Rise of the Zerg in the World of Gods

"We... we won! Sir, we won!" In the villa, the middle-aged butler who had been closely following the battle couldn't help but shout when he saw Moloudo's figure disappear in a flash of light on the arena.

"What's all the shouting about? Can't you see I'm watching?" The old man grumbled disapprovingly, but his hands gripping the cane were trembling, betraying his excitement.

After all, it was ten billion. Not a small sum. How could he not take it seriously?

Earlier, it was just words in the heat of the moment during the confrontation, blurted out on impulse. The old man felt he couldn't show weakness in front of alien races. It wasn't about the money, but about pride. Even if they lost, they had to grit their teeth and persist.

Earlier, while watching the battle, seeing the situation on the field change, the old man felt his emotions were like a roller coaster, constantly fluctuating.

Fortunately, they won in the end.

"Oh, right. Give orders not to let those people leak the news that Wild Slash Street is human. Closely monitor information released online. If there's anything suspicious, detain first and ask questions later. Notify the cabinet."

Having navigated the officialdom and business world for a lifetime, the old man had long seen through the nature of those people.

"Yes!" The butler promptly agreed.

"I wonder which family's child is so capable, actually fighting at the universal level. Ah, today's youngsters are still not up to par. There are only a few humans with some reputation in the universal arena."

"Do we need to investigate his identity? This way we can arrange protection for him," the middle-aged man asked for instructions.

"No need. It's safer if no one knows his identity. Protection? Heh, even with so many people protecting Young Master Zuo back then, he was still killed. So-called protection is just a joke," the old man sneered.

"Pass down the order: no one is to investigate his identity. Such a person in reality is definitely a seed and already has protection. It's better to remain an ordinary seed."

"Yes!" The middle-aged man quickly nodded.

"Sir, your 150th birthday is approaching. How do you want to celebrate? On the Origin Star or return to the Ancestral Star?"

"150th birthday? What's there to celebrate! A family meal together is enough. Tell those youngsters not to bother. Those who can come, come. Those who can't, forget it. No need for special arrangements."

The old man tiredly rubbed his brow.

"Oh, right, and those five million star coins need to be sent over too. No, the kid probably won't dare to accept it. This is a problem. And sending five billion credit points over will definitely attract attention from those with ulterior motives. Such a large sum is too eye-catching."

"So we don't send it for now?" the middle-aged man tentatively asked.

"Send him a private message, ask his opinion. If he wants it, find a way to transfer it through different channels. If he doesn't want it, ask how he wants to handle it. Ten billion can do quite a lot!"

The old man closed his eyes tiredly.

At his age, having just watched such an intense and exciting battle had consumed a great deal of his mental energy.

"Yes!" The middle-aged man promptly responded.

...

"Ouch—" Crawling out of the game pod, Xu Luo felt sore all over, his entire body extremely uncomfortable.

This was even worse than when he didn't apply enough of the medicinal liquid during training, causing his body to not fully recover.

The previous battle had truly severely overtaxed him.

Feeling sticky all over, he quickly took off his dirty clothes, then ran into the bathroom to wash up and change into fresh clothes.

As for the dirty clothes?

The household assistant robot would handle them. He didn't need to worry about it.

Humans didn't develop intelligent robots, but in daily life, there were robots that could handle simple household tasks.

They couldn't do complex things, but tasks like cleaning and laundry were very easy for them.

After getting up, Xu Luo felt very hungry, so he quickly ordered takeout.

He also checked his personal communication device to see if there were any messages.

As soon as he opened it, a flood of messages bombarded him.

"You brat, do you know what day it is today?"

"Brat, where are you? Don't make me come to your house to get you!"

"Brat..."

...

These were from Zhong Tianyue, a barrage of countless messages as soon as he opened them.

"Xu Luo, why didn't you come to school?" This was from Xiang Xun. Surprisingly, he actually sent a message.

"Old Xu, Old Xu, where did you go? You weren't caught by the police department for stealing cows, were you? Do you need me to talk to my dad to put in a good word for you?" This was from Cha Lei.

"Xu Luo, is something wrong? Why didn't you come to school?" This was from Wang Xiaoling.

There were also messages from others, all asking why he hadn't come to school.

Xu Luo was puzzled. Why were so many people asking why he hadn't gone to school? Had something happened?

Looking at the date, he realized it was already three days later, meaning he had slept for three days straight.

So what was happening today?

Xu Luo knocked on his foggy head.

Then his memory slowly returned, and he remembered that today was the opening ceremony of the regional league, meaning there was an entrance ceremony today!

Xu Luo was dumbfounded. He hadn't expected to oversleep and miss the entrance ceremony.

Now, Tianhai and students from other cities must be battling.

As before, Tianhai, being the host, needed to put on an opening show on the first day.

"Brat, I don't care where you are now, get over here immediately!"

Just as Xu Luo was thinking about missing the opening, a communication message rang out. It was a message from Zhang Jian.

Xu Luo frowned.

The opening had already started. Calling him now, was there a situation?

Thinking this, he didn't hesitate and directly went out, hailed a flying cab, and headed straight for No. 1 High School.

Now, with his prize money and such, he didn't need to scrimp and save. He could occasionally splurge on a flying cab.

Flying cabs were like the taxis of Xu Luo's previous life, except they flew in the sky, much faster.

"Young man, are you also going to No. 1 High to watch the competition?" Hearing Xu Luo say he was going to No. 1 High, the chatty driver curiously asked.

"It's the annual regional league again. Back in the day, if my Divine Domain hadn't been destroyed, I could have gone there to make a name for myself. Who knows how many girls would have thrown themselves at me."

The young driver recalled his past years, somewhat wistful.

This was also the life of many people. As long as they had their Divine Domain, no matter what, life wouldn't be too bad because they could directly exchange faith power for credit points to live comfortably.

But after losing their Divine Domain, the results were unsatisfactory. Being able to drive a flying cab like this was considered not bad. Many people couldn't even find work.

"Brother, can you go faster? I'm in a hurry!" Seeing this driver was a bit of a chatterbox, Xu Luo quickly interrupted.

He didn't know what the situation was over there, but judging from Zhang Jian's tone, something wasn't right!

"In a hurry? Don't worry, I'll definitely get you there early. Fasten your seatbelt!" The young driver grinned.

"Back in the day, I got into the top three on the Nine-Tier Flying Stairs. You can trust my driving skills!"

Seeing Xu Luo fasten his seatbelt, the driver suddenly accelerated.

The flying car didn't travel along the predetermined route but instead weaved between the tall buildings.

Although flying in the sky, in this era, due to the towering skyscrapers, there were virtual lanes in the sky. Vehicles still needed to navigate around when driving.

What the driver was doing now was essentially taking shortcuts.

But undeniably, the speed was truly fast.

At this moment, at No. 1 High School, Zhong Tianyue and Dongfang Cheng both appeared very anxious.

"Still haven't contacted Xu Luo? Where on earth did he go?" Dongfang Cheng's face looked very unpleasant.

According to custom, previously, Tianhai City's representatives would go on stage one by one according to their rankings to accept challenges from people from other cities.

This was usually fine because Tianhai was powerful. Those selected from nineteen schools were all geniuses, and each time they would dominate their opponents.

This time, the second and third-year high school students hadn't changed, still crushing their opponents.

But the first-year was different.

Except for Qianqian, who won decisively when she went on stage, they lost the next three people. Xiang Lu and Zuo Jiaojiao won two matches, but they lost another one after that. Currently, one match was ongoing, with only one person left waiting to start. If Xu Luo didn't come, after these two finished fighting, they would have to concede this round.

No one had expected the people from other cities to be so formidable this year.

Although it was only the opponent's top player challenging, in the past, Tianhai had always achieved overwhelming victories. This time, they were fighting so hard and losing more than winning.

"Principal Dongfang, weren't there ten people? Why do I only see nine? Where's the last one? Don't tell me they ran away out of fear after seeing how strong we are?" The principal from Tianzhu City No. 1 High School greeted Dongfang Cheng with a smile.

But his words weren't so pleasant.

Tianzhu City was the best-developed city outside of Tianhai.

However, Tianhai, as the central city of the 11th District, received the best resources and also attracted talents from other cities, which had long dissatisfied other cities.

Among them, Tianzhu City had the biggest complaints because they were the most affected.

Moreover, they weren't convinced, feeling that Tianhai took so many resources but the students they cultivated were just so-so. Although stronger than other cities, that was the result of resources and concentrating the best students. Without this, they wouldn't have such achievements.

This time, they directly concentrated most of the schools' strength, specially focusing on cultivating a few students, just to compete with Tianhai at the top level.

Facts proved that this approach was effective, directly defeating several of Tianhai's students.

After all, Tianhai City received more resources, distributed among nineteen schools. They were stronger than other cities in overall student strength, but this didn't mean there would be a huge gap in top-tier strength. Especially after such concentrated resource cultivation of a few people, this gap was bridged, and these cities' people even had an advantage. Even the relatively powerful students in Tianhai wouldn't receive such cultivation.

"What's Principal Fang in a hurry for!" Glancing at Fang Xinglong, Dongfang Cheng suppressed his temper.

He also hadn't expected the other side to be so shameless. To surpass Tianhai, more than ten cities united, concentrating resources just to cultivate a few powerful students to suppress Tianhai's side.

At the top student level, the other side couldn't match Qianqian and Xu Luo, but at the next tier, they couldn't compete.

It was clearly visible that the other side came with great momentum. Among Tianhai's ten students, only Xu Luo and Qianqian could win steadily; the others were uncertain.

Xiang Lu and Zuo Jiaojiao could win because the opponent's strongest player hadn't moved yet. The second strongest was used to test Qianqian's mettle, not choosing them as opponents.

"The matches aren't over yet!" Zhong Tianyue spoke up, displeased.

Everyone knew the other side's intentions, but this was too obvious!

These schools did this to prove to the Education Department that even without Tianhai's resources, they could cultivate students more powerful than Tianhai. It might seem so, but the reality was that with limited resources, concentrating them to cultivate a few people meant other students lacked resources, harming the interests of the majority of ordinary students.

It wasn't apparent now, but for this batch of students from these schools, except for the most powerful one, the others would be very mediocre. Even those with good talent wouldn't be able to reach the corresponding level due to insufficient resources.

It was essentially gambling the future of countless students on one possibility.

They wanted to pressure the Education Department to allocate more resources to them during distribution, but they forgot what that person's temperament was like.

"That's true, there are still two matches!" Fang Xinglong nodded.

"It's just unexpected that Tianhai City's number one has such airs. We principals are considered elders, and we've all arrived, but he's not even the new king of the 11th District yet!"

He didn't finish the latter part of his words, but everyone understood the meaning.

Just as Tianhai's number one, the airs were already so grand. If he became the 11th District's number one, wouldn't that be too much?

"Then Principal Fang doesn't need to worry about that. I'll discipline my own student!" Zhong Tianyue retorted indifferently.

"Hehe!" Fang Xinglong laughed coldly, meaningfully, and gestured to a young man not far away.

"Then let's see how powerful our number one is!"

Hearing Fang Xinglong's words, that young man nodded heavily, his face full of fighting spirit.

All young people, and geniuses at that, naturally wouldn't submit to each other.

Especially these youths from other cities, who inherently had a sense of hostility towards Tianhai City's students, feeling they had stolen resources that should have belonged to them.

If Tianhai hadn't occupied too many resources, they could have gotten more resources and become stronger.

This wasn't just one or two people thinking this way; it could be said to have been a long-standing notion.

Tianhai occupying a large number of resources and absorbing top talents from other cities had long dissatisfied other cities. An outbreak was only a matter of time.