Northern Myanmar: These players are acting strangely!

Chapter 48 The Water Prison! Heating it... costs extra!

The second half of the post is a self-narration of the game by the user "日月同错".

[Brothers, I'm devastated. Those bastards taught me how to scam people, and they made me do it myself. How the hell could I do that? We all have two shoulders and one head; everyone has a temper. I immediately turned my pain sensitivity to the lowest level and started fighting them.]

At first, I wasn't at a disadvantage; I even took down two security guards who tried to stop me. But then they showed no sportsmanship. A bunch of bastards rushed in with small stun guns and started hitting me with them, instantly numbing me with electricity.

Then I was dragged into a small, dark room and first beaten and kicked. They asked me if I submitted. How could I, a man of unwavering integrity and righteous courage from the Nine Provinces, submit? In the end, these bastards threw me into a water dungeon.

I think I'm the first player in the game to experience the water dungeon.

[Let me explain what a water dungeon actually is.]

[A water dungeon, as the name suggests, is a prison in water. But it's not just water; it also contains excrement, rotting animal and plant carcasses, and a mixture of stale swill... In short, it's filthy and smelly, teeming with insects. Calling it a water dungeon is an understatement; it's actually less clean than a stinking ditch.]

In the game, I'm 1.75 meters tall, not short, but I still had to hunch over when I first entered. The deeper I went, the deeper the water got, and the smell... could kill you instantly.

That wasn't all. They put two ropes over my shoulders and hoisted me up. I had to stand on tiptoe to get the water up to my neck. If I relaxed, the stinking water would rush into my nose and mouth.

[I was still injured, and the dirty water, combined with the biting insects crawling around, caused excruciating pain! I couldn't take it anymore; I felt like I was suffocating, so I had to log off in disgrace.]

[My advice to all fellow gamers: please don't try to provoke these terrorists. These beasts are incredibly torturous. I'm currently wondering whether to just restart the game or go back in and beg them for mercy?]

The comments section was filled with suggestions and advice from players.

{Don't be a coward, just do it: Begging for mercy? Dude, are you crazy? Begging for mercy from a bunch of NPCs, don't you have any dignity left?}
{I'm not a joker: Exactly! The game just launched, what's the big deal about dying a few times? Just restart, maybe try a different area, and maybe you'll run into someone less insane.}
{A professional troll for twenty years: Begging for mercy won't help. Believe me, if you beg, they'll torture you even more. These NPCs are designed to be psychopaths; the weaker you are, the more excited they become.}
{So handsome I can't sleep: Let's restart, bro. Don't be so reckless next time!}
{Sun and Moon at the Same Fault: Replying to @HandsomeToTheNight: Sigh, I feel the same way. I got a little carried away when I first went in, but I didn't expect these people to be so ruthless.}
After reading the post, Wang Zixu felt a wave of fear and secretly rejoiced that he hadn't acted impulsively in the game.

Otherwise, his fate wouldn't be much better than that of Brother Riyue.

He scrolled to the bottom of the page to the comments section, thought for a moment, and replied:

[Bro, don't go in there and suffer like this. Reopen it quickly. I'll be waiting for you in the 404 Industrial Park!]

The 404 Park is the park where he is currently located.

If we could bring in a master like Brother Riyue, the chances of escaping the fraud park would undoubtedly be much greater if the two of them joined forces.

Wang Zixu now harbors a deep distrust of the NPCs in the game.

I always feel like my little thoughts are completely transparent to them.

He was afraid that if he tried to outsmart those old foxes, he would be sold out and then happily help them count the money.

It's more reliable to cooperate with players.

They know each other inside and out, and their interests align.

After closing the post, Wang Zixu stared blankly at the diverse titles on the forum's homepage.

He was thinking about what he should write today.

The uses of banknotes, mobile phones, and various social media apps unlocked in the game... these basic item guides have already been posted on the forum, so there's no point in him writing one after another.

We need to come up with something new.

Suddenly, a brilliant idea flashed into my mind.

……

……

at the same time.

Tencent (the parent company of Tencent).

Game Business Division.

boom!
A loud bang echoed through the office.

Zhao Kai angrily threw the virtual reality headset he was holding away, his face contorted with rage.

"Nima's!"

"What kind of hook-and-switch game is this!"

"A few brain-dead NPCs have gone too far!" "They dare to torture me!?"

"Do you really think I'm a pushover?!"

He grew angrier the more he thought about it. He, a senior executive of a listed company, was completely outmaneuvered by a group of NPCs in a game and ended up getting beaten up on the ground.

What's most infuriating is that, in order to test the game's realism, instead of lowering the pain sensitivity, he impulsively raised it to the 200% pain limit.

That beating...it hurt so much he questioned the meaning of life.

I still remember it vividly when I think back on it now.

At this time.

There was a knock on the office door.

"Manager Zhao, are you alright?"

Zhao Kai took a deep breath, suppressing his anger:

"fine!"

He looked up at his subordinates by the door:

"Wait, don't go yet!"

"Go buy some dirt on the Bloody Golden Triangle. I'm going to destroy the Seal Studio!"

"This game promotes violence and abuses vigilante justice, which seriously affects the physical and mental health of teenagers!"

"Make them remove the game immediately and disqualify them from the anti-fraud competition!"

I'm going to bankrupt them!

The employee at the door paused for a moment:
"what!?"

"Manager Zhao, but... we only just bought it recently, and the budget is already used up."

Zhao Kai then remembered and waved his hand irritably:

"How was the black material you bought last time?"

"Have you managed to stir up netizens' emotions?"

Has the bloody Golden Triangle faced any resistance?

The subordinate looked embarrassed and stammered:

"Um... Manager Zhao, why don't you take a look online yourself?"

Zhao Kai glanced at him with displeasure, picked up his phone, and opened the trending topics list.

however,
When he saw the trending topics, his face instantly turned a deep liver color.

#Don't underestimate scams; they can easily destroy a family.#
#Your words of help cost my parents their entire savings#
#Best Anti-Fraud Game of the Year: Bloodstained Golden Triangle: Survivors#
#Look at the core of games rationally; understanding scams is for better prevention#
#I strongly suggest Seal Studios introduce a microtransaction system; I want to give NPCs rockets!#
#Does anyone know where the Seal Studio is? I have a box of local specialties I'd like to mail there!#
What exactly has Chen Jiajun, the owner of Seal Studio, experienced?
#I strongly suggest a thorough investigation into Chen Jiajun's family history for three generations; I seriously doubt this game is well-made!#
……

Zhao Kai kept swiping his finger, scrolling all the way to the bottom of the hot list, but he still couldn't find the negative information they had bought.

He suddenly looked up, glared at his subordinate at the door, and demanded:
"What about the dirt on you?"

"Tell me, where did you spend the money?!"

The subordinate trembled with fear and stammered in reply:

"The hashtag 'us' had barely appeared on the trending list when, in less than ten minutes, it was pushed down by other trending topics..."

"After the budget was used up, the online marketing company stopped working."

"They said...if you want to keep heating it up, you have to...you have to pay more."

(End of this chapter)