Chapter Ninety-Three: The Kingdom of the Mad God
The game "New World" has been in operation for ten years, and has held nearly 100 activities, large and small. Some of these activities are linked to other works. For example, with some best-selling anime works, film and television works, or with other games, or even with certain best-selling films.
Among these crossover events is an event called "The Land of the Mad God". It was probably in the third year of the game's operation, at the end of the 50th level era, that such an event was held in order to link up with the world-famous open-themed "Cthulhu Mythos" series.
At that time, the version of the game was "Age of Discovery", the fierce battle of the Blood and Fire King at the end of level 40 had come to an end, and the game plot had entered a relatively soothing stage, and players who had just stepped into the level 50 era traveled around the Trera, Thrace, Molai and South China Sea regions, fighting monsters, doing tasks, and engaging in activities, and getting a pleasant or exciting experience.
I don't know if I drank spirits mixed with antifreeze or smoked cigars with suspicious white powder, but the planners of the game company had a strange inspiration at this peaceful time and engaged in an activity that was criticized by players - the realm of the mad gods.
In this event, players need to enter a series of independent dungeons, kill monsters, complete quests, and obtain mystery points in the dungeons, and then exchange them for various rewards.
At first glance, this seems to be a very ordinary activity, but these dungeons are all weird, not only the monsters inside are strange, but the content of the dungeon is also inexplicable and full of twisted feelings. What's even worse is that in those dungeons, whether it is fighting monsters or communicating with NPCs, players will slowly lose "sanity points".
Losing sanity is not necessarily a bad thing, because many secret rooms, treasure chests, special locations, and special NPCs require sanity below a certain level to be accessed. But the sanity value is low, of course, there are also great disadvantages, the biggest disadvantage is that the game characters will hallucinate, and the scene that players see will change. If sanity is consistently low, the character may even go mad and then be unable to enter the "Kingdom of the Mad God" series for a long time before being cured.
The cost of curing madness is not high, but it takes a lot of time. And for an event with limited time, "spending a lot of time" is a very unpleasant thing in itself.
The game company's answer to this is, "Proper games to strengthen the brain, and addiction to games hurts the body" - God is addicted to games and hurts his body! Which bastard designed those liver-to-death tasks! Isn't it themselves!
The disgusting part of this event is not limited to this aspect, the madness series dungeons are rampant with illusions, and if you can't solve the illusions through puzzle solving or related skills, the player's characters may not only see the scenery in front of them, but even the inventory and game log may be wrong.
In other words, anything can be fake in this copy of the series - only the unsettling and unsettling feeling is genuine, and the child is not deceived.
At the beginning of the event, players still felt that there was something new. Within a few days, the forum was full of complaints. In the words of many people, it is "I thought I was playing a game, but now I feel like I am being played by a game", "This ghost activity makes me feel like a dog in the sun", "Let's spiral up to heaven with the whole family of the planning team...... Etcetera.
But the players of that era were still very kind in general, although they were very angry, but they didn't make protests, complaints, and other things like a few years later, on the contrary, the raiders also worked hard to study those weird copies, and finally about the eighth day of the event, sorted out a complete set of strategies.
Among the people who sorted out this set of strategies at that time, there was one harmony.
So when he told him the origin of this world, many people subconsciously thought of looking for him.
"Good thing you're here!" Panda said happily as he walked up to him, "The Mad God series dungeons are notoriously weird, and we really don't know what to do with them if you're not here!"
Heyin was silent for a moment and said, "Actually, I don't have any good solutions. ”
"How is it possible!Didn't you sort out the game strategy in the first place?"
"A game is a game, and reality is reality. Kazune sighed, "When playing games, no matter what illusions are in the computer screen, players will not be really confused, at most cut the screen to see the strategy." But in reality, illusions are reality to us until they are seen through - for example, even if you know that those bugs are illusions, do you dare not fight hard?"
“...... If you know it's an illusion, why do you fight?" asked the panda in confusion.
Kazuin smiled bitterly: "Have you forgotten? The illusion of the Mad God series of copies also has attack power, although it can be broken as long as you find the right way, but if you can't break the illusion, the illusion is equal to the real - Sword Thirteen has already suffered a loss just now." ”
The panda was stunned for a moment, and was about to ask Jian Thirteen in a private chat, when Xingzhao had already spoken.
"That idiot contacted me in a private chat just now, saying that he suddenly got a prompt 'The illusion has been broken', and then the record on the system log that originally 'You were killed by the Desolation Demon Worm' has become 'You were killed by the illusion'. ”
Everyone looked at each other and couldn't help but feel distressed.
A mere illusion is not terrible, as long as you have a firm belief that it does not exist. But the illusion of being able to kill is completely different, and in the face of the illusion that is no different from reality as long as it is not broken, it is not something that can be solved by firm faith - even if you don't move the eight winds and are as solid as a rock, you can't help but really smash it down with a hammer.
"Then what are we going to do?" asked the panda with a frown, "Do you have to break an illusion every time you go anywhere?"
"That's the only way to do it. Kazune nodded and turned to look at Xingzhao: "But we also have a huge advantage over the original players - we have the late-stage profession 'Sage Witch' in our team. This class has a powerful ability to break illusions, and it can be said that Xingzhao is the most important core for us in the process of exploring and conquering this small world!"
Everyone nodded their heads in agreement.
Xingzhao's performance of breaking the illusion with one move just now has fully proved her strength. As long as everyone takes her as the core, they will move forward while breaking the illusion. I believe that it should still be feasible to explore and conquer this world.
But in the eyes of everyone's expectation and trust, Xingzhao lowered his head.
"You ...... Don't expect too much from me. She hesitated for a moment, and then said hesitantly, "That skill ...... 'real world', and the cooldown time is three days. ”
Hearing her words, everyone couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"Three days is three days!" Panda sighed and said, "Anyway, we have a lot of time, so there's nothing wrong with playing steadily." ”