Fantasy Game: Infinite City

At the other end of the copy from where Han Zu is.

In a mine that has not collapsed yet, several players looked very excited. There were six of them, and each of them had a completely different look, which was totally out of tune with the current tournament copy. You know, this is not normal, because in the tournament copy that has been updated with a new mode, all players' costumes will be fixed to match the settings of the copy, unless they need to change their clothes, but they usually will not deviate from the preset style.

But there is definitely something wrong with these guys dressed like Teletubbies, not to mention that there is a background music around them that will get you a lawyer's letter.

"This thing is absolutely right. It saves me the step of aiming when shooting. Ha!"

"You won't fight if there is a frame?"

These players all have different weapons in their hands, but the similarity is that these weapons are like they are covered with dynamic mosaics, constantly fluctuating. This is a temporarily added abnormal code that maintains the results of passing or failing the Infinite City's system scan. In other words, the things in their hands should not be there at all, which means they are one of the cheating teams that the Infinite City is looking for.

"What was the mission? Looking for something, I think."

"With technology, who cares about that?! Just shoot and blast away! We'll deal with quests when we meet someone. No one in this dungeon can beat us anyway. Wasn't that the case with the team we met before?"

"It's a pity that this technology is not yet fully functional. It can only auto-aim, increase damage, reduce damage by 90%, see through, and speed up. It would be better if it had more functions."

"After all, it's free stuff, so I can accept it."

"Oh? I saw a few more boxes over there. Let's go! Go score some points!"

One of the members of the team that used cheating methods, after discovering some frames through the wall, swaggered away from his current position. The noisy background music made them not notice that there were other people near their previous position. However, based on the fact that these players who completely relied on cheating data did not notice these people who were following them quietly even with cheats, it is estimated that based on their original strength, they would not be much better, and their sensitivity might even be worse.

"They're gone."

"How's the data decoding going?"

"75%. We just need them to fight once, and then we should be able to completely decode it. After that, we can directly block the abnormal data on them."

"So what should we do after this? Kill them directly? Although we won't be discovered by the real-time video of the event, it won't be easy to explain if a player suddenly dies."

"We just need to block the abnormal data. We don't need to do anything else. We have special people to deal with these cheaters."

The people who secretly track the cheaters are the maintenance personnel of the Infinite City. Their task is to find the cheaters, and then use the equipment in their hands to decode the abnormal data on the cheaters without alerting the cheaters, making their cheating methods ineffective.

In fact, this large-scale operation to clean up cheaters was divided into three groups. The first wave was people like them, who used the technology of Infinite Company to directly enter the copy where the cheaters appeared and decode the abnormal data on them.

The second type is some offline staff. Some cheaters do not use software and data, but third-party hardware. What's worse, some even use some method to implant wetware into themselves to achieve the effect of cheating. Their task is to find the location of these cheaters and recover their cheating devices such as third-party hardware.

Han Zu represents the third type, mainly targeting cheating players who use wetware, and secondarily intercepting those cheaters who want to escape. After all, wetware needs to be implanted in the body and cannot be processed and recycled like software and hardware. As for the means represented by Han Zu, of course they will not be recorded on any surface, so Infinite Company will use a big hand to completely disguise Han Zu as a hidden NPC in the copy, so that even if Han Zu is recorded by the system's real-time video, it will not cause a sensation or discussion among players.

"By the way, the higher-ups said this time that someone would cover for us. Who is that person?"

"I'm not sure, but this time the cheating incident is not a small matter. This is the first time such a large-scale cheating incident has occurred since the launch of Infinite City. Especially during a large-scale event like the Guild Tournament, the person who was able to be sent here must be extraordinary."

"I guess it should be some member of the department that is not in the limelight. After all, it is not easy to convince those cheaters who use wetware to remove the wetware through surgery, so generally speaking... do you understand what I mean?"

"According to what you said... isn't that a common tactic used by the board of directors? Will we also be affected? After all, almost every action taken by those people on the board of directors will cause some "indirect damage"!"

These data maintenance personnel seem to have complaints about the board's style. Although they often fail to distinguish between friend and foe and even their own people are affected, it is undeniable that before other factions of Infinite Company changed their style, the board's efficiency was indeed the highest. This is why, at the beginning, the board's employee support rate was the highest, because they could indeed complete the work at hand with the fastest efficiency.

"I don't think so. I heard that the people who came this time seemed to be the chairman's subordinates."

"That's fine... But although the people under the chairman pay more attention to other colleagues, this efficiency..."

After hearing the news from one of the employees, the other employees were obviously relieved, but it did not last long. Although the people under the chairman acted relatively gently, efficiency might be more important during this special period.

"Let's work hard. After all, although the task is huge, I don't want to go back with missing limbs."

"The team that used cheating methods has completed the battle. Our data should have been decoded, but..."

"what happened?"

"It seems that someone is using wetware cheating methods. If they only modify the data, I'm afraid..."

The abnormal data of the previous team of cheaters has been adjusted, and they can no longer use cheating methods. However, the problem does not seem to be completely resolved. The abnormal data of one of them has not been resolved. He used wetware implanted in his body. As a result, the matter is beyond the work ability of the data maintenance personnel, and they alone cannot solve it. After all, as technical employees, their combat capabilities are not good enough in front of cheaters.

"Spread the news. What happens next is beyond our ability to handle."

The maintenance team quickly passed the information about the wetware cheater to the outside personnel. After receiving the reply from outside, the maintenance team hid temporarily. They also needed to repair the locations in the copy that were affected by the cheating data and could not leave for the time being. Generally speaking, there was nothing wrong with this, but a data model that was not in the system identification seemed to be moving towards their location. This situation was not optimistic.

"What's going on? Could it be that the cheater has discovered our presence?"

"It could also be our guy who's here to deal with the wetware cheater, but I think we should not bet on it. Let's leave this location first."

The energy fluctuated in the space for a few times. The maintenance team used the mobile device provided by the company to leave their current location and went to the vicinity of other teams in the copy to continue their inspection. Shortly after they left, a familiar figure appeared at their original location. An old-fashioned oil lamp that was not lit was hung on his waist. This person was Han Zu.

"Where are the people? Didn't the people outside say that the maintenance team was here just now?"

Just now when Han Zu was looking for other teams, an irregular piece of ore was teleported into Han Zu's pocket. When he opened the ore, there was a note inside with the information reported by the previous maintenance team. After getting the information, Han Zu prepared to go to support the maintenance team, but as soon as he arrived here, the maintenance team had disappeared.

If the maintenance team was attacked, the outside support would definitely tell Han Zu this news in advance, but Han Zu did not receive any relevant information, which means that the maintenance team should have left early to perform other tasks. Thinking of this, Han Zu immediately changed his next action and began to observe the situation around him. According to the intelligence obtained before, the cheating team seemed to have just fought a battle nearby not long ago.

Looking around, Han Zu saw some killed zombie miners. Judging from the wounds left on their bodies, they seemed to be caused by many different types of weapons, including some energy weapons. According to the story background of the copy, these things should not appear here.

Based on the direction of the miner zombies' bodies falling, Han Zu roughly determined the route of the cheater team. Following the traces they left behind, Han Zu followed silently. After passing through a mine car tunnel, Han Zu heard some incompatible sounds in an area of ​​a large mine pit.

"Miska! Muska! Mi..."

"What kind of DJ is the same level as the one I listen to?"

Following this melody, which would result in eight lawyers' letters for every second he listened to it, Han Zu came to the entrance of a tunnel connecting to other mines. There were traces of melting on the mine cart tracks under his feet, which looked like they were caused by some energy weapon. Just as Han Zu was about to enter the tunnel, he heard the sound of fierce fighting, so he lowered his footsteps and slowly moved over.

"Well done!"

"These people are too slow!"

After walking for a distance, Han Zu hid sideways in a half-collapsed tunnel branch, revealing one eye to observe the movement in front. He found that a group of players dressed in Teletubbies costumes were dancing and talking loudly. The Teletubby in front of them was using his hands, which looked like dynamic mosaics, to continuously pour energy ammunition into the tunnel ahead.

"Tsk tsk, this picture..."

"Shut up! Hang the dog!"

"If you're not good, then practice more. If you can't afford to lose, then don't play! Haha!"

In front of this team of cheaters, another participating team was suffering from mosaic saturation bombardment. Although they were exhausted from dealing with the continuous attacks, it was obvious that they were no pushovers. Although the normal team of players couldn't cause any harm to the cheater due to the cheating methods, other cheaters besides him were not so lucky.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Ah! Why did I lose so much blood?!"

"Me too!"

"Oh no! It's ineffective! Retreat!"

Those cheaters who did not use wetware found that their cheating abilities had lost their effect. They were careless and were almost wiped out by the normal opposing team with revolvers. They could only retreat quickly.

"Why are you running? I'm still here!"

The cheater who used wetware at the front was not affected by the data that was modified back to normal values, and he continued to tilt his firepower. In order to end the battle as soon as possible, he began to advance towards the normal team. At this moment, the ridiculous BGM playing on him suddenly stopped. While the team in front was still fleeing to avoid his attack, he found time to look back, and found that his companions who had lost their means of cheating were all lying on the ground for some reason.

"Hey! What's going on?!"

"boom!"

The last cheater used the energy weapon in his hand to blow up a section of the tunnel, temporarily blocking the other team. Using the acceleration ability of the cheating wetware, he quickly walked to the place where his companions fell, lowered his head to check, and found that they were not killed, but just knocked unconscious.

"Hello! I'm the sheriff of this small town! I'm investigating a case of insurance fraud. Have you seen this person?"

"You scared me! What the hell?!"

A guy wearing a sheriff's coat on his upper body, miner's pants and miner's boots on his lower body, with an unlit oil lamp hanging around his waist, suddenly appeared behind the wetware cheater. In his hands, he held an unfolded letter and an envelope with the sealing wax opened. His sudden appearance scared the cheater.

"Excuse me, have you seen the man above?"

"What?! It turns out to be the NPC for the mission. I'm so nervous."

The guy who suddenly appeared should be an NPC in the dungeon. According to his description, he should be a sheriff who came to investigate an insurance fraud case. Although he had a kind smile on his face, had no weapons on him, and held an envelope and a letter in one hand and pointed at the signature on the letter with the other hand, he did not look threatening, but his companions lying on the ground around him showed that this guy might not be that simple.

"Is it an NPC that can select the result? How troublesome! It would be great if this thing could distinguish the options on its own."

Although he used cheating software, the cheater was not completely stupid. He believed that his companions must have made a random choice after encountering this NPC, which led to them being knocked to the ground. They were all nervously retreating just now, and this NPC suddenly appeared. They must have wanted to get rid of him quickly and avoid the attack of the other team, so their answer should probably be "I have never seen this person."

As if he was proud of his own mechanism, the cheater chose another answer very arrogantly.

"I have seen!"

But just as he was waiting for the mission to proceed to the next step, he saw the sheriff light the old-fashioned oil lamp at his waist and handed it to him.

"Excuse me, my eyesight is not very good. Please help me hold this light so that I can see if the letter is held upside down."

"Ah? Okay."

However, just as the cheater grabbed the oil lamp with both hands, two gusts of cool wind suddenly blew over from both sides of his head. The cheater shuddered, and with the help of the cheating wetware, he flew backwards in a strange way, quickly widening the distance between himself and the sheriff.

"boom!"

Looking at the sheriff's position again, his two fists collided, producing a violent shock wave, which pushed the cheater back some distance.

"Damn NPC! How dare you sneak attack me! You..."

The sheriff failed in his attack, but he was not upset. He just picked up the oil lamp on the ground and pointed it at the cheater. The cheater looked down and found that several big holes had been torn on his clothes at some point, and there seemed to be something stuffed in it, making a hissing sound. He reached out and took it out, and observed it in front of his eyes, and found that it was actually the dynamite used for mining that had been ignited.

"KABoom."

"boom!!!"

There is more than one explosive. Even with the wetware cheating ability, the cheater cannot throw them out of the lethal range before they explode. And even if the cheating gives a 90% damage reduction, if a dozen mining explosives are detonated at close range, the person will still die.

So after a few deafening explosions, the cheater was blown to pieces, and his companions who were just knocked unconscious and lost their ability to cheat were not spared either.

"What happened? Where did the explosion come from?"

The other teams at the other end of the blocked tunnel had no idea what was going on and looked confusedly into the depths of the tunnel that was almost collapsed.