Chapter 1368: Chapter 1230 Chaos in Both Virtual and Reality Chapter 1368: Chapter 1230 Chaos in Both Virtual and Reality Carl and his allies chose this time to organize the protest not without aim.
Today is the day that the hibernation auction, which was leaked, is to take place.
They intentionally selected today to exert maximum pressure!
It wasn’t just Carl, Europe, America, and Oceania were also witnessing large-scale rallies, with many organizers not even bothering with the process of declaring and reviewing, preferring to violate the rules rather than forfeit the protest.
As for this, the wealthy elite attending the auction couldn’t care less.
After all, it was the government’s problem, not theirs.
As long as they didn’t foolishly step out seeking abuse, who would know they attended the auction?
So they sat back comfortably, waiting for the auction to begin, giving no thought to the matter at hand.
But now, they had to care.
It wasn’t because of the protests, but because no one expected that Lincoln would play such a move—he actually sent an invitation letter to all the [Honorary Players] for the auction!
This was somewhat against the rules.
They were not worried that these Honorary Players would compete with them in bidding.
As for playing games, maybe one of them could beat dozens of them, but when it came to fortune, the Honorary Players together might not even be able to compete; they posed no threat in the bidding.
So what these Honorary Players could really do was to come to the scene, watch the excitement, and see the world.
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But their ability to create online public opinion was not to be underestimated!
Attending the auction with them, their names and identity information might well be published on the Internet before the auction even ended.
Unfortunately, most of them preferred to stay out of the limelight.
Looking for Lincoln, he couldn’t be found.
Looking for Erman, Erman was powerless: “I can’t stop the Boss from doing what he wants.”
However, Erman also reassured them: “The entire auction is strictly no photography or recording.
No visual information will be leaked, please, rest assured.
If you’re very concerned, you can also choose not to attend this auction.
I guarantee, this won’t affect our future cooperation.”
Clearly, such terms couldn’t satisfy the group of rich and noble ones.
But displeased as they were, there was nothing they could do.
Erman was polite in his demeanor, but his words were not so courteous:
“Come or don’t—your choice!”
“If you don’t come, there are plenty who will!”
In the end, they had to bite the bullet and attend.
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The concerns of these magnates were valid.
Apart from a few players who were nearing the climax of the plot and were determined, the majority of Honorary Players were excited to join in the fun after receiving the invitation letter.
After learning about the auction, Shuihua, who had no need for it, decided to go to the event for excitement.
For some reason, as Lance read the message from Shuihua, he couldn’t help but feel a twitch in his eyelid…
But the major battle was about to begin, and his online time was running short.
If he didn’t hurry up, the Anti-addiction System would kick him offline.
So he had to put aside his thoughts and continue to focus on advancing the plot.
Workers who went to bed last night woke up to find themselves surrounded by big news.
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No matter whether in the virtual world or the real world, chaos was everywhere.
On one side, “Cyber Chang’an: 2077” had its three main storylines peaking simultaneously; anchors with bloodshot eyes were leading teams in fierce combat, amid gunfire, blazing flames, explosions, lasers, and roars…
It was a passionate spectacle.
On the other side, the streets of Western countries were crowded with people and banners fluttering everywhere, hundreds and thousands of people shouting protest slogans in unison.
Under the topic of [Hibernation Auction], there were ongoing live text broadcasts by Honorary Players for netizens around the globe, continually revealing name after name and one astonishing price after another.
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Because there was a relatively large volume of auction items – with hundreds of participants and a hundred slots available – the quantity was not insignificant, making it difficult for the prices to really skyrocket.
Had these slots not been transferrable, where the winner could decide whom to give them, achieving high prices would have been even more challenging.
— Of course, all this was relative to the net worth of the attendees.
In the eyes of ordinary netizens, tens of millions was already an incredible figure, but bids on the auction reaching into the billions were quite intimidating!
Of course, to say that everyone completed the auction amiably, without any conflict, would be impossible.
There were rivals and “enemies” among the group too.
Jostling each other a bit, maliciously driving up the price and such were all par for the course.
The vendettas between these commercial tycoons also provided an eye-opening spectacle for the gossip-hungry netizens.
— Mainly Daxia netizens, as Western netizens, faced with auction prices soaring into the billions, suddenly felt the hibernation technology and their families even farther out of reach, so they had no mood to care about the gossip.
Raise the banners!
Shout the slogans!
Get the government moving!
And Daxia netizens felt that the world was too exciting; they simply couldn’t focus on their work and only wanted to enjoy the drama.
Players also felt so busy; they simply couldn’t keep up with everything.
Some had already escaped into the virtual world, lounging on the sofas of their virtual houses with seven or eight screens open in front of them, simultaneously following every development.
For the players, however, protests and auctions were, after all, none of their business.
They were mostly just there for the excitement—their primary concern was still the outcome of the game.
In Super Tomato’s live streaming screen, the combat had progressed to the headquarters of Spirit Wing Pharmaceuticals, fighting against an endless stream of monsters.
Spirit Wing Pharmaceuticals had achieved a new breakthrough in genetic technology with Genetic Reagents, and one after another, BOSS-level modified humans capable of transforming into fantastical creatures like dragons were emerging, posing a massive hindrance to the attacking teams.
Super Tomato nearly became numb from running for his life.
Even more outrageous was the fact that later on, these massive beastly-form modified humans were fully armed; ordinary weapons barely made a dent, and they were even firing with one hand, ridiculously powerful.
Super Tomato even suspected that if Spirit Wing Pharmaceuticals hadn’t been reluctant to destroy their own headquarters, these modified humans would have leveled the place long ago!
Meanwhile, Yi had started the [Great Power Outage] operation.
For the first time, the city that players perpetually saw bathed in neon lights darkened completely—nearly without time difference, all regions experienced a simultaneous power outage!
The assault teams that had been lying in wait instantly surrounded the deep web server bases and launched a total assault!
This was supposed to be the most challenging step.
Players had to thoroughly explore every hidden deep web server base throughout the city and ensure that their attacking force was stronger than the defense.
This required spending a lot of time completing side tasks and hidden tasks.
But Yi took initiative, created a post to gather information, and effortlessly found all the bases.
In the end, the problem that lay before him was how to distribute their combat forces correctly.
At this point in the story, it had, to some extent, become a strategy game.
Yi found himself having to load his save game over and over again, reallocating targets for the organizations and forces he was familiar with.
Sometimes, he even had to swap the “hero units”—more powerful NPCs—to other battlefields to better balance the combat forces.
Countless NPCs lived and died under Yi’s command, struggling desperately for a glimmer of victory!
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