Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 414: Assessment from the Undead Crew
The players fighting in the unfinished building were already low on health, and with the "Sentinel" sniper rifle's damage second only to that of the "Kreber", Ze Luo slaughtered all enemies in his field of vision with almost one shot per enemy - it took less than thirty seconds, and the unfinished building, which was originally filled with gunfire, returned to silence, with only boxes left on the ground.
After killing the last player in the building, half of a person's scalp was exposed on the roof of a building more than 100 meters away from the unfinished project. Ze Luo immediately swung the crosshairs over and shot the person in the head, knocking him down.
She didn't even have any high-power scope installed, and was still using the most basic machine aiming.
Even from Ke Lan's perspective, Ze Luo's operation has reached the highlight level of top professional players - what is meant by "highlight level"? It refers to the kind of operation that can only appear in the highlight videos of professional players. Even for professional players, it is very difficult to perform such an operation. Technology, state, mentality and luck, these factors are indispensable.
For the little girl sitting in front of the computer, this seems to be a piece of cake...
As soon as the gunfire stopped, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps downstairs - those were the players who had just jumped into the next few buildings, and now they were all rushing towards the unfinished building.
Ke Lan initially thought that these people wanted to take advantage of Ze Luo's killing and before he could replenish his status, but he soon discovered something was wrong - there were many footsteps downstairs, and he knew there was more than one team. Logically, these players would have collided before catching Ze Luo upstairs, but the gunshots that Ke Lan expected did not sound. The footsteps approaching from all directions gathered together and rushed upstairs.
"Those people didn't exchange fire when they met?!" Ke Lan was stunned at first, and then immediately reacted - it turned out that these players regarded Ze Luo as a plug-in, and wanted to unite and get rid of this "shameless cheater" together!
After all, the series of kill prompts just now have made all the players in the map remember this ID, and the iconic gunshots of the sentinel sniper rifles told the players who jumped to the "East and West of the Fragment" that the "hack" was in this unfinished building. At this time, these players reached a consensus that was extremely rare - they were no longer opposing teams, but "Zhu Xian" who shared the same hatred and enemies. In order to maintain the game environment, they jointly launched a charge towards the unfinished building where the "hack" was located!
"Fuck... Why do I feel so excited all of a sudden?" For some reason, the classic BGM "Justice Execution" from "One Punch Man" suddenly rang in Ke Lan's head.
However, when he saw Ze Luo take out a light machine gun equipped with a "turbocharger" from the box, the BGM stopped abruptly.
"It's over." Ke Lan muttered to himself. Of course, what he meant by "over" here was not Ze Luo who was alone, but those players who united together because of their inner sense of justice...
This time, Ze Luo did not wait for the other party to rush up, but took the initiative to jump out of the window. He turned around and saw the backs of the players rushing up the stairs——
“Thump, thump, thump—”
Blue-white electric light spurted out from the muzzle of the Focus light machine gun - the characteristics of this light machine gun that uses energy bullets are "the longer the shooting duration, the smaller the recoil, and the faster the rate of fire", and when equipped with a "turbocharger", this warm-up time will be greatly shortened, and it only takes a few bullets to increase to the maximum rate of fire.
A series of damage numbers appeared on the screen. However, before Ze Luo had used up all the bullets in his magazine, the game screen suddenly froze, and a huge dialog box that occupied almost one-third of the screen popped up.
"YOU ARE BANNED."
The second account was also banned.
Although Ke Lan knew that Ze Luo did not use any cheating methods at all, she herself was a cheating-level existence.
Seeing that this account was also blocked by the official, Ze Luo withdrew his hands from the keyboard and mouse, raised his head, and looked at Ke Lan with an inquiring look.
"Okay... I know why my main account was blocked..."
"Video games are too simple. There's no challenge and no fun. They're not at all as fun as you described." Ze Luo said to Ke Lan.
"..." Ke Lan was speechless.
"Reading is still more interesting." Ze Luo said as he walked to the sofa and picked up the tablet on the coffee table.
Ke Lan originally wanted to recommend a few strategy games to her, but then she changed her mind and decided to let this girl read a book...
What if this guy thinks that the "race (defense) race (harmony) extinction (harmony)" gameplay in a certain strategy game is interesting and wants to try it in the real world...
That would be a big deal.
"Forget it, this girl likes reading, let her read..." Ke Lan sat down at the computer and stared at the "YOU ARE BANNED" prompt box in a daze. He originally planned to write an appeal email to the game operator to see if he could get his account unblocked through official channels, but when he thought of Ze Luo's "amazing" achievements, he felt that no matter what he wrote in the appeal email, it would seem so pale and powerless...
If he were the customer service, he would never believe that the person who achieved such a record was a "normal player" who did not use any cheating methods - due to the limited detection technology, many cheating methods will not leave conclusive evidence, which leads to the existence of "false ban": as long as you are determined to be suspected of cheating, even if no evidence is found, the server will ban your account.
"If I want to unblock it, I may have to resort to abnormal means..." Ke Lan rubbed his temples irritably. The so-called abnormal means naturally refers to using hacking techniques to invade the official server of the game to modify the data and remove his account and IP address from the banned list.
"Not only that, I probably have to change my ID... Today's incident must have gone viral on the game forum. It's a pity that I have used this game ID for several years..." Just as Ke Lan was about to hack into the game operator's server again, the computer screen suddenly went black.
"Power outage? That's not right. The lights are not off, and the air conditioner hasn't stopped working..." Ke Lan subconsciously looked at the computer host under the table, and saw that the green power indicator light was on normally, while the red signal light next to it, which represented that the hard disk was reading and writing data, was flashing at an extremely high frequency.
"Did someone hack into my computer?!" Ke Lan was slightly startled. "This is too coincidental. I was just about to hack into the game server when someone hacked into it? Could it be that the game company hired a hacker expert, and the hacker discovered me when I hacked into it for the first time?"
Ke Lan immediately reached for the power cord - this is the simplest and most brutal way to prevent intrusion: first cut off the power supply, then restart the machine in "safe mode" to clean up the mess.
However, his hand stopped just two centimeters away from the power cord—four white words popped up on the dark screen: "Hello, Ke Lan."
Does the intruder know his true identity?
And you are planning to negotiate with me?
Could it be that the other party is stalling for time, trying to buy more time to transfer data and implant the Trojan?
Several guesses suddenly popped up in Ke Lan's mind, but he only hesitated for a moment before making a decision.
Anyway, there are no important files on this computer. The really important data are all stored in the hunting group's main archive. For security reasons, this archive is usually not connected to the Internet. Even if the intruder "cleansed" Ke Lan's computer, he couldn't take away anything important.
The most that would happen would be the loss of some of the seeds and pictures that Ke Lan had saved.
He retracted his outstretched hand, placed it on the keyboard, thought for a while, and typed out three words.
"Who are you?"
"The Undead Crew will."
This unexpected answer made Ke Lan sit up straight in his chair instantly, and his originally relaxed expression suddenly became serious. He looked around and saw that the office door was closed. Hound and others were still outside discussing the rematch of the mecha competition. Ze Luo was sitting on the sofa, concentrating on staring at the tablet, and did not notice what was happening on his side.
There is a surveillance camera installed in Ke Lan's office. Although the angle of the camera cannot capture the content on the screen, Ke Lan still took out the remote control from his pocket and turned off the power of the camera.
After doing all this, he turned his gaze back to the screen and asked in words: "Are you... not kidding me?"
"No." The other party's answer was very straightforward.
In reality, very few people know about the existence of the "Undead Crew", and those who know of the existence of this organization will never joke about its name.
"Then who are you? I mean...your 'code name'?" Ke Lan took a deep breath and continued typing.
"There is no 'code name'. I am speaking to you on behalf of the entire undead crew, not my personal identity, so I am no one."
Although this sentence seemed a bit confusing, Ke Lan still understood the other party's implied meaning - the guy who hacked into his computer represented all members of the Undead Crew, commonly known as the "official representatives."
Ke Lan has only come into contact with three members of the Undead Crew, "The World", "Justice" and the "Pope" on the South District 16 space station, but these three contacts actually have no real significance - the first contact, "The World" descended on Victoria's cyborg, with the purpose of using the authority of the Undead Crew to separate the East District 9 module and the Ark. For "The World", Ke Lan is just an insignificant passerby; the second contact was to protect himself from the assassination of the Morgan family. Although this time he came for himself, "Justice" did not reveal too much information to Ke Lan; as for the third time, it was completely an accident, and, according to the "Pope" himself, he was no longer a member of the Undead Crew.
And this time, the undead crew took the initiative to come to me, which means they are going to take some action against me...
I don't know why, but Ke Lan suddenly had the urge to run away...
"So, what's the matter with you looking for me?" Resisting the urge, Ke Lan continued typing on the keyboard.
" Five days ago, during the 'Sick Village Incident', you came into contact with the 'Pope' Chiron, a former member of the Undead Crew, and joined forces with Chiron to eliminate the invaders of the heretical sect and eradicate the scourge left over from the 'East District 9 Incident'... The report Chiron submitted to the Undead Crew has been circulated to all members."
Ke Lan was well aware that what happened on the space station could not be hidden from the Undead Crew, but Chiron promised to make certain changes to the report, keep Ke Lan's secrets, and conceal the existence of Zelo... I just don't know whether Chiron has fulfilled his promise, and whether the Undead Crew has figured out the trick.
Thinking of this, Ke Lan couldn't help but glance at Ze Luo nervously. If Ze Luo's existence were known to the undead crew, there would most likely be a conflict between the two sides. In this conflict, the first to bear the brunt would probably be Ke Lan and the people of the God Hunting Group.
"Chiron said in his report that due to the attack by the heretic sect, his organism suffered irreversible damage and he is no longer able to complete the mission originally assigned to him by the crew. After his death, we will send someone else to take over the experimental project of the 'Sick Village'."
"Uh... I know that, but what does this have to do with me?" Ke Lan asked cautiously.
"In the report, Chiron himself has a very high opinion of you. He hopes that after his death, you will take over the title of 'Pope' and fill the vacancy of the fifth seat of the Undead Crew." The other party said.
This sentence was not long, but the information it contained was extremely shocking, and Ke Lan's pupils couldn't help but shrink.
"Are you trying to get me to join you?" Although his fingers were a little stiff, his typing speed was not affected too much.
"It was just a recommendation from a former member. Although Chiron's proposal was approved by more than half of the Undead Crew, there are still a few members who are opposed or waiting to see what's going on."
More than half of the people actually agreed that I should join the Undead Crew? Did they keep an eye on me? Or did Chiron say a lot of good things about me in this report?
Ke Lan felt a little confused for a moment. He wanted to tell the other party that he didn't feel much about joining the "Undead Crew" - especially after seeing Chiron's "flesh mountain" body, he had some doubts about the members of this mysterious organization. But he always felt that he already knew so many secrets related to the Undead Crew. If he refused at this time, he would be killed by these people, right?
Before he could reply, a new line of text popped up on the screen.
"Therefore, the Undead Crew will decide to initiate the membership assessment process for you."
