I'm just an internet cafe owner

Unlimited money? Unlimited population? There are no limits.

And so, Nyaruko, standing at the highest point of the rooftop, unleashed her power.

As cosmic patrol officers, all members are forbidden from using their power to influence the development of any intelligent race. Generally speaking, this applies to one person, a few people, or even dozens or hundreds of people, but certainly not tens of thousands, and even more so to hundreds of thousands.

The power was probably locked down as soon as it was used, and then within ten minutes someone would definitely come to talk to the person who was courting death, and then that person would disappear from the face of the earth.

But now, this is a game world, and these people are truly just data. Nyaruko can't sense any of their faith in her, and their supposed intelligence is only manifested in the people they see. Nyaruko has also confirmed with Liu Yuan that these are just AI, and not artificial intelligence like the Tactical Dolls or YoRHa Dolls. Because all AI's core is the system, the player's actions in the game have absolutely no impact on the system.

As for powerful beings like Nyarlathotep, despite her unreliability and strict rules in reality, she is actually quite self-disciplined. She can clearly distinguish between the real and virtual worlds, and internet cafe games further reinforce this distinction to prevent players from letting their virtual world influence their real-world experiences.

Therefore, Nyaruko had no burden at all when doing what she was about to do.

Nyarko waved her arm, and a power that was beyond reason and whose name she could not speak of enveloped the entire city.

Nyarko, standing on the rooftop, shouted excitedly, "Citizens of my city! Your mayor has bestowed upon you boundless power!"

The power unique to the evil god enveloped the entire city. A metropolis with a population of fifty million was a bit of a challenge for Nyaruko, but this was a game world, and all the power was simulated by the system.

While divine power at the level of a circular truth is impossible to simulate, it is quite simple for a relatively strong individual life form within the world.

The power of the evil god instantly enveloped the entire city, and in that instant, the whole world went mad. Everyone working, living, and resting seemed to have had time stopped, frozen in place.

Then, 99 percent of the people died, and 1 percent of the people gained all of Nyarlathotep's power.

These living people can no longer be considered human, but rather... Nyaruko's retinue.

Although

Nyaruko couldn't feel any power of faith, and even the behavior of these people was somewhat monotonous, but she was satisfied with the extent to which they had done so.

A smug smile crept across her face as she pointed her right index finger to the sky and shouted, "Everyone, shout with me! Nyarlathotep is the best! Nyarlathotep is the best!"

In a city of fifty million, only one percent remained—a mere five hundred thousand people. These five hundred thousand people spontaneously gathered together, raising their arms and shouting along with Nyarlathotep. The scene was absolutely breathtaking, fulfilling Nyarlathotep's lifelong dream. And she could do this countless times, because she saved her game during her self-sacrifice!

These people who were chanting Nyarlathotep gradually lost their human form and began to resemble Nyarlathotep.

Under the system's influence, these evil god's followers wouldn't affect the consciousness of those watching Nyaruko play the game. At that moment, some of the people around Nyaruko looked at her game out of curiosity.

Everyone was shocked when they saw Nyarlathotep's screen.

"Blood sacrifice to the evil god!"

"The retinue of an evil god!"

"The Terminator of Humanity!"

"World Destroyer!"

In that instant, the little blue bird, acting as a notification, displayed several large, blood-red characters, which immediately caught the attention of passersby.

With 99% of the city's population wiped out, Nyarlathotep instantly went bankrupt, and the game ended. Game summary? She wasn't interested, but the game itself was truly exhilarating!

"This is amazing! This game is so awesome, I'm totally hyped! Waaaaah! Hey, internet cafe manager, a bottle of ice-cold cola, please!"

Nyarko sat happily in her chair, wiping away her tears. As a member of the Space Patrol, she knew how terrifying her organization was. Forget about killing; even bringing interesting entertainment products from Earth was strictly restricted.

The act of using the blood of an entire city? That's something you can only indulge in in a game. While building a city and attracting a population is incredibly difficult, all that difficulty is for the sake of that final moment of satisfaction.

There's absolutely no psychological burden; you can do whatever you want, especially in the realistic mode. For Nyaruko, this is the most realistic and reasonable game she can play.

Other games? Their realistic modes either restrict you to ordinary human bodies, have too few players, or are filled with gods. You can't do what you want, but here you completely liberate your body! An almost entirely realistic gaming experience.

She hadn't heard of anyone else playing this way yet, and since she couldn't keep this fun experience to herself, she immediately uploaded her own version to TT and shared her feelings.

Upon seeing this gameplay, Liu Yuan fell into deep thought. Her thought wasn't that Nyarlathotep was playing it this way, but rather that Nyarlathotep was the first to discover this gameplay? As a game published by Paradox Interactive, it would be quite difficult for the original version to achieve this level of skill.

However, according to the system, this hidden gameplay was specifically added to Skylines in Reality Mode to satisfy the peculiar desires of Paradox Interactive players. Not only that, if Liu Yuan unlocks other Paradox Interactive games in the future, it will only offer more freedom and more openness.

As long as your base character is strong enough, you can do anything you want in this game. Impact on reality? Like I said! There are millions of Paradox Interactive players, and I've never seen anyone become a war criminal.

Let alone war criminals, there are very few who have even committed crimes.

Chapter 295 Skyline: The Nine-Tailed Incident

"Interesting! Very interesting!"

Skylines games are not particularly difficult compared to other games; in fact, they could be considered educational games for children aged 9 and up.

However, the low difficulty does not mean the gameplay is poor. After Nyarlathotep created this gameplay that completely defies human logic, it became very popular among some players.

"Is that possible? Ah! That's amazing! I wish there was a meteor shower in the most bustling place!"

Nyarko was having more and more fun because she could reload her save an unlimited number of times and bankrupt herself in any way she liked.

While playing, she also discovered something: the game has an editor that allows players to create their own mods. Each player can contribute their own power to a mod and then upload it.

It can be free or paid, with system-suggested prices and a cap on mod charges.

However, Nyarko is a true fun-loving person. Although creating mods will cause her to lose a significant amount of power that she could recover within a few days, that still won't stop her. Of course, for the sake of her sustainable development, she charges a small fee.

"Hmm! Let me think of a name for this mod. I've got it! Let's call it 'Final Demonic Nyarlathotep'!"

Nyarko uploaded her edited mod. Her mod has a very simple effect: when the population reaches a certain level, it will trigger a buff that causes an "evil god" to descend.

Everyone will be turned into Nyarlathotep, shouting lines like "Nyarlathotep is the best!"

After all, Nyaruko hoped that this mod would allow her to recover some health instead of scaring other guests, so the power that her normal life could not accept had been blocked by the system.

She wasn't the only one in the internet cafe who was happy; there was another person or group of people there too.

Even the fox was happy.

Ever since Kushina started going to the internet cafe, Kurama (the Nine-Tails) has also been able to use its powers to access the internet cafe's games. Originally, it looked down on the city skyline; while Kurama wasn't inherently evil, it didn't have much affection for humans. Not only did it not destroy cities, but it even built them?

Of course, Kurama would never admit that he can't build cities.

Originally, Nine-Tails had completely forgotten about this game, but after seeing the game guide posted by Nyarlathotep, it fell silent.

It reluctantly spent more money to buy the game and entered the game.

Although the game itself is very difficult for it, the Nine-Tailed Fox is a creature with brains, and it can still learn.

First, there are small villages with a few people, then large villages with hundreds of people, then small towns with thousands of people, and finally small cities, medium-sized cities, and large cities.

Of course, all of this wasn't achieved by just one person, but by the combined efforts of the entire strategy team. The game's destructible nature led many people to join.

Those who possess power strictly limit their use of it. No matter what kind of being it is, if it uses its power indiscriminately for destruction and domination, such a being will not live long.

Even if we don't talk about anything far away, let's just talk about Althu. Even if Blank doesn't have the power of internet cafes, the strongest war god will eventually be defeated.

But the game world is different. When a completely virtual game exists where you can freely unleash your power, everyone wants to try it out.

After all, according to Nyaruko's explanation, once the save file is completed, the people in the save file can be messed with at will.

That's why the strategy team worked day and night.

Blank and the others mainly create high-end strategies, such as how to quickly reach a population of tens of millions. Tatsumi, on the other hand, is more practical. Because his world is already at war, he also needs to learn how to plan cities. Therefore, he uploads practical planning schemes, and knowing that he is not very bright, he makes his strategies into simple, easy-to-understand guides.

The development speed is very slow, but if we develop step by step, even if we make many mistakes along the way, as long as we succeed once, the city will gradually become a city with a population of tens of millions.

This is because the internet cafe's system is powerful enough. If it were a regular computer in the real world, let alone tens of millions, it would be a different story whether the computer could even withstand a traffic jam with tens of thousands of people without crashing.

On this day, humans on the horizon felt the fear emanating from the Tailed Beasts.

In Skyline, regardless of a city's population, the only institution of violence is the police station. The police station's highest-level equipment is handguns, but faced with the sudden appearance of the Nine-Tails, the entire city falls into terror.

"Help!"

"mom!"

"Monster!!"

Looking at the crowd, Kurama happily unleashed a Tailed Beast Ball.

Nine-Tails is simply a violent mode, while some players use more sophisticated techniques. Although the sense of accomplishment from creation is much stronger than that from destruction, often the thrill of destruction is more direct when you're looking for that one jolt.

What's more, this game has save files! With save files, no one will care how much you mess things up. Because you can just load the save and start over in a different way.

Many players now get a tattoo of a player in the game, because they believe that even the most wicked demons wouldn't do the things that Satan does.

Can you believe that someone would use a nuclear bomb to destroy a city just to see a fireworks display? Or that someone would create a sea of ​​excrement upstream of a city's river, just to watch everyone be drowned in it and helpless?

As a result, under Nyarlathotep's influence, more and more unserious players emerged.

The internet cafe staff also noticed this trend.

"Boss... will these players' actions in the game... have any impact on reality?"

This was a concern from Yuna Takashima. Having played the game, she could understand such behavior. However, she worried that players might do the same in real life, which would mean the internet cafe was helping others destroy the world.

Before Liu Yuan could speak, Mu Geng interjected, "Absolutely not. Look at them, they act like saints after every game. I doubt any real-life killing could interest them..."

Aside from the desire for destruction and the existence of destruction itself, many people destroy for a specific purpose or for a fleeting moment of pleasure. But here's the problem: if it's for a specific purpose, the combined power of multiple worlds is certainly more substantial than simple destruction.

As for the sheer enjoyment, the game can completely satisfy that need, even exceed it. After all, in reality, there aren't that many cities with tens of millions of inhabitants destroyed, but in the game, you can use any method you like in different ways, and you can even buy DLC uploaded by other players to experience all sorts of wonderful fun.

The DLCs are generally inexpensive, ranging from ten to twenty yuan, but they are definitely worth the price. Experience nuclear bombs, experience celestial bodies, experience the power of evil gods.

You could even raise "gu" in the game, turning one city into an evil god and the other into zombies, and then watch them fight each other.

This is cheap pleasure for anyone, but after experiencing the feeling of a city being destroyed in a virtual world, many people feel empty and have no motivation in reality.

Inside Konoha Village, Kushina was completely speechless.

"what happened?"

Minato Namikaze noticed that his wife was unwell and asked her about it with concern, while Kushina showed him the image of the Nine-Tails inside her.

Nine-Tails was lying on the sofa, holding a can of cola and potato chips in its arms, muttering to itself...

"I'm going to die without a skyline."

Chapter 296 The System Has a Bold Idea

The sudden popularity of City Skyline actually exceeded Liu Yuan's expectations. He originally thought that when players discovered this hidden gameplay, it would at most cause a small-scale explosion of interest.

But I never expected it to become so popular.

The speed at which players created DLC even exceeded Liu Yuan's expectations. He had originally planned to release a few interesting DLCs to make some money after everyone discovered the fun.

As it turned out, the players' imaginations ran wild, and the DLC they created was more interesting than many of the system's offerings, so the idea was abandoned.

Of course, it wasn't just the players who were having fun with this game; Liu Yuan was also having a great time.

It costs money for someone else to play a game and use DLC, but for the owner to play the game in their own store is a freebie.

Just as he was playing, Jibril suddenly came over and whispered in Liu Yuan's ear in a very soft voice, "Boss, do you have any more games like this? I want more."