Lost for words, Meng Lichuan browsed through the forums and posts related to the 'darkness scourge' quickly without saying anything.
As she expected, a lot of people were as shocked and scared about the brand-new DLC as she was.
Thousands of players were haunted by the high difficulty and desperation of the DLC. They felt that they were mired in a swamp of thorns and could barely catch their breath.
Many people spent a day and a night experiencing the bloody, shuddering, and silence in the real world. However many times they tried, it was still a dead end.
Complaints were everywhere on the forums.
"Are you kidding me? This game is too illogical. It's insane. Is the Union Army so vulnerable that it cannot fight back at all under the enemy's bombardment?"
"Which lunatic designed this game? No matter what character and what scenario we choose, there is no way to clear the game at all. No matter how hard we try, there are only two outcomes: a quick death or a miserable death!"
"Not only was the federation completely destroyed, but on the remains of the federation, the survivors even turned into deformed freaks that were neither human nor ghost in the ten thousand years of dark evolution. What's the big deal about that? It's more like 'whipping the corpses'. This game is so depressing!"
"Do you think that the simulated scenario of the game will really happen? If the Federation fails, will our offspring really end up like that and end up as cockroaches and lizards deep below the ground? "
"Bullsh * t. How is it possible?"
"The specialists and experts of the Federation must've come up with a solution, right? They can't just watch the strong enemies from the center of the cosmos march over, can they?"
"However, on the virtual battlefield on the other side, the 'Moon Devil Squad', which represents the Union Army, is indeed not performing well. They are being beaten up by the enemy. If the Union Army collapses, who can protect us?"
"However, according to the deduction here, even if the Union Army does not march to the center of the cosmos, the strong enemies there will not let go of us mercifully even if they know of our existence. Won't we still be dead if that's the case?"
"All in all, I will not watch my family end up like that while doing nothing. If such a day comes, all of us will pick up our chainswords and storm bolters. We will die valiantly on the battlefield even if we have to!"
"Exactly. The world view that 'darkness scourge' presents is too disgusting, evil, and perverted. The people of the Federation would rather die than end up like that!"
Meng Lichuan turned on almost a hundred light beams at the same time, reaching the computational limit of Jiang Baitao's portable crystal processor while she browsed through the voices of thousands of ordinary people quickly.
Was it an illusion? At first, she smelled a very strong scent of panic and fear from the people's voices, but the closer the post was to the present, the fainter the scent of panic became. Instead, it was replaced by the fury of a volcano that was about to erupt, and the scent of sulfur was almost tangible!
It was almost as if all the people of the Federation were deeply infuriated by the weird, desperate, and gloomy game!
"At first, in the two sister games, 'Glorious Expedition' was the main game, and 'Darkness Scourge' was just a distraction," Jiang Baitao said.
"But 'Darkness Scourge' was like the most ferocious virus that spread and broke out exponentially. In less than two days, it became the focus of the entire Federation.
"At that time, the summit competition between Team Moon Devil and Team Blood Shadow was coming to an end. Our team was already doomed. Few people cared about the result of 'Glorious Expedition' anymore.
"Right now, the question that concerns the people the most is' what will happen to the Xing Yao Federation and the Cultivators after the Union Army is defeated '. Billions of people of the Federation are desperate to know how the DLC' Darkness Scourge 'was made and what kind of data and initial conditions were used to create such a crazy world view. Is it the official prediction of our failure? Do the authorities have any countermeasures?"
Looking at Jiang Baitao and the heated forum, Meng Lichuan tilted her head and thought for a moment.
The smart genius girl smelled the scent of a scheme.
It would be an exaggeration to say that it was a 'scheme'. At the very least, 'Darkness Scourge', a special mini-game, had been released together with 'Glorious Expedition: Summit Competition'. With the popularity of the latter, the game had become the host and swept across the entire Federation. The whole thing was closely connected. It also seemed that somebody was secretly adding fuel to the fire. It could not have been a pure coincidence, could it?
"That's the first thing I want to tell you. However, the introduction of the 'Darkness Invasion' is not enough to completely reverse the poll results. In fact, when our battle team was beaten to a pulp, the poll results had fallen to the bottom of the valley. There were only 35% of people who supported the immediate deployment of troops."
Jiang Baitao opened her hands and said helplessly, "The outcome of the battle had been decided. It was meaningless for us to linger on. Even though the remaining members of our team still wanted to fight, the directors and the referees unanimously declared that we had failed.
"The moment the result was out, not only were there overwhelming comments on the forum of the 'Glorious Expedition', even the entire Spiritual Nexus was filled with comments. Many of them were written by the professional players of the game 'Civilization', the seniors of the game, and even the renowned experts in the military and the major sects.
"You know, in such a super match that has shocked the entire Federation, countless specialists and experts are commenting in real time. It is not strange that tens of thousands of very professional comments appear after the final result is decided.
"What is strange is that most of the game experts, strategists, and reviewers have abandoned their impartiality and fairness in the past and berated the performance of Team Moon Devil. They are even pessimistic about the future of the Xing Yao Federation.
"All in all, if we combine the comments of the reviewers and strategists, they will only say that there is absolutely no chance of victory with the combat ability of the Union Army in the virtual competition. We are screwed. We can't beat them, and we can't escape. There is no hope left. We can only wash our necks and wait to be killed!"
"Well —"
Meng Lichuan bulged her eyes and sat up again despite her dizziness. She said angrily, "How can those specialists say that? Even a three-year-old knows that too many uncertainties can affect the result of the strategic deduction. Such a virtual competition can only be used as a reference. As the saying goes, 'Victory and defeat are commonplace in a war'. This is not a real failure. It is just a failure in a virtual competition, and they have completely lost their confidence and are 'washing their necks and waiting to be killed'? That is too hilarious!
"The simplest logic is that the accuracy of the strategic deduction is greatly affected by the initial data. The combat data of the Holy League's fleet that we set this time is only based on the data that the Imperium transmitted to us. The data of the Imperium's fleet is also based on what they say, and we make minor adjustments with the data of the Black Wind Fleet. How — how can it be accurate?
"Everybody knows the cunningness of the Immortal Cultivators. The reformists are Immortal Cultivators, too. How can they possibly tell us the real combat ability of the fleet dutifully? Maybe the fleet of the Holy League is not so strong, and the Immortal Cultivators of the reformists are not so weak, either. In that case, the result will be completely different!
"Also, I believe in the agility and tenacity of the Cultivators of the Federation. If faced with the threat of the extinction of our civilization, our dear Union Army and fellow Cultivators will certainly burn their lives to the maximum and unleash all their strength to create miracles, won't they?
"In the past hundreds of years, the Federation has been standing at the edge of the cosmos stubbornly because of the miracles created by countless heroes. Will it be an exception this time?
"I don't believe it. I will not accept the result of the battle. What kind of bullsh * t experts are these? What nonsense!"
"Don't be so excited."
Jiang Baitao said with a smile, "Look at you. You do not look like a patient who has been in a coma for three days at all. You are more like a puppy that is going to bite the experts hard!"
"Hehe. If the bullsh * t experts who wrote those bullsh * t articles show up in front of me, I will curse them to death even if I don't bite them!"
Meng Lichuan rolled her sleeves and said, "No, I can't hold it any longer. Sister Taozi, please bring me my crystal processor. I'm going to retort on the Internet right now and express the thoughts of the members of the 'Moon Devil Team'!"
"That will be unnecessary. As a matter of fact, the experts, scholars, and commentators have already been cursed to death the day after the articles were published."
Jiang Baitao shook her portable crystal processor and displayed a few new pages. It seemed to be a new section on the forum of the 'Glorious Expedition' where the public could vent their anger. It could be seen that hundreds of new posts were popping up every second. It was as splendid and terrifying as a volcanic eruption.
"What bullsh * t experts? Deciding the future of the Federation arbitrarily based on the result of a virtual game? That's absurd. Who do you think you are? "
"I've been following the so-called 'summit competition' the whole time. I have to say that the rules are too unfair. On the Blood Shadow Team's side, the morale was locked the whole time, and the hundreds of thousands of starships were fighting as if they were one. On the Moon Devil Team's side, they were weakened unfairly the whole time. Their morale was lowered, their command was weakened, and their allies collapsed. Isn't it like tying up the hands and feet of the Union Army so that we can be hung up and beaten? What's the point of reference for such extreme rules? "
"Besides, the Moon Devil Team did not control the entire main force of the Union Army at all. It was just two branch fleets of the Burning Prairie Fleet and some local fleets that were jumbled up. It's perfectly normal that they couldn't defeat the two magnates at the center of the cosmos. I don't believe that the Federation will fail so miserably when all its troops are deployed!"
"Shouldn't the creators and planners explain why the rules are set in such a way? After all, the Union Army will only be killed if they stay at home like turtles. Why don't they just charge at the beginning and risk everything? "
"Damn it. Even if I'm going to die, I'd rather die on a battlefield than suffer the miserable fate of 'darkness scourge'. Cultivators are not scared of death, and those who are scared of death don't become Cultivators. When have the people of the Federation ever been scared of death?"
"Those experts and commentators, on the other hand, are such a disgrace to the Federation. 'Wash your neck and wait to be killed'? Bones. Where are their bones? Damn it! “
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