The Gamer who traveled to Honkai: Star Rail

After reading all the prompts, many were stunned. 

At the same time, some players began to complain: "This is a game? No tutorial at all? What kind of trash game is this?"

A more composed player chimed in: "Didn't the tutorial say to explore on our own? I just tested something: our bodies are incredibly realistic. You can even take a shit."

A curious player asked: "Take a shit? I don't see any around us."

Composed player: "I ate it."

The others were shocked, but the composed player said calmly, "What? Isn't this a sandbox game? I was just testing whether eating shit is within the allowed parameters."

Curious player: "Whoa, dude? Does it taste good? Do you get stat boosts from eating poop?"

Composed player: "No idea. I disabled taste and used a cognitive filter. Didn't feel anything. Our bodies are digitized, so not even the smell lingers. As for stats, it doesn't give any buffs, but attacking enemies with poop causes mental confusion. Though… it also slightly powers them up."

At that moment, all the players were stunned. 

Then, one of them, wearing a SpongeBob-like headpiece, spoke up: "The freedom here is definitely real. All the data in this game matches reality perfectly. In theory, we can do anything we can do in real life, even things we can't do in real life. Also, I just tested it: the game can be exited and re-entered normally."

Everyone became excited. Total freedom, indistinguishable realism from the real world, even if it wasn't complete freedom, was still the most freedom they'd ever experienced in a game.

Then a player who seemed like a wise sage stood up and said: "Everyone! Did you all read the mission? Our quest is to liberate a planet colonized by a corporation, right? So, what should we do?"

A player who worked for the IPC said, "What do we do? Blow the company sky-high, obviously! I've been wanting to do that forever."

Another player who was a mid-level manager added, "Exactly! Let's go blow up the company. I don't care if the game's setting is about the real 'Interstellar Peace Corporation': a company is still a company, and blowing it up works just fine."

"Let's go, let's go! The open beta only lasts a few days anyway. Screw the mission: first thing is blowing the IPC sky-high!"

Silver Wolf said, "Just blowing it up isn't fun enough. Let's blow it up and complete the mission. If possible, let's take this chance to destroy the entire Interstellar Peace Corporation. What do you all say?"

Silver Wolf began stirring chaos. 

Some players supported her idea, some didn't. But overall, even if they didn't want to join in, no one disagreed with blowing up the IPC.

Sure, for many of them, the corporation had made life a little better, but they also knew how exhausting corporate work was, especially with unreasonable managers. So wanting to blow up this version of IPC was a pretty normal reaction.

The players that Pei Guang brought into the Simulated Universe were having a great time. As a group, players had extremely high initiative: especially with Pei Guang leading the chaos. 

On the very first day, they had already figured out how the Simulated Universe worked.

By the second day, players had formed temporary guilds and started teaming up based on their interests and abilities. Some joined farming guilds, others retirement guilds, and still others combat guilds. 

Quite a few solo players were out exploring the world.

On the third day, one idle player charged into a fierce battle with corporate staff armed only with a bun stuffed with poop and heroically perished after 300 rounds.

Some players began doing scientific research, some started planetary exploration, and some began romancing handsome, beautiful, or uniquely designed NPCs.

By the fourth day, more players were throwing poop at the IPC building.

Some tried to reproduce but were restricted by moderation. When affinity was high enough, the reproduction scene was skipped entirely.

By the fifth day, even more players were hurling poop at the company gates. A tech-savvy player managed to handcraft a neutron bomb.

On the sixth day, a player detonated a small neutron bomb inside the IPC. Both the company and nearby players were blasted into the sky. Because so many players had thrown poop at the company, the explosion scattered it everywhere.

The NPCs' favorability toward players dropped and the poop-throwing players were publicly condemned. 

They pretended to comply, but were more rebellious than ever inside. So, a rift began to form between the "normal" players and the chaos-stirring ones.

In less than seven days, the player base in the Simulated Universe had splintered into numerous factions: serious, unserious, and those constantly flipping between both.

Inside the Simulated Universe, Pei Guang and the players were having fun, though Pei Guang didn't join the poop-throwing army. Not because he found it disgusting, but because the restrictions he placed on event players didn't apply to him.

As for whether the players' actions were too violent? Not at all. Any attacks caused by players wouldn't harm ordinary people, unrelated parties, or surrendering enemies.

Enemies that weren't essential to be killed would simply lose the ability to resist rather than die.

Pei Guang had added moderation, after all. And friendly fire would only worsen the experience for online players. 

It was just a Simulated Universe: no need to make the event players suffer too much.

Outside the Simulated Universe, the four members of the Genius Society were dumbfounded. They had witnessed Pei Guang's power in the Simulated Universe before: someone who could fight Aeons head-on.

But now, after pulling in a massive wave of players, it turned into… a poop-flinging protest against the IPC?

Still, looking at the feedback data, the four of them remained silent. Just thinking about what these people were doing made their skin crawl.

The four geniuses had seen a lot in their lives—but this… this was a first.

While the geniuses were stunned, Nous was releasing more smoke than ever. It wasn't because the players were doing anything wrong: no matter how many players appeared in the universe, it wouldn't make Nous overheat.

What really made Nous smoke was the new set of abilities Pei Guang was demonstrating. These were powers that had been restricted in the real world: powers that hadn't even had a chance to surface before.

But now, fully unleashed in a world without restrictions, Nous realized there had been a flaw in its previous calculations: all its models had been built within the boundaries of the world.

This time, however, what Pei Guang was demonstrating, everything else aside, the real problem lay in that he was drawing from outside the world.

The things the players were doing were all still within Nous's calculable range. But anything beyond the world? 

There was no reference data for it, making it nearly impossible to compute.

All of these issues stacked together, making Nous emit even more smoke.

Seeing this, a kindhearted Aeon even lent a pink ice pack to help cool Nous down.

Whether it would work or not… who could say?

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