Chapter 1371: Chapter 1233: Patricide?
Chapter 1371: Chapter 1233: Patricide?
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The activation of the World Mission was not solely aimed at players who completed “Cyber Chang’an: 2077”.
It wasn’t even just for those who had purchased “Cyber Chang’an: 2077”.
All players who crossed the boundary of this cyber city received a prompt for the World Mission [Return to the Stars].
——Just as Lance completed the game, players in Night City felt a subtle yet persistent tremor.
Those at higher positions with a broader view could clearly see:
Outside of Night City, a super enormous futuristic city of a scale even grander than Night City suddenly emerged, like a massive icebreaker, crushing the Earth with roaring sounds as it slowly approached Night City.
At a more distant location, the vertical world of ruins from “The Way Back Home” was also dragged closer.
This majestic and grandiose scene left billions of users worldwide speechless with shock!
By comparison, the fact that Cyber Chang’an was integrated into the Public World ten days ahead of schedule was less surprising.
Many didn’t wait for the trembling to stop before driving towards the giant city.
And the moment they crossed the border, the task prompt for [Return to the Stars] popped up in front of them.
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Their first reaction was excitement:
A major update to the virtual world!
A major update that required downtime maintenance, obviously the content would be super extensive!
But then, they were shocked by the terrifying progress requirement of 10 billion.
Afterward, as they entered the city, the guidance of the mission became more specific, and they hurried towards the Sky Element Technology Building in the city center, without stopping to sightsee.
By the time they arrived, the place was already overcrowded.
This was not surprising, as the Public World was always bustling, and if there were any events, it was normal for the streets to be packed to the point of being impassable.
Meanwhile, the tremors of the city gradually came to a halt, and the cyber city was officially integrated into the Public World.
Outside the Sky Element Technology Building, a giant holographic display lit up, revealing the variety of [Return to the Stars] sub-tasks one after another, marked with [White], [Blue], [Purple], and [Gold] colored backgrounds based on their difficulty and rewards.
The white tasks were available to everyone, but completed ones only added 1 point to the progress.
Blue tasks added 2 points each time, but required a history of completing 5 white tasks.
Purple tasks added 10 points each time, needing a history of 10 completed blue tasks.
The final gold tasks were special: completing one granted 100 points of progress, but one needed to have completed 20 purple tasks and also meet the Combat Power requirements.
Players who had completed the main storyline of “Cyber Chang’an: 2077” could start with blue tasks and had their requirements for purple and gold tasks reduced by half.
However, the number of gold tasks was limited, so it was uncertain if one could secure one.
As for the rewards of the task, the Development Team used their tried-and-tested tactic—limited edition commemorative medals, titles, and decorative effects.
The more tasks one completed and the more progress contributed, the higher the level of medals, titles, and effects.
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The top 50 players with the highest contribution to progress, as long as they had no serious misconduct, would all be selected as [Honorary Players]!
Of course, these were special rewards in addition to the regular ones.
The currency, items, weapons, and equipment that could be used in this city, as regular rewards, directly followed the task system of “Cyber Chang’an: 2077”, which saved the Development Team an immense amount of work.
The players didn’t just stand by and watch; many immediately picked up on the system and started on the tasks.
The white and blue tasks weren’t too difficult, and many were repeatable tasks like [Material Collection], [Material Recovery], [Material Escort], and [Material Transport].
——The wreckage of the Space Elevator was on the edge of the giant city, which was now to be rebuilt; overcoming the technical challenges was indeed the most important and arduous task, but it was not the one with the most numerous tasks.
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The most numerous tasks were still in civil engineering.
Lincoln even mischievously thought about stuffing the task library with a bunch of brick moving and mortar mixing tasks on construction sites.
When Randall and Fred heard this outrageous idea, their faces changed on the spot, and they earnestly beseeched Lincoln with all their might—
“That’s absolutely infeasible, Boss!!”
“This doesn’t fit the world view at all!
It’s the cyber future, such labor should be done by robots, and players should at most be supervisors!”
Lincoln reluctantly gave up on the idea.
But he didn’t give up completely.
He still retained a dozen or so tasks and mixed them into the random task library.
Since their number was greatly reduced, the chance of them being randomly selected was significantly lowered, and since players could choose their tasks each time, it wasn’t impossible to avoid doing them, turning these tasks into a sort of backdrop in a way.
But if players still personally completed 10 brick moving and mortar mixing tasks under these circumstances, they would complete a hidden achievement and receive a title that bore the same name as the achievement—
[Chosen Mortar Mixer]!
However, all this was a matter for later.
Right now, everyone was rushing in for the novelty, picking tasks based on their first impressions.
Strategies discussing task difficulty and balancing rewards, classifying and rating tasks, wouldn’t appear until at least tomorrow.
At this moment, the employees of “Cyber Chang’an: 2077” development team were watching the scene with a mix of nervousness and anticipation.
Also nervous yet hopeful were a large number of other development teams—both those inside Cloud Dream and outside of it.
Everyone had realized that [Return to the Stars] was a precursor to [Cradle Plan].
The moment the 10 billion progress points of [Return to the Stars] were completed, was the moment when the virtual world’s starry sky fully opened up to players, and it was also the moment that [Cradle Plan] would officially hit the market!
It would be a grand countdown watched by the entire globe!
But at this moment, Lincoln, the man who had orchestrated all of this, was unable to watch the start of this countdown alongside everyone else.
An unexpected piece of news diverted his attention.
It was as though a curious contrast had been set up.
The virtual world had just ended one climax—the completion of the main storyline of “Cyber Chang’an: 2077″—and now a new climax had begun with the launch of the World Mission.
In the real world, similar events were unfolding.
After the Hibernation Auction, Lincoln had already shifted his gaze away, but Erman suddenly reported a big piece of news to him—
The highest bidder in the entire auction, with a bid of 80 billion dollars, Old Rothschild, who had secured a Hibernation Quota and requested to enter hibernation as swiftly as possible, was found dead at home just two hours later.
The Rothschild family hadn’t yet announced a cause, but rumors were already circulating that it was due to a medication error by the family doctor, which led to his death.
“But it’s not like that, is it?” Lincoln asked.
If that were the case, Erman certainly wouldn’t need to report with such urgency.
“Correct,” Erman nodded, “Old Rothschild had been grooming his eldest son to slowly take over the family business for several years, but a few days after the Hibernation Auction was announced, there was a sighting of an intense argument between them.”
“And a mistake with medication is just too laughable.”
“Old Rothschild really was very old and needed to take lots of medicine daily, but a mix-up?
Give me a break!”
“The timing is also far too coincidental!”
Erman said as he shook his head.
“Are you suggesting…
his son poisoned his own father?” Lincoln was shocked.
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