“Hahaha, look at how stupid it looks!” The player standing on the high wall laughed loudly, pointing at the interstellar beast that slipped into the deep ditch and was impaled to death by steel bars.
“Brothers, it is our turn!”
At this time, there was a team of wind elementalists. Some were carrying teammates on their backs and some were traveling lightly.
There were flying interstellar beasts passing by in the sky, but they weren’t noticed for the time being.
They quickly flew toward the first and second deep ditches.
Now some interstellar beasts had broken through the first deep ditch. Then once they stepped on the grass, their feet kept slipping and they fell into the second ditch one after another.
Explosives were also buried in the second deep ditch, but now wasn’t the time to use them.
The wind players, who were traveling lightly, took out a huge water tank full of unknown liquid from their backpacks and poured it directly on the heads of the interstellar beasts.
On the high wall, the water elementalists that were over level 30 used their powerful element control abilities to turn the liquid into rain that fell evenly on the heads of the interstellar beasts.
Thousands of wind players quickly doused the tens of thousands of interstellar beasts at the front. At this time, the battlefield was already filled with the smell of canola oil.
That’s right. This was vegetable oil that the players bought in the system mall. It wasn’t very popular but it was cheap!
Kerosene and oil were hard to find and the players didn’t have time to obtain them. But vegetable oil… was available in unlimited quantities in the system mall!
After pouring the oil, the water elementalists followed Qing Yan’s instructions and started a drizzle.
The interstellar beasts were drenched in vegetable oil and felt sticky and uncomfortable. Therefore, they thought this was a timely rain. As a result—
Crackle! Crackle!
The drizzle stopped. It was replaced by small fireballs thrown down by fire elementalists.
They lay on the back of the wind players and kept throwing small fireballs down. These small fireballs directly ignited the vegetable oil. The vegetable oil was mixed with water, which caused a deflagration effect.
It wasn’t as deadly as a bomb but… it hurt! What’s more, these interstellar beasts that climbed over the first deep ditch were all injured. It was simply painful.
The other wind players weren’t idle either and continued to add fuel to the fire.
In less than five minutes, the fire spread. Thick black smoke surged in the wind, sandwiched by the deafening screams of the interstellar beasts.
Bright red damage values appeared along with the smell of barbecue.
The players guarding the high wall couldn’t help salivating when they smelled it.
They used to be nervous but now they were greedy.
Umm, this smelled so good! They wanted to eat!
Even the casual audience watching in the live broadcast room couldn’t stand it.
[Who can resist such fresh ingredients and original cooking techniques?]
[I’ve already ordered takeout.]
[The battle to defend the city feels a bit like a meal.]
[Please be serious. I can hear the streamer gulping!]
[I also want to enter the game to play. Wu wu wu, when will the game cabin arrive? It is so annoying!]
[The second batch must not be able to catch up with this wave of city defense battles, right?]
If the original plan was followed, the new players would indeed be unable to catch up with this beast wave. Then after discussing it with his brothers, Xu Fengqing made a decision.
Once he went offline, he approached Elder Wang. The game team also held an emergency meeting overnight to discuss his proposal.
“Elder Wang, are you sure you really want to do this?”
“This is what Chairman Xu meant.”
“But…”
Elder Wang raised his hand to stop the man. “I know what you want to say, but the responsibility of this matter lies with us. It was indeed our mistake.”
Chairman Xu might’ve been involved in this incident and might even be the key to the incident, but it was indeed the research center that distributed the problematic game cabin.
Chairman Xu had already abided by his agreement and hadn’t appeared in front of the players. He was only active near the birth point of the dark dragon.
As the largest investor of Starry Sky Age, he also had the right to enjoy the game. He couldn’t be blamed in any way.
“I should’ve anticipated the uncontrollable nature of the game. From the beginning, we couldn’t get Starry Sky Age to follow the script we designed.”
“Every tiny event could have an unpredictable butterfly effect.”
“This is the charm of Starry Sky Age and it is also the challenge we need to face.”
Elder Wang’s words silenced everyone in the meeting room.
Indeed, from the first closed beta, everything was like a wild horse out of control. Almost nothing went according to the route they had set.
This time, the game group had no way to place the blame on others.
The scene fell silent. Soon, someone put forward their opinion.
“Elder Wang, I agree with your point of view.”
The person continued, “The problem now is that our experimental data isn’t perfect enough. No harm to the human body has been detected, but it might be because the test base is too small.”
“If we implement it rashly and something happens at that time…”
“Then I’ll take it all on myself,” Elder Wang said solemnly.
The moment he said this, everyone fell silent again. This time, no one else raised any objections.
Next, they started to discuss the implementation plan. At this point, someone said, “However, if the game helmet is released early, will it affect the sales of the game cabin?”
Judging from the current number of reservations, there was still a huge market for game cabins. On the one hand, it was because of the quality of Starry Sky Age. On the other hand, it might be due to hunger marketing.
If cheaper gaming helmets hit the market, it would definitely affect the game cabin.
“Starry Sky Age is initially positioned as a high-end premium product. But judging from the game’s current popularity, this positioning might need to be adjusted.”
Elder Wang said seriously.
Starry Sky Age was a holographic game with epoch-making significance. They had no cases to refer to, so they could only explore it alone and slowly.
“So, let’s move onto the rest of the discussion.”
In the game, the interstellar beasts were still stuck at the second line of defense.
The raging sea of fire had spread. The temperature of the battlefield had increased by several degrees, and the aroma of meat mixed with the strong smell of blood filled the air.
However, the footsteps of the interstellar beasts didn’t stop.
In fact, most interstellar beasts weren’t afraid of flames. At the very least, it was very difficult for ordinary flames to burn them to death. It only caused them a certain degree of pain.
What’s more, there were interstellar beasts that had mastered water type skills. They were in a state of madness but they instinctively saved themselves.
Combine this with the interstellar beasts that flew in the sky starting to hunt the players below and it brought great obstacles to the players.
In terms of air attacks, even NPCs lacked good methods, let alone players.
Finally, after filling two deep trenches with corpses, the interstellar beast herd started to advance toward the high wall.
By this time, it was already late at night.
Boom.
There was a gap between the second and third lines of defense. How could Qing Yan let this gap go? With almost every step that the interstellar beasts took, the roar of explosions and sky-high flames came one after another.
The number of players online at night was undoubtedly the highest for the day.
As the office worker group started to come online one after another, the number of people in the resistance team increased from 40,000 to over 90,000. This simultaneous online ratio was definitely excellent.
However, facing the endless herd of interstellar beasts, the number of players was still too small.
Qing Yan was under great pressure. She wasn’t sure how long the third line of defense could last. So in the rear, the fourth and fifth lines of defense were already under construction.
It was just that they couldn’t keep retreating. The position of the teleportation circle was the final bottom line. The teleportation circle was also the key to whether they could hold on or not.
In fact, the player’s ability to support it for so long was completely unexpected by Xu Sili.
The City of Braves hadn’t even built the foundation. It was so far away from Imperial City that he had given up on it from the beginning.
So this time, apart from providing necessary equipment and medicines, he basically didn’t take any action. He just watched as a bystander from beginning to end.
He originally thought that the players would collapse after enduring one wave at most. After all, without his participation in the last few days, the players’ speed of clearing monsters would really be much slower.
He didn’t expect the players to have so many clever ideas. They not only dug trenches and built walls in one day, but also set up many traps.
What’s more, someone had developed a timed bomb?
Looking at this situation, it shouldn’t be over for a while. It was no problem to hold on until at least tomorrow morning. But during the day, the number of online players would be cut by at least half. It was unknown if they could really persist.
Xu Sili decided to wait and see.
Currently, Xu Sili had revealed the matter of the beast wave to Wen Jishan and other ministers. They were holding an intensive meeting. Then this morning, Xiao Wu finally thoroughly digested the data on the Bewatt spaceship.
The Bewatt Empire had installed a total of 54 devices on Escher Star, distributed in a fan shape in the surrounding area.
These devices emitted a specific sound wave that interfered with the brain nerves of the interstellar beasts, causing them to have a strong sense of crisis. They became crazy and started to migrate toward the place they thought was safe, which was Roland.
Now Si Sheng had gone to various places on Escher Star to destroy these devices according to the map given by Xiao Wu.
Once the devices stopped sending sound waves, the situation of the beast wave should be better than that of the timeline on the Future Forum.
Roar!
After stepping on all the bombs, some interstellar beasts broke through all the defenses and crashed into the high wall.
Just the tremor from this collision caused a low-level player’s health bar to drop by half. He was so frightened that he quickly took out a health potion to drink.
The horror of the interstellar beasts could be seen.
The only good thing was that even with so many people online at the same time, there was no network delay, lag or disconnection. This experience was simply superb!
As the night deepened, the number of players participating in the defense of the city started to decrease.
Everyone was tempted to stay in the game to hold the defense, but after all, not everyone was a full-time player. By the next morning, the players had been reduced by half again. It was even less than yesterday.
48 hours of continuous online time wasn’t something that people could withstand.
Players who were still insisting on defending the city were cursing. There were many people who learned about the real-time battle situation through the forum’s live broadcasts after going offline.
For today, it was hard to say if Qing Yan and the others could hold on until evening.
At this moment, the game group, who had been scolded by players for a long time, finally issued a new announcement.
Starry Sky Age would temporarily adjust the real-life and game time flow rate ratio to 6:1 after 24 hours. The Starry Sky Forum and live broadcast room would be closed in the game. Players would need to be offline before they could browse the forum.
There was more blockbuster news:
The gaming helmet has been successfully developed and put into production. One million gaming helmets would be sold in one month, with an initial price of only 5,000 yuan.
The second batch of 200,000 game cabins would be distributed three months later.
[Huh? The ratio of reality to game time is 6:1. In other words, six months will pass in the game but only one month in reality?]
[You got it the other way. It is half a year in reality but one month in the game.]
[What type of magical setting is this? I’ve only heard of speeding up, never slowing down?]
[Am I the only one who saw the one million gaming helmets sold in one month?]
[Hahahahaha, you aren’t alone. I’ve already made a reservation. I can play the holographic game for 5,000 yuan. It is worth it!]
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