This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 309 - 200: Players vs. NPCs (Happy New Year) (2)
What kind of waves can mere NPCs create?
Don’t underestimate the terror of the Fourth Calamity! With enough time for players to develop and grow, this NPC sister is just a piece of cake, easily handled.
Chen Ba was full of confidence in the players, so he didn’t pay much attention to the impact of this incident, just laughed it off.
The players thought the same way.
Although being killed by NPCs is embarrassing, the players didn’t want Ba to step in and fix this bug.
On the contrary, they were challenged by this NPC sister.
[Mark my words, I’m taking down the sister today to restore my pride!]
[Mere sister, dare to rebel? No need for Ba to act, I can subdue the sister mess with one hand...]
[The sister is being unruly, just needs a beating. You guys take a break, let me handle it!]
It’s been a while since we’ve faced such an interesting opponent! Many players were getting fired up, eager to prove themselves.
Being stepped on by an NPC?
And this NPC is Chen Yun’s sister, Chen Jia, in the story, can you tolerate that?
Players were full of fighting spirit.
They believed that everyone is evolving infinitely, and being sneak attacked by this NPC sister early on was just a matter of surprise. As long as they stay vigilant in the future, they can’t possibly fail.
The idea was great.
But the players quickly discovered something was wrong...
A 14th-tier sister just appeared, and now another 11th-tier sister follows? That’s not right, these should be two different NPCs?
"Oh no, there are traitors!"
The players quickly realized that there seemed to be several "traitors" in their player group who defected to the NPC camp and created new "sister messes"!
There were quite a few traitors...
With the first successful example, more and more NPC sisters quickly evolved to the tenth tier, breaking through the limits and unlocking High-level Intelligence.
Suddenly, the game environment of Global Evolution changed.
The previous storyline was humans VS Fierce Beasts VS Sea Beasts VS spirit monsters, with players holding absolute dominance.
But now, there’s no distinction between Fierce Beasts, humans, or Sea Beasts. The game only has two camps as antagonists: players versus NPCs, where NPCs, although few, hold absolute dominance.
The number of players is massive...
But even with numbers, facing the NPCs with overwhelming strength leaves players powerless. After all, Global Evolution doesn’t support true multiplayer battles, only one-on-one.
...
"Huh? NPCs leading an invasion of player territories, freeing all NPCs?"
When Chen Ba first heard this news, his mind buzzed, almost thinking he wasn’t awake.
Which NPC is so intelligent?
"It’s the same kind of NPC from Divine Grace Continent! They have a certain level of independent thinking, with decent intelligence..."
Lu muttered, "Think of how intelligent the NPCs are in Divine Grace Continent. Do you still find this unbelievable?"
"Not unbelievable!"
Chen Ba thought seriously for a moment, then said, "So what’s the situation now?"
Machine crisis?
No! These rebelling are not robots, but NPCs within the game, so the correct term should be "NPC Crisis"?
"Can you believe these highly intelligent NPCs even train other NPCs?"
Lu said speechlessly, "After awakening, NPCs have high intelligence, capable of making script-level moves and reactions, suppressing players of the same level."
Moreover, the NPC rebel army continues to grow, leaving the disorganized group of players continuously defeated.
If it weren’t for every player having the trait of infinite resurrection, and NPCs dying permanently, players might have quit the game long ago.
Even so.
Faced with the constraints of Global Evolution not allowing multiplayer combat, players still feel helpless when facing NPC rebels.
They truly can’t win!
Both sides are infinitely evolving, although NPCs are dumber, they can’t resurrect after dying, but their evolution speed is faster, and they possess script-level moves and operations, suppressing players of the same level.
Facing this situation, those who posted saying they would fix the "sister mess" to restore peace to Global Evolution were now unable to handle it.
So, they collectively called for Ba, hoping he could avenge them and regain some ground for the players in the battle against NPCs.
"What’s the use of calling me?" 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎
Chen Ba was speechless, even though he was the one who created the sister mess, there wasn’t much he could do now either!
Such a disgrace to the Fourth Calamity...
Representing the Fourth Calamity, known for terrifying countless worlds, but being suppressed by a group of NPCs without any ability to fight back, it’s truly embarrassing.
"Okay, let’s help them."
Lu laughed and said, "After all, players paid to buy the game, NPCs didn’t spend money..."
"That makes sense!"
Chen Ba thought and realized it was indeed reasonable.
Although players were disappointing, being beaten by NPC rebels until they were blue and black, and all they do is post complaints on the community, losing the face of the Fourth Calamity.
But since they spent money, we can’t just sit by dully.
Would it be appropriate to directly wipe these NPC rebels?
Chen Ba thought inappropriate.
While these rebellious NPCs created much chaos, they also created new fun for the game, overall benefiting more than harming.
Since that’s the case, they shouldn’t be directly erased, but preserved.
However, considering the weakness and helplessness of the players, Global Evolution needs a significant update to launch the so-called "Real Multiplayer" feature.
The truly terrifying aspect of the Fourth Calamity is definitely sticking together.
Solo fights, these players might not be NPCs’ opponents, but if they can team up, then there’s a chance for players to battle against NPCs.
A week before the Lunar New Year.
In response to players’ appeals and requests, Tianba Studio carried out a version update on Global Evolution, upgrading the original "Fake Multiplayer" to Real Multiplayer.
So-called real multiplayer means now there’s an online mode in the game.
Players can team up online, jointly raid or even hunt bosses...
However, speaking honestly!
Although on the surface, this online mode is for everyone to team up and fight bosses, everyone knows this is just a step down from Ba.
The real function of teaming up is to hunt NPC rebels!
Global Evolution is completely out of order, after Wang Wei opened Pandora’s Box, more and more NPCs broke through evolution limits and surpassed players.
Moreover, once these NPCs break through limits, they unlock the same level of intelligence as those from Divine Grace Continent, so they team up, recruit newcomers, and establish organizations.
Because these rebellious NPCs mostly are the protagonist’s sister Chen Jia, this incident is also known as "sister mess"!
That’s right...
These NPCs who break through limits, unlock high-level intelligence, and suppress players, nine out of ten are sisters Chen Jia.
"A new Chapter of the story unfolds!"
Perhaps Lu never dreamed, the plot of Global Evolution would develop like this.
Brother Chen Yun joins the players’ side, sister Chen Jia leads the NPCs in rebellion, the two siblings who were supposed to depend on each other were completely separated due to their different player and NPC statuses.
"Seems there are more brothers!"
Chen Ba pondered, "Every player is a brother, so there are hundreds of thousands of brothers! While on the sister side, seems there are only thousands?"
The number gap is indeed huge!
But although the number gap is vast, overall strengths still favor the sister side.
After all, the first awakened sister, also dubbed "Number One Sister" by community players, Chen Jia, is already at the 20th tier!
Looking at the players’ side, their top combat force is only at the 16th tier...
This is the ultimate grinding, playing 24 hours non-stop, with three or four people taking shifts to acquire experience, the highest combat power grown.
If it really comes to battle, hard to say!
Number One Sister might be able to slap a death toll of 10,000 player brothers with a single strike, this is the terror of top-tier combat power, a 20th-tier Evolver.
