A Strange Background, the Necessity of Corporate Players

And at this time...

Gao Linzhi discovered the "Game System," or more accurately, the "operator's" cunning tricks.

Because the quest location for this temporary quest is clearly indicated on the Minimap as Wolf Snake Island.

The final destination for completing the mission was that bizarre story instance that he had just created.

Suddenly, he realized something important.

That is, the operators also can't get their hands on those limited-purchase in-game items.

Their relationship with the Game System is similar to the relationship between an operations company and a game development company in real life.

The operations team can make various suggestions to the game development company based on revenue and player feedback.

However, they have no decision-making power, cannot see the underlying code of the Game System, and are even less qualified to modify it.

Gao Linzhi's guess was correct.

The Game System is incomplete.

Like the players, the operators don't have much authority.

They are also pawns in the Game System.

Even the operators can't get their hands on items like these in-game items.

They cannot allow the Game System to distribute them in bulk directly.

They can only indirectly obtain it from the Game System through Gao Linzhi's Pay-to-Win Talent.

This temporary mission is proof of that.

This temporary task is likely the solution proposed by the operators.

However, when it comes to core game items, they are powerless and can only rely on the bizarre story instances created by Gao Linzhi.

The Game System is a version without intelligence, riddled with flaws, and has lost the ability to self-upgrade and repair itself.

We can only wait passively, hoping for a lucky break to fix it.

It was as if he encountered Gao Linzhi himself that he gained the Power of Space-Time, and was able to repair some of it.

The operator's role is essentially that of an external advisor.

Unable to obtain the core items of the Game System, they can only rely on their Pay-to-Win Talent.

After confirming this, Gao Linzhi once again demystified the operations team.

Gao Linzhi naturally wouldn't enter the bizarre story instance to complete this task.

The reason is simple.

This time, the anomaly is spatial in nature.

It can detect the login points of almost all players.

This alone is enough to demonstrate its level.

It is at least at the purple rank or higher, and may even be a terrifying and bizarre creature at the Gold Tier.

This mission is different from others.

To put it bluntly, even with puppets or Game Character blocking his way, Gao Linzhi's true body could still be attacked from across space.

To put it bluntly, now that Gao Linzhi is powerful, his mentality is the same as that of the powerful figures in the imperial court.

They would never take any risk without a sufficiently great benefit, such as something that grants Immortality.

Just like the powerful figures in the imperial court, any one of them, who is level 150 or above, could easily crush the players.

The items Gao Linzhi redeemed from the game store were only effective against level 150 powerhouses.

After all, there are daily purchase limits, and the combined effect has an upper limit.

However, the imperial court's top experts simply refused to take action.

Even if a few are sent out, they are replaced with decoys and puppets.

Everyone's just as cowardly.

At this very moment.

Even if a powerful figure like Gao Linzhi is unwilling to take action, there are naturally others who are willing to do this task.

A generous reward will surely attract brave men.

Gao Linzhi and the powerful figures of the imperial court valued their lives so highly, naturally some people felt that their lives were not so valuable.

Some people are willing to risk their lives to complete this task.

After all, three skill slots in the game mean that professions that couldn't meet the attribute requirements before can now do so.

This has strategic significance for many players.

Sure enough, before long, many people arrived at Wolf Snake Island by switching their spawn points offline.

Suddenly, Gao Linzhi looked out the second-floor window and saw that the number of people on Wolf Snake Island had increased dramatically.

Previously, the entire island had only a population of tens of thousands, but in just half an hour, more than 100,000 people poured in!

Gao Linzhi had gotten a rough idea of the total number of players when he attended a meeting at the United Association.

The number of registered users exceeded 6 million.

Of course, compared to the billions of people on Blue Star, it's still far too few.

Basically, only one spot can be won by several thousand people.

Clearly, the others didn't not want to come; they just didn't have the Respawn Point Switch Talisman.

Although Gao Linzhi can buy 999 of these items from the game store every day, it's still not enough to meet his needs.

Under normal circumstances, it is definitely enough.

Because many people are able to spend money on in-game purchases normally.

This is not a rare item.

At this time, on Wolf Snake Island, many people logged on and called out to their friends.

"Damn, we can't log in there, but we can still log in here?"

"Yes, the friend who spoke in the channel before wasn't lying."

"Amazing, this must have been opened up by a powerful figure."

"No wonder the quest completion location is set here; so this is where you can log in."

At this moment, many people attributed the credit to Canxue.

They stumbled upon the truth by accident.

"Let's go ask the big shots how to solve this mission."

Soon, more than 100,000 people flocked to East Wolf Village.

Of course, most of the people were intercepted outside the village by Zheng Dong and his Patrol Team.

"If you wish to see the Great Elder, you must submit a written request."

"We can't just see each other whenever we want."

"The Great Elder is very busy!" Zheng Dong said responsibly.

Actually, he was a little scared, after all, there were too many people in front of him.

There were tens of thousands of people densely packed in front of me, almost completely surrounding the village.

The village's original Stone Wall, which were over six meters high, appeared extremely small in the face of the sea of people.

Fortunately, these players did not choose to attack the village.

After all, they came here to complete a mission, not to cause trouble.

Soon, a group of players elected some representatives, all of whom were extremely powerful.

The minimum level is 60 or above.

Some players have even reached level 80.

This person clearly has a special talent for leveling up.

Although each level up only requires a fixed 100 experience points.

But after upgrading, you'll need to fight higher-level monsters.

This means that upgrading will be more difficult.

Some might say, "Why don't I just grind for millions of experience points when I'm level 1?"

No, that won't work.

There is a threshold of 10 levels, which requires promotion and job change. Each time you break through a threshold, you will lose most or even all of the accumulated experience points.

Unless you're like Gao Linzhi, stuck at level 1 and not leveling up to change jobs.

Furthermore, you can spend real money to buy more skill slots, which allows you to accumulate a large amount of experience points to upgrade your Basic Skills.

These high-level players tagged Gao Linzhi in the event channel.

"Okay, I understand. You can come in."

Only after receiving permission did Zheng Dong allow a small number of people to enter.

Many more people are still blocked outside.

Of course, he understood that this was the Descenders giving him face.

At the same time, he also felt a genuine sense of fear.

Isn't this Descenders a kind of natural disaster, a strange occurrence?

Before, they were all very weak, and ordinary villagers could easily handle them.

But now, under his own observation, he realized that more than half of these tens of thousands of people were much stronger than him.

You should know that he is the Fourth Elder of the village, a top figure in the village.

How long has it been?

Was it a year?

These Descenders became so powerful.

They've grown up too fast.

Of course, he didn't know that these 100,000 people were the elite of the elite.

Those who can afford to use a Respawn Point Switch Talisman are certainly not ordinary players.

Soon, dozens of high-level players, led by a Patrol Team, arrived at the Elder Council Hall.

They successfully met Gao Linzhi.

"Canxue, this quest is right on your doorstep. We'd like to get some guidance from you and also purchase some in-game items."

Gao Linzhi nodded. "Of course."

After all, they contributed to the overall game.

Gao Linzhi values his life and would not take on this mission.

He would certainly support these warriors.

"I can only say that this anomaly is of a very high level, so you must proceed with caution."

"Enter the game instance, and if you notice anything amiss, immediately revive."

"As for more strategies, this anomaly was probably released by the imperial court. Those of you with connections to the court can inquire about some strategies through them."

A level 80 player said, "I heard that Master Li Gun has connections with the imperial court. I wonder if he can help?"

"I have some connection with him, I'll ask him when I log off."

Gao Linzhi then logged off and asked Li Gun a question.

"This strange phenomenon was indeed released by the Imperial Observatory. It is said that its origin is related to humans."

"This man's name is Zhu Ganglie. He has a beautiful wife, but she dislikes his appearance and has an affair."

"Moreover, the locations are constantly changing. In order to find his wife, Zhu Ganglie mastered a spatial skill that allowed him to detect and locate her at any time. However, every time he caught her cheating, he would only kill the adulterer and couldn't bear to kill his wife."

"But after making so many arrests, he eventually slipped up and was killed by his lover."

"After he died, he was thrown into the sea and merged with a spatial anomaly, which formed the anomaly we see today," Li Gun explained in detail.

Clearly, someone in the imperial court has directly exposed their true intentions.

Goodness!

Gao Linzhi was speechless.

So he told these people about his background.

He then sold many Red Potion, blue potions, Revival Stone, and even combat power enhancement runes.

Of course, he didn't take the opportunity to raise prices.

The price remains the same as before.

Those who came to see Gao Linzhi were all high-level players and people who valued things.

Or rather, they are all considered to be in reserve for the big boss.

They didn't say, "Why didn't the boss take us with him on the mission?"

Because they know that saying such things will only annoy people, so why bother?

They also understood the dangers involved.

However, despite their high rank, they lacked many resources.

They are all stuck in a bottleneck.

Or perhaps they are controlled by Company Executive Players and have no choice but to complete the mission.

Therefore, they had absolutely no need to make things difficult for Gao Linzhi.

Of course, they were definitely uncomfortable inside.

After all, they were going to take risks, while Gao Linzhi wasn't.

However, the biggest enemies at present are the imperial court and the strange phenomena.

The bizarre even preceded the imperial court in importance.

They will have many things to trouble Gao Linzhi in the future.

Therefore, although they were very unhappy inside, they were still very polite to Gao Linzhi on the surface.

Those mindless face-slapping scenes only belong in novels.

After buying the props, the dozen or so people chose to leave.

On the way out of the village.

They started chatting privately.

Someone couldn't help but say, "Sigh, it's true that different people have different fates."

"I'm a casual player too, but the moment I logged in, I was controlled by those damn Company Executive."

My talent is accelerated leveling up.

"However, after the game started, there were no monsters to help me level up quickly, which led to me becoming a puppet of the Company Executive Players."

"Damn it!"

Another person said, "Who isn't?"

"We've worked so hard to get to this high level, who would want to take the risk?"

"Even with the Revival Stone, what if that monster can seal people away?"

"This Game System isn't omnipotent; it can't let us escape control."

"Luckily, we bought some Negative BUFF Clearing Talisman, which should exempt us from those control effects," someone else said.

"Yeah, if it weren't for these game props, I really wouldn't dare to go."

"Heh, then again, at least we're braver than that big shot."

"Hmph, I'd rather not have that kind of courage."

Everyone started talking.

They soon left the village and arrived at the entrance to the strange story instance.

At this very moment.

More than 100,000 players are scattered throughout the island.

It's fair to say there were people everywhere.

Of course, the island is also very large.

It can still accommodate 100,000 people.

The high-level players began to organize these people.

With so many people, they definitely can't all go in at once.

Isn't that just suicide?

"Listen up, everyone. We have a lot of mission experience. Let's form a team now."

"Five people per team."

"You can form your own teams or follow our instructions. The important thing is to complete this mission while minimizing casualties, so everyone needs to be organized."

Soon, more than 100,000 players began to organize themselves.

More than 20,000 teams were formed.

Above the squads were formed companies and battalions.

At the entrance to the instance.

Several high-level players were chatting privately while waiting for others to team up with them.

"If only we could get our hands on his Pay-to-Win Talent- game purchases."

"What a pity, I just couldn't get the 'afterlife'."

"Well, there's nothing we can do then. We can only try to earn whatever we can."

Suddenly, someone said, "I have an idea."

"Could we deliberately make the mission fail, forcing this powerful figure to intervene personally?"

"If he also fails his mission, we'll have an opportunity."

However, at this point, someone objected. "No."

"Firstly, the other party might not be forced at all."

Secondly, the people behind us won't allow us to do this.

"Every day of delay results in enormous losses for the company."

"That's true."

"Most importantly, this mission was orchestrated by the Company Executive Players behind us."

"They now need to demonstrate to the game developers the strength and necessity of their Corporate Players."

"That's right. Those Rogue Players are still a disorganized bunch. When danger comes, they won't even bother to join in. They just consume game server resources but can't solve any real problems for the game."