Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 659: Chapter 626: Lincoln Blocked by Someone!

Caleb flew into a rage, directly charging at the “poacher,” leaping and tackling him to the ground.

He flipped over to sit on top of him, his fist ready to strike.

A muscular man, who should have been a fierce fighter, was easily taken down by Caleb, who appeared to be a frail scholar.

Apparently, hunting and fighting people were different, and this player with the ID ‘Guangxin’ was not mentally prepared for the fight.

Being pinned down, he was a bit confused, raising his arm to protect his face, and asked loudly, “What the hell are you doing?!”

“I…you…I…” Caleb’s clenched fist, remained suspended in mid-air.

He suddenly realized he didn’t know what to say.

After a moment, Caleb realized he had overreacted; this was just a virtual world, not a real ecological protection zone.

In fact, there had never been a polar ecological protection zone within the Daxia Region…

This made him a bit embarrassed, so he hastily got off of the other player and asked with lingering discontent, “There’s a dedicated hunting game in Cloud Dream, right? Why are you here hunting animals?”

“Hunting in a game isn’t exciting enough,” the player on the ground replied.

“What about the wilderness outside the amusement park? Is that not enough?” Caleb continued to ask.

“It’s not realistic enough.”

Caleb was left speechless.

Indeed, when it came to realism, the meticulously crafted [Ecological Protection Zone] could undoubtedly crush other environments.

Many details, such as the behavior of animals, their living conditions, growth, breeding, and even the food chain could only be found here.

Neither the wilderness outside the amusement park nor the game “Hunter” had this much detail.

Those places didn’t need that much detail either.

But…

“This is called a protection zone! An ecological protection zone!! Don’t you understand what a protection zone means?!” Caleb grew even angrier.

They had put a great deal of effort into building this protection zone, and even now, there were teams working tirelessly to refine every detail. It was made for educational purposes, not for people to poach!

“A protection zone in a game is made for playing, isn’t it?” Guangxin, already having gotten up from the ground, nonchalantly brushed off his clothes and went to check on the dead polar bear.

“The fact that weapons and even iron aren’t allowed here is a clear prohibition of hunting! Can’t you understand that?”

“That’s why I used ice!” Guangxin replied with a hint of satisfaction, “I came up with this method after a long time of thought. It was indeed quite troublesome, and I failed many times, but luckily I succeeded in the end.”

As he spoke, Guangxin walked over to the polar bear’s corpse.

Since realism was the goal of the [Ecological Reserve], when animals died here, their bodies didn’t vanish and refresh. Instead, they were incorporated into the ecological cycle. As a result, the polar bear’s corpse remained, rapidly cooling and becoming stiff in the icy, snowy environment.

Guangxin tried to grab the sharp ice pillar and pull it out of the polar bear’s body.

However, the ice pillar was already frozen to the corpse. Even though he gripped it with both hands, put his foot on the polar bear for leverage, and used all his strength, he couldn’t remove the solid ice pillar.

Caleb remained speechless.

He could see that the guy in front of him wasn’t an incarnation of evil. He had just found something fun to do in the game, and played it for the sake of playing.

He had no right to criticize others since, regardless of how realistic the [Virtual Ecological Protection Zone] was, it was still virtual in nature.

Caleb could talk about the educational and academic values of the protection zone a thousand times, but he couldn’t make everyone accept them.

This was especially true when he realized that an entire class of students was watching this scene unfold.

Many were repelled, but some were curious, a hint of temptation in their eyes.

“Students!” Caleb clapped his hands and shouted to gain their attention.

Everyone looked over.

“Students, let me take this rare opportunity to tell you a story,” he said.

“A story of an old mountain ranger’s confrontation with ruthless poachers!”

“This actually happened, and although the names of the poachers were untraceable, for the sake of narration, let’s use the name of our friend here who hunts in the protection zone, Mr. Guangxin.”

“This happened 23 years ago…”

“Wait, wait!” Guanxin, who was taking pictures with his spoils of war, quickly interrupted, “How did I become a negative example?”

“You hunted in the ecological reserve. Isn’t it fitting for you to cameo as a poacher?”

“I’m just…” Guanxin was at a loss for words.

Looking at a whole class of dozens of students staring at him, Guanxin couldn’t take it any longer. “I was wrong, I was wrong. Can’t I change my ways?”

Just when Caleb let out a sigh of relief thinking the issue was finally resolved, Guanxin said, “It’s my bad luck. There are so many people hunting here, and I’m the only one you caught.”

“Wait! What did you say?” Caleb was stunned, “Many people?”

“Yeah, I’ve seen more than ten myself. I was brought here by someone else.”

Now that Caleb couldn’t hold back anymore, he opened the panel and started contacting the Cloud Dream staff.

This issue could no longer be resolved by him alone.

On the other hand, Shuihua felt that something should be done. She quickly coded a message for Guanxin, then cropped the footage of when the students were attending their outdoor activities class and Guanxin appeared as a “poacher”, and posted it online.

Since Lance could not attend class, Shuihua had been recording the whole time, planning to send the video to Lance later.

She happened to capture the entire process.

“Will someone be willing to fight for the animals in the virtual world?” Roommate asked worriedly.

Shuihua thought about it and said, “There should be.”

“No, there definitely will be!” Shuihua suddenly thought of something and became more confident. “Even if not for protecting animals, if you just shout ‘come fight,’ people might run over!”

“Now that we have given them a reason, allowing them to fight for ‘justice,’ we definitely won’t lack people.”

Reality was indeed that way.

Before Caleb received any feedback, Shuihua’s video had already started gaining attention.

Shuihua had become a minor internet celebrity.

With Lance’s immediate retweet, the video’s traffic increased even more.

Within minutes, the video had drawn considerable attention.

Without hesitation, Hu, who had just been eliminated from the Hunting Contest, commented: “Hunting group, gather!”

He did enjoy hunting and was one of the early ones doing so outside the amusement park.

But he never considered hunting in the [Ecological Reserve] designated by Cloud Dream.

Seeing people hunting in the reserve made him angry and, after a long time, he started calling friends to reassemble the hunting group.

This time, he was going to counter-hunt!

He was just one of many responding players.

A large number of idle players expressed their intentions to join in the fun.

Notably, the majority were hunters eliminated from the [Hunting Contest].

Many of them were experts who felt they could get a good ranking. They had all requested three days off to prepare for the intense competition.

But they were eliminated on the first day…

They were all restless!

*

Lincoln was still the person in charge of the Ecological Reserve in Cloud Dream.

To impose stricter restrictions on players hunting in the Ecological Reserve, stricter measures would have to be imposed on all players.

This would inevitably affect the experience of a large number of players.

Moreover, the staff understood that their boss might have a peculiar thinking process and that he might even consider “poaching” as part of the reserve’s activities and be willing to keep it…

As a result, the staff did not make decisions on their own but reported the issue to Lincoln.

Lincoln, however, couldn’t afford to focus on this matter at the moment.

He and Little Princess were really cornered by someone!