Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 864: Chapter 822: I Need Some More Intense Challenges!_1 Chapter 864: Chapter 822: I Need Some More Intense Challenges!_1 “If one person harms an NPC, they’re imprisoned for one hour.”

“If ten people harm an NPC, they’re imprisoned for three hours.”

“If a thousand people storm the jail and cause chaos, they’re imprisoned for twelve hours.”

“If ten thousand people fully armed seize Chang’an City, who can put us in jail then?”

“This is what we call ‘theft of a hook begets punishment, theft of a kingdom makes you a king’!

Please make sure to add me!”

Super Tomato’s link and QR code for joining the group lead players to the Cloud Dream Server Player Group.

This is because group chats on other platforms have a user limit.

During Freedom Day’s big player alliance, they had to create many large group chats and spend a great deal of effort managing them.

For clubs, it’s not a big issue as they already have their own operation teams.

For anchors like Super Tomato, this was troublesome, and he had to dig into his own pocket to hire a community manager to help out.

That’s why this time he chose to use Yun Dream’s group chat feature.

Originally, the Yun Dream APP’s group chat also had a limit, allowing a maximum of 5000 people per group—while it’s called “early”, it was only three months ago.

But somehow, either due to a technological breakthrough or due to the sheer number of servers they now own, they suddenly removed the limit.

This development brought a significant advantage.

Although most people won’t make use of such large-scale group chats, for those who do, Yun Dream is their only choice.

Right now, the group chat is being flooded with an immense number of players joining every minute and every second.

—They can only join in the excitement for now.

Super Tomato has already announced in the group that the current phase is “team organization, ideas exchange.” Full army formation is still far away.

And honestly, not many players know how to ride horses at this point in the game—he himself doesn’t know how yet either.

Let alone crafting weapons for themselves, or learning to use longspear, horse spear, and other weapons suited for mounted combat.

Of course, the most important thing is to have your own horse and forge armor for both yourself and your horse.

How can you call yourself the Iron Buddha without heavy armor?

If any player meets all these criteria, they will automatically become a member of the “Great Tang’s Iron Buddha”, without any other verification.

Most players are just in it for the few minutes of thrill, eager to see what’s happening but not necessarily willing to invest a lot of time and effort to forge an—no, two sets of iron armor.

Therefore, the process of preparing these items also serves as screening criteria for the members.

In the end, we don’t need 10,000 players to equip their gear.

3000 should be enough to take the Imperial City—of course, we’ll have to figure out how to open the gates first.

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About forty minutes later, something unexpected happened to Super Tomato.

A very popular post suddenly popped up—

[Why use a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

Killing the traitor requires only one thousand chivalrous persons!]

The poster, a player called ‘Never Recall’, stated that organizing an army to break into the court and kill traitors was too inefficient.

Most importantly, it’s too costly and time-consuming.

So why not organize a thousand chivalrous persons, each focusing on enhancing their lightness skills or similar techniques?

With the help of some professional climbing gears, they could fly over the palace walls and launch a surprise attack—reaching Tai Chi Palace would be as easy as flipping a hand!

Ordinary soldiers couldn’t possibly keep up with players capable of high-level lightness skills!

Even if they ended up being trapped in Tai Chi Palace, they should have plenty of time to kill off the traitors, or even overthrow the emperor and take a tourist photo on the Dragon Throne.

It would definitely be achievable within two weeks!

This guy isn’t just blowing hot air—he really ‘walks his talk’ as he provided the link to join the group at the end of his post.

“Huh?

What’s he trying to achieve?” Super Tomato, on his way to the Teaching Workshop to find Uncle, was taken aback.

He started the Iron Buddha idea because he thought it was fun.

As for the reasons stated in his post—like the foolish emperor and treacherous officials—they were all just made-up excuses.

He didn’t put much thought into it—he completed the whole post in three minutes.

He is not one of those players who worry about the country and its people in the game.

He merely needed to have a specific target for his imaginative army “Great Tang’s Iron Buddha”.

—If you’re organizing a large-scale player invasion with vast combat power, you need a target to fight against, right?

But what on Earth was Never Recall trying to do?

Was he planning to assemble three thousand light-footed masters to storm the palace and take tourist photos?

Before he could figure things out, two follow-up posts popped up:

[First to kill Li Longji within 10 days, guaranteed to yield Diamond Achievement, only need 800 people, limited spots, hurry!]

[Within a week, first to draw the Emperor’s blood!

Quota 500 people, hurry up!]

“?!”

Super Tomato finally grasped what these people were planning.

They were treating the Imperial City like an instance, and the Emperor like a boss, vying for the first kill!

The previous games were all about who could clear it first.

Now, why did they all set their sights on the Emperor?

Could it be because of my post?

Super Tomato vigorously shook his head.

He definitely couldn’t take the blame for this.

Just as he was planning to explain things to the audience and clear his name, he noticed more and more recruitment posts popping up like mushrooms after rain.

There were not only those who intended to barge into the Imperial City, but also those planning to rush into the Daming Palace, Rising Palace, harems, and other imperial heavy ground in search of treasures and excitement.

Later, everyone realized that mobilizing hundreds to thousands of people was a bit difficult.

As a result, the recruitment posts quickly downgraded, and a pile of posts looking for people to form teams to infiltrate the princes and nobles’ mansions to “seek treasures” gushed out.

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—Inflated by the forum atmosphere and boosted by skills, this group people suddenly forgot what it would cost if they got caught….

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With the increase in such posts, opposition and questioning posts also appeared.

The first one that appeared was from a rather famous exploration player, Traveler’s Cat:

[You guys fight and kill, fight and kill, fight and kill every day… can’t you have some restraint?]

The ancient architectural scholars have expended so much effort to build this magnificent ancient city.

The Cloud Dream’s staff spent a lot of effort designing thousands of NPCs, designing their life and fate, even giving them the ability to thought processing and information, to build this living city.

And on the first day of its launch, are you guys going to destroy it all?

Can’t you all really feel it?

The NPCs in this city are completely different from those in previous games, right?

In games like Metropolis and Night City, aside from the few important NPCs, the behaviors and dialogues of the majority of other NPCs are quite simple, it’s okay if you guys fight and kill every day.

But in Chang’an, NPCs have a considerable degree of autonomy and judgment ability—

They can be pulled away by players at any time, leave their original behavior path, and will respond differently to player’s different languages and behaviors.

Even phrases never heard by ancient people can be understood without any barrier.

Even bystanders are no longer simply background decorations.

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I believe, as long as you interact more attentively for a while, you will find that: most NPCs are frighteningly smart.

Much smarter than the artificial stupidity in our mobile phones!

I dare to bet that Cloud Dream—most likely Lincoln himself, once again made a breakthrough in technology that is why they managed to give all NPCs a “personality”.

They can genuinely remember you, remember what you said to them, remember what you did together not just for the task, but for everything you experienced together.

Facing such a world with infinite possibilities, do you all just want to destruct it?

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The intent of Traveler’s Cat’s post was to oppose those players who form teams to cause destruction.

She hoped that everyone would calm down and explore the city lovingly, connect with the characters in this city, and experience that wonderful charm.

But what she didn’t expect was the first comment that appeared was a question:

“Do you mean to say: NPCs can truly understand what we mean?

Not only the ones that are preset by the game, but they can fully understand even the ones outside these settings?”

Traveler’s Cat thought about the trials she had run earlier and decisively replied, “Yes, at least in my tests, that was the case!

But you have to speak in plain language clearly, and don’t use too many modern concepts.”

The person immediately responded: “That’s enough!

That’s fantastic!

Thank you, poster, I am off to ask the Fox Demon if it can craft illusions, I need more challenging tests!”

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