450 Chapter 450 - Huge Restoration (2/2)

”What, what, what? Did something happen?” The one who replied was actually Royal God Call.

”Oh, we just killed the BOSS. And you?” Gu Fei replied.

”Killed? What did it drop?” Royal God Call hurried to ask.

”Nothing. Just an Assassin skill scroll and some random diary which I don't even know what's it about,” Gu Fei replied.

”Where are the rest, then?” Royal God Call asked.

”I don't know. Why aren't they saying anything?” Gu Fei called a few more times, but none of the others replied. Gu Fei tried to privately message them each but got no response from any of them either.

”What in the heck is going on?” Gu Fei was perplexed. Royal God Call was also yelling over the mercenary channel. ”Quickly come and get me from the spawn point…”

Gu Fei was speechless. He really could not imagine what would happen if Royal God Call randomly spawned at Xiawu City from the very start when he had no friends. What sort of inhuman life would he lead?

”We're leaving,” Gu Fei called out to Eternal Dominion as the two of them proceeded to head back to the city. They had come across War Without Wounds, who was sent flying to his death after being struck by the Shadowmist Assassin before, along the way, and Gu Fei decided to head over to take a look.

In the end, he discovered that War Without Wounds was still where he was earlier. What was even more bizarre was that he remained in the same position as he previously was when Gu Fei left him. Gu Fei approached him, confused. ”What in the world are you doing?”

War Without Wounds was very dejected as well. ”I don't know. I can't move. My HP is zero. Why can't I respawn?”

”Why didn't you guys reply when I sent a message?” Gu Fei asked even as he came forward to try and lift War Without Wounds up to his feet.

”You sent a message?” War Without Wounds was astonished. His mercenary channel and private conversation window were silent all this while.

Gu Fei was also extremely surprised. This was because he had just found out that he could not touch War Without Wounds. This was the same configuration that was seen in the various safe zones in the game; it was a restriction placed by the system on the players. He wondered why it would appear here.

”What is going on?” The two of them were baffled.

Compared to these two, Brother Assist and Young Master Han came to a possible conclusion after analyzing the situation; perhaps, the game company had discovered that the BOSS was too outrageous and had taken certain precautions.

”Not allowing us to die, sealing us in this space… Perhaps, they are getting ready to restore us back to life?” Brother Assist deduced.

”That's highly likely,” Young Master Han agreed with this assessment. Furthermore, they were both not in a location unlike War Without Wounds who was all alone. There were plenty of other players around them that were acting like corpses. None of them was able to move or send any sort of messages. All they could do was participate in the ongoing discussion. Some of these people even let their imaginations run wild. They were not satisfied with being merely restored back to life and were dreaming that the game company would provide them some sort of peerless item as compensation, replacing Gu Fei as the main character of this novel...

The whole lot of employees in the game company watched Gu Fei and Eternal Dominion finish off the Shadowmist Assassin. There was a certain disagreement that occurred, thereafter. One side believed that since the BOSS was ultimately defeated by players, this meant that this BOSS was not exactly so overpowered that players were unable to overcome it, so the losses every player had incurred would not need to be compensated; the other side held a firm belief that the fact that this BOSS got enraged was a design flaw by itself – a BUG. Since they managed to discover this in time, they bore the responsibility to deal with it accordingly by providing the appropriate compensation to all the players. Considering this condition for the incident, it made no sense why the players should bear the losses from an error in game design.

The ensuing debate between both sides wasted yet more time, until somebody reminded everyone that there were still plenty of players lying on the ground like corpses, waiting for a resolution! Thus, the game operations' senior lead made the final decision to recompense the players.

This was when the employees that were dealing with the back-end data gave their feedback; there were no issues with restoring the data assets of those players that were frozen in place, resembling corpses, on the ground at the moment. There were also no problems restoring those deaths that they had not managed to lock down in time but were able to track down at the spawn points. The real issue began from those players that had died before they were able to do anything about this incident and had left the spawn points; these people's whereabouts were hard to track down consequently. They were worried that their efforts would be unable to do anything to those players in this final category.

”See!” someone, who was in support of the former argument, said, ”it's no longer possible for us to completely give all these players recompense. If we only restore those that we are able to track down, won't that just be unfair to the small population of players that we fail to locate?”

In the end, the game operations' senior lead rolled his eyes at this man's comment. ”If we don't compensate these players, all of them will find this entire affair unfair. If we do compensate these players, at least a good majority of them will feel that this is fair. Isn't it obvious what we should be doing here?”

And so, the process of restoring the data began. The players, who had become corpses after the enraged Shadowmist Assassin had slain its way through them, suddenly found themselves able to move again with a fully restored HP. Those players that had dropped items upon their deaths saw the system return these items to them right before their eyes.

Everybody climbed to their feet while feeling confused, continuing their discussion.

”Exactly as we've thought.” Brother Assist and Young Master Han, who had long expected such a result, chuckled as they looked at each other.

Meanwhile, it was Royal God Call who was the most astonished by all this. He had patiently been waiting by the spawn point all this while when the scene around him suddenly changed in a flash, and he was thrown back into the fog from before. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief, unable to make sense of what had just happened to him.