Countless viewers cursed in anger.

Just then, the Pilates Streamer’s feed cut in.

The Pilates Streamer was seen standing in Starry City, smiling as he addressed everyone.

"Everyone, are you frustrated that the streamer Sun Zhou ended his broadcast? Angry that you can’t see what happens next, that you don’t know who snatched the observatory mission?"

"Yeah, we’re pissed!"

...

Innumerable players left angry comments.

"Don’t worry! Next up, I will reveal the mastermind behind it all!"

The Pilates Streamer said with brimming confidence.

"Tch, you’re not even in the instance. How are you gonna reveal anything to us?"

...

People questioned him one after another.

"I know many of you are skeptical, but that’s fine. Now, watch closely. First, we’ll open the newly released feature: the Honor Roll."

Pilates operated the interface in front of everyone.

A brand new interface popped up.

"Look at this list. First, we have the Civilization Achievement Honor Roll."

"The number of people who have achieved anything on this main list is currently zero."

"Next is the KDI ranking."

"First: ***, KDI value of 20."

...

"We’ll ignore this for now. After that is the 2*2*2 Safe Deposit Box Mission Completion list."

First: ***

Second: Baludo

...

Seventh: Qin Ying

...

Seventeenth: Qian Ying

Eighteenth: Long Ming

Nineteenth: Clear Sky in Early July

Twentieth: Cloud Fish

Twenty-first: Tang Yue

Twenty-second: Johnny

"Long Ming, Clear Sky in Early July... who are these people?"

"Never heard of them. Anyone know them?"

"Are these people some kind of big shots?"

...

The chat room exploded as the players saw the list.

At that moment, when Mira saw the names of Long Ming and his group, she froze completely.

"Long Ming, Xiaoqi, Cloud Fish, and Johnny? Huh?"

"Tang Yue? How did they complete the mission?"

An Qing exclaimed in utter shock.

Everyone from the Star Wish Guild who was watching was completely dumbfounded.

Just then, someone in the livestream chat commented.

"Wait a minute, isn’t that Clear Sky in Early July the leader of the Star Wish Guild’s fifth Rat Group?"

"Holy shit, you’re not kidding, are you?"

"The Star Wish Guild’s Rat Group stole the mission?"

"That’s right, those guys are all from the Rat Group."

"666!"

"Haha! I’m dying! I thought the Star God Guild was about to pull off something huge, but instead they just took a massive dump."

"So after all that, people from the Star Wish Guild got it? Doesn’t that mean the All Stars Guild won?"

...

Countless bullet comments flooded the screen.

The Pilates Streamer cleared his throat and said,

"Don’t ask me how they did it. I can’t figure it out either. But the facts are right in front of us. Anyway, that’s all for today’s stream."

The livestream feed vanished.

...

「In the observatory base’s central control room.」

Gefens and the others didn’t dare to breathe as they looked at Fakam.

By now, Fakam was furious beyond measure.

He had spent a massive amount of manpower and resources to meticulously plan this grand spectacle, only for it to end in failure.

And to fail in front of everyone, no less. It was a complete and utter humiliation; he had lost all face.

"Sir, could it have been a bug in the game?"

Seeing how enraged Fakam was, Gefens tried to placate him in a low voice.

"Impossible! Someone must have sabotaged us. If our mission failed, it means someone else succeeded."

"But the console was right under our noses. Nobody could have gotten close. And the power to the console was cut before the countdown even finished."

"Then there’s only one possibility. They used the backup console,"

Fakam roared furiously.

"Sir is right,"

Farina said in agreement.

"Search for them! I want you to tear this place apart if you have to, but find them! I’m going to kill them!"

Fakam ordered through gritted teeth.

"Yes, sir!"

Gefens and the others immediately dispersed and began to search the entire observatory base.

...

「In the underground central control room.」

Long Ming’s group of five stood before a machine in the center of the room. A message was displayed on its screen.

"Signal sent. Thank you for showing the way home for a lonely traveler."

Long Ming glanced down at the notification on his wristband.

"Congratulations on completing the mission. You have obtained 1,000 one-dimensional coins and a Safe Deposit Box 2*2*2 Upgrade Card."

"Wow, we completed the mission!"

"Haha, we really completed the safe deposit box mission!"

...

Xiaoqi and the others finally reacted, hugging each other and shouting with joy.

They were over the moon. After all, this was a mission that even President Luoxue hadn’t completed, yet they had succeeded.

Long Ming also broke into a brilliant smile.

He hadn’t expected this place to be the backup central control room. The mechanical pillar in the center connected to the main console above, and it even allowed him to see what was happening in the upper control room.

That was why Long Ming had specifically waited for the other party to reach the final step, then cut the power to the upper console and used his own to transmit the signal, successfully sniping the mission.

’This mission was a real score,’ he thought.

Just then, Johnny said excitedly to Long Ming,

"Bro, we really hit the jackpot following you this time! Forget about the pay, we don’t want it."

"That’s right."

Cloud Fish and the others nodded excitedly.

Xiaoqi suppressed his excitement and looked at Long Ming to ask,

"What do we do next?"

"Things might get a little tricky now. We stole their mission, so I’m guessing the Star God Guild is going ballistic and searching for us everywhere,"

Long Ming said, acknowledging the difficult situation.

"Ah, then what should we do? There’s so much good stuff here. If we get killed, we’ll lose out big time. Even though we already profited by completing the safe deposit box mission, we can’t just let them have it easy."

Xiaoqi and the others all looked to Long Ming.

"Then we’ll just hide here. I don’t think they’ll be able to find us,"

Long Ming said after a moment of thought.

"Yeah, we can just wait them out,"

Johnny and the others replied in full agreement.

"You guys go ahead and sort through the stuff here first,"

Long Ming said to Xiaoqi and the others with a smile.

"You got it!"

Xiaoqi and the others got to work, continuing to sort through the loot they had gathered.

...