Chapter 1277 (1/2)

Chapter 1277: 412. Universe Wonders

The eagerly awaited location of the plot NPC, as called for by players thousands of times, was finally revealed on the game’s official website.

However, the game’s planners did not specify the exact spatial coordinates directly. Instead, they provided players with three clues, like a riddle master, letting them search for the NPC themselves.

These three clues were described in characters with no images for reference.

Ordinary players, faced with such rough content, accused the planners of being inhuman and sat waiting for the Cucumber Slice Team and other story seekers to help solve the puzzle for them.

Members of the Cucumber Slice Team actually weren’t doing much better than the ordinary players.

Because no matter how you looked at it, the three clues published on the official website seemed to have nothing to do with the Underground Treasure Chamber on the Lisom-13 Planet.

Inside the workspace of the Cucumber Slice Team, the players gathered in the conference room and began a brainstorming session.

The in-game appearances of the players were not much different from their real-life ones, as everyone chose not to utilize the game’s beautification tools too much.

This was a rule set up by the Cucumber Slice to prevent the situation of someone’s real appearance being used maliciously by someone with intent to deceive.

The group sat in the conference room, deep in thought about the clues provided by the official website.

“Why do I feel like the location described in the clues isn’t Lisom-13?”

A younger player spoke up, breaking the silence.

Everyone nodded in agreement and turned to look at the Cucumber Slice.

The Cucumber Slice sat with arms crossed in a chair, eyebrows tightly knitted, and spoke solemnly:

“Yes, that’s what I think too. I had Strawberry Juice check the game’s database, but we couldn’t find a location that completely matches these three clues.”

The game’s database, created by the officials, allows players to look up basic data of known star systems and panoramic images for reference.

The first clue provided by the game’s official website was: EC9-DT5-4ER-TGF.

This was a string of standard space coordinates, written according to the United Bureau’s navigation guide. Players could input it directly into the database, and it would be translated into a more detailed text description.

The coordinates pointed to the Deep Space Zone of the Lisom Star System.

The so-called deep space zone refers to areas that cannot be reached directly through quantum leaps.

Any interstellar ship must first send deep space detectors into the deep space zone and then follow the signals relayed by the detectors to reach the destination.

As seasoned story seeker players, the Cucumber Slice and its associates were all too familiar with the deep space zone.

That area is usually set up by the game as a dungeon space.

Ships that make quantum leaps to arrive there are automatically added to the dungeon, starting battles with monsters, or embarking on missions like rescuing, decrypting, interception, and so on.

Cracking this first clue was not difficult.

The difficulty lay in the second and third clues.

The second clue read: Only those who pilot escape pods may enter this place.

The third clue was: Once entered, one cannot leave unless permission is granted.

That was rather absurd.

Escape pods don’t come with defense or firing systems.