“Ribbit ~ ~ Ribbit!”
“Ribbit ~ ~ Ribbit!”
“Ribbit ~ Ribbit Ribbit ~ ~ Ribbit ~ Ribbit ~ ~”
… …
Luo Zicheng saw a group of frog people standing on the street, singing a song as if no one else was around.
The tune sounded vaguely familiar.
After a moment of careful recollection, he realized that it was the theme welcome song of Sprout City—
“Welcome to Sprout City!”
It was just that these frog people had changed it into a frog-person version.
The tune had also changed from its original grandeur to something cheerful and hilarious.
With this frog-person disguise, even the IDs had become uniform reduplicated characters. Many players had obviously shed their pretenses and begun to let loose—
One frog was on the side of the main road, grabbing a metal pipe from a street sign and doing a burlesque dance.
Its webbed hands and feet danced back and forth on its round, white belly, and its butt wiggled with great enthusiasm.
There was also a frog riding another frog, shouting “Giddy up! Giddy up! Giddy up!” while waving its webbed hands and patting the green butt of the frog beneath it.
There were also some frogs who didn't know what they were thinking, kissing anyone they saw!
Whether it was a player or an NPC, or even regardless of gender, they would pounce on them and demand a kiss.
They would also shout: “True love! Can I kiss your delicate and sweet lips? A kiss of true love can turn us into a prince and princess~ ~”
Before they could harass a few people, a police car from the Sprout City Law Enforcement Bureau drifted at a sharp angle and stopped on the street.
The police officer who got out of the car shouted: “Stop!”
The frog who was kissing people at every turn saw that the situation was not good and ran away.
The young police officer sprinted at full speed, passed Luo Zicheng, and pounced to knock the frog person to the ground.
The frog flapped its webbed hands and feet, struggling desperately.
So, more police officers pounced on it, pressing the frog person under a pile of people, unable to move.
… …
… …
Luo Zicheng painfully covered his eyes.
He felt that he could no longer watch.
He quickly left the street, walked around a corner, and arrived at the central square.
As a central location, many players in Sprout City would meet here, and player teams would also gather here before doing something.
Today, the [Iron Blood Legion]'s gathering was also chosen to be here.
He thought it would be more normal here.
But unexpectedly, a crazy gathering was taking place here—
A large group of frog people occupied the area, and the frogs circled a huge bonfire while singing and dancing.
The dance moves were just madness, without any sense of beauty.
It was like a group of cultists performing some kind of evil god worship.
On the periphery of these people, other frog people pointed at these abnormal frogs, seemingly thinking they were not quite right.
… …
The whole world is crazy!
At this moment, Luo Zicheng felt that the air in the entire city was filled with the aroma of mushrooms.
If he stayed any longer, he would be infected!
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he saw a dozen frogs suddenly run out of the “big circle of cultist dancing and sacrificing” and enthusiastically wave their webbed hands at him, greeting him:
“That's right! Stop training, let's dance! Dancing is better than fighting!”
“Hahaha, I'm so happy, Leader, do you want to join us?”
… …
Luo Zicheng staggered back three steps!
He didn't want to believe that these lunatics rushing over were all members of his team.
Today was the agreed-upon training time.
The [Global Confrontation Competition] was suspended during the Spring Festival, and now that the Spring Festival was over, the competition schedule continued.
They had successfully entered the top 16, and the next game was the day after tomorrow afternoon.
In order to achieve good results, the team's training intensity was very high, and they would gather every night for some practice.
Today's plan was to go to the Remington War Game Simulation Training Ground to strengthen their ability to deal with street fighting conflicts.
Although, Qin Chao, the president of the Ningzhou Military Push Club, also opened a similar club in Sprout City with the support of Zhu Meng.
But the Remington War Game Training Ground was indeed much more professional.
It is said that the experts inside were all retired from the Middle East and had real and rich combat experience.
In reality, if you wanted to get training from this kind of expert, you don't know how much money it would cost.
—Even if you can't find a way, you can't get it even if you spend money.
But who would have thought that now, thanks to Zhu Meng, you only need to spend some credit points!
Even if it costs 3,000 credit points per hour to use the official exchange quota, as long as you invest enough time in the game world built by Zhu Meng, there will naturally be many channels to obtain credit points.
For these senior players, it's almost free!
Luo Zicheng was originally looking forward to this training.
But now, this enthusiasm was completely dispelled by the silly teammates who kept calling “Ribbit” around him.
He just wanted to disappear from this strange world as soon as possible.
But the team leader's sense of responsibility and the goal of reaching the top 8 in the [Global Confrontation Competition] drove him to make these idiots serious and complete today's training—
“Be serious, change back quickly.”
“Can't change back, Leader, ribbit!” a frog replied.
“Why can't you change back?” Luo Zicheng asked in confusion.
“This is a curse, ribbit, lasting a full 72 hours. To remove the curse, you must have a true love's kiss, ribbit!” the frog replied again.
“Can you stop ribbiting…” Luo Zicheng felt a headache.
“Oh, okay.” The frog readily agreed.
“So, what is a true love's kiss?”
“I don't know, everyone is asking what a true love's kiss is.”
“Kiss the marriage partner of the [Frost Snow Project]?” Luo Zicheng tried to guess.
“That won't work!” The frog shook his head, “We've all tried it.”
“That streamer named Huan Yue has kissed a dozen wives, but he still hasn't been able to lift this transformation curse. He's breaking down in the live broadcast room right now.”
“Breaking down?” Luo Zicheng asked in confusion, “Because he was turned into a frog?”
“No.” The frog shook his head, “It seems because his wives don't truly love him, and he can't accept it.”
“…”
Luo Zicheng was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly complained very loudly:
“What the hell is he breaking down about!”
“He talks about a dozen wives all the time, and he still expects to have true love???”
“Dream on!!!”
“Who says he doesn't!” A dozen frogs around him nodded in agreement at the same time, their big heads swaying.
“Then… have you tried finding your real-life wives or girlfriends to try a kiss in the virtual world?” Luo Zicheng asked again.
But this time, as soon as he finished speaking, the surroundings fell into an awkward silence.
A few seconds later, a frog said: “Brother Luo, what you said is a bit hurtful…”
“Yes, yes.”
A dozen frogs nodded at the same time.
Even a female frog was drooping her head and nodding along.
Seeing the reaction of his team members, Luo Zicheng, who had a wife, was also a little embarrassed.
He had to skip this topic first: “Then according to you, we can only wait for three days…”
“Will this affect your combat vision and running and shooting operations?”
“It seems like it will have some impact…”
“Yes, the belly and head are a bit big, the webbed hands are a bit slippery when holding a gun, and when shooting with a gun with a lot of recoil, it feels like it's going to fly out of my hand.”
“However, the jumping ability seems to have been strengthened. I feel like I can jump higher and farther than before.”
“But it's only a little stronger, and I'm not sure if it's a psychological effect.”
… …
Everyone answered in a jumble.
Luo Zicheng's head was pounding.
The [Global Confrontation Competition] has reached this point, and every team is not weak.
Colliding with these teams, every weakness can be fatal, let alone the problem of “slippery hands when shooting” which seriously affects hit rate!
And calculating the duration of this transformation, the transformation effect will not end by the time of the next game!
With such a big problem, these happy people still have the mood to sing and dance here?!
Luo Zicheng felt like he was going to vomit blood.
Will Zhu Meng help the participating teams to lift the transformation for the sake of the competition?
Another company might.
But if it's Zhu Meng…
It's hard to say!
The entire Zhu Meng company, from top to bottom, has too many happy people!
“No, we can't rely on Zhu Meng, we have to think of a way to overcome this problem.”
Luo Zicheng immediately mobilized everyone in the [Iron Blood Legion] community, from the officially participating team members to the local players who participated in the community, all within the mobilization scope.
He hoped that everyone could help find a way to lift the curse.
But after everyone discussed for a long time, they were still at a loss and had no ideas at all.
To the point that someone came up with a crooked idea:
“Anyway, we are all in Ningzhou, why don't we just go to Zhu Meng's door and block Xu Meng?”
“That's right! Someone has asked for autographs and photos before, and Xu Meng is very easy to talk to. It wouldn't be too much to ask how to lift the curse now, right?”
“That makes sense! How about early tomorrow morning? Anyone want to go together?”
“Count me in!”
“Together, together!”
“Can someone make this frog-person-shaped doll costume? Let's all wear this when we go, the show effect will be full!”
“Don't mention it, I really know someone who understands this! But the time is too rushed, it should be too late in one night.”
“What's too late? Add money!”
… …
This idea quickly excited a group of people.
“I suggest you better not go!”
The National Security staff lurking in the group frowned and quickly dissuaded them.
But his suggestion was quickly rejected by the group members:
“Your suggestion is very good, but please don't suggest it!”
Everyone was not affected at all, and discussed enthusiastically about how to give Xu Meng a surprise!
