"I have an appointment." A beautiful woman with dazzling light all over her body said to the service NPC of the Seaview Hotel, and behind her, on the street outside the hotel lobby, countless pairs of eyes were looking through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Contempt, disdain, affection, grief, in short, making eye contact with any of these onlookers will make you very uncomfortable.

Qing'er didn't look back, she knew what this group of people thought, but since she had already made up her mind, she didn't care about this kind of vision at all. The NPC smiled and led Qing'er to a teleportation point, because the single room on the one hundred and fifth floor was chartered by the cat master, so only those he approved could enter, and Qing'er was naturally the only player who could enter.

As soon as the white light of the teleportation array appeared, Qing'er was already standing at the door of the cat master's room, this room was very spacious, there was a lonely dining table in the middle, the corners of the wall were decorated with tall plants, the three walls of the room were very soft and warm colors, and one was a completely glass wall, overlooking the largest main road in the City of Heroes and the view of most of the city.

The man with the word "ripper" on his head was sitting at a table eating, dressed in a casual suit, and Qing'er's first impression was that this person should be a pure business player. The reason is very simple, most of the guys who will buy "fashion" in this game are commercial players, and people who don't go out of the city are always wearing novice clothes or a few general equipment, which is not very particular, and most of them will spend tens of thousands of game coins to buy a few sets of life clothes, which is also necessary for businessmen, even if it is purely to support the scene.

The cat didn't bother to look up at her, just took the food in his mouth into his throat with red wine, and then said, "Hello, please take a seat." ”

"Do you know that as soon as you say this, my task will be completed." Qing'er said, she read the details of the mission of the mercenary guild very carefully before she came, and was surprised to find that there were no rogue conditions as she imagined, and the same as the task, the details were just one sentence: "One hundred and five floors of the sea view restaurant." Now that the cat master has had a language exchange with her, the system directly determines that the behavior of "Xiaoxu" is completed, and she can receive the task reward.

"Yes." Cat's answer is just these two words.

"Oh? Then I'll turn around and leave now, and you don't have a problem with receiving the reward of 30 million game coins? Qing'er said provocatively.

"That money has nothing to do with me anymore, please sit down." The cat master stretched out his hand again and motioned for the other party to sit down.

"Hey! Are you funny? Don't you understand what I just said? ”

The cat master said lazily: "Then you can please." He then lowered his head and began to eat.

Qing'er was angry, but she couldn't say why, anyway, she didn't leave after all, but obediently sat opposite the cat master.

The cat master put down the dishes again: "So, you have decided to sit down and talk now?" ”

"Hmph...... You already knew I wasn't leaving. ”

The cat master replied: "Of course, 30 million is not your purpose, you came here just to ask me a few questions." Rest assured, I have the answer to all your doubts. ”

"Do you even know what I'm going to ask?"

"What you want to ask is, is the task of taking the head of Aotian related to me?"

"Yes." Qing'er doesn't deny it.

Mao Ye said: "It wasn't me who released the task, but I was the one who instructed that guy, as for the one who took the task...... It's me. ”

"What exactly are you trying to do?" She was really wondering from the bottom of her heart.

"I want war and chaos, collapse and destruction."

"Just you?" The president of the Red Moon Guild, who is the third in the comprehensive strength list, singled out the strongest female player in the game, and asked such a question with a sneering look.

"More than enough."

"Your answer is ridiculous."

The cat said, "Really? It's ridiculous that you're questioning me as part of my plan, like a running engine denying the existence of the whole car. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Anyway, I have plenty of time, I'll tell you everything from the beginning." Mao Ye pressed the service button on the virtual interface, and an NPC waiter played by a real person quickly teleported to him: "Sir, what do you need?" ”

"The wine and food are all withdrawn, and the tea is served."

The waiter replied, "Okay." "The food in the virtual world was quickly removed, and the waiter simply operated and the entire table was emptied.

"Sir, is today's meal still to your liking?" He asked patternedly.

The cat master gave an answer that he had never heard in his life: "If 'evil' has a taste, it probably tastes like this." ”

There was a brief silence......

The waiters didn't know what to say. In fact, the meals produced by this system are based on the best ingredients and luxurious and high-end cooking methods, and the people who eat them, to put it bluntly, receive virtual taste information. Therefore, every dish is delicious, and it will always be this taste, and the player's brain will unconditionally confirm that eating the food here is an absolute pleasure.

But the game company still has such a stupid rule, and if you work here, you have to ask people the same question as a real high-end restaurant: How does it taste? It's nonsense, but it's also polite, and the person who answered, out of politeness, should also reply with a nonsense: very good.

Seeing that the waiter was a little stunned, the cat master continued: "When my brain can't receive virtual taste signals, eating things in this world is no different from chewing wax. ”

"Hmm...... Mr...... What do you say...... "He's really getting more and more confused."

"Forget it, it's not a big deal, it's just an experiment, you can get busy with yours." The cat said.

The waiter nodded, clicked on the refreshments with the virtual interface, and said before leaving: "Please use it slowly." ”

After he left, the cat master took a sip of tea, "Sure enough, it's the same as drinking boiled water......"

Qing'er said: "You have a lot of business, can you talk about it now?" ”

The cat master sighed, and began to explain: "This game has a history of more than three years from the internal beta, public beta, to the official operation, until today, through this stinky and long, no new history of the struggle of the human virtual world, as well as the mastery of the various rules of the game itself, combined with my own actual situation, I have drawn up a plan.

The basic development so far is as follows......

First of all, I think you should also know that the mercenary guild quest system in this game rarely has tens of millions of quests in the early stages of the game. During the open beta, the famous '10 million capable guilds help kill the boss' event was the first event to cause a sensation by the Mercenary Guild's mission, and the later missions of over 10 million were similar to it.

As the game progresses, the gap between high-end players and ordinary casual players has gradually widened, and the game content that the two groups are exposed to is no longer at the same level. A lot of purely commercial consortia, as well as the guild leaders of you who are either businessmen or officials behind them, huh...... I guess you people are a group of young masters and young ladies in reality, in short, you high-end players have formed your own forces to carve up the interests at the top of the game pyramid.

At this point, the more than 10 million tasks in the mercenary guild have been completely wiped out, because those commissioners of tens of millions of tasks have roughly understood which guilds or people in the game will have the ability to achieve their goals, they can skip the mercenary guild and contact the undertaker directly, why bother to spend that 2% service fee, and make it known all over the world, increasing the danger of the benefits being divided by others?

As a result, for a long time, people seem to have gradually forgotten that the bulletin board of the information center can still pop up with tens of millions of game tasks. Occasionally, someone throws a three-million-dollar quest into the mercenary guild, and when the subtitles appear on the board, it's enough to attract onlookers. ”

The cat master finished drinking the tea in the cup, and filled the teapot to himself: "Human beings are really strange creatures...... We will study history and examine the mistakes we have made in the past so that we can reflect on and correct them...... But no matter how many years go by, many times we still make the same mistakes. ”

Qing'er sneered: "You talk like this, as if you are not human. ”

"What about you? Are you a representative of humanity? The cat master asked: "Obviously not, you are just a member of the human race, it is impossible for human beings to have representatives, and a person's soul itself exists in the ego, id, and superego...... All kinds of contradictions, such creatures are too complex. So people ...... One does not represent the other; One does not represent a group. ”

"When did we start talking about philosophy?"

Master Mao smiled: "Then let's go back to the topic just now, when we humans haven't seen the task of tens of millions of bonuses for too long, we will form a habit, a mindset, and an inertia to survive in the game of "no tens of millions of tasks". If I suddenly break this inertia, what do you say? ”

Qing'er frowned and pondered, she actually felt at the moment that it seemed difficult to comprehend this matter without putting it in a philosophical sense......

"The answer is very simple, the 'order' will be broken, all the 'conventional' will be replaced by the 'extraordinary', and human beings will be afraid, hesitant and helpless in this period.

In the end, there will only be two outcomes, the first is that people think, unite, adapt, and then survive in the new inertia. Second...... Hehe...... War and chaos, collapse and destruction.

Of course, the two outcomes may appear one after the other, or even alternately, and the one who has the last laugh is the winner. ”

Qing'er shook her head, as if she wanted to drive the cat master's words out of her mind: "Okay, stop playing tricks, to put it bluntly, you did something that no one has done for a long time, it's still a stupid thing!" A deal that only loses money and does not make money! ”

The cat leaned back in the chair: "The 'loss' and 'earning' in your mouth refer to the game currency, that is, money, but my starting point is not to pursue money, the concept is different, why do you see that you are doing something stupid?" ”

"I'm not going to fight you about this, so go on, Mr. Demon King." Qing'er seems to have replaced the logic of the cat master with her own set of theories, and completed the self-persuasion in her heart with a self-deceptive point of view, which is quite similar to Wang Xu back then......

"When my mission comes, the order has already been broken, and it is impossible to restore it until the whole thing has a result, so chaos will inevitably arise in these twenty-four hours, whether or not anyone takes the task." Mao Ye poured tea cup by cup: "I gave people three hours to think, complete the most preliminary adaptation and reaction, this time, enough for the party Aotian and other stakeholders to calm down, and the most preliminary reasoning of you people will also be completed during this time."

With your wisdom, the 'most reasonable' conclusion that can be drawn is that the person who released this task is to defraud liquidated damages, and I will not list the other unreliable ones. Of course, this is the only plausible conclusion that is wrong, and you can't guess what I really mean.

So, three hours later, I took over the task myself. This doesn't overturn the conclusion that you're cheating on liquidated damages, but it's enough to shake the reasoner, just like when you play chess you think you've figured out the next move, but when the pieces are actually put in that position, you always find something new.

At the same time, the act of taking on the task can arouse the interest of those who are not interested in it, that is, the average player, who will naturally be curious, because as I said earlier, 'fear, hesitation, and helplessness', everyone will go through this process, at least one of these three emotions.

Then the conditions for war and chaos have been put together, a group of organisms that cannot be represented as individuals have come together on a large scale, and the order has been broken, and then all contradictions will become acute, and the last restraints will soon collapse with the unfathomable human heart. Grievances, interests, or ......" The cat master stopped and looked at Qing'er's face: "Or it only takes one woman to light the fuse of a war." ”

Qing'er's expression suddenly changed greatly, she was shocked and angry, and there was even a fear in her heart: "So five hours later, you lured me into the game with a task of 30 million?" ”

"You're already in the game, as I said, you're also a member of the human race, and you're no more advanced than anyone of your kind out there. When I release 20 million tasks, you are already in the game, and when 30 million tasks related to you appear, you will naturally think, reason, and then come to a conclusion - if two tens of millions of tasks suddenly appear in one day, then I and the publisher of the first task are likely to be related.

That's why you're here to verify this conclusion, aren't you? That's why you're sitting there and listening to me...... It took a total of ......" The cat looked at the time: "It's been half an hour since you came in." What kind of thinking and reasoning are people from outside doing now? ”