Chapter 625 - Patch
Chapter 704 of "Player Reload" opens showing suspense: The "Zero Restart" task has been almost three weeks past, and the system broadcast sounding... Continue the adventure!
The "Zero Restart" task has been almost three weeks past, and the system broadcast sounding now means a player has been stuck in the killing field for twenty days, poor unlucky guyâGuilds can confirm a memberâs death by checking if bodies are teleported to the destination or if avatars in the friend list turn gray.
However, there are some cases where a player is still alive, just trapped somewhere in the killing field, losing consciousness and body control.
The Killing Field System stipulates that players cannot hide in the slum indefinitely. It will forcibly kick out the Transcendent who havenât returned to the Real Earth for a long time, with this time point being fourteen days.
If a player doesnât show up for more than fourteen days, they are listed as MIA (missing in task), and funeral arrangements, family compensation, and insurance claims begin.
Itâs just like a Hollywood movie joke: a U.S. soldier excitedly returns home only to find out his family thought he was dead and his wife has found a new companion at a psychological support group, asking kids to call someone else dad.
Li Cheng was quite curious about the system update, while the Special Affairs Bureau members looked serious, decisively packing up all their custom items.
Xing Hechou said, "Pifu brother, weâre heading back to the bureau first, weâll send the next batch of artifacts in a few days. Letâs keep in touch."
"Leaving so soon? Not staying for a meal? I made too much to finish alone,"
Li Cheng said politely, casually pulling out a tray of suspicious clean large intestines, a two-meter-long thigh bone, and pork belly with skin from the freezer.
The young agents of the Special Affairs Bureau internally screamed, âWhat the heck, dude, why does this pork belly have tattoos?!â
"Relax, itâs just the meat of a pig demon,"
Li Cheng smiled slightly, rubbing his chin with some puzzlement. "According to the customer who sold me this meat, that pig demon cultivated for hundreds of years to become human, with infinite strength. Itâs not easy,
yet for some reason, they detected over a hundred kinds of muscle-enhancing drugs like clenbuterol and ractopamine in the pig meat. A mosquito can turn into a giant Carboniferous mosquito with a single sip of blood."
Why? Thatâs hard to guess.
The Special Affairs Bureau members gave awkward laughs, filed out of the office, and hurriedly closed the door.
Swish.
Hearing the door close, Gray Rain confusedly took off the headphones, "What was that sound? Did a thief break in?"
You didnât see all those Special Affairs Bureau agents just now? Were you entirely focused on the predictions and bets?
Li Cheng twitched at the corner of his eye, giving Gray Rain a flick on the forehead, emitting a crisp sound.
The first order with the Special Affairs Bureau provided him with a large amount of Game Coin, but now wasnât the time to do the math. Li Cheng sat at the computer desk, quickly browsing the forum.
All players heard the killing field broadcast earlier, and the notification email could also be clearly seen in the personal panelâs mailbox.
The last so-called version update happened at the junction point between the first batch of pioneers and the second batch, directly creating todayâs landscape where major guilds carve out territories and vie against each other.
Now another version update has come, and the forum traffic surged, the webpage became stuck, and repeatedly clicking refresh still showed the previous popular posts.
Dishonest Reincarnation seems a bit over the top,
but when posting on the forum, players can choose incentive plans, and earn money from advertisers based on clicks. Hence, these posts have a certain comedic value and points of interest.
Li Cheng resisted the urge to click in, continuously pressing F5 to refresh, finally getting the page to load.
As expected, new posts exploded into existence, all discussing the recent system notification.
"Updated version?! Will the level cap increase this time?"
"It might raise the level cap, but lifting it seems a bit unlikely. Currently, Earth players with Level 40 are less than twenty, no need to increase the cap. In my estimate, this update will most likely modify the mall system, reducing the refresh probability of meaningless items."
The forum was bustling with activity, with some speculating the version update would expand the player base, some guessing the system would add more potion types,
and others suggesting the killing field wouldnât pretend anymore and is preparing to convert billions of Earth people into players, predicting the price of guns and ammunition would skyrocket, hinting everyone to bulk purchase and stock up from his arms store.
Li Cheng skimmed through the posts at a glance, filtering fragmented clues from the massive information.
In the real world, major guilds simultaneously summoned mid-to-high-level people for online meetings, obviously they knew something in advance according to past years;
The United Nationsâ five permanent members collectively entered wartime status, aircraft carriers set sail, fighter jets took off, and there was widespread internet control;
Ordinary people on Real Earth went about their work and school as usual, scrolling through their phones, unaware of the intense and oppressive atmosphere in the Extraordinary World just a wall away from them.
Finally, amid endless speculation and doubt, the system broadcast sounded again.
Classic final interpretation rights.
Li Cheng sat in the boss chair, lost in thought, his hands resting under his chin, the glasses lenses reflecting the chandelierâs light.
The fewer the words, the bigger the matter. The update notice barely over a hundred words contained a huge amount of information.
First is the way the killing field describes Earth, surprisingly giving it the designation ZXVCT10041 like players, indirectly proving the Main Universe theory told to Li Cheng by that wheelchair scientist OracleâEarth is not special.
Next are the specific update contents, dozens in various sizes, quite a few actually guessed by the forum enthusiasts.
For example, slightly shortening each playerâs personal mall daily refresh time, lowering the refresh probability of ruined, ordinary quality, while increasing potion appearance rate,
slightly expanding the selection scale for Summoners, balancing the selection frequency of those without original soulsâthe term "without original souls" is quite indicative, bio-engineered cloned humans produced in batches by Prometheus and other guilds hardly qualify as having souls.
Li Cheng quickly browsed the update details, his gaze suddenly stopping at the section.
No longer limited to the same Crystal Wall System... that is, Otherworld Transcendents, even non-human players?!