Future Prospects

# Chapter 21: Late-Stage Prospects

Originally a scouting mission, it was forcibly turned into a head-on confrontation by the Three Great Player Alliances.

This battle made the players realize the power of the Cha Na Ghost General's forces. After this setback, the player forces became much more united, and PKs in the wild decreased.

The reason was simple: the leaders of the three most powerful alliances had a talk.

This battle undoubtedly made them feel frustrated. After this campaign, they decided to abandon their temporary disputes and planned to jointly take down the Ghost Overseer Camp located at the forefront of the Liuli District.

The peace and development led to overcrowding in the Ghost Mountains, with a large number of players gathering here to hunt and improve their strength.

Fortunately, the Ghost Mountains had a special domain field where Netherworld Soul-type creatures were constantly born, equivalent to respawns in a game, ensuring that players would never run out of monsters to kill.

As they ventured deeper into the Ghost Mountains, various more powerful vengeful spirits, Ferocious Ghosts, White-Haired Zombies, and other creatures appeared, causing the players a lot of suffering. It could be said that it was a painful but joyful experience.

At the same time, the rise of the Battle Online game attracted a large number of gold farming studios.

After all, a Soul Coin price of 1:800 was indeed extremely tempting.

However, what dumbfounded the gold farming studios was that this game could not be multi-boxed, and even accounts could not be lent to others. Even if they used various methods, they could not crack this game.

Lu Wu even saw merchants in the game's black market offering high prices for a cracking software, hoping to multi-box in Battle Online.

Many network hackers also worked hard to study it, but the results were obvious. The game was still 0 hacks and 0 merchants, and this remarkable record made Battle Online another hit.

Lu Wu was naturally full of confidence in this regard. He knew that the Battle Online game was actually soul-bound, so how could there be multi-boxing hacks unless players had two souls?

At the same time, taking in the suggestions from players in the comments, Lu Wu and Bei Li went to the Underworld again.

With the help of Bei Li, this omnipotent little assistant, they connected the helmet and the server together, which solved the problem of players recording videos in the game.

The emergence of this feature was also more conducive to the promotion of the game. Players put the recorded videos on major video portals, which undoubtedly increased the game's exposure.

The number of players also grew day by day, reaching a scale of 150,000, and as a result, many technical players emerged.

Three technical players caught Lu Wu's attention the most on the forum. One of them, a player named Na Lanlan, hand-drew a map of the Ghost Mountains showing the distribution of monsters in each area, as well as the weaknesses of each monster.

This map could be said to have solved many problems for many newbies entering the game.

Another player named Dwarf_King recorded his exploration of the map after the new function was opened and displayed it in the forum specially set up for Battle Online on the Platform173.

According to this player named Dwarf_King, he basically didn't fight monsters when he entered the game, but instead started exploring this Underworld world with a traveler's mentality.

To his surprise, none of the scenes in this game were repeated, and they were all incredibly realistic. After wandering around the Beiqi continent for seven days, he felt that he had only explored a small part of the area, but it still made him feast his eyes.

At the same time, his map also let players know what was outside the Netherworld area.

In the Dwarf_King's map, the map fog in the area near the Netherworld all disappeared, and four wild areas appeared: the Ghost Mountains that players were most familiar with, the Langya Scorched Earth Zone to the west, and the Cliffs of Desperation and Death Forest further ahead.

In the Dwarf_King's description, these areas had strangely shaped ghosts and monsters. Fortunately, he was sneaky enough to go so far, but he was still swallowed in one bite by a huge viper serpent in the Death Forest.

The real-life game pictures taken by the Dwarf_King made the players exclaim in amazement. It turned out that the world was so big, and there were so many bizarre external existences.

However, at the end of the post, the Dwarf_King reminded players that adventure requires strength. In order to explore this Underworld world, he decided to level up properly and then start his adventurer's journey again.

The Dwarf_King's post was pinned to the top of the Battle Online discussion area for a long time, attracting the attention of many players, and once again aroused the desire of many players to become stronger.

The last player was called One_Punch_One_Kick. According to him, he used to be a firefighter who lost an arm and a leg in a disaster relief effort. This incident hit him too hard, making him depressed and even suicidal.

After being rescued by chance, he began to resent life, hate the unfairness of life, and lived a self-destructive life.

After several twists and turns, he came into contact with the game and began to use the virtual world to numb his life.

At least in the game, he was a complete person, but it still made him feel fake, without any real feeling, like a prosthetic limb.

But he accidentally came into contact with Battle Online. After experiencing it, he was surprised to think that his hands and feet had returned. This completely real feeling made him burst into tears. This was the first time he felt that his lost limbs were real again.

At the end of the post, One_Punch_One_Kick expressed his sincere gratitude to the game's developers.

One_Punch_One_Kick's post moved many players, but it also made people pay attention to the horror of the Battle Online's degree of realism, which could actually allow a disabled person to truly have the tactile sensation of lost limbs.

In the comments below this post, in addition to the comfort of many players, some players also expressed their gratitude because they had found people with the same painful experiences around them, and had a place to regain their complete selves.

This time, Battle Online gained many more loyal fans.

Many players spontaneously made recharge requests in the forum, hoping that the operators of Battle Online would open the recharge channel as soon as possible to enhance their gaming experience.

Because of this, Wu Guoyi even made a phone call to inquire about it himself.

Lu Wu was quite helpless about this. Soul Coins weren't even enough to build the Netherworld. If he really opened a recharge channel, he estimated that his twenty thousand Soul Coins would be emptied in a matter of seconds.

So Lu Wu could only fob them off with reasons like the game was still in development, and being free would allow the game to develop better and reduce the gap between players.

The increasing prosperity of Battle Online made Lu Wu feel the pressure.

Although the game experience was very complete at this stage, it was not rich enough, and he had to design more interesting gameplay as soon as possible.

After reading countless players' suggestion posts, Lu Wu's ideas for Battle Online became more complete.

First of all, this game doesn't necessarily have to be a combat game, it can also be completely free and casual.

For example, in the future, if he takes down the Cha Na Ghost General's Liuli District, players who like fishing can fish in the Underworld Sea next to the Liuli District.

According to Bei Li, there are many rare fish in the Underworld Sea that even have the effect of increasing the strength of the soul.

In addition to selling them to the mall, players can also increase their strength by taking them themselves.

Another example is below the Cliffs of Desperation, the Rock Ghost King's territory. There are many Yin Turbid Lands in that area, which are good places to cultivate new spiritual creatures.

If that area is taken down, then the function of players raising pets, or even cultivating battle pets to help them fight, can also be opened.

It can be said that this Underworld world is full of infinite possibilities, and anything players can imagine can be developed into game fun.