Chapter 1 A Ripple Becomes a Wave

A single update stirred up a thousand stones. Studios, professional gamers, ordinary players, hardcore players, pay-to-win players… all sorts of players reacted in their own way upon seeing this update.

What was particularly strange was that a player from a certain main city expressed strong condemnation of this update. This statement surprisingly received a positive response, and in an instant, ten thousand people came to sign it. Just when others were feeling surprised, Brother Righteous silently closed the post on his computer. This was the ten-thousand-member guild alliance that had just completed the efficient leveling method transaction with them. After a major transaction of 200 gold coins, these update contents suddenly appeared. How could these guys not be furious? There were quite a few people like them; countless players who had spent all their money in the second before the update were now as bereaved as if they had lost their parents.

Brother Righteous was originally browsing the web while discussing the next deal with someone on QQ! Suddenly, this update content was announced, and Brother Righteous immediately knew that this deal was going to fall through. Sure enough, the avatar on the other end of QQ jumped, sent a "See update" message, and then went silent.

Many people had only read the beginning and couldn't wait to run to the forums to write ten thousand words of criticism. But in fact, the official announcement regarding this update was also a lengthy one, with thousands of words after the introduction.

The official announcement stated that the game currency would stop refreshing, but this was only a temporary pause and did not mean that they would no longer intervene from now on. However, the currency refresh from now on would no longer be unrestricted. The official announcement stated that they would adjust the currency according to the currency amount, the number of goods, the price of goods, and the currency circulation speed within the game. They even specially hired the famous economic expert "xxx" as a consultant. The game players, of course, had no idea who this "xxx" was, but some players who knew a little about this area understood when they saw this part of the official announcement. This rule of controlling currency issuance was almost the same as the real-world national currency issuance. The official announcement was to continue the path of game realism!

But the problem was that the real-world commodities, from production, processing, reprocessing, to market launch, people taking currency to buy, and the currency spent being reinvested into the production field, was a perfect circular structure, while the game obviously did not have this mechanism. Because the items in the game were never produced by investing currency but directly refreshed by the system. Without this kind of industrial chain structure, the currency could be controlled, but the goods were constantly produced in large quantities, and players would hoard their money and be reluctant to spend it, wouldn't this lead to economic recession?

The official announcement did not explain this point, but from another rule, players smelled a hint of something. Among some of the small rules derived from this currency rule, one was that if an account was not logged into for a month, the account would be cleared, and the currency and items of the account would all be confiscated. If there were special circumstances requiring a stop in the game for more than a month, it would be necessary to apply to the system for a keep-account shutdown.

What players noticed was the detail that items would also be confiscated. It was easy for the system to recover the currency and randomly stuff it into the hands of an NPC, but items were also confiscated, did this mean that items would also be controlled by the system like currency? Since the update was in progress when the system released this announcement, players had no way to go to the game to grind monsters and experiment, and everyone was extremely anxious. On some online game trading websites, after all the currency trading orders were withdrawn, many equipment trading orders were also becoming less and less.

The online listings were all directly traded with RMB. Now, it was inevitable that gold coins would appreciate in the game. Although the gold coin price of equipment would fall, due to this subtle "item confiscation," the gold coin price of the equipment might just be an illusion caused by the appreciation of gold coins, and the real value might actually increase. In the end, RMB was the real hard currency relative to the game. To really compare value, it was necessary to measure it with RMB.

Since they could not enter the game for the time being, players could only worry here. And the second update was actually a major event that players had been concerned about recently, but under the gold coin rules, it seemed insignificant. The second update was: City War.

At a time when people were panicking, the system actually came up with such a major event as the city war. Players felt that this was simply like launching a war to divert the attention of the public. But despite the complaints, everyone still had to look at this matter that they had been concerned about for a long time. There were still many people paying attention, especially the presidents of the major guilds.

No one expected that the rules of this city war would be different from what they had expected.

The city war was still a competition between players, but it was not a direct confrontation, but rather a competition through the conquest of cities. The system would adjudicate points and ultimately decide the power division of the main city.

Power division was another subtle term. Players had not yet figured out the currency account, and the official announcement came with these unclear updates. Players were angry and furious. The presidents of the major main city guilds went on QQ, YY, MSN, and all online communication tools to contact players in the guild to make a lot of noise on the forum, insisting that the official announcement explain this clearly this time.

The official announcement was also angry. Someone had just come out to make a lot of noise without even finishing reading the previous update, why was it like this again this time? In fact, this time, it couldn't be blamed on the players. The official website's access volume was too large at this time, and the web page was refreshing extremely slowly. Players thought that the second update ended with "power division," but it was actually not fully refreshed. After shouting and shouting for a while, they turned back and accidentally glanced at it again. Eh, why was there a scroll bar next to it? They quickly dragged it down, and the content was finally complete.

It turned out that the meaning of this power division was: The ultimate ownership of the main city would not belong exclusively to any one guild. The highest ruler of the main city would still be the system, and the guilds would form a points ranking in the main city conquest war. The system would finally divide the power of the main city according to the points. The calculation method was very simple. All main cities would be divided into ten thousand points, and the guilds would divide the sphere of influence according to their ranking and the points they obtained. For example, after the city war ended, the first-ranked guild would get 1,000 points, and they would take the lead in dividing one-tenth of the sphere of influence of the main city. The second-ranked would get 500 points, then they would divide another 500 points, and so on, until all ten thousand points were distributed. Even if the remaining guilds obtained points, they would no longer have any sphere of influence to receive.

The easiest and most direct way to obtain points was to kill the enemy troops defending the city. But in addition to quantity, killing enemies also valued quality. Decisive battles that had a decisive effect on the final outcome would have more generous point rewards. In addition, killing enemies was only the most direct way to obtain points, but it was not the only way. During the conquest between the main cities, there were also a large number of task events related to the siege, which could also obtain points. Some weaker guilds, if used properly, might not be able to have more points than the big guilds in the siege war.

In short, the last sentence was that the siege war required not only the bravery of the players but also wisdom and luck.

This final rule was something that many players had not expected beforehand, but although they had not expected it, it was reasonable. The main city in the game was quite large, but the largest guild at present was only a little over a thousand people. It would be a joke for so few people to play the city war in such a large guild. Even if it was two guilds, or even three or four guilds confronting each other, they would still not occupy such a large area. This move by the system could be described as a feat.

At this time, the players could not control the gold coin matters, and they could not enter the game for the time being, so soon everyone began to get busy with the guild war that they would be able to touch soon. The chat groups of the presidents of the major main cities that had just been "game company condemnation meetings" immediately transformed into strategic deployments before the city war. The official announcement announced the rules of the city war, especially pointing out that there was a task in one section, but the specific task content was still the usual style of not mentioning a single word. The more powerful guilds all felt a little hairy about the sentence "Some weaker guilds, if used properly, may not be able to have more points than the big guilds in the siege war." They all tentatively decided that the main force would kill enemies to get points, and the weaker people would be responsible for searching for tasks everywhere.

This update was obviously very large. The game was not open all day, and the estimated opening time was postponed three times in a row. The game forum became the most lively day since the game was opened, and the number of online forum users even broke the player online record during the guild and mercenary group confrontation. Almost all Parallel World players were waiting for the game to open while browsing the forum and watching gossip.

The main city battle was set on the weekend for two days. The update finally took the whole day of Wednesday. On Thursday, the update ended, and when the players re-entered the game, they all felt a little lost and a little unfamiliar...

At the first moment, the players who reacted rushed to the trading house, auction house, and other places like crazy, wanting to withdraw their consignment items first. After a day of speculation yesterday, many players recognized the saying "Not only gold coins, but also equipment may not be refreshed."

But before these people had time to rush to the auction house and exchange, the system had already issued an announcement to the world: Due to the adjustment of the gold coin rules, the economy will be completely reshuffled. The equipment and items previously consigned by players have been withdrawn and returned to the players' pockets.

Since the game was opened, the system had been gentle for the first time, and many people shed tears of relief...

The guys in the Young Master Elite Team also went online one after another at this time, celebrating in the channel. Compared to those who had spent a lot of money in the update, these guys had really made a lot of money. The efficient leveling method happened to be before this, and now the amount of gold coins in the game, no one can definitely have more than them. Watching the gold coins in their hands appreciate significantly, how could these guys not be happy?

Gu Fei was relatively calm and casually said, "Unambitious." As soon as he went online, before the people from the mercenary group had greeted him, July from Rebirth Purple Crystal had already messaged him, telling him to quickly go back to participate in the city war two days later.

In the Rebirth Purple Crystal channel, Fine Waist Dance was wailing at this time! This girl was also an unfortunate person in this update. She had just bought a lot of things a few days ago and was preparing to exchange RMB for gold coins, but she ran into the update. When she came back again, all the RMB buying gold coin orders were gone. Everyone was hoarding gold coins and waiting for appreciation. Fine Waist Dance had only a few coppers left in her pocket at this time. Spending money so cleanly could be considered a genius.

"Condolences, condolences." Gu Fei unusually also sent a message to express his condolences, immediately attracting onlookers. In the memories of all the girls, this was the first time that Thousand Miles Drunk had spoken in the guild channel.

"Thousand Miles, you must have a lot of gold coins on you now, right? The most profitable one during the last period of time was your Thousand Miles Drunk Studio." Luo Luo said.

"I don't have much, I gave it all to them." Gu Fei said.

"You look so unambitious. I didn't say I was asking you for money." Fine Waist Dance despised Gu Fei for pretending to be poor.

"I really don't have much. I only have tens of thousands on me now." Gu Fei said.

Tens of thousands is not much... If there weren't all girls here, they would have all cursed already. But everyone also knew that tens of thousands was really a small number for them. Weren't those guys all making 200,000 at a time?

"Tens of thousands is not a small amount. Take it back and divide it among everyone!" Luo Luo joked.

"Okay." Gu Fei was very straightforward.

The channel went silent. The girls were, after all, not as shameless as Yu Tian Shen Ming and Zhan Wu Shang. If it were those people, even if they were shocked, they would quickly discuss how to divide it while being shocked.

"Cough... I'm joking." Luo Luo said.

"Yeah, I know. I'm also joking." Gu Fei said.

"Damn it!!" Fine Waist Dance led everyone to despise him. From this, it can be seen that it is really difficult to be a person. If you say you will give it, people actually don't want it; but if you say you won't give it, people will say that you are stingy...

Gu Fei was chatting idly in the two chat channels while going to the Rebirth Purple Crystal office. He had been in Cloud City these days, and he came here as soon as he came out of the revival point. When he arrived, there were not many people in the room. Only a few people had arrived. Everyone had just gone online and was rushing here. There were not many people with Gu Fei's speed. Those who could arrive before him, except for those who were offline near here, were Fine Waist Dance.

Fine Waist Dance was still looking sad. When she saw Gu Fei coming, she spread out a hand to him, with four pitiful copper coins lying on it: "Look, there are only so few left."

"Yeah!" Gu Fei nodded, reached into his pocket, and threw a gold coin into her hand: "I'll add a gold one for you."

"I'm going to fight you!!!" Fine Waist Dance pulled out a knife to pounce on him, Gu Fei quickly took out a ten-thousand-gold bag and threw it into her hand: "Take this to hold on for now."

"That's more like it." Fine Waist Dance accepted it without being polite. The eyes of July and the others next to them kept popping out: He really dared to give it, and she really dared to accept it.

Fine Waist Dance had another ten thousand gold coins, and the smile returned to her face. She put the ten-thousand-gold bag into her pocket, and the few copper coins in her hand were annoying to hold, so she threw them away directly.

"..." Gu Fei was speechless. The rich are the rich after all. No matter how you toss the game, it will not hurt their muscles and bones at all. Fine Waist Dance was now down on her luck, mainly because she had money but nowhere to buy gold coins. When the market becomes regular again, she will still be the top RMB warrior.

The few small coins that were randomly thrown away by Fine Waist Dance were silently picked up by July and put back into her hand, and then she looked at Gu Fei and said, "Let's talk about the city war! Our guild is very weak. We definitely can't kill enemies and grab points. We can only rely on the task path. What do you think, Thousand Miles?"

"Why ask me? You can decide as you like!" Gu Fei didn't care at all.

"But there are so many guilds. Even if we grab tasks, we don't have any advantages. It seems that we can only accompany the prince and study and just play around." July said.

"Yeah!" Gu Fei nodded, he quite agreed with this view. This time, the situation was completely different from the guild competition. At that time, it was a one-on-one elimination. An accident could determine a victory or defeat, so Rebirth Purple Crystal still had the opportunity to be a dark horse. And this time, all the guilds are competing together from the same starting line under the same rules, and the opportunity for speculation is too reduced.

"Can points be bought?" Fine Waist Dance asked. She can't buy gold coins now, but she still doesn't change her habits.

"I don't think so, how could this be bought?" July said.

"Then can we hire a mercenary group?" Gu Fei asked.

"This... there is no explanation! You want to..." July thought that Gu Fei wanted to bring their Young Master Elite Team to help, but suddenly she remembered that except for Sword Demon and Brother Righteous, the people in that elite team all have guilds. So, she stopped halfway through her words.

"A few friends don't have guilds. I don't know what they can do in this event!" Gu Fei actually thought of the seven from Jian Nan You. They were originally neither a guild nor a mercenary group. Later, they learned from the Young Master Elite Team and formed a mercenary group to play. As for the Young Master Elite Team, they all have guilds, and they are all attending their own guild meetings at this time. Young Master Han, Zhan Wu Shang, with that level ranking, even if they are not the core in the guild, they are qualified to be present when this kind of core meeting is held. Yu Tian Shen Ming originally had a conflict with the Guild of Wanderers because of Gu Fei, and he was just a nominal existence in the guild. But after the Guild of Wanderers task, the Young Master Elite Team helped a lot at a critical moment, and this conflict no longer existed. Yu Tian Shen Ming was indeed a top player, so he was summoned again at this time.

And Sword Demon and Brother Righteous, who didn't have a guild, continued to practice as if nothing had happened. Brother Righteous also went with Sword Demon. There have been many opinions about the drop rate of the previous small monsters recently. As soon as the game opened, Brother Righteous couldn't wait to study it.

"The mercenary group system is not mentioned at all. It just says that the guild is participating. It seems that the mercenary group has nothing to do." July said.

"The system didn't say it, but it doesn't prevent the mercenary group from participating, right? At most, the people they kill won't count, but for example, when doing some tasks, it might still be useful." Gu Fei said.

"Even if it is... in the current situation, the mercenary group... how is this price calculated?" July said.

The economy is currently in a completely ambiguous state, and everyone has no idea how much value a gold coin has.

Just then, Young Master Han suddenly sent a message in the mercenary channel: "Yo, this update is not bad!!"

"What?" The others asked quickly. Young Master Han spoke, did this guy find any loopholes? Everyone was excited.

"The price of wine has dropped." Young Master Han said.

"Oh? How much did it drop?" Brother Righteous asked keenly.

"Ten times." Young Master Han said.

"Ten times... is this the system's current positioning of the current currency value?" Brother Righteous muttered.

"Just wine. But for me, it means that the money in my hand has increased tenfold. This update is really good." Young Master Han said.

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