Volume 10: Doomsday Storm Chapter 597 The Fourth Disaster is Coming
Murphy stood in the square of Songmu Town, looking at the players around him who were excitedly exploring this new world. He had only one thought in his mind - that's it!
What we infer only from the announcement is not as intuitive as what we see with our own eyes.
Pinewood is just a remote novice village, and Alterac has almost no presence, yet so many players have flocked to it. It is not difficult to imagine how terrifying the number of players will be in important countries like Stormwind City and Dalaran.
In a short period of time, the number of players in the Sky World will probably increase several times.
The impact of such a large influx of players will be unprecedented and catastrophic.
The expression on Murphy's face remained calm, but his heart was racing.
Everything became clear in an instant.
He had observed the future several times in the past, but found no trace of the fourth natural disaster. Although the world of the sky was full of disasters, there were countless events at countless time nodes that could lead to large-scale crises.
But none of them matched the fourth natural disaster predicted.
A disaster more terrifying than the Scourge of Undead, the Burning Legion, and the Void Invasion.
However, looking at the endless adventurers in the Novice Village, looking at the wild monsters that were slaughtered just after they were refreshed, and looking at the fact that in less than half a day, some people had begun to attack the villagers guarding outside the town, Murphy immediately realized that the fourth natural disaster - was referring to the players.
The so-called fourth disaster...
Players will bring destruction and will use various methods in the game to make profits from the plot characters. This was already revealed during the Second Orc War.
When the Alliance and the Horde were fighting in the Wetlands, players from both camps cooperated with each other to kill the heroes of the other camp.
Kargath Bladefist, Genn Greymane, and many less famous heroic lords have all died at the hands of players.
And this is only the case when the number of players is not in the majority.
Now with the influx of massive players, the entire game ecosystem will inevitably be affected in a subversive way, and it is highly likely that the impact will not be good.
Not to mention, there are a large number of game studios entering the game nowadays.
Although there were studios in the Sky World in the past, the number and scale of studios were very limited due to the high cost of setting up an account. After all, a gaming helmet for this game costs 80,000, and an advanced template starts at 100,000. Even adventurers need a monthly card fee of 500 points.
Moreover, unlike traditional games, you cannot open multiple games on one machine. It will cost millions to set up a studio with dozens of people, not to mention the cost of templates and point cards.
This means that the studio can only exist in a supporting role in the game, reselling materials, engaging in construction, or forming adventure groups to help the heroes.
Generally speaking, it is not much different from ordinary players.
But now, with the launch of cheap helmets that cost only a few thousand yuan each, it is not difficult to imagine that a large number of studios will enter this game.
The currency of this game is very strong, and it goes without saying how attractive it is to game studios.
The studio's exploration of game loopholes, its sensitivity to profit, and its bottom line when playing games are far beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Moreover, game studios don’t care about gaming sentiment; only money is valuable to them.
In addition, the game's heroes, elites and other plot characters can all drop equipment, and if they are killed during the plot, all equipment will drop, which is even more profitable than beating a BOSS.
Even without the power of time to predict the future, Murphy could already foresee that in the future there would be countless game studios targeting these plot characters, just like when the players of the Alliance and the Horde killed each other's heroes from the enemy camp.
Now that the four major camps have been formed, there is not complete peace between them. There is not much punishment for killing each other's heroes and NPCs. If this continues, I am afraid that every character in the plot will be unable to escape in the end.
Faced with coordinated attacks between players, or even hidden enemies around you, even the most powerful heroes may find it difficult to resist.
They couldn't even understand why they were attacked, why the enemy knew their movements so well, and why their allies in the same camp betrayed them.
In the end, only the player will be left in this game, all the characters in the story will be killed, and the entire sky world will become a ship of Theseus, and all the original traces will be erased...
Murphy felt a chill in his heart when he imagined a future like that.
[No matter if you are a humble mortal or a peerless powerful person.]
If not even one of the ten survives, it will be hard for them to escape disaster. 】
This is the true meaning of this prophecy.
(I see, everything is clear now. The reason why Morpheus risked his life to seize the power of the Dragon God was to save the world from this terrible ending?)
"Morpheus, Morpheus, you are indeed a worthy opponent."
Mo Fei talked to himself, feeling a little sad and emotional.
If what he said to Morpheus was just to comfort the dying man, his words now came from the bottom of his heart.
"Don't worry Morpheus, I will fulfill your wish for you. I will bring freedom to this world and free it from its terrible fate."
Before, Murphy was indifferent to this promise, but now he has finally made up his mind.
Because this world is not only Morpheus' world, but also his many friends' world.
Varian, Arthas, Jaina, Knight Roland... these people who fought alongside him, no matter whether they were real lives or virtual programs, the friendship they once had was not false.
It can even be said that his relationship with these people is better than his friends in real life. People in real life will betray him for the sake of profit, but friends in this world are willing to give their lives for each other.
With this belief, Murphy quit the game.
He stood on the roof of his building and looked at the city below.
He wanted to observe the future and find out when the fourth natural disaster would begin and when it would completely break out.
He must complete the action before the sky world is destroyed.
In the game, he cannot observe the existence of the players, so he cannot observe the exact time when the destruction will come, but if he observes it in reality, it will probably be different.
We can definitely find specific clues in the timeline of the real world.
He closed his eyes.
Time Authority——The Future Presents!
Murphy opened his eyes suddenly, and in an instant, the world seemed to have turned into a web with no end.
From where he was, countless events were happening at the same time, and countless scenes were intertwined with each other along the thread of time.
Time became an observable three-dimensional image, and he was like being in a four-dimensional space, outside the time network in a form that transcended dimensions.
The scene before him reminded him of the four-dimensional space in Interstellar, but it was more complicated than that four-dimensional space. After all, Interstellar only presented a few scenes, but what he could see was the entire world.
Murphy walked in the air, between different time nodes, listening to the conversations between humans.
Get information from some text pictures on the screen.
Pay special attention to the parts related to games. Although you cannot understand them intuitively, you can still get information about the internal dynamics of the game from these conversations and from the video broadcasts of the news.
The more Murphy observed, the more frightened he became. The fourth disaster really happened just as he had guessed.
Some killings occurred from the first month. The scale was not large at the beginning and the chance of success was not too high, but the dead cannot be resurrected, and the number of characters in the plot continued to decrease.
By the third month, as the studio's account levels had risen, large-scale killings began.
What surprised him was that some characters in the story seemed to have discovered clues, and from the conversations between those players, it seemed that the game players had also turned into two hostile factions. One group of players did not care about the lives of the NPCs at all and only wanted to get more equipment from them.
The other faction wanted to play the game normally and get along with the NPCs normally, but destruction is easier than construction, and ultimately the destructive faction had more people and gained the upper hand.
By the fifth month, almost all the important NPCs had died, and the entire game had turned into a war game between players...
He took a deep breath. The future was even more terrifying than he had expected. He had to complete the action before the mass killing began.
Three months is the time it takes for a player to level up. In three months, an adventurer can basically reach level 40 or 50.
Thousands of adventurers will pose a huge threat to the plot characters. They can be completely wiped out by just pairing them with a hero player.
Huh?
Murphy suddenly discovered something strange. In the long river of time he was observing, there was one person missing.
Wang Xuan!
Just like he couldn't observe the players in the game, in reality, he couldn't even observe Wang Xuan's future.
Wang Xuan does not appear in any of the images.
What's going on? Could it be that Wang Xuan is not from this world?
Murphy felt a chill in his heart.
If this is the explanation, everything makes sense. Technologies like holographic virtual games are indeed a bit beyond the level of modern technology.
It was as if he appeared overnight. If Wang Xuan came from another universe, then it would make sense.
Murphy returned to reality from the four-dimensional space.
Although he obtained a lot of information, Murphy felt that it was still not enough.
The information learned from the side is not intuitive enough after all, and three months is too broad. Who died during this period, who survived, and were there any friends among the dead? These are all very important.
Is there any way to observe the game and reality at the same time? If he can combine reality and games and observe them at the same time, then he can truly predict the entire future.
But how can I observe two worlds at the same time? I can’t split myself into two. Hey, I got it!
Murphy looked at the game cabin, and suddenly a bold idea popped up in his mind.
You will know whether it will succeed or not if you give it a try.
Just do it when you want to. Murphy lay down in the game cabin and slowly closed the hatch.
After starting the game and looking at the countdown numbers on the screen, Murphy did not close his eyes.
5——4——3——2——1…When the last number appeared, he suddenly slowed down time hundreds of times.
Everything slowly emerged like a slide, light flowed before his eyes, darkness gradually appeared before his eyes, the darkness was like a tunnel leading to the mysterious virtual world, and the colorful light began to suck him into the tunnel.
Murphy concentrated on controlling time, slowing down one second countless times. The game cabin loaded the player's thoughts at the speed of light, so when the player logged into the game, he often only felt a flash of white light in front of his eyes, and appeared in the game in the next second.
At this time, Murphy has to witness the whole process with his own eyes, and he must focus on the most critical frame.
The tunnel was about to reach the end, and the character selection interface in the game could even be vaguely seen.
The time is now!
Time Authority—Time Stands Still!
Everything froze in silence. Murphy stood in the middle of the tunnel. Behind him was reality, in front of him was virtuality, and around him were programs and codes flowing in beams of light...
A very wonderful picture.
However, it still didn't work. Murphy tried it, but shook his head helplessly. Although he was now between the game and reality, as long as he took a step forward, he would enter the game , and if he took a step back, he would return to reality.
If you want to observe the future, you must let time unfold before your eyes, and once it unfolds, you will be dragged into the game.
Unfortunately... in this way, he still cannot observe two worlds at the same time.
He was just about to end this embarrassing situation when he was suddenly attracted by something.
It was a string of code-like things, emitting golden light, suspended in the air, and seemed to be flowing deep into the tunnel, into the game.
There are many such codes, which form this colorful tunnel. Each set of codes has a different color: gold, black, green, red, blue, gray...
Murphy calculated that there were six types of codes in total. These codes were intertwined and mixed with each other to form a channel, and the channel seemed to be part of the game architecture and the entrance to the virtual world.
Murphy looked at the code and vaguely felt the subtlety of the code.
He placed his hand on a string of green codes, vaguely feeling that he seemed to be able to control it. This was - the Chaos Force!
He placed his hand on another string of red codes. This was - the force of life!
Murphy suddenly realized that these six color codes corresponded to the six major forces: light and darkness, life and death, chaos and order.
The system framework of this game is written by these six codes.
Yes, World of Warcraft is composed of six elements. No matter who created this game, it seems to be run according to this idea. The codes representing the six elements are intertwined to form the cornerstone of this world. So that's it! So that's it!
Murphy became extremely excited in an instant.
He understood more things at this moment.
Why Morpheus was the chosen one, and why only the Dragon God could liberate the world, everything was clear now.
This is because dragons are born with the ability to absorb energy of different attributes, and the Dragon God can absorb different powers and authorities into his authority. Only the Dragon God can control the six forces at the same time.
Since this world is written by the six forces, does it mean that as long as you control the six forces, you can control the system architecture of this game?
If I control the system, can I set the world free?
The more Murphy thought about it, the more it made sense.
He now has mastered the four forces: Order (arcane), Chaos (fel), Life, and Death. Now all he lacks is Light and Shadow.
No wonder Wang Xuan didn't want to participate in this plot event. He must be afraid that he would defeat the Will of the Void and gather the six elements of the Force.
However, it is indeed a bit troublesome to gather the six forces at the moment. In theory, if you want to obtain the power of shadow, you only need to kill one ancient god, but now the five ancient gods have merged. If you want to get the power of shadow, you can only start with the will of the void.
Of course, you can also enter the Shadow Void and look for other Void Lords, but doing so is too dangerous.
The physical laws of the Shadow Void are completely different from those of the real universe. Even the Dragon God cannot ensure safety.
The authority of light is even more troublesome. The supreme will has been sent, and the God of Light never shows up. Gods will not easily intervene in the game world.
I don’t know whether Naaru has the authority of light, but it always feels like something is missing.
Moreover, if he were to take action, Wang Xuan would definitely notice it. The other party seemed to be secretly monitoring him, and once he discovered his purpose, he would definitely stop him.
We must find a way to give him something to do...
Murphy kept thinking in his heart, and a plan gradually took shape in his mind.
That's right! Murphy finally thought through the last step.
A smile appeared on his lips. After completing all the original story missions and becoming the Dragon God, he finally found a goal worth working hard for.
