Reincarnation NPC, but Arknights

In the previous version, the player's teleportation ability was adjusted. The effect was changed from being able to teleport anytime and anywhere to requiring the player to be out of combat and only being able to use it in areas where teleportation was permitted.

Teleportation requires a loading time, during which the character must remain stationary. The old trick of teleporting while moving became a thing of the past.

Bai Ye didn't know why teleportation was suddenly cut, but according to rumors from his previous life, it was because the existence of this skill greatly reduced the cost of players committing crimes, which could easily affect the game's balance.

Judging from what is happening right now, that is indeed the case.

The game system encourages green gaming, but moderate crime and destruction are not prohibited, although the risks are high and the consequences of mistakes are costly.

The current teleportation skill is making it far too convenient for players to do bad things. High returns, low risk, it's really not a good sign.

Bai Ye sighed softly as the police, who arrived late, cordoned off the scene.

Clearly, they will not gain anything.

Bai Ye began to feel a growing unease about the relationship between the players and the native inhabitants.

In the past, as one of the players, he obviously didn't have to consider such things. If a major conflict really broke out, he would definitely stand on the side of the players. But now, things are not so simple.

Bai Ye doesn't belong to this land, nor does he belong to the players. Perhaps he can stand by and do nothing, or perhaps he can stand in the middle as a bridge between the two sides.

"Is this the meaning of my existence?"

Bai Ye vaguely gained some insights.

After staring at the burning car for a while, Bai Ye sighed softly and left the scene.

As he walked, he unconsciously scratched his right arm.

Ever since that night, Bai Ye's right arm has been experiencing strange itching from time to time.

However, no debuffs were displayed on the game system panel.

It wasn't because Bai Ye was itching to fight, or because he was genuinely suffering from a nervous breakdown and having delusions. Bai Ye suspected that it was the nascent soul imprisoned in his arm causing trouble.

The reason why his arm suddenly displayed a power that was definitely not his own was probably because of this.

As for the "firstborn," it was Skadi who told Baiye that it was the name given to the sea-descending beings in the deep sea. They were similar to giant beasts on land, possessing bodies and powers like those of giant beasts. The sea-descending beings and terror fish in the deep sea now are their offspring.

Bai Ye carefully checked his game system attribute panel again, and everything was normal.

Aside from some changes to the [Divine Possession] talent section, an awakening progress bar has been added to the details page.

"I hope everyone is alright..."

Bai Ye felt that things were probably piling up on him, players and natives, the land and the sea... What if one day demons possessed him too? That would truly be a chaotic free-for-all.

The contents of his body could fill a whole mahjong table.

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After getting close to the base station, Bai Ye turned on the signal receiver.

This is a modified communication device. After the signal is transmitted, it will automatically search for a valid port, then perform secondary transmission, eliminate traces, until it reaches the target port.

This is a communication device that Rhodes Island's engineering department replicated after cracking the signal transmitter on the experimental equipment purchased by Rhine Lab from White Nights.

Due to the high production cost, only a few units are currently in use. The one Bai Ye is holding is one of them.

After connecting the receiving port and the terminal, Bai Ye saw the message that Himer had sent him.

“Mansfield Prison…Newlayburg.” After reading the message Hamer sent him, Bai Ye realized just how much time that taciturn, bespectacled Liberi woman had spent planning this.

Her plan had been going on for almost six months. In the letter, she even claimed that four months ago, she had already sent an inside agent to the prison.

However, none of this really mattered to Bai Ye, since his existence was probably just to ensure the escape plan would go smoothly; he was a backup plan and trump card that Hemer had found.

In fact, Bai Ye had his own purpose. On this land, Colombia is one of the few countries with a relatively well-developed judicial and prison system. Bai Ye planned to personally enter the prison to conduct a thorough "inspection" and see what the prison, known as the "most heavily guarded" in his previous life, was really like.

A prison will definitely be built in the core city of Chernobog later, and we can learn from the ideas here.

Of course, this was just an excuse Bai Ye came up with on the spot. The real reason he chose to help Himer was because the matter was quite interesting.

Moreover, most ruthless people have the experience of enlightenment in Longchang, and Bai Ye also wanted to join in the fun and "study" properly.

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White Night gave Miss Snow Chicks ample travel expenses, allowing her to return to Lungmen first, and then set off with Skadi towards Neweburg City.

According to Hammer's intelligence, Mansfield Prison is currently docked in the port area of ​​Neweilburg, and they are planning to break out from there at this time.

In fact, even though Himer was previously a "good girl" who knew nothing about the illegality of prison break, her escape plan did have some feasibility. It just goes to show, don't mess with scientists. Their way of thinking allows them to master a completely unfamiliar field in a short time.

According to a certain prison escape expert, to escape from a prison, three elements need to be met: the guards' routines, the prison layout, and backup.

Hamer met all three requirements, and clearly she did everything she could to achieve it.

Actually, she wasn't very confident herself, but after Bai Ye agreed to join, she inexplicably gained a lot more confidence.

……

"Are we going to prison now?" Miss Skadi, sitting in the cockpit, asked curiously.

"Yes, we are going to seek enlightenment."

Bai Ye replied with great interest.

However, what he didn't know was that this trip to Longchang was actually far more chaotic than he had anticipated.

Chapter 57 Lucky E Player

The chaos began with a minor update that didn't require system downtime.

Just as Bai Ye arrived in Neweilburg, the game's official team suddenly released an announcement to all players:

Thank you for your interest and support of Arknights Online. We plan to perform a non-downtime update from 16:00 to 16:10 Earth time.

The game version has been updated to 2.0.1.

[Update Content: The teleportation mechanism has been modified, and a red zone has been added where players are prohibited from teleporting. The inventory mechanism has been modified, reducing the maximum stack size of items.]

Server fluctuations may occur during the update. Please ensure your game character is in a safe location during the update. —Arknights Online Operations Team

This sudden update really surprised the players.

Bai Ye was the same; he hadn't expected the game system to make changes to the teleportation mechanism so quickly.

He knew this day would come, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

For some players, however, this update is not good news.

Some of the players are "Arknights scholars," who, after referencing the 1.0 version of the game, discovered a pattern: this game doesn't undergo constant minor version updates like other games.

Therefore, they once confidently declared that the "Bingxue Building" had been completed once again, and the next version update would definitely be a leapfrog update from version 2.0 to 3.0.

Then... they were betrayed by the game's official team.

The system has learned to update to a minor version!

For a normal game, this is normal operation. What online game would jump directly from version 1.0 to version 2.0?

However, for the scholars of shipbuilding, their edifice of pie theory has collapsed once again...

Besides the scholars who felt betrayed, some players were also unhappy.

They had been imprisoned by the indigenous people, who planned to leave using teleportation. However, after the update, the area they were in became a no-teleportation zone.

Now they're stuck.

Coincidentally, there was such a group of players in Mansfield Jail in Newreiburg.

To be honest, they weren't imprisoned for committing crimes. One reason these guys were able to go to jail was the misconduct of some research institutions in Colombia.

As mentioned before, after the emergence of the player group, various political entities on Terra have developed a strong interest in them.

Perhaps the most radical groups were some mages in Letania and several research institutions in Colombia.

Letania was the first to take action. Some of the nobles, who had no moral bottom line, and even more so the mages, had managed to capture some players and conduct biological and magical experiments on them.

Following the publication of Bai Ye's academic papers and books, some research institutions in Colombia also arrested some players, hoping to find the secret of these immortals' resurrection after death through human experiments.

Of course, all these experiments failed, since the unique characteristics of the players are already well-established.

However, normal players can't stand such bizarre human experiments. After all, in a game, breaking through the fourth wall can be considered an Easter egg, but being tied to a bed and watching your stomach being cut open is already horrifying and can hardly be considered a game Easter egg.

That's how the feud began.

Players are incredibly vengeful creatures. They won't let anything that has offended them get away with it.

Perhaps at first they were not strong enough to win, and ultimately had no choice but to give up.

But you should never underestimate these guys' determination to seek revenge.

They will endure, quietly leveling up, completing quests, purchasing equipment to improve themselves, constantly honing their skills, and gathering allies and forces. Finally, they will return with renewed vigor, once, twice, three times... until they finally annihilate the enemy, reducing them to ashes, only then will they be satisfied.

After the 2.0 version update, some players set their sights on the research institutions that had previously kidnapped them.

This laboratory is nominally a private research institution, but in reality, they have received investment from a beach umbrella company and are secretly working for the beach umbrella company.

The idea of ​​kidnapping players for human experimentation and research came from Beach Umbrella.

In retaliation, the players decide to destroy the research institute. Some of them deliberately disguise themselves as scavengers and are captured by the lab once again. They then plan to work together from the inside to achieve their goal.

However, things didn't go as planned. Originally, these players could have been teleported away from the laboratory, but unfortunately, the game version was suddenly updated, and their game character status turned into a red "imprisoned" state, making direct teleportation impossible.

Moreover, just before the players were about to launch their attack, the lab suddenly transferred them to Mansfield Prison.

The player's plan failed, and even the bait was lost.

Therefore, when Bai Ye brought Skadi close to Mansfield Prison, they saw a large group of players discussing how to rescue their companions near the docking area.

……

"Wait, that NPC is Bai Ye?!"

"Impossible! How could Bai Ye be here? According to the intelligence, shouldn't he be in Ursus?"

"Exactly, it can't possibly be Bai Ye. If it really is him, I'll stand upside down and fan you with a speed of five!"

When the players saw Bai Ye from afar, they could hardly believe their eyes. It wasn't until Bai Ye got closer that they confirmed his identity from the name above his head and the extremely dangerous symbol.

They were very surprised.

Bai Ye has somehow wandered off to Colombia again and appeared here!

……

Bai Ye himself was also surprised. The sudden appearance of such a large group of players here easily led people to think that they had some ideas about this prison.

Later, during his interactions with the players, Bai Ye learned that some of them were imprisoned and that they had decided to rescue their companions.

"...That's really unlucky. No wonder the name Mansfield Prison sounded familiar."

Bai Ye was speechless; these players were incredibly unlucky. He had heard about this in his previous life, but the difference was that teleportation hadn't been nerfed so early back then, so these players were teleported out directly.

Now, for some reason, the game version update has been brought forward. Version 2.0.1 prohibits players in abnormal states from teleporting directly, so these players are also trapped in the prison.

Bai Ye was just watching the show, but when he heard the player mention "Beach Umbrella Company," he suddenly got excited.

I have a grudge against this company.

Previously, a deliveryman from this company had tried to steal his equipment and money, and Bai Ye got angry as soon as he heard the company's name.

So, he decided to get involved.

Chapter 58 Professional Team

Skadi seemed to have seen through Bai Ye's plan, and tugged at Bai Ye's sleeve.

"Hmm?" Bai Ye lowered his head slightly, and then the girl leaned close to Bai Ye's ear and whispered, "Are you planning to ask them for help?"

Bai Ye felt a slight itch in his ears, and Skadi's breath as she spoke gave him a subtle feeling.

He took a deep breath, then nodded and replied softly, "While they aren't particularly strong, they are enough to cause us chaos—and this isn't just about helping our Rhodes Island neighbors; it also involves personal grudges."

Skadi nodded, then added, "Please be careful, I have a bad feeling about this."

Bai Ye looked down at his right hand.

Did she sense something?

Without continuing to think about it, Bai Ye turned to look at the player standing to one side.

These guys are filled with righteous indignation and are gathering men, but judging from their plans, it seems they are preparing a sneak attack.