Chapter 647: The Expansion Realm with "Innumerable" Me

Time flew by.

The semester was already halfway over.

Although, strictly speaking, the Expansion Realm had not been open for half a semester, a long time had still passed.

To the Expansion Realm, it seemed as if it didn't need the students of the Witch Academy or other Transcendent Academies to save it.

Those students seemed forever trapped within a circle radiating outwards from Ninglan New City as the starting point.

Even during this time, the Third Shelter was completed, and even the Fourth and Fifth Large Shelters had been built under the powerful infrastructure of Transcendent powers, and interconnected roads with the main city, "Ninglan New City," were established.

There were also a very few individual students who would disregard everything and head to the distance, learning from the almost completely disappeared "Teaching Assistant Xiao Han," to pioneer and explore unknown areas.

As for the rest of the large clubs, their pioneering was predicated on whether they could extend their reach, after all, everything they did was driven by profit.

During their external exploration, many students, after returning, claimed they had encountered Teaching Assistant Xiao Han, who hadn't appeared for a long time.

At first, this matter was quite captivating, as they were also curious about what that "legendary" Teaching Assistant had been doing during this time.

But this situation subsequently occurred many times, and they were encountered in different directions and at different distances, which led to many contradictory statements, because they didn't believe Xiao Han possessed a Clone Spell that could support her doing so.

In the end, all of this became a "joke."

Since then, few people brought up this topic, even if they truly encountered her, and desperately went forward to confirm it and take photos, no one believed them.

As the various Transcendent Academies established their "bases" in the Expansion Realm, their cooperation also became inseparable, but as they continued to push outward, they discovered they encountered unexpected "resistance."

Mutated Beasts.

Those weak existences that were once slaughtered by them like chickens had now become the biggest threat to their outward expansion!

It wasn't that they had become unreasonably powerful in just a few months, but rather that they had become… "smarter," knowing a higher level of seeking benefit and avoiding harm, knowing how to cooperate, and knowing how to… escape.

To exterminate them, high-grade students who had mastered powerful Spellbooks, or even Teaching Assistants, had to personally take action, and once such an operation was conducted with great fanfare, the enemy would learn in advance and relocate.

Although these Mutated Beasts could not inflict terrifying damage on Transcendent students, the damage they caused to ordinary people was incalculable.

Students wanted to build a social framework, and then establish a circulating market and even higher-level capital operations.

Society needed ordinary people to support it.

This was not a play-house activity by a few people; they needed people, and a continuous stream of people, to earn money for them.

Therefore, the casualties and potential threat to ordinary people were the main obstacles to the outward expansion of the joint area centered around Ninglan New City in the Expansion Realm.

Furthermore, among those Mutated Beasts, the terrifying reproductive ability of specific ethnic groups was also very strong, and under the effect of Transcendent Energy, they began to learn to harness it, relying on the innate talent of their own bloodline mutation.

Therefore, the reproductive capacity of the Mutated Beasts and their own combat potential were constantly improving.

Coupled with the intervention of Transcendent power, this lengthy natural selection was completed with an unimaginable high-speed optimization over one or two generations.

But all of this, rather than being called optimization, was more like mutation; they were themselves mutated individuals that developed under Transcendent power.

Mutation was both a disadvantage and an advantage.

The price was a large number of deaths, but their speed of reproduction partially compensated for this flaw.

All in all, the Mutated Beasts had completely formed a scale, and they had completely lost the best opportunity to completely slaughter the Mutated Beast populations.

Aside from the development of this basic infrastructure and the Mutated Beast problem they encountered, the development of another area was also worthy of attention, and that was the Plant Technology tree.

Since an agreement was reached with Teaching Assistant Xiao Han in Ninglan New City to dispel the Dream State Overlap, Ninglan New City began to develop towards Plant Technology.

The banner of civilian technology within Ninglan New City was led by the Extraordinary Research Association.

After all, the development of technology was not just about cutting-edge breakthroughs, but also the development and popularization of basic technology.

So, for the Extraordinary Research Association, which had a foundation in Extraordinary Technology research, this was easy to get started with.

And they found that this Plant Network was really much more convenient than the technology they had previously researched.

The previous technology required power plants, power sources, the laying of electrical infrastructure, and even hard requirements like network cables, but Plant Technology was directly simplified by the "Universal Plant Network" technology.

So, Plant Technology was gradually explained.

And with the development of Plant Technology, the importance of the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree was self-evident.

However, the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree in the Calamity Shelter had now been "requisitioned" by wave after wave of mentor teams.

Therefore, the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree of the Second Large Shelter became the core of Plant Technology development.

But as the symbol of the reopening of the Plant Network, it would forever be the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree of the Calamity Shelter!

Even if it was smaller in size compared to the Second Shelter.

Due to the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree, this led to a very awkward situation for the currently pioneered Third, Fourth, and Fifth Shelters…

If everything had developed this way, it would have been fine, until the person responsible for maintaining the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree at the Second Shelter connected to the signal network of the Plant Network interconnection in another region!

In fact, the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree incorporated into the Seed of Great Knowledge system did not require external maintenance, but the Expansion Realm needed to develop Plant Technology, and the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree was an unavoidable obstacle.

Therefore, they requested Millian to contact Teaching Assistant Xiao Han and grant them the permission to access the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree.

The reply from the other party was yes, but with many restrictive requirements.

Ultimately, a contract was signed, and a Myriad Connection Main Network Tree maintenance team was formed, centered around those who signed the contract.

Therefore, although this team held the title of maintenance, they were only researching this Myriad Connection Main Network Tree, and then expanding from it to create Plant Technology that could access it.

And now, this Myriad Connection Main Network Tree had contacted another Myriad Connection Main Network Tree!

This meant that… they had pioneered a brand new domain on the Plant Network!

After all, information interoperability was also the pioneering of unknown territories!

Even if they could not go there, at least they could understand what the world outside the borders of Ninglan New City in the Expansion Realm was like now.

This news instantly sparked heated discussion in Ninglan New City and all the shelters and sanctuaries.

"Shelter" currently specifically referred to the Calamity Shelter and the Second Large Shelter, while "Sanctuary" referred to the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Shelters.

Just from the naming convention, it was evident that many people disagreed with Teaching Assistant Xiao Han's designation.

Initially, those who controlled the Sanctuaries disdained Plant Technology.

Even though the convenience and advantages of the current Plant Technology were evident, they couldn't exactly beg the other party to install it, could they?

Moreover, those three Sanctuaries were not entirely funded by the Witch Academy, but… ultimately, the opening of the passages for these three Sanctuaries corresponded to the Three Great Top-tier Academies, which highlighted the convenience of negotiation and exchange of interests.

But now they discovered that the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree could now connect to the farther reaches of the Expansion Realm, which made them anxious!

Because once the overall developmental tone of the entire world was set, even if they possessed such powerful strength, it would not be enough to reverse the situation.

So much time had passed; the places they hadn't reached were only without their helping hand.

But they must have also built shelters of all sizes; life always saved itself in disaster.

They might have even rebuilt some small towns and the like, as many former buildings were still left on the Expansion Realm, and the refugees didn't need to be picky.

But as they learned from the Plant Network established by the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree about how they "restored the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree" and structured this astonishing network system, they heard a shocking reply.

They received help from a young girl who called herself the "Calamity Witch."

That Calamity Witch granted them power, taught them to resist Mutated Beasts, dispel Dream States, guided them to construct shelters, gather people, and plant food…

Calamity Witch… the only person using this title in the Expansion Realm… seemed to be one.

And that person… they had almost forgotten her, but reminiscing, her terrifying existence remained vivid in their memory.

When they asked if that "Calamity Witch" was still there, they were told she was not.

She had left.

After helping them perfect the shelter, allowing them to gain a foothold in this world of ruins, she left without hesitation.

That figure only remained in their memories.

They didn't know why the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree suddenly connected with the one here, but they quickly accepted the reality, thinking perhaps this was also the work of that Calamity Witch?

After all, the era they lived in did not experience the arduous development period of the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree's Root System extending.

But as time went on, Ninglan New City began to successively link to the Plant Network systems of Myriad Connection Main Network Trees in other regions.

The speed went from connecting to one every few days to connecting to one every day, and then to connecting to multiple ones a day!

They had to confront a terrifying conjecture… the entire Expansion Realm was being connected together by the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree!

And the instigator of all this… was the person who had completely vanished from everyone's sight…

“How could it be! How could it be that person! Wouldn't it be better for her to completely disappear! Why did she suddenly reappear? She's only one person… how could she possibly have done so much in such a short time!”

Looking at the information transmitted over the Plant Network, the Expansion Realm was gradually forming an overall structure on the Plant Network.

Perhaps some places were not shelters, but their overall structure was still about gathering people, and then… reshaping their world.

Now, communication was basically interconnected.

With only the roads for basic infrastructure and the improvement of transportation tools, then this Expansion Realm would completely form an integral whole!

And the person who facilitated all of this was Teaching Assistant Yang Yuehan.

Although they obtained titles such as "Calamity Witch," "Yang Yuehan," "Xiao Han," and "Yang" from the Plant Network, no matter which title it was, it reminded them of that name.

“Don't be so impatient. It might not be a bad thing that Teaching Assistant Xiao Han helped connect the Expansion Realm for us. The initiative for the development of Plant Technology is with us, which is to say, we hold the technological hegemony, don't we?”

Following the Plant Technology of Ninglan New City, they naturally invested heavily in it.

As for why?

Of course, it was profitable!

Now that someone had helped them make this cake so big, they could earn even more.

With the advantage of technology, they now held the right to pricing and the currency for settlement of transactions.

What did they need most?

Naturally, it was the Transcendent Materials scattered across the Expansion Realm.

They would never recognize the original currency of this world, especially the Hardwood Coin.

Using wood as currency was the funniest currency they had ever seen.

In the Core Realm society, if Transcendent Materials couldn't circulate to the outside world, why would they issue such a currency again?

Such currency held little value for them.

The currency circulating in society represented social labor, but this society was the society of ordinary people.

How could money representing the social labor of ordinary people be exchanged for an equivalent item like Transcendent Materials, which crossed class barriers?

At this moment, the club representatives gathered in Ninglan New City were only venting their dissatisfaction and resentment at this gathering.

There was naturally no need to propose methods.

Now, someone suggested merely easing the tension.

Everyone was astute about profit; how could they not understand such an obvious idea?

They just didn't want to admit that such a great feat could be created by one person.

If they were the ones who had achieved this, they would have publicized it greatly, but there was no "if"…

So, this matter was only a rumor circulating among the populace, and heated discussion was certainly present.

But the masses had no memory; soon enough, the masses would forget, even if every individual truly didn't forget, the collective would no longer discuss this matter.

But one group would not, and that was the Little Han Support Group.

This perennial and constantly growing "unorganized association."

And the members of this support group were no longer just spreading the word within the Witch Academy; this was now the case even in the Expansion Realm.

……

And far away, in a place unreachable by Ninglan New City, I didn't care at all about what was happening at the moment.

Because my journey was not over, and I had experienced many things on this trip, and so had my Clones.

They shared their experiences with me through the Seed of Great Knowledge and the Great Knowledge Sharing Technique, allowing me to experience different kinds of excitement.

But all these things, when gathered together, only made me realize one thing.

That is, whether a matter is meaningful or not is experienced, not… thought up.

Initially, I planned to plant trees all over the Expansion Realm, but when I personally participated in this revolution, I suddenly realized that many things seemed different from what I had predicted.

From the survival of civilization…

Perhaps even without me, they would have radiated the brilliance of civilization and commenced social reconstruction.

Perhaps without me, they would have perished even faster than I had anticipated.

To the life and death of individuals…

These were all my experiences, but for the same question, I often came up with completely opposite answers, because this was reality.

Perhaps the world was a giant makeshift setup, but the predecessors of heroes were all ordinary people who stood tall.

The turning points of history always occurred with vastly different divergences at unexpected moments.

The development of reality was far more unexpected than I had imagined.

And the interesting degree of the development of things also depended on how much effort I invested.

Perhaps because many of my Clones did not have my original appearance, they made choices that the former me would never have chosen, and this action opened up a life I had never seen before.

And I… walked out of the information cocoon I had built for myself, and walked out of the prison of the "identity" I had constructed for myself.