Chapter 408: 392: Short-lived, the Respawn Point is Blocked!

Chapter 408: 392: Short-lived, the Respawn Point is Blocked!

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“Casino cash transport vehicle?” Lincoln was puzzled, “Are they going against the casino?”

“Mavis doesn’t know either.”

Lincoln considered what he had to do and decided to go to Fred first.

He had seen enough of the players’ fights yesterday.

However, as soon as he arrived at Fred’s virtual office, he saw that everyone was staring intently at a massive display.

In the screen, a row of limousines stopped outside the Continental Hotel, and a group of gunmen with Mahjong-shaped masks got out of the cars simultaneously.

Without any superfluous words, they started spraying bullets into the hotel lobby.

“Holy shit!” Lincoln was surprised, couldn’t help but whispered, “Mavis, didn’t you say the bandits were going to rob the casino’s cash transport vehicle? How come they’re at the Continental Hotel?”

Mavis also lowered her voice and answered in a whisper, “These people are not the bandits who robbed the casino yesterday. I was about to tell Master, they were the ones who planned to attack the Continental Hotel yesterday.”

“You mean there are now two groups of bandits causing trouble simultaneously, and the ones attacking the Continental Hotel are being impersonated by others?”

“That’s right!” Mavis confirmed, “They are fake.”

“Alright...” Although Lincoln was surprised at first, after thinking about it, he didn’t find it that surprising.

—There wasn’t anything the players couldn’t pull off.

“Let them be.”

Lincoln walked forward, patted Fred on the shoulder, and dragged him back from watching the excitement.

The process was the same as with Samuel’s group – first talk about the virtual concert, then check out the honorary player selection.

In the end, Fred’s group decided to give 40 out of 100 slots for honorary players to the top 40 players in the “Killer Ranking”.

The reason being “It’s only been a week since the game was officially launched, with players having exaggerated online time and little exploration in other aspects. The main focus is on completing the main missions, so the first honorary player selection can’t avoid this aspect.”

The “Killer Ranking” is only officially unlocked after players complete the main missions.

Since the “Killer Ranking Battle” has not yet started, the current rankings are almost the order in which players clear the main missions.

Only a few of those who ranked ahead had completed the Continental Hotel’s bounty missions or happened to kill players who were ranked much higher than themselves, raising their rankings.

But according to Fred’s data, at least 6 out of the top 40 had changed, with very little overall change.

“After a month, when players are familiar with Night City and discover more ways to play, we will reduce the number of slots for this part in the honorary player selection,” Fred explained finally.Yôur favorite stories at novelhall.com

“OK.” Lincoln nodded in agreement.

He then specifically visited the Game World of Little Chun’s Team for game development and informed intern Camille about the arrangements for the virtual concert.

“Like what?”

“There’s a lot we could do! For example, we could create a big event in the game with generous rewards that players can’t miss, keeping them all in the virtual world, not having time to play their DLC, and so on.” Jerome felt like he could come up with a bunch of ways to target NetDragon.

He was indeed a pure worker, but he thought that if the boss was like Lincoln, it was possible to have a bit of personal friendship.

Based on “personal friendship,” it’s okay to help with ideas.

Lincoln blinked, “But this is the last official part of the ‘Blaze’ series—a lot of players have fond memories of it.”

Jerome also blinked, seemingly more confused than Lincoln, “So what?”

Apparently, he didn’t understand the connection between the players’ fond memories and Yunmeng’s targeting of NetDragon.

“This DLC is the player’s nostalgia,” Lincoln had to be more explicit.

“Nostalgia?” Jerome the Worker asked, not accepting such an explanation, “Isn’t that just an excuse for capitalists to make money?”

In Jerome’s eyes, any capitalist’s promotion and packaging in the name of nostalgia should be treated as moral kidnapping and leek harvesting.

“It’s really not this time...” Lincoln tried to explain, but thinking about it, he realized it might not be necessary.

After all, what he planned to do wasn’t much better than Jerome’s idea...

Just as Jerome’s dish arrived, Lincoln quickly ended the topic, “Let’s eat, I’m prepared for NetDragon’s move, just wait for the excitement the day after tomorrow.”

So Jerome didn’t say anything more, and the two of them ate their own meals face to face.

Lincoln didn’t care about dining etiquette, keeping an eye on the battles in Night City on his phone while eating.

On the phone screen, the image was split into two parts by Mavis: one part was the “fake bandits” attacking the Continental Hotel, and the other part was the “real bandits” robbing the casino cash transport vehicle.

Of course, the situation on the screen had long since changed from the initial one.

By now, it had turned into a huge chaotic battle between players and players, players, and NPCs.

And on both sides...

At this point, Lincoln was starting to get a bit confused: what were these people thinking?

They fought all night yesterday, and now they’ve been fighting all morning, and there’s no sign of it stopping...

Where do they get the energy from?

Especially the players at the Continental Hotel.

They’ve been fighting for so long, they should’ve found out by now: killing bandits won’t complete the bounty, and there are no rewards, right?

At this point, even if they teamed up to attack the Continental Hotel, it would make much more sense than the current messy situation. At least the Continental Hotel has a huge safe.

But they stubbornly insisted on fighting each other, even blocking the respawn points of players to kill them!