This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 958 - 454: The Fear of Being Dominated_2
Chapter 958: Chapter 454: The Fear of Being Dominated_2
In other countries’ Black Hole Battlefields, war spoils are uniformly confiscated and distributed according to merit, but in the ocean far from human settlements, this is too difficult to achieve due to a lack of personnel to monitor such details.
Therefore, for the two black holes located in the deep sea, the rules for spoils were made very clear from the beginning: no need to wait for centralized distribution after the fact, whoever grabs them owns them.
This is also why many solo players are willing to travel great distances to the Pacific Ocean. Today, not only does this place have the highest density of monsters, but it also has the least regulation, making it the ideal battlefield for many to strike it rich.
After the Faith System was opened, both divine crystals and giant beast materials saw a significant increase in value; for a long time to come, these two items would remain scarce strategic resources. Especially divine crystals, which are needed to enhance faith and divine arts, now possessing one more crystal meant an immediate increase in strength.
It was under this continuous positive feedback loop that many players began to forget the dangers and became addicted to monster hunting, with different teams sometimes clashing over the ownership of a monster.
Details concerning Divine Beasts and Titans were gradually leaked to the public by Lin Xue the day after her announcement, causing some rumors to spread.
The narrative of doomsday inevitably caused some panic, but fortunately, the human elites had a response plan, and the continuous good news from the Black Hole front lines, showcasing the power humans gained after obtaining the Faith System, naturally suppressed this panic.
The confidence brought by divine arts, combined with frontline players flaunting their spoils on forums, finally made many people in safe zones restless.
A large number of people who were previously hiding in their inventory spaces gradually ventured out of safe areas, attempting to join the fray to compete for war spoils.
Of course, regional leaders welcomed this, but considering that Titans could arrive at any time, some precautionary measures were taken before these people joined the front lines: all players near black holes who might directly combat Titans must sign an agreement and wear a specially made positioning bracelet.
The precision of these bracelets could reach within 0.1 meters with virtually no lag, and there was also an accompanying AI algorithm system that could monitor each player’s bracelet position in real time.
If a Titan invades any black hole, anyone who gets within ten meters of a Titan or suspected hosts, their bracelet will instantly turn red and warn the wearer to withdraw from the battlefield and go to a safe area for isolation.
This method was intended to completely prevent the parasitic pathway of Divine Beasts.
At the same time, if the system detects that someone at risk of parasitism removes their bracelet or ignores the warnings, they would be automatically identified as being parasitized, and the missile groups and other modern firepower facilities arranged near each black hole would track and eliminate them immediately.
These large-scale technological weapons were not very effective against Titans, but they could easily harvest human lives.
However, even under such strict conditions, many were still unable to resist the temptation of divine crystals and chose to sign the agreement and voluntarily wear the bracelet to rush to the front lines to join in hunting the exotic beasts.
In this surge of enthusiastic participation, battlefronts near each black hole quickly turned into a situation of too many wolves and not enough meat, and complaints on the forums quickly increased.
"There are not enough monsters to go around..."
"Damn, please no more people come to the Pacific side, it’s already saturated..."
"Fucksake, this needs to stop, fighting for a monster is like fighting for food in a canteen..."
"Really, can’t more monsters just show up?"
"I’m just one crystal short of becoming a Zealot, can some kind soul let me have one..."
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The forum maintained a light-hearted atmosphere, with many even calling for the removal of the Silence Order and the storm clouds over each black hole to increase the number of monsters.
Some even more audacious posters were hoping for Titans to descend sooner, wanting to show the ’power of humanity’ to the Titans, while they were even more eager for the spoils that would follow after killing a Titan.
As soon as such comments appeared, they were immediately met with stern warnings led by official media from various countries, which gradually shifted the direction of public opinion, and similar comments were quickly suppressed.
This caused some of the higher-ups to gradually become worried: the emergence of the Faith System and the currently favorable situation seemed to have given many people a delusion about their own strength, fostering a sense of arrogance.
The higher-ups had no good solution to this, as many people had never seen a real Titan, nor felt the oppressive force they bring, and no amount of talking could make them understand.
In this relaxed atmosphere, humanity passed another two days safely.
Until the third day, when most people began to feel that the crisis would just pass, things suddenly changed!
Still in the Pacific Ocean’s Black Hole, at the edge of the screen showing the black hole, a new Titan quietly stepped out of the mist.