Under the bright light, the silver watch inlaid with tiny gemstones swayed with the owner's movements, shining brightly.
The middle-aged man with a goatee looked away silently.
It really blinded these old eyes.
The owner of the silver watch put down the teapot and gently pushed the teacup forward.
"Tea, please."
The middle-aged man glanced at the teacup, then turned his gaze back and said, "You two should have understood why we are here."
The man with a fair face and a professional suit lowered his brows and did not answer.
"I already know why you two came, but I want to ask, what do you mean by summoning souls, gathering Yin, and locking souls?"
The director sat on the chair opposite, with his pale hands crossed on the table, looking at the middle-aged man seriously.
As for the young man behind the middle-aged man, he was obviously ignored by him.
"Summon the souls, summon the homeless and dead souls in this world."
The middle-aged man paused, and then continued: "When this soul-summoning talisman is used without a designated target, most of the souls summoned are resentful souls with confused intelligence and great resentment towards living people."
"Gathering Yin, it literally means gathering Yin energy. The resentful souls feed on Yin energy. In a place without Yin energy, the resentful souls will gradually weaken until they dissipate."
"The final soul-locking... is to lock the resentful souls that have been summoned in a place, so that they can only enter and exit. Moreover, not only resentful souls, but also living souls that are heavily contaminated by Yin Qi will be treated as resentful souls and locked in..."
He doesn't know much about it, and what he knows now comes from ancient books.
“Thank you for your explanation, it’s very interesting.” The director smiled.
"As for what you said about taking back your sect's talismans, we will consider it carefully."
"Hey, Director, there are already problems in your company's game. What else are you going to consider? Do you know how much harm this may cause?" The young man behind the middle-aged man couldn't help but speak up.
Because they paid special attention to the information of "Jiang Hu Xia Yi", they learned early this morning that many players had complained and said that supernatural events had occurred in the game.
There was also a rumor that someone inside the game company, at the risk of being fired, secretly passed on the news that playing too much of the game would damage brain tissue, but the game company quickly came out to refute the rumor.
"I'm sorry, the talisman rental contract between the company and you will expire in two months. I can't make the decision on this matter and need to discuss it with other people." The director smiled gently.
"But……"
"Qingfeng." The middle-aged man suddenly shouted, stopping him from arguing any further.
Qingfeng curled his lips, but was obedient and said nothing more.
"Then I would like to thank you both first. I'm sorry to have caused trouble to your company."
………
"Why didn't they tell me when they first came?" the director asked the young man with a fair face and a professional suit.
“…They…they…” The pale-faced young man lowered his eyes and licked his dry lips, not knowing how to explain.
He did not report the matter to the director.
Really...what those two people said about the supernatural and the like was too ridiculous. He didn't believe a word of it, and he felt there was no need to report it to the director.
"Are you so scared?" The director, who usually had a gentle smile on his face and was called a smiling tiger by his employees behind his back, did not smile at this time.
"Even if it's something like this, you must report it to me. There won't be a next time."
"Yes, yes Director!"
"...Then...will the director ask them to take back the talisman? Problems that arise in the game, maybe..." He suddenly felt a chill in his heart and got goosebumps all over his body.
Abnormal data in the game is like a supernatural event.
"'The Legend of Jianghu' is very popular now, why would we ask them to take it back?"
A lot of players have been lost because of those complaints before. If new players are not caught, the shareholders will be even more dissatisfied.
"If the players start making trouble..."
"We'll hold on if we can. The AI is the foundation. How can we change it just because of some player complaints? Besides, aren't we holding on now?" The director said that we have held on, referring to the large number of new players who have entered the game. It is enough to fill the gap left by the lost players, or even more.
Players don’t know how the game’s plot develops, and most of their complaints and feedback are half-inquiry and half-venting.
Now the game has clearly turned into a supernatural theme, making players think that this is the original plot setting, and few people complain.
………
The orange-red flame popped out from the fingertips, swirled in the air, and then retracted.
The fingertips flicked again, and this time five clusters of flames flew out in succession...
Then, ten clusters, twenty clusters, thirty clusters...
Gradually increasing.
After changing shifts with the NPC guards, Luo Zheyu slipped onto the city wall, sat against the wall, and paused.
If it wasn't a body made of data, my fingers would cramp if I tried to emit flames like this...
After thinking carefully about the feeling of the flames coming out of his fingertips, Luo Zheyu gently waved his palms, and balls of flames appeared out of thin air and stayed where they were.
Looking up at the blue sky, Luo Zheyu stretched out his hand and grabbed the fireballs one by one.
The fireballs disappeared one after another.
The limit of what can be controlled now is ten more flames than last night.
Thirty clusters can be manipulated simultaneously.
Although compared to the resentful ghosts that are constantly generated in the entire virtual online game, it is just a drop in the bucket.
But there are some countermeasures.
There are more and more players in the game, more than before, and they are specifically looking for some places that have become ghost nests, such as the former underground mining areas, to "explore" and seek excitement.
Very...troublesome.
He could only try his best to deal with the resentful ghosts he encountered in this city. As for other places, he was powerless and could only hope that the players would be on their own.
………
"What a crappy game! I can't even open the system settings, and I can't quit the game! I can't even switch to the forum!"
"Me too……"
"Ah... Do I have to wait until my mom comes back tomorrow and kicks me out of the game?"
"…Then I'm done. No one will come to eject me from the game. It seems that only the physical examination in the game cabin can save me."
"This is a crappy game! When I get out, I will file a complaint with the Virtual Supervisory Bureau!"
Three or five players sat in a row under the city wall, looking confused and haggard.
“Pah…”
A player passed by and threw something in front of them.
Players under the city wall:?
He squinted his eyes and looked up at the man, then lowered his head again. The small silver-white object lay quietly on the ground.
???
One tael of silver?
"Hey! What do you mean!?"
The player turned around and smiled, saying, "Sorry, I'm poor too, this is all I have."
"Too much! You are the beggar!"
"Eh? You're lying here, isn't it because..."
"It's your head!"
Angry.
………
"Yun Jian, it's already noon, get up quickly!"
"Get up!" a loud female voice sounded.
The tightly closed door did not move at all, and no sound came from inside.
The woman in her home clothes frowned and shouted to the robot housekeeper who was cleaning the room in the living room, "Xiao Ai, open Yun Jian's door for me."
"Sorry, you don't have permission." The robot butler made an electronic sound.
"I suspect Yun Jian is in danger in the room." Obviously, this was not the first time that the woman in home clothes was rejected by the robot butler, and she was skilled in dealing with it.
"Scanning..."
"Yun Jian has been in a deep sleep state for more than three hours, which meets the emergency door opening conditions."
"Ding——" the door opened automatically.
The woman in her home clothes walked into the room aggressively.
The room was empty, and a smooth light blue gaming console was placed next to the bed.
"Sure enough, you're playing games again. It's already so late!" As he said this, he pressed a red button on the side of the game cabin.
The door of the game warehouse slowly opened, revealing the person lying inside.
His eyes were closed and his breathing was slow and weak.
"Yun Jian, get up quickly!" the woman shouted.
The people in the game cabin didn't react at all, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep.
The woman leaned over, stretched out her fingers, and pinched the tip of his nose, making it difficult for him to breathe.
"stand up!"
Half a minute later, there was still no reaction from the people in the game cabin.
"Xiao Ai! Come and check him!" she shouted, loosening her fingers with a hint of panic on her face.
………
"It's over, it's over! Director!"
The office door was suddenly pushed open, and the director looked up, looking at the person who pushed the door open with confusion.
"What's up?"
"Players! Players...players who play "Jiang Hu Xia Yi"!"
"Don't be anxious, speak slowly, what happened?" The director said gently.
The person who spoke swallowed his saliva before continuing, "There are dozens of players lying in the game cabin playing "Jiang Hu Xia Yi". After the game cabin was opened, they were found to have lost consciousness, like... like a vegetable."
"Now the person is lying in the hospital, and his family members are making a fuss and reporting it to the Virtual Supervisory Bureau..."
The director frowned slightly, and the usual smile on his face disappeared.
"No one thinks there's something wrong with the game cabin?"
"Game cabinets... dozens of game cabinets of different brands, but those people." The person who spoke quietly raised his eyes to look at him, then quickly lowered his eyes and continued: "Those people were all playing the game "Jiang Hu Xia Yi" before the accident."
After hearing the details of what happened, the director raised his hand and signaled the person who reported it to go out.
It won't be long before the interstellar police and the Virtual Supervisory Bureau arrive. Before that, we have to think of a solution...
At least get someone to share the responsibility.
"Give me the phone number of the talisman owner." He turned on the communicator and dialed a number.
………
The lazy NPC guard Luo Zheyu stood on the city wall and submitted an application to the intelligent computer.
All basic data in the game, as well as intelligent NPCs, are managed by the intelligent brain, and even the staff of the game company cannot easily modify them. Intelligent NPCs have certain permissions, such as being able to modify small parts of their own body data within a certain range.
As long as you apply to Zhinao and it approves your application, you can do it.
This privilege is mostly when an intelligent NPC encounters an emergency when dealing with players. The program in the intelligent NPC determines that some changes need to be made and will submit an application to the intelligent brain.
Luo Zheyu also submitted an application to modify a small part of his body data.
The game is filled with a foul smell and ghost dens like those in underground mining areas, and more and more players are trapped in their consciousness.
It is not urgent to just trap them, but the consciousness of those players who have been assimilated by the ghost energy will be devoured by the resentful ghosts sooner or later.
He was now making rapid progress in manipulating the flames, but the quantity was still a drop in the bucket compared to the entire game.
Until now, I realized that I was restricted by inertial thinking.
A virtual body made entirely of data was actually used by him as a human body.
Those flames...you can try to separate and manipulate them using data.
Can't flames also come out from his data body?
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