Gacha games can't save this bizarre world.

Although he got kicked, Zhao Hao did find a solution.

The server problem can be solved by using a cloud-based approach combined with blockchain.

The idea is to make each player an "individual block," a small server, then centrally upload everything to the cloud and manage it uniformly within the dream world. This isn't really blockchain; it's more like a Waga P2P download accelerator.

After all, Zhao Hao can't really decentralize. Decentralization is just for the players and the outside world to hear. He has to control the whole situation!

"I just need to add more functions to the Dreamwalking Seal! Let me think..."

I have to say, Orochimaru is a really good comrade!

This curse mark is well-developed; it has extremely strong compatibility, practically anything can be put into it.

More than a month has passed. With the help of more than thirty research minions, Zhao Hao, who worked like he was doing ten days in one, finally developed the first generation of Block Dreamwalking Seal!

All it takes is a "version update" after the player enters the game, which adds a few more tattoos to the Dreamwalker's Mark.

Clean and hygienic, convenient and quick!

The latest version of the Sleepwalking Seal has achieved a very high level of security.

First, there's the biological gene lock, then the psionic attribute lock, and finally the individual mind lock. These three layers of anti-counterfeiting passwords are enough to ensure the security of each Dreamwalking Seal client. Each account corresponds to each individual to prevent anyone from cracking it.

Then there's the function of the cursed seal itself. First, it acts as a secondary server. When the seal is resting, a portion of its spiritual energy transforms into "computing power," becoming a sub-server in the cloud for other players to use. It thus becomes part of Zhao Hao's dream power!

This is another form of bondage!

Of course, Zhao Hao isn't some kind of demon; he also has to offer some benefits to the players!

For example, cloud storage allows players to use the storage function for cursed bullets once they reach the "Heroic Bronze" level.

Although the space is very limited, and you need to spend money to buy "expansion tickets" to expand your "backpack and warehouse", these are still storage items!

It's important to understand that, due to the combined monopoly of several major alchemical organizations, spatial equipment is extremely expensive and rare.

In comparison, since you can get a free character simply by leveling up in the game, Zhao Hao is already quite generous.

Other features include “Game Friends”, “Dream Package”, and “Player Forum”.

With a larger number of players, communication is inevitable.

After Zhao Hao discovered that some superhumans were secretly forming small groups and factions, he launched the forum function.

We still need to keep public opinion under our control. If we encounter posts criticizing the game, we should delete them, and simultaneously impose a ban and other penalties – a very humane approach.

The game friends feature was developed based on the forum. After all, if people have a "fun" chat on the forum, they will inevitably have real-life PKs or casual sex offline. We need to give them a channel to communicate.

Of course, the exchange of messages between friends was also under Zhao Hao's surveillance, to see if anyone was saying bad things about the game.

What? You're saying we illegally collected your information? You signed an agreement!

Didn't you see it? Impossible! Look at this one... the row of nanometer-sized words made of atoms below it, doesn't it explain it very clearly?

Lying around won't work. Zhao Hao has decided that he will start charging "monthly cards" every month. Players who obtain the curse mark but lie around and don't create value will be whipped into "making progress".

Once the dream world expands big enough, I'll get into real estate within the dream game~ Hehehe~

Zhao Hao: That's good enough. I haven't even forced them to have children yet!

What? You're not playing anymore!

I'll take back the game account, along with the game items, level, and psionic energy.

Because you only have the right to use it; ownership belongs to this game. Oh, and by the way, I'll freeze a portion of your "psychic energy."

If you're not satisfied, you can contact our customer service—the perpetually slacking off and never online cat fairy, Orange Constellation—and have it remotely rip you off, give you a debuff, and you'll be in big trouble in no time.

We might not be the best at solving problems, but solving you is a piece of cake. No secret, just practice makes perfect!

Although Zhao Hao is a scoundrel in private, he is still quite decent on the surface.

The main reason is that the vast majority of players are either low-level superhumans or ordinary people who have encountered desperate situations.

Forced by the harsher realities of life, they had no other way out. The fantasy game, however, offered them a way out.

Whether you're seeking survival, revenge, or the humiliation of a broken engagement and the fear of being underestimated as a young man, the game is your last resort.

Those new superhumans who are coerced and exploited by superhuman organizations, those wild superhumans who are secretly hunted down and forcibly recruited by the US military, and those ordinary people dominated by all kinds of despair in life—they need the Dream Game; it is their last lifeline.

No, it was the tree trunk that saved our lives!

Many people have survived or even made a comeback by accumulating power through clearing dungeons in the game.

Without fantasy games, they would all be dust, ants, and expendable products on an assembly line. Now, at least they have the right to be used and treated as human beings.

Some say that fantasy games allow people to escape reality, which will eventually lead to the decline and destruction of human society as a whole.

But what the players are saying is: I don't know when human society will decline and perish, but I've already begun to decline and perish. Escaping may be shameful, but it's useful.

Zhao Hao has gained a lot of things from signing in and drawing cards over the past few years, and now he's putting them to good use.

From alchemy recipes to magical weapon blueprints, from extraordinary recipes to magical skills, these items have been made into rewards and exchanges at various levels, becoming a driving force for players to improve.

Although Zhao Hao was pickling leeks, he was also willing to fertilize them.

Wanting a horse to run fast but not wanting it to eat grass is just wishful thinking.

……

In recent months, the players of the fantasy game have caused quite a stir in the Otherworld. This is because it is a circle that transcends space, a new loose organization of extraordinary individuals.

There are hidden dream players all over the world, since the Dream Seal doesn't exist when it's not activated.

Unless the player actively activates it, the talisman is basically impossible to detect.

Even some low-level superhumans within many established organizations have become players, and they have reacted very strongly to this.

They all felt that this mysterious "consciousness game" hid an unspeakable secret and could potentially cause huge upheavals in the current underworld order, so they planned to establish an "Internet Addiction Rehabilitation Alliance"!

However, this is useless; the old, backward relations of production will inevitably be replaced by new, advanced relations of production.

The game was too low-key at the beginning because Zhao Hao, following the pattern of the Main God Space, set a rule for players that "the existence of the game cannot be revealed to non-players in any way".

By the time the Sleepwalking Curse appeared, the number of players surged, and it began to attract attention, it was already too late to block it.

Even in many places in the Otherworld and among extraordinary races, Dream Players are regarded as a path to transcendence.

It is said that in the selection of wild extraordinary individuals, the special path of the Dream Player is considered the best choice!

It has a high ceiling, many development directions, guaranteed security, and no organizational hierarchy to suppress or exploit it.

This is already the perfect choice.

Otherwise, would you choose to be a lackey of those established forces and wait for many years before you have a chance to become a formal member?

Some unscrupulous organizations, lacking sufficient resources to train many people, resort to using newcomers as cannon fodder and bait.

In the year or two before the appearance of the Dream Game, the number of wild superhumans who had awakened was already quite large, but it was also during that period that new superhumans suffered heavy casualties.

Unaware of the dangers, many wild superhumans, filled with excitement and dreams, were lured to the perilous depths of the underworld, becoming cannon fodder or bait for older superhumans to hunt high-value superhuman creatures.

Another advantage of Block Dreamwalking Seal is that it can be used as an "automatic map editor". Once a supernatural event occurs near the player, it will be automatically recorded.

Then the Magic Mirror will make a judgment; if it is a valuable or dangerous supernatural event, it will be classified as a "Dungeon Instance".

Players can then remotely access dungeons and resolve extraordinary events.

When the psionic energy returns from the psionic sea, Zhao Hao will keep one copy for himself, give one copy to the player editing the map, and give one copy to the player solving the problem in the dungeon. A win-win-win situation—Zhao Hao wins three times over!

Looking at the thousands of players online at the same time, Zhao Hao suddenly had a thought and asked Orange: "We will always become the people we hate, right?"

Orange is eating potato chips: "Not necessarily. Only a minority will become that; the vast majority will just passively dislike us forever."

Chapter 348 The Fat Guy Enters the Game

Alas and Bian Mu teamed up to run a dungeon. They were in the same state in the surface world, not far apart.

This time, Bian Mu encountered an extraordinary event that generated a dungeon. After some consideration, he invited Alas to team up with him.

The incident was quite simple: a young man was killed in a car accident.

The driver was drunk and under the influence of drugs, ran a red light, and sped at 120 km/h on the main road in the city center, instantly sending the young man on the sidewalk to his death.

The perpetrator must have panicked at the time, but his last bit of clarity allowed him to contact his family.

Their family was very powerful in the area, and people arrived quickly. They took the perpetrator away first, then delayed the scene, disturbed the peace, and cleaned up the evidence... The local sheriff turned a blind eye, unwilling to offend them.

Finally, a lawyer arrived and negotiated with the police.

The next day, the lawyer produced a "psychiatric evaluation report".

And that was it...

But the victim's girlfriend couldn't accept this outcome. She held up a sign and shouted for justice on the street where her boyfriend died.

But what awaited them was a bullet that seemed to have come from nowhere.

She collapsed and blood flowed out, onto the spot where her boyfriend had once been covered in blood and gore.

This was the seventh day after the car accident.

In the Song Dynasty, the seventh day after death was considered a significant day. After this day, lost souls would be drawn to the underworld and go to places like the netherworld.

But what this aggrieved and wronged soul witnessed on this day was his girlfriend being shot and killed.

It turned into an evil spirit!

A powerful Earthbound Spirit, born at the Black Iron 4-star level.

These evil spirits cannot leave specific places, but they are both limited and enhanced, becoming stronger in their own territory.

Once transformed into an evil spirit, a person's spirituality disappears, leaving only pure evil.

In just half a month, it caused six car accidents here, killing thirteen people and injuring more than twenty.

……

"Alas, what do you think?" Bian Mu looked at Alas, who was furious, and decided to probe his thoughts first.

Alas didn't think too much about it. He clenched his jaw and squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth: "Ameriko has no laws anymore!"

Bian Mu sighed inwardly. America does have laws, but they're just for show. They're only brought out when needed, and then shelved when not.

It is sad to have no laws to follow, and it is also sad to have laws to follow but not follow them, thus causing future generations to grieve again.

However, since his teammates have different ideas, he has to change his previous method of eliminating the Earthbound Spirit. After all, Alas is the main fighting force.

In that case, we need to address the problem at its source.