35: Chapter 35: The Newbie Zone Unified, with Amazing Benefits

After three teleportation beams lit up simultaneously, the entire Novice Area exploded.

The notice boards in Luofeng Village, Fengyu Village, and Shiti Village all glowed with golden light at the same time.

Held in Xing Jianwan's arms, Lin Chen had a serious look on his little face as he raised his hand and pressed it into the air.

"From today on, the three villages will have unified rules."

Hum—

A massive, pale golden ripple, centered on Luofeng Village, surged outward, instantly sweeping across all three novice villages.

A server-wide notification popped up before every online player.

[ Unified Novice Area rules are now in effect ]

[ Monster respawn rate increased by 30% ]

[ Experience gain increased by 10% ]

[ Monster drop rate increased by 15% ]

[ Free teleportation between the three villages is now enabled ]

[ Quest resource sharing is now enabled ]

[ Dungeon resource sharing is now enabled ]

A few short lines of text completely stunned the players in the three villages.

The next second, the chat channel exploded.

"Holy shit! A server-wide buff!"

"Respawn up by 30%? Drop rate up by 15%? Why would anyone farm in any other area!"

"Can we accept Luofeng Village quests in Fengyu Village now?"

"Can we teleport directly to the entrance of the Luofeng Secret Realm from Shiti Village?"

"This isn't a novice village anymore; it's heaven!"

The white light of the three teleportation formations flickered wildly.

Players surged back and forth like a tide.

Some players, having just turned in a quest in Shiti Village, immediately teleported to Luofeng Village to run a dungeon.

Some, after gathering herbs in Fengyu Village, immediately ran to the public warehouse in Luofeng Village to trade for supplies.

A large number of players treated the three villages as a single large map, going wherever monsters were plentiful and wherever quests were lucrative.

In the monster spawning areas at the village entrances, as soon as one wave of monsters fell, another group immediately spawned behind them.

"Awesome!"

"Before, we were fighting tooth and nail over monsters, but now there are simply too many to kill!"

"My experience bar is flying!"

"Stop pushing! I just hit level 12!"

In just half a day, the population of the Novice Area exploded once again.

100,000.

150,000.

200,000.

250,000.

By evening, the backend statistics had broken through 300,000.

Over 300,000 players were all crammed into the three novice villages.

This number was more than five times that of other ordinary Novice Areas.

Even more absurdly, many players who had long since reached level 20 and were qualified to go to the main city refused to leave.

"Why go to the main city?"

"Does the main city have respawn rates as fast as this?"

"Monsters are fought over even more fiercely in the main city, and quests don't even give equipment."

"I'm just going to retire in the Novice Area; no one can drive me away!"

"Exactly! With Big Shot Lin here, only a fool would leave!"

On the world channel, more and more people started getting jealous.

"Can you Novice Area people be reasonable? You're level 20, why are you still hanging around?"

"Leave? Give me a place like Luofeng Village, and I'll leave immediately."

"Forget level 20, even if I were level 30, I'd still want to stay here."

The official roads between the three villages were packed with players running back and forth.

Long lines formed at the entrances to public warehouses, dungeon entrances, and in front of the quest notice boards.

The entire Novice Area was as hot as a boiling pot.

On a hillside, Lin Zhe stood in place, watching all this calmly.

Lin Chen, lying in Xing Jianwan's arms, waved his little hand and asked in a milky voice, "Dad, nobody wants to leave now."

Lin Zhe nodded.

"That's good."

At this moment, the official backend was completely frantic.

In the operations hall, the monitoring screens were filled with red data.

"Active users in the Novice Area have tripled!"

"Recharge amounts are still rising!"

"Low-level potions, teleportation scrolls, and gift items in the store are all sold out!"

"Many players are buying store items specifically to gift to Lin Zhe and his son to farm contribution points!"

An operations supervisor stared at the revenue curve, his voice trembling.

"Today's recharge amount in the Novice Area is already three times that of other regions..."

The technician next to him twitched his mouth.

"We were thinking about getting rid of Lin Zhe before."

"Who would dare bring that up now?"

"Get rid of him? Do you want to lose this month's bonus?"

After a brief silence in the conference room, the person in charge, Zhou Ming, made the final decision.

"We're not suppressing it anymore."

"From now on, the service priority for the Novice Area will be raised."

"Allocate separate server bandwidth to the three villages."

"Reduce all latency for teleportation formations and dungeon entrances."

"Whoever lets the Novice Area lag at this time can write their own resignation letter."

Once the order was given, the technical department moved immediately.

Added new server nodes.

Expanded the Novice Area channel separately.

Optimized the teleportation routes between the three villages.

Accelerated the dungeon queuing channels.

In less than half an hour, the previously overheating servers stabilized immediately.

Players in the village soon felt the change.

"Huh? It's not lagging at all!"

"There were so many people at the dungeon entrance just now, how did I get into the party instantly?"

"Teleportation is smooth too. Is the official team so sensible today?"

"Duh, the Novice Area is their god of wealth now."

Laughter erupted all around.

On the hillside, Xing Jianwan looked up at the system light flashing across the sky and whispered, "The official team has backed down."

Lin Zhe's expression was calm.

"Not surprising."

They couldn't stop him, couldn't delete him, and messing with him would only cause trouble.

Yet, he could bring the official team higher activity and higher revenue.

At a time like this, the smartest thing for the official team to do wasn't to keep attacking.

It was to honestly increase bandwidth and protect this place that laid golden eggs.

Lin Chen, holding a spirit fruit, nibbled on it in small bites and hummed in his milky voice, "If they had been sensible earlier, they wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble."

Xing Jianwan chuckled softly.

Players were still running back and forth, and the teleportation formations of the three villages were lighting up non-stop.

Someone rushed back from Fengyu Village, looking excited.

"The herb gathering spots over there have taken off too!"

"The respawn rate in the Shiti Village mining area is absurdly fast!"

"Brothers, the Novice Area has really become one big family!"

The voices came in wave after wave.

Lin Zhe stood in the center of the hillside, the pale golden rule patterns slowly rotating beneath his feet.

The current Novice Area was no longer a place anyone could touch.

In the distance, above the three villages, the golden threads of the rules were weaving together tighter and tighter.