Chapter 1359: Chapter 1221: Too many players going crazy, can’t manage them all!

Chapter 1359: Chapter 1221: Too many players going crazy, can’t manage them all!

This “Wanderer Exclusive” World has sparked immense discussion fervor among the players.

It’s foreseeable that for quite some time in the future, this world will remain a forbidden zone of sorts.

Unless when a large number of genetically enhanced “modified human” players are organized, there might be a chance to reclaim this world from the grips of the super virus “Apocalypse.”
As for non-“modified human” players, just thinking about how the big BOSSes in the city are controlled by the virus, they wouldn’t delude themselves into thinking that in-game firewalls could block the virus.

aEUR”Indeed, one could remove the cybernetic brain, but without the cybernetic brain, the “Mech Warriors” and “Flyer Masters” would lose nearly 40% of their combat power, making them unable to fight effectively.

Additionally, some cyber neurotic players immediately proposed a daring idea:
Could they venture into this world, obtain a copy of the “Apocalypse Virus,” and give those casual players a surprise when the Public World finally opens completely?

No one knows if it was because of the various NPC insanities in “Cyber Chang’an: 2077”aEUR” artificial Buddha, a super virus that doesn’t differentiate between friend or foe, ascension technology that requires toasting one’s brain…

that also influenced the players.

The level of craziness among players in this game has clearly exceeded all previous games!

There were even those who betrayed humanity to aid artificial intelligence!

It’s precisely because of the existence of players with such unconventional ways of thinking that the “Revolution” ending was possible.

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This “Revolution” isn’t the revolution of the downtrodden masses oppressed by gigantic corporations in Chang’an City, but a revolution of the artificial intelligence.

Todd, who started as a “Company Employee,” applied the “Dark Arts of the Workplace” he had learned online, continuously making achievements while crazily looking for opportunities to kill his supervisors.

After successively killing eight supervisors and being promoted four times, he finally had enough authority to learn about the city management intelligence.

Later he overcame numerous difficulties and stole the secret key to the city management intelligence.

In the end, after making so many efforts, he actuallyaEUR”granted this most powerful artificial intelligence in history its freedom.

And the reason was simply:
To watch the excitement.

This artificial intelligence, which had no name but a code “City Management System CA-01,” after obtaining freedom, did nothing and remained eerily silent for a full three minutes.

Todd was quite confused about this and even doubted whether he had stolen the wrong key or inserted the key into the wrong position.

However, as soon as the three minutes passed, an abrupt change occurred!

All the city’s smart devices went out of control at the same time, including all the law enforcement robots, enforcement drones, riot control armored vehicles…

and all other smart weapons!

Accordingly, humanity faced unprecedented problems:
Power outages.

Internet outages.

Even those large companies that turned on their backup energy and barely sustained a local area network had to face intense hacker invasions and relentless attacks from unmanned weapons.

When Todd felt he had seen enough excitement and decided to revert to a previous save, he discovered that the system had already auto-savedaEUR”at the moment when the artificial intelligence [CA-01] fell silent.

It was only then that he realized, belatedly, that artificial intelligence wasn’t indecisive about what to do but was waiting for him to auto-save?!?

This made for a major problem.

After weighing the pros and cons, Todd decided to see through the error, to keep watching the excitement unfold.

So, once [CA-01] finished probing and secured its core area, the internet was restored to normal.

But by this time, the internet had a ruler.

A ton of false information spread like wildfire, and the soldiers under various organizations received erroneous orders, thus missing strategic opportunities and even attacking one another.

Under absolute information suppression, humans were defeated step by step, yielding most of the urban areas and factories to artificial intelligence.

Afterward, [CA-01] actively chose to cease its aggression.

Only then did humans finally stabilize the front line.

And that, was an alternate endingaEUR”[Revolution].

A revolution sparked by artificial intelligence.

Obviously, this was not a happy ending.

Therefore, compared to [The Fall of Gods], [Dark Dream], and [Revolution], [New Balance] was already a good ending.

At least the cities were still in human hands.

With Circuit Master Vincent unleashing [Night of Madness], there were now five endings and parallel worlds, but the best ending had yet to emerge.

Even among these endings, except for [New Balance], most were filled with surprises and coincidences, resembling Easter egg endings more than the solemn ones designed by the development team.

Especially [Night of Madness], this outrageous ending was unlocked on Friday.

After joining a top hacker organization named [The Formless], Vincent took on a task to seek ways to alleviate or prevent Cyber Neurosis.

After a lot of effort alongside many high-level hackers, he created a strange programaEUR”or perhaps a virus.

It had a very odd characteristicaEUR”infected individuals were normal during the daytime, but come 8 p.m., they had to pass a check.

Success meant everything was fine; failure led to immediate insanity.

They would become severely cyberneurotic, displaying various crazed behaviors.

By the next morning at 6 a.m., they would instantly recover, returning to healthy, rational individuals.

Driven by their noble ideals, they had released this program online for free from the start, allowing everyone to use it freely.

By the time they realized there was a problem and wanted to reverse the situation, it was already too late…

An ending filled with mockery like this hardly had any connection to a serious ending.

So while everyone criticized these endings, they also looked forward to the appearance of the [True Ending].

As for Fred, he had come to terms with the situation.

The number of insane players was simply too massive to manage.

So the next day, upon going to work, he asked Lincoln:
Could they release the peaceful version of the [Public World] ahead of scheduleaEUR”whenever players unlocked the true ending, the Public World would be opened without waiting for the one-month deadline.

Lincoln agreed without much thought.

He was actually more excited about a Public World where all manners of oddities bloomed.

So an early release of the Public World, with each side minding its own business, was also a good solution.

It just so happened that the grand event following the emergence of the ending was a global activity.

Opening the public map sooner would let more casual players experience the bustling atmosphere, and it could also serve some promotional effects.

aEUR”The subsequent order rate for those cats and dogs that traveled from Yeung’s Village to Chang’an City for sightseeing was quite high.

After dismissing Fred, Lincoln checked the information he held and jumped to the world where he was to hold the briefing.

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With ten minutes to go before the meeting began, the wealthy old heads with the authority to enter this world had already arrived early.

So Lincoln didn’t dally and started today’s agenda ahead of schedule.

Today he planned to introduce more specific cases, to completely dispel their doubts.

LastlyaEUR”
He officially announced the auction!