I handed over the game to the gaming industry, and the government gave me a hacked version.

Chapter 370 Hidden Star City Doesn't Support Idlers

While Chen You was engrossed in completing the mission, in the urban area of ​​Cangxing City...

Thousands of players are gathering in the square to set up stalls, form teams, or exchange monster-hunting experiences.

A dull tremor suddenly came from the ground.

"An earthquake?" A berserker player wielding a greatsword steadied himself and looked around.

Before anyone could react, the entire landscape of Cangxing City began to undergo drastic reconstruction.

The street surface, which was originally covered with black coal ash and dust, was quickly turned upside down, and a layer of gleaming metal armor plates spread outward from the city lord's mansion, instantly covering the main road.

On both sides of the street, the wasteland-style buildings made of stone and wood made a sickening cracking sound, and were then forcibly deconstructed and reassembled in the glaring blue light.

Rising from the ground are towering steel buildings with a mechanical feel.

The exterior walls are covered with huge holographic projection screens, and blue and purple interwoven neon tubes extend upwards along the edge of the building, piercing the sky.

In mid-air, where there was nothing before, several intersecting magnetic levitation tracks suddenly appeared.

Even the NPCs on the street, who were originally wearing tattered leather armor and covered in coal dust, have had their clothes changed by data transfer.

In the blink of an eye, the tattered leather armor transformed into a tactical windbreaker with fluorescent stripes.

The entire room fell silent.

All the players stared wide-eyed as the city was turned upside down in just a few minutes.

"Holy crap..." The berserker player's sword clattered to the metal floor. "This game can be played like this? The main city leveled up by itself?"

"Look at the holographic screen!" someone exclaimed.

Everyone looked up and saw several lines of large, gold-plated characters scrolling across the giant screen on the building's exterior:

[Thank you to Acting City Lord Chen You for your generous investment!]

The suspended disco in the southern district of Cangxing City is now officially open for business!

[Honor Magic BBQ Experience Store Grand Opening! 20% Off Everything!]

……

Announcements covering all industries are continuously displayed on a scrolling screen.

"Chen You? Is he the wandering god?"

"How did he become the acting city lord?"

Event scale: Citywide carnival (highest level)

Reward: 50,000 gold coins!

The system pop-up window was flashing wildly.

[Vocabulary anomaly detected, adapting to the new world view... Match successful!]

[Event generated: "Star Source Voice: The First Cross-Species Idol Awards in Hidden Star City"]

Chen You began to set specific rules.

"First, there are no race restrictions. Elves, orcs, undead, slimes—anyone who can breathe, or has ever breathed, can apply."

"Secondly, we will establish auditions, a preliminary stage, a public performance, and a grand final. The registration fee is ten copper coins; the emphasis is on participation."

"Third, open off-site voting channels. Buy 'Star Tickets' with money, one gold coin per ticket, with no upper limit. Anyone who dares not spend money doesn't deserve to be called a true fan!"

"Fourth, GG sponsorship. Sell all the naming rights for that Magic BBQ restaurant and Succubus Tavern, with a starting fee of two thousand gold coins for each slot."

Chen You became more and more excited as he wrote, as if he could see countless gold coins beckoning to him.

Not only can it maximize prosperity and happiness, it can also recoup some of the money previously invested.

A perfect closed loop.

Although this money will most likely be added to the urban construction fund, it doesn't matter!

That's the allure of capital.

Click Publish.

[Ding! Citywide announcement has been issued!]

Countless dazzling beams of colored light suddenly descended from the sky above Hidden Star City, enveloping the entire mechanical dome like the aurora borealis.

A giant holographic projection appeared in the central square of the city.

In the projection, Chen You sat upright on the throne.

His voice, after being processed by the system, became highly penetrating cyberpunk music:

"Citizens of Hidden Star City, adventurers!"

Are you tired of the monotonous grind of leveling up and killing monsters? Do you feel like your talents have nowhere to be used?

"Now, the opportunity has arrived!"

"Star Source Voice is officially launched! Whether you're a noble elf or a ratman from the sewers, as long as you dare to show off, you could be the next top star!"

"The champion will receive the title of 'Star Source Idol' awarded by the City Lord's Mansion, as well as... a debut reward worth 50,000 gold coins!"

The entire city was deathly silent.

Three seconds later, a roar erupted that seemed to tear the dome apart.

"Fifty thousand gold coins?!"

"I want to sign up! I sing incredibly well; my mom says I have a heavenly voice!"

A burly orc berserker threw down his double-edged axe, yelled something, and shattered the bulletproof glass of a nearby shop.

"Get out of here! Do you vulgar bastards even know what an idol is?" Several elven rangers began frantically fixing their hair, even pulling out enchanted mirrors.

Even the captain of the city guard's third squad, dragging his newlywed slime wife, excitedly rushed towards the registration point.

"Honey, let's go perform the 'breaking a boulder on our chest' act! If we win money, we'll buy a house in the capital!"

The entire Hidden Star City descended into an unprecedented frenzy.