Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 928: Chapter 874: A Big Death!

_1 Chapter 928: Chapter 874: A Big Death!

_1 “Dada dada dada…”

Yi was operating a fighter plane and crazily firing, newbie players on the ground were falling down like crops.

The kill record was constantly being refreshed.

Names of the killed kept flashing before his eyes, and Yi’s heart was filled with a joy of harvest!

In fact, such an attack had an average effect on veteran players.

Veteran players could skillfully use battlefield anti-aircraft guns, and the impressive ones could even defend themselves.

Even if they were attacked, they knew how to scatter and dodge…

But could the newbie players understand this?

When they were densely shot at by a fighter plane in highly realistic battlefield, they were immediately stunned and didn’t know what to do in the chaos.

This allowed Yi to easily kill many players.

At the same time, an enemy plane that brushed past him was also getting easy kills from his own team’s players.

It was like a friendly equal exchange.

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Then, he promptly turned the plane around, climbed to a higher altitude to avoid the anti-aircraft guns of the veteran players on the other side, and then—waited for the newbie players to respawn!

Air fights would be too risky for him, and there was a danger of his plane being shot down.

Where is there such joy as reaping easy kills?

Yelang, on the ground, was much more restrained.

He took a detour early on and didn’t follow the main group.

He ran to a classic point, set up his M1917 machine gun with a capacity of 250 rounds and equipped with a telescopic sight, then lay flat in the rear and stayed still.

This machine gun could hit anything—sky, earth, air!

It was hailed as the new world of support soldiers.

The newbie players didn’t know the power of this thing, and didn’t know how to guard against enemies beyond their line of sight while running away.

Almost every time they showed their head, they were killed.

It was not until their bodies slumped onto the ground that they received the system’s kill reminder, and saw that far away enemy marked with a red circle…

Life was the price for accumulating experience and probing the terrain – a path the veteran players had once walked.

Now it was the newbies’ turn.

The only difference was: these veteran players didn’t face a bunch of shameless veterans back in their days…

But Yi and Yelang could be considered restrained, at least they were still playing by the normal game rules.

There were others who took it even further—

“Battlefield” allows players to host their own game rooms and invite friends or other players to play together.

These [Custom Rooms] have few important advantages.

First, players can freely form teams with their friends.

Second, the host can customize battlefield rules.

For example, banning some egregious weapons to change the combat style.

The most common rule is banning Mortars, less commonly, all Hot Weapons are banned, and players fight with Cold Weapons.

These customized ways of play have always been very popular with high enthusiasm.

But today, many “Newbies-only Rooms” suddenly appeared in the customized game list—

[Host on-site manual adjustment, ensuring balanced forces on both sides, newbies welcome to join!]

[Newbies training room, high-rank veteran players do not enter!]

[Weapons Limit Room | Only beginner’s firearms for each class can be used, high-level weapons are strictly prohibited, best gun training room for newbies, hurry up and join!]

…

The names of these custom rooms are all very friendly and harmonious.

But in reality, at least a third of them are “Phishing Rooms”.

The sole purpose is to lure the innocent newbies into the rooms, and then fish for easy kills on them.

Some even hosted the room themselves, and really kicked out all the high-rank veteran players.

But this was not to maintain fairness, but to ensure they were the only veteran players in the room with a few of their friends, to avoid having more powerful players sneaking in to sanction them.

They simply played by the motto of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, unashamedly.

In fact, the best thing for newbies is to directly play [Multiplayer Game], play a few rounds, and their hidden scores would stabilize, naturally matching them with opponents of similar skill level.

It was just because there were too many newbies flooding in at the same time, and the “noob” veterans were not enough, that resulted in them being hung out to dry.

There are unskilled players among the veterans, but these players have now been steered away by “Animal Party” and “Chang’an”.

They didn’t need to urgently log in to the game to receive the Veteran’s rewards.

So naturally, they were not available right now…

*

Yi and Yelang were engrossed in their crazy fishing game until 7:48 in the evening.

Seeing that there was barely enough time left to start another game, they reluctantly took their leave.

They had to rush to the second half— promptly at 8 o’clock, the [Public Chang’an·Freedom] map, “Sword of Heaven” event officially began.

They were definitely going to join in the excitement.

“Sword of Heaven” it sounded formidable!

And this kind of unrestricted group activity also made it easiest to stir the pot.

Although both of their skills were nothing more than average, but…

What if?

To strive for that “what if,” what they naturally needed to do now was— to recruit people!

“Brothers, it’s time to form a group!”

“Whoever gets the Sword of Heaven, we’ll use a final ROLL to decide who gets it!

Hurry join in, we only need 100 people!”

“Didn’t the game rules say no teaming?” asked one of the longtime viewers in the fan group chat.

“Are we to not team up just because they say so?” Yi retorted defiantly.

But he backed down almost instantly: “We just join the same world as a group, then dissolve the group!

As for identifying friend from foe, haven’t we fought in group battles?!

Everyone just wears a red shirt.”

Once he said that, he couldn’t help but think of that terrifying red-clothed army back then and immediately corrected himself: “No, don’t wear red shirts, tie a red cloth on your arm.”

“…” A string of ellipses were sent by the group chat members, followed by, “As expected of you, when it comes to loopholes, you are first-class.”

“We’re just getting started, let’s join the group now.”

…

Yi was considerate, he only invited 100 people and didn’t audaciously propose to control the entire map.

While he didn’t attempt such a heist, other streamers did.

Baekje streamer Kim Dongjoon brought three thousand people in without even dissolving his team.

Not that he didn’t want to bring more, but because he has couldn’t manage more.

—The total number of viewers in the streaming room and the number of fans directly mobilized and directed by the streamer are two entirely different data.

Given that Kim Dongjoon had previously attempted and failed to seize the World No.6 in “My World,” and was beaten up along with a large number of his country’s players by Daxia and Izumo players, pulling together 3000 people now was already quite a feat.

He also mobilized the most people before the event began tonight.

Other streamers didn’t lack the ability to bring this many people, rather everybody intentionally controlled the scope.

Firstly, because having too many people is hard to control, secondly, based on the event description—although very vague, you can guess that ultimately the number of people that are able to get the weapon are very few, there may even only be one per map, hence having a very large group using up manpower is not ideal.

—Only people who are shameless, or have ulterior motives would carry out such low-efficient actions.

[7:55]

In these last 5 minutes, Red Dust carefully selected and joined the map with the most streamers.

This was the experience of veteran players— whenever there is a server-wide event, there are often many streamers grouped into the same map.

Some people think this is a coincidence, simply because there are too many streamers playing Cloud Dream Games.

But others believe this is part of Lincoln’s scheme to maximize the game’s popularity.

However, everyone lacked evidence, so there was no conclusive consensus.

Red Dust didn’t care about that, he chose a map with the most streamers, not to chase idols, but simply because he wanted to find a suitable place to experiment with the effects of his drug powder.

Yes, that aphrodisiac-like stimulant drug powder that he had been researching since the game was officially launched, had finally made a significant breakthrough!

But he kept it in his hand, not sure where to use it, because it was obvious: the minute this thing is used publicly, it will probably be hunted down and guarded against fervently, making it hard to trick people for a second time.

His previous plan was to wait until Super Tomato Organization’s Iron Buddha formally rebelled and sneaked into the palace before deploying it, hosing down both sides.

Seeing a bunch of iron-clad warriors “disarmed” would undoubtedly make for enjoyable viewing!

However, this Iron Buddha army always remained only in words of the Super Tomato Organization, and the date for coming out to strut remained incessantly postponed.

Red Dust lost his patience and resolved to find a perfect opportunity today, and make a grand spectacle!