Chapter 44:

At this time in the game forum group, Meow King was sharing how they managed to scavenge a small bag of coins and rescue a merchant’s family from the basement of a ruined mansion in Kadman City. Of course, there were some artistic exaggerations mixed in, but players didn’t care about those when bragging, so the atmosphere was quite heated. Now, Meow King and a few other players had used up their 6-hour game time for today, and had stopped their characters in a safe zone at a crack in the city wall guarded by NPC guards before logging off. They were still eager for more. Electronic Succubus Old Tune, one of the Four Heavenly Kings under Meow King’s command, was at this moment still sharing some “game experiences” that sounded quite sinister from all angles. ElectronicSuccubusOldTune: 【It’s true! Absolutely true! I’m not lying to you guys, when we heard the cries for help and rushed into the basement, the rich fat merchant NPC’s few beautiful wives almost pounced on us. I can assure you, brothers, the modeling in this game is truly amazing! The big ones are big, the small ones are small, and it’s extremely, extremely realistic. So realistic that it’s almost excessive.】 AhYuen: 【Yo, you even got handsy? Despicable.】 LedMoreThanThreeToFivePecks: 【Hehe, everything goes without saying, it’s just a pity that in the game, they only modeled that organ for us as a skin pipe for excretion. I seriously suspect this game may be hiding an R18+ feature. It can even simulate diarrhea, so I don’t believe it can’t do what we all really want, it’s probably just that the stage for that depth of testing hasn’t been opened yet. But...the feeling is really good! Hehe, hehe.】 KonoMaomaoShark: 【Geez! That’s too sordid, isn’t it? I’m not talking about you guys, but as gentlemen, we enjoy food and desire, but hearing about such things sounds too greasy. Even if the targets are NPCs.】 MeowKing: 【What are you thinking? Are we that kind of people? Though we like sexy stuff, we were all born under the red flag as civilized people, okay? Throughout the whole process, we behaved very well. Moreover, the test team staff were watching, who would dare misbehave? It was those female NPCs who kept trying to get close to us. You know that fat merchant was almost scared to death. Although the translation from the computation bead was quite vague at the time, I can confirm that the guy wanted to offer his wives to us so that we would escort him out of the city. If you really want to talk about shamelessness, you have to look at the NPCs.】 Alpha: 【Indeed, it’s fortunate that you few were quite obedient. I just finished doing a “misconduct identification” with some colleagues, watching your escort process almost frame by frame. If any of you had made any coercive or inappropriate behavior, you would have had to say goodbye to your accounts right now.】 MeowKing: 【Damn! That strict?? Scared.jpg】 Alpha: 【We must be strict! We have to consider the laws and traditional morals of various countries and regions. Besides, there are female players among you. In ensuring a completely realistic game experience, the first step is harassing NPC, then what would you all dare to do next? The development team doesn’t even dare imagine. Let me emphasize this again! @all members, any harassment behavior towards players and NPCs of the opposite sex is strictly prohibited, regardless of gender. Please cherish your accounts. Once you do something irreversible, you’ll not only lose your testing rights but also be handed over to the local public security authorities. We will actively provide evidence to the officials. This is really not a joke. Don’t reach out your hands, or they will be caught.】 LuminaYanghen: 【Thumbs up to the dev team! I talked about this with a few of my friends, and they’re also very interested, but definitely have concerns in this regard. After all, the game is made too realistically, even if we don’t need to consider players, it would also be difficult to define certain harassment from intelligent NPCs. Current laws in all countries are completely blank in this area.】 Alpha: 【You don’t need to worry about that, right? If an NPC harasses you, doesn’t that just mean their health bar shows up?】 MeowKing: 【Haha, that’s right! Once the health bar shows up, you don’t even need to take action yourself. Just give a shout, and we brothers would be happy to help you solve the problem. Speaking of which, are you trying to recruit new players, Sister Lumina? Consider joining my group? I’m planning to start a guild.】 LuminaYanghen: 【No, no, thanks for Meow King’s kindness, but we’re just casual players, not aiming for intensity. Anyway, I’m not going to say more, my resurrection time is up, logging in to experience the new storyline. I previously saw the CG you guys shared of the destruction of ‘Kadman City’, truly made my blood boil to see such a huge city just disappear in an instant. When it comes to making a scene, you still have to give it to the officials. I was dumbstruck watching that part. It’s a pity this game doesn’t have a replay function for the storyline, really a shame. Admin, please hurry up and urge the dev team to implement this feature! After entering the Survivor Camp, please have players be mindful of their behavior, or else they may scare the civilians and be blacklisted by Miss Miriam. InvincibleTyrannosaurusCheche: 【Whoa, a huge gameplay update! Almost every major NPC has their side quests open now, just missing the young lady. This next week will definitely be very busy, suddenly feeling that 6 hours a day is not enough to play around!】 MeowKing: 【How could it be enough? This “Last Night of Kadman City” is clearly an event-type test. I estimate there will be more time-limited special events like this in the future, so in situations like this everyone can only choose where to focus. Wanting to fully complete all the quests is basically impossible, not to mention the time factor, our current levels and equipment can’t support exploring the center of the city ruins. But if the event time is extended to 15 days, then it would definitely be enough.】 AhYuen: 【Well said, I’ll go make a post in the feedback area right now! 7 days is definitely not enough time, suggest extending it!】 The replies under this post were immediately liked by many people. Even Murphy went and gave it a like, but it was useless, he didn’t have the ability to forcefully extend the time before Kadman City was consumed by the Astral Realm to half a month. According to Tris, seven days was already conservative, and if there were any other issues on top of that, it would be hard to guarantee that this time wouldn’t be shortened again. After all, the Spirit Mages of the physical world still have very little understanding of the Astral Realm, and no one could be certain of the impact this sudden incident would cause. Murphy exited the forum, stretched his neck, and turned to look at Tris performing spirit imbuing on some secret silver ingots at her alchemy workbench. Both these materials were taken by Murphy and Maxim from that family vault earlier, and were now being used by Tris. “I didn’t know before that you also have the skills of a Grandmaster Alchemist?” Murphy quietly said as he sharpened the Blade of the Desire Clan in his hand with a whetstone: “How many more abilities do you have that I don’t know about?” “Quite a few more,” Tris snorted and tossed him a spirit-treated whetstone, saying: “For now, don’t disturb me. Although this is just a basic alchemical treatment, I haven’t practiced it for decades, so if you’re really bored, why don’t you take another trip around the city? I see you seem quite interested in rescuing people.” “I’m not interested in rescuing them, they don’t treat you or me well, I’m also not interested in them, I just need them,” Murphy said in a low voice, then told Tris: “Remember what I told you before? When my warriors come to find you, don’t actually send them to their deaths, you still need to give them some incentives.” “I’ve lived for five hundred years, little Murphy!” Tris rolled her eyes, deftly working on the secret silver ingot in her hands, saying: “It’s not that I don’t understand how to toy with people’s hearts, I’m just usually too lazy to bother. But are you sure that no matter what I make them do, they’ll obediently do it? Doesn’t that sound like some kind of mind control sorcery? Have you been learning bad things behind my back these past few days?” “They’re just naturally like that, always attracted to pleasure and benefit. As long as you can make them feel happy, they’ll become your most loyal vanguard. They would even willingly overturn the world or reshape order for you,” Murphy squinted as he said, then sighed: “If you interact with them for long enough, you’ll find that they’re truly an adorable and innocent group of adventurers. By the way, what did you tell the young lady? Why is she so depressed? And Lady Adele, why is she avoiding you? It’s like a mouse seeing a cat.” He looked at Tris suspiciously and said: “You didn’t do anything bad to them, did you? Tris, you didn’t learn any bad habits behind my back, did you?” “You guess?” Tris brushed aside a lock of hair falling in front of her eyes, giving Murphy a mysteriously alluring glance, and then ignored him. At this moment, the five little players who had disconnected earlier also appeared not far from Murphy. In the current absence of a fixed respawn point, Murphy was the “mobile respawn save point” for these 16 people. “They’re here,” Murphy reminded Tris. “More people will come tomorrow morning. I’ve run the errands for the things you wanted, Tris. I hope you have fun playing.” Saying that, he smiled and handed attribute computation beads to his five little players. Beside him, Tris snorted, and after the five players activated the translation function, she gave a cold laugh and said to the bewildered Lumina closest to her: “So you’re the brave warriors serving my adorable and innocent progeny? You don’t look like much. Perhaps Murphy trusts you greatly, but I’m different, I’m a very strict person! Little Murphy has commissioned me to make some protective trinkets for you, but I now need a few bottles of strong alcohol as spell components. Why are you still dazed? Go into the city and find them for me. Remember, anything less than 10 years old is unacceptable substandard goods to me.”