Chapter 168: Clash of Game Settings!
In the famous console game "Chaotic Battlefield," a female character wearing only initial Clothing stood idly on the highway when a passing enemy Sniper casually shot her in the head, then gleefully looted her corpse.
Huh? How come there's no equipment? Could there still be fools who enter the game without buying equipment? The Sniper Player, finding no loot, searched around the corpse—some Players strip their equipment before dying, preferring 'a noble death over supplying the enemy.'
However, after searching for a while with no equipment found, the Sniper quickly left.
Meanwhile, the Player controlling the female character stood puzzled in front of the computer, looking at their game score.
"Chaotic Battlefield" was quite an interesting game. They were playing in solo Chaos mode. In this mode, Players from two factions, the East and West armies, battled to capture enemy territory. The battlefield encompassed mountains, plains, swamps, and urban areas, and the fighting continued until one side's position was lost.
The game adopted a purchasing system, which meant Players could buy different equipment every time they respawned. The higher the score achieved before death, the more purchasing funds they would receive after dying.
But the powerful equipment purchased could be looted by other Players. Not just by enemy Players; even those on the same team might betray you out of curiosity—although you could report them, the gaming experience would be ruined regardless.
The Player controlling the female character had just purchased an armored Jeep equipped with a light machine gun, planning to gather a few people and raid deep into the enemy's urban position for a grand killing spree, only to have the game crash as soon as they entered.
Upon re-logging into the game, they found not only the light machine gun and Jeep missing, but also all the body Armor, handguns, assault rifles, and more they had bought. I've never heard of this game stealing equipment from a Player who hasn't died!
Where are my equipment and character...?
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Awesome!
In the "Six Paths of Reincarnation" dungeon, Ren Suo controlled the female character and used a light machine gun with virtually unlimited bullets to blast away all the Strange Creatures, even the 'walls' meant as obstacles were torn down by the gunfire!
After all, in "Chaotic Battlefield," the machine gun was an expensive and cumbersome weapon, but it was extremely powerful. Sustained fire could penetrate ordinary walls; except for military tanks, even Jeeps could be shredded by such fire.
In short, the machine gun had the 'building demolition' Trait!
But Ren Suo never expected that the Traits of props from "Chaotic Battlefield" could also be perfectly replicated in the Martial Arts game "Century Good Match"!
The Jeep running people over was one thing, and the bullets' 100% Armor Break was a given. But as far as Ren Suo knew, in such Martial Arts games, walls often 'didn't exist'—they were purely 2D images.
In "Chaotic Battlefield," walls were physical objects with collision areas and other characteristics, allowing them to be shot through by bullets.
Yet under the machine gun's barrage, the originally indestructible 2D images were forcibly updated with 3D Traits and shot through!
Originally, "Chaotic Battlefield" and "Century Good Match" had different visual styles. But under Ilina's invincible editing, "Century Good Match" had to comply with the rules of "Chaotic Battlefield," causing its own data to change.
It was as if Princess Ilina was telling the server: This is how I want it; you figure it out.
And the server did just that, altering data reality to accommodate Ilina!
The "Six Paths of Reincarnation" was a 25-Player challenge dungeon, a grueling endeavor designed to take three hours. It was filled with countless mobs, bosses, and various monsters and demons who relied on martial arts and brick fortresses. However, with the Jeep and machine gun clearing the way, these adversaries could barely slow Ren Suo down at all!
Ren Suo only occasionally needed to reload, but he reached the boss location, facing "Dragon King Gu Shenwei," in less than five minutes for a dungeon that was supposed to last a full three hours!
Ilina said, "The one possessed by the Rebels of the Gemini is him!"
By the way, Ilina had also possessed a female character and was in the driver's seat, controlling the Jeep, since Ren Suo couldn't possibly handle a light machine gun and drive at the same time.
This was Ren Suo's second surprising discovery. Ilina was another character under his command. Although he could only command one additional unit, this revelation made Ren Suo consider even more possibilities.
However, at that moment, the Level of 'Dragon King Gu Shenwei' suddenly began to rise incessantly, skyrocketing to Level 999 in an instant!
His figure moved so fast that it left an Afterimage, instantly appearing in front of the Jeep!
"Behead thousands of men, devour hundreds of bones!"
'Dragon King Gu Shenwei' used not a sword, but a blade. With a flash of the blade, he inflicted -99,999 damage on the Jeep!
Without a doubt, the Jeep exploded. Vehicles in "Chaotic Battlefield" didn't have a 'being slashed' setting; the consequence of excessively high damage was direct explosion!
But there was a slight delay before the slash caused the explosion, giving Ren Suo just enough time to have the female character exit the Jeep and instantly pick up an assault rifle to aim at 'Dragon King Gu Shenwei's' head.
"Chaotic Battlefield" is an FPS console game, played with a controller. But the precision of a controller was far inferior to that of a keyboard and mouse. To address the difficulty new Players faced, the system would automatically calibrate shooting for the Player during firing.
Moreover, once the Player entered the aiming screen, the system would directly place the crosshairs on the enemy's head!
It was like receiving a cheat-like Blessing from a Jedi Priest!
RATATAT—
The speed of 'Dragon King Gu Shenwei' was naturally extreme, and his Defense was unreasonably high. Just by looking at the Status bar below the boss's Health Points on the screen, Ren Suo could see dozens of buffs.
Earlier, Ren Suo had hastily gone through the Skills in "Century Good Match." He could only recognize a few buffs that seemed to be the strongest Skills of certain Sects—the unrecognizable ones were probably just as powerful, if not more so.
Ilina had said that the Rebels of the Gemini could access all existing data Abilities on the server, including NPCs, Players, and even GMs. However, GM-level Skills were mostly based on data-level eradication and were basically ineffective outside of their server's data.
Could a GM from "Century Good Match" really erase characters from "Chaotic Battlefield"?
The only effective ones were real Skills manifested as visible image effects, and these Skills had to abide by the basic physical Laws set by the server to interact.
Gunpowder smoke billowed from the barrels as bullets flew. Even if 'Dragon King Gu Shenwei' was incredibly fast and high-Level, his speed had a cap—he couldn't Dodge!
CLANGS and PINGS echoed in the air as bullets shattered the Skill-based Armor on 'Dragon King Gu Shenwei' layer by layer.
In this game's Rules, the boss's Intangible Armor was recognized, but when placed in the same physical environment, it still couldn't stop the bullets' Charge!
'Dragon King Gu Shenwei' hastily tried to Dodge, but his Movement Speed couldn't possibly match that of bullets. Coupled with system-assisted tracking, Ren Suo almost effortlessly turned this boss who crushed all beings into a sieve.
When the magazine emptied, 'Dragon King Gu Shenwei's' Health plummeted, and he died.