76: This is a game between Lin Ye and Tian Mu.

The statistics for this Raging Sea and Surging Waves instance are as follows:

Number of eliminations in the instance: 200,000 people!

Longest duration of the instance: 300 hours

Instance completion rate: 0%!

Instance progress: 10%

Instance elimination rate: 20%

...

As the instance was about to close, the instance's bullet screen area exploded, and the entire screen was filled with rapidly scrolling comments!

“The Emperor was directly deducted one million?! That's too exaggerated!”

“The Emperor was even demoted. He was a top-tier LV4 expert… Didn't they say top-tier experts would be worry-free for life?”

“Although I really dislike the Great Harmony people, this point deduction is indeed too harsh.”

“The Dahe Clan had 200,000 people eliminated, and even Ito Hidekazu, who prided himself as a genius, was eliminated.”

“These 200,000 people were all elites of the Da He Settlement. This will set the Da He Settlement's strength back at least ten years.”

“Don't look at this elimination rate being much lower than the previous times; the base number is huge this time, so the number of people eliminated is simply astronomical!”

“Do you know, there was a statistic before... The total number of people eliminated in all instances every day is between 100,000 and 150,000. So even though it's a day of great amnesty, the number of people who died on Azure Star has increased instead of decreased!”

“This instance's completion rate also has some exaggeration. In fact, if the Eagle Country hadn't deliberately used super weapons at the end, this completion rate would probably still be very low.”

“Everyone... I'm worried now, if I'm drawn into this instance later, what should I do...?”

“What else can you do? Surrender. Surrendering only deducts 20 points...”

“By the way, let me ask, are there still any Dahe Clan people in the instance? Why haven't I heard them speak for a long time?”

...

From merely watching the excitement at the beginning, the Challenger's mindset had undergone a drastic change by this moment.

Their fear of Raging Sea had escalated to the extreme.

Because Raging Sea was truly too terrifying.

The instance was difficult, and the punishment was also very cruel.

Take Ito Hidekazu, for example. He was an instance genius who had just risen not long ago, and he had a small reputation on Azure Star. Many people even regarded him as an idol.

For someone who had reached LV2, according to Azure Star's past instance rules, it was actually very difficult for him to be eliminated.

Yet, three challenges in Raging Sea directly eliminated such a person.

The spectators naturally felt a sense of empathy for him.

...

The countdown ended, and accompanied by the still-raging bullet screen, the Raging Sea instance officially closed.

The live broadcast screen also came to an abrupt halt.

Inside the Cliff Villa, Lin Ye stood up from the soft sofa and stretched lazily.

As the Designer, he had watched the entire instance live broadcast from beginning to end, so he was naturally a bit tired.

The income from this instance was actually better than he had anticipated.

Lin Ye also saw many people in the comments expressing doubts and fear about the Emperor being deducted a massive amount of points.

“In such a world, what's the point of discussing what's reasonable or unreasonable?”

“As long as the Sky Curtain approves it, no matter how unreasonable it is, it's reasonable.”

In fact, he did indeed subtly manipulate this mechanism, essentially playing a game of chess with the Sky Curtain.

Through the first two instance adjustments, Lin Ye roughly figured out some of the Sky Curtain's program habits.

If the Sky Curtain was a large artificial AI, then its behavioral habits would inevitably have some patterns.

At the very least, there were discernible patterns in the short term.

Firstly, the Sky Curtain did not want too many Challengers to die, because that would cause a sharp decrease in Azure Star's population, which would be extremely detrimental to Azure Star's stable development.

Therefore, the Sky Curtain would adjust the number of instance participants again and again to reduce the difficulty.

But at the same time, Lin Ye also discovered a characteristic of the Sky Curtain: it absolutely showed no leniency towards Challengers with rebellious emotions and violent tendencies.

In other words, the Sky Curtain absolutely wanted the people of Azure Star to be obedient and never defy it! At the same time, they were not allowed to cause trouble in the real world.

Lin Ye had discovered this clue from the last time Ito Hidekazu was able to be deducted five thousand points.

In that economic warfare mode, Ito Hidekazu repeatedly ignored the Sky Curtain's prompts and also heavily exploited the Eastern Island.

This inadvertently touched two of the Sky Curtain's 'sensitive' points.

Lin Ye seized upon this point, so he also adjusted the instance's mission mechanism.

He lowered the basic mission rewards and penalties for the instance, and no longer set a series of stage missions, first giving the Sky Curtain the illusion of reduced difficulty.

At the same time, he wrote some penalties related to rebellion and violence into the instance.

Any behavior that violated the basic rules of the instance, and at the same time displayed strong hegemonic tendencies and violent tendencies within the instance, would be severely punished with double point deductions.

Sure enough, such a mission setting passed the Sky Curtain's review.

But honestly... Lin Ye really didn't expect the Emperor to be deducted a million points at once.

In Lin Ye's own estimation, the maximum deduction for a single Dahe Clan member would be ten thousand...

The Emperor being deducted a million points could only mean that he made every mistake he shouldn't have made and stepped on every landmine.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so disastrous.

“Emperor... You really can't blame me for this.”

Lin Ye shook his head helplessly, then took a bottle of cola from the refrigerator and drank it contentedly.

Regarding the current plight of the Da He Settlement, Lin Ye could only say they brought it upon themselves.

Firstly, they actively applied to challenge the instance themselves. If they hadn't insisted on forming a group to attack the instance, then based on Lin Ye's direct random selection, at most 200,000 Dahe people would have been drawn into the instance.

In that case, the eliminated Challengers would be more evenly distributed and wouldn't all fall on the Da He Settlement.

Additionally, the Emperor had committed countless evil deeds over the years, creating abominations like the Shogunate General, Ninja Squad, and Bacterial Unit.

At the same time, he held absolute imperial power within the Da He Settlement.

This was clearly a case of him acting like a local emperor under the Sky Curtain's rules, still thinking about militarism!

Even if Lin Ye didn't deal with such behavior this time, the Sky Curtain would deal with them later.

Ultimately, Lin Ye actually helped the Sky Curtain out.

...

As Lin Ye was pondering, the Sky Curtain's prompt finally sounded.

“Esteemed Designer, your Raging Sea instance had no one complete it this time... The instance point reward calculation will now be performed.”