This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous
Chapter 141 - 135 God’s Strategy_1

Chapter 141: Chapter 135 God’s Strategy_1

"I need answers. Why was I hunted down as soon as I logged in?"

"Has everyone received the tower destruction mission yet?"

"I was just informed of a server-wide mission as soon as I logged in, but I don’t want to complete any mission. I just want to enjoy my game..."

"Currently being chased by a team of level fifteen knights, fortunately, I have a Gryphon Mount to escape..."

"Help, I’ve already lost three lives, and those pursuers are still chasing. I feel like this is going to kill me..."

"Who’s worse off than me? My spawn point is right on the outskirts of the Imperial Capital, surrounded by knights of level 15 and above. I am now hiding in a cellar and too scared to move. I’m totally dumbfounded."

"Please, anyone in the Imperial Capital, take this tower down. Otherwise, this game is really unplayable..."

...

As expected, at this moment, domestic forums are filled with various complaints and help posts.

Unfortunately, this text-based game has always been every man for himself, there is no team mode, so no one can help even if they want to.

Mu You switched to the international channel to take a look.

The situation is the same there.

The mission seems to have been a collective effort. It seems that the Wizard Association has erected these Arcane Towers in the main empires of the Star Spirit World simultaneously, and players around the world are being hunted down now.

Mu You shook his head and switched back to the domestic forum. After browsing for a while, he found an interesting post among a pile of complaints.

"Eh? Why aren’t I being hunted while all of you are?"

The ID of the post is ’Lin Haihai’. Of course, Mu You knows who this ID belongs to. It is the rich second-generation host Lin Hai who uses a nun avatar.

Mu You clicked on the post to read it.

"Hmm? Are you serious? You’re not being hunted?"

"Could it be that you’ve not encountered any knights yet!"

"I have encountered them. I’m actually chatting with knights in the game now, and they don’t seem to have the intention of killing me. Did you guys somehow provoke these knights?" Lin Haihai replied.

"Damn, is that true? How did you do that?"

"I don’t know. I just logged in as usual to refresh my energy, and the knights didn’t give me any trouble when I encountered them."

"Why is it that only you aren’t being hunted? This is so unfair!" The netizens below were suddenly unbalanced.

"Could the game’s warrant have a delay?"

"I guess the post owner is bragging. No pictures, no truth!"

"Exactly! There’s no screenshot feature in this game, making it too easy to spread rumors..."

"Let’s move on. This post is obviously trolling. How could he be the only exception when we’re all being hunted..."

...

Most of the responses below were doubting in tone, and aside from explaining a couple of times at the beginning, Lin Hai no longer showed up.

So the responses later basically defined this post as a trolling post.

However, Mu You didn’t think so. He wasn’t close with Lin Hai, but from their few interactions, he didn’t think this young man was the type to troll on the forum for fun.

Maybe there was indeed a way to avoid the pursuit of the knights?

Mu You continued to browse, but unfortunately, all the responses were trollish and no reasonable discussion was had.

"Buzz!"

Just as he was about to message Lin Hai directly, a vibration from his phone indicated a new message. However, the phone that rang was not one of the two at his side, but the satellite phone issued by the paranormal department.

He checked it and it was actually a push notification for a strategy guide from Dragon Soar’s software.

"Guide and Advice for ’Destroy the Arcane Tower’ Mission"- Poster: Blue Eyes White Dragon.

Mu You knew the ID Blue Eyes White Dragon. It belonged to a strategy guru in the Dragon group. About 50% of the exclusive strategy posts in Dragon Soar’s software were written by him.

This post was obviously a mission guide that this guru had urgently written and was now being pushed to all paranormal department members for free.

Mu You clicked open to view.

The first half of the article overall analyzed the reason for the appearance of this server-wide task.

As Mu You expected, the primary reason was the influx of large amount of new players after last week’s large-scale internal test, causing alertness from the opposing Wizard Association.

However, the article also detailed the potential future situations. According to the article, the Wizard Association’s action this time was not a temporary decision, but something prepared for a long time.

"This ’Fool Hunt’ is just the beginning. The humans and wizards from the Star Spirit World are bound to have a long-term confrontation. Even if this task is completed, the Wizard Association will likely have other means to target the players..."

"To the wizards in the Star Spirit World, we are not any sort of righteous players, or friendly guests, but invaders who seek to overthrow their current order..."

"In the end, there can only be two outcomes. Either, players completely conquer the Star Spirit World, or, they are driven out of the game by the Wizard Association and no longer dare to show their faces in the Star Spirit World. Once it indeed develops to this stage, even the Star Spirit Wizards may begin to invade our living spaces..."

"Thus, I hope all the players who read this guide will quickly adjust their mindset. The days when we could play the game relaxed every day are now behind us. Under the Wizard Association’s pursuit, our future explorations in the Star Spirit World will be tremendously difficult. In a sense, this is not a simple game anymore, but a real war..."

The analysis and appeal were followed by the official guide contents in the second half.

"First, and the most important, are the methods newbies should use to deal with the pursuit of the Imperial Knights!"

"First, try to avoid getting close to towns. Normally, hide in the wild to kill monsters. When chased by the Knights, run towards remote terrains. As long as you can get enough distance, they will give up the chase."

"Second, log out to escape. According to investigations by the foreign ’Shadow Charm’ in the Star Spirit World, when players log out, their mind avatar will disappear right where they are, entering an invisible collapsed state. Only the next time the players log in, it will show up again at the original place."

"So, as long as they are logged out, the player characters are invincible and can be used to evade pursuit. You can log in again after pursuit troops have left. But be careful, if you’ve attracted a high hate value or triggered certain special events, the pursuit troops may hide in place and ambush you when you log in, so when you log out to escape, you’d better make sure you get out of the troop’s line of sight and not let them see your logout locale..."

After reading this strategy, what Mu You first noticed was the first sentence under the second point, ’A foreign expert called Shadow Charm, researched the Star Spirit World’.

’Researched the Star Spirit World’...

Did this mean that this person had found a way to get their physical body directly into the Star Spirit World?

Mu You only knew that creatures from the Star Spirit World could be carried to Earth by a space storm. As for creatures on Earth going to the Star Spirit World, there hadn’t been any news about that so far, let alone a high-level player.

He almost scanned all the guides in Dragon Soars and Fools forum, but he has never seen anything relating to this preliminary content.

As he had no way to seek answers around this, Mu You had to continue reading.

"Finally, to the players who want to participate in this event, first look at your geographical position in the game. If you are near the capital, you can hurry to the Imperial Capital. However, if you are in some small village near the edge of the Empire, you will need to go to the nearest big city, and through teleportation arrays, merchant convoys, mount rentals etc., you can travel to the Imperial Capital."

"This task is the first server-wide event in the game. The difficulty level is great, and individual forces are doomed to be unable to complete it. Collective strength will be needed. We can’t control the foreign situation, but at least for our domestic players, I recommend everyone over level 10 to try and participate in this event, even if unable to approach the Imperial Capital, the act of attracting and distracting outside can create chances to break the tower for the experts inside the capital."

"As for the players below level 10, my suggestion is to honestly gain experience by killing monsters in the wild, and quietly await the good news from the experts. Don’t think about provoking the Imperial Knights. That won’t be of any help and will only aimlessly give them extra lives."

The strategy guide ends here, summarizing the entire event with one word: Activity.

Yes, in the eyes of the players, this is indeed an ’activity’.

Despite the current lamentations on the forum, in fact the players were not very worried.

No matter how difficult the situation in the game, players still have the ’log out to escape’ path to take. Even if the mission ultimately fails, they can simply stop playing this game, their real lives won’t have any losses.

After reading the strategy guide, Mu You exhaled, quit the software.

According to this expert’s recommendation, only players that have levelled up once and are above level 10 have the capability to participate in this event.

Although Mu You hasn’t reached level 10 yet, gaining enough experience to level up in one month isn’t tough. What’s more important is, he doesn’t have to worry about hitting a bottleneck, and he can immediately evolve once he reaches level 10. Add to that the aid of Black Magic, he believed that he had enough strength to join in the fun.

Mu You picked up his phone and re-entered the game.

After logging into the game, he was still in the wilderness of the Peaceful Village, and Mu You didn’t rush to leave. Before leaving, he had to go and see the Old Farmer.

The game text had claimed that when a ’Fool’s’ identity was unveiled, all NPCs would no longer interact or trade with him. But when he had visited the Drunkard Blacksmith just now, there was no such thing.

Of course, this might be because the blacksmith himself was already a wasted drunkard who didn’t follow such rules as long as he had booze to drink.

However, it was different with the Old Farmer. By now, granny should be able to see his ’Fool’ identity, and guess that he was just a fraud disguised as a medicinal plant gatherer, coming here to freeload. Under such circumstances, would she directly drive him out?

Absolutely, he had to check it out...[You, cloaked in the Invisibility Cloak, sneakily approached the village’s gate once more.]

[The two Imperial Knights are still patrolling the entrance of the village. The moment you stepped on a stone at the entrance, both of them abruptly watched you and initiated a chase.]