Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
However, it somehow seemed as if it could not be completely explained. After all, the growth of his physical strength and speed had begun three years ago, back when War hadn’t been released yet. Moreover, he had searched over the forum, sorting through the tens of billions of posts on the personal blogs, but he had not found anyone who had encountered a similar situation before.
Mostly, people sighed because, due to their fast reaction times in the game, they mistakenly believed that they had also become stronger in reality and frequently did some unlucky and foolish things. Alternatively, some experts objected to this kind of stimulating brain behavior and asked the federal government and the game companies to apologize to the citizens and stop operating War.
Of course, as a state-owned enterprise, Star Gaming had no response to these requirements. Even most of the players spontaneously reprimanded such grandstanding. However, the popularity of the game company’s official forum was greater today than ever before. This was because of a message that was pinned at the top with a few big words: “The first version of War has been updated”!
Just half an hour after Feng Luo went idle, the Lu Conglomerate completed the cleanup mission. A message from the system met the ears of all players of War.
“Because there are players who have reached level 50, the system will start its first version update. All players are required to go offline within three hours. This update will last for 24 hours.”
As for the updated content, there were only five simple paragraphs revealed in the official forum.
Firstly, an adjustment on the leveling system: The level of experience required for players was reduced for those from Level 40 to 50, thus reducing the difficulty for players to upgrade from Level 49 to 50.
Secondly, a PK system adjustment: The red and yellow ID name display was removed and changed to the field of view display, but there was a need to scan the terminal of the other party. At the same time, the PK value was converted to “Illegal Points” and “Criminal Points”!
Thirdly, the pet system was opened. In the game, by completing some specialized tasks or killing some specialized monsters, different levels of pet chips could be obtained. (Note: The difficulty of the chip task was high. Thus, it was not recommended for players below Level 45 to collect them.)
Fourthly, the faction system was partially opened. In the new version, players could acquire new faction identities under certain circumstances. After the conversion of factions, the original faction’s merit points could not be obtained. (Note: Under usual circumstances, players could only have one faction identity.)
Fifthly, players were invited to experience other updates in the game.
“875 standard force!”
While Feng Luo was testing his strength in the enclosed sports cabin, there were also a man and a woman doing similar things in a large sports cabin next to him. Witnessing the figure being heavily punched out, the sturdier man, who wore a loose black training suit, frowned slightly.
“This condition is not too good. When I was in the army, sometimes I could reach more than 900.”
The other woman wore a white evening gown and appeared to be about 30 years old. Her face looked mature, and her standing posture vaguely indicated a military demeanor. “It’s already not bad,” she said. “Without using the banned drugs, it could reach the value of about 900. Perhaps only the talented people from your unit can reach it!”
If Feng Luo had been here, he would have been able to recognize at a glance that this woman was the player from Lu Conglomerate’s headquarters and was the one who had been with young master Lin before. Apparently, she was also one of Lu Chen’s assistants.
If Feng Luo knew the ID of the man who was testing out his punching power, he would have also known that this man was the sniper who had remained in first place on the task board before Feng Luo had exerted his power. But, at the last moment, he had increased his ranking from tenth place with a final blow against a Level-40 Boss. It was a pity that even for tenth place, he could only be ranked second among the snipers.
Feng Luo’s final score far surpassed his and even went further beyond the second-ranked Level-48 Gunner, but the system did not count the specific values, so no one knew.
Judging by the words of the mature female assistant, this man must have come from an extraordinary unit.
“Actually, although the banned drugs were not used, we injected some drugs,” he said. “It’s just that throughout the long-term experiments in the military, it had been proved that there were no side effects of reasonable biology and genetic agents. Otherwise, it was almost impossible to get up to more than 600 in strength with pure physical training alone!”
The man took two steps back and rushed forward to unleash a punch. He saw that there was still no figure of 900 on the suspended screen. His brow slightly creased again before he spoke.
“To be able to achieve more than 900 without any side effects is as expected for the federal army!” There was slight admiration in the mature female assistant’s tone. “I vaguely recall that although there were some large biologic companies launching a civilian version of the physique strengthening agent, the best effect was that it could only be raised to 700 and above in standard force.”
“That’s just on the surface. In reality, there must be some truly secret technology in these companies, especially those bio-companies that are the top 500 of the Federation. Their research capabilities are not even inferior to that of the military. Take those banned drugs, for instance. Many of them were actually distributed by these biological companies.” The man did not continue to punch but instead shook his head before continuing. “However, our unit cannot actually be considered as the peak of the federal military’s biotechnology. In fact, we once encountered a person whose physical quality was much stronger than ours!”
A bit of fear could be seen in the man’s eyes. It seemed as if he had thought of some bad memories.
“It was a woman I met when I last performed the task three months ago. Although her specific identity could not be identified, it was certain that she was a member of the federal army. That time, both sides were on the same task, but a conflict occurred midway due to some language problems. As a result, she defeated our team, which consisted of ten people, with her bare hands.”
The mature female assistant could not hold back the expression of surprise on her face. “A woman? Defeated ten of you with her bare hands?” She knew what unit the other party was from and therefore understood what it meant to defeat ten people single-handedly. Moreover, it had been done a woman? “This… how can this be?”
“Let’s see. How do I explain this? Using the game as an example, I felt like I was a Level-20 free-skilled player, while she was a Level-40 full-skilled player. Her strength, speed, and responsiveness were all above ours. Even some of her movements went against the scope of our understanding!”
The man’s face appeared rather conflicted at this time and carried some unwillingness.
“There is still such a solo soldier in the Federation. Could it be the rumored super warrior plan?” the mature female assistant guessed. “This kind of person could perhaps be more horrible than the top Black Boxer taking the latest banned drugs!”
“Super warrior? Maybe.” The man’s face returned to its calm state before he once again landed a heavy punch on the simulated human body. This time, the value finally jumped to 912 units of standard impact force.
“However, the woman was said to be rather strong instead of horrible. One ought to know that in the game, level and skill are placed second in terms of priority. The most important thing is still equipment.”
His tone still carried some coldness. After all, his faction—his original responsibility—had been actually savagely defeated by a woman.
“If it weren’t for the fact that she wore a special identity chip and jammer—causing all of our hot weapons to lock up—regardless of her strength and physical quality, it would still have been impossible for her to withstand a sniper’s laser.
“Also, from the present perspective, despite another few hundred years of biological and genetic technologies development, it would still be impossible to compete with mechanical, high-tech weapons. Unless there is some kind of great breakthrough which would allow humans to have supernaturally strong power.”
“But is this possible? It has been researched for hundreds of years, yet there is no breakthrough. Obviously, it is just an illusion!”
The mature female assistant nodded in agreement. “However, if your one punch has more than 870 standard force, it is estimated that this should be the new record for Nightless City! After all, at a sports club for ordinary people like this, it would generally not keep the data of those who had taken banned drugs.”
The mature female assistant smiled, turned to the virtual screen, and said, “Check the heavy punch record!”
“Checking…”
“1,000!”
When they saw the exact value of 1,000 on the top, both of them were silent for a while.
“It seems that this person from Nightless City hasn’t been doing things according to the rules!”
A disdainful smirk appeared on the mature female assistant’s face. Then she touched the communicator which was about the size of a needle on her earrings.