Chapter 56

Chapter 56: The Peerless Garlic (10)

Translator: Sigma Editor: Sigma

The Peerless Garlic Chapter (10)

"Too bad," Pan Feng muttered .

"Has he heard that?" Hua Xiong also lowered his voice .

"I’m just a couple meters away from you . Do you think whispering works?" Feng Bujue said .

"Yeah . . . Ha, ha . . . It’s . . . " Pan Feng was about to answer him, but Feng Bujue interrupted, "Before you make up your lie with a smile, I should tell you that I don’t think you are using Auto [1] to play the game since your behaviors don’t look like ones . Obviously, you are Dream Inc . ’s staff . I don’t know whether you are GMs (Game Master) or not, but I’m sure you don’t want your jobs to be exposed to the light . " His eyes raked over Pan Feng and Hua Xiong, indicating that he was about to tell the key points . "Tell us the actual situation . We will work with you guys . And, when this scenario is done, we promise to keep it on the down low . If not, I will enrich what happened today, add interesting details like oil or vinegar, divide them into many chapters as that of a novel, and post them at many different big forums to ask for benefits . "

"Argh, wait a minute," Hua Xiong answered, "let us discuss for a moment . "

"As you wish," Feng Bujue said then turned around, walking away from them .

The other two then left the broken glass wall, came into a corner of the room and started whispering . Five minutes later, they came back .

Pan Feng spoke to Feng Bujue and Little Tan, "Alright, what do you want to know?"

"Who are you? What are you doing here? What is the true plot of this scenario?" Feng Bujue spit out really quick as he had soon thought about the questions he would ask them .

"You’re not wrong, we are Game Masters," Hua Xiong said, "we are here to solve a group of trash data, which is called the ‘Derivative’," he paused then continued, "about the plot, you’ve just seen we were fighting with the mutant Ashford . Generally, the plot is like… this Ashford has some anti-human feelings that he had sneaked the Virus Z from the research institute . Then, he had combined this virus with a special original fluid . This combination then was spread out from the rooftop of this building through a device . Then, the entire city got infected . "

"Thus, only the zombies inside the laboratory are normal, and the zombies on the street are the nondescript mutated Bloody Zombie Wolves?" Feng Bujue continued .

"In fact, the Bloody Zombie Wolves, as an evolved form of the virus-host, were set to be stronger than the normal zombies . Although they look like garbage now, when the night falls, and without garlic, players at your guys’ levels would have to struggle hard with them," Hua Xiong said .

"What happened when we met those Zombie Werewolves?" asked Wang Tan Zhi .

"According to the plot’s development, there should be some small BOSSES in the building," Pan Feng answered, "the relevant description of the Zombie Werewolves reads ‘It’s 3/100000 that the persons who are infected with the virus could become a stronger and more stable form of mutant zombies . "

Feng Bujue said, "So you are able to check the properties of many things, including the profiles of monsters, the routes, when the FLAG is triggered, and the entire map of the scenario . "

"Not only those but also the players' locations, current status, skills, abilities given by title, etc . We can check those at any time in our menu . " Pan Feng said, "I remember you got infected . You’re pretty cool that you alone could find the serum in the research institute . "

Feng Bujue said, "Not that much, however, I think there’s something that you can’t check it out," he paused for a while, "did you mention the ‘Derivative’?"

Hua Xiong sighed . "If I could check it out, we didn’t need to put forth that much to find a way before completing the scenario . "

"After we completed the quests to finish the game, we, the normal players would be teleported, but you can skip the teleportation . Thus, when we got out of the scenario and receive the rewards, it’s when you start your works, right? Without ordinary players holding you down, you can find the Derivative in the completed scenario and finish it," said Feng Bujue .

"Ah, cool . Just with some information, you can already make it to this step," said Hua Xiong .

"I have no interest in your situation and this scenario," Feng Bujue rubbed the nape of his neck then lifted his head up to relax his neck bones, "please tell me in details about the Derivative . "

"Even if you know, you are not of help," Pan Feng said, "if I were you, I would wish for the GM to bring me to find the mutant Ashford and kill it . Then, I would happily take the rewards for completing the scenario . "

"Please, explain only what’s relevant to the Derivative," Feng Bujue said with his smiley face, "if not, I think I couldn’t help but send two emails with sharp words and interesting information to Young Master Ji Bu and that Name guy to tell them that, because of some technical problems, you guys had been screwed up by a strong monster, which shouldn’t have existed in this scenario . "

"Hey, how did you know that the Derivative had killed them?" Pan Feng asked .

"I just simply matched the results and the process," said Feng Bujue .

Pan and Hue wanted to cry as they heard him saying that .

"Yeah, cough, cough . Alright," Hua Xiong said, "S’ok if you know the information . In fact, sooner or later, the other players will know about the existence of the Derivative . However, the chance that you can meet it is too small . The company is now preparing a relevant introduction with appropriate words for it . " He scanned here and there then said, "You guys come here . " He then stepped up, leading the other three to a coffee machine .

He walked into the room nearest to the coffee machine, grabbed an eye-catching coffee tin and opened the lid . He then pointed to the amount of coffee inside the tin, which was around three-fourth, and said, "Assuming that this amount of coffee powder was the data," he pointed his right hand’s index finger, "and there existed a grain of powder, which was the uncontrollable trash data needed to be deleted . " He paused for a while then continued, "However, this grain of powder in the tin is moving nonstop," he eyed Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi, "how do you filter it out and pick it up?"

"Impossible," Feng Bujue immediately answered .

"True, it’s impossible," Hua Xiong continued as he put his hand into the tin and took a handful of coffee powder . "What the system could do is to grab the whole group of data including that trash data when they are traveling by and hold them like this . " He raised his fist, and the coffee powder slowly leaked from the spaces between his fingers . "However, there was only one grain to destroy among the whole handful of coffee . As the coffee was still useful, I couldn’t dump all of them for only one grain of powder . Moreover, I couldn’t hold them for so long as the one I wanted to destroy could slip away and escape from the spaces between my fingers . "

"Thus, the system uses these data to create a scenario," Feng Bujue said, "and it let the Derivative turns into the mob that could be killed or beaten up by the players . This would back it to the corner, and the system would solve it when the scenario is cleared . "

Hua Xiong said, "Yes, it is . " He then grabbed a cup and some sugar . "This cup is the container of the scenario . You players are the sugar cubes . " He pointed to the glass . "When you are getting into the scenario, and the system says, [the number of your party’s members is randomly generated: 6 persons]," he threw the coffee powder in his hand into the cup, "the data is put into the container, but at this stage, it is just the main elements, just like water, air, mud, etc . ," he held six cubes of sugar in his hand, "next, six of you will enter the entrance of the scenario when the system says, [your team is in the party . Searching for more members or available teams] . At that moment," he took out two cubes, "two of them would be replaced by Pan-Ge and me . They would then be placed in another ready scenario . And, certainly, they are not aware of this change . "

Pan Feng continued, "GMs always pair up to wait for an order . When there’s a sign of the Derivative captured in a scenario, we are going to enter the party which is about to play that scenario . Players who got replaced are always from a team or lonesome players . And, they are not from the same team with the players who have already entered the party in another scenario . "

"How about the case of a team of five or six?" Little Tan intervened .

"In the case of a team of five, we could only send one GM . If they are a team of six, we have no other way around, and they have to confront the Derivative on their own . Anyway, since the first day we’ve opened the server, such a situation has never happened," Pan Feng answered, "by the way, the system could only ‘catch’ the quantity of data enough for six players in Multiplayer Survival Mode scenario . Thus, you should be afraid that you could meet the Derivative in a scenario for two to five players or other playing modes . "

"Does it mean that the scenario for a party of six would be very dangerous?" Little Tan was dazed .

"There’re not so many Derivatives," Pan Feng smiled, "the chance of this uncontrollable data to exist is 1/10000 . At our company, we have two teams that have been using both sleep mode and non-sleep mode for the whole 30 days, but we have just encountered the Derivative for 10 times . "

"In short, when you hear [generating the scenario]," Hua Xiong put the sugar cubes into the cup and poured warm water from the coffee machine, causing coffee powder to instantly turn into liquid, "the available elements will base on your levels, fighting abilities, the tendency of your Specialty and performance to generate the typical contents of the scenario such as the plot or the worldview . And the Derivative, at this moment, has been blended into the scenario and started to be shaped together with the other elements . "

Feng Bujue contemplated then asked, "So, how strong is the Derivative?"

"Ha, ha…" Pan Feng smiled, "You’ve seen how strong we are . "

"I have," Feng Bujue said .

"Do you know why we have to pair up to solve the Derivative?"

"One could be possibly killed," Feng Bujue continued .

Pan Feng said, "Good, you know it now . Don’t think that we are just players at level 13 . We are using the GMs’ accounts . In fact, our fighting capacities are 10 times higher than that of our levels . Even so, we couldn’t assure that we would win all the time and nothing could stop us . Take the current BOSS as an example, when it jumped off the building and ran away, our hands were tied . If we want to jump down, it will be the same result with the ordinary players, which is suicide . "

"Why didn’t your company increase your characters’ competence? For example, you are at level 13, but you have the powers of level 50 or something," asked Little Tan

Hua Xiong raised the cup of coffee in front of his face . "Two cubes of sugar could be put in this cup, how about two watermelons?"

"Ah…" Little Tan nodded, indicating that he got it now .

"Our accounts wouldn’t be leveled up, I guess since we are in charge of the scenarios for a level range of 5 to 14 . Besides, the other GMs, who are in charge of the higher levels, could have a tremendous fighting competence . " Pan Feng said, "Now you know the story of the Derivatives, if we ever meet again, although this chance is almost zero, but if we really do, please cooperate with the other GMs and guide the other players to keep it on the down low . "

"I really want to know," Feng Bujue contemplated, "if you can’t finish the Derivative in the scenario, what will happen?"

Pan and Hua got their face changed having listened to that .

Feng Bujue continued, "You’ve also said that one GM could hardly confront a Derivative . This means it’s happened before in which a GM was chasing after a Derivative and got killed . "

"Normally, that scenario would be restricted and turned back to a group of data . And, the Derivative, which is lucky enough to survive, would be stronger and more cunning," Hua Xiong said .

"Cunning?" Feng Bujue said doubtfully .

"The Derivatives with a certain intelligence are categorized into four levels . Yeah, we GMs are sent to deal with the lowest level, which is level 4 . This sort of AI got a higher intelligence than the final BOSS of the scenario and also stronger .

Once the scenario ended and the Derivative is still alive, it should be, yeah, just like I’ve said, become more cunning and stronger . Possibly, it could level up to level 3 . Under the normal circumstances, 97% Derivatives at level 4 could be solved by one GM . However, it needs two GMs to deal with the ones at level 3 . If we send only one GM, the success rate is under 50% . "

Feng Bujue said, "How about the higher level ones?"

"Never seen before," Hua Xiong said, "honestly, we’ve never heard of it before . The Derivative level 2 only exists on papers . In fact, up to now, there’s only one Derivative level 3 that had appeared . In this stage, the chance that the Derivative level 3 appears is a little bit higher . Of course, even if it is 10 times higher, the chance is still relatively small . "

"Yeah, I got it . Then, let us experience how strong the trash data level 4 is in this scenario," Feng Bujue smilingly said .

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[1] Auto was usually used by gamers that usually take advantage of the computer technology to make some changes to the game . In short, they invented these plug-in to cheat in a game .