"I have an appointment." A beautiful woman with dazzling lights all over her body said to the service NPC of the Sea View Hotel. Behind her, on the street outside the hotel lobby, countless pairs of eyes were looking here through the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Contempt, disdain, affection, grief, in short, making eye contact with any one of these onlookers will make you feel very uncomfortable.
Qing'er didn't look back. She knew what these people thought, but since she had made up her mind, she didn't care about this kind of look at all. The NPC smiled and led Qing'er to a teleportation point, because the single room on the 105th floor was occupied by a cat.
It was reserved by me, so only people approved by him can enter. Naturally, Qing'er is the only player who can enter.
As soon as the white light of the teleportation array appeared, Qing'er was already standing at the door of Master Mao's room. The room was very spacious, with a dining table alone in the middle. The corners were decorated with tall plants, and the three walls of the room were covered with
It has very soft warm colors and a completely glass wall, overlooking the largest main road in the Capital of Heroes and most of the city.
The man with the word "Ripper" on his head was sitting at the table eating, wearing a casual suit. Qing'er's first impression was that this man should be a pure business player. The reason is simple.
Most of the guys who buy "fashion items" in this game are commercial players. People who don't go out of town are always wearing novice uniforms or a few ordinary pieces of equipment, which seems not to be very particular. They will probably spend tens of thousands.
For businessmen, it is necessary to use game currency to buy a few sets of lifestyle outfits, even if it is purely to support the scene.
Mr. Cat didn't even bother to look up at her, he just used red wine to bring the food in his mouth down his throat, and then said: "Hello, please sit down."
"Do you know that as soon as you say these words, my mission will be completed." Qing'er said. Before she came, she read the details of the mission of the mercenary guild very carefully, and was surprised to find that there was no such thing.
The conditions for various gangsters in her imagination were the same as the mission, and the details were just one sentence: "The restaurant on the 105th floor of the Sea View Restaurant." Now that Mr. Mao has communicated with her, the system directly determined that "Xiao Xu"
"After this behavior is completed, you can receive the task reward.
"I know." Master Mao's answer was just these two words.
"Oh? Then you don't mind if I turn around and leave now and receive the reward of 30 million game coins?" Qing'er said provocatively.
"That money has nothing to do with me anymore, please sit down." Master Mao once again reached out and motioned for the other person to sit down.
"Hey! Are you being funny? Don't you understand what I just said?"
Cat Master said lazily: "Then please do as you please." He then lowered his head and started eating the food.
Qing'er was angry, but she couldn't explain why. Anyway, she didn't leave after all, but sat obediently opposite Master Cat.
Mr. Cat put down the tableware again: "So, you decided to sit down and chat again?"
"Hmph...you already knew I wouldn't leave."
Mr. Cat replied: "Of course, 30 million is not your purpose. You come here just to ask me a few questions. Don't worry, I can answer all your doubts."
"Do you even know what I want to ask?"
"What you want to ask is, does the task of taking Aotian's head have something to do with me?"
"Yes." Qing'er did not deny it.
Master Cat said: "I wasn't the one who sent out the mission, but I was the one who instigated that guy. As for the one who took over the mission...it was me."
"What on earth do you want to do?" She really wondered from the bottom of her heart.
"I want war and chaos, collapse and destruction."
"It's just you?" The president of the Red Moon Guild, third in the overall strength list and the strongest female player in the game, asked this question with a scornful look.
“More than enough.”
"Your answer is ridiculous."
Mr. Cat said: "Really? As part of my plan, you are questioning me. This is ridiculous, just like an engine that is already running but denying the existence of the entire car."
"What do you mean?"
"Anyway, I have plenty of time, so I'll walk you through everything from the beginning." Mr. Cat pressed the service button on the virtual interface, and a real-person NPC waiter quickly teleported to him: "Sir, what do you need?
?”
"The food and wine have been removed, let's serve tea."
The waiter replied: "Okay." The food in the virtual world was removed quickly, and the entire table was cleared with a simple operation by the waiter.
"Sir, is today's meal to your liking?" he asked in a formal tone.
Mr. Cat gave an answer he had never heard in his life: "If 'evil' had a taste, it would probably taste like this."
A brief silence...
The waiter didn't know what to say. In fact, the meals produced by this system are based on the highest quality ingredients and luxurious and advanced cooking methods. To put it bluntly, the people who eat are having their brains accept the virtual food.
Taste information. Therefore, every dish is delicious and will always taste this way. The player's brain will unconditionally confirm that eating the food here is definitely a pleasure.
But the game company still has such a stupid rule. If you work here, you have to ask people: How does it taste like in a real high-end restaurant? This is nonsense, but it is also polite. The person who answers is out of politeness.
I would probably also reply with a nonsense: Very good.
Cat Master saw that the waiter was a little stunned, so he continued: "When my brain cannot receive virtual taste signals, there is no difference between eating food in this world and chewing wax."
"Um...Sir...what did you say..." He was really getting more and more confused.
"Forget it, it's not an important thing. This is just an experiment. You can go on with your business." Master Cat said.
The waiter nodded, used the virtual interface to select refreshments, and said before leaving: "Please use it slowly."
After he left, Cat Master picked up the tea and took a sip, "Sure enough, it's just like drinking boiled water..."
Qing'er said: "You have so many things to do, can you talk about it now?"
Master Mao breathed a sigh of relief and began to explain: "This game has a history of more than three years from internal beta, public beta, to official operation. Until now, it has been through this long, smelly, and nothing new period of human history.
With a thorough understanding of the history of struggle in the virtual world, as well as a mastery of the various rules of the game itself, combined with my own actual situation, I formulated a plan.
The basic development so far is this...
First of all, I think you should also be aware that the mercenary guild mission system of this game rarely has tens of millions of missions in the early stages of the game. During the public beta, there was the famous "Ten million people looking for capable guilds to help kill the BOSS" incident.
, it can be regarded as the first incident caused by the mercenary guild mission to cause a sensation, and many subsequent missions with more than 10 million are similar to it.
As the game progresses, the gap between high-end players and ordinary casual players gradually widens. The game content that the two groups are exposed to is no longer at the same level. Many purely commercial consortiums, and you guys
The guild leaders who are either businessmen or officials behind the scenes, well... I guess you people are just a group of young masters and ladies in reality. In short, you high-end players have formed your own forces to carve up the interests at the top of the game pyramid.
At this point, the over 10 million tasks in the mercenary guild have been declared completely extinct, because the entrusters of the tens of millions of tasks have roughly understood which guilds or people in the game will be able to achieve their goals, and they can skip mercenaries
If the guild directly contacts the contractor, why bother spending the 2% service fee and make it known to the world, increasing the risk of the benefits being divided by others?
Therefore, for a long period of time, people seemed to have gradually forgotten that news about tens of millions of game missions could pop up on the bulletin board in the information center. Occasionally, someone threw a three million mission into the mercenary guild.
When the subtitles appear on the billboard, it's enough to attract onlookers."
Mr. Cat finished the tea in the cup and picked up the teapot and filled it for himself: "Human beings are really strange creatures... We will learn history and examine the mistakes we made in the past, so as to reflect and correct... But no matter what happens after
After many years of repeated cycles, we still make the same mistakes many times."
Qing'er sneered: "You talk like this, as if you are not a human being."
"What about you? Are you a representative of humankind?" Master Cat asked: "Obviously not, you are just a member of humankind. Humanity cannot have a representative. A person's soul has self, id,
Superego...all kinds of contradictions, such a creature is too complicated. So when it comes to people...one person cannot represent the other; one person cannot represent a group."
"When did we start talking about philosophy?"
Master Mao smiled: "Then let's go back to the topic just now. When we humans haven't seen tasks with tens of millions of bonuses for too long, we will form a habit, a way of thinking, and a kind of "no tens of millions"
The inertia of surviving in the game "Super Mission". If I suddenly break this inertia, what will you say?"
Qing'er frowned in thought. At this moment, she actually felt that it seemed difficult to understand this matter without putting it in a philosophical sense...
"The answer is simple. 'Order' will be broken, and all 'routines' will be replaced by 'extraordinary'. Human beings will be fearful, hesitant, and at a loss during this period.
In the end, there will only be two results. The first is that people think, unite, adapt, and survive in the new inertia. The second is... haha... war and chaos, collapse and destruction.
Of course, the two results may appear one after another or even alternately. Anyway, the one who laughs at the end is the winner."
Qing'er shook her head, as if she wanted to drive Master Mao's words out of her mind: "Okay, stop being mysterious, and be more straightforward. You did something that no one has done in a long time, and it's still a stupid thing.
!A business that only pays but does not make any profit!”
Master Mao leaned back in his chair: "The 'compensation' and 'profit' you mentioned refer to the game currency, which is money. But my starting point is not to pursue money. The concepts are different, so why do you think they are?
Are you doing something stupid?"
"I won't argue with you about this, then you can continue talking, Mr. Demon King." Qing'er seemed to replace Master Mao's logic with her own theory, completing her inner self-persuasion with a self-deceptive point of view, which is consistent with
Wang Xu looks quite similar back then...
"When my mission appeared, the order was already broken. It cannot be restored until the whole thing comes to an end. Therefore, in these twenty-four hours, no matter whether anyone takes over the mission or not, there will be chaos.
will inevitably appear." Master Mao poured cups of tea: "I gave people three hours to think and complete the initial adaptation and reaction. This period of time is enough for the person Aotian and other interested parties to calm down.
, and the most preliminary reasoning of you people will also be completed during this time.
With your wisdom, the 'most reasonable' conclusion that can be drawn is that the person who released this task is to defraud liquidated damages. As for other less reliable ones, I will not list them one by one. Of course, this is the only thing that seems to be
The reasonable conclusion is also wrong. It is impossible for you to guess my true intention.
So, three hours later, I took over the task myself. This behavior cannot overturn the conclusion of "defrauding liquidated damages", but it is enough to shake the reasoner, just like when you play chess and feel that you have calculated the move thoroughly.
One move, but when the pieces are actually placed in that position, you will always discover something new.
At the same time, the act of accepting a task can arouse the interest of non-related stakeholders, that is, ordinary players. They will naturally be curious, because as I just said, everyone will be 'fearful, hesitant, and at a loss'
Go through this process and experience at least one of these three emotions.
Then, the conditions for war and chaos have been assembled. A biological population that cannot represent a group as an individual gathers together on a large scale. The order has been broken. At this time, all contradictions will become acute. The last few
The restraint will soon collapse due to the unpredictable human heart. Gratitude, interests, or..." Master Mao stopped and looked at Qing'er's face: "Or it only takes one woman to ignite the fuse of a war.
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Qing'er's expression suddenly changed. She was shocked and angry, and she even felt a sense of fear deep in her heart: "So, five hours later, you lured me into the game with a 30 million mission?"
"You have already joined the game. As I said, you are also a member of the human race. You are not more advanced than anyone else outside. When I released the 20 million mission, you were already in the game. When the three people related to you
When tens of millions of tasks appear, you will naturally think and reason, and then come to a conclusion - if two tens of millions of tasks suddenly appear in one day, then the publisher of the first task and I are probably related.
Associated.
In order to verify this conclusion, that's why you came here, isn't it? That's why you sat there and listened to what I said... and spent a total of..." Master Mao looked at the time: "It's been half since you came in
It’s almost an hour. What kind of thinking and reasoning are people outside doing right now?”
