Chapter 1363: 446. Disconnected Great Method_3

“Sorry, dear player. There has been a fluctuation in your network, and the game connection has been disrupted. Please try reconnecting later.”

“Damn it!”

“My mom’s…”

“I’ve already taken off my pants, and now you’re dropping my connection!”

“Hello? Is this the network communication company? You motherf***ers, fix my damn internet, pronto!”

“It’s over, it’s over, it’s over, dropping the ball on my first task, I’m definitely going to get docked reputation points.”

Players from all over the “real” world, though not born on the same year, month, and day, felt their blood pressure skyrocket at the same time.

Winter Melon and Kelp, the two brothers, removed their helmets and hurriedly checked the network status in the studio, only to end up completely baffled.

“There’s nothing wrong with the network, isn’t Strawberry Juice and the others still in the game?” Winter Melon brother touched his forehead, a look of confusion plastered on his face.

Next to him, Kelp hit the game helmet hard and knocked on the studio’s router with his knuckles, trying to achieve a network reconnection with the most basic of methods.

But, unfortunately,

their game helmets, as if bewitched, just wouldn’t connect to the network no matter what.

The indicator lamp signifying network disruption was always red, as conspicuous as the warning light on a blood pressure monitor.

“This is really strange, why do only the two of us have helmet issues?”

Winter Melon and Kelp had no choice but to knock on the Captain’s door and found Cucumber Slice, who was in the middle of a training session in the game.

Cucumber Slice went offline temporarily, took off his helmet, and together with the other two, checked the network again.

Now, the confusion managed to asexually reproduce, multiplying from two to three shares.

“Uh…” Cucumber Slice furrowed his brows tightly, hugged his arms, and stared at the router’s network indicator lamp, deep in thought.

Could this really be the game company’s prepared response?

Force the players participating in the plundering task offline, and only allow them back online after the task was over?

Cucumber Slice sneakily glanced a few times at Winter Melon and Kelp, who were getting impatient and anxious, then looked at the other team members who were still playing the game in their seats, and became even more convinced of his theory.

Yeah, right!

This had to be the game company’s trick.

Cucumber Slice clapped his hands together, drawing the attention of Winter Melon and Kelp:

“Do you guys have any of the Plundering Team members added as friends?”

“We do.”

“Yep, we do.”

Cucumber Slice said:

“Then why don’t you ask them about their situation?”

The Starry Sea game has a mobile app.

Players can still message their in-game friends using the app even when not playing the game.

But, if their friends in the game are in combat mode, they won’t receive messages, let alone respond.

Winter Melon and Kelp picked up their phones, looked at the app interface with dismay, and shook their heads helplessly.

“No good, Captain. They’re all in combat mode.”

“Look, look.”

Kelp handed his phone screen to Cucumber Slice to check.

As expected, all of them were “in combat.”

Cucumber Slice then asked:

“Do you have their contacts in reality?”

Winter Melon and Kelp shook their heads, with the former saying:

“Of course not. Doesn’t the game prohibit exchanging real-world contact info? Even if we wanted to send it, it would just come out as a bunch of gibberish.”

Oh, right.

To prevent fraud and account theft, the game had abolished all means of exchanging real-world contact info within the game.

Two players who have never met face-to-face and wish to connect offline can only do so through means outside the game.

Considering the length of time Winter Melon and Kelp had spent with the members of the Plundering Team, they didn’t seem to have moved their relationship offline yet.

Therefore, at that moment, Winter Melon and Kelp found themselves on their own informational island.

Apart from knowing that the two of them had been forced offline, they had no clue about the condition of the rest of their team.