Chapter 393: Undead: The Strange Soldier from Heaven (I)
On the second day of the internal beta test, players of "Survivor" lined up very quickly and the maps were released very quickly.
On the third day, the official website started releasing the previous day's "Survival" final circle videos at 8 a.m., and countless cloud players laughed like pigs.
Someone downloaded all the finals videos from the official website, cut them into a 20-minute-long comedy compilation and posted it on a certain video website. In less than three hours, the barrage of comments exceeded the display limit...
“Is this the legendary holographic chicken-eating game? Hahahaha!”
"A well-known villain is hacking people online. If you are a brother, come and get hacked by me!"
"There's Brother Shan Ji on the left, Dong Xing Yao Yang on the right, and there's Liu Hua Qiang right next to them. I just want to ask you if you're desperate or not, hahahahaha"
"Both sides are men, and they are all big men [funny]"
"Huaqiang got a quad kill, Huaqiang got a penta kill! Huaqiang is already superb! Sun Honglei is awesome!"
"You players with helmets should just be content. The idiot planner was kind enough not to let Master Wu chop people with a knife. Haha!"
The audience who watched the highlights of the player's kill were not satisfied with just posting barrages of laughter, and they also went to the player forum to post "sympathy":
"IDXXX's brother, how do you feel when Director Qi and Brother Haonan are hunting you down at the same time?"
""Brother IDXXXX, when Brother Huaqiang was chopping you, did he ask you if the watermelon was ripe?""
Most of the "Survival" players who were named by the onlookers chose to play dead.
I finally made it to the final round of the game and was able to show up in the official video, but in the end, I didn't get any limelight and instead became a laughing stock for the onlookers. Who the hell would be willing to take on this?
Of course, there are also players who are full of entertainment spirit and are willing to use their own frustrations to entertain the onlookers and come out to talk, sing and amuse the public:
"I just wanted to hide away, but I was chased from the east to the west by the leader of Causeway Bay. I met Master Wu when I turned a corner. I ran into the evil Director Qi when I escaped by climbing over the wall. You asked me why I died even though I was so lucky and picked up a bottle of medicine that instantly filled my health. I didn't even make it into the top three. This is the reason - I will never forgive you, you bastard planner!!"
"How can you mortals who don't even have Master Wu's autograph understand the joy of being able to have close contact with Master Wu!"
"Ekin Cheng was so handsome when he was young. He was also handsome when he chopped my teammate. He would have been even more handsome if he hadn't chased me for nine blocks afterwards."
"Huaqiang really asked me if the watermelon buns were ripe! It's true!"
For a moment, the forum was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
After returning to Earth and blocking a number of IDs requested by others, Yang Qiu casually glanced at the forum, then turned back to the other world with a smile on his face.
During the two days (on Earth), the players of "Difference" were in pain and happy, and the same was true for the players on "Difference".
Young Brook and his friends worked hard for more than half a month and buried sixteen teleportation points in the Kingdom of Hayak in the north of Middle-earth, which suffered the most severe invasion from the Kenyan Empire and had the most intense resistance.
It is not the kind of sturdy and durable but also very conspicuous iron plate teleportation array, but a teleportation array engraved on the skin of a monster that is more convenient to carry and can last for a period of time as long as it is not destroyed by violence.
Bury it under the soil or hide it in an inconspicuous building. Yang Qiu can remotely activate the brand runes engraved on the teleportation array and incorporate it into its own matrix, then it can be opened to players for use.
In order to prevent players from gathering in a certain area and exposing the teleportation array there, Yang Qiu only opens one teleportation point at a time. After the players who have teleported to the area have been active for a period of time, he temporarily closes the teleportation array and activates another teleportation array that is farther away, forcibly changing the player activity area to confuse the enemy's sight.
Such careful control of the player's appearance in the battlefield of the Hayak Kingdom has an immediate effect - so far, the players have been forcefully inserted into the front line of the Hayak Kingdom's anti-aggression war and disrupting the Kenyan Empire for more than four days (in the alien world), and the sixteen unguarded teleportation arrays have not been exposed.
Yang Qiu returned to the other world and appeared in a villa on the outskirts of the Rhine capital. He sat down and immersed his mind in the matrix. The first thing he did was to close the teleportation array being used by the players and activate another one.
When Yang Qiu did this without any psychological burden... on the distant front battlefield of the Hayak Kingdom, the players who were hiding in a valley to discuss activity plans began to curse.
"Vanilla, the teleport point has changed again. Brother Lahong and the others teleported over but didn't come to us." A player who was standing near the cave teleport point waiting to get supplies shouted.
"Damn it, here we go again!" Qin Guan cursed and stopped his plan, then stood up and said, "Kill me back to the city, I'll teleport to where Lahong and the others are and then pull everyone over."
During the war, there is no penalty for logging off as long as the death occurs on the battlefield, so players become more indifferent to life and death... As long as there are teammates to help pick up the equipment dropped by unlucky people, committing suicide and returning to the city is much more fun than waiting for the teleport CD.
Qin Guan's friend gave me some medicine and left the group without saying a word, then killed Qin Guan with a set of skills.
Qin Guan, who died and returned to Dutata City, checked his most important item, the "Book of the Dead", and found that it was not dropped. He chose to teleport to the battlefield map without hesitation - if the "Book of the Dead" was dropped, someone else would have to pick up the item and commit suicide to send it back.
The scene in front of his eyes went dark and then bright, and Qin Guan was teleported directly from Dutata City to the Hayak Kingdom thousands of miles away.
Lahongge and the others were waiting beside the teleportation point. When they saw Qin Guan coming over, Mingfeng Chunpu, who was in charge of "diplomacy", came up to introduce the situation to Qin Guan: "Vanilla, this teleportation point seems to be the map we randomly visited yesterday afternoon. There is an abandoned village outside, and there is also an abandoned mill."
Because the battlefield teleportation points change every four or six hours (game time), players have to put aside their prejudices, work together, and form a super large group to fight side by side - after all, the enemies in this game (regular troops) are all very strong, and small groups of players repeatedly using harassment tactics have limited effects and it is difficult to achieve results.
"I'll pull people over first. We'll talk about it after they're here." Qin Guan walked out of the cellar where the teleportation point was located, found an open area, and activated the "Book of the Dead".
A large area of brilliant white light flashed, and thousands of players in the group were pulled over at once.
The place where this teleportation point is hidden is a small village in the northeast of the Kingdom of Hayak.
This area was conquered by the Kenyan Empire decades ago, and the village has been abandoned.
Some of the original villagers were captured and sold to plantations or factories in the areas occupied by the Kenyan Empire; some died ; some fled to the rear of the Hayak Kingdom or other Middle-earth countries to survive; and a very small number of them joined the resistance army.
It is also because of the activities of the rebels in this area that this village with a large tract of fertile land has not been turned into a controlled area by the Kenyan Empire.
The compacted loess road is full of potholes due to lack of maintenance, and the land once used to grow wheat, corn and soybeans is now occupied by dense wild vegetation. Only the dozens of earthen houses that have not been corroded by time and the dilapidated mill by the river firmly prove to people the traces of abundance that once existed here.
This dreary scene, which makes the Kenyan Empire, which cannot completely solve the security war problem and cannot transform this land into a controlled area, secretly grind its teeth, and makes the Hayak people full of anger and sadness... cannot impress players who are focused on playing the game.
After accepting the call and being pulled over, the players stepped on the roofs of the earthen houses and crushed the low earthen walls. None of them was interested in appreciating this silent and tragic condemnation of the cruelty of war. As usual, after cursing the planner for being inhuman, they dispersed to the open space outside the village.
"I remember this map. When we were running north yesterday afternoon, we saw a large military camp at the ten o'clock direction." Miaobishenghua looked around and pointed to the northwest. "Chiyao, do you remember the time when you and Huanling captured two elite scout monsters?"
I was still scratching my head to recall the past while taking my medicine. The phantom beside me was nodding vigorously: "I remember now, that military camp was quite large. We attacked it several times but failed to get in. When we were preparing for a surprise attack, the transfer point changed, so we gave up."
"We don't need to explore the map today, let's just attack directly." Miaobishenghua said, "Just follow the plan we discussed at that time. Vanilla stays away and is ready to pull people in at any time. Take medicine and lead people to attack the front. Brother Lahong and you go around the back to steal the enemy commander."
In this open battlefield event, there are no NPCs collecting prisoners on the front line, but as long as the player captures someone and ensures that the prisoner is controlled for more than half an hour (game time), the system will still give settlement reputation rewards...
The only thing that makes players unhappy is that the battlefield map is always changing, and each time you switch to a "new map", you have to explore it all over again; and the system does not give players any time to trial and error. When the time comes, the map will be changed regardless of whether the player has achieved any results or not.
They all wanted to capture prisoners, rob... and seize equipment. The benefits of capturing a soldier were definitely incomparable to those of capturing a commander. After a group of players discussed the tactics and divided the soldiers, they left the abandoned village and rushed towards the Kenyan Empire camp with great momentum.
Thousands of fully armed skeletons roared away, and the abandoned village, which had just been noisy and filled with the sounds of "cracking" and "squeaking", returned to its tranquility.
After a while, a few heads emerged tremblingly from the dilapidated mill located on the west side of the abandoned village and by the river outside the village.
These strangers hiding in the dilapidated mill were wearing tattered and patched linen clothes, turbans on their heads, and straw sandals on their feet. The weapons they carried looked very broken, and the armor and protective gear worn over the linen clothes were also covered with marks from swords and knives.
Several people looked at the direction where the large group of undead left, and observed nervously for a long time to confirm that there were no more undead in the village. Then they ran out of the mill quietly and ran to the cemetery behind the village, which had turned into a forest.
The cemetery, which has been used by villagers for hundreds of years and is surrounded by trees and shrubs, has been overgrown with weeds and shrubs more than a person tall due to a lack of management. Even the tombstones are covered so that they are almost invisible.
Several people stood in the cemetery, stunned for a while.
One of the tall men drew his weapon and stabbed twice at the hard ground that had definitely not been turned over in decades. He turned back stiffly to look at his companions and said dryly, "It doesn't look like there have been any undead coming out of here... Those undead are not our ancestors."
The companions stared at this person in silence for a long time. A man with several scars on his face said incomprehensibly: "If they are not our ancestors, why would those ghosts help us fight the Kenyans?"
The tall man and his companions shook their heads in unison, confusion written all over their faces.
