Dragon City Flying General canceled his return ticket and stayed in Ningzhou.
The water friends who had been following his movements were shocked to find that he had disappeared.
He not only stopped playing in the Sky Arena, but also stopped streaming.
His last update was a selfie standing outside the gate of Zhumen.
If someone hadn't discovered that he was still leading a team in a [Global Confrontation Competition] qualifier, everyone would have worried that he had been sold by Xu Meng.
Finally, Dragon City Flying General had to risk his hair and post an update:
[In closed-door cultivation! Live broadcast suspended, don't worry!]
He also attached a photo of himself meditating by Jinghu Lake.
This update had a lot of槽点.
— He's just a game streamer, I don't know what he needs to retreat for.
Dressed like a ball in the middle of winter and posing by the lake, his brain circuit is a bit abnormal.
But after all, he reported that he was safe.
Everyone was relieved.
There are countless lively events in the gaming circle, the Global Confrontation Competition and the Layering Grand Prix are still in full swing, and it doesn't make much difference without him.
Everyone was quickly distracted by another thing —
[Sky Arena "Money-Sprinkling Flow" Tactics] —
The matter can be traced back to when Dragon City Flying General just broke through 100 layers.
This not only triggered Xu Meng's New Year's Eve live broadcast, and subsequently triggered a heated Internet discussion about "Monster Hunter" and [Holographic Display].
It also stimulated more [Layering Grand Prix] players.
Whether they are professional boxers, internet celebrities, or even passerby masters, they have all increased their fighting frequency.
And this has indeed increased their speed of layering —
Only 7 days after Dragon City Flying General broke through 100 layers, the second player to break through 100 layers was born.
It is former Asian boxing champion Hou Cong.
After that, players who rushed to the 100th floor appeared one after another.
— It's not that these people are more powerful than the players who rushed to the layers before, but that after the [Layering Grand Prix] officially started, the number of players who came on stage to box greatly increased.
Although most players left the ring after a simple try and became spectators cheering and watching the excitement in the audience.
Players who can rush to the higher floors all the way are the minority among the minority.
But after Mansheng Capital opened and Xu Meng made big news time and time again, the expansion speed of Zhumen's user base became faster and faster, and the user scale in Mansheng Capital became more and more huge.
Every day, millions of players come to watch the excitement.
Under this player base, even a small proportion will become a considerable number.
As a result, the number of NPC boxers has been successfully diluted.
— The player boxers who were in the same batch as Huan Yue and Dragon City Flying General were very difficult to meet other player boxers after the 80th floor.
Often, only 1 out of 10 games is against a player opponent.
[Appointment Battle]
After reaching the 100th floor and replacing the brand new identity card, the boxers unlocked a new permission — to initiate an appointment battle to other boxers on the same floor.
Whether it is an NPC boxer or a player boxer, they can make an appointment battle.
Similarly, boxers will also be challenged by other boxers.
You can refuse, but you can't refuse three times in a row.
The emergence of this new mechanism provides players with greater room for operation.
The original intention was to facilitate players to study their opponents and formulate targeted ring tactics in order to improve the winning rate and enhance the viewing of the game.
But soon, someone started off-court actions —
Someone posted on Mengjin, looking for opponents who are willing to actively lose to him on the 100th floor, 101st floor... all the way to the 110th floor.
As compensation, I am willing to give 10,000 yuan in cash on the 100th floor, 11,000 yuan on the 101st floor...
In this way, it will be 1,000 yuan more per floor, all the way to 20,000 yuan on the 110th floor.
And added:
"If you are not satisfied with the price, you can communicate privately."
This post immediately caused great controversy —
"Bah! Playing this kind of off-court trick, there is no sense of honor of a fighter at all!"
"If you have the ability, reveal your ID! I will kill you down to the 100th floor tomorrow!"
"Disgusting! Insulting the spirit of competition!"
"This offer is too low, right? The Layering Grand Prix originally has a bonus of 8 million and a bunch of heavy rewards, and now Xu Meng has added a 150-layer challenge reward, only giving 10,000 yuan per layer? Is this a beggar? !"
"10,000 is still too little? It's just losing a game, it's not being eliminated, just come back up! If you don't sell, someone will sell!"
"What the fuck are you doing here?!"
"Rich brother V100, let's see your strength!"
"Fuck! Really giving it?!"
… …
This post was even forwarded to Xu Meng by the little assistant, asking him if he wanted to delete the post or stop it.
Xu Meng opened the post and looked at it, and was speechless for a long time.
The first thing he did was open the box.
— You guys, the unlimited fighting I said is not this kind of unlimited!
What kind of genre is slapping your face with cash?!
It must be managed!
But after opening the background, this buddy who posted the post didn't even register as a boxer in the Sky Arena.
So… …
Either he is pretending to be a rich brother to fish, or he is posting for others to avoid the risk of being opened by the official.
Xu Meng thought for a moment, and soon had an idea:
No matter who posts the post, no matter how many places the post is posted, it will always be reflected in the ring record in the end.
Just search for players above the 100th floor with winning streaks, and then watch his combat footage.
Xiao Meng easily found the target—
[Paul]
This is one of those invited fighters who is a combat internet celebrity, but he's an overseas one.
After reaching the 100th floor, this guy challenged 8 opponents in just three days, winning all eight matches and rushing into the first echelon!
Watching the match recordings, he fights extremely fiercely, his offense is maxed out.
Every match is very entertaining.
Sitting in the audience, you might not see the problem.
But when the perspective is zoomed in and slowed down, you can still see it: many times the opponent dodges the attack, and just as they are about to throw a heavy punch, they inexplicably stop.
It looks like their right fist suddenly twitched, very abruptly.
Xu Meng frowned more and more as he watched.
If it were just ordinary players helping each other, he would hesitate whether to intervene.
After all, the [Climb the Tower Grand Prix] is not a pure fighting event. This kind of player helping each other to "give a boost" can also be regarded as players, as a group, using their wits against Xu Meng, the planner.
But you, an invited fighter, what kind of game is it to spend money to buy your opponents to lose?
Is this a gamble?
The latest novels are first published on 69shu吧!
Is there any competitive spirit left??
But you can't just rudely ban him directly.
After all, Xu Meng said at the beginning: this is a "no-rules" competition.
But not being able to ban the account doesn't mean you can't deal with it.
"You've probably forgotten that NPCs can also challenge players!"
Xu Meng immediately asked Xiao Meng to arrange for powerful NPCs to challenge Paul intensively until he was beaten back to the 100th floor!
After that, his matches should also be closely monitored.
If he fights normally, don't interfere.
If he still throws fake punches, continue to beat him back!
"Okay!"
Xiao Meng had been with Xu Meng for a long time and had also become a bit mischievous. Hearing this, she was overjoyed and immediately got busy.
After arranging this matter, Xu Meng suddenly realized another problem—
"The posting time of this thread is strange, isn't it?"
Paul had already finished his eight-game winning streak, and this thread only popped up to buy wins.
This is…
"They discovered the problem, so they deliberately made the problem bigger, indirectly reminding the official to intervene?"
"There's some manipulation going on!"
…
Paul was already a well-known combat internet celebrity overseas, with considerable strength.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have climbed to the 100th floor on his own.
But in the internet age, people who make a living from traffic have an endless desire for traffic and always can't help but want to do something big.
—Xu Meng also has some problems in this regard.
So after discovering the challenge mechanism, Paul immediately took action.
Then came the eight-game winning streak!
His momentum soared for a time, and he instantly came to the center of the stage!
In just a few days, the number of regular viewers in the live broadcast room soared from about 80,000 to the current 250,000!
The money spent was not only easily recovered, but also made a lot of profit!
—For streamers, popularity is money!
This made him even more eager for traffic and more winning streaks.
But today, after winning his ninth match and taking a break, just as he was about to challenge the 10th person, he suddenly received a system notification that someone was challenging him—
[Fighter [Behemoth Dino] has challenged you!]
Taking out his ID card, he found that it was an NPC—the names of NPC fighters and player fighters are different colors.
He casually clicked reject.
But immediately, another challenge information popped up—
[Fighter [Gao Qing] has challenged you!]
Still an NPC.
Paul felt something was wrong, but he still chose to refuse.
Without any pause, the third message arrived—
[Fighter [Mad Lion Qi Xingzhu] has challenged you!]
Now he couldn't refuse anymore.
He could only bite the bullet and go on stage.
Then, under the gaze of 250,000 viewers in the live broadcast room, he was violently beaten by the NPC!
Without any power to fight back, his health bar was emptied.
The cheering barrage paused.
But this was just the beginning.
—An endless stream of NPC challenges poured towards Paul!
And Paul was defeated every time!
Paul's popularity was even higher! The growth rate of viewers in the live broadcast room was even faster than his previous winning streak!
But this time, it was not a winning streak.
But—a losing streak!
Nine wins and nine losses, nine wins and nine losses!
Eighteen consecutive battles created an epic spectacle.
This huge contrast immediately aroused netizens' doubts about his strength.
The thing that people fear the most about "match-fixing" is slow-motion analysis.
Once analyzed, they are all loopholes!
The news that he spent money to buy wins was quickly exposed.
After that, whenever Paul raised a floor, players would rush to challenge him! They all felt that they could earn a win from him.
Or earn extra money—
"Ten thousand yuan, you pay me now, and I'll immediately admit defeat."
But of course, Paul couldn't do this in the live broadcast.
—And it was meaningless, too many people were staring at him to snipe him.
If he wanted to raise the number of floors, he could only rely on his hard strength to fight his way up.
…
After this battle, the influence of off-field tactics on the arena was greatly weakened.
The Climb the Tower Grand Prix officially entered a stable sprint stage.
Xu Meng was able to free up time to pay attention to another matter—
The connection between Silver City and Sprawling Metropolis was imminent.
