CHAPTER 459: CHAPTER 162: CURRENCY SYSTEM, REAL-LIFE DEATH

Master of Muscle Trading: Are you complaining that we have too much sacrificial power on us? What do you mean by extracting sacrificial power? I can understand extracting 5% cash, but extracting sacrificial power is just too much. I suggest you change the settings.

Eat My Holy Light Slash, Holy Light: This time Monster World is completely opened up to outsiders, even the currency system is online. It feels like the game is getting more and more fun, with all these convenient settings, it really feels like the game is growing. Every update is an improvement.

National First-Class Protected Trash: So when will you tone down the intelligence of the Earth Thought Bully? Apart from the treasure chest monster behavior, which I praise, the other settings for the Earth Thought Bully are just too much. Can we change this setting of mocking players? Every time it makes my Qi-Blood boil, last time it even made an Evil Spirit face me and say I was chicken little. I fucking wanted to punch the Bully’s head off, who taught you to set up villains like this?

Skyrim Villagers: Hahaha, the comment above killed me. The trashtalking tactics of the Earth Thought Bully are indeed getting more brilliant. Last time a tank player in our group trashtalked with an Evil Spirit until they entered a red temperature state, got smoked coming out of their heads. But there’s actually a way to counter the Bully’s tactics: don’t curse the Evil Spirit when trashtalking, curse the Earth Thought Bully. The Earth Thought Bully will go into a red temperature state and control the Evil Spirits to mob you. Mutual harm, everyone’s a loser.

Holy Light Betrayed Me: You clearly haven’t realized what the biggest issue of this update is. After the live streaming feature was opened up, a big wave of Backseat Drivers is about to enter the battlefield, everyone be ready to get trashtalked! They may not have played the game, but they sure know it better than you do. I guarantee that a lot of streams will have this line: "Streamer, do you even know how to play? That’s not how you operate." (Humorous.jpg)

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With the currency system just online, several transactions were quickly completed.

Basically, when sacrificial power is listed, as long as the price is within market range, it will be instantly snapped up.

After observing the trend of several deals, Qi Sheng no longer paid attention.

And once the official website integrated the streaming functionality, a large number of ’tourists’ entered the arena in a short period of time.

Just like the players predicted on the forum, the enthusiasm of tourists was unleashed in stream chats, flooding various stream rooms, with most streams seeing a hundredfold increase in chat messages, and the traffic continued to rise.

The outside world was eagerly waiting, players who hadn’t secured qualification were immersing themselves in streams using the Guidance View via the game cab.

The totally realistic scene experience was far more fun than personally experiencing Monster World.

The number of tourists surged, in every streaming room, tourists were wailing, expressing when it would be their turn to qualify for Monster World, wanting to play this game.

Some tourists even angrily trashtalked the players currently streaming, questioning why they got the qualification for the game and not them.

Various pointless remarks also caused resistance from many veteran players, but the number was too massive to manage banning them all.

The only thing to do was to one-click block ’tourist’ comments.

The Backseat Drivers predicted by players also quickly appeared.

From what they’ve understood these days on the forum, it’s as if they’re commanders standing high up, never setting foot on the battlefield themselves, but knowing the battle situation thoroughly through intelligence, always able to endlessly analyze player behavior and point fingers.

As one streaming player put it: I can’t even eat Spirit Food without someone pointing out I’m eating it wrong, saying I should follow their instructions or it won’t taste as good. Thank goodness the game doesn’t require taking a dump, otherwise even the angle of my butt would be scrutinized for not squatting right.

These Backseat Drivers soon acquired a bunch of titles on the forum.

For instance: Theoretical Master, Cloud Battle God, Virtual Dreamer, Comment Philosopher, Wandering Poet, Think Tank Behind the Screen.

Revisiting player-generated information, Qi Sheng continually gathered player feedback to prepare for the next round of updates.

Just then, the Guidance feedback appeared in his mind.

Qi Sheng’s vision promptly shifted to the depths of the jungle at the Colorful Mist Coast.

His gaze locked onto a gray-haired figure lying on the ground.

Though old in years, his appearance was fixed in-game, his initialized body strength was no different from normal players.

The elderly player had chosen the Melee Schools faction, and before falling, he was following his team in combat against monsters.

In a blink of Qi Sheng’s mind, the scene seemed to rewind in time.

He saw the aging old player, who was charging with his team, suddenly showing an expression of extreme pain, slowing his steps, then collapsing on the ground.

This scene immediately caught the attention of the team players, who came closer to find the elderly player seemed to have fallen into a coma.

With a shift in consciousness to Earth, in the area where the elderly player was, the scene’s content rewound.

Qi Sheng saw the light blue gaming pod issuing an alarm, urgently contacting the nearby medical station.

The gaming pod automatically opened at this moment, and the Challenger System sent the elderly player’s consciousness back to his body.

The aging player struggled to sit up, his hands weakly placed on the edge of the gaming pod, his fingertips trembling slightly, as if wanting to grasp something but unable to hold tight.

At this moment, a sharp pain worked its way through his chest, as if an invisible hand was clutching his heart tightly, causing his breath to hasten suddenly, his face becoming pale, and cold sweat beading on his forehead.

He tried to raise his hand to cover his chest, but it felt as heavy as lead, unable to move.

His lips parted slightly, trying to call for help, but all that came out was a faint whimper.

The pain grew more intense, like countless blades slicing through his heart, his vision blurring as a buzzing sound filled his ears, as if the entire world was drifting away from him.

Finally, his breathing stopped, his chest stilled, and the room fell silent, with only the gentle breeze outside rustling the curtains softly.

His life came to an end at that moment, like a burnt-out lamp quietly extinguished.

Before the medical station’s rescue team could arrive, the elderly player had already died of a heart attack.

Seeing this, Qi Sheng couldn’t help but frown.

This was Monster World’s first real-world player death case.

The cause of the player’s death had nothing to do with Monster World; it was completely due to a heart attack from physical deterioration in reality.

In the foreseeable future, as the player base continues to grow, real-world death cases will occur frequently.

When he recruits all the life on Earth into the game, with more than 15 billion players, death events in reality will happen every moment.

"Guidance, is resurrection possible?"

[It is possible, with the consumption of sacrificial power, but not recommended.]

Qi Sheng, hearing this, fell into deep thought.

He really hadn’t considered this issue before—how to handle the accounts in Monster World of players who die in reality.

Is it resurrection in reality? Or account decomposition and recovery? Or perhaps....