Cosmic Trading System

Chapter 388 Virtual Game

Time quietly slipped away, yet the progress of Qingyun Company was remarkably swift, with changes occurring daily.

In the blink of an eye, another month passed by.

The combined number of buildings from Qingyun Building and Fly Cloud Building now reached 136, and the population of Qingyun Company exceeded one hundred million, officially establishing them as a substantial force.

The number of employees at Qingyun Company had even exceeded fifty million, while others here were tourists or businessmen looking to strike deals.

At present, the employees of Qingyun Company had been placed on a day on, day off schedule.

There was no choice; Qingyun Company's growth, now somewhat distorted, simply did not require this many workers. However, keeping these people employed was a necessity. In fact, this was a common issue when a civilization reached a certain height of development.

Especially in technological civilizations, where technology gradually became more robust, and things became increasingly intelligent, the need for manual labor decreased. However, as a civilization grew, it remained reliant on the accumulation of its population, so these people were indispensable.

This situation would evolve with development. Each realm in a civilization was diverse—the more discoveries made, the more hands required—as one person's strength was limited, hence the need for more people to do more work.

For instance, for a flying car—from design to production, from repair to modification—each component, each software required numerous people involved; once we start talking about the production and navigation of a massive battleship, even more, manpower was needed.

Speaking of navigation alone, while a common spaceship wasn't too demanding, a battleship—a massive war machine—required many of the civilization's elite to operate it. And the elites weren't readily available, which necessitated a large population base!

Once a civilization expanded from a planetary to an interstellar level, the population deficit would become even more pronounced—manpower would be in short supply everywhere!

Actually, many things were like that. Prosperity leads to decline, extreme conditions cause reversals, in an endless cycle...

Fortunately, Lin Yun had recently found a new path—cultivating rare plants and herbs. Some seeds were procured from the Cosmic Trading System that were suited for Earth's environmental conditions, while others were obtained from Earth itself.

Lin Yun tried his best to choose those with shorter possession periods that wouldn't consume much labor, but also had value since what he had plenty of now were people.

This initiative provided jobs for tens of millions of people.

Now they were working on solving the issue of cultivating the land, which would require even more manpower in the future.

This was the right path for development.

Understandably, the large quantities of Spirit Crystals that were to be harvested in the future wouldn't be worthless Earth currencies.

Many Earth currencies which were earned through the production of Qingyun smartphones, Qingyun vehicles, and other goods by Qingyun Company became rather useless for Lin Yun. In fact, they ended up causing him to spend a considerable amount of Spirit Crystals to purchase resources.

If it weren't for Lin Yun wanting to take control of the Earth bloodlessly and considering that these goods could still be collected on Earth when they became useful in the future, he might not have made such a decision.

He also arranged for a large number of employees to have ample learning time, which had already shown preliminary results—among tens of millions of people, some geniuses were bound to emerge. After Lin Yun carefully selected a few, he used the Cosmic Trading System to help them quickly acquire knowledge; they had now become elite members of society.

Lin Yun then asked them to teach other employees, thereby improving the learning efficiency of the other employees.

Moreover, some people had made significant progress in the field of martial arts. Notably, some individuals had already reached the Martial Arts Realm before joining Qingyun Company, and a few of the strongest even reached the Mid Term Realm of Dark Strength.

After Lin Yun probed and judged that these individuals had joined Qingyun Company, not with ulterior motives but genuinely in search of work, he focused on fostering their martial arts training. Now, the strongest among them had reached the realm of Early Huajin, with the rest having reached Peak Dark Strength.

Lin Yun trained them, not in his own slow and steady method of staying in the foundational realm, but as long as it didn't harm their potential, he nurtured them faster.

According to his judgment, humans of Earth, once reaching the Innate Realm, found their mental strength easily breaking through to Level 4. By then, not only would they have a substantial force, but they could also help him control battleships of Level 4 technological civilization.

The population of those orphans had already exceeded 1 million.

Ever since the battle with the super organizations of various countries in front of Qingyun Building, Lin Yun had allowed his robots to search for orphans on a broader scale. The world had too many war-torn countries and too many orphans.

The number had reached 1 million because of the limited transportation speed on Lin Yun's part. Otherwise, this number could have been much larger.

Currently, among those orphans, the strongest had already reached Mingjin peak. There were about a dozen of such orphans, a hundred had reached the late Mingjin Stage, several thousands had reached Mid Mingjin Stage, and more than 200,000 had reached the Early Mingjin Stage.

This was a terrifying statistical fact.

The longest these orphans had been training was only four months, yet they had reached the Mingjin peak from being ordinary people. Under normal circumstances, many talented martial artists might not achieve this even after ten or twenty years. Even with Lin Yun's strong cultivation, this could not cover up their martial arts talent.

No doubt, these dozen orphans had very high martial arts talent, and Lin Yun had already started paying close attention to them.

Additionally, out of a million orphans, over 200,000 had reached the early Mingjin Stage within such a short span of time. With a ratio of over five to one, this was quite impressive indeed.

One could foresee that once these orphans were unleashed, the Earth would achieve a state of everyone learning martial arts before long.

"Boss, we received a message from home. They hope to exchange some high-tech goods with us through tax-exemption policies. They say they have a decade-long experience in researching high-tech goods. They believe they could potentially do better in researching many high-tech items compared to us. If they can research something useful, they can share it with us..."

While Lin Yun was practicing martial arts, a virtual frame popped up, and the image of a man dressed in black respectfully spoke.

"Ignore them!" A frowning Lin Yun replied.

He truly couldn't understand how those people dared to talk with him so confidently. Even the American Empire and Russia didn't dare to continuously test him. Could it be because he was a compatriot?

Or perhaps he had conceded too many times?

Some people, because of conceding too many times, invite others to bully them. There were far too many instances just like this!

A thread of suppressed anger surged again in Lin Yun's heart, but he quickly repressed it…

"Yesterday, we finally found a Level 4 spirit-item. Now it's time to release the virtual game, which can also solve the issue of employing a large number of employees…" After the virtual frame disappeared, Lin Yun looked out of the floor-to-ceiling window and murmured softly. Stay connected with empire

Virtual games don't account for the location and can absorb and refine the spare mental energy radiated by people all over the world, regardless of the degree of human aggregation. Additionally, they can help people learn various cultivation knowledge to enhance their mental strength more rapidly.

The significance was immense.

In the future, he could also help the Earth enter the era of cultivation more quickly.

No matter whether the Earth civilization develops towards technology or cultivation in the future, the physical fitness of human beings on Earth must be improved; cultivation is necessary. This is a trend in the development of all civilizations in the universe.