Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma
"I think we should look at the opponent’s strategy again…"
"Yeah, on what they are really up to…"
When Apocalypse Assault and Ultimate Assault saw the headless, disheveled body lying on the ground and a pulp of minced tentacle creature not far from there, they became disarrayed.
"If that head is meant to create a mental pressure on us… then what does this mean?" asked Apocalypse Assault.
Ultimate Assault continued, "Say, doesn't it sound like this…" A deep, meaningful expression flashed across his face. "After they had beheaded this guy, they split up. Wild Trace Sword Shadow brought the head back to that place, and that brat called..." he glared at his menu, "that brat called Bujue, he stayed here and did something with this corpse…"
"Is that guy a pervert?" Apocalypse Assault asked. "And, we all know that Thriller Paradise has a complete restriction to those perverted behaviors. How did he do that?"
"How could I know…" Ultimate Assault answered. "I was just guessing. Perhaps we misunderstood it… Maybe they just searched the corpse very carefully though."
"Hope so…" Apocalypse Assault gulped.
These two members from Corpse Saber now truly felt an inexplicable psychological pressure, which was much intense than the time they had seen that pathetic skull.
This was also because of ‘the drug’ they had been using… It was exactly like what Wild Trace Sword Shadow had said about the cheating of Corpse Saber Studio. They couldn't say that those people were the cancers in this industry as they just had their own way.
Just take the making of a movie for example. There’s a screenwriter who isn’t famous at all. He has spent years, even more than a decade, to prepare the screenplay and find the sponsors. He has put forth everything to make a movie with low-cost, and finally, he earns five times the investment from selling movie tickets.
While there’s another screenwriter, who is a little bit more famous, has just spent several months to write a poor screenplay offhand. He then recruits celebrities to take up the leading roles. When they do the advertising for the movie, they try to brag and exaggerate it just like they publicly cheat the audience, making them enter the cinema theatres. Well, he can earn the same amount as the former screenwriter.
These two types of person can earn the same economic profits at the end. The difference is, the former can achieve fame, which is an invisible asset, and the latter will be covered with critics.
No matter what the results will be, people will find it easy to forget. The former will then stay secluded for several years to start his new screenplay while the latter will frequently produce a new bad movie every year. Same tricks, same profits… This example can be applied into numerous industrial fields. In this world, to achieve the target, there’s not only one way to follow. One just needs to throw away their virtues or some other principles, and he can have an infinite number of ways to choose.
In the case of the Corpse Saber Studio that searched the dark area of online games, their contributions couldn't be ignored. Talking about the tricks like digging the loopholes and finding BUGs, they even went ahead of top Studios such as The Immortals. Anyway, even if this was the best feature of Corpse Saber, in comparison to ‘Order’, there was still some differences. Order was the dragon’s head of this industry as they still had the profound power and heritage. Such Studios like Corpse Saber, which still had a big gap with the others, had no way to enter the team of ‘top ranks’ studios at the end.
However, as they could come to the current situation, it was enough for them to enjoy for a while. Frankly speaking, the basic goal of everyone else is to make profits. Things like reputation could be bad or good. This world is a practical world; if you have money, people will come for you and wipe your ass.
Both the workers and professional gamers from Corpse Saber weren’t required to sign a contract directly with the Studio. Using a third party to make the contract was much better. Even if someone blamed them for something, it would be fine as they just needed to dissolve that company and establish a new one. All it cost was just to change the name board of the company.
If they could drill the hole in laws like that in reality, they wouldn’t need to be unscrupulous in the game. Corpse Saber Studio even had a professional team to research and develop Auto programs. In many games that they had participated, there were many players using Auto purchased from Corpse Saber.
In those games which were similar to ‘consumable goods’, although they got their IDs banned, players wouldn't care. The game would use the flag of ‘everlasting’ goods to disguise their charges. Also, the game producers just wanted to earn as much as possible before they closed the game. Thus, it was very open when players registered their accounts. As they didn't need to use their citizen IDs, one player could register for many accounts. It was okay if they got their IDs banned as they just needed to make another account and use Auto to level up. Their mindset could be explained. If they wanted to play and win, they had to compete with other players by spending money, and of course, that amount would flow into the pocket of the company, just like throwing money into a bottomless cave. It wasn’t worth it as they would rather use Auto. At that time, the level of comfort was the same, and they could also win. The total budget would be more cost-saving than using items and equipment, which had time-limit. If they didn't want to play more, just stop their payment for the Auto then.
Anyway, in the era of the fourth optical computer generation, it was very hard to use Auto. Even installing some illegal hardware in the game cabin, which the game producers had no way to detect, was difficult to do. If only the game masters and the game itself weren’t a chunk of garbage, they would soon detect it.
Thus, Corpse Saber had some other tricks. They had researched and created some illegal ‘Plug-in’ softwares to support players. These softwares would play the roles of Auto. However, the function of them was almost useless in the battle between top hotshots. Anyway, in some lower levels fights, using this tool could bring considerable bigger advantages.
Besides, Corpse Saber didn’t care about their bad image as they often did some malevolent deeds which aimed for the competitors in the same field. Of course, they didn’t dare to touch the big mounts like Order or The Immortals. They always knew that they shouldn't mess with dangerous opponents. By the way, they didn’t show any mercy to the competitors at the same level as they tried to spread out bad information or attack their servers… The effect was more or less apparent, but still, they could weaken the other Studios.
In short, those bastards were very professional. They only depended on their level to illegally earn money, opening a brighter way for their career.
There’s a saying which read ‘He that seeks troubles never misses’. Finally, in a random game, Corpse Saber had their nose rubbed in dust… Ah no, a bleeding nose to be exact—that game was Thriller Paradise.
The system of this game was simply impeccable. There was absolutely no way to cheat on their Data.
Thus, they discreetly held a network attack aiming for Dream Inc.’ Server to test its flexibility.
The result was… well, consequences happened. Corpse Saber hadn’t successfully broken Dream Inc.’s firewall; instead, they got counterattacked. An unknown virus had crossed countless false IDs and puppets to spread out, infect and destroy the main system of Corpse Saber.
At that time, the screen of all computers in their headquarters had displayed a wretched animated round face of a despicable guy wearing glasses, constantly laughing evilly, "Heh, heh, heh." All data in their hard disks were destroyed. The damage was unimaginable, which couldn't be described as just a bone damage or a dislocated ankle. This was like someone had chopped off his own arm or leg.
And the most frightening event was, the laptop of the Corpse Saber’s Chairman exploded itself all of a sudden… He had just seen this in movies, in which a national-level hacker would remotely make the laptop’s battery become scorching, leading to a self-explosion. He had never thought that he could experience this once in his life.
Because of the nature of this event, Corpse Saber Studio had to keep their mouth shut, drinking their bitter juice. And, they had no intention to attack Dream Inc.’s Server again… Later on, the R&D team of Corpse Saber also met attacks. They had tried installing different illegal hardwares in the game cabin produced by Dream Inc., but they were all useless. However, they couldn't investigate the cause technically, even if they had destroyed the cabin.
Such situation had never happened before. Being equipped with many technical staff like that but couldn't do any trick in the game, where is justice? Is this Dream Inc. the Ministry of National Defense?
Thus, members from Corpse Saber had united to surmount the challenge. After several meetings and studies, they had come to a solution… experiments on players.
‘PU63’ was the codename of a drug. No one knew what were the situations of PU01 to PU62. Anyhow, today, PU63 had become the only solution for Corpse Saber Studio to attack and occupy Thriller Paradise.
Here, for the time being, we will not mention the cooperation between Corpse Saber Studio and a bad pharmaceutical factory.
In short, after players had consumed this drug, they would sink into a psychological state, which was called ‘Sober Anesthesia’. These two words looked to be in conflict, but the meaning is easy to explain. This is a kind of ‘Forced to be cool-headed’.
All data from experiments showed that players using PU63 had their Fear Value surged not more than the peak of 50% in scenarios. Under the premise of not affecting their train of thought, the capacity for accepting pain would be increased. Moreover, in emergency cases (for example, in a fierce fight), their reflexes were much faster.
Well, in explicit words, this drug was close to ‘Doping’.
Game cabin only monitored heartbeats, pulses, blood pressure and other stats of a player. It didn’t have the function of testing stimulants. Thus, the use of this drug was unbridled.
Recently, only players from Corpse Saber had this drug. They didn’t want to release it yet, while the sale plan has been already prepared. They believed that within the next two months, this item would appear in some third-party trading websites. Of course, this would happen later… Back to our story then… That’s why these two players from Corpse Saber had been so confident. Although they would still feel fear, thanks to the drug, their level of fear would be reduced physiologically.
With this mental advantage from an external factor and the real advantage of their level in the game, it was normal that they thought they would win.
"Hold on… What is that?" Ultimate Assault said then squatted down near the corpse again. Under his scrutinizing look, he found something under the corpse’s shirt.
After hearing that, Apocalypse Assault also crouched down to take a look.
Ultimate Assault lifted up the corpse’s shirt and saw the situation there. Not far from the stomach of the corpse, there was a line of words carved deeply into the skin, to the muscles underneath.
"Why so serious?" Apocalypse Assault read it out loud, looking up at his teammate, "What does it mean?"
"This is…" Ultimate Assault wore a puzzled look. Suddenly, he found a piece of wire protruded from the skin, right at the question mark. He stretched his arm, using two fingers to grab the wire, wanting to take it out… BOOM!
At the same time, in another area of the laboratory. After Feng Bujue had heard the loud explosion, he glared at his menu, muttering listlessly, "Cut it off… the explosion killed only one…"
Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma
"I think we should look at the opponent’s strategy again…"
"Yeah, on what they are really up to…"
When Apocalypse Assault and Ultimate Assault saw the headless, disheveled body lying on the ground and a pulp of minced tentacle creature not far from there, they became disarrayed.
"If that head is meant to create a mental pressure on us… then what does this mean?" asked Apocalypse Assault.
Ultimate Assault continued, "Say, doesn't it sound like this…" A deep, meaningful expression flashed across his face. "After they had beheaded this guy, they split up. Wild Trace Sword Shadow brought the head back to that place, and that brat called..." he glared at his menu, "that brat called Bujue, he stayed here and did something with this corpse…"
"Is that guy a pervert?" Apocalypse Assault asked. "And, we all know that Thriller Paradise has a complete restriction to those perverted behaviors. How did he do that?"
"How could I know…" Ultimate Assault answered. "I was just guessing. Perhaps we misunderstood it… Maybe they just searched the corpse very carefully though."
"Hope so…" Apocalypse Assault gulped.
These two members from Corpse Saber now truly felt an inexplicable psychological pressure, which was much intense than the time they had seen that pathetic skull.
This was also because of ‘the drug’ they had been using… It was exactly like what Wild Trace Sword Shadow had said about the cheating of Corpse Saber Studio. They couldn't say that those people were the cancers in this industry as they just had their own way.
Just take the making of a movie for example. There’s a screenwriter who isn’t famous at all. He has spent years, even more than a decade, to prepare the screenplay and find the sponsors. He has put forth everything to make a movie with low-cost, and finally, he earns five times the investment from selling movie tickets.
While there’s another screenwriter, who is a little bit more famous, has just spent several months to write a poor screenplay offhand. He then recruits celebrities to take up the leading roles. When they do the advertising for the movie, they try to brag and exaggerate it just like they publicly cheat the audience, making them enter the cinema theatres. Well, he can earn the same amount as the former screenwriter.
These two types of person can earn the same economic profits at the end. The difference is, the former can achieve fame, which is an invisible asset, and the latter will be covered with critics.
No matter what the results will be, people will find it easy to forget. The former will then stay secluded for several years to start his new screenplay while the latter will frequently produce a new bad movie every year. Same tricks, same profits… This example can be applied into numerous industrial fields. In this world, to achieve the target, there’s not only one way to follow. One just needs to throw away their virtues or some other principles, and he can have an infinite number of ways to choose.
In the case of the Corpse Saber Studio that searched the dark area of online games, their contributions couldn't be ignored. Talking about the tricks like digging the loopholes and finding BUGs, they even went ahead of top Studios such as The Immortals. Anyway, even if this was the best feature of Corpse Saber, in comparison to ‘Order’, there was still some differences. Order was the dragon’s head of this industry as they still had the profound power and heritage. Such Studios like Corpse Saber, which still had a big gap with the others, had no way to enter the team of ‘top ranks’ studios at the end.
However, as they could come to the current situation, it was enough for them to enjoy for a while. Frankly speaking, the basic goal of everyone else is to make profits. Things like reputation could be bad or good. This world is a practical world; if you have money, people will come for you and wipe your ass.
Both the workers and professional gamers from Corpse Saber weren’t required to sign a contract directly with the Studio. Using a third party to make the contract was much better. Even if someone blamed them for something, it would be fine as they just needed to dissolve that company and establish a new one. All it cost was just to change the name board of the company.
If they could drill the hole in laws like that in reality, they wouldn’t need to be unscrupulous in the game. Corpse Saber Studio even had a professional team to research and develop Auto programs. In many games that they had participated, there were many players using Auto purchased from Corpse Saber.
In those games which were similar to ‘consumable goods’, although they got their IDs banned, players wouldn't care. The game would use the flag of ‘everlasting’ goods to disguise their charges. Also, the game producers just wanted to earn as much as possible before they closed the game. Thus, it was very open when players registered their accounts. As they didn't need to use their citizen IDs, one player could register for many accounts. It was okay if they got their IDs banned as they just needed to make another account and use Auto to level up. Their mindset could be explained. If they wanted to play and win, they had to compete with other players by spending money, and of course, that amount would flow into the pocket of the company, just like throwing money into a bottomless cave. It wasn’t worth it as they would rather use Auto. At that time, the level of comfort was the same, and they could also win. The total budget would be more cost-saving than using items and equipment, which had time-limit. If they didn't want to play more, just stop their payment for the Auto then.
Anyway, in the era of the fourth optical computer generation, it was very hard to use Auto. Even installing some illegal hardware in the game cabin, which the game producers had no way to detect, was difficult to do. If only the game masters and the game itself weren’t a chunk of garbage, they would soon detect it.
Thus, Corpse Saber had some other tricks. They had researched and created some illegal ‘Plug-in’ softwares to support players. These softwares would play the roles of Auto. However, the function of them was almost useless in the battle between top hotshots. Anyway, in some lower levels fights, using this tool could bring considerable bigger advantages.
Besides, Corpse Saber didn’t care about their bad image as they often did some malevolent deeds which aimed for the competitors in the same field. Of course, they didn’t dare to touch the big mounts like Order or The Immortals. They always knew that they shouldn't mess with dangerous opponents. By the way, they didn’t show any mercy to the competitors at the same level as they tried to spread out bad information or attack their servers… The effect was more or less apparent, but still, they could weaken the other Studios.
In short, those bastards were very professional. They only depended on their level to illegally earn money, opening a brighter way for their career.
There’s a saying which read ‘He that seeks troubles never misses’. Finally, in a random game, Corpse Saber had their nose rubbed in dust… Ah no, a bleeding nose to be exact—that game was Thriller Paradise.
The system of this game was simply impeccable. There was absolutely no way to cheat on their Data.
Thus, they discreetly held a network attack aiming for Dream Inc.’ Server to test its flexibility.
The result was… well, consequences happened. Corpse Saber hadn’t successfully broken Dream Inc.’s firewall; instead, they got counterattacked. An unknown virus had crossed countless false IDs and puppets to spread out, infect and destroy the main system of Corpse Saber.
At that time, the screen of all computers in their headquarters had displayed a wretched animated round face of a despicable guy wearing glasses, constantly laughing evilly, "Heh, heh, heh." All data in their hard disks were destroyed. The damage was unimaginable, which couldn't be described as just a bone damage or a dislocated ankle. This was like someone had chopped off his own arm or leg.
And the most frightening event was, the laptop of the Corpse Saber’s Chairman exploded itself all of a sudden… He had just seen this in movies, in which a national-level hacker would remotely make the laptop’s battery become scorching, leading to a self-explosion. He had never thought that he could experience this once in his life.
Because of the nature of this event, Corpse Saber Studio had to keep their mouth shut, drinking their bitter juice. And, they had no intention to attack Dream Inc.’s Server again… Later on, the R&D team of Corpse Saber also met attacks. They had tried installing different illegal hardwares in the game cabin produced by Dream Inc., but they were all useless. However, they couldn't investigate the cause technically, even if they had destroyed the cabin.
Such situation had never happened before. Being equipped with many technical staff like that but couldn't do any trick in the game, where is justice? Is this Dream Inc. the Ministry of National Defense?
Thus, members from Corpse Saber had united to surmount the challenge. After several meetings and studies, they had come to a solution… experiments on players.
‘PU63’ was the codename of a drug. No one knew what were the situations of PU01 to PU62. Anyhow, today, PU63 had become the only solution for Corpse Saber Studio to attack and occupy Thriller Paradise.
Here, for the time being, we will not mention the cooperation between Corpse Saber Studio and a bad pharmaceutical factory.
In short, after players had consumed this drug, they would sink into a psychological state, which was called ‘Sober Anesthesia’. These two words looked to be in conflict, but the meaning is easy to explain. This is a kind of ‘Forced to be cool-headed’.
All data from experiments showed that players using PU63 had their Fear Value surged not more than the peak of 50% in scenarios. Under the premise of not affecting their train of thought, the capacity for accepting pain would be increased. Moreover, in emergency cases (for example, in a fierce fight), their reflexes were much faster.
Well, in explicit words, this drug was close to ‘Doping’.
Game cabin only monitored heartbeats, pulses, blood pressure and other stats of a player. It didn’t have the function of testing stimulants. Thus, the use of this drug was unbridled.
Recently, only players from Corpse Saber had this drug. They didn’t want to release it yet, while the sale plan has been already prepared. They believed that within the next two months, this item would appear in some third-party trading websites. Of course, this would happen later… Back to our story then… That’s why these two players from Corpse Saber had been so confident. Although they would still feel fear, thanks to the drug, their level of fear would be reduced physiologically.
With this mental advantage from an external factor and the real advantage of their level in the game, it was normal that they thought they would win.
"Hold on… What is that?" Ultimate Assault said then squatted down near the corpse again. Under his scrutinizing look, he found something under the corpse’s shirt.
After hearing that, Apocalypse Assault also crouched down to take a look.
Ultimate Assault lifted up the corpse’s shirt and saw the situation there. Not far from the stomach of the corpse, there was a line of words carved deeply into the skin, to the muscles underneath.
"Why so serious?" Apocalypse Assault read it out loud, looking up at his teammate, "What does it mean?"
"This is…" Ultimate Assault wore a puzzled look. Suddenly, he found a piece of wire protruded from the skin, right at the question mark. He stretched his arm, using two fingers to grab the wire, wanting to take it out… BOOM!
At the same time, in another area of the laboratory. After Feng Bujue had heard the loud explosion, he glared at his menu, muttering listlessly, "Cut it off… the explosion killed only one…"
