Although the strength displayed by the Blue Fleet before had already surprised the players, when they saw these metal warships falling from the sky, the players were completely speechless.

"Vote, vote, go and fight! A bunch of medieval natives fighting an extraterrestrial civilization, isn't that courting death?"

"A small country with few people has no vision. Is it too late for me to surrender now? Madam, please come this way."

"You are all a bunch of guides. If aliens invade the earth one day, will you also be the guides?"

"Appearance is justice. If aliens are all cute little girls, I'll accept it!"

"The upstairs lolita complex is confirmed! Call the police!"

"Well said, as humans, we are the masters of the earth...but this is not even Azeroth, but Outland (dog head)."

That's right, if this was Azeroth, then the players might still consider their patriotism and might firmly stand on the side of the Horde and the Alliance. But this is not even Azeroth, so the players' resistance is already weak. Seeing the terrifying power displayed by the Azure Fleet, the players immediately and decisively chose to surrender.

They are not afraid of being killed by NPCs, but it would be very embarrassing to be killed by other players.

Not to mention that the equipment attributes and attack effects provided by the Blue Fleet far exceed those of the Alliance and the Horde. It doesn't matter if you want to defend the Alliance and the Horde, but you must be prepared to be beaten to death by a group of players - this is like a level 60 player being beaten by a level 80 player. Even if the opponent is only wearing mission equipment, it will only take a few minutes to kill you.

At one time, a large number of players defected to the enemy and chose to join the Azure Fleet. However, some players stubbornly chose to stay. Their reasoning was simple: the game could not involve a public enemy camp. If you joined the Azure Fleet, you would be hostile to all forces in Azeroth, including neutral towns. This was obviously not in line with the game setting.

Therefore, some players posted on the forum, claiming that "the conflict between the Azure Fleet and the Alliance and the Horde is only the first step in the new version. Later, both sides will definitely face the same enemy, and then shake hands and make peace for various reasons. At that time, the Alliance and the Horde will definitely be able to get technical support from the Azure Fleet. At that time, even if they don't change camps, they can still get the reputation rewards of the Azure Fleet."

This player's post does make sense, but to their surprise, things did not develop as they imagined. Soon, not only the Alliance and the Horde, but even some neutral forces in Shattrath and Outland that had cooperative relations with the Alliance and the Horde joined the attack on the Blue Fleet.

This left the players completely confused, and they felt as if these forces had collectively lost their minds. After all, no matter what, the other party had already demonstrated such powerful strength. Generally speaking, according to normal people's understanding, even if you don't surrender, you should at least avoid their attack.

Otherwise, do you really think you can shoot down a space battleship with just your broken catapult?

Is the screenwriter a jerk?

The players were puzzled by this, but Fang Zheng understood the reason. This world was built on the corpse of a god in the gap between reality and spirit, but this god was dead. In simple terms, it was like a vegetative person, without his own consciousness, and acting completely on instinct.

Fang Zheng and his people are like viruses. If they were conscious people, they would choose to see a doctor, take medicine, or get an injection after they found themselves sick. But right now, the world's counterattack against Fang Zheng is completely instinctive, without any self-conscious control, so this kind of stupid behavior of the iron-headed kid, which seems to the players to be insane, occurs.

But no matter what, these players are still enjoying it and fighting for this "real-time game". In the following days, the players of the Blue Fleet are responsible for building outposts while resisting the armies of the Alliance and the Horde.

As for the players from the Alliance and the Horde...

Most people either go straight to the quests, or simply go to brush up their reputation, hoping to get their reputation to the top before it’s too late, and then immediately change their sect after getting the achievements and mounts...

Of course, there are still a few stubborn players who try to sneak in and destroy the fortress, but the crystal tower can counter invisibility, and after being discovered, they are instantly killed by the turrets. Even if someone is lucky enough to sneak in, they will be treated as a walking honor and swarmed by other players, and beaten to a point where they cannot take care of themselves.

After this happened several times, these players gave up.

But they did not choose to leave. Instead, they watched curiously, wanting to see in which direction the war would develop next.

After all, now all players realize that this is a real-time "game process", and it is no longer the case that everyone can complete the task from beginning to end and then enjoy the plot progress. If you miss one of the lines, then maybe it will be gone in the future!

Sure enough, just when the players were idle and goofing around to gain reputation and exchange for equipment, the Blue Fleet issued another mission.

[Mission: Counterattack]

[An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. We will not sit idly by and watch the attack on the Azure Fleet. Anyone who attempts to provoke a war will be destroyed.]

As the mission was issued, the fleet began to move forward gradually, with the target being - Shattrath!

After receiving the news, the players were immediately excited.

Main city battle!!

Although the Horde and the Alliance often attacked each other's main cities in the past, it was all spontaneous behavior of the players. Even if they rushed to Stormwind City and killed the boss 180 times, it would not have any impact on the Alliance at all, and they were just venting their anger. In fact, there are often players who say that if the Alliance (Horde) directly let them attack, Stormwind City (Orgrim) would have fallen long ago...

Of course, the players at that time were just complaining and venting, but they didn’t expect that they would actually be able to fight in the main city battle!

What else is there to say? Go ahead!

"Wow, these people are just like bandits."

Standing on the battleship, looking at the players rushing into Shattrath for a crazy battle, Xiao Hei couldn't help but stick out his tongue.

"As a player, this is normal."

Fang Zheng was not surprised at all. On the contrary, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly as he looked at the scene in front of him. Fang Zheng was not sure what field this god was in charge of during his lifetime, but he was sure that it was definitely not games. It was precisely because of this that all the "gaming faith" power of these players was now coming to him.

Fang Zheng was not idle either.

Those players were almost like bandits, killing every NPC that stood in their way, even the jigsaw puzzle floating in Shattrath City. However, while they were fighting in the front, Fang Zheng was not idle in the back. Every time a player killed an NPC, Fang Zheng would insert a piece of code before those NPCs "refreshed" again.

And these are not ordinary codes...

"Bang!!"

Finally, with the tangram puzzle broken, the scene in front of all the players suddenly changed, and a CG cutscene appeared.

The jigsaw puzzle floating in the center of Shattrath slowly fell to the ground, and at this moment, a ray of light shone down, and then Fang Zheng led the other girls out and came to the front of the jigsaw puzzle.

"It was you, it was you who attacked our city?"

Tangram's voice sounded full of anger, while Fang Zheng just looked at it silently.

"The Azure Fleet has never avoided any war. You have made a choice and you must bear the consequences. And now, this is the consequence you should bear."

“…”

Hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Tangram let out a long sigh.

"It looks like we made a wrong choice."

“Hopefully it won’t happen again.”

After saying this, Fang Zheng turned around and returned to the battleship, and then the CG cutscene ended.

After that, the players were surprised to find that Shattrath City was no longer in its previous hostile state, but had returned to an alliance state!

Not only that, the NPCs also changed.

In the past, those NPCs would only say some fixed routines when players clicked on them, but after this war, players found that those NPCs seemed to have become more "human". For example, when they clicked on the NPCs, they could even see the NPCs' helplessness or anger about the surrender of Shattrath City to the Azure Fleet, which made the players feel more and more novel.

For example, a Shattrath soldier was very angry about the Azure Fleet forcing Shattrath to surrender, and even bluntly denounced the players as a group of traitors.

However, some NPC merchants said that Shattrath should not have gotten involved in the mess between the Horde and the Alliance, and that it was their own fault that things had ended up like this...

This immediately surprised the players and made them quite interested. You know, before, when they clicked on these NPCs, at most they would get a formulaic answer like "Hello, adventurer." But now, when they talk to those NPCs, they will find that each NPC seems to have developed its own personality. Some NPCs who hate players will even refuse to talk to them.

This is very interesting!

In fact, this was exactly the effect of the code that Fang Zheng had inserted. It was not an ordinary piece of code, but a very basic artificial intelligence - of course, strictly speaking, it could not even be considered a true artificial intelligence, at least compared to Yui's, it could only communicate with people in a standardized manner.

But for players, this is enough.

There are even players who are so bored that they go to talk and argue with the NPCs, present facts and reason to them, and some NPCs are actually persuaded by the players... This makes the players even more excited!

Why do they play online games? Isn’t it just for this kind of communication?

Now these NPCs are more humane, which naturally makes them more interesting to the players!

Not only that, after that, players also discovered that it seemed that only the NPCs in Shattrath City had changed. Some players ran back to the Alliance and the Horde to try to tease the NPCs, only to find that they were still the same as before.

Soon, some players came up with a wild idea: could this be the official's new way of "updating"?

This means that the Blue Fleet will go directly to Azeroth and then unify the Alliance and the Horde?

By that time, will the NPCs of both camps become more humane? Does that mean I can tease the queen or even curse at Thrall?

If that's true...that would be awesome!