Chapter 39

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

[Announcement for the entire server: Player Sun Shuai attacked a human with malicious intentions, and has been judged as Yellow Named. NPC’s affinity cleared to 0, prestige cleared to 0. If another malicious attack is carried out, players will be Red Named and listed as fugitives. Remarks: After being Red Named, resurrection will be restricted]

“What the f*ck is that!”

Just as Sun Shuai finished speaking, a notification flashed through his eyes, causing him to almost jump at that moment.

“F*ck! Sun Shuai, you sure are good!”

“They don’t allow us to kill NPCs?”

“Is there such a restriction?”

“Yellow Named and Red Named are so friendly!”

At the same time, the other players also got the notification, causing each of them to yell out. Many of them looked at Sun Shuai and could see that a bundle of faint yellow light had appeared on top of his head.

“This is what a Yellow Named is?” Hua Yu, whose hands were vertical like a penguin but had a rope around his neck to carry the box, called out in surprise.

“What’s so special about the yellow light on top of the head? If it were green, it’d be even better looking,” Guan Xiong, who was holding the other end of the box, laughed out loud when he saw Sun Shuai’s appearance.

“We cannot kill NPCs… what kind of stupid rules is this?”

Liu Chuanfeng did not care about the light glowing around Sun Shuai’s head. He was just displeased about the restriction against killing NPCs as he yelled in frustration.

He had always done what he wanted when playing games. Previously, if he met with something depressing in his life, he would go to the internet cafe and play an open-world racing game. Inside the game, he would partake in endless killing to let off steam. Now, the game had gotten worse as there was actually a Yellow Named and Red Named restriction. This made him feel a little depressed.

“It didn’t say that we could not kill, I think it means we cannot attack with malicious intentions.” Xu Zhe frowned slightly after he saw the public notification reminder. He continued to say, “We should be in a situation where the background of the game is about ensuring survival during the end of the world, and that there are monsters everywhere. Previously, when we were in the camp, it was already stressed that we were not allowed to attack humans. This time, Sun Shuai has been punished.”

“I f*cking just lightly cut his leg. When did I make a malicious attack?”

Sun Shuai pointed at Gusa, who was lying on the floor, and called out in an aggrieved manner. He had just tainted his iron sword with a small amount of sharp beetle venom and had only cut Gusa’s calf, causing a numbing effect that stopped him from leaving. However, he did not think that the judgment would come so quickly, or that he would immediately be deemed to have carried out a malicious attack.

“The playability is reduced by a lot when we cannot kill NPCs! The openness is not enough!”

Some players looked at the NPC Gusa, who laid on the floor and seemed to have fainted because of his serious injury coupled with being poisoned. Thus, they opened their mouths to exclaim.

“This openness is still not enough? It didn’t say you could not do such a thing, but maliciousness would surely be followed by punishment.” Xu Zhe held on to a big bag, shook his head and opened his mouth to state his understanding, “This game did not restrict the type of person that you could attack. However, if you carried out an attack, you have to be ready for the subsequent punishment. Anyways, just stand firm, do not fire the first shoot and we’ll be fine.”

“That’s true.” Liu Chuanfeng sighed. After all, online games are not 100% straightforward, most of them had many layers of systems. Even the 2D game named something like the Dragon Slayer Sword that he finished during his primary school days forbade the player from entering the city after killing someone.

While he said this, he looked at Sun Shuai, “What are you going to do next with this NPC?”

“How would I know?” Sun Shuai replied in displeasure, “Prestige and affinity have been returned to zero, I’ve returned to square one.”

He had already carried out a few missions and accumulated some prestige and affinity, so he felt that he was finally about to reap some rewards from this mission. Instead, he got Yellow Named, and it seemed that he had to start from the beginning.

“This person has suffered a very severe injury. We need to bring him back for treatment.”

Just as a few of the players were discussing, Phoenix, who walked out of the warehouse last, walked over and looked at Gusa, who was laying on the floor. Then, she pointed at Sun Shuai, who was empty-handed. “You’re in charge.”

…

At the same time, in the survivors’ camp, Meng Yang slowly opened his eyes and disconnected from the view of the eight players that he was observing via the pixies.

“I hope that this Red Named, Yellow Named thing can act as some sort of preventative measure toward the players.”

He gently exhaled. Meng Yang was a little glad that the player who had done wrong just now was Sun Shuai. If it were Liu Chuanfeng, he would be in a much more difficult position, as his current measures probably would not be enough.

Although, if compared to the people living in this world, his bias would surely be more toward the players, at the end of the day, the people in this world were still living humans, and not just some digital data.

Just now, when Sun Shuai struck Gusa, he had already wanted to forcefully eject him and make him go offline. He only gave up on this idea later on when he saw that Sun Shuai had only carried out a light attack, and had the main goal of capturing the man. He only gave out the punishment notification after Sun Shuai did this.

Previously, he had already wanted to restrict the players on things as such. Every time he saw Liu Chuanfeng’s eager to try his luck, he always felt helpless. Although Liu Chuanfeng might be kicked out of the game the moment he did something wrong, it did nothing to settle his nerves.

Having said that, since the day he first arrived in the Other World, he had been facing all sorts of crises. Time was pressing and there was no time for him to think about such things in detail.

However, Meng Yang also knew if he wanted the players to do more for this world, then this problem had to be solved sometime soon. As for the players, the biggest question in Meng Yang’s mind was if they would have some conflict with the people of this world.

From what he currently knew, there were not many survivors in the City of Despair, but people with itchy hands could be found everywhere. If this happened a few more times, it would cause serious conflict.

After all, players thought of the game as an experience. Without the restriction of laws and morals, most of the time, they had nothing to be worried about. If things continued as such, the people in this world might be killed off by the players before the monsters outside are even dealt with.

“Next time there’s an active attack, I have to at least limit his logins; if there’s a kill, the account has to be banned.”

Meng Yang could only think of this method. Its actual usage and subsequent results still needed to be observed in the future.

A game that was developed by hundreds and thousands of people would also have all sorts of bugs that are picked out by smart players. He felt that he could only depend on the actual situation in the future to decide how to patch and constantly update the game. 

“But…”

Meng Yang threw the issue about the Red Named, Yellow Named aside. There was a new doubt rising in his heart. As he observed the few players just now, he also noticed the two people who had appeared near the warehouse.

“Who are they? They seem to be giving their all for the magic crystals.”

That middle-aged man was willing to stay behind in order to get the magic crystal out and let the other young man escape. It seemed that they treasured the magic crystals.

The magic crystal’s usage for Meng Yang at that moment was merely to summon magic circles. The people in this camp could not further develop its other functions. Even Phoenix herself only occasionally used it to sharpen her arrowheads.

However, he had also seen the magic crystal that Phoenix activated; The energy stored in it was far beyond his imagination. When he recalled the buildings that could be said to be quite magnificent in the City of Despair, and the fact that they had now started hearing about some Extraordinary System, Meng Yang felt that this Other World was starting to show him more and more of its mysterious side.

“The magic potions are ready!”

As Meng Yang was thinking about this, Hera, who had previously gone off to make magic potions, walked up to him.”