Chapter 289 - 190: No-Damage Boss Rush? No-Damage Player Rush! (2)

As everyone knows, the code written by the Iron Fool System is far ahead of its peers, even aliens can’t understand its high-end code.

Given it’s high-end code, having some high-end characteristics is quite normal, right?

"So, did Pan Yang infect all the players by himself? His character files replaced all the players’ client files?"

"That’s right!"

Chen Ba explained, "In a sense, the Golden Eagle Boss that the other hundred thousand players encounter now or later is actually him."

Where’s the original Golden Eagle Boss?

The files have all been replaced, where is the Golden Eagle Boss? There’s only Pan Yang here, just say if you want it or not!

"Then when he’s offline, what’s the situation with other players unable to find the Boss?" Lu asked further.

"When he’s offline, he disconnects from the server, his character information or character data, even though other players’ clients have a backup, they lack invocation rights..."

Chen Ba covered his face, finding this a truly fascinating relationship.

Pan Yang bugged the game, not only transforming his own game character into the Golden Eagle Boss but also passively replacing other players’ game files.

When he’s offline, because these game files are actually Pan Yang’s personal game privacy data, they are encrypted and require a login account for invocation.

Other players couldn’t possibly log into Pan Yang’s Tianba Account, so naturally, they don’t have permission to invoke related encrypted files and data.

So...

When this guy is online, through server connectivity, players can swipe the Golden Eagle Boss, advance the storyline, and push tasks.

When he’s offline, the client files are missing the Golden Eagle Boss-related data, players can only get stuck at that place, and honestly wait for him to go online and advance the storyline.

"In other words!"

"If he is determined not to play the game, apart from the players who have completed the main storyline Chapter one, the remaining players will all find themselves stuck, unable to complete the main storyline Chapter one."

Chen Ba kept talking, and he couldn’t help laughing.

What kind of situation is this?

With his own strength, making hundreds of thousands of players stuck without any way to progress the storyline, this kind of thing is sensational in the entire gaming industry.

"Then what are we waiting for? Quickly get him online!"

Hearing this, Lu urged anxiously, "So many players haven’t advanced the storyline yet, how can he be so shameless to rest? Quickly get up and take a beating, as long as there’s someone who hasn’t completed the main storyline Chapter one, he can’t sleep!"

"Makes sense!"

Chen Ba thought the same.

Though this bug is significant, and indeed has affected the broad player base, there is still a remedy.

That is to get Pan Yang online, quickly serve everyone, and make sure each player smoothly passes through the main storyline Chapter one.

...

"Ba, are you human?"

While sleeping peacefully, suddenly awakened by Ba over the phone to force him online to take a beating and not delay other players from progressing the storyline, Pan Yang felt his mind buzz.

It’s outrageous!

Who among the family members would understand? Playing a game, it feels like sacrificing half a life. And thinking that he still needs to suffer beaten down by hundreds of thousands of players, Pan Yang felt like crying without tears.

Hundreds of thousands of players!

Even if one person beats him for five minutes, being constantly beaten 24/7, he’d have to endure until next year.

Who could withstand this?

Pan Yang wanted to curse, calling Ba a moron, not fixing his own game’s bug but instead making him take the blame, is this a solution someone could think of?

"Hey, don’t worry!"

"You endure for one or two days, we’re discussing solutions, soon you’ll be relieved."

Ba’s answer slightly eased Pan Yang’s spirits.

Enduring for one or two days is somewhat tolerable compared to a year; if push comes to shove, he’d let the game run while he sleeps as needed!

Two days later.

During this period, Pan Yang played the Golden Eagle Boss in the game and successfully entertained thousands of players, but there were still many queuing up to beat the Boss and advance the storyline.

Good news, Ba emerged!

After two days and nights of struggle, Ba finally figured out a solution and launched a new game patch file package.

"Great great great!"

Having endured two days of beatings, Pan Yang saw the game update announcement with excitement comparable to winning a lottery ticket.

He couldn’t wait to update the game and end this cruel and inhumane game of torture.

But once he finished updating the game, he realized he was overthinking.

The solution Ba came up with after two days and nights was actually to increase the Bloodline Power drop rate? To let more players join the "suffering queue".

"Huh?"

A favorite saying among players of ’Global Evolution’: Huh?

With not enough Bosses to fight, the queue exceeds a hundred thousand, how do folks not progress through the storyline?

Simple!

Secretly modifying the Bloodline Power’s drop rate, allowing more players to evolve into game Bosses, this problem gets solved seamlessly.

What?

Why not directly solve the game bug, strip Pan Yang of the storyline Boss status, and let him regain human identity, returning to his human role?

Game Bugs: "This isn’t a bug, allowing players to play as the game Boss was the hidden mechanism we carefully designed; it’s just unexpected that it was discovered so quickly by everyone..."

Come on, brag all you want!

Pan Yang definitely didn’t believe Ba’s statement, considering all Tianba Community players know Ba’s typical behavior.

But one thing must be acknowledged.

This change made by Ba did indeed alleviate a lot of pressure for Pan Yang.

Before the game update, Pan Yang strained for five days merely to trigger this evolution bug, transforming from human to Fierce Beast Boss.

But after the game update, within merely a morning, dozens of players had evolved into various Fierce Beast Bosses in the game, including the Golden Eagle Boss.

The Golden Eagle Bosses evolved by these players have the same effect as Pan Yang’s, capable of uploading to the server end, providing other players with interactive retrieval.

Pan Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

The Golden Eagle Boss serves as the gatekeeping Boss for the first Chapter of the main storyline in ’Global Evolution’, its significance is undeniable.

It’s fair to say every player must battle this Boss once to continue advancing the main storyline plot.

Previously there was only him facing the demand of hundreds of thousands of players, indeed it was heart-to-mouth limitation, barely keeping up.

But now, things are different.

Dozens of players, many, including him, have evolved into the Golden Eagle Boss.

With so many players serving as the guardian Boss, they’re definitely enough, avoiding situations where players scouring maps and couldn’t find the mission goal.

What’s more surprising is...

The gatekeeper Boss for the main storyline second Chapter has also been replaced by a player. At this progress rate, within days, all storyline Bosses for ’Global Evolution’ might be replaced by players.

This is getting interesting!

Previously, it was just purely fighting the AI, where the monster difficulty was constant, neither suddenly becoming stronger nor weaker, players died a few more times to eventually get through.

But now, these Bosses aren’t AI controlled, they’re all live players!

Encountering a newbie is manageable, that Boss is practically a given, you could pass the level by mashing keys with eyes closed.

But if encountering a skilled player, then that’s tragic...

The Tianba Community already has videos.

A veteran player evolved into the same Golden Eagle Boss as Pan Yang. Serving as a gatekeeper, he has consecutively defeated 734 approaching players.

Don’t doubt...

The native attributes of the gatekeeping Boss itself are explosive, not only are the skills powerful, but the damage is ludicrously high, players merely grazing it would lose a hefty amount of blood.

Entrusting this powerful template to an AI will naturally make you feel okay, thinking of it as just an ordinary Boss, ready for a flawless kill.

But entrusting it to a player already skilled in operations, do you know how overwhelming this becomes for ordinary players?

"I’m quitting, give me a refund!"

"Darn it, how come today it’s this master gatekeeping, I’ve been thrashed by him twenty times, a whole twenty times..."

"Since playing ’Global Evolution’, I learned what true ’souls-like games’ mean! My gosh, the difficulty of this Boss shames even Dark Souls!"

"Rubbish, can any souls-like games have such shameless Bosses? The dignified Boss playing King Qin looping with me is disgraceful!"

"Flawless speedrun Boss? Hilarious! Obviously, we’re the ones being flawless speedrun by Boss!"