Chapter 491: Crazy Point-sweeping Demon 2.0
Many gars followed [AliveAfter500Years]. As Fang Zhao’s reputation rose, the number of people following his ga ID increased as well. However, Fang Zhao rarely logged on nowadays. He logged on privately once in a while for SilverLight training sessions and publicly for invited events.
Furthermore, Fang Zhao hadn’t participated in public global Esports events in a long ti. That was the reason so people said that Fang Zhao had retired. Many gaming athletes thought this was the case as well.
Many teams had made inquiries about Fang Zhao before the commorative map was opened. They were mostly relieved upon learning that Fang Zhao would be secluding himself to compose. There were also a few top teams that made contingency plans for every situation. What if Fang Zhao decided to participate?
Of course, not a single Esports club wished to resort to such plans.
After the new map opened, SilverLight’s first string squad had been fighting for quite a while and didn’t see [AliveAfter500Years]. Thus, everyone basically accepted that Fang Zhao wasn’t going to be participating.
However!
[AliveAfter500Years] is online.
When this pop-up window appeared before so many people, they seed to lag for a mont.
All gars who saw this pop-up window: ???
A legendary marksman from a certain top team even felt his ever steady hand tremble, and he missed a shot.
All of these gars had various guesses the mont they saw this account co online. Those who believed Jinro’s words first reckoned that Fiery Bird’s account was hacked. Although it was said that Fiery Bird’s anti-hacking system was the best in the industry, there was no such thing as an absolute. There were always what-ifs. What if the account had really been hacked?
News of [AliveAfter500Years] coming online spread throughout the gaming world rapidly. Various live broadcast teams imdiately changed their original trajectories, while various Esports forums bustled with activity. Attention that had been on other players and teams was diverted.
“What did I just see?!”
“Has my Zhao God given up music to return to the competitive Esports scene?!!”
“Don’t get your hopes up. According to insider news, SilverLight’s captain Jinro has said that Fang Zhao should be composing in seclusion. The one logging into the account might not necessarily be him.”
“How can you even believe Jinro’s words?! You should understand what smokescreen tactics an!”
“Let’s observe more before comnting. We will know whether it is Zhao God after watching.”
There were so gaming newbies who didn’t know too much about Fang Zhao and weren’t too impressed by the overreactions of older gars.
Newbie: “I don’t know about Fang Zhao, and I’m not gonna pass any judgnt. However, the na [AliveAfter500Years] doesn’t have a nice ring to it. It’s not domineering enough.”
Veteran: “What use is there having an aweso sounding ga ID? Anyone would still be trampled over just the sa!”
Newbie: “Is Fang Zhao really as impressive as the rumors say? I can’t help but feel that these rumors are exaggerated.”
Veteran: “No, no, no. Just search up and watch the battles where he made his na. You weren’t there when it happened, so he might just be a story to you. But to us, he is a god!”
Of course, there were also older gars who didn’t view Fang Zhao favorably too.
“...Stop exaggerating. What remains of Fang Zhao are rely myths,” soone said. “Aren’t there many outdated gods in the gaming world?”
“I have to admit that Fang Zhao was impressive, but he’s just one person, no matter how amazing he was. As long as he doesn’t join up with the SilverLight team, he actually doesn’t pose much threat.”
So people were also gradually convinced. Fang Zhao wasn’t with the SilverLight team. He was fighting alone!
For this angle, he didn’t seem to be much of a threat indeed.
However, so people still deserved a scolding. In a certain esports group chat:
“Jinro! F*cker! How dare you say that Fang Zhao wasn’t participating!”
“Don’t ever trust Jinro’s words y’all! Didn’t I say it was just a smokescreen tactic!”
“Phew, it’s lucky we made contingency plans.”
“To be honest, I’m not worried. On the contrary, I now feel more level-headed. Plan B initiated!”
SilverLight’s internal team chat:
“Captain, co quick! What’s going on? Didn’t you say that Zhao God wouldn’t be taking part?”
“Yeah, no one disturbed Zhao God because Captain Jin said he was composing in seclusion.”
“So, do we have to change our tactics?”
“Captain... could it be that you actually conspired with Zhao God to co up with a secret strategy?”
“Perhaps this is just Zhao God taking a break from composing?”
Jinro hurriedly replied, “Let inquire first. Our team shall continue as per the original strategy for the ti being.”
Jinro was actually astonished too. Given what he knew of Fang Zhao, there was an extrely low possibility of Fang Zhao taking part in these commorative events. Furthermore, Fang Zhao would surely have given him a heads up if he planned to. Although Fang Zhao seed to be retired, he still understood the rules and would have inford him of his plans.
Thus, Jinro was inclined towards believing that Fang Zhao was hacked.
Jinro got so team mbers who weren’t participating in this commorative competition to observe Fang Zhao’s activity. They were to imdiately make a report with Fiery Bird if the account seed to have been hacked.
Jinro didn’t have ti to bother with those calling him out and had no plans of explaining himself.
Why do I have to explain our internal SilverLight matters to you guys?
Even if I knew Fang Zhao was coming, what’s wrong with putting on a diversionary smokescreen? All’s fair in war!
We are all professional Esports athletes. Bla yourselves for being so naive!
Disregarding the sudden influx of PMs, Jinro waited and observed for a bit. Seeing that there was no hacked account notice from Fiery Bird, he found so spare ti to send [AliveAfter500Years] a PM.
“Zhao God! It’s , Jinro!”
“Are you just making a guest appearance, or do you intend to do sothing big? Do you require us to coordinate with you?”
“We’ve done so analysis of the new map. Do you want to send you a copy of the report?”
However, the PM was t with silence.
Jinro assud Fang Zhao was too busy killing monsters to reply.
At the sa ti, Fiery Bird was also paying close attention to [AliveAfter500Years].
Fiery Bird headquarters.
“Hacked account?”
“No signs of a hacked entry. No problems with identity verification. No anomalies back-end either.”
“Can Fang Zhao be contacted?”
“Fang Zhao has set a ‘Do Not Disturb’ mode. We can’t use ergency ans of contact as we haven’t gotten a full understanding of the situation yet. However, we left him a ssage and contacted his assistant too.”
“Mhm, watch closely. Imdiately freeze the account if there are any signs it was hacked!”
It wasn’t them being overly sensitive. [AliveAfter500Years] was really too unique in the gaming world. Furthermore, with Fang Zhao’s current global influence, too many people were watching.
At a certain spot in-ga.
“Hi everyone, this is your old friend Strong Bubbles. Welco to my live broadcast. I am hiding inside a small cave on the fringes of a beast lair. I have put on camouflage and haven’t been discovered by any monster. However, in a short while, I won’t be able to say anything. So, I will first show everyone my surroundings...”
He adjusted the cara to let his audience see the situation outside this cave.
While these were the fringes of a beast lair, many monsters could already be seen moving around in the area.
Strong Bubbles explained to everyone the reason for choosing to do a live broadcast here. He guessed that [AliveAfter500Years] would possibly appear here, given his previous movents. Only teams would co here for battle. No solo player in the right mind would co to such a dangerous place. However, Bubble’s intuition told him that a storm would surely appear here.
One of the accounts owned by his team happened to be in the vicinity of this area, so Bubbles had used it and hidden here to wait for the storm to appear.
If his conjecture was correct, they would be able to earn another huge sum this ti.
So years back, Bubbles had managed to film a video of Fang Zhao manically sweeping through monsters. That video beca scripture for gars, and Bubbles had gained lots of fans. His production team had managed to earn loads from that video as well. Nowadays, he was no longer a small-ti webcast host who contemplated switching genres. He had now built up quite a decent production team.
It could be said that relying on that video where Fang Zhao made his na in gaming was enough to revive their entire production team.
They had always worshiped Fang Zhao for being their goldmine.
It was genuine worship.
They had printed out a still of that scripture video of Fang Zhao and spent quite a sum for a custom-made photo fra. They prayed to this photo before starting a live broadcast each ti. They didn’t ask for luck equivalent to the original. Just a tenth of that good fortune would be enough for them to strike it rich.
However, Fang Zhao had retired from competitive gaming. He was no longer seen in esports competitions. Thus, Bubbles’s team could only trail other people or teams. Of course, they didn’t just follow random gars. With Fang Zhao setting the precedent, they chose to cover so intense battles and chased after top players. Each ti, they hoped for a battle that could cause a storm in the gaming circles.
After Bubbles had successfully switched to gaming broadcasts, he discovered he was especially sensitive towards blood and carnage. He frequently succeeded in predicting where the action would be. Thus, his team had expanded to its current size over ti.
Bubbles used different accounts each ti and had both high and low level accounts. Chasing after action in the ga was considered to be a dangerous activity that could result in ga over. Chances of surviving a bloody carnage was extrely low and required lots of luck every ti.
Suddenly, the monsters that were wandering outside the cave pricked up and simultaneously looked in a certain direction.
Bubbles held his breath. He heard a slightly familiar sound in the distance.
“T-Rex motorcycle! It’s the sound of a T-rex motorcycle!” Bubbles was on the verge of tears from the excitent.
He finally heard this sound again after so many years!
After [AliveAfter500Years], more and more people used the T-rex motorcycle, but there was only one scripture!
In Bubbles’s opinion, [AliveAfter500Years] was just different! He could hear the tyrannical oppression coming!
His heart raced. He felt rapt anticipation and so indescribable fear.
The high-energy humming of the engine was like a ferocious roar of a tyrannical beast. There wasn’t a slight hint of hesitation. One could even hear a bit of... excitent and impatience? As of a famished beast spotting prey?
No, it had to be an illusion.
Bubbles quickly shook away all these thoughts and listened attentively for activity in the surroundings.
Motorcycle tires screeched shrilly against the ground.
Here it cos!
Taking the risk of having a gaover, Bubbles moved his body further out and adjusted his live broadcast fra.
Bubbles had originally planned to have so interaction with his viewers, but he quickly found himself stunned by the scene before him.
The beast attracted by the sound charged over, and it instantly turned into a scene of a storm.
Everything else was a blur. Only the moving eye of the storm could be seen.
Flashes of gunfire sprayed from the eye of the storm!
Spurts of blood sprayed all over as corpses of beasts fell onto the ground like rain. The concentrated sound of gunfire made Bubbles’s heart thump.
The beasts that charged over like a relentless tide were cut through and turned into re puddles.
After a short while, the storm passed into the distance. The sound of gunfire gradually lessened, and the surroundings beca completely silent.
Bubbles regained his senses and finally felt able to breathe. He took in a deep breath.
He walked out from the cave. A thick layer of beast corpses lay his feet. On closer inspection, he discovered that there was only one bullet hole in each corpse.
Bubbles made his way through the thick layer of beast corpses with great difficulty and headed in the direction where [AliveAfter500Years] had gone. It was even more exhausting than climbing a mountain, and he had to be wary of any beasts still alive among the corpses. The monsters could easily rip him apart with just a bite.
However, it was clear that he was overly apprehensive.
There weren’t any alive.
All these beasts had been cleanly dealt with.
Even though the danger had already passed, Bubbles still shuddered as his hairs stood on end.
He looked into the distance. It was literally a bloody carnage. The path ahead was littered with beast corpses, and there were a few heaps that ford little mounds. Anybody would feel dizzy from the site.
Bubbles’s legs turned soft. He imdiately knelt on the ground.
It wasn’t just Bubbles whose legs had gone soft. His viewers who had witnessed the scene were all in shock.
“Just one person... massacring the entire beast lair...”
“There’s only one person capable of doing that, right?”
“This display seems to be even more savage than that fad scene!”
Hacked account?
What hacked account?!
Who else besides Fang Zhao had such ability?!
Besides the live broadcast audience, personnel at Fiery Bird headquarters observing this account were staring at the screen with their mouths agape.
The new commorative map had so regulations that were different from normal ga play.
As long as one was willing to spend money on ammunition, they could have unlimited bullets.
But! Everyone who played this ga knew that you couldn’t go around the ga like a boss with just unlimited ammunition! This was a survival ga! There wasn’t any revive functionlity in the commorative map. If you found yourself in a monster’s nest, death was certain unless you had a nuclear warhead!
Furthermore, every detail like gun model, reloading speed, anticipation ability, reaction, combat skills and environnt had an effect.
However, the scene they had just witnessed challenged their understanding of their own ga.
“Is there a system bug in our ga?”
“I don’t think so... it’s impossible!”
“I just ran a computer simulation. Without using a weapon of mass destruction and removing any elents of luck, killing an entire beast lair solo requires achieving the ga’s set limits of anticipation, movent, efficiency and reloading! All of these have to be done flawlessly!”
“Basically, achieving this is practically impossible. Even a single tenth of a second delay will result in failure.”
“But, he’s managed to achieve these limits!”
“It’s as if he is a perfectly tuned and precise supercomputer!”
“Are there really no problems with the account? Not a trace of hacking or cheating?”
The technical stuff replied grudgingly, “There really aren’t any. At least, our entire technical team isn’t able to detect any. There aren’t any anomalies in the ga, and the account is normal.”
Silence.
After a mont, a technical engineer said with a distressed look on his face. “I feel that... this kind of person... should be banned from entering the ga.”
At the sa ti, all the large esports discussion forums were bustling with videos and posts.
“It’s appeared! Slide with a 360 drift and simultaneous reloading and firing! [Video] (Dangerous action, do not imitate!)”
“Is this the fabled...’God’s Domain’? [Video]”
“Holy f*ck! This isn’t desperate survival. This is unilateral and maniacal slaughter! [Video]”
The Silver Wing Gaming Team’s official social dia account was also flooded with comnts.
“[AliveAfter500Years] has yet to say a single word after coming online. The phrase ‘a real killer moves in silence’ is so apt here!”
“I’m not here to join in the excitent but to pay my respects. Has Silver Wing successfully persuaded Zhao God to give up music and return to gaming?”
“I already sense a storm looming on the leaderboards.”
As these topics started to grow, many live broadcast teams gave up their original plans and switched their sights towards tracking [AliveAfter500Years]. They believed with [AliveAfter500Years]’s trend in slaying monsters, he wouldn’t just hit a single beast lair.
Just as everyone expected, the storm caused by [AliveAfter500Years] was just barely getting started.
Beast lairs were sacked one after another. [AliveAfter500Years] was like a fine-tuned machine that never stopped operating. He maintained an extrely high efficiency. He never wasted a single second and could safely survive each round of danger.
On the new map’s individual leaderboards, [AliveAfter500Years]’s points kept climbing as if there was so sort of bug. He soon occupied the top spot.
Gradually, everyone was able to see sothing.
Picking up loot was secondary. Killing monsters was his objective!
Savage!
Rampant!
Crazy!
He went wherever monsters were!!
The people trying to follow him were left far behind in the dust and unable to even sll the exhaust emissions of his motorcycle.
Very quickly, all the large Esports news and dia outlets had this headline:
“Crazy Point-sweeping Demon 2.0!”
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