To ascend, I had no choice but to create games-Chapter 867 - 477 Complicated Game

Hakurei Silver Dream had never expected that a perfectly normal anime mahjong game would turn into a game of hide and seek.

Especially since it included the very person she least wanted to see.

Sitting in the not-so-spacious room, she looked at Wu Wei, the only male character, and said with a weird smile, "To be surrounded by three beautiful girls, where did you come from, the protagonist of a galgame?"

Before Wu Wei could respond, Xiemen Waidao raised his hand and said, "I’m a guy."

Liuzi also raised his hand, "Me too."

"...So it turns out I’m the only girl here. What’s with you guys playing these trap accounts!"

"Seeing cute girls play cards is way better than watching burly dudes, plus there’s this ’I’m so adorable’ feeling when changing my own clothes. It’s not just me, everyone in our group plays cards using cute girl characters, and we even use the default voice lines; it’s super comfortable."

Hakurei Silver Dream was hugely annoyed that she actually shared the same thoughts as Xiemen Waidao.

After she had finished creating her character, she also had the illusion of being the cutest under heaven.

Hugging her head and sitting in a corner, Hakurei Silver Dream began to wonder why she’d ended up in this situation, but could come up with no answer.

"I just wanted to win a championship and slap those who looked down on me in the face. How did it come to this?"

"Your goal was impure from the start," Liuzi said while playing with his ponytail.

"It’s a mahjong game, how pure can the intentions be! Even college students aren’t pure these days! And stop playing with your hair, it looks disgusting! Especially since the face you created is just like the female protagonists of Mr. Liuzi that I adore, it feels even more disgusting."

"Why don’t you mention that his name is also the same as your idol?" Xiemen Waidao said, pulling Liuzi.

"So, it’s even more disgusting."

"But he is Mr. Liuzi, the real deal."

Hakurei Silver Dream looked back and forth between Liuzi and Xiemen Waidao, then said with a forced smile, "It can’t be. Tell me you guys are joking."

Liuzi thought for a moment, then on the spot drew a picture of one of his female protagonists.

Seeing that no one laughed, Hakurei Silver Dream covered her face, thinking it might be better to just die here today.

Liuzi also felt a little awkward, especially since it was only after he finished drawing that he remembered his current appearance was a bit shameful.

Xiemen Waidao didn’t really care, only feeling a bit regretful that there wasn’t a bloodbath on the spot, and he even wanted to fan the flames a bit more.

Sensing that the atmosphere was getting somewhat awkward, the always amiable Wu Wei felt he needed to say something.

Sitting next to Liuzi, he curiously asked, "I’ve been thinking, do we need to be so tense? It’s just a game, it shouldn’t need to be taken so seriously, should it?"

"You’re still too naive," Liuzi said helplessly. "Just go take a look at Game Inn, the people there have gone crazy."

Curiously opening Game Inn and finding the "Megalopolis" subforum, Wu Wei gasped in shock.

As a veteran netizen, he had experienced everything from the 3G to the 5G era.

But he had never expected a game forum to have such a complex mix of characters.

Normally, you’d expect an anime forum to be filled with intense analyses, fan art (CG), walkthroughs, and the like.

But in "Megalopolis," it was full of deception and scheming.

Some people would praise A to attack B and ultimately aim to manipulate C. Some appeared to be whistleblowers but were actually misleading other players, serving their own unspeakable purposes.

The moderators were constantly deleting posts and silencing users, yet new posts kept surfacing at such a rate that Wu Wei wondered if he was watching a war unfold.

"The speed of post deletion and posting is too fast to follow," Wu Wei exclaimed in amazement.

"It’s all because ’Megalopolis’ has touched on some people’s interests," Liuzi shrugged and said. "The traditional card and board games were okay, at the end of the day it’s just a table and some mahjong tiles. But ’Megalopolis’ delivered a Dimensionality Reduction Strike, providing players with a much more intense experience than anywhere else. Where else would you choose to play?"

"Exactly," Xiemen Waidao added as he joined in, "I have someone in my group who makes card game templates for overseas markets. He said that ever since ’Megalopolis’ came out, his template sales have been cut in half. Those in the grey markets are the most sensitive; they knew the traditional card game platforms were done for after ’Megalopolis’ came out. After that, they had to find another way."

Hearing this, Wu Wei roughly understood.

The card game competition the day after tomorrow was just a spark; the chaos on the forum had already been brewing.

Card games have always been a rather grey industry, albeit gaming currency exchange with RMB was prohibited by the state, there existed an abundance of Gold Coin traders in the games. They acted as an exchange platform, circulating the game’s currency through buying low and selling high, and facilitating clandestine currency exchanges.

Some even conducted virtual rooms in the games and operated offline gambling, making it a risky affair.

However, the appearance of "Megalopolis" diverted a large portion of potential users away from other gaming platforms and directly into this game.

Although it was uncertain how much other card game platforms had been affected, from their frenzied behavior, their influence must have been rather significant.