"This is bad …" Pan Feng whispered.
"Did he hear us?" Hwa Xiong whispered back.
"I'm just several meters away from you. What's the point of whispering?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Hmm … Haha … I see …" Pan Feng was about to reply.
Feng Bujue cut him off. "Before you come up with this lie, I have to make it clear that I don't think you're cheating players because your actions don't look like that at all. You're obviously from the Dream Company. Whether you're GMs or not, I don't know, but I don't think it's appropriate for your job to be exposed. " His eyes scanned Pan Feng and Hwa Xiong quickly, hinting that what he was about to say was important. "Tell us the truth, and we can cooperate with your work and keep everything a secret after the scenario is over. Otherwise … I'm very likely to imagine what happened today, add some extra details, divide it into a dozen or so chapters, and publish it on the major forums in the form of a novel. "
"Er … Wait a minute …" Hwa Xiong replied. "Let us discuss this."
"Go ahead," Feng Bujue said and turned to walk away from them.
The two left the broken glass and came to the corner of the office. They whispered among themselves, and about five minutes later, they returned.
Pan Feng told Feng Bujue and Xiao Tan, "Okay, what do you want to know?"
"What is your identity, what are you doing, and what is the plot of this scenario?" Feng Bujue asked quickly. He had already thought about that.
"You're right, we're game managers," Hwa Xiong said. "We're in this scenario to deal with a kind of data trash called the Anomaly." He paused. "With regards to the plot of this scenario … you've seen it for yourself. The thing that we were chasing earlier was Professor Ashford's mutated form. The general plot is like this … This Ashford has anti-human sentiments. He stole Virus Z from the lab and then added the virus into a special liquid that he had prepared beforehand. He used a device on the rooftop of this building to launch the virus and infected the whole city. "
"So, only the zombies inside the lab are normal zombies, and the ones outside are those BW Zombies?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Actually, BW Zombies are the product of the mutated virus, so in terms of setting, they are stronger than normal zombies. Even though they look useless now, at night, without garlic, players at your level will have a hard time fighting these monsters, "Hwa Xiong said.
"Then, what about the few Zombie Werewolves that we ran into earlier?" Xiao Tan asked.
"Based on the plot of the scenario, the system have to arrange several mini-bosses inside and outside this building," Pan Feng. Pan Feng replied, "The relevant setting of the zombie werewolf states that 'the infected mutant virus has a 3/100,000 chance of becoming a more powerful and stable mutant.'"
"There are so many things that you can check," Feng Bujue said. "Information on monsters, how many ways to clear the scenario, when the flag will be triggered, and the map of the scenario."
"Not only that, the player's coordinates, status, skills in skill bar, title, and so on, we can check them all in the menu," Pan Feng said. "If I remember correctly, you were infected earlier and managed to find the antidote at the lab on your own. You're quite something, aren't you?"
"You flatter me," Feng Bujue said, "but … I believe there is one thing that you won't be able to find." He paused. "The Anomaly that you mentioned, right?"
Hwa Xiong sighed. "If we can find that, we won't have to waste so much effort to clear the scenario."
"After completing the condition to clear the scenario, normal players like us will be teleported out, but you should be able to ignore the teleportation time," Feng Bujue said. "So … when we leave the scenario to collect the reward, your work will have just begun. Without the interference of the players, you will be free to search for the Anomaly in the closed scenario and deal with it. "
"Oh … That's impressive. You managed to come up with such a conclusion with just a few sentences," Hwa Xiong said.
"I'm no longer interested in your situation and this scenario." Feng Bujue reached out to touch the back of his neck. He raised his head to relax his neck. "Please tell me more about the Anomaly."
"Even if you know, it's pointless because you won't be able to help," Pan Feng said. "If this was me, I would wish for the GM to bring me to find the escaped Ashford Mutant and kill it so that I can clear the scenario easily for the reward."
"Please explain to me in detail the history of the Anomalies." Feng Bujue said with a smile. "Or else I might not be able to resist the urge to write two sharp and provocative emails to Atobe-sama and A Name is Hard to Choose, telling them that … due to some technical error by the game company, you were killed by a powerful monster that shouldn't exist in this scenario."
"I mean … how did you know they were killed by the Anomaly?" Pan Feng asked.
"Simply connecting the answer to the question," Feng Bujue said.
Pan Feng and Hwa Xiong had no idea what that answer was.
"Hmm … Cough cough, okay," Hwa Xiong said. "There's no harm in telling you," Hwa Xiong said. "Actually, the existence of the Anomaly will be discovered by the players sooner or later. Even though the chance of the players running into them is small, the company still plans to release a related document during the open beta to explain it in more appropriate terms." He looked around and said, "Come with me." Then, he led the three to a coffee machine.
He came to the cubicle closest to the machine, picked up a very conspicuous can of coffee on the desk, and opened the lid. He pointed at the coffee powder that was about three-quarters full and said, "Let's assume that this coffee powder is all data." He raised his right index finger. "One of the powders is the uncontrollable data that the system needs to remove." He paused before adding, "And this one powder is moving and changing its position inside this can of coffee powder." He looked at Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi. "How are you going to pick it out?"
"Impossible," Feng Bujue replied immediately.
"Yes, impossible," Hwa Xiong added. Hwa Xiong added. He reached into the can and grabbed a handful of coffee powder. "What the system can do is to grab that set of data and all the data in a certain area around it at a fleeting moment and hold it in your hand." He raised his fist slightly, and the coffee powder slipped through the gaps between his fingers. "But in this large handful of coffee powder that I have, there is only one powder that needs to be destroyed. The rest of the powders are useful, and I cannot throw away the whole handful just to get rid of one powder. Furthermore, I cannot hold this handful of powders for too long because the one that I want to destroy might slip through my fingers at any moment. "
"So … the system will use this data to generate the scenario." Feng Bujue said. "To turn the Anomaly from code into an actual monster, and you can kill or defeat it so that it will lose its ability to resist and escape. Then, the system can remove it when it clears the scenario."
"That's it," Hwa Xiong said. He grabbed a cup and a can of sugar cubes. "This cup will be the casing of the scenario. You players are like these sugar cubes. " He pointed at the cup. "When you queued up and heard the system announcement, 'The number of team members has been randomized: six.'" He tossed the coffee powder into the cup. "The data has been thrown into the casing, but at this stage, they are still the basic elements, like air, water, earth, and so on." He picked up the six sugar cubes. "Then, the six players, including you, came to the entrance of this scenario and heard the announcement, 'Your team has entered the queue. Currently searching for other players or teams that are ready.' At that moment …" He tossed away two sugar cubes and said, "Two of them were replaced by me and Brother Pan. The two of them were immediately assigned to other waiting scenarios, and they themselves would not have noticed this change. "
"We GMs normally work in pairs. Once an Anomaly's code is selected to be in a scenario that is about to start, we will insert ourselves into that queue," Pan Feng said. "The players that we replaced were usually in a two-person team or two players who queued up alone. They would not team up with the players who successfully queued into the scenario."
"What if we run into a five-man or six-man team?" Xiao Tan asked.
"If it's a five-man team, we can only replace the player who queued up alone and send one person into the scenario. For a six-man team, there's nothing we can do. They have to face the Anomaly on their own. However, since the start of the server, no six-man team has run into an Anomaly, "Pan Feng said. "By the way, the amount of data captured by the system can only be used to create a six-man Team Survival Mode scenario, so you don't need to worry about running into an Anomaly in a two-to-five-man scenario or other modes."
"Doesn't that mean a six-man Team Survival Mode scenario is super dangerous?" Xiao Tan gasped.
"How can there be so many Anomalies?" Pan Feng said with a smile. "The chance of that kind of uncontrollable data appearing is close to one in one hundred million. During the company's internal testing, both the sleeping and non-sleeping mode servers ran continuously for thirty days, and only ten Anomaly codes appeared."
"In any case, when you hear the sentence 'generating a scenario' …" Hwa Xiong tossed the sugar cubes into the cup and walked to the coffee machine to add hot water. The coffee powder that he had added earlier dissolved into liquid. "All the elements will randomly generate a normal scenario based on your level, fighting ability, mastery, past performance, and so on. Things like the plot and the worldview will be generated at this time. And the Anomaly will be mixed into this scenario, combining with some kind of data element and materializing. "
Feng Bujue thought about it and asked, "Then … how powerful is the Anomaly?"
"Haha …" Pan Feng laughed. "You've seen how powerful we are, right?"
"I noticed …" Feng Bujue said.
"Do you know why we need to work in pairs to deal with the Anomaly?"
"One person can be killed, right?" Feng Bujue asked.
"Good that you know," Pan Feng said. "We might be level thirteen now, but we're using GM accounts, so our actual fighting ability is about ten levels higher than our level. Even so, we can't say that we're invincible. Take the boss earlier for example. It jumped down from the building to escape, and we couldn't do anything about it. If we jumped after it, we would have died like the players. "
Xiao Tan asked, "Then why didn't your company adjust the GM's character to a higher level? For example, they might look level thirteen but actually have the power of level fifty. "
Hwa Xiong raised the cup of coffee before him. "Two sugar cubes can fit in this cup, but can two watermelons fit in here?"
"Oh …" Xiao Tan nodded like he understood.
"Our accounts won't level up, and we're responsible for the level five to fourteen range. The other GM's situation is similar to ours, and they have super power beyond their level," Pan Feng said. Pan Feng said. "Since you already know about the Anomaly, if you run into one in the future … even though the chance of that happening is close to zero, if you do, please cooperate with the site manager and keep it a secret from the other players."
"I'm curious …" Feng Bujue said thoughtfully. "If the Anomaly escapes your pursuit in the scenario, what will happen?"
When Pan Feng and Hwa Xiong heard that, their expressions shifted.
Feng Bujue continued. "You've admitted that a single GM might not be able to deal with an Anomaly, so this means that something similar has happened before, right? That kind of situation … where the GM went to hunt alone and was killed by the Anomaly, "Hwa Xiong said.
Hwa Xiong said, "The scenario will be closed normally and turned back into data, and the surviving Derivative code will become stronger and more cunning …"
"Cunning?" Feng Bujue was confused.
"The Anomaly has a certain degree of AI, and it is split into four levels. Normally, we GM deal with the weakest Level Four Anomaly. Their intelligence is slightly higher than the smarter final boss of the scenario, and their combat power is slightly higher than the stronger final boss of the scenario.
Once the scenario ends and the Anomaly is still alive, then the Anomaly will become stronger and more cunning, just like what I said earlier. It has a high chance of increasing to Level Three. In ninety-seven percent of cases, a Level Four Anomaly can be defeated by one GM, but a Level Three Anomaly requires two GM, and the success rate of one GM is less than fifty percent. "
"What about the higher level ones?" Feng Bujue asked.
"I haven't seen one," Hwa Xiong replied. Hwa Xiong replied. "To be honest, I haven't even heard of it before. A level two Anomaly only exists in theory. Actually, there has only been one Level Three Anomaly so far. During the game's operation phase, the chance of a Level Three Anomaly appearing will increase slightly. Of course, even if the chance is ten times higher, the chance is very small. "
"Hmm … Understood. Then, let's go and see just how strong this Level Four Anomaly is …" Feng Bujue said with a smile.
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