41: Netizens jointly pledge: Never degenerate into evil practices

“Excellent, let’s start by painting the picture.”

At Illusion Dream Game Studio, Jiang Feng sat with his legs crossed, grinning foolishly at the screen.

Xuanhuan World was selling like crazy.

After the Lao Wang Alchemy incident, many streamers and players followed suit, expressing immense resentment, which directly earned him a large amount of emotional value, enough to support the next major update.

And most importantly, this incident actually alarmed the official organizing committee!

It is said that a high-ranking leader, after watching the process, clapped his hands and cheered, declaring on the spot:

“Good, good! Our competition was originally meant to expose the man-eating nature of ancient society. This Jiang Feng, he did very well, he truly depicted ‘man-eating’.”

Amidst a flurry of praise, it was unclear whether the high-ranking leader truly understood the dark essence of Xuanhuan World or simply thought Jiang Feng had successfully depicted “man-eating.”

In any case, Xuanhuan World immediately received a deluge of promotional resources from the organizing committee. Sales hit a new high that day, and cumulative sales were now approaching 500,000!

It’s worth noting that this was only two days into the competition, and Huanmeng was still an unknown, small studio.

Achieving such results was already incredibly impressive.

Xue Sancha from the neighboring Antarctic Studio was reportedly so angry he had to be hospitalized, and some at Penguin even suggested investigating financial issues, nearly disbanding the turbulent times warrior project team.

Some even predicted that Xuanhuan World’s final sales could potentially exceed ten million!

Illusion Dream Game Studio also gained fame as a result, with many investors approaching, hoping to invest.

Jiang Feng, of course, refused.

Are you kidding? He was a man with a System; wasn’t it better to quietly make a fortune?

“Little Secretary, have the servers been purchased?”

He made a call to Liu Meiqin.

Liu Meiqin was currently in the western part of the Huaxia Federation, where a famous data center housed the world's top-tier servers.

“Boss, our game is too popular now…”

Liu Meiqin gave a wry smile: “I think you’ll have to raise the standard you set earlier, considering peak usage issues.”

“Got it, more money.”

Jiang Feng snapped his fingers directly: “Alright, I’ll transfer the money to you. Get the servers ready quickly.”

The real form of Xuanhuan World was the multiplayer real-time online mode.

At that time, Xuanhuan World’s sales would be unimaginably high, and the emotional value Jiang Feng could harvest would also skyrocket.

“Sigh, but I still have to wait a bit longer…”

Swirling the red wine glass beside him, Jiang Feng looked at the beautiful scenery outside the window, a smile playing on his lips… At the same time.

News about the “multiplayer real-time online mode” also spread like wildfire across the internet.

The most concerned about this, of course, were the streamers who were currently making a living from Xuanhuan World.

“Should we switch to the new mode when it comes out?”

Xiao Daidai asked curiously.

“Definitely switch. We’ve only been playing for two days anyway, so the cost isn't really that big.”

Old Potato gave a definite answer.

The Mage also nodded: “That’s right. Once the multiplayer online mode is released, our current team-based mode will definitely be phased out. All the traffic will be snatched away, and it’s possible that the single-player and team versions might even stop receiving updates.”

Midnight Gao Sou remained silent for a moment before saying: “Brothers, I’m actually concerned about something else.”

“What is it?”

“You know how these AI-controlled NPCs now, for the sake of Cultivation, for a tiny bit of profit, will commit acts like town massacres and cannibalism? What if the multiplayer online mode goes live, and everyone is a real player… will such things still happen?”

When the Mage and Old Potato heard this, their hearts trembled, and they fell silent.

Xiao Daidai, however, innocently said: “Of course not! Everyone has received nine years of education, and many are highly educated individuals. How could they do something so outrageous and infuriating?”

Xiao Daidai was very naive, but the Mage and Old Potato remained silent.

At this moment, Midnight Gao Sou spoke again: “Hey, it seems I’m not the only one concerned. Look, on the Xuanhuan World forum, someone initiated a ‘No Evil Cultivation’ pledge!”

The Xuanhuan World forum was a forum Jiang Feng had Liu Meiqin create, gathering many players, streamers, and, of course, an even larger number of cloud players.

Currently, with the fermentation of the Lao Wang Alchemy incident and the warm-up for the multiplayer online mode, the forum had become very lively.

One of the top-ranked posts was titled:

【A Pledge! Pledging absolutely not to degenerate into an Evil Cultivator in multiplayer online mode, not to massacre cities, not to cannibalize, not to abuse the power of Cultivators. Everyone, after entering the game, share information, help each other, and strive to improve the Xuanhuan World environment with modern high-quality ethics!】

This post already had thousands of replies, all uniformly: Pledgee XXX (online name).

And this number was still increasing rapidly.

Under the instigation of their livestream audience, the four of Midnight Gao Sou also replied to the post.

Pledgee: Midnight Gao Sou

Pledgee: Mage

Pledgee: Old Potato

Pledgee: Xiao Daidai

For them, this matter was just a bit amusing; they hadn’t taken it seriously yet.

They didn’t know that Jiang Feng, observing from behind, was almost bursting with laughter.

Jiang Feng thought that not degenerating into an Evil Cultivator might be possible.

But this sharing of information and mutual assistance was truly somewhat fanciful.

As for improving Xuanhuan World with modern high-quality ethics… Jiang Feng was completely unconvinced.

Perhaps there truly were people with pure hearts, but such people, upon arriving in Xuanhuan World, would probably be the first to be killed.

Jiang Feng laughed for a while, shook his head, and didn’t reply to anything, but quietly observed the players’ behavior.

He stealthily entered Midnight Gao Sou’s livestream room.

At this moment, the four of Midnight Gao Sou were constantly searching within the Efeng Mountain Range.

They were looking for traces of a Herbalist, hoping to trigger the Herbalist’s storyline and see if they could learn herbalism and even Alchemy.

The Efeng Mountain Range was vast, making it very difficult to find a specific person.

But they were streamers after all, and many players had shared their exploration progress, even drawing maps.

After comparing and organizing the information, they actually found the Herbalist.

“Is that the Herbalist?”

The four of Midnight Gao Sou stood on a cliff.

In the distance was a completely vertical cliff, and they could barely see any footholds.

Yet, a middle-aged man wearing a straw cape was nimbly moving on the cliff face, occasionally plucking something from the cliff and tossing it into the basket on his back.

The four didn’t dare to shout, but waited until the man finished picking, flipped down to the ground, and then approached.

Old Potato had a thought, and had everyone cover their faces with mud and dust beforehand, to avoid a repeat of what happened with the mercenary group.

Ge Xuanqing tidied the cloth clothes on his body and looked over with a sidelong glance.

In those black eyes, a cold, excited glint suddenly flashed, but it was only momentary, quickly transforming into the timidity of a Mortal seeing a Cultivator.