Necromancer chopping down trees

Chapter 76 Reality Response
On the way back to the Ice Fortress, Wang Yue slapped his head and thought of something important that he might have forgotten.

"It's over. The next day, the internal test players suddenly went offline. Maybe Penguin sent me a lawyer's letter."

This forced offline operation was entirely carried out by Xiao Nuo, but the game AI cannot go to jail. Only the producer Wang Yue will receive a court summons.

"It's time to use my many years of connections. I can't let the game stop here."

The worst outcome would be the termination of cooperation with Penguin Company. Once the server is shut down, he would be trapped in the game world forever, with no chance of recovery.

If there was another power outage, Wang Yue might really disappear from the world.

"Let me see, the mailbox is full."

In addition to Penguin, some "enthusiastic friends" from other companies also sent emails to inquire about the situation. Most people wanted to know why such a bold move happened and whether Wang Yue had fallen ill again.

In addition to business emails, Wang Yue also received messages from her real friends asking about the situation.

【Wang Yue, can you tell me what happened? 】

Fat Cat sent a message asking Wang Yue to explain why he didn't answer the phone and didn't show up at the apartment.

"How can I reply? Should I say that I was teleported to the game world?"

Wang Yue thought about it and realized that lies can only be covered up by more lies, so the only reasonable and realistic way is to let a stranger take the blame.

[I reply with my conscience, please don’t tell others]

Wang Yue stroked his beardless chin and thought of the largest group in Fudu City, the Star Group. Even Penguin Company should not be qualified to investigate this group.

[I actually work for the Stellar Group. Their top executives have taken a liking to my game, but they don’t want to take drastic action to acquire the game. They also ordered the players to log off the game.]

In order to prevent her good friend from causing trouble, Wang Yue wrote a reassuring message at the end of the email.

[I am temporarily working in their company. They gave me a lot of money and asked me to stick with them until the game is launched, so that I don’t run away with the money. Once I finish this order, I will take you to the best Chinese restaurant.]

"Phew, it looks perfect."

After dealing with Fat Cat’s email, Wang Yue saw another email that Dolly sent to her using her personal email address.

"The stick picks up the sun and the moon,

Bamboos are placed in the monks' kitchen.
Let the frost and snow trap us,
Back to the sky wall,
The second difficulty is this.”

The email with the title "Empty" turned out to contain a five-character poem, and the meaning was very confusing. It was impossible to understand the meaning of the poem.

Wang Yue read for a long time with her poor Chinese language level, and in the end she could only connect the first words of each sentence together.

"Kidnapped, then returned. Two?"

The so-called "return 2" is a code word in online games.

In order to facilitate replying in the game, players uniformly reply "1" to represent "OK". If they need to reply "2", it is generally used when checking "slackers" or expressing "negation".

Of course Wang Yue understood what Dolly meant, but he didn't expect that the woman who always opposed him would actually care about him for once. It was really rare.

"Then I'll just reply to her directly."

Wang Yue replied to Dolly with the reason she gave to Fat Cat the first time. He had no idea that the two sisters who had a bad relationship had already communicated with each other, and the reason of "going abroad" had been seen through by Dolly.

Sure enough, after receiving Wang Yue’s reply, Dolly frowned.

Since Wang Yue replied in this way, it naturally means that he understood the meaning of the acrostic poem. Since he responded with a lie, it can only prove that Dolly's "kidnapping" guess is correct.

"Excluding a few competitors, the group is the only one in this city that has the ability to take Wang Yue away without alerting the police."

This is exactly what worries Dolly. No matter how rich her family is, facing a wealthy and powerful group, the family is still weak.

After weighing the relationship between the two, Dolly temporarily put Wang Yue's matter aside.

She could only place her hopes on the company's technical staff, and it was her job to ensure that the game went on normally on the third day.

Wang Yue hurriedly responded to various official emails, apologizing where necessary and lying where necessary.

As the saying goes, it’s the people you speak to that have the best possible tone. He had a million excuses to cover up the sudden closure of the game, and he also had a lot of pitiful words to use to deal with old friends.

In short, thanks to Wang Yue's thick skin and years of network of relationships, the commercial impact of this incident in the industry has temporarily slowed down its expansion.

However, the netizens cannot be stopped from talking, and the only way to save the reputation is to rely on the internal beta test on the third day.

"I'm so tired. Compared with hunting elite monsters, it's so boring and tedious."

The silent assassination was certainly exciting, but Wang Yue didn't expect that she could succeed without attracting other monsters.

What he could not have imagined was that after this battle, [Dead Sailor] was upgraded from level 10 to level 11.

Although the appearance of the living dead has not changed, the improvement in their strength means that they have a promising future.

[The Dead Boatswain] returned to the Ice Fortress carrying the head of an elite snowman, and led the sailors to triumph under the watch of the [Cat Guards].

After placing the head at the foot of the ice sculpture, all the cat people knelt down and bowed to these outsiders.

"Hero, we have waited for many years, and finally, Meow, the hero who will save us has arrived."

The cat people led by [Duoduo] looked at Wang Yue expectantly, and a new task appeared on his game interface.

[Mission Objective: Investigate the truth behind the Snowman attack]

[Quest Reward: Command of the Ice Cat People]

"Cat people are very comfortable to touch, but unfortunately I am not a fan of Furui."

Although the cat people's level is a little low, fortunately there are a large number of them, and the Ice Fortress can be used as Wang Yue's second base.

Moreover, the living dead can upgrade their levels. As long as Wang Yue trains them well, these cat people may become stronger in the future.

"Not only will I complete the trial, but I will also find a way to prevent you from being attacked by snowmen in the future."

Wang Yue patted his chest and accepted the cat people's request.

After he accepted the mission, the busy Rogge returned to the Ice Fortress. The snow on his head had not melted yet, and his lips had turned slightly purple due to the cold.

"I have completed the task you assigned to me."

Rogge was shivering. The poor priest was ordered by Wang Yue to dig through the snow with his bare hands.

This time, Wang Yue gave all his remaining first-level bone fragments to Rogge, so that he could summon more [Skeleton Hounds] when the players logged in the next day.

"Oh, by the way, why don't you just hide in the snow and wait for my order to appear again."

Wang Yue looked at the zombies who had completed their mission, and suddenly thought that they could also disguise themselves as her summoned creatures.

If players saw that they suddenly summoned 20 zombies of the same level, their evaluation of themselves would probably go up a level.

The [Dead Sailors] who only obeyed orders returned to the ice field again. They made blankets for themselves with the snow outside the fortress and then buried themselves in it.

Wang Yue also considerately stepped on the ground one by one to ensure that there were no flaws from the outside.

"Okay, this is a perfect exit plan."

(End of this chapter)