The development of events can be described as smooth sailing.

The Greenfield Vessel initiated city-building mode, and within a few hours, established basic material refineries, gas processing stations, information centers, and hydroponic farms.

The little crocodile Nephis surprisingly had a high resistance to curses, largely because there were plenty of workers in the Destroyer faction, each sharing a considerable amount of the curse.

Under Li Aozi's instructions, she began taking on the task of external investigations.

N4 was not idle either; on this trip to the Azure Star, Li Aozi brought back part of Mingji Heavy Industries. On the very first day, without even reporting to Li Aozi, she immediately led people to find a ventilated and waterfront cave to start constructing a Biochemical Center.

In fact, Biochemists are not only adept in combat. High-rank biochemical projects often bring about massive employment opportunities, and more often than not, they benefit humanity—though if you mention the undead due to biochemical leaks, mutant beasts, and fusion creatures?

Ahem, that can only be regarded as a tiny, insignificant cost of development.

Li Aozi didn't have many Mechanics, but he himself had this part-time job, not to mention that he also had Xides, who mastered seven Pathways.

He released Xides' incarnation, transformed into a human form, disguising as the father of his predecessor, Li Mingji, acting as the senior knowledge consultant on the Greenfield Vessel, imparting various knowledge to players while also helping to build the city.

The Magician group needs no further introduction; Baizhu Star, after becoming independent from the Crystal Tower, has almost every person as a mage.

On this journey, besides 220,000 players, he also brought 3,000 outstanding Magic Academy graduates—you see, Li Aozi the Great Commander is benevolent, finding research projects and job positions for people. Apart from lacking a mentor, everything is in place.

With the help of 3,000 graduate workhorses—excellent spellcasters, magic workshops, and various Mage Towers were also gradually being established. On the originally barren steel-tempered land, summoned pixie workers and gnome builders were everywhere, and magic power systems, city pipelines, and road planning had to be put on the agenda.

But all these paled in comparison to the Architect group, represented by Banam.

Banam, specially brought from the Azure Star, truly lived up to being a genius architect.

Originally, he was just a public servant on the Azure Star, reading the newspaper and having tea during work hours, and playing the "Learning strengthens the Federation" game after work, contributing to the construction of a creditism society in the Frost Plating Federation.

Besides a hobby in programming and casually hacking a bank system to assist in stock trading, he had no particular interests, just an unremarkable middle-aged balding man.

However, once Li Aozi bestowed the Architect heritage upon him, Comrade Banam immediately exploded with unprecedented production enthusiasm!

Originally, Banam was just an ordinary mortal, but after getting involved in the Architect Pathway for just half a year, he surged to Zeta Rank (6)!

What does this mean? Li Aozi took all the advantages along the way, with the memory guidance of Xides, avoiding many detours, and it still took 7 months for him to reach Zeta Rank from a mortal.

Of course, this resulted from standing on the shoulders of giants—Li Aozi provided a little help, using Sequence 82·Hunter King to simulate the lineage of the Elyei Spirit Race, remodeling Banam.

As a species in the Layer Abyss most adept in architecture techniques, the Elyei Spirit Race perfectly matched this Pathway and could offer substantial attribute support.

Nonetheless, his learning efficiency and exceptional imagination were indisputable.

On the first day of arriving at the Border Abyss, everyone realized one thing: to survive in the Border Abyss, one had to be an Architect.

What's the biggest characteristic of the Border Abyss? Size!

Under the guise of building a city-state, the actual scale couldn't even be compared to an atom on the plains, let alone in the world of the Border Abyss.

The rules in the Border Abyss were peculiar, with spacetime concepts differing from the Layer Abyss; for instance, the speed of light had no limit, and it only possessed singular particle attributes.

This peculiar phenomenon led to an outcome where they could never exceed the speed of light, and light existed with resistance like water.

One could imagine that without Architects transforming the terrain and editing spatial structures, even basic survival would be problematic.

Normally, the standard procedure for dealing with the Border Abyss's environment, where light speed is not constant, is to create a spherical space through inert gas to isolate the internal and external environments, gradually adjusting the environment, magnetic field, and gravity to appropriate conditions by planting and modifying soil components.

However, this approach had a major problem—cost. Not only did the timeframe drag on, but personnel also had to maintain the inert gas wall, and activities became highly inconvenient, equivalent to imprisoning themselves.

One advisor on the ship also held this view, firmly believing:

"That's how the industry works; there's no simpler method. All civilizations establish large cities this way. If you're not willing to spend this much, don't even think about establishing a foothold in the Border Abyss."

On this issue, the technical advisor refused to compromise in the slightest.

The environment of the Border Abyss appeared rich and beautiful, yet from their ant-like perspective, it was like an inescapable green cage, with grass so tall it blocked out the sky and hills, connected high ridges were insurmountable dimensional walls.

Too far, too vast; even the simplest 'slash-and-burn farming, land leveling' required antimatter bombs to accomplish.

But as soon as Banam took action, he nearly made the technical advisor, who insisted 'even True Gods must build walls,' pop his eyes out of his head.

Banam didn't destroy the local ecosystem but instead modified constants to make local plants grow along predetermined paths. Before long, a majestic tree kingdom formed.

The outer protective layer adopted a honeycomb structure, directly discarding inert gas isolation, using native Border Abyss plants to naturally block out radiation, air, and heavy light (massive photons) from outside.

This approach reduced construction periods and maintenance costs by at least 30%.

And Banam had only been in contact with architecture techniques for half a year, still quite raw in terrain editing capabilities and in wielding the imaginary power of an Architect.

Once this action was taken, players realized the bright prospects of the Architect Pathway: having an Architect in the team was equivalent to having a mobile city.

Apart from having a singular output method (imaginary power blast) and low damage, this powerful support ability was completely born for land conquest, industry development, and legion creation!

The current number of Banams had reached 211, and it was still increasing. Li Aozi did not miss this opportunity; every time Banam recruited, he would intentionally or unintentionally demonstrate his timeline-hopping ability as a Lunar String Archbishop to reinforce his persona.

City-state construction proceeded without a hitch, and before long, with the help of players in the Ajincour Service, the hydroponic farm's crops flourished with bountiful harvests.

Next came a tavern, a stock exchange hall, a memorial museum, an entertainment center, employee dorms, various associations, real estate, and so forth.

In this manner, a year quietly passed.

Although Li Aozi and his group hadn't yet adapted to the effects of curses, at least their day-to-day life was manageable. Li Aozi's abilities, with the constant assistance of Sovereign Pathway players from the White Obelisk, gradually recovered to Eta (7) levels.

Judging by this pace, advancing by one rank each year, in three years, he would naturally break through to Kappa (10).

After reaching Kappa, Li Aozi could begin external exploration.

—Indeed, after a whole year, they still hadn't made contact with the outside world.

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