Chapter 1 This Lot, Can't They Cause Us Less Trouble?

"Can't this lot cause us less trouble?" All the staff at Parallel World Company were crying, especially the tech department. Just after resolving the tech issues caused by the Cloud City dungeon being overcrowded, this group of Very Heaven players had once again created even greater technical problems. The Parallel World staff deeply felt how difficult it was to earn a living.

"Notify everyone, get up and come in for overtime!!" That night, the phones of all the game company employees were ringing off the hook. The name Very Heaven was like thunder in their ears, making every staff member aware of their awesomeness. Countless people were awakened from their sleep, facing their innocent children's questions of "Daddy, where are you going so late?" and groggily answering, "Very Heaven!"

"What exactly are they going to do?" Lower-level staff members discussed animatedly. At this time, players online in the game were already surging towards Cloud City and Moon Night City, while the higher-ups were still in a meeting discussing how to deal with the matter. Tragically, the hot news on the forums was at the busiest time of the day online, so the news spread very widely. Players who knew about this news didn't log off that night, setting off under the stars to start their journey.

The decision-making team came up with a plan very quickly. First, they firmly denied dealing with the Very Heaven players again, or negotiating with them to resolve the situation. If the game company always compromised with players like this, and not even the majority, just such a tiny, tiny minority, what face would they have left?

"This time, we must use technology to solve this problem." The big boss laid down the general principle.

"Solving it with technology, combined with reality, isn't actually too difficult." At this time, an advisor began to offer suggestions, controlling the projector. A huge map appeared on the screen, which those present of course knew was the entire map of the Parallel World game.

"Everyone, please see, Cloud City and Moon Night City are located in the southwest corner of the entire Parallel World. Given the distance between our two cities, almost 85 percent of the main city players will not be able to reach Cloud City and Moon Night City on foot in just one night. And for these 85 percent of main city players, the only way to get there is through teleport scrolls. I think we should first control teleport scrolls technically. This way, we'll control most of the crowd," the advisor analyzed.

"Lock all teleport scrolls?" someone asked.

"Perhaps we can do it more subtly, for example, temporarily locking mail delivery," the advisor said.

"Mail delivery?"

The advisor confidently gestured on the map and said, "Players from other main cities want to teleport to the fixed Cloud City and Moon Night City. The scrolls they have must have the coordinates of these two cities. Think about it, if these players from other cities want to have the coordinates of these two cities, they must at least send their scrolls to friends to make the coordinates, or buy coordinate scrolls from merchants or studios in Cloud City and Moon Night City over a long distance. So, locking the mail is equivalent to controlling their movements to Cloud City and Moon Night City."

"That's right!" Those who didn't understand suddenly realized.

"Let's do it this way, lock the mail immediately, and make up a reason at random. Do it now." The boss immediately made a decision. From watching the excitement on the forum, to the news breaking, to discovering that players weren't logging off and were starting to flow toward these two cities, to gathering people to quickly discuss a solution, a lot of time had already passed. The data feedback from the monitoring team showed that the number of people in Cloud City and Moon Night City was already soaring. Obviously, the main cities that were too far away couldn't possibly walk to Cloud City and Moon Night City. Players also knew this simple truth, so these players from faraway places immediately thought of using teleport scrolls. Those who already had them were basically on their way, and those who didn't were looking for ways to buy them. The most depressed were those who didn't have money, who were now asking their friends to pool money. One scroll could teleport four people, so a quarter each made the burden much lighter.

"No matter what, the player peak in Cloud City and Moon Night City is unavoidable. I think these two main cities must quickly load server shunts to distribute the load," the advisor suggested.

"Are there backup servers?" the boss asked.

"Yes, yes," someone answered.

"How much time will it take?" the boss asked.

"If all goes well, half an hour! But the connection will definitely have to be cut off for this half hour," the person in charge of this area replied.

"I think..." someone else spoke, "As the number of people increases, the server can't handle it, and there will be lag, players will feel it. At this time, we take the opportunity to cut off the connection, and announce it with a real reason. It will be solved in half an hour, and players will definitely understand."

"Good." The boss nodded.

"Then how many servers should be loaded for each city?"

"How many backup servers are there?" the boss asked.

"Twenty," was the answer.

"Why so few?" the boss frowned.

"These are all for dealing with temporary faults. I didn't expect to have to deal with such a sudden situation. These things are updated relatively quickly, so we intentionally controlled the number from the beginning. You signed off on it," the subordinate reminded.

"Twenty is enough. The number of players in each main city is still far from the server's full load. If it weren't for this lot causing such a stir around the world, just between two or three main cities, we wouldn't have to bother at all."

"Just in case, use all ten servers for each city!" the boss said.

"Understood."

"Any other questions?" the boss asked.

"What should our position be on this dispute?" someone asked the boss for instructions.

"Continue to provide services, and don't get involved unless the topic points to us," the boss seemed to have already thought it through.

Parallel World Game Company was very efficient. While the higher-ups were holding a meeting, they were arranging and deploying decisions to those below. By the time the meeting ended, the mail lock had been completed. The announcement on the official website didn't mention anything about this incident, only saying that the data was a bit abnormal, suspected of being a Trojan horse attack, so the mail service was suspended. Items, letters, and money being mailed would be completely retained, and players should rest assured, and so on.

At first, this announcement didn't become the focus of players' attention at all, until a large number of players dealing in teleport scrolls discovered when they got to the transaction stage that there was nothing in their mailboxes, just a system email. They went to the official website and saw the announcement, which was the same as the content of the in-game mail.

Everyone was in an uproar. Although the official didn't explicitly state it, it was undoubtedly at this time that the mailbox suddenly malfunctioned and was being monitored. All these players who finally had the opportunity to go to Cloud City and Moon Night City were furious. Instantly, there was a new target of attack on the forums. The boss had said, "Don't get involved unless the topic points to us," but as soon as the mail was locked, they were immediately attacked...

No one in the game company had expected that the busiest department that night would ultimately be the customer service department. The phone was ringing non-stop, emails were being received non-stop, and complaint posts were being刷(shuā, constantly refreshing) on the forums.

"Is locking the mail a bit of a problem..." Some people were already feeling guilty. The advisor who came up with the idea was even sweating. He had underestimated the players' awareness. Even if the players didn't realize the purpose of this move, the mere fact that it blocked their road to wealth would make them come and trample on you, regardless of what your real purpose was. The customer service manager was glaring at him, and it was said that four of the customer service ladies had been scolded to tears by the players.

"They're crazy, they're all crazy..." someone said blankly.

At this time, the first batch of players who had migrated on foot had arrived at their destination. From the map, it could be seen that Cloud City was closer to the corner than Moon Night City. For the world continent, Moon Night City was a closer choice. Even many main cities would use Moon Night City as a transfer station to go to Cloud City. At this time, Moon Night City focused more players than Cloud City. Some people had even arrived and weren't planning to continue forward.

Moon Night City's urban area, outside the city, was full of people! The network lag that had disappeared from online games for many years finally appeared, and players had a brand new experience in full immersion mode. Every player mastered teleportation. The scene in their sight was always in a loop. The words they had just said, they actually heard again a second later. Where did the sound come from? I don't know...

In a panic, the system announcement appeared without any delay: The server is overloaded and will stop working soon. Please pay attention to the official homepage.

Ten seconds later, Moon Night City players were collectively disconnected from the network. Everyone rushed to the homepage and saw the announcement that the game company had prepared early on. This announcement didn't cause too much noise. The real reason was something the players could indeed understand. More importantly, the game company promised to solve it within half an hour, which put the players at ease while they waited. The facts proved that Parallel World's game company was relatively honest in its operations.

The more unhappy ones were the native players of Moon Night City. Because as far as they knew, Very Heaven was clearly a guild from Cloud City, and this situation was caused by them, but why was it their Moon Night City that was disconnected? What was this all about?

The temporary server shutdown didn't cause a big uproar, but the email problem still remained to be solved. More than an hour had passed since the announcement went out, and players were still coming to complain and骂 (mà, curse) with great energy. Three more girls from the customer service department ran to the bathroom crying.

"Add another announcement: The mailbox monitoring is also for the sake of the players. Otherwise, if the data is damaged by an attack, the players' interests will also be damaged. Therefore, the mailbox is locked." The boss instructed, and the secretary quickly recorded it. Of course, what the boss said was just the general idea. The official announcement had to be polished, saying polite things like "Please understand," "Having no mailbox does not affect the normal operation of the game, I wish you all a happy game," and so on.

This announcement made the players a little quieter. Many players who had calmed down began to ask how long it would take to resolve, hoping for a clear answer.

So the official replied that because it was an external attack, the time could not be estimated, please pay attention to the latest announcement...

Everything was just as the saying goes: To tell one lie, you need countless lies to cover it up. The game company found an excuse to lock the mailbox, and now they have to continue to lie to patch it up. More importantly, with so many players' aggressive momentum, this mailbox lock can't be sustained. They have to find another way, and the higher-ups are sitting together nervously again.

In the player group that was denouncing the mailbox incident, there was no lack of Eternal Comrade's figure. He was gathering thugs and relying on the mailbox to contact them. He was preparing to deal with a stack of emails at once after they accumulated, but he never expected to receive a system email when he went. He was so angry that he burst into flames.

Then he realized that with the mailbox locked, they had no way to go to Cloud City and Moon Night City either. They didn't have teleport scrolls with the coordinates of the two cities either! The studio had them, but with the mail blocked, they couldn't send them over.

Of course, Ying Qi also knew about the news that Very Heaven was going to throw their equipment. Peerless Hero was half dead with anger. He didn't expect this lot to be so calm. So much equipment and scrolls, weren't they even a little tempted? Perhaps they had kept a little for themselves privately, but they could be so cruel as to abandon most of it. This was undoubtedly a very clever move. This move easily silenced the crowd of players. Now, no one cares who is right and who is wrong in this battle between Very Heaven and Ying Qi.

What's worse is that Ying Qi absolutely can't copy this move. Although they have more materials in their hands, what Very Heaven is throwing is originally Ying Qi's goods. It's them who feel the pain. Now they're going to take it out and throw it along with them, continuing to feel the pain? What's more, what's the point of throwing it if I throw it too? Can throwing it like this throw Very Heaven's people to death? Ying Qi's throwing not only has no reason, but more importantly, it proves nothing other than that he is a brainiac.

"Shameless! This is too shameless!!" Peerless Hero gritted his teeth and sent a message to Eternal: "Immediately go to Cloud City for me, and kill the Very Heaven guys if you meet them, kill them to death!!!"

"Can't go," Eternal replied sadly.

"Why!!"

"The mailbox is locked now, can't get the teleport scrolls," Eternal said.

"I..." Peerless Hero couldn't even utter swear words. He felt that he was really unlucky. Why did so many bad things that were unfavorable to him all have to happen at once?

"How's the matter of getting some people here going?" Peerless Hero asked.

"The mailbox is locked!"

"Does this matter require a mailbox? Can't you change your contact method? Leave your ID on the announcement, open your friends! If that doesn't work, leave your phone number, leave your QQ, leave your email address!!! Can't you do these?" Peerless Hero roared. In fact, since he hired the Eagle Regiment as a private guard, he had never spoken to these players so rudely. This time he was angry, really angry.

Eternal knew better and faintly replied, "I'll go do it" and disappeared.

"Damn it... Why is it like this..." Peerless Hero increasingly felt that the development of things was too far from what he had envisioned. He didn't know if he could turn the tide in this city.

At this time, Cloud City, due to Moon Night City becoming their cover, seemed very calm, except that there were obviously more players on the streets and in the wild.

These players all arrived in Cloud City by teleportation before the mailbox was locked. Their number was not enough to cause network congestion in Cloud City, but the increase in traffic was obvious. Unlike city battles where players are gathered in the same place, these increased players are also free to move around like normal people, making Cloud City seem very vibrant.

Very Heaven was also very busy at this time. Countless players were trying to find ways to contact them, and then find out the inside story of tomorrow's equipment throwing. Especially those who had come from thousands of miles away, it would be too embarrassing to return empty-handed. They had to get something! Especially the friends of those Very Heaven players from other places, who felt that they had taken the lead at this time.

But unfortunately, the participants in this action on the Very Heaven side were only their core members. Other than that, they were all members of Yun Zhong Mu’s brothers. Although other people knew about these things, they were no different from other players. At this time, they were even thinking about getting up early tomorrow to pick up equipment.

As a member of their own guild, they actually received such treatment, which was really unbearable. However, Very Heaven had already digested this problem very well internally. Sword Demon went to Yun Xiang yesterday and handled this problem properly. Otherwise, the whole plan would not even explain anything to the guild members, which would really make people sad. After fully learning the ins and outs, Very Heaven's players no longer had any objections and continued to do what they were supposed to do. However, it was troublesome for friends to come and join in at this time. If they said they didn't know, people simply wouldn't believe them. In the end, everyone was a little embarrassed. But everyone was mentally prepared for this situation. Anyway, they had a clear conscience.

"It's much more lively..." Han Jia Gong Zi was standing at the door of the tavern, feeling very depressed. He wasn't afraid of the liveliness, what bothered him was that there were no empty seats in the tavern because there were too many people. This was already the seventh tavern he had walked into, and it was still crowded. From this point, Han Jia Gong Zi regretted making such a plan.

"This is good. Moon Night City has already suspended connections because there are too many people," You Ge said.

"It seems everyone is very concerned about our action," Han Jia Gong Zi said.

"But I'm afraid the things we have can't satisfy so many people, right?" You Ge said.

"Of course, compared to so many players, this little material is too small," Han Jia Gong Zi said.

"About how much are those things? Did Yun Teng say?"

"About one-fifteenth of Ying Qi Studio's materials," Han Jia Gong Zi said.

"That's a lot!" You Ge's eyes widened. At that time, they couldn't even move half of that warehouse. He didn't expect there to be one-fifteenth. It seemed that Peerless Hero's statement about the materials in Xi Xiaotian's interview was very exaggerated.

"Hey, where are you going?" After You Ge finished this emotion, he found that Han Jia Gong Zi next to him was gone. When he looked back, he saw that this guy had left without saying a word.

"Seeing everyone so enthusiastic, I'm also moved. I've decided to go offline and rest now, and come early tomorrow to deliver goods to everyone." Han Jia Gong Zi waved his hand without looking back.

"Is that so? Isn't it because there's no place to drink?" You Ge muttered.

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Throwing goods tomorrow, cough, holding monthly tickets has the opportunity to be hit by goods, quickly take the monthly tickets