There is One New Rule Every Month Globally

Chapter 294: Chapter 272: Now, everything is about to come to an abrupt end.

Just then,

a female voice rang in the man’s ear.

“Manager, what should we do?”

A young woman in uniform walked up behind the man, her voice hesitant as she asked, but her brows inevitably betrayed a hint of gloom.

She, too, had a crimson eye on her forehead.

Just like the logo on the wall, everyone here had a crimson eye on their forehead, which looked exceedingly eerie.

At this moment, the office was silent, no longer filled with the usual bustle of chatter; no one was in the mood to small talk or joke around at a time like this.

The entire office was suffused with a stifling atmosphere, and many employees had already packed their belongings, ready to go home.

Blue Star had been annihilated.

The Snow Sea Project Team, responsible for the Blue Star project, would not die with it.

But they had to go home.

Similar to when Solar Star was annihilated, the project team for Solar Star went home too.

It also meant that all their efforts in recent days had been in vain, and there was no telling when they would have such an opportunity again.

Everyone looked at the manager’s back, their expressions complex and silent.

This problem was almost insoluble.

It was a Race Duel Battle launched by a Threefold Planet against Blue Star.

Although it had been demoted to a Twofold Planet,

it was only nominally reduced to a Twofold, and some of the Threefold exclusive Props could no longer be used, but it still had the strength of a Threefold Planet in essence.

Of course, since some of the Threefold exclusive Props had been sealed, it was much weaker than a true Threefold Planet, but it was still far stronger compared to a Twofold Planet.

For such a planet to initiate a Race Duel Battle against Blue Star, which was still in its Newbie Protection Period and had only been open for four months, there really was no way to counter it.

Even with Chen Yi there, it was hopeless.

The outcome was almost self-evident.

They were powerless.

As a project team, they had no way to directly help the players, they lacked the authority, as well as the power; it was impossible to simply drop some SSS-grade Prop and hand it to Chen Yi.

They lacked the ability.

All they could do was to be responsible for the monthly version updates, the extraction of the monthly rules, and the planning of special limited-time events, some map designing, and so on.

Anything else was beyond their jurisdiction.

Blue Star had high potential.

Though it was still in the Newbie Protection Period, being responsible for many planets, they could clearly judge that Blue Star was likely the most promising planet they had overseen.

First off, Blue Star had gone through the ultimate rule of “Calm and Cool,” which, for a Novice Planet, was nearly a fatal blow.

Planets that went through this rule often saw a drastic drop in their player numbers.

But on Blue Star, the drop in player numbers was much less than they had anticipated, and the players who survived were far stronger in resilience compared to other novices who hadn’t experienced this rule.

They weren’t even on the same level.

And it even catalyzed a player like Chen Yi, whose individual power was off the charts.

It was foreseeable that Blue Star would at least grow to become a Threefold Planet and perhaps even carve out its own territory in Starfield.

By then, the Snow Sea Project Team would rise with the tide.

But—

Now, everything was about to be prematurely cut short.@@novelbin@@

“…”

The man, who was neatly dressed in a suit, sat on the sofa, his head bowed in silence for a long time without speaking. He did not know how to help Blue Star overcome this crisis.

Leak some key information to the players of Blue Star?

He lacked the authority.

Grant a multitude of Props to the players of Blue Star?

He lacked the authority.

Or to give Chen Yi some preferential treatment, he even lacked that authority.

As the head of the Snow Sea Project Team, he could mostly act only as an observer; the rules of the game did not allow him to directly or indirectly interfere with the players’ development.

As the person in charge, within the first twelve months of a planet’s Novice Period,

he had only three privileges that he could actively make use of.

The first was to replace a Prop or Skill a player was supposed to obtain, limited to exchanges within the same level.

He had already used this privilege.

In that Dragon Boat Festival event, he used this privilege to give Chen Yi a B-ranked Skill “Requesting the Mandate of Heaven,” which allowed direct dialogue with him and granted certain rewards at a certain cost.

Originally, Chen Yi was supposed to receive a B-ranked Skill “World Frost,” which he had replaced using his authority.

In fact, this Skill was customized over half a month. He first roughed out the Skill’s effects and limitations, then submitted them to the Skill designer of the game for ranking, testing, rule restrictions, and a series of complicated processes.

Only then was the Skill designed, and its level restricted to a B-ranked Skill.

It was a Skill he had specifically prepared for Chen Yi, but still within the rules. For instance, the 5 million Points Chen Yi spent to travel to Solar Star for the twofold trial map, that was deducted by the game.

He could not give Chen Yi a discount or reduce the price; those were set by the game. This was a Skill he designed especially for Chen Yi, whom he felt needed such a Skill or Prop at the time.

The reason it was designed as a Skill rather than a Prop,

was to prevent it from being dropped.

This was his first privilege.

The second privilege was the ability to initiate a global announcement at will.

All the global announcements that had been heard on Blue Star were edited by them, while the game was responsible for pushing them out. This privilege allowed him to make one global announcement freely.

The third privilege was… to set off fireworks that would cover the globe.

This privilege was often used at the end of the Newbie Period.

These three privileges were the only three actions he could autonomously do as the head of the Snow Sea Project Team during Blue Star’s Novice Period.

For everything else, he had to work within the rules.

The first privilege had been used, and the second and third had yet to be exercised.

After a long silence, the man raised his head and looked at Chen Yi sitting in the center of the screen on a beach chair. He sighed deeply, and he seemed to have aged decades in an instant.

He got up and walked towards his own office.

“I’m going to announce a farewell to Blue Star; everyone, pack your bags and prepare to go home,” he said.

“Prepare yourselves mentally for this project’s failure; no one will avoid the punishment that comes with it.”

The game was a highly mysterious entity.

Even up to now, no one knew what the game truly was, even the employees who appeared to be working for it from the players’ perspective outside had no idea what it was.

It was unclear which power it belonged to.

Nor was it clear if it was part of some mysterious civilization in the cosmos.

What was known was that the game had layer upon layer of rules, controlling all the players and countless Races.

Encouraging these Races to fight each other,

As if it were a form of entertainment.

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