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Recreating a new world was not as easy as Lu Cai had imagined. Fortunately, the new building and forum were relatively stable, and the players who settled down there gradually adapted to life here.
At least they don't need to enter the dungeon to earn points anymore.
Points are still currency, and they can go on adventures in dungeons, but the player system will provide protection, and correspondingly, the point rewards they receive will be reduced.
Some adventurous players choose to open up new dungeon worlds. In this brand new world, the system cannot fully guarantee the safety of these players.
High risk, high reward.
This is a shortcut to the game world.
"So, points are your energy fragments?" Yue Xiaoyan followed Lu Cai out of the initial entrance of the copy.
Lu Cai nodded. "The previous main system couldn't fully control the KB game. Lu Jue could only use the 'energy' collected by the players to operate the game world."
It was only after she took over the KB world that she discovered that the entire world was run by her energy.
Yue Xiaoyan was shocked, but also felt that her choice was right.
These days, she'd been following Lu Cai around, because going out with him was considered work, earning her points. Her job involved following Lu Cai to various dungeon areas for repairs.
Lu Cai established the "NPC Guild," which she directly oversees. Joining the "NPC Guild"'s dungeon world will eliminate the NPC's reincarnation mechanism.
The dungeon will still be reset at the end, but the NPC will no longer lose its memory and its health will be restored to full. After the player completes the dungeon, the dungeon will rest for a week, and the NPC can live their own life and wait until the next time it is opened to resume role-playing.
The reward for role-playing is still points, but the points in the player's hands are currency, and the points in the eyes of the NPC are probably energy bars, which can be absorbed to advance.
Of course, this is all voluntary. She doesn't care about those copies that are unwilling to cooperate. After all, they are the ones who are repeatedly reset.
"Now that 'Return of Doom' has been repaired, the official army that was wiped out has returned, and Manman has also been upgraded to a high-level NPC. He's probably walking around the dungeon with ease—" Yue Xiaoyan stretched her body and planned to go home first. "Next, you should finally rest, right?"
Lu Cai smiled and said, "There's still one last group of players going home. I'll take them back first."
After stabilizing the situation in the new building, Lu Cai first sorted out the player information.
There are two types of players in the KB game world. One type is like Yue Xiaoyan, who died before entering the game and was captured and pulled in by the system's default mechanism. The other type is like Qin Yu, who is still alive in the real world and was randomly dragged in by Lu Jue.
Players who have died are naturally willing to stay here, but in reality, the players who are not dead still have relatives, and many of them want to go back.
Lu Cai checked the system server. After the Black Data incident, the connection between the KB world and the real world was in jeopardy. She planned to send the last group of players home, so she closed the channel and waited until she could contact the missing players and reopen it temporarily if anyone wanted to return.
From now on, the KB system will no longer randomly pull people into the game.
Speaking of players returning home, Yue Xiaoyan thought of Qin Yu: "Qin Yu went to 'Doomsday Return' and looked around, but didn't find that person?"
Lu Cai nodded: "Xiao Yue was possessed by Lu Jue, and his data has been destroyed. It is impossible for him to come back."
His position was replaced by another passerby NPC.
"Qin Yu originally thought he could say goodbye." Yue Xiaoyan sighed.
Now Qin Yu, Zhao Yan and Guan Chengyu are all planning to return to reality. After this farewell, they will probably never see each other again.
But Wen An was surprising. He actually chose to stay.
In the same fire accident, Yang Zi had already died in the stampede and had no choice but to stay here. Wen An, on the other hand, was only unconscious from smoke inhalation. If he went back now, there was still a chance for him to wake up.
In two days, Wen An in that world will probably die too.
But he said that he is an orphan and has no relatives. It is the same everywhere. In the KB game world, he has superpowers and can travel around and have adventures.
The most important thing is that life span is unknown, but if you are lucky you may be able to live forever.
Anyway, there are a lot of reasons to stay.
"You're back—" Shi Rukui walked over, handed Yue Xiaoyan a cup of milk tea, and gave Lu Cai a bottle of iced mineral water.
Lu Cai took the water and asked, "Aren't you helping Jiang Yan on the 6th floor?"
Shi Rukui said with a bitter face: "I originally wanted to go to Jiangyan's store to hide away for some peace and quiet, but those two groups started quarreling again..."
The two groups refer to the former security system members and the former scavengers.
The security system helping in the old building was the same one that attacked Lu Cai in "Perfect Life". Because its data was modified first, it was also the first to be stimulated to develop independent consciousness.
When they arrived at the new building, Lu Cai didn't need so many people, so he picked out a few of the best ones. After correcting the data of the rest, he arranged for them to integrate into the player base.
Some of these people relied on their good abilities to go to dungeons to earn points, while the rest used the training methods of the previous management and opened a training hall on the 6th floor, which was quite popular.
The security systems teamed up to open one company, and the scavengers teamed up to open another company. The two companies often quarreled, but with Lu Cai in charge, they never fought.
Once they were in the elevator, Lu Cai separated from the two. They were going back to take a shower and change clothes, while Lu Cai was going to the lobby on the first floor to make preparations.
In fact, there is nothing to prepare. The original way back was mostly destroyed by Lu Jue, and the current road depends entirely on Lu Cai's energy to pave and guide the way.
The way for the players to return was prepared early in the morning, so Lu Cai basically sat on a stool on the side, waiting for them to say goodbye, then opened a door on the wall of the hall and watched them walk in.
When Lu Cai arrived here, he saw Qin Yu sitting at the service desk in the lobby.
Zhao Yan and Guan Chengyu are probably still preparing and are not here.
"You're here so early?" Lu Cai went over to greet him.
Qin Yu raised his head and smiled: "You are the only ones I know, and you will all come over later."
Lu Cai sat down beside her.
The two of them didn't say anything else, just watched people coming and going in the hall.
"Have you found Feng Ziyi?" Qin Yu asked casually. They came out of the fairy-tale copy and Feng Ziyi took advantage of the chaos to run away.
With a new building and a huge number of copies, finding an escaped player is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"We don't plan to continue looking for him. Let him hide if he wants." Lu Cai didn't care. Anyway, she didn't plan to be the ruler of KB Games.
Qin Yu raised his lips and said, "That's right. Now the whole game relies on your energy. You can fight well, so who would bother you if they didn't want to..."
After a long time, she spoke again, "This is good, at least you are in there, and I can rest assured."
"Qin Yu!"
Yue Xiaoyan led Shi Rukui and ran over, followed by Wen An and Yang Zigui. Guan Chengyu was talking to Wen An, while Zhao Yan and Jiang Yan were arm in arm.
They laughed and joked, as if it was just an ordinary farewell, without any sadness. After all, going home was something to be happy about.
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The thirteenth floor of the new building is divided into several offices.
Lu Cai had one room, Lao Ke had another, and the selected security personnel and scavengers were arranged in a large room, sitting in cubicles.
They also recruited some players who were good at computers, and asked Lao Ke to teach them how to test the copy codes.
Testing Room No. 1 in the old building is located right next to Mr. Lu's office, and no one is allowed to enter it at will.
After seeing off the last group of players, Lu Cai returned to her office exhausted. After a short rest, she took the candied haws she had just bought and went next door. When she opened the door, she saw Lao Ke typing away at the computer on the test bench.
This place is completely different from the old building. The walls are covered with white tiles, various machines are neatly arranged in order, and the display screens half-hanging in the air are showing the same picture - on the neat platform, lying a young man in a gray Tang suit.
The man had his eyes closed, his fair cheeks were flawless, his nose was straight, and his facial features were sharp.
But he fell into a deep sleep, as if he was breathing, but also as if he had no breath at all.
Cai Lu walked closer to the platform, looked at 666 who had his eyes closed, and then placed the candied haws in the glass bottle on the bedside table.
Sometimes she would bring candied haws, sometimes she would bring small red lanterns, and sometimes she would take out the long knife from the system card slot and put it on his bedside for a while.
Lao Ke raised his head from the operating table and looked at Cai Lu, but in the end he did not speak.
After the new building and the players settled down, Lu Cai used his copying ability to copy a 666, but this 666 did not have the source code at all.
Lu Cai had tried to extract a new section of the original source code from himself, but unfortunately it was impossible to do so. Not only would touching her original source code affect the stability of the new building, but no one was able to perform the code extraction process.
Neither she nor Lao Ke could retrieve Lu Cai's code.
Lao Ke has always known that Xiao 6's original source code has been restored and integrated into Lu Cai's code. Even if this clone wakes up, it will no longer be 666.
He knew it, and Lu Cai understood it too. Even if Professor Lu were to recreate a security system using Lu Cai's data, it wouldn't necessarily be perfect.
But they are unwilling to stop, even if it is just a thought.
Maybe one day, Lu Cai will be able to find a way to truly reshape 666, and maybe on that day, this body can be used.
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