This game was quite "real."
The point where it was real was that players could genuinely influence the development and direction of their faction.
For example, if the players had been too weak to capture this resource planet, the legion would probably have had to develop somewhere else, and its progress would have been much slower.
And if this mission failed, allowing the "Big Data Concept Entity" to successfully modify the underlying network and complete the cyberpunk-style "obeying orders but not proclamations," then the "punishment" would be real too. After all, if they couldn't change the version, couldn't they change the people?
The outrageous stunt of creating Mechcrack Star before anyone else had managed it—if it happened under their watch, even Madam Yuanyuan, mild-tempered as she was, would fly into a rage.
The agents and ministers alike would all be stripped of their positions.
That was without even mentioning "Mission Ascension."
The players also knew how important this was, so they quickly completed the suppression plan and assigned their respective tasks.
Across the data pipelines covering the entire building, pseudo-sensory signals fluctuated at an extremely high frequency. One man and woman after another appeared, all wearing black suits and sunglasses, interspersed with men and women in red suits. Their data fluctuations were so powerful that they had become tangible.
Blackwing Killers, Redwing Killers, Silverwing Killers, Cloudwing Killers.
These antivirus guards, once mysterious and ubiquitous in cyberspace and holders of countless titles, had appeared once again.
Moreover, quite a few of the Silverwing Killers had been converted from players.
From the players' perspective, the Silverwing Killers' "reality invasion" and "virus conversion" were incredibly cool.
However, taking the "Silverwing Killer" route meant that one's account would become completely bound to "cyberspace." One could only act within the signal range of this virtual