BUILDING A GAMING EMPIRE FROM SCRATCH

Chapter 1398: Chapter 1258: The Treatment of the Destined Protagonist Chapter 1398: Chapter 1258: The Treatment of the Destined Protagonist The change in Dark Star Doctor’s thinking stemmed from his observation of two special NPCs—

In the screen displaying the content of Metropolis, he saw a large number of players congregating together, covering the retreat of two NPCs at any cost.

There were even several instances where players used their own bodies as shields.

Such an attitude contrasted sharply with the indifference elsewhere, where hundreds could die in a confrontation with aliens without batting an eye.

Driven by curiosity, the Doctor used the authority that Lincoln had given him to look up the information of these two virtual characters, discovering that one was named Jenny and the other Johnny, with the nicknames Zhen and Qiang, respectively.

They were among the earliest batch of virtual characters in the digital world and even participated in producing an Internet news program each week, enjoying great popularity.

The Doctor understood a little, but was still very surprised.

These virtual characters could be revived if they died, and if this were really a war-obsessed civilization, they probably wouldn’t care about such losses.

With his curiosity piqued, he continued to watch the screen, seeing Zhen and Qiang escorted by thousands of players into the Metropolis’s underground shelter.

And inside the shelter, the screen showed scenes that produced bursts of bright yellow flames around the Doctor’s body—

Surrounded by many virtual characters, some seemingly young children were eating, sleeping, and studying within the spacious shelter.

After the players escorted Zhen and Qiang into the shelter, the awake children ran over to greet them, and the players began to unload supplies vehicle after vehicle.

Only then did the Doctor notice: he hadn’t seen a single juvenile virtual character before.

So it wasn’t that the digital world had no juvenile virtual characters, but that they were being protected?

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If virtual juvenile characters were protected, what about the real-life underage users?

Driven by curiosity, the Doctor began searching for related information.

It wasn’t hard.

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He quickly found that users under the age of 16 would not be parasitized by these terrifying monsters.

If the users were even younger—under 10 years old—the aliens would ignore them as if they didn’t exist, simply walking around them.

This was because of the existence of a [Dynamic Grading System], which made the monsters’ appearance different to children than to adults!

‘Even psychological protection has been considered, eh?’

‘In that case…’

With a new idea in mind, the Doctor began searching for places like the shelter that were unaffected by alien invasion.

And to his surprise, he indeed found them—and not just a few!

The Mod Sharing Platform of “My World” was virtually unscathed, with almost all mods intact.

The non-modded game itself, the servers created by underage players, were also unscathed.

Inspired by this, the Doctor further discovered that outside the public domain of this digital world, there were many “small worlds” opened up by users themselves that, due to natural isolation from the public realm, were not in disarray.

However, the authority given to him by Lincoln did not allow him to cross the boundaries of the public world to peek into the personal gaming worlds of players, so he could not see the real-time images.

——The authority Lincoln had granted him was at most to look at the connected worlds of players’ small teams.

This level of access was also permissible for Cloud Dream staff.

In Lincoln’s design, the open public world falls under the “Public Domain,” and required the lowest level of authority to access.

Worlds where players play multiplayer but do not open to the public fall under the “Semi-Public Domain,” and require higher authority to access.

As for the personal gaming worlds of players, they are completely “Private Domain,” and unauthorized access is not allowed unless specially authorized.

——In fact, players’ virtual houses are also within this scope, but because most players have embedded their virtual houses in the public world and have a close connection with it, they haven’t been able to keep out alien “infection.”

However, the Doctor didn’t dwell on these details.

The information he had seen was already sufficient.

Even though this world had experienced such alarming and terrible accidents in the absence of the [Ultimate Authority Figure], the protective measures were still operating well, offering protection to the young, the isolated, and even virtual characters—this proved the goodwill and caution of the [Ultimate Authority Figure].

——Perhaps he wasn’t cautious enough and the protective measures weren’t perfect, but he at least tried to implement them.

‘Maybe…’

The Doctor glanced at Lincoln and Mavis who were busy working.

‘Maybe, he just needs some help, someone with experience to help him from another perspective, to identify and fill in the gaps, to prevent such accidents from happening again.’

Doctor Darkstar thought to himself.

…

…

Half an hour later, Lincoln had finished assigning all tasks, specifically detailing each to every team, and was finally free.

—After that, all he needed to do was to monitor the progress and offer technical support when necessary.

The first thing he needed to deal with, after freeing his hands, was naturally the headache-inducing issue of Doctor Darkstar.

But to his surprise—

Just as he turned around and before he could speak, Doctor Darkstar took the initiative to say,

“Sorry, I may have misunderstood you earlier.”

?

A big question mark slowly rose above Lincoln’s head.

‘What happened?’

‘Why is he apologizing to me?’

‘Are all alien thought processes this strange?’

He was unaware of Doctor Darkstar’s complicated thought process, so he completely didn’t understand why the doctor was giving him an out.

He even cast a doubtful glance at Mavis.

But Mavis shook her head, just as clueless.

Lincoln was completely baffled.

But since the doctor had already extended an olive branch, it would be impolite not to accept it.

So he followed the doctor’s lead, discussing the protective measures of the virtual world, his own thoughts on balancing “protection” with “limits”, and earnestly explored the topic of “how to provide sufficient protection for those in need while ensuring the greatest possible freedom”.

*

While Lincoln and Doctor Darkstar from different realms exchanged experiences, the players were still engaged in tough battles.

The combat power of the aliens was truly formidable, and the battle lines were drawn too long, making the players feel the battle was extremely difficult.

It was only by relying on the steady stream of reinforcements returning to the virtual world that they managed to maintain the battle line in a stalemate.

They were completely relying on their stubborn unwillingness to admit defeat, and the “Support System” Lincoln mentioned would be online in three hours, to barely hold on.

There were only two exceptions to this.

One was Cyber Chang’an, which naturally did not need further mention.

But the other place was quite unexpected—

[Pandora]

Here, players witnessed the birth of the [Daughter of Destiny] of the World of Pandora!

[Flag of Salvation] encountered the alien army in the forest, launching a total war.

After a fierce battle, with limited weapons and supplies, [Flag of Salvation] fell into a disadvantage, and as more aliens spawned from the corpses, the moment came when their forces seemed about to scatter and collapse…

A shadow that covered the whole sky suddenly obscured the entire battlefield!

The boundless forest shook its canopy all at once, with rustling sounds traveling from the distant horizon to one’s ears.

The trembling of the Earth was stronger with each wave.

And then—

The Beast Tide arrived!

The wrath of Eva descended upon this battlefield!

The Phantom Dragon flapped its wings, stirring a strong wind, causing both players and aliens to retreat and clear space.

Only Shuihua below, holding her fluttering hair, did not move.

Then, the Phantom Dragon slowly descended to the center of the battlefield, bowing its head to Shuihua who had just lost her mount.

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