"I have an appointment." A beautiful woman with dazzling radiance all over her body said to the service NPC of the Seaview Hotel, and behind her, on the street outside the hotel lobby, countless pairs of eyes were looking here through the floor-to-ceiling windows . Contempt, disdain, affection, grief, in short, eye contact with any one of this crowd of onlookers will make you very uncomfortable.
Qing'er didn't look back, she knew what this group of people thought, but since she had made up her mind, she didn't care about this look at all. The NPC smiled and led Qing'er to a teleportation point. Because the single room on the 105th floor was occupied by Master Cat, only people he approved could enter, and Qing'er was naturally the only player who could enter.
As soon as the white light of the teleportation array appeared, Qing'er was already standing at the door of Master Cat's room. This room was very spacious, with a dining table standing alone in the middle, and tall plants adorning the corners. The three walls of the room were covered with Very soft and warm colors, and one side is a complete glass wall, overlooking the largest main road in the city of heroes and the scenery of most of the city.
The man with the word "Ripper" on his head was sitting at the table eating. He was wearing a casual suit. Qing'er's first impression was that this man should be a purely commercial player. The reason is very simple. Most of the guys who will buy "fashion" in this game are commercial players. People who don't go out of the city always wear novice clothes or a few pieces of general equipment, which is not very particular. Tens of thousands of game coins and a few sets of life clothes are necessary for businessmen, even if they are purely for the sake of supporting the scene.
Master Cat didn't even bother to look up at her, he just took the food down his throat with red wine, and said, "Hi, please sit down."
"Do you know, as soon as you say this, my mission is considered complete." Qing'er said, before she came, she read the details of the mission of the mercenary guild very carefully, but was surprised to find that there was no such thing at all. The various hooligan conditions in her imagination are the same as the tasks, and the detailed rules are just a short sentence: "The restaurant on the 105th floor of the sea view restaurant". Now that Master Mao has had verbal communication with her, the system directly judges that the act of "Xiaoxu" has been completed, and the task reward can be received.
"I know." Master Cat's answer was only these two words.
"Oh? Then I'll turn my head and leave now. Are you okay with taking the reward of 30 million game coins?" Qing'er said provocatively.
"The money has nothing to do with me, please sit down." Master Mao stretched out his hand again to signal the other party to sit down.
"Hey! Are you being funny? Can't you understand what I just said?"
Master Cat lazily said: "Then you can do what you want." Then he lowered his head and began to eat.
Qing'er got angry, but she couldn't explain why, anyway, she didn't leave after all, but obediently sat opposite Master Cat.
Master Cat put down the tableware again: "So, you decided to sit down and talk now?"
"Hmph... You already knew that I would not leave."
Master Cat replied: "Of course, 30 million is not your goal. You came here just to ask me a few questions. Don't worry, I can answer all your doubts."
"Do you even know what I want to ask?"
"What you want to ask is, is the task of taking Aotian's head related to me?"
"Yes." Qing'er did not deny it.
Master Mao said: "It's not me who released the mission, but I was the one who ordered that guy. As for the one who took the mission...it's me."
"What on earth are you trying to do?" She really wondered from the bottom of her heart.
"I want war and chaos, collapse and destruction."
"It's just you?" The president of the Red Moon Guild, who was third in the comprehensive strength list, and the strongest female player in the game, asked such a question with a snort.
"More than enough."
"Your answer is ridiculous."
Master Mao said: "Really? As part of my plan, you are questioning me. This is ridiculous. It's like an engine that is already running, but denies the existence of the entire car."
"What do you mean?"
"Anyway, I have plenty of time, so I'll go over the matter for you from the beginning." Master Cat pressed the service button on the virtual interface, and an NPC waiter played by a real person quickly teleported to him: "Sir, what do you need?" ?”
"The food and wine are gone, let's serve tea."
The waiter replied: "Okay." The food in the virtual world was withdrawn quickly, and the whole table was cleared with a simple operation by the waiter.
"Sir, is today's meal to your liking?" He asked in a pattern.
Master Cat gave an answer he had never heard in his life: "If 'evil' has a taste, it probably tastes like this."
brief silence...
The waiter didn't know what to say. In fact, the meals produced by this system are all based on the top materials and luxurious and advanced cooking methods. People who eat, to put it bluntly, their brains are receiving virtual taste information. Therefore, every dish is delicious, and it will always be this taste. The player's brain will unconditionally confirm that eating the food here is definitely a kind of enjoyment.
But the game company still has such a stupid rule. If you work here, you have to ask people like a real high-end restaurant: how does it taste? This is nonsense, but it can be regarded as polite. Out of politeness, the person who answered should also reply with nonsense: very good.
Seeing that the waiter was a little dazed, Lord Cat continued, "When my brain can't receive virtual taste signals, eating things in this world is no different from chewing wax."
"Well... sir... what did you say..." He really became more and more confused.
"Forget it, it's nothing important, it's just an experiment, you can go on with your work." Master Mao said.
The waiter nodded, ordered refreshments on the virtual interface, and said before leaving, "Please take it easy."
After he left, Master Cat took a sip of tea, "Sure enough, it's like drinking plain water..."
Qing'er said: "You really have a lot to do, can you talk about it now?"
Master Mao let out a sigh of relief, and began to explain: "This game has been in operation for more than three years from the closed beta, public beta, and official operation until today. With a thorough understanding of the history of struggle in the virtual world, as well as a grasp of the various rules of the game itself, combined with my own actual situation, I drew up a plan.
The basic development so far is this...
First of all, I think you should also be aware that the mercenary guild mission system of this game rarely has tens of millions of missions in the early stages of the game. During the public beta, the famous event of "10 million looking for a capable guild to help kill the boss" was the first event that caused a sensation due to the mercenary guild mission, and many subsequent missions with more than 10 million missions were similar to it.
As the game progressed, the gap between high-end players and ordinary casual players gradually widened, and the game content that the two groups were exposed to was no longer at the same level. Many purely commercial consortiums, as well as you leaders of the guild who are either businessmen or officials, um... I guess you are a group of young masters and ladies in reality. In short, you high-end players have formed your own forces. Come to share the interests of the top layer of the game pyramid.
So far, the over ten million missions in the mercenary guild have been completely extinct, because the entrustors of those tens of millions of missions have roughly understood which guilds or people in the game will be able to achieve their goals, and they can skip the mercenary missions. Why bother to spend the 2% service fee on the guild and contact the undertaker directly, and make it known all over the world, increasing the risk of the benefits being divided up by others
Therefore, for a long period of time, people seem to have gradually forgotten the news that tens of millions of game tasks can still pop up on the bulletin board of the information center. Occasionally, someone throws a 3 million task into the mercenary guild, and when the subtitles appear on the board, it is enough to attract onlookers. "
Master Cat drank the tea in the cup, picked up the teapot and filled it up for himself: "Human beings are really strange creatures... We will study history, examine the mistakes we made in the past, and reflect on and correct them... But no matter how many years have passed The cycle goes on and on, and we still make the same mistakes a lot of the time.”
Qing'er sneered, "You talk like that, as if you're not human."
"What about you? Are you a representative of human beings?" Master Cat asked: "Obviously not, you are just a member of human beings, and it is impossible for human beings to have representatives. A person's soul has its own ego, id, Superego... all kinds of contradictions, such a creature is too complicated. So people... one cannot represent another; one cannot represent a group."
"When did we start talking about philosophy?"
Master Cat smiled: "Then let's go back to the topic just now. When we humans haven't seen the task of tens of millions of bonuses for too long, we will form a habit, a mindset, a kind of "no tens of millions" The inertia of surviving in the game of "super mission". If I suddenly break this inertia, what do you think?"
Qing'er frowned and pondered, she actually felt at this moment that it seemed difficult to comprehend this matter without putting it in a philosophical sense...
"The answer is simple, 'order' will be broken, and all 'routine' will be replaced by 'extraordinary', human beings will feel fear, hesitation, and loss in this period.
In the end, there will only be two results. The first is that people think, unite, adapt, and survive in the new inertia. Second... huh... war and chaos, collapse and destruction.
Of course, the two results may appear one after another, or even appear alternately. Anyway, the winner is the one who has the last laugh. "
Qing'er shook her head, as if she wanted to drive Master Mao's words out of her mind: "Okay, don't play tricks anymore, to put it bluntly, you did something that no one has done for a long time, and it's still a stupid thing ! A trade that pays no profit!"
Master Cat leaned back in his chair: "The 'lose' and 'earn' in your mouth refer to game currency, that is, money, but my starting point is not to pursue money. The concept is different. Are you doing something stupid?"
"I'm not arguing with you about this, then you can continue talking, Mr. Confused Demon King." Qing'er seemed to replace the logic of Master Cat with her own theory, and completed her inner self-persuasion with a self-deceiving point of view. Wang Xu back then was quite similar...
"When my task appeared, the order had already been broken, and it was impossible to restore it before the whole thing had a result. Therefore, during these twenty-four hours, no matter whether someone took the task or not, the chaos It will inevitably appear." Master Mao poured cups of tea: "I gave people three hours to think, to complete the initial adaptation and reaction, this time is enough for the parties concerned Aotian and other interested parties to calm down Yes, and the most preliminary reasoning of you people will be completed during this time.
With your wisdom, the 'most reasonable' conclusion that can be drawn is that the person who released this mission is to defraud the liquidated damages. As for the other unreliable ones, I will not list them one by one. Of course, this only seemingly reasonable conclusion is also wrong. It is impossible for you to guess my real intention.
Ever since, after three hours, I took over the task myself. This behavior cannot overthrow the conclusion of 'cheat liquidated damages', but it is enough to shake the reasoner, just like when you feel that you have figured out the next step when playing chess, but when the chess piece is really placed in that position, you always Something new will be discovered.
At the same time, the behavior of taking on the task can arouse the interest of those non-related stakeholders, that is, ordinary players. They will naturally be very curious, because as I just said, 'fear, hesitation, and helplessness', everyone will Go through this process and experience at least one of these three emotions.
Then, the conditions for war and chaos have been met. A biological population that cannot represent a group as an individual gathers together on a large scale, and the order has been broken. At this time, all contradictions will become acute. The last few Constraints are quickly broken by unfathomable hearts. Grudges, interests, or..." Master Cat stopped and looked at Qing'er's face: "Maybe only one woman is needed to ignite the fuse of a war. "
Qing'er's expression suddenly changed. She was startled and angry, and a feeling of fear even appeared in her heart: "So you lured me into the game with a task of 30 million after five hours?"
"You have already entered the game. As I said, you are also a member of human beings. You are no more advanced than any of the same kind outside. When I released the 20 million mission, you were already in the game. When the three people related to you When tens of millions of tasks appear, you will naturally think, reason, and then come to a conclusion—two tens of millions of tasks suddenly appear in one day, then I and the publisher of the first task are probably related of.
To verify this conclusion, that's why you came here, isn't it? That's why you sat there and listened to what I said... and it took a total of..." Master Cat looked at the time: "It's been half an hour since you came in. You said that outsiders, what kind of thinking and reasoning are they doing now? "