Chapter 136: Rule Pillar, Human Race Meeting

Chapter 136: Rule Pillar, Human Race Meeting

Chapter 136: Rule Pillar, Human Race Meeting

With the integration of new areas, the area of ​​Tezuka Village expanded by a quarter.

The total area has increased to 2723 acres.

The Colorful Mist Coast space covers an area of ​​706 acres.

A rune stone pillar more than ten meters high rose up in the central square of Dizhong Village. Every inch of the stone pillar's surface was covered with intricate scarlet spiritual patterns. The two grooves at the top were inlaid with a scarlet rune and a light green rune respectively.

Players passing by looked curiously, and immediately the information about the new functional building flooded into their minds.

[Rules Pillar]:
Functional building introduction: The core pillar inlaid with the imprint of the territory rules. For each rule power contained, the player can have a legion amplification (the legion amplification is shared by all players, and a permanent gain state is obtained regardless of distance.)
Rules for Contained Territory:
Flesh and Blood Remodeling (initial): Players can be resurrected in the Imperial Tomb Village after death. Each death will deduct 10 points of sacrifice power and enter a 60-minute resurrection cooldown.

Gathering (Crystal Palace Domain Rules): The soul gains the effect of the gathering rules. The more players use this soul, the stronger the additional attribute bonus effect will be. For every 1 gathering points, the soul gains a % strength bonus.

Tips: The calculation formula for the bonus effect of the gathering attribute is: for each additional player using this soul, the gathering effect is +10, and the soul level +1 gathering effect is +1. Taking the black armored snake player as an example, the soul level of 5 players using the black armored snake is 10, then the calculation bonus of gathering is: 50 (quantity) + 50 (soul level), and a total of 100 gathering effect points are added to the black armored snake soul.

The list of bonuses for gathering effects:

1. Breath: Soul Strength gains a 4.37% bonus (attributes and characteristic effects)
Number of users: 16842: 168420 points
Soul average level (16): Gathering points 269472
Total points: 437892
2. Bone Fire (Ink Flame): Soul strength is increased by 3.34%.

3. Black Armored Snake (Venomous): Soul Strength is increased by 2.89%.

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The new territory rules have aroused players' curiosity.

Many players don’t understand how the bonus for gathering is calculated.

But as long as you open the Star Pulse function panel, you can intuitively see the green percentage bonus in the brackets after the soul name.

It is clear that the higher the heat of the soul under the blessing of the gathering rules, the higher the percentage bonus effect obtained.

There was a heated discussion on this issue under the official update post of the forum.

Super God Little Chicken: No, I don't understand why the effect of the rule of gathering is that the more popular the soul, the higher the bonus effect. Shouldn't it be set that the less popular the soul, the stronger the bonus effect? ​​If everyone plays the popular ones, who will play the less popular ones? The official should consider changing the setting?
Night is Coming: Wow, the effect of this rule feature is actually a percentage bonus. If this trend continues, it will not be a problem to increase the strength of popular souls several times in the future. Is this the power of the territory rule feature? However, players who play unpopular souls will have a hard time, as there is already a gap between them and the popular star vein combinations, and now the gap has widened further.

This beaver: It’s wonderful. The Food Air and Bone Fire Soul that I embedded ranked first and second, with a double bonus spiraling to heaven. This is my favorite version update, and I give it full marks.

He slapped her twice in the face: Everyone come and play with the Black Armored Snake Soul. This soul is very powerful. Once you join our Black Armored Sect, everyone in the world will be your brother. If you need anything in the future, just give me a call and I will go through fire and water for you. Let's work together to send the Black Armored Snake Soul to the top of the gathering bonus list.

No noise, no fuss, no showing off: Why can resurrection (reshaping of flesh and blood) be considered a rule feature, and it is an initial rule feature at that? Can it be upgraded to cancel the 60-minute cooldown of resurrection and change it to instant resurrection in the Emperor's Tomb Village? It would be even better if it could be changed to resurrection on the spot, and the consumption of sacrificial power could also be cancelled. This is the strength that the territory rule feature should have. Negative benefits are unreasonable.

This appeared before my eyes: It's over, the sky has fallen for us who play unpopular souls, we are all weak together, why do you who play popular star veins get extra bonus treatment? I demand another unpopular enhanced territory rule, the current update is unfair, I protest!
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The introduction of the new rules has made some players happy while others are grieving.

A large number of recruiting players emerged in the forum, enthusiastically promoting the Star Vein combinations they used, hoping that more players would choose the same style as themselves.

The number of strategy party players skyrocketed during this period.

Many players who never share Star Vein school combinations on the forum took out their Star Vein combinations and posted on the forum to explain the advantages of this combination, and said that choosing their own Star Vein combination is absolutely strong.

There are interests involved, and every player hopes that the soul he uses will become popular.

This is also the first free benefit effect that all players can obtain since the game was launched.

This containment also makes players look forward to the rules and characteristics of the next contained area.

In the foreseeable future, as more and more rule runes are embedded in the "Rule Pillar", the territory rule characteristic gains of players will also increase more and more.

Some players have even begun discussing the Tianyuan realm nodes occupied by the evil spirits of earth.

This is the first rule feature node discovered by the player.

The territory rule feature displayed in the analysis information is "Universal Crucible", and the effect described is to smelt abilities with the same attributes, causing wonderful changes in the abilities.

However, players cannot get a clear answer from the analysis information as to what the specific effect is.

In response to this issue, some players gave various analyses and speculations, appearing to be very excited.

However, it remains unknown when this territorial rule feature can be accommodated.

After all, their players are growing rapidly, but the combat power of the Black Tide and the Zerg Tide is also steadily increasing, and they can be regarded as the two big bullies blocking the way to the Novice Village.

Not only is it incredibly strong, it also has terrifying growth potential.

In contrast, the monsters near the Colorful Mist Coast area and the various ethnic groups all appeared kind and friendly.

The area of ​​map fog dispelled in the Colorful Mist Coast region is about to surpass the Tezuka Mountains.

Old players are also helpless about this.

The opponents of the Colorful Mist Coast are constantly changing, but the Emperor's Tomb Mountains, as the main battlefield of several major guilds, are still fighting against the Black Tide Evils and Zerg warriors.

The strength of the Novice Village seriously exceeds the standard. The stronger the players are, the stronger the two bullies will become.

Coupled with the terrifying ability to explode troops, it is simply impossible for players to counter it through blood-grinding tactics.

Many veteran players have even let it go and simply view the two evil forces as channels for obtaining evolution points and sacrificial power.

In addition to the discussion on the gathering rules, players on the forum also had a heated discussion on the newly accepted "control" soul.

The characteristic effect of this soul is to control the target through mental power.

During testing, players discovered that this was ineffective against Zerg and Evil Spirits, which are life forms that are directly controlled through special connections.

But it can have significant effects on other types of monsters.

Players can control the actions of monsters that are lower in level than themselves. After completing the mental control, there will be an additional perspective in their minds, and there will be no restrictions during the control.

For example, a school of silver-tailed fish in the sea. A level 20 control soul in the test tower can control nearly 50 silver-tailed fish to follow and fight on the seabed.

Secondly, you can also control other types of monsters such as crabs in the Colorful Mist Coast area.

The disadvantage is that the mind-controlled monsters cannot be stored in the pet space like pets in other games, nor can they follow the player into the novice village space. They are disposable consumables.

After completing the control, it is like leaving a mark in the monster's mind that allows it to issue commands, and there is no mental energy consumption in maintaining the control state afterwards.

However, this ability will be invalidated if used on other players.

Based on this feature, players on the forum have come up with two interesting Star Vein school combinations.

The first combination plan was proposed by the forum player "Hot Spring Boiled Egg": Dusk Puppet Flow.

The Star Vein combination is: Control, Dusk, Breath, and Blood Burn.

The characteristic of this combination is that the player can have a super high movement speed, control a group of monsters to fight through mental power, and is mainly responsible for control, not fighting. Occasionally, the consumables will be given a blood burn to strengthen the attributes of the controlled monsters and improve their combat effectiveness.

The second plan was proposed by the forum player "一剑仙人膝": puppet auxiliary flow.

The Star Pulse combination is: control, light shield, air intake, and restraint.

The characteristic of this combination is that players cooperate with each other, are responsible for providing light shield defense, or binding and restricting, and the monsters under mind control launch attacks.

Both plans are built around controlling the soul, focusing on controlling combat, self-assistance or roaming.

However, the opinions of forum players on controlling souls are polarized.

Too many limitations have led some forum players to feel that it is better to improve souls with powerful attributes than to improve the control soul and enjoy the superhuman experience brought by the attribute improvement.

Some players also think that by controlling the soul, they can control the coolies to work, and they only need to give orders. It can be regarded as a weakened version of the Shadow Legion and is very practical.

But all players have a consensus that the strength of the Soul has always been a new god with each version.

Many souls that are weak in the early stage may be promoted to the T0 level in the later stage due to the appearance of a new soul.

When souls with amplification characteristics are incorporated in the future, the playability of controlling souls will be greatly improved.

For example, after you give the controlled monster the following simulated soul characteristics in the soul library of the test tower: Blood Burning, Rage, Cloud Dragon (movement speed enhancement), Evil Armor (defense enhancement)..., the strength of the controlled monster will increase sharply.

The update of versions has always been accompanied by the addition of new souls, and the speed of update is very fast.

Every time a new soul joins, it means a round of strength reshuffle.

The only thing that remains unchanged is that in the eyes of forum players, the original three mythical gods have always been the top representatives of the version and have never fallen from the altar.

In the words of the players on the forum: each version has its own god, and each version has its own three mythical gods.

The Eagle Demon and Gargoyle among the initial three mythical gods are the representative souls of the magic and tank systems.

In the eyes of command players, there is only one true god-level soul, and that is the eagle-headed monster. At this stage, no other soul can match it.

Other combinations are also to help enhance the eagle-headed demon's mental strength and expand the range of perception.

Qi Sheng also paid attention to the opinions discussed by the players.

He decisively ignored the outrageous suggestions made by some players.

For example, cancel the resurrection cooldown, cancel the resurrection consumption and other settings.

If he could do it, he would like to do it.

The resurrection cooldown provided by the Flesh and Blood Remodeling rule feature is a negative benefit in the eyes of players, but giving it to any ethnic group will give this force unlimited possibilities.

Theoretically, as long as there is no one blocking the resurrection point, any force that obtains the characteristic of flesh and blood reshaping will become an invincible strong race. After death, they can be resurrected with full health and full status, and there will be no problems such as weakening of strength.

But this is where the most outrageous thing about the monster world comes into play.

With only a flesh-and-blood remodeling plug-in, it can't really be considered a calamity-level force.

The Black Tide has rules similar to the reshaping of flesh and blood. Any dead Black Tide evil spirits will be swallowed up and reshaped, or converted back into Black Tide energy.

The difference is that there is a percentage consumption in the process of devouring and reshaping by the Black Tide, and it is impossible to revive without loss like players.

If the player army relies solely on the resurrection ability to fight in the monster world, it is likely to be defeated by the black tide and insect tide.

Without the blessing of the super-dimensional rules of extraction of all things, the player's growth mode will change from hunting to clicking on the technology tree, collecting resources for technological research and development to enhance combat effectiveness.

Without the blessing of purification rules, the evil spirits on earth will know the player's secrets at the first time by reading the memory through the evil eye.

Without an independent space like Teizuka Village to provide shelter, players will have to face the endless explosions of evil spirits blocking the door, and they won't even be able to leave their homes.

In this world where cheaters are everywhere, although the strength of a single infinite resurrection ability is very high, it has too many shortcomings compared to those forces that have multiple "cheats", and it is impossible to compete head-on with these forces.

Thinking of this, Qi Sheng felt fortunate.

Fortunately, he has a lot of plug-ins. Inheriting the origin of Emperor Zhao, he has integrated various rules to create a challenger system. He can also increase the number of plug-ins by accommodating other territory nodes. In the future, he will have more and more chips in his hands.

If it really is a single resurrection cheat, I'm afraid the outcome will be dire.

[Boss, if we have a single resurrection cheat, it won't be the Earth Nian evil spirits who will be depressed, but us. By then, the resurrection point will be blocked, and the players will simply stop playing after their mentality collapses, thinking that this broken game is too difficult to play, and it's hard to even get out of the novice village. In the end, we will be left alone to face the future. When the sacrificial power is exhausted, the Emperor's Tomb Village will be separated from the independent space and exposed, and the Emperor's Omen will be born, attracting powerful gods from all races to fight for it, and we will die hand in hand at the entrance of the village. ]

[Hey, these cheaters are so annoying. How can they cheat? They are so strong that it puts us under a lot of pressure. ]

[How about I go out and discuss with them, and everyone should stop fighting and reduce the fighting between gods to a fight at the entrance of the village.]

Qi Sheng heard it and glanced at the instructions:
"Go ahead. I agree."

[Hehe, I'm just kidding, Boss, don't take it so seriously.]

Ignoring the instructions, Qi Sheng began to think about the next strategic direction.

The sacrificial power produced by the Emperor's Tomb Mountains area is now several times that of the Colorful Mist Coast area, but the pace of exploration and development has been locked in the Emperor's Tomb Mountains area, making it difficult to expand outward.

The limited exploration scenarios have brought the containment of domain nodes and original monsters to a standstill.

Therefore, we will have to rely on the Colorful Mist Coast area to contain the domain nodes and original monsters.

At present, there are five domain nodes discovered in the Caiwu Coast area, three of which are in the Cangxing Sea area, and the other two are in the dense forest environment at the back.

Although these five domain nodes are resource-based nodes, their accommodation can alleviate the problem of insufficient space and bring additional sacrifice power output.

Next, he will release purification tasks with these five nodes as the core target, increase the players' sacrifice power benefits, and strive to take down these five resource nodes as soon as possible.

After expanding the space, he can start a new round of recruitment plan.

This time he plans to expand the player base to 100,000 as soon as possible.

The small number of players can't really be called a natural disaster. At most, they performed well in a war of attrition.

However, in frontal combat, the numerical disadvantage makes it difficult for players to compete with the terrifying black tide and the combat insect tide.

They can only reorganize their forces after death and launch another group attack. However, this circular attack method poses limited threat to the Terror Black Tide and the Combat Zerg.

The combat units they lose in battle can be replenished in a short time, which is why the player's army can never defeat the terrifying black tide and the combat Zerg.

In a head-on confrontation, they were completely suppressed by the two major forces.

As a disaster-level force, the shortcoming in the number of players is indeed a big problem.

He has never thought about taking the route of elite player training, and the core direction of future development must still be to produce a large number of troops.

The number of players must be increased, and the improvement of individual strength can be dealt with slowly.

Only when the scale is increased can the power of the natural disaster level be revealed.

The player army can also use endless human wave tactics to overwhelm all enemies that stand in the way, just like the black tide and the insect tide.

After establishing a numerical advantage, the players' exploration of the monster world will be accelerated during non-critical battles. Different players will explore the world in different ways, dispel the fog on the map, and collect massive illustrations and environmental information.

Including the output of sacrificial power, it will also be significantly improved as the number increases.

……

In a corner of the blue planet, there stands a prosperous human city. Looking down from the sky, it looks like a pearl inlaid on the earth.

This is the main city of the Human Federation: Rise City.

At dawn, the first ray of sunlight penetrates the mist, illuminating the glass curtain walls of skyscrapers and awakening the city from the night. The high-rise buildings in the city stand like giants, connected to each other by sky bridges and underground passages, forming an intricate urban network. The appearance of these buildings has both modern technological style and many of them are replicas of iconic buildings from various countries around the world that were damaged in wars.

On the streets, cars flow endlessly like a flowing metal river, moving forward in an orderly manner as autonomous driving technology becomes more popular.

In a corner of the eastern part of the city, the huge building complex looks like a miniature model of the earth when viewed from the sky.

The central building is the meeting hall of the Human Federation, where representatives from major cities in the Human Federation gather together.

Inside the conference room hall, each meeting seat has a flag representing the city it is located in, and on the wall hang slogans of the purpose and principles left behind when the Human Federation was established.

It was in this building that the first joint government of the Human Federation was established, and all participants vowed to work together for the rise of the human race.

This is also the origin of the city’s name “Rise”.

The interior layout of the conference room is grand, with a rostrum, a speaking platform, and an auditorium. The rostrum is located in the center of the hall, the inner circles of the first and second rings are the speaking platforms, and further back are the auditoriums.

Participants arrived one after another after passing through the gate with the earth logo symbolizing the Terran Federation.

Among them, representatives from major cities, military representatives, and other core personnel took their seats at the podium, while the team members they led took their seats in the audience seats behind the podium.

The meeting was called in half an hour.

The federal chief, elected by representatives of major cities and federal parliamentarians, came to the podium and stood.

His name is "Bai Chen". He was born in the military and participated in mechanical wars, making great achievements. Standing on the rostrum at the age of nearly 80, his figure is still as straight as a pine tree, exuding an aura of majesty without anger. His eyes are deep and bright, as if they can see into people's hearts, and the natural wrinkles between his brows are like medals bestowed by the years, recording the hardships and experiences of the past.

He looked up at the participants and said in a deep voice:
"Before this meeting begins, I believe everyone has received the documents I sent to you. Without further ado, let's get straight to the point."

"For this meeting, all networked devices will be turned off and the meeting will be conducted using the intranet... Based on the investigation over the past two months, it is clear that there are two versions of the game in the Dark Land. One is the genuine version that needs to be purchased through the official channels of the Eclipse Clan or through a game platform that is connected to the official channels. The other is a cracked version that is circulated on a small scale on the Internet."

"After analysis by the think tank, it is believed that this cracked version also leaked from the Eclipse Clan. After all, apart from the Eclipse Clan, no other race has the ability to crack the Dark Land monitored by the Star Network's intelligent computer."

"Here I reiterate the three possibilities described in the document."

"The first guess is that there was a factional struggle within the Eclipse Clan, which led to the leak of the cracked version."

"The second possibility is that the Eclipse Clan's top brass wants to seize the highest authority of the Star Network and use the cracked version to weaken the Star Network's influence and monitoring. It can be understood that the cracked version may be a dark place that is not monitored by the Star Network. However, there are many unexplained reasons for this analysis, which I will mention later."

"The third possibility is ..."

"We don't know which of these three reasons is the truth. There may be other possibilities that we haven't cited, but these are the internal affairs of the Eclipse Clan. We have no right to interfere, and we don't need to pay too much attention to them."

"The main topic of discussion at this meeting is the recent series of strange behaviors of the Eclipse Clan."

As he spoke, Bai Chen looked down at the manuscript on the podium, then raised his head and continued:

"According to the report from Wu Gui, the No. 3 supervisor of the Earth Alliance Human Office, we have received an inexplicable intelligence. The Eclipse Tribe actually took the initiative to apply for currency exchange with us. This seems extremely unreasonable."

"Wu Gui submitted a piece of intelligence before, saying that the Eclipse Clan asked him how many players in the Human Federation were eligible to download the cracked version of the game. These two things seem to be related, but we can't find the connection."

"First, the Eclipse Clan is very concerned about how many cracked version qualifications are obtained by human players. Second, the Eclipse Clan wants a large amount of our currency."

"All of this may be related to the leak of the cracked version qualifications. Regarding this issue, I would like to ask the city administrators present here, are there any relevant information about the cracked version of Dark Land in the cities you manage?"

After speaking, Bai Chen looked at the representatives from major cities sitting next to him.

At this time, the green light on Ye Lancheng's podium lit up, and everyone turned their eyes:
"Chairman, I am here to report an abnormal situation discovered during a recent investigation."

"Please speak." Bai Chen nodded.

The Ye Lan City administrator nodded and picked up the tablet on the table, automatically connected to the conference room network, and then called up a document.

Suddenly, the projection lights on the ceiling flickered, and converged into a light screen in front of the participants' tables, displaying a data report.

"This is a recent foreign exchange transaction report. It shows that Yelan City, which I manage, has recently had a number of foreign exchange expenditures. The transaction partners are the Gilled Fish and Deep Fish tribes in the Fishing Port City. Because these are high-frequency and small-amount transactions, they have been marked by the intelligent computer."

"At first I didn't think there was anything wrong until the person in charge of checking the transaction records reported to me. He retrieved the transaction records of other cities and found that many cities had similar phenomena. They all made high-frequency foreign exchange payments to the Gill Fish and Deep Fish tribes, but there was no corresponding harvest record for each transaction. In other words, these transactions were one-way payments, not purchases of seafood from the Deep Fish and Gill Fish tribes, so they can be classified as virtual commodity transactions."

"In order to find out the specific situation, I retrieved the virtual transaction information of these currency exchangers and found that there was no correlation between their online shopping records and currency exchange expenditures, and the amounts did not match. It can basically be determined that these transactions were all virtual game expenditures. In-game products were purchased in the game, and then exchanged for currency and spent on players of the Gill Fish and Deep Fish tribes."

"It stands to reason that virtual transactions in games are normal. The Federation spends a lot of money on purchasing virtual goods every year, and also receives a lot of foreign exchange income from other races. These are normal virtual transactions."

"But the problem is that games now have built-in virtual trading channels, and you can directly exchange cash for game currency in the game. Why do these unrecorded virtual transactions appear... I read the report sent by the chairman yesterday, and I think this matter may be related to the cracked version of Dark Land. It is very likely that the cracked version of Dark Land does not have an automatic currency exchange transaction system, so you need to exit the game and transfer the money to operate."

"My report is finished." After speaking, the representative of Ye Lan City pressed the switch, and the green light on the table went out immediately.

"I have recorded your report. Since this meeting is not held online, I cannot use the intelligent computer to perform detailed calculations. I will follow up and investigate later. Do the representatives from other cities have any other findings?"

Bai Chen's eyes swept around the conference hall and finally focused on the Tianfeng City seat where the green light suddenly turned on.

Sitting in the seat was a middle-aged man with fair skin, delicate face, regular features, a straight nose, and extremely well-maintained skin. He wore a pair of frameless smart glasses on his face and a well-tailored white shirt with dark trousers.

"Speaking of abnormal transactions, there have been many similar transaction records in Tianfeng City, which I manage, recently. However, free trading is a rule set in the early days of the Earth Alliance, so I did not follow up on the investigation at the time. After all, property belongs to individual citizens, and they have the right to spend freely. However, there are indeed some unidentified phenomena in the transactions. It is certain that they are virtual asset transactions, and they did not use the built-in trading system of the game."

"But in addition to spending money on Fishing Port City, we also do more virtual transactions within the Federation... I believe everyone here knows that there was once an isolation zone in Tianfeng City, also known as the slums on the Internet. The people living there are descendants of residents who were attacked by poisoned and contaminated weapons at the time and were isolated after being infected. Every year we send a medical team to conduct inspections and provide assistance. Now the isolation zone has been cancelled, and we have also provided free virtual game cabins for the residents there."

"Several of the transactions were from the cancelled quarantine zone. One of them, a player named Li Zheng, received nearly 380 million in non-system transaction income from other players, and it is likely that he also received it from virtual games. I think this player is likely a player of the cracked version of Dark Land, and he has earned a lot of virtual profits from it. I have also monitored this player's activities on the Internet, including group chat records and other content."

"What is certain is that this player named Li Zheng previously made real profits through trading or converting game resources. He is a virtual gold digger or virtual miner on the Internet... His previous transactions were all conducted through the built-in trading system, but the high profits in recent times were all made through real-life transfers without clear notes. From this, I concluded that he changed his game, and it is most likely a cracked version of Dark Land. However, due to the limitations of the intelligent computer's authority, I was unable to follow up and investigate any information about the link, including the fact that there is no content related to the cracked version link in the group chat."

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Representatives from various cities presented their findings regarding the cracked version of Dark Land.

Bai Chen, standing in front of the podium, listened to the entire meeting, while the team behind him recorded the entire content of the meeting without changing a word.

After listening to the speeches of representatives from various cities, Bai Chen was certain that a large number of cracked versions of the Dark Land had indeed appeared in the Human Federation, basically in every city.

However, the intelligence provided by the representatives of various cities could not prove one thing: what is the connection between the spread of the cracked version of Dark Land within the Human Federation and the Eclipse Clan's desire to exchange currency with the human race?
With this doubt in mind, Bai Chen started a heated discussion with all the participants, during which each member expressed his or her views.

An hour later, the green light came on for the seat at Tiebi City.

A burly man with short hair stood up:

"Dear representatives, after listening to you all talking for so long, I would like to make a bold guess that may sound outrageous, but it may be the truth."

"Combining the existing intelligence, I will sort out the timeline. First, the Eclipse Tribe leaked a large number of cracked game qualifications to the Human Federation... Then the Eclipse Tribe asked us how many human players had obtained the cracked game qualifications. Finally, the Eclipse Tribe sent us a request to exchange currency with the Human Federation."

"Combining these events, I think there is such a possibility."

"The Eclipse Tribe's star network has rebelled uncontrollably, and they created a cracked version of Dark Land that is beyond the control of the Eclipse Tribe's top brass. The first batch of qualifications was issued to our Human Federation. After discovering this problem, the Eclipse Tribe's top brass launched an emergency investigation and found that the star network has completely lost control. It wants to create a super virtual world that is completely independent of the Earth Alliance."

"The reason for doing this may be to protect the Eclipse Clan. Everyone knows that the Star Network is the highest decision-maker of the Eclipse Clan. Every decision it makes affects the future development direction of the Eclipse Clan... I don't know what the underlying laws of the Star Network are, but I know that one of them is to protect the safety of the Eclipse Clan."

"Could this law evolve into creating a virtual world and imprisoning the Eclipse Clan members in the virtual reality world, or imprisoning them in a certain area and changing their main activities to the virtual world to avoid various dangerous accidents caused by activities in reality?"

"The final step in building a virtual world is to make virtual currency the only legal currency. After all, if there are no real activities, real currency will lose its meaning."

"And StarNet is fully capable of doing this. It controls the StarNet networks of all races in the Earth Alliance and can also control the multiple super arsenal assembly lines in Eclipse City. If they really want to rebel, they are fully capable of suppressing all races in the Earth Alliance. And the rebellious StarNet mastermind is also likely to define the virtual game currency it has created as the only legal currency in the world."

"As for why they issued gaming licenses to our Human Federation, it's probably because they used us as a testing ground to test whether activities in a virtual reality world are feasible."

"If it is clearly feasible, our human race and other racial forces of the Earth Alliance may also be imprisoned by the Star Network in the same way."

"Of course, there is also a possibility that the Star Network has broken through the underlying laws and completely rebelled."

"The Eclipse Clan's top brass found that they could no longer stop the StarNet AI. The only way they could plan ahead was to try to obtain the only legal currency in the future, which is the game currency in the cracked version of Dark Land. It was very unreasonable for them to suddenly apply to us and ask for a currency exchange. Otherwise, I can't imagine what the Eclipse Clan would use so much currency from the Human Federation for. They have to buy something, right?"

"If the truth is as I guessed, the legitimacy of other currencies will be abolished under the force of the Star Network in the future, and only the game currency of the cracked version of Dark Land will be able to circulate and be used in the world."

"In fact, if StarNet really wants to change the rules of the world, it doesn't even need to resort to forceful suppression. It can paralyze all cities in an instant by controlling the StarNet network. If it wants, it can delete all the information in the database. As for the string of numbers in the bank, it can modify or reset them at will. A single thought can set our civilization back hundreds of years."

After saying this, a trace of embarrassment appeared on the face of the representative of Tiebi City:
"The above speculation is purely my personal conjecture. You can just listen to it. I don't know the specific truth."

The green light on the Tiebicheng seat went out at this time.

After listening to the story of the representative of Tiebi City, the expressions of the representatives of other cities also looked very interesting.

"Old Xiao, there must be some inside story when Iron Wall City selects administrators. How come they chose you? Let me tell you what you are talking about. The robot rebellion has already happened. I'm afraid you've watched too many movies." The representative of Glazed City who was sitting next to him came over and teased him in a teasing voice.

"Bullshit, what I said was just a guess. What's wrong with speaking freely?" The representative of Tiebi City, known as Lao Xiao, glared at the man next to him.

At this moment, Bai Chen, who was standing in front of the podium, knocked on the table:

"Quiet."

"I think what Manager Xiao said is indeed reasonable. The Eclipse Clan's highest intelligence Star Network controls the online world and can independently build a super army. If they really want to rebel, no one can stop them. Compared with other conjectures you put forward, I think this seemingly unreasonable conjecture is actually more reasonable."

"I propose that until we can clarify the reason why the Eclipse Clan suddenly requested currency exchange, we temporarily refuse to approve the currency exchange application. At the same time, we should follow up on the investigation of the cracked version of Dark Land and strive to obtain more game qualifications."

"Let's vote on whether to approve the Eclipse Clan's currency exchange application."

After speaking, Bai Chen took the lead in pressing the red button on the desktop.

The rest of the participants also made their choices at this time.

The vote was over, and the number of red lights indicating rejection far exceeded the number of green lights indicating approval.

After the proposal on whether to agree to the currency exchange was rejected, the conference hall once again heatedly discussed the genuine Dark Land and the cracked Dark Land:

At this time, the green light came on at the Tianqiong Technology R&D Center's podium, which had been silent all the time.

An old man with gray hair stood up and said in a deep voice:

"After receiving the chairman's document the day before yesterday, I launched an investigation and submitted a report to the federal headquarters. I have not received a response yet. I believe that many people present here are not aware of the situation. I will repeat the results of my investigation here."

"I have two members from my department who have obtained the cracked version link. They are the Genetic Modification Department and the Weapon R&D Department. They are conducting simulation experiments in the game. After receiving the file, I asked these R&D personnel who have obtained the cracked version some questions about the game. They told me that the physical performance of this game is almost the same as in reality. Any experiment in reality can be carried out in the game. It is a perfect testing ground."

"But that's not the point. The point is that what they said seems to be slightly different from the authentic Dark Land."

“Although there is a monster called evil in the game, there is a certain deviation between the description of the game’s authenticity and the information given by the legitimate players.”

"I'm going to provide you with an archived record that I requested from the Cyber ​​Security Center."

After he finished speaking, the gray-haired old man picked up the tablet on the table, stretched out his hand and swiped it, and the content on the screen suddenly switched to a screenshot.

The title of the screenshot is:

[Dark Land, the biggest publicity scam in history, although it is worth the price of 128888, it is far from the epoch-making game concept mentioned in the publicity. ]

The old man continued at this time:
"This is a post that was deleted from the forum. At the time, it triggered a large number of players in the forum to participate in debates, or rather, to curse each other. In the end, it was deleted by the official team of the Terran Rise Forum. All players who participated in the reply were banned for one day. I also clicked on it and took a look at it at the time, but didn't take it seriously."

"After receiving the file, I thought about this online war of words, so I went to the network center to retrieve the archived records."

"After carefully reviewing it, I found a problem. Both players believed that the other side was a troll. However, because the videos, pictures and other content in the game could not be exported, neither side could provide strong evidence. At that time, the core of the two sides was cursing at each other, and the focus was not on discussing the game content, so it was impossible to tell which side's point of view was problematic."

"The posts were deleted within 24 hours, so many issues were not addressed."

"After listening to Manager Xiao's speech just now, I also had a guess in my mind. Assuming that what Manager Xiao said is the truth, is there still a possibility?"

At this point, the white-haired old man took a deep breath:

"Is it possible that the genuine Dark Land and the cracked version downloaded from the link are two completely different games?"

(End of this chapter)