Volume 4: The Fall of the Dragon Chapter 220: The Threat of the Super Rich
Half an hour later - Stormwind City -
The Pig and Whistle pub was particularly noisy today.
The adventurers who returned from the front line drank strong liquor, ate barbecue, and boasted loudly about their experiences fighting orcs on the front line.
The war between the Alliance and the Horde is now becoming increasingly intense, with both sides fighting fiercely for every castle and every town.
The Alliance has been using a tactic of attrition, using adventurers and heroes to deplete the tribe's manpower. Currently, this tactic is still very effective, and it also makes the adventurer players very addicted. Fighting on the battlefield every day is much more interesting than clearing dungeons.
The key scene is big enough, and the more people there are, the more exciting the fight will be.
In order to encourage the adventurers, Ryan issued a special order that all adventurers who had participated in the war would receive a 20% discount on purchases in the city. He also asked dwarf craftsmen to create tens of thousands of medal ornaments as a reward for the adventurers' hard work.
At this moment, in a corner of the tavern, several mysterious men in cloaks were whispering about something that had nothing to do with the war.
"Hey guys, you guys are GMs after all, but you're meeting in this shabby tavern to discuss things. This is too cheap. Don't you have a better place to talk?"
Murphy looked at the three people in front of him and was speechless.
In addition to Wang Xuan, there were two mysterious men, both of whom were holy envoys from the divine world. One was Su Wenrui and the other was Zhang Zhen. Murphy had met these two men in the basement of the game company before, so he had some impression of them.
All three of them are GMs, each responsible for managing a continent. Wang Xuan is responsible for the eastern continent, Su Wenrui is responsible for Kalimdor, and Zhang Zhen is responsible for Northrend.
"So what happened? Why did you call me here in such a hurry?" He took a sip of beer and waited for the three to explain.
Su Wenrui sighed, "There's a little trouble in Kalimdor. I'm afraid I can't solve it by myself, so I have to ask Wang Xuan for help. Wang Xuan said you can help."
"What's the trouble?"
"You know the Centaur race, right? This monster force that had little presence in history has suddenly risen up and established a powerful empire. Now it is about to sweep across Kalimdor, defeat the Night Elves, and then conquer the entire Skyworld."
As Su Wenrui spoke, he briefly recounted what had happened before, including the results of his discussions with the Emperor Shenwu.
The more Murphy listened, the more shocked he was. Wow, this, this, this, where did this awesome player come from? He did such a big thing without making any noise.
He was quite familiar with the history of Warcraft, and of course knew what role the Centaurs played in it. They were just one of the many villain forces that served as stepping stones in the establishment of the Horde, and were easily defeated by the Horde led by Thrall.
In World of Warcraft, it doesn't even have a group dungeon, and is only known as a five-person dungeon for upgrading alts.
I didn't expect that even these guys would rise. It's true that things change over time. Don't look down on the young and poor.
Speaking of which, due to the recent war between the Alliance and the Horde, the forums are full of news about this matter. Kalimdor, as a continent that has not yet been opened to adventurers, has no sense of existence at all.
I didn't expect such a big bomb to pop up all of a sudden.
"So the Godly Emperor is going to conquer the world? Why is he so awesome? A professional player? A studio? Or some big streamer? So arrogant that he's not even afraid of you GMs?"
"Neither. He is a legendary wealthy player who has spent hundreds of millions playing games. His real name is Wang Haotian. Have you heard of the Haotian Group?"
“The one that sells electric cars?”
"Yes, it is the Haotian Group."
Murphy thought to himself, of course I've heard of him. He's a technology giant of the new era, a celebrity, a big shot who often appears in the news.
Considered one of the top ten phenomenal figures of the 1930s.
I didn't expect such a big shot to play games, and the character he played was so fresh and refined, a centaur...
Murphy really didn't quite understand. Even if they wanted to play with monsters, they would just make a dragon, a demon, or something like that. What's a centaur? It's not cool at all.
He expressed his thoughts, and Su Wenrui nodded: "Well, how can you say that others have ideas? Your ideas are probably the common ideas of ordinary people, but why can they become giants? Their way of thinking is different.
I noticed it when he created the account . This guy spent nearly 100 million yuan to build the account. I was quite happy at the time and thought that our company had a big customer. I was also wondering why he was playing a Centaur.
I thought it was because of some special fetish, but within two years, something was wrong. Later, I carefully studied his game data and found that he must have done a lot of research and understood the game very well. "
Su Wenrui then began to explain to Murphy.
In the game Sky World, all races have a birth rate setting, which is completely set by the system based on the game background and in-game performance.
There are two main values that determine this: 1. Historical background. 2. The speed at which the adventurer kills monsters.
The weaker the monster, the higher its birth rate. For example, low-level creatures like wolves, goblins, kobolds, and murlocs often have particularly high birth rates. If the birth rate is not high enough, there will not be enough for adventurers to kill.
And even in the plot, they also have to rely on numbers to ensure the continuation of the population. Without a super high birth rate, they would have been exterminated by other powerful races long ago.
To put it bluntly, it's just like rabbits and mice in the animal kingdom.
However, some powerful races, especially those with a long lifespan, such as various dragons, chimera, night elves, etc., have relatively low birth rates.
Because according to the mathematical model, even if the birth rate of the night elves is only 1, and they reproduce a generation every hundred years, due to their endless life, the population will only increase and not decrease. Then after ten thousand years, the population will have exploded and almost covered the entire Kalimdor.
Even if the death rate is taken into account, it will not work, so the birth rate of the night elves must be very, very, very low to ensure the rationality of the plot, otherwise there will definitely be a population explosion and then rule the entire planet.
In addition, the various wars that the night elves have experienced in history have consumed excess population, which is why the population of the night elves remains in its current state of being neither rising nor falling.
The same is true for other powerful races, with low birth rates and various wars.
This is where the power of the system lies.
Among these races, the birth rate of Centaurs is relatively high.
A Centaur tribe can produce 20% of its current population every month. Since Kalimdor has not yet been opened to adventurers, there is no risk of being killed for leveling, so there is no bonus to the reproduction rate in this regard.
The only loss comes mainly from the long-term fighting between the various Centaur tribes. The 20% of the population that is reproduced are often consumed in the war, thus maintaining the population balance.
In addition, in order to prevent one tribe from dominating the other, the system has also made a setting. When one tribe becomes too powerful, a plot event - [King of the Clan] will be triggered. Other weak tribes will unite to besiege this powerful tribe and deal a heavy blow to it, so as to ensure the balance of power among each Centaur tribe.
If the population of each tribe is consumed too much, a balance will be maintained for a period of time to allow the population to return to normal levels.
This system basically covers all races in the entire Sky World, the so-called dynamic balance of population.
It is very difficult to break this balance, which is equivalent to going against the system.
But Wang Haotian actually did it. When he started, he directly created a Centaur Khan with a background of a God-favored One, and it cost him more than 50 million just to create the account.
Then he began a series of fancy operations. In the first year or so, the Emperor Shenwu did not make any big moves. The only thing he did was to maintain peace with the various tribes, sending gifts to increase their favorability and avoid war. Because he had money, he managed to increase the favorability of the various tribes to friendly, thus making the Haotian clan the only Centaur clan that had not been involved in a war.
Then he started farming, real farming, using his status as the one favored by the Mother Earth Goddess to command the Centaurs to open up a large amount of farmland. The farmland could provide food and population. His status as the one favored by the Mother Earth Goddess increased the reproduction capacity of the tribe he ruled by 100%.
Then he collected several plot artifacts that improved reproduction ability from somewhere. It is estimated that he probably spent a lot of money to get them from a studio.
His own BOSS skills also include a lot of skills to improve reproduction efficiency.
Through various operations, he managed to increase the birth rate of the Haotian clan to 500%.
After half a year, the population skyrocketed, and then successfully triggered the [King of the Clans] event. The other Centaur clans immediately gave up the wars between each other and gathered all their strength to attack the Haotian clan.
Then they were wiped out by the Haotian Clan. "
"That's not right. Didn't you say that the system has a dynamic balance mechanism? What's going on here?"
Su Wenrui explained helplessly: "It's not that the system is not powerful, but Wang Haotian is too cunning. He actually asked a large number of his company's employees to enter the game to join his tribe. There are 500 people in total, all of whom are small bosses and elites. In this way, he can command his troops at will. He spent more than 200 million for these employees' accounts.
He also introduced the Mongolian Bangkok tactics into the game and used his employees to implement them, gaining a tactical advantage.
In addition, he also sent a number of personnel to join other Centaur tribes to act as internal support and gain intelligence advantages.
He also formed an alliance with the studio and hired several red dragons to join the battle, gaining air superiority.
As a result, when the war finally broke out, he managed to win an epic victory with an army of 8,000 against 30,000, and defeated the other Centaur clans in one wave, becoming the first clan king.
Because the Centaurs were unified into one clan, there was no more war and the population began to grow explosively.
It took him a year to increase the population to 200,000, and then he began to sweep across the monster forces on Kalimdor.
The Centaur population advantage in Kalimdor is now unstoppable."
Murphy was speechless. This guy really was a tough one. He was rich and good at having fun.
When playing games, you are not afraid of meeting rich people or high-level players, but if someone is both rich and high-level, then that would be troublesome.
Moreover, he was very clear about some of the mechanisms of this game. Population was very important to the monster forces.
Because the number and rank of monster bosses are usually generated according to the scale of the monster forces.
The more powerful the monster force, the more powerful the BOSS the system will generate.
Now the Centaurs have such a huge population and a powerful monster force of millions. Even if no player creates a BOSS account, the system will automatically generate a world-class BOSS to serve as the leader of this force. As for the disaster-level, horror-level, and skeleton-level ones, they are countless.
If the population of Centaurs reaches tens of millions, the system might even be able to generate a world-destroying BOSS.
With such a force, even if Deathwing went there, he would only be in trouble.
Murphy thought of this and looked at the three people in front of him speechlessly.
"So you want me to take action? Why don't you take action yourself? You are the Holy Envoys of the Divine Realm after all..."
The three of them shook their heads and said, "No, there is no such thing as a Holy Envoy from the God Realm in the plot, so we must not act rashly, especially in this kind of plot event, we must not show up, it's like the Burning Legion invading, and suddenly a few Holy Envoys from the God Realm appear and settle the matter, isn't that the same as a deus ex machina.
It affects the player experience too much.
Besides, even if we take action, we may not be able to win. We are just holy envoys of the divine realm, not gods. Although the holy envoy of the divine realm is strong, he is just a legendary hero of level 99, not even a BOSS. You also know that heroes of the same rank usually cannot beat the BOSS.
If the Centaur Emperor is picked out alone, he can fight one of us in a one-on-one duel. He has hundreds of big and small bosses under him. Even if the three of us attack together, we can't withstand the attack of a million Centaurs. We are exhausted."
The latter reason made Murphy hold his forehead with his hand. These GMs are too useless.
It was the first time he heard of a GM who couldn't beat the players in the game.
Murphy always felt that the other party was hiding his strength.
"What about the gods?"
"The gods are just background figures, with no chance of ending up in the game. Anyway, we are completely relying on you this time."
Murphy thought to himself that he was not going to die because he was still thinking about participating in the war between the Alliance and the Horde, so he said, "But if Deathwing leads the black dragon army to join the war, it will not make sense in the plot. Deathwing has no grudge against the centaurs."
Wang Xuan said: "This is not a problem. There are always more reasons than difficulties. If it really doesn't work, just say it's a mystery. No one knows what evil plan Deathwing is planning..."
Murphy: “…”
“And you don’t have to worry too much. After all, you are not asked to fight the Centaur Empire alone.
Just like the Dark Portal, the Black Dragon Legion exists mainly as an interfering force. If the night elves perform exceptionally well and are possessed by the god of war Tyrande, it is not impossible that the Centaur Empire can be destroyed by a wave of extreme operations. After all, the night elves have experienced the existence of the Burning Legion in history. We estimate that no matter how powerful the Centaur Empire is, it cannot compare with the Burning Legion. Maybe you don't need to take action at all.
I'm looking for you mainly just in case, after all, the other party is a very rich player, and he has done too many tricks."
