Necromancer chopping down trees

Chapter 73: Offline Condemnation
Players were forced to withdraw one after another, and the battle on the snowfield stopped temporarily, but the strong wind was still blowing the snowflakes, and the snowmen guarding the positions seemed to have suddenly entered hibernation, quietly waiting for the players to come online again.

"What happened? Why are all those adventurers gone?"

Halfway through the battle, the adventurers suddenly disappeared, and Rogge could only ask Wang Yue beside him.

"Eh? Why didn't you notice them disappearing yesterday?"

"Yesterday? I have no recollection."

Wang Yue felt that Rogge was a little strange.

Generally speaking, NPCs will deliberately avoid asking about the player's situation, but this Rogue actually discovered that the player had disappeared. Perhaps this was another BUG.

"Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. I am the one who is taking the test."

Wang Yue patted Rogge's head and told him not to think too much.

Now that the fighting was paused, he had the chance to find help.

"Humph, if the trial didn't concern my life, I wouldn't ask so many questions."

Rogge looked at Wang Yue's leaving back thoughtfully.

Beside him, the surviving cat people were carrying the bodies of the victims.

After the bodies of these [Cat Guards] are carried to the side of the ice sculpture, the dead cats will slowly stand up under the gaze of the [Cat Queen], then pick up their weapons again and rush towards the passage to guard the fortress.

"It looks much more convenient than my Undead Summoning. Unfortunately, after resurrection, its strength is just cannon fodder."

Wang Yue watched the resurrected cat people passing by him, and he couldn't help but wonder what the difference was between these guards and the monsters in the wild.

"Guards will help in battle, monsters can gain experience and items, and they will be refreshed and resurrected after death, so it seems that there is no difference."

When the battle started, Wang Yue thought that there would be some differences between the three "Doraemi" leaders of the cat people.

Apart from being able to cast a small BUFF that increases the attack power of the cat-people, there is no difference in their individual combat power, and they can still be destroyed by three [Ice Arrows].

"After searching for a long time, I found that only this transmission node is useful."

Wang Yue had already received the information about the activation of the teleportation array, but he had not touched the array in the castle yet. Now he had to go back and deal with the teleportation point on the other side.

"As long as the teleportation array is open, I will bring in a large group of people to help, but I have to find a suitable reason and it must not be discovered by the players."

Wang Yue took out the [Teleportation Pocket Watch] and instantly disappeared from the [Ice Fortress] and returned to the ancient castle in the blink of an eye.

After the players were forced to log off, major social media platforms were in an uproar.

In addition to the group of players participating in the internal test, more participants are "cloud players" who watch the live broadcast, as well as righteous people who come after hearing about it.

There have been countless posts attacking game companies and venting emotions.

[Denounce Wang Yue and Penguin Games, and restore freedom to the gaming world]

[We were not defeated by the Yeti, we were just backstabbed by Penguin]

The higher you are praised on the first day, the harder you will fall on the second day.

Most of the players who started criticizing the game for being inexplicably shut down were the ones who came out to praise it on the first day, including the news writer "Paocai".

Paocai lurks among ordinary players. Although his operating skills are indeed poor, a mage who only needs to cast a [Fire Arrow] does not require much operation.

The battle had constant twists and turns. The players who took the lead in the charge were wiped out by monsters. After successfully defending, they were opened up by the enemy from the front. Finally, they were forced to go offline just after clearing a wave of enemies.

Watching the snowmen fall one after another, the new player Paocai felt his own value and was even more angry about the final forced logoff.

[A perfect campaign, a player who never gives up, but ultimately lost to a bad operational plan]

Players protested one after another, which had a bad impact on the game itself.

But there is also an advantage, which is that it made this game, which had only been in internal testing for two days, popular again, and also saved Maple Leaf's reputation.

Originally, there would be players or viewers complaining that her strategy had ruined many players, but with the tricky operation of "Xiao Nuo", everyone's attention was focused on the "forced offline" issue, and the little female anchor naturally did not make much movement.

"Haven't you contacted Wang Yue yet? Our service records show that it was the game system that issued the offline command."

"His phone is turned off and his emails have not been replied yet. Our technicians are trying to find the interface to open the server, but it seems that all the permissions are in his hands."

"Let them work overtime. They must spend the night on this."

Within Penguin, Dolly had already personally recruited many programmers to the project team in advance.

Because this incident happened suddenly, she didn't expect to be offline early.

However, due to the unprecedented popularity of the game, the project cannot be cancelled. She must learn from Wang Yue the reason for the advance and also find a way to obtain the rights to the game.

"I hope it wasn't his own doing. How am I going to write a report to the board of directors explaining this? It's such a pain."

Dolly played an indispensable role in ensuring that Wang Yue's game could successfully enter the internal test phase, and she also assumed the responsibility. Now that there are problems with the game, she cannot escape responsibility.

"Sister Li, your sister is looking for you."

"Fat cat?"

Dolly would have rejected Fat Cat because she was so busy right now, but since they started playing the game together, she and Fat Cat have been interacting more, which is a good thing.

"Have her come to my office."

Before Dolly even reached the office, she saw the fat cat already sitting at her seat.

Although he was a little angry, he still asked her directly why she came to see him.

"I want you to help me find Wang Yue's whereabouts."

"Wang Yue? I was just about to look for him. I haven't contacted him other than through email for many days."

Dolly now felt something was wrong. It was reasonable that Wang Yue could only reply via email occasionally due to being busy, but Wang Yue was an idle person. How could he always be busy and unable to call or video chat?

Fat Cat told Dolly the reason Wang Yue gave for why he went to the Beautiful Country, but Dolly knew there were many loopholes as soon as she heard it.

This kind of news can be known by checking the customs information whether he has gone out or not. Moreover, as a producer, his own game is currently being tested, so how could he go abroad for vacation?

"I suspect he may have been kidnapped, so he can only be contacted through email."

Fat Cat originally wanted to say that she had been contacted in the game, but she wanted to keep this secret with Wang Yue, so she only told Dolly half of the truth.

"Kidnapping?"

Dolly suddenly realized.

This must be because the game has already signed a contract with Penguin, but was picked up by another company.

Given the popularity of the game, the company that kidnapped Wang Yue ordered him to breach the contract, thereby forcibly terminating the cooperation and handing the game over to another company.

"But we are just speculating now. I already have some targets of gaming companies. The police will not take action without evidence."

"Well, I just came to tell you about this anyway."

Although the fat cat didn't quite understand what was said, she knew it would be fine if she gave it to Dolly.

The two people certainly could not have imagined that the so-called competing company did not exist, and the one that actually kidnapped Wang Yue was the game they were playing.

(End of this chapter)