Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 756: Chapter 716: Players’ Evil Points?

“When can we raise children in the virtual world?”

This sudden whimsical question from Camille Victoria had been raised by others before.

Some of them were infertile, some had unexpectedly lost their children, some were determinedly single, while some were just ordinary people, even those who already had children.

The first and third types of people shared the same appeal: they hoped to satisfy the desire to be parents in the virtual world, to have a child they could see, touch, embrace, and kiss, one who had enough wisdom and was as similar to reality as possible.

The second type hoped to “resurrect” their lost children in the virtual world with the help of Cloud Dream.

But Lincoln didn’t plan to satisfy any of them – although with the support of secondary artificial intelligence technology, Cloud Dream had the potential to do so.

In Lincoln’s view, this was a very sensitive and uncertain matter, much more complicated than allowing users to be affectionate in the virtual world.

In the short term, it certainly could bring about many wonderful things.

But in the long run, it could lead to serious consequences.

It must be handled with great caution.

*

After sleeping for another 10 minutes, Connar drowsily opened her eyes again and greeted Camille Victoria, “Good morning, sister.”

“Good morning, little Connar,” Camille Victoria happily replied and couldn’t help asking her a question, “Why did you arrive so late last night, Connar?”

Connar shrank her neck in fear and said, “There were many bad guys looking for Connar yesterday. Connar hid, so she was late. Sorry.”

“Ah, this…” Camille Victoria was at a loss for words.

She was partly responsible for this too. If it weren’t for her livestream revealing Connar’s appearance, Connar wouldn’t have been hunted down and blocked.

“Were you found by anyone, Connar?”

“Yes, Connar was discovered six times, and two people invited me to their homes to play.”

“Are you going to go?” Camille Victoria was a bit nervous. She wanted Connar to stay at her place all the time.

Connar shook her head, “No, they are all bad people.”

“Ah?” Hearing this, Camille Victoria suddenly realized a problem:

Just now, Connar said there were “bad guys” looking for her- not because the players were looking for her, but perhaps for other reasons. Because Camille Victoria herself had rushed over and hugged Connar the moment she saw her, but Connar calmly came to her place and wasn’t afraid of her.

She couldn’t help but ask, “Connar, why do you say they are bad people?”

Connar tilted her head, thinking for a moment, and answered, “Because when they got close to Connar, Connar smelled something ominous, the scent of killing and death. Connar was a little scared.”

“Killing and death?” Camille Victoria subconsciously repeated.

Is it because the players are constantly fighting and killing each other?

But wasn’t the [Fire Dragon Invasion] an event in the Metropolis? Which player in “Assassins’ Alliance” doesn’t have (virtual) lives on their hands?

Even if you just cleared the game, you would have the lives of hundreds of people on your hands.

If you count the battles between players, the number is even more exaggerated, with tens of millions of players dying during the [Freedom Day] event alone.

“So… Do I have that kind of smell?” While asking, Camille Victoria foolishly sniffed herself.

“No, you don’t.” Connar happily shook her head.

Connar’s answer made Camille Victoria even more puzzled.

As a professional anchor, she played all the way through the game without missing any events, so logically (virtually) she shouldn’t have a small number of lives on her hands…

But Connar said that she had no such smell.

So, what exactly did Connar base her judgment on?

Camille Victoria couldn’t figure it out.

She was about to ask when Connar rubbed her eyes and sat up, indicating that she was going to continue playing.

Camille Victoria hurriedly invited Connar to come again tonight and to visit anytime in the future.

Connar happily nodded, bounced out of bed and left the bedroom.

Camille Victoria followed her out but did not see Connar’s figure – the little girl had already run away.

Camille Victoria was stunned for a moment and then went offline to eat breakfast.

But before she prepared breakfast, she opened the shopping app and ordered a wooden fish.

— Even though Connar said she didn’t have the smell of death on her, she still planned to chant for the players and creatures who had died by her hands, to increase her merit.

Connar’s words made her realize something: it was very likely that some acts of killing in the virtual world might affect how virtual characters treated her.

Maybe Cloud Dream secretly set up “Evil Value” and “Character Value” systems for players, just hiding them from the players.

Her “Evil-ness” being able to pass Connar’s test doesn’t mean it would pass with others in the future.

So, it’s better to commit fewer killings.

…

Half an hour later, Camille Victoria started her live stream on time, logged into the Metropolis, and faced the second giant dragon.

Yesterday before bed, she glanced at the news and learned that Connar’s aunt — the Fire Dragon lady had completely taken off.

The one who took over the “Find the Child” task turned out to be a green dragon, who seemed to be another of Connar’s aunts.

But to keep the “First-look” effect during the live broadcast, Camille Victoria didn’t watch too much.

This led to her staring blankly at the screen when she logged into the Metropolis today.

Having previously experienced fighting the Fire Dragon, she thought she would face ruins again, but she never expected to see a forest!

An astonishingly lush forest!

Countless towering giant trees burst through steel and concrete buildings, asphalt roads were covered with grass and bushes, fire hydrants burst one after another, spraying water, moss, and ivy spread wildly…

As far as the eye could see, green prevailed.

The metropolis’ steel forest had disappeared overnight and turned into a fantastical primordial jungle!

Camille Victoria stared at the transformed landscape for a while, dumbfounded.

After all, destroying a metropolis wouldn’t shock her — even if the Fire Dragon’s rain of fire fell from the sky, melting steel and turning the ground into solidified lava, she would only be awestruck.

These scenes were within her frame of reference.

But overnight, a huge primordial forest was created from thin air…

This was simply… beyond her imagination!

And when the battle started, she realized: she had marveled too early.

When the green Plant Dragon appeared, it looked much less imposing than the Fire Dragon due to being only half the size.

However, when it flew at low altitude, Camille Victoria immediately found: its agility was streets ahead of the Fire Dragon’s.

And under the cover of dense trees, it was difficult for heavy weapons to hit her.

Even rifles were inconvenient, as it was challenging to find a long enough bullet path that wouldn’t be hindered by trunks.

Once the fight started, everyone had no choice but to charge headlong at it.

What’s more troublesome: the road was severely damaged, cars couldn’t be driven — you could only choose a motorbike or a bicycle.

Camille Victoria, arriving just 5 minutes before the fight began, couldn’t even grab a bike, so she had to run on foot.

While running and watching the Plant Dragon flying low overhead, she couldn’t help but think: “It would be great if I could bring the Grappling Hook here.”

— The Grappling Hook is unique to the hunting ship on Dinosaur Island and can only be acquired after successfully hunting 30 prey, then taking on the “Forge Hook Claw” task on the ship.

Yesterday, after bidding farewell to Connar, Camille Victoria had been searching for special minerals and successfully forged it just before bedtime.

After trying it once, she immediately fell in love with the joy of soaring through the air.

When hunting large prey several stories high, the hook was especially useful — not only could it anchor the prey’s body and quickly close the distance, but it also provided incredible mobility using tall trees.

If she had it now, she might be able to latch onto the Green Dragon and follow it directly.

Unfortunately, the Grappling Hook is from another game, and Camille Victoria had already tried yesterday but couldn’t bring it here.

Now, all she could do was sigh helplessly.

But as she was sighing, she suddenly saw a grappling hook shoot out of the ruined building on the fourth floor, precisely colliding with and automatically wrapping around the dragon’s claw!

The next moment, a player flew out holding onto the rope, grabbed the Grappling Hook tightly with both hands, and quickly climbed towards the dragon!

“!!!” Camille Victoria’s eyes widened instantly.

“This is impossible! How did he bring it here?!”n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om