Chapter 1356: Chapter 1218: The Crazy Players Chapter 1356: Chapter 1218: The Crazy Players It’s really not their fault for having such thoughts.
The developnt team of “Cyber Chang’an: 2077” is made up of seasoned veterans who are quite broad-minded, and they aren’t easily shaken by players.
But this ti, it’s truly not their fault.
The Keelback Gang is a notable force within the huge city of Cyber Chang’an, known for its extensive influence, vast connections, a hidden yet impenetrable nest, and fierce firepower.
Moreover, the gang is full of leaders and has undergone nurous extre prosthetic modifications, mostly consisting of “ch Warriors” with formidable strength.
At last, the Boss of the Keelback Gang—codenad Muscular Man “Dragon”—not only injected himself with top-level “Dragon” attribute genetic drugs, allowing him to transform into a giant dragon, but also boasted top-level prosthetic body modifications from “Tianyuan Technology”.
He even created technological armor for his human form and beast armor for his giant dragon form!
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In the whole of Chang’an City, “Dragon’s” combat power was among the top.
As designed by the developnt team, he was the top-level BOSS just below the “ultimate BOSS”!
Players needed to undergo various challenges—finding the location, breaking through the defense line, defeating lieutenants—just to stand before him.
Then they would have to endure a fierce battle through three stages: [Armor Form], [Human Form], and [Giant Dragon Form], to achieve final victory.
This enemy was originally ant to be defeated by players much later in the ga.
—Yet the ga had been released for just three days, and given the players’ character strengths, they couldn’t even defeat minor bosses, let alone this top-level BOSS.
But this morning, when the developnt team ca to work, lo and behold, “Dragon’s” first kill had already been claid!
“Who could be this strong?” Everyone curiously pulled up the data and found the na of the slayer—
[Empty-P22-Fourth Compartnt]
Looking at this na, the whole virtual office fell silent, with everyone’s heads filling up with dense question marks—
“[Empty-P22-Fourth Compartnt]?
Is this…the empty train from the afternoon route 22, compartnt number four?”
“Did the BOSS…get killed by a train compartnt?”
“Ah?
Was it a train accident?”
“Nonsense!
With “Dragon’s” toughness, at most he’d be sent flying, how could he be killed instantly by a collision?”
“What on earth happened last night…?”
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Everyone was very puzzled.
Therefore, Fred verified his authority and retrieved that part of the screen.
The BOSS room is not a sensitive scenario, and the authority required to retrieve the footage is not high; it is only because this is not considered a BUG at the system level that ordinary employees do not have the authority to retrieve it.
The screen was quickly captured—
The burly and muscular Big Boss “Dragon” sat majestically on the leather sofa, his silver alloy arm removing a cigar from his mouth as he turned his head, about to say sothing to his subordinates.
But the faint sound of chaos outside interrupted him.
“Dragon,” annoyed, stood up and walked towards the window to see what was happening.
But the mont he stood up—
“Boom!”
The derailed flying train smashed through an entire floor-to-ceiling window and, with a trendous roar, slamd him into the floor!
The first compartnt was instantly crushed, with each successive compartnt piling on like a hamr on mochi, smashing the ones in front more compactly with each hit!
And the BOSS, who was caught underneath from the start, took the full brunt of the roaring blasts and died on the spot from the impact!
The entire nest was turned to ruins in an instant, with many lieutenants dead or grievously injured, over half of them biting the dust right away.
The smoke and dust cleared.
The screen quieted down.
The virtual office, too, fell into a deathly silence.
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“…Boss, do you see this?
Shouldn’t we do sothing about it?” soone broke the silence, asking Fred, the second-in-command.
And Fred felt a headache coming on.
The developnt team at Cloud Dream generally abides by one rule: give players as much freedom as possible.
“Rule-based” asures should be avoided whenever possible.
Therefore, though setting the rails to [indestructible] would simply solve the problem, not a single person in the developnt team thought about doing it.
Even the idea of “blowing up the rails” had crossed their minds at the beginning.
But what they never expected was that soone would turn this feature into a “roller coaster”!
Calculating exactly where to drop the bomb and precisely demolishing the Boss’s painstakingly built lair was just too much!
This was crossing the line!!!
Could they really just not intervene???
Fred’s headache wasn’t just because of the current situation.
It was one thing for players to join forces with friends online and deviously kill a Boss; the developers were a bit taken aback—especially the team that designed the Boss battle for the [Dragon], who are still gaping in disbelief.
The real trouble was with the multiplayer World.
First introduced in “A Quiet Place,” the gaplay concept of “players achieving an ending then continuing the storyline” wasn’t just inherited by “Cyber Chang’an: 2077” but also greatly expanded upon.
Here, players could reach many different endings, each corresponding to a “Parallel World.”
These Parallel Worlds would be converted into Public Worlds.
After that, the developnt of these “if-line Parallel Worlds,” like [Pandora], would be left to the players and AI—though of course, the developnt team also set so emblematic event trigger points.
If these worlds have people playing ‘flying car bombs’ all the ti, then there’ll be real trouble.
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—Because it wouldn’t just be NPCs sitting on the sky trains then, but many players too!
Picking random lucky players to beco human bombs?
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
When more “if-line Parallel Worlds” open up, players will encounter even more outrageous situations.
For instance, one incident that’s currently trending online—
[Genitalia Terrorist]
This is a German player who loves speeding on his motorbike through the streets, laughing maniacally, and throwing suction-cup male genitalia at every passing person’s helt and facemask—such vulgar toys are all too abundant in the cyber world.
If that guy gets into a Public World…
Fred imagined himself taking a leisurely motorbike ride when suddenly his facemask got smacked by an XX…
he might actually want to kill the guy.
But the problem is, that guy’s biking skills are off the charts—his scores in [Extre Racing] can prove that.
Most people can’t catch up with him and can only fu with helplessness.
Then there’s the [Cyber Corpse Collector], who kills every beautiful NPC he sees and takes them ho to display in his living room.
There are also the relatively less severe [Cyber Kidnap Criminals].
And the [Crazy Octopus Man].
This player injected himself with the Easter egg genetic drug [Octopus Doctor], turning his limbs into octopus tentacles.
It was ant to be a trap with a twisted sense of humor since once a player injected this drug, it was essentially a mutation failure because they couldn’t change back on their own; they would have to pay for surgery to remove the drug’s effects.
But sohow, so players decided not to remove the effects of the drug and instead started wandering the streets as octopus people, their slimy tentacles slithering around and enthusiastically saring mucus on to female NPCs, looking as perverted as one could be!
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In the three days since “Cyber Chang’an: 2077” went live, the number and variety of perverts that have erged truly challenged the developnt team’s perception.
Originally, they planned to have a big eting today to discuss whether to intervene and how to properly guide the players if they did.
But who would have thought, Randall had gone straight to et his mother-in-law!
And so, how to deal with these crazed players beca Fred’s job.
That put a lot of pressure on him!
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