Volume 17: Enemy of All Things Chapter 7 Abnormal Level Promotion
The player level has always been criticized in Les Miserables, or it has become a daily topic on the forum.
Every day, different players would complain that they were not able to participate in certain tasks or levels because of their lack of strength or level. At first, the official was quite patient in responding to such posts, but over time, they just ignored them.
Because this is a common problem in almost every online game. The small numerical differences between each level add up to what seems to be a geometric difference in damage. Other things are easy to deal with. If you encounter resistance, it's not just a matter of eating shit. You will actually gain health by hitting someone. This world is extremely unfriendly to people of low levels. Unless you trigger a certain scenario mode or have a very strong strength, you are just a small fry here.
But noobs can also become stronger through upgrading. Although it is impossible to show all kinds of extreme operations like the big guys in the video, as if they are not human, shuttling through the cracks of time and space, and accurately finding the problematic one among hundreds of thousands of image calculations in one second, although it is not possible to reach such a level, players with electronic brain assistance are not far behind. Therefore, the demand for one-click upgrade is becoming more and more popular in the forum, and many people have extremely rigid requirements for this convenient function. It can even be said that this is a must-have product for current players.
After seeing the dazzling worlds displayed by the masters, the newbies can no longer tolerate the fact that they are still living in darkness. If they had not seen the videos and things performed by the masters, they might not have had any urgent need to upgrade, but after seeing them, they had the idea.
Happiness is not something that can be created, but rather something that can be compared. It is a natural need to feel happier than to have nothing.
However, the authorities have been playing dead, and over time this request has become a joke.
Because the official Les Miserables has always been in a delicate state of being on death row with no desire to survive. Apart from a few customer service representatives, no one can contact any staff, and they do not participate in any performances or electives, not to mention any other modes of action. Even those official activities are organized by the so-called NPCs themselves, just borrowing the official name. So according to this nature, it is natural for them to ignore the players.
However, a month ago, a subtle message from the university gave all players hope for the emergence of a one-click upgrade system. This place, which had always been regarded as a hidden organization, finally began to unveil part of its mystery. It openly recruited experimental subjects from most players.
Don't underestimate this experimental subject. Although it sounds like he will die immediately, this is the lowest level of the university's experimental sequence. The experimental subject can freely study and organize relevant materials in the area allowed by the university. They can gradually obtain corresponding status through their own efforts. For example, the experimental subject can become the captain of the experimental subject, the leader of the experimental subject group, the person in charge of the experimental subject, the general person in charge of the experimental subject, etc. Or make outstanding contributions and successfully join the university.
Those who had completed the university's internal assessment tasks a long time ago were born as internal staff of the university, and their level was two levels higher than these experimental subjects. But this meant that the mysterious university officially unveiled its veil to all players. Various internal test scores began to appear on the forums, and various research plans and related sequences of the university were constantly complained about and revised. After all, each player had some experience in individual transformation, and the assistance of the electronic brain was also quite good. There were even several players who were promoted to experimental assistants that day, which even caused a panic in the player boss area.
It was because the players were advancing too fast, almost too fast. The players of the first era worked so hard to create something, but the second and third generations just sat back and enjoyed the fruits of their labor. They were very dissatisfied with the fact that their hard work had been turned into time.
However, there was nothing that could be done about it. After all, Les Miserables was a typical game that pretended to be dead. No matter how much you criticized the planner, it was useless. The various rhythms sank directly to the bottom of the water without even a splash. The new players happily began to look for clues and possible phenomena about the new version. It didn't matter if they looked for it carefully. After careful observation, they found that they seemed to have found some weird things.
The university seems to be studying the relationship between players and the universe. Through the players' continuous interactive text messages and their own death and resurrection in various ways, the university will accumulate a strange progress bar. What exactly this progress bar means, almost no one knows. But everyone knows that this game will never be aimless. After a month of deep accumulation, these people finally completed the operation of the player-related experiments and made great achievements. Almost the day after the Holy Light announced the war with the Free Alliance, many people claimed that the one-click upgrade function had appeared in the game.
The university claims that players only need to answer some common sense questions to confirm whether they are serious about playing the game, and then the university can adjust the player's level through the world change system that the university has adjusted through continuous experiments by players. Currently, it can only allow players to become level 20 initial magic awakening, but the follow-up is worth looking forward to.
This can be said to have completely won the favor of the players. Even for newbies, the university is much closer than aloof forces like Holy Light.
After all, demons are all crazy. For demons, except for those who are extremely cool or pursue some kind of art, there are almost no normal people who like this crazy organization that kills its own people for no reason. And the Holy Light can basically be regarded as a concentration camp for high-level players. Almost 99% of the players who can fight and have charisma in the game are in the Holy Light camp. There are very few who run away to work alone, but this also proves the corresponding strength of the Holy Light.
However, the majority of players in this game are not crazy people or high-level players, but ordinary players who are neither high nor low. After many casual players and business players suffered a devastating blow to the Free Alliance, some of them were taken over by the university and became the Free Alliance branch under the university.
Other casual players can upgrade with one click through the university and successfully become a decent player in the eyes of other players.
Although most of the people who have experienced it have said that this one-click upgrade can hardly train any abilities, and will make ordinary upgraded players rub the ground a hundred times, but so what? Abilities can always be familiar, but upgrades are not something that can be achieved casually. Every player who has been deeply harmed by the level will actively look for possible university bases around him, looking for opportunities to upgrade with one click.
The players who really used the one-click upgrade kept praising the operation, and sighed that there was still humanity in the dead game. Although the head office of Les Miserables was playing dead, the voices of the players could still be heard. This one-click upgrade function is really perfect.
There is almost nothing to criticize except that it is a bit too bad.
"call……"
Watching the hatch open in front of him, the player slowly opened his eyes, feeling the strange power flowing in his body, and sighed.
This feeling was not unfamiliar. He was not a natural person, so he was very familiar with the feeling of prosthesis. This feeling of something flowing in his body was no different from the feeling of controlling the third hand. Although the initial contact was bound to be bumpy, he would get used to it after a few minutes.
In fact, after walking out of this sealed cabin, the player closes his eyes and uses the surging power in his body to sense any details in any corner of the room. Just like when he was equipped with a radar module to correct the structural errors in the pipe, almost everything is being revealed to him. However, perhaps because the means are a bit unfamiliar, the detailed pictures are not very good, but it is enough to make people marvel.
“Although I know it’s a one-click upgrade, it still feels magical…”
The players clenched their fists and then relaxed them, feeling lucky that they had undergone this strange operation.
Players are indeed immortal, and no matter how hardcore the game company is, it is impossible to directly harm the players. This one-click upgrade feature can be reused by just changing the name, and it is even cleverly combined with the background setting of the game.
This unprecedented sense of participation and identification made the player feel touched and guilty. He was touched because the game settings of Les Miserables were almost completely applicable. He felt guilty because he had previously criticized Les Miserables for turning into a world of pretending to be dead, with everyone from top to bottom pretending to be dead and not seeing the calls of the bottom players at all. Don't you see this? This is a good thing.
“It’s an honor to see another player awaken his magic with our help. This is a good channel for us to obtain more information.”
"Who are you……?"
Isn't this a magic bug?
Looking at the plankton floating in the air, the player was stunned.
Although they knew that Les Miserables was a game world that was extremely mixed, the presence of such magical creatures inside still made the players feel a little strange. However, this strange feeling was quickly melted away in their hearts.
"I am responsible for your artificial magic intelligence module. The artificial soul and database have been written into my body. In the following certification activities, I will lead you to confirm your magic power and attributes, and confirm that you are indeed a player who has some knowledge of this world and not something else. It may take a few minutes of your time, and all these images will be recorded in the archives for reference. I hope you can understand."
"It's okay. I'm used to it. Go on."
The player waved naturally.
Of course, he is very clear and understands this kind of thing. It can be said that there are few players who have not seen it.
It was the so-called authentication system and player activation, as well as some player agreements and other messy contracts. He was also an old player who had experienced that era. The man, whose age in the real world might even be close to three digits, didn't care about it. He just rubbed his shoulders and shook his head, indicating to continue.
"You still need to help us do some experiments. These experiments will eventually be the main elements that can confirm your identity and status. Please write the correct answers on this answer sheet, and then write down your own thoughts on the personal opinion questions. Don't worry, this is not to calculate any grades, it is just to confirm whether you are really accustomed to this aspect of the world. There will not be any propositions that exceed your imagination, most of them are common sense."
"Why do I have to answer the questions? I don't want to go back to elementary school and face so many messed up papers again."
"No, this is just a necessary measure to confirm your normal identity. You have to know that with the development of the interactive network, it is very easy to disguise yourself as another person. We must plan and answer according to common sense."
"In other words, it's the so-called verification code system? It's been so many years, can't it be more advanced? You made this game look like the real thing, but now you have such a simple and crude verification code, which really ruins the player's gaming experience. You'd better improve your technology as soon as possible in the future. If it doesn't work, just take some resources from the computing center. How can you not take good care of us? Really..."
"Your opinions are very valuable and we will take them into account. But please be patient and continue answering the questions..."
The strange creature was not annoyed by the players' mumbling complaints, but spoke calmly.
Following a burst of strange fluctuations, the originally sci-fi room turned into a bright classroom in the blink of an eye.
However, this kind of thing is commonplace. After the old player muttered a few words about how easy it is to play games nowadays, he sat down in his chair and flipped through the questionnaire given to him by the system. It was indeed as described, with not much information on it.
It's similar to the audit system in your impression, except that the questions may be a little more complicated. For example, how big is the real world map, how many planets there are, how much space you occupy, what kind of cutting-edge capabilities you have, please describe your specific identity and past, etc. In the impression of old players, it may be equivalent to an identity check system. Because I heard that there are many strange things that can bypass the monitoring system.
Even among the players, there are such magical urban legends, claiming that they often see many weird things that look like humans but are not humans at all speaking on the player forums. Many of them are garbled or a series of weird question marks and other symbols, but they disappear in the blink of an eye. Old players think that some hackers may have opened their minds and used some strange neural intervention devices or some abnormal electronic brains to slightly block the normal review system. However, these common sense and somewhat unconventional things can greatly mobilize computing resources, forcing people to answer.
With admiration for modern technology in his heart, the veteran player quickly answered the common sense questions above. Then, in order to prevent typos, he rechecked his answers based on the advice of the mysterious pet, and submitted his answers after confirming that there were no problems.
The light blue arcane body shook for a moment, as if it was checking the answer, and quickly turned into a green ball.
“The information you provided is very valuable to us. This will be our first and most important step in getting in touch with your world. Thank you for your answer and support.”
"Okay, I've seen a lot of stuff like this where the world view and reality are linked together to break the dimensional wall. Do you think there were no games in my era? There are many that look more realistic than yours. It's just that you are taking advantage of the technology now. Are there any other certified ones?"
"Then the next step is the final test."
In response to the player's ridicule, this wonderful magical AI neither confirmed nor denied it, but turned to the last topic.
There was another wave like water waves, and the entire bright classroom gradually broke and twisted, turning into a ball of dim powder. However, in this empty darkness, a pale white flame was burning in the center. The pale and bleak appearance looked like some kind of weird and terrifying collection, as if it was plucked from a part of a huge creature. Just a small flame made the player feel a little palpitated for no reason.
It wasn't just palpitations. After looking at the delicate flame for a long time, the old players even felt like vomiting. It was as if it was filled with monsters that were difficult for human thinking to understand. After just one look, they felt dizzy and could only tilt their heads to one side.
"What the hell is this...it looks disgusting..."
"This is a part of a huge product that was intercepted and left behind. It is also a failed product of a previous plan. We turned it into what it is now through experiments. This power is novel and unique, just like chaos and a mirror. It can present models of various energy counters and then target them. Although there is no way to replicate and integrate it on a large scale, we can use this power to conduct experiments on adjusting the power of players like we are doing now."
"Please use your strength to crush this light. Through the experiment, we will give you an accurate report of your ability. You can use this report to carefully refine your magic power in the future, or spend a certain amount of equivalents to let us tailor a magic training process for you."
The light blue magical creature said this as if it had no emotions at all.
And the pale flame in front of the player looked so weak, as if it didn't have even a little bit of attack power. It was disgusting and innocent, like a hateful monster.
