Necromancer chopping down trees

Chapter 55: Punishment for Cheating
Deep in the jungle, there were a large group of about forty players. They were all level 5, and they basically worked in teams of five, working together to carry out missions.

In Heart of Nohr, the first player to effectively attack a monster gains the right to pick up the monster.

Like other games, due to the competition for monsters, the leveling efficiency of the vanguard is not fast. Each team stays at the monster spawning point and immediately launches a normal attack as soon as the monster appears.

"Captain, what do you think is the situation of the team over there?"

Among these players, a team of all mages particularly attracted attention. Although their facial shapes were different, their casting movements and movement methods were completely synchronized.

When a monster appeared in front of them, five mages cast [Fire Arrow] at the same time. Five flames flew towards the enemy at the same time, destroying the monster instantly.

"I didn't expect that someone would actually turn on the synchronizer during the internal test. How shameless."

The warrior captain chopped the newly refreshed red-named monster with an axe. As the leader of the team, he has certainly played many online games, and this is not the first time he has seen a synchronizer.

The so-called synchronizer uses technological means to copy the actions of an account, from casting spells to moving, and transmits them to another machine through scripts, so as to achieve the purpose of one person controlling multiple accounts.

"Don't slack off, guard your spawn point."

"Yes, Captain."

Captain Persia no longer looked at the cheating player. He continued to try to determine the attack and the tricks of dodging.

This team is a small studio with five people who make a living by playing games. Once a new game is released, they will try to get the internal testing qualification and get the game information first.

"Pah, you actually made a separate map for us to test. How can I make money like this?"

The producer's lack of sincerity made some players who wanted to sneak in the game very dissatisfied.

However, most of the testers were only dissatisfied with the other party's arrangements. They had no complaints about the game itself.

Neither the common and obvious bugs nor the so-called equipment problems exist, and the quality of the game is even consistent with that of high-quality stand-alone games.

"What the hell, why is this weird item dropping?"

Because the number of monsters is limited and the mission items are dropped with probability, the Persian team has already wasted too much time in the same place.

Watching several teams slowly leave, he couldn't help but wonder if his luck was too bad.

"If you pull a few more groups of monsters, and you guys don't pick up anything, I don't believe I won't be able to get the quest item."

The task that Persia currently has to complete is [Investigate the Violent Lasher], which requires him to obtain 8 [Lasher Seeds] from monsters.

The level of [Furious Lasher] is 5. Compared with the level 1 [Whiplasher], they are red-named monsters that actively attack, and have bright red petals among the black thorns.

Players who complete the task can go deep into the jungle to hand in the seeds, and then they will receive experience and task rewards.

As more and more teams left, Persia had killed about 20 monsters, but still had not collected the last seed.

Fortunately, the "Five Mages" group did not leave. Synchronizer brother seemed to have encountered the same problem. They were more efficient in killing monsters, but they were also in worse situations.

When there were only two teams left in the field, the Persian team and the Synchronizer team stopped at the same time and thought carefully about the possible reasons.

“Is this game so smart? Can it distinguish between studios and non-studios?”

Even so, Persia was not convinced.

He is different from the group using the synchronizer. They are real people playing the game, investing five people's time and energy, and are no different from ordinary players.

"Boss, this crappy game is targeting us, why don't we quit and try another game?"

The younger brothers also noticed the problem, and they stepped forward to comfort their captain.

However, Persia waved his hand to stop his younger brother, and at the same time he quit the team and chose to try it alone.

"Trust your boss's intuition. This game will definitely have a future."

Persia's equipment was not bad either, and the green clothes that the team had obtained were also given to him. He just swung his sword and killed a thorn monster with two axes and a [charged attack].

Simply feeling around in the corpse, he successfully obtained the last seed.

"Although I'm not sure that you won't be targeted, you should also leave the team. Everyone should kill monsters alone. We will regroup after you have completed the task."

Persia also deliberately showed his spoils to the cheating player on the opposite side, which made Synchronizer Brother a little tempted.

"Solo play? It's worth a try."

The "Synchronizer" brother uses a desktop computer to log in, which is more convenient to operate and also helps him use scripts.

He immediately disbanded the "Five Mages" team with a flick of his finger, and then operated the main account to fight the monster alone.

He started casting spells after he got closer to the monster. Before he finished casting the second [Fire Arrow], the monster had already gotten close to him, causing his second spell to lack power.

Finally, the wizard used his wooden staff to hit the monster to death.

The Persian team watched as Brother Synchronizer killed the monster with difficulty, and then they all stopped to see if he had also escaped the system's sanctions.

"Brother, it seems he still failed."

Brother "Synchronizer" got nothing, and in a hurry he immediately targeted the second monster and started attacking.

Because he could never wait for the monster to get close to him when cheating, he didn't even notice that his character's health was only half left.

Sure enough, in the battle with the second monster, due to insufficient health and the mage's fragile body, Synchronizer brother died at the hands of an ordinary monster.

"Brother, I know that mages need to stay far away to use their skills. Isn't he seeking death by staying so close?"

The members of the Persian team shook their heads and continued to harvest the monsters around them.

But for Synchronizer Brother, something even worse happened.

Because the area they were in was full of red-name monsters, after canceling the team, the red-name monsters targeted the other mage accounts that were standing still.

While Synchronizer was still frantically preparing to resurrect, his other four accounts died one after another at the hands of monsters.

With a broken mind, he chose to quit the game and went straight to various discussion groups to tell his peers to stay away from this game.

……

"You can't cheat when playing games."

In the gray and white space, the game’s core AI “Xiao Nuo” is observing the 200 screens in front of him.

Although the fox as an image has only two eyes, it does not rely on its eyes to see, but uses information flow to process data.

Every move of the players is recorded by it. The recording scale of different devices is different. The main data contributors are players who use "holographic projection".

Xiao Nuo mastered key human body data during the learning process, and used this data to continuously optimize the character's movements, making players feel more and more real in the experience.

Dealing with cheating players and studios was just a small episode, but it also made it grow a little.

Although they are classified as "bad" players through algorithms, their behavior is indeed no different from that of ordinary "good" players.

So Xiao Nuo released the Persian team from the [African Targeting Group] and let them continue to experience the normal game content.

(End of this chapter)