Chapter 336 [Welcome to Frogtopia!] (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Xu Meng has always been a generous person.
Not to mention handing out red envelopes during the New Year, he also gives out millions in prize money for various events, very decisively.
So when he repeatedly assured everyone that [there would be a surprise], everyone subconsciously felt that: Boss Xu was going to bleed heavily again.
Expectations were immediately maxed out.
Who would have thought the surprise would be this?!
"Whoever hunts down a developer will turn into a frog??"
"Seriously, is this supposed to be a surprise? It's more like a fright!"
"I don't know about others, but I'm pretty happy, hahaha."
"A full 72 hours as a frog person?? Is that 72 real-world hours, or 72 in-game hours?"
"[True Love's Kiss] hahaha, it really is the Frog Prince!"
"LOL, where are you going to find true love in a game world? Does a contracted wife from 'Project Frostfall' count?"
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In the live broadcast room, the viewers were watching the fire from across the river.
Watching the four frog people being bewildered, they only felt it was hilarious, so happy and cheerful.
But the four frog people in the arena, and the hunters who were still alive, were a little confused.
Should they keep fighting?
Will they be infected if they kill them?
Are there any benefits to becoming a frog person?
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The hesitation lasted for more than ten seconds.
After that, the frog people, having given up all hope, took the initiative to attack the others!
After a chaotic battle, of the 4 second-generation frog people, only the Heroic Sniper didn't want to fight and ran away very quickly.
The remaining 3 all died on the spot.
But the 3 who died created another 5 third-generation frog people.
These 5 third-generation frog people didn't continue fighting—the white frost at the edge of the map had already begun to spread, and they had to get to the next safe zone as soon as possible.
The new safe zone was half the size of the initial state.
The players were also more densely packed.
As a result, as soon as these 5 third-generation frog people appeared, they attracted everyone's attention—
"Damn! Frog people? Developers?!"
"Haha, what great luck!! 300 developers, and I run into 5 of them right away!"
"Don't anyone try to steal them from me! That one called Dandan is mine!"
"Hey? There's another one over there called Yingying! Mine!"
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The excited opponents swarmed up.
The Heroic Sniper looked at a katana user with the ID [Chicken Dragon Ascends to Heaven], shouting "Yingying, I'm coming!" as he rushed towards him, his head full of question marks.
"Who is Yingying??"
He suspiciously turned to look behind him.
But there wasn't a player with the ID [Yingying] behind him.
"I'm Yingying???"
He slowly raised his head and looked at the name above his head—
[Yingying]
"Crap!"
"What crap! Eat my blade!!" The katana user immediately launched a drawing-blade slash!
No edge, no charging, no special effects.
Purely because he thought it looked cool.
This slash wasn't hard to dodge at all.
But Yingying didn't want to live anymore.
He raised his hammer high, waiting for the katana to hit him, and then smashed it down!
The hammer hit Chicken Dragon Ascends to Heaven's head, making a hollow sound.
The sound even came with an echo of "Hollow~ Hollow~ Hollow~".
This wasn't the first time the Heroic Sniper had heard this sound, but hearing it now, he couldn't help but laugh.
—The developers of [Eternal Hunting Ground] really had some mental issues; they put a lot of crazy Easter eggs in this mode.
"Players' heads are empty" was one of them.
As long as you hit a player's head with a blunt weapon, it would make this hollow echo.
"Laugh at your grandpa!"
Chicken Dragon Ascends to Heaven felt mocked, and in a fit of rage, he drew his secondary weapon [Dual Blades] and started spinning!
The Heroic Sniper's health wasn't full to begin with; he had only picked up a set of fine-grade armor in the previous intense fight, and his defense wasn't considered high.
He was killed by his opponent just like that.
Before he died, the Heroic Sniper took another look at his opponent's ID and said to him in a pitying tone:
"Good luck, Cocky."
"?"
A big question mark emoticon appeared above Chicken Dragon Ascends to Heaven's head.
—For the [Eternal Hunting Ground] mode, the development team integrated [Dream Jin]'s emoticon library for players, the content was extremely rich, and it also supported custom addition, which was extremely popular among players.
The Heroic Sniper used self-detonation to answer Chicken Dragon Ascends to Heaven's question.
When the smoke cleared, another third-generation frog person appeared.
The ID above his head had also become two short words—
[Cocky]
Cocky hadn't realized that his ID had changed.
He just looked at his eight webbed fingers and his round white belly, a little dazed.
Before he could figure out what was going on, he heard another loud shout from behind him:
"I knew it, you bunch of developers are sick in the head!"
"What kind of decent developers would have such a vulgar name as [Cocky]!"
"Die, Cocky!"
Cocky looked at the new opponent with the ID [Fleeting Glimpse] above his head, his first reaction wasn't to dodge or defend.
—He was amused by this person.
Even his desire to fight was greatly reduced.
In the end, he was killed on the spot by an opponent full of enthusiasm to "kill the developers".
As a result, there were no surprises:
Chicken Dragon Ascends to Heaven also self-detonated, creating a fourth-generation frog person.
The fourth-generation frog person [Dandan] was a little dazed when he walked out of the transformation smoke.
However, he had a strong desire to win.
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Although he was a little confused, he still sneaked into the final circle.
The white frost shrinking circle in [Eternal Hunting Ground] not only drove the player hunters to gather in the same area.
Other creatures, large and small, in the arena would also move towards the safe zone together to avoid the white frost.
When players were fighting, these monsters, large and small, would jump out, adding variables to the battle.
Players could also obtain special props and status buffs by hunting these prey, large and small.
These were all content to enrich the player's gaming experience and increase the depth of combat game.
Dandan had seen a lot of them.
But when he saw a huge red toad smoking a pipe falling from the sky, his brain went blank for a moment.
What was even more outrageous was that after the giant toad, which was six stories high, slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, it suddenly drew out a katana out of thin air and slashed at the crowd!
The hunters who had been staring at the toad's tongue and feet never expected that the monster would also pull out a weapon!
Two people were caught off guard and were immediately slashed away, falling into the white frost.
Within a few seconds, they were frozen into two ice sculptures by the white frost.
And in the arena, the giant toad had already swung its second blade!
Dandan suddenly realized: This giant toad didn't seem to attack him!
After watching for a while, he was completely certain: This toad wouldn't attack green frog people.
Not only him, but the other 6 frog people were also not attacked!
Relying on this huge advantage, the 6 frog people worked together to eliminate all the normal opponents first.
After that, the 6 frog people had a free-for-all, deciding the final winner.
The scene was still comical and funny.
But the audience's focus had completely shifted—
In the live broadcast room, the director was constantly switching the screen to show everyone the real-time situation of different hunting grounds.
One after another original frog person—that is, the development team members—were tirelessly spreading the [Curse of the Frog Prince].
Those who weren't skilled would explode directly after being killed by players, using the transformation smoke to spread the curse.
Those who were skilled would also spread the curse to the players after killing them.
After the resurrected players joined the next game, they would also be in the shape of frog people.
The worst thing was: This state wouldn't disappear with death.
This caused the number of frog people in the entire server to only increase and not decrease every time a frog person was killed.
Xu Meng asked the audience with a smile: "Would everyone like to know how many frog people there are on the entire server now?"
Then, without waiting for the audience to answer, he snapped his fingers.
So, a blue-green number popped up in the upper right corner of the live broadcast screen.
When it first appeared, the number was [2821].
But the next second, it jumped to [3284].
Then it was [3771], [4390], [4616]…
Every second that passed, the number would jump, increasing by tens to hundreds.
By the time the first game was over, the number had exceeded 10,000 people.
After that, the number began to increase exponentially, averaging a 3-fold increase every half hour!
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When the [Hunt the Developers] event proceeded to the afternoon, when new players entered [Eternal Hunting Ground] again, they could see a large number of frog people scurrying around in every game.
Many frog people, after being cursed by the [Curse of the Frog Prince], immediately developed a water ghost mentality and began to participate in the game frequently.
After entering [Eternal Hunting Ground], they didn't pursue winning.
Their only purpose was to commit suicide and turn others into frog people!
Even after the [Hunt the Developers] event ended, frog people in [Eternal Hunting Ground] could still spread the curse.
This led to more and more duplicated IDs in many players' friend lists!
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That night, Luo Zicheng, the commander of the [Iron Blood Legion], who had been busy all day, finally took the time to log in to Sprawling Metropolis.
The moment he appeared on the street, he suspected that his eyes were playing tricks on him.
Or that there was a bug in the server.
Because what appeared in front of him wasn't Sprawling Metropolis at all—
Almost all the people coming and going on the street were frog people!
Frog people riding bicycles, frog people skateboarding, frog people drinking coffee, frog people selling balloons, frog people begging on the street.
Frog people robbing pedestrians, dragging pedestrians' bags and running wildly all the way.
There were also frog people who had conflicts for unknown reasons, frantically slapping each other's big heads with their webbed hands…
All these frog people had duplicated IDs above their heads—
Something like [Qiqi], [Xiaoxiao], [Huahua], [Hanhan], [Suisui], [Xingxing]…
Luo Zicheng was dazzled!
He blinked and muttered to himself, "I must be hallucinating."
Saying that, he forcibly exited the game and logged in again.
Unfortunately, the "hallucination" didn't disappear.
Even a "hallucination" disguised as a system prompt appeared in front of him—
[Welcome to Frogtopia!]
