Let's combine the two chapters into one today. I'm too lazy to separate them. Also, this chapter is actually a transitional chapter. It's probably the end of the plot this time.
A minute later, Feng Luo sat in a silver hovercraft.
Over the past few days, Storm City's originally adequate transportation had become busier due to the increase in the number of people.
However, as a high-tech super city, the entire sky above the city could be used for transportation. It was enough to ensure that even if the number of people increased by a few times, it would still be able to cope.
Sitting in the hovercraft, after informing the vehicle's AI system of the destination of the first landing point, Feng Luo used the few minutes of flight time to open the player forum.
On the Storm City forum, which had more than 15 million players, the popularity was naturally not something Silvermoon City could compare to.
Almost every second, there were countless streams of information and all kinds of images and videos flashing in front of Feng Luo's eyes. Many posts popped up and then quickly sank.
However, the two most popular posts at the top of the recommended position on the front page did not move at all.
No. 2 — Current popularity: 277 million.
"Silvermoon City's players' counterattack failed. The military town at the border of the battlefield is about to fall into the hands of the rebel army camp. Shocking inside story, capital power manipulating the game process? "
The title of the second most popular post was enough to attract people's eyes.
The content of the post was naturally about the outbreak of the Biohazard Crisis and the war in Silvermoon City.
"At noon yesterday, more than 300,000 remaining players in Silvermoon City launched a large-scale counterattack under the organization of the Federation Camp Guild Alliance.
The counterattack started smoothly. With the advantage in numbers, they successfully closed in on the rebel army camp's main camp.
However, what was unexpected was that under the situation where they had the absolute advantage, the situation suddenly reversed. A large number of Federation camp players suddenly changed sides and attacked their own people. After a day of fierce battle, there are currently less than 10,000 players left in the Federation camp.
According to the author's investigation, there is a shocking inside story behind this. "
In the post, the player described in detail the series of events that had happened in Silvermoon City since the start of the Biohazard Crisis the day before yesterday.
It included the outbreak of the Biohazard Crisis, the various methods used by the Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group during the process, the responses and reactions of the Veterans Tribe and the Guild Alliance … There were pictures and texts, and even some battle scenes shot using the terminal.
The post even mentioned that a "mysterious expert Sniper" had ruined an important plan of the Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group.
As a result, the Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group had no choice but to use their last resort when they were at a disadvantage. It was this last resort that turned the tides of the Silvermoon City battle.
The Rui Conglomerate, which had just announced its ownership of the Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group, announced that it had completed more than 100 acquisitions and investment contracts within two hours, as well as a strategic capital injection of more than 10 billion dollars into Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group.
"According to the author's calculations, the Rui Conglomerate spent more than 50 billion star coins in just two hours, and then …"
The players of the Federation camp, who originally had an absolute advantage, directly disintegrated from within.
Close to 30% of the players had switched to the Rebel Army Camp because the Rui Conglomerate had given them an irresistible reward.
The power of the Star Coin was more apparent than ever!
"What's even more shocking is that the Rui Conglomerate is willing to spend so much money just for a war in a game."
"Fifty billion! That's not Credits but Star Coins!"
"That's already all the assets of a medium-sized company in the real world, and the Rui Conglomerate actually used it to secure a victory in a battle in the game."
"Just who is the Rui Conglomerate to be so rich and overbearing?" “
At this point, the post also specifically explained the information about the Rui Conglomerate to the players.
The Rui Conglomerate was one of the three super family-owned companies with its headquarters on the 17th Administrative Planet. Its total public assets exceeded five trillion dollars!
Even in the Interstellar Era, a financial group with over a trillion dollars was considered a giant, and the various talent reserves of such a large family-owned financial group were even greater than that of a small country!
Therefore, with the ability of the elites of the Federation's top investment department, the Rui Conglomerate's investment of tens of billions of dollars was definitely not for fun. Therefore, the huge investment was obviously because the Rui Conglomerate was preparing to enter War on a large scale and had begun to lay out their plans. They had their eyes on the advantage of the Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group, who had joined the Rebel Army Camp first!
"Although many financial groups and guilds with foresight have entered the game not long after War was released, most companies are more cautious when it comes to investing funds."
"In the past, an investment of a few hundred million was considered a huge amount for a virtual reality game!"
"But this time, the Rui Conglomerate spent 50 billion on just one battle. Even though most of the money was spent on acquisitions and partnerships outside and was not really invested into War, the Rui Conglomerate still spent 50 billion. Even the 10 billion dollars invested in the Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group will only be gradually invested … "
"However, we can clearly see the impact of the capital of the conglomerates on the game in the first large-scale 'faction war'!
"In the next period of time, the prices of equipment, materials, and human resources in War are very likely to change because of this … Because since the Rui Conglomerate has made such a big investment, many other large financial groups will probably not fall behind."
"What I am worried about is, will things like what happened in Silvermoon City happen again in the future?"
"As more and more large financial groups fully enter the game, when ordinary players face the huge investment, will the little bit of wealth and material foundation that they have painstakingly obtained through time and hard work be easily destroyed by credits? How can the interests of ordinary players be protected?"
"Moreover, there is one thing that I do not understand. The exchange rate between the official currency of War and star coins has always been fixed. It is not like other games where it is adjusted according to the situation. This undoubtedly does not conform to the common sense of currency, and it also makes me doubt whether the government-established Star Gaming Company understands the operation of the game … "
At the end of the post, the player changed the topic and began to discuss finance and sociology …
Naturally, many players agreed with his various viewpoints.
After all, although it was fun to watch the drama unfold in Silvermoon City, no one would want something like this to happen to them.
Especially now that hundreds of thousands of Federation camp players in Silvermoon City had not only dropped a level and lost equipment, but most importantly, they had lost the capital that they had painstakingly accumulated in Silvermoon City for half a year.
Houses, shops, uncompleted missions … and even connections with NPCs …
This time, there were many high-level NPCs who had been infected by the T-virus and turned into zombies. Many players had painstakingly completed missions to farm favorability, and now, they had completely lost everything.
Of course, there were players who agreed, and naturally, there were also people who disagreed.
Some players in the voice reply section of the post mocked the players for not playing the game if they did not have money.
In particular, some players who were young but talked big in the information even claimed that they had a full set of top-grade Rare equipment in the game when they were in their teens. They immediately wanted to top up money to buy Legendary equipment and Boss Grade pets to play. The game was only interesting if you could throw money at it …
Of course, Feng Luo only skimmed through these things.
With his reading speed, it only took him a minute to finish reading the entire post. He realized that at the end of the post, the founder of the Roaring Dragon Mercenary Group, "Silvermoon City's number one expert," Roaring Dragon Invincible, had left with a group of old players who did not join the rebel army camp. Their whereabouts were unknown.
However, this news that was casually mentioned did not attract much attention.
After all, to the players of Storm City, Roaring Dragon Invincible, who was the "number one expert" in a small city with hundreds of thousands of players, would not attract much attention.
This was the psychological advantage that players from the main city area had over players from peripheral small cities. It was just like the psychological advantage that some tycoon players had over normal players, even if most of them were far weaker than Roaring Dragon Invincible.
However, compared to the second most popular post, more players were still paying attention to the first popular post.
Number One — Current Popularity: 1.277 billion.
"Rise of the Gods! Storm City Player "Invikill" becomes the first person to awaken the Force in War, completely defeating "Ghost Eye" Thousand Miles, one of the top ten experts in the same profession PK. "
"With countless star players saying that they would fight to be the first person to awaken the Force in the game, the player who finally completed this achievement was unexpected."
"Just yesterday, an unknown Sniper player was revealed to have completed the Force awakening. There was also a video of him easily defeating "Ghost Eye," one of the top ten players in Storm City (current overall star player ranking: 818), Thousand Miles … "
This post was not only posted on the Storm City forum, but it was also pinned at the top of the entire War forum, so the popularity was actually close to 1.3 billion.
The reason why the popularity was so explosive and directly made it to the top of the entire server was naturally because of the eye-catching title, "First person to awaken the Force."
In this post, there was also a PK video attached.
This was a battle between a sniper and a sniper.
One of them was the only Sniper player who had long been popular among the top ten experts in Storm City – "Ghost Eye" Thousand Miles.
The result of the battle was naturally Thousand Miles' defeat.
However, the process of defeat made countless players feel curious and confused.
A Sniper was actually able to sneak up behind Qian Li, who had the S-rank talent "Ghost Eye", right under Qian Li's nose, and then use a military knife to finish off the long-renowned "Storm City's Top Ten Experts."
This was completely a one-sided battle, but it made many players unable to take their eyes off of it, and they even kept replaying the middle part of the battle.
This was because they discovered something strange.
At the beginning of the battle between the two sides, when the Sniper sneaked near the last 100 meters of Thousand Miles, his entire person suddenly disappeared into thin air.
This was also the reason why Thousand Miles was unable to discover him in time, and when he reappeared, he was already behind Thousand Miles. As for the Sniper Thousand Miles, even though he was vigilant at the last moment, in a situation where he could not even pull out his military knife, his heart had already been pierced.
With just one hit, the Fatal Damage that appeared on Thousand Miles' head was more than 7,000 points.
Even with a full set of top-notch Level 50 Rare equipment, Thousand Miles' HP was directly emptied, it could be said that he was completely defeated in the process.
"How is this possible? God Thousand Miles lost! "
In Storm City, there were many fans of Thousand Miles, completely unable to believe that their idol would actually be completely defeated in a battle between Snipers.
However, those fans who were not Thousand Miles could look at the problem more objectively.
They discovered that this Sniper player, in addition to that strange "vanishing" ability, had a slightly conspicuous military knife in his hand.
The eye-catching stiletto in his hand was highly likely to be a Perfect-rated Legendary weapon. Theoretically, this should be the only Legendary grade military knife weapon in War at the moment.
Moreover, it definitely had a very powerful supplementary skill.
This was very likely the reason why Thousand Miles, who was fully equipped with a full set of Level 50 Rare equipment, was killed in one hit.
Moreover, as these players investigated further, they discovered that this Sniper player wasn't completely unknown after all. In fact, he had a little bit of fame in his own guild, the September Guild.
The origin of this fame was because of his hard training.
In fact, the strength of this Sniper player was not very outstanding in the beginning.
In the beginning, he was only at the level of an ordinary player, but because of his hard work, he was selected to enter the elite team of the September Guild, and after that, he received a lot of help from the September Guild, and there were also many expert Snipers in the guild who taught him.
As for him, he trained for more than 10 hours a day, and his hard work, coupled with the training of the guild's resources, allowed his strength to increase little by little.
This Sniper, who was originally not very talented, took over the position of the captain of the September Guild's Sniper team a few days ago.
And just after taking over the position, he suddenly awakened the Force, and his strength achieved a huge breakthrough, becoming a true top player.
"So, I want to thank our guild, thank the various resources of the guild for training me, and also the captain who taught me, Brother G, Brother White … and also thank …"
On the screen of the forum video, this Sniper player was saying a "success speech" with a sincere face.
The first person to awaken the Force, the strange and powerful "Invisibility" ability, a top-tier expert who finally succeeded after arduous training, and defeating a top-tier superstar player of the same class who was known for his eyesight … The series of information combined together caused the player with the ID "Invikill" to leap to the top three on the Celebrity Popularity Ranking.
Just like the first person to reach Level 50, "War's Number One Gunner," Death Roar.
And because in many media interviews, this Sniper player would always mention his gratitude to the September Guild for training him.
Because of this, the reputation of the September Guild, which was originally limited to the Storm City area and was a step away from the Super Guild, also increased greatly.
Their popularity ranking also continuously rose by more than 10 places, and they had already rushed into the top 100, from the first class to the top.
And at the end of the video, this "first person to awaken the Force" player even revealed that the September Guild had just received a large-scale investment of 15 billion star coins. They would recruit all combat elites above Level 50, or high-level and above life profession players with super generous treatment.
Everyone, as long as they met the requirements, could apply to join, and once they joined, the guild would give them the most generous treatment and resources.
"I believe, under our guild's system, there will be a continuous stream of players who have awakened the Force who are far stronger than me."
The video ended with this player smiling.
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