Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 164 - 164: 162 1 will definitely kill you today!

Isn’t that the impact caused by my intense battle with the BOSS?

Lance was full of confidence. While his skills hadn’t yet reached their peak, he firmly believed that operating skill is what magnifies damage most effectively!

He was fearless!

The live streaming room became very lively!

Although Lance was wholly devoted to pushing the story and didn’t chat much with the audience or do any live broadcast gimmicks, his aura as a professional star player coupled with everyone’s interest in who would first complete the game, kept the heat of the live broadcast room pretty high. At least a hundred thousand people were watching Lance’s “final sprint”.

The moment Lance shot at the silhouette of the Cross, a tiny doubt flashed across his mind: in the second promotional material released by Cloud Dream, there seemed to be a battle in the Textile Factory?

Is that a branch storyline that I missed?

But he quickly dismissed this doubt and focused all his attention on pursuing the mission.

Lance realized immediately: As expected from the final BOSS Battle, the difficulty was staggeringly high!

The train was very crowded. Not only were all the seats filled, but people kept walking down the aisle. To avoid injuring innocent bystanders, he’d have to be extra careful and consider the bullet’s trajectory when shooting.

And even with this, he had already subconsciously ignored the potential problem of bullet ricochets.

The bigger issue was that in a fit of impatience, he had shot at the enemy from a distance, eliciting a panic amongst the passengers. The Cross evaded his bullets, and the passengers were terrified.

Some screamed in panic, some tried to crawl under their seats, and some even ran around frenetically trying to get out of the compartment.

This greatly troubled Lance, so he had to temporarily put down his gun, and while trying to move the passengers out of the way, he continued his pursuit.

This considerably slowed him down.

The viewers in the live stream, however, enthusiastically commented: “As expected of Lance, such a nice kid!”

It’s no wonder they said so, as other faster players had already started their killing spree.

After a day of hard fighting, Warehouse Bird finally caught up with the progress and also reached this level.

But in his haste, he ruthlessly killed three NPC passengers who ran around in panic, and bellowed, “Everyone, get down!”

All passengers instantly fell silent, not only did they stop screaming, but they also obediently crouched down on the seat or the floor, finally no longer impeding his pursuit.

However, when he rushed into the next compartment with a smug smile on his face, he was instantly met with a hail of bullets!

It was retaliation from five Hispanic passenger police!

The five of them held hot weapons in one hand and a bulletproof shield in the other, forming a turtle formation. They faced Warehouse Bird’s bullets and advanced towards him!

—This was indeed specially designed by Lincoln.

Lincoln did not want to allow players to harm passengers.

Yet he also wanted to take care of the player’s gaming experience as much as possible, so he couldn’t make all NPC’s invincible—that would make it a 16+ game, not a 12+ one.

So he designed a unique feedback mechanism: If the player does not harm the innocent, then the only opponents are the Cross and the mercenaries the Cross has deployed. The passenger police would not appear at all.

If they injure a passenger, police armed with sticks and shields would appear.

If there’s a fatality, armed passenger police who would shoot without mercy will appear.

Moreover, the more casualties caused, the more aggressive and powerful the passenger police will be!

Even one step further, if more than 10 passengers are killed, there would be “highly skilled” and “heroic” civilian heroes springing up from amongst the passengers.

Such “hero NPCs” whose combat skills like [Shooting Specialization], [Cold Weapon Fighting], [Barehanded Combat], are nearly all at max leveled Lv.9, are overwhelming figures who at this stage overpower players. Even in the later stages, they are formidable BOSS level characters.

Fred had once asked Lincoln why he didn’t design the skills to be maxed out.

Lincoln explained to him: This is out of concern for players who like to challenge their limits and want to take on dilemmas like “a single person challenging a hidden Boss with maxed-out skills”.

These “Hero NPCs” only appear when there is a significant loss of passenger lives, and a very unfortunate situation might arise then –

That is, players deliberately slaughter NPC passengers in order to spawn the “Hero NPCs” to challenge them.

Although it is inevitable that there will still be players who want to mess around, without the “full-maxed combat skills” gimmick, fewer people would be willing to do it.

Even Lincoln hid some real “Max Level Combat NPCs” in other places to divert players’ attention.

The shield protection of the passenger police is seamless, with protective shields even on the head and sides. The skill level of Warehouse Bird’s [Curved Shooting Lv.2] is simply not high enough to launch an arcing trajectory wide enough to bypass the shields.

Only at Lv.5 would such a large angle arcing trajectory be possible.

Warehouse Bird, who had finally caught up with the progress, could only retreat while seeking opportunities and thus fell into a fierce battle with the passenger police.

The progress that had caught up was once again being pulled apart!

On the other hand, although Lance was slowed down by some passengers, he managed to get through this scene faster without any additional combat and reached the next compartment.

However, in this compartment, the passengers had obediently taken their seats, Lance didn’t think twice and sped towards the next compartment.

But when he ran to the middle of the carriage, a figure suddenly rushed out from the right side and instantly hugged his arm from behind.

Lance was shackled all at once, struggling desperately, but still unable to move!

Of course he couldn’t move, as Cross, being the peak of combat power in the game, was Lv.10 max level, and his Assassin’s bloodline level was three times higher than Lance’s. It would be strange if Lance could struggle free.

However, Cross didn’t attack him but pressed him against the window harshly and started to say something, “Wesley, .

But the next moment, a bullet was shot from outside the train towards the two of them!

It was Firefox who had been thrown down earlier. She was now driving and chasing along the railway!

Cross was instantly on guard and took Lance down with him, avoiding the bullet heading for his forehead.

Lance’s forehead was hit twice and he was a bit dizzy, but he tried hard to ignore these effects, gripped his gun again and searched for the target in his shaking vision.

Meanwhile, Firefox outside the car kept attacking Cross. The bullets were piercing the car window in an arc and attacking Cross.

Cross did not fight back but got up and continued to retreat towards the rear of the car.

Lance shook off the influence of dizziness, got up and firmly gripped his gun in his hand and chased again.

The panicked crowd also held back Cross’s pace. Lance, who was subdued again due to his own mistakes, couldn’t help but get angry and swung his arm violently across the passengers that were blocking him in the middle – Swing shooting!

The cross ahead was on alert again, almost simultaneously swinging his arm, and two bullets were fired at the same time!

The bullets each drew a perfect arc in the air, bypassing the obstructions of the passengers and met at the side of the head. The tremendous force caused the two bullets to start to deform and twist from the collision point.

Lincoln, who had activated the Assassin’s bloodline, was dumbfounded at this astonishing moment.

At the same time, he saw his opponent’s composed and effortless look and felt his opponent’s unfathomable strength once again!

But Lincoln only hesitated for a moment before once again resolutely chasing.

Having to die once, it’s not like he can’t bear it!

Anyway, today he is definitely going to take you down!

He means what he says!