Woke Up to Find the Game I Made Came True

‘Taken by aliens as if being caught like a monkey... Taken by aliens as if being caught like a monkey...’

Ye Bai's mind was instantly filled with this thought, like a barrage of messages.

As to why the abductors could pinpoint her location so accurately, it was obvious that it was related to her replying to that email. The other party must have tracked her via planetary signals and found her exact location on Blue Star.

‘Don’t reply, don’t reply...’ The mental barrage refreshed again.

How could she have forgotten that?!

Ye Bai now felt an overwhelming sense of regret. It was her own arrogance... She had thought she could handle even the Stellar Alliance, a behemoth of the galaxy, and that her level and territory in the game ‘Onmyoji’ were ahead of even cosmic civilizations like Rui Lan and Kai Yin. She had almost forgotten that she was not just Bai Ye, but also Ye Bai.

She had been so obsessed with hiding the biggest secret—‘Bai Ye is Ye Bai’—that she had been blinded, neglecting the potential danger that ‘ancient human Ye Bai’ could face.

In the extreme darkness and silence, Ye Bai sank into reflection.

In the interstellar era, public safety facilities were vastly different from those of ten thousand years ago. There were no blind spots on Blue Star; everywhere was under constant surveillance.

Personal terminals were incredibly powerful and comprehensive, integrating functions like communication, payment, and planetary transportation... They could even instantly load defensive modules. Within the modified planetary magnetic field, they could almost defend against any non-military-grade attacks.

Previously, when Ye Bai used the purification module, no device had descended from the sky to shield her because the module’s effects were actually operated by Blue Star itself. The change was so subtle that it felt like simply opening an app, though the technological complexity behind it was beyond her comprehension.

Therefore, apart from paying for a hotel room to gain ‘private business space,’ Ye Bai’s sleeping on public benches was no different from being anywhere else on Blue Star.

Places like banks, train stations, and service centers, which used to be considered public safety zones ten thousand years ago, no longer existed on Blue Star. These functions had been replaced by personal terminals.

As a public star near a wormhole, Blue Star in this era was essentially seen as a ‘passenger station’.

It was just that this station was as large as an entire planet, and the vehicles moving through it were interstellar spacecraft, not airplanes or trains.

This environment made Ye Bai, still carrying the mindset of ten thousand years ago, feel that she was unnoticed and safe.

Now, Ye Bai realized that there was no such thing as true safety!

The protection provided to interstellar citizens through personal terminals was limited, depending on the planetary standard. Blue Star was just a public planet, and its defense against wormholes was likely to be at a high level. However, the protection for individual citizens here was undoubtedly lower than in the core regions of their own civilizations.

This was also an era where technology and psychic powers between different civilizations could form hierarchical dominance.

The planetary and personal terminal systems that Ye Bai couldn't understand were probably easily hackable for the aliens who kidnapped her. In the moment they successfully abducted her silently, they must have blocked planetary signals, disguised planetary signals, and evaded all planetary surveillance.

If only she hadn't been trying to save money for emergencies by sleeping on the streets... No, even those capsule hotel rooms weren't difficult to crack. This time, Ye Bai's abduction was most directly caused by her replying to that email.

Looking back, the job offer she originally received from Makur Star might not have been a legitimate recruitment at all... Ten thousand years ago, scams using job offers as bait weren’t unheard of.

Who has ever seen a zoo paying monkeys wages and granting them the same freedom and rights as humans?

People in the past would joke about envying the animals in zoos, protected and well-fed, but such an experience truly falling on a self-aware intelligent being would be entirely different.

More importantly, Ye Bai’s being taken away by such obvious ‘unconventional means’ might not necessarily be for exhibition on Makur Star.@@novelbin@@

Zoological parks emerged with the awareness of animal protection, but for those who just want to make money, there’s another industry called circuses.

Even darker scenarios included being used as exotic cuisine or materials for secret human experiments...

As long as one was weak and backward, they could become prey to others and be at their mercy.

The law of the jungle still applied in this interstellar era, perhaps even more clearly. Between different civilizations and races, there was no morality to speak of.

...

Wrapped in a sense of powerlessness, Ye Bai became increasingly determined in her thinking.

She began to calmly look for solutions.

After trying to use her newfound ability ‘Identification’ for a while, Ye Bai didn’t gain much more information from the nutrient solution enveloping her, only getting more specific details like ‘oxygen ions’ and ‘hydrogen ions’.

Given the current situation and the strength of her newfound ability 'Identification,' all Ye Bai needed to do was to allow herself to 'touch' more external things in order to gain more information and find a way to cope.

Since her body couldn’t move, she still had her psychic powers.

The kidnappers didn’t know that Ye Bai had opened a starnet account. She could use the upgrade effects of Onmyoji to try to raise her psychic power to level D, allowing her to project her psychic powers outside her body.

So, Ye Bai immediately logged into the starnet.

Before entering Onmyoji, she paused and searched for information about the Macul Group on the starnet.

Unfortunately, apart from recruitment and advertisements, she didn’t find any information that could help her current predicament.

Most people on the starnet either communicated or played VR games, so they didn’t pay much attention to such real-world entertainment projects, which were entirely different fields. Ye Bai couldn’t even find reviews from interstellar travelers about Makur Star.

Seeing that she couldn’t find any useful information, Ye Bai didn’t waste any more time and logged into Onmyoji.

It was evening in Bai Ye Village, and Ye Bai looked at the still-developing territory, calculating and evaluating in her mind.

Time was pressing for her now; the faster she could reach level 20 and change her career, the better.

This meant that she couldn’t follow her original plan of waiting for the third batch of refugees to arrive and building a guard team before expanding the trade routes.

Leveling up wasn’t difficult for Ye Bai, but changing her career was the biggest issue.

‘Whoosh’

Ye Bai opened her backpack and looked at the building blueprint for ‘Source Well’—if she entered the Divine Realm, although extremely dangerous, changing her career wasn’t impossible...

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It was too slow. Due to her trade with the traveling merchant, she had used up a large amount of the source energy crystals stored in the village. At the current production rate, it would take several more in-game days to gather enough materials, and villagers couldn’t work at night.

She had no choice but to follow the path of a town transfer, which meant finding a faster way to get to a town.

... Traveling merchant?

Ye Bai’s gaze unintentionally landed on the hot air balloon by the marketplace.

The traveling merchant Kazmai would keep moving between towns for trade, and since the only other player village, Rui Lan Village, hadn’t reached level 1 yet, Kazmai’s next destination was most likely an NPC town, and there was a high probability it was the ‘Galaxy Zone Blue Star Server’ town not too far away in spatial distance.

In the PC version of Onmyoji, players couldn’t make requests to NPCs beyond the standard options, but this version of Onmyoji seemed different?

Ye Bai’s eyes lit up, and she immediately headed to the marketplace.

To give players time to prepare goods, the game had set the traveling merchant to stay in the village for two in-game days. So even though Ye Bai had previously cleared out Kazmai’s inventory, she still saw him at the marketplace.

When Ye Bai appeared again, Kazmai showed a slightly surprised expression and then spread his hands, smiling at her:

"My lord, I've sold out everything I brought this time, so there are no new goods."

"I know," Ye Bai nodded.

Kazmai wondered: "Then what did you come to see me for?"

Ye Bai got straight to the point: "I want to ask if you can give me a ride on your hot air balloon, to the next town you're heading to."

Upon hearing this, Kazmai was stunned, and then frowned, saying: "This... it doesn't follow our merchant's rules."

Ye Bai didn't give up and continued: "I'll pay you enough."

If the other party couldn't accept, Ye Bai would consider using 'zero-dollar shopping' to get the hot air balloon, even if it meant paying a huge price. But now it was a matter of life and death for her; there was no time to worry about so much.

Perhaps it was the 20 points of goodwill at work, or maybe it was the merchant's instinct, Kazmai's brow raised, and his expression became hesitant.

Noticing this, Ye Bai realized there was a chance and promptly took out a piece of Source Crystals from her backpack.

This Source Crystal was different from the coarse and ordinary ones traded before; it looked more crystal clear, and the energy glow in its core was also larger by a circle –【Source Crystal (Fine)】.

Though it was a primary mine, due to Carrie's high-level engineer working in it, the Bai Ye territory had managed to dig out two green-quality fine Source Crystals since the mine's establishment.

"Nothing cannot be traded; the key lies in whether the value is equivalent," Ye Bai blinked and said to Kazmai the first principle of the Merchant Guild.

"It's a pleasure doing business with you, My lord Bai Ye!"

The familiar merchant transaction interface appeared, and Ye Bai saw Kazmai placing a note on the scale, displaying as 【Kazmai's Companion Ticket】.

"Collaborating with you is indeed a pleasure," Ye Bai placed the Source Crystal on the scale.

…

Even though he agreed to take Ye Bai along, Kazmai still adhered to the rule of staying for two days, not immediately departing, but leaving on the second in-game day.

Ye Bai just happened to spend the night arranging future work for the territory, then packed all the tools, equipment, and high-value items she might need for this journey into her backpack.

The next day, as soon as the time came, Ye Bai immediately boarded the hot air balloon, waving goodbye to the villagers, and left Bai Ye Village together with Kazmai.

Sitting in the hot air balloon, Ye Bai looked down through the clouds, overlooking the emerging territory, watching the various buildings and fields grow smaller, and a sense of accomplishment welled up in her heart.

Only when the territory completely vanished from sight, leaving only the desolate wilderness, did she turn to look at Kazmai:

"Now, can you tell me where our destination is?"

"Of course," Kazmai finally stopped beating around the bush: "We're going to the Mystic City of Mel-Lotus—a beautiful city of magic."