"In the past, I would have attacked the Blacktide Island. The Divinity Shard is everything to me, but now …" Hai Lan glanced at Jiang Qiao's Freya. Jiang Qiao's Freya was looking down at her knees.
This doll girl seemed to be afraid because Hai Lan saw her holding hands with Jiang Qiao just now?
This feeling was a little like the fear of being caught by one's own mother in puppy love.
"Jiang Qiao, if you announce this punishment, all the players will explode, right?" Hai Lan had learned from Jiang Qiao for a long time and was now a qualified lousy game planner.
She knew that Freya's place in the players' hearts was no longer the same as it was during the first Divinity War, where they still thought of her as a pretty NPC with a sweet voice.
Now that the players had interacted with Freia for such a long time, Hai Lan felt that comments like "Freia is my first wife" on the forum … Very few people would take it as a joke.
Even if she was not his wife, more and more players treated Freya as family.
Be it a sister or a daughter, they were all important and indispensable family members.
"It won't explode," Jiang Qiao said.
At this stage, the players must destroy the Blacktide Island. Otherwise, it would not only be Brandt Island that would be destroyed, but also the real world where Jiang Qiao was!
When Jiang Qiao first created Freya, it was to spur the players to become stronger by all means, be it by working hard or topping up money.
In this Blacktide Island raid, Freya was supposed to be the kind of tool NPC that 'say you like him, let him top up a hundred thousand!'
But the players had already treated Freya as family, and so did Jiang Qiao …
"The conclusion is that the Blacktide Island raid will continue, and the death penalty must be announced."
Jiang Qiao finally made this decision. Hiding the death penalty would only make things worse.
Perhaps the players could even accept the punishment of Freya dying of exhaustion in the first Divinity War, losing a bit of memory …
"Can we give players a mechanism to teleport back to the Divine Spirit's world before their HP reaches zero?" Jiang Qiao suddenly thought of this mechanism.
However, the suggestion was met with a shake of the head from Freya's Prototype Robot.
"As the Holy Spirits' HP starts to deplete, their Freya's memories start to disappear along with their HP. It's just that their HP is decreasing by the minute. If it were within an hour, I would still be able to repair it, but … they've lost too many memories, I can't do anything about it."
"It's not your problem. The enemy is too cunning."
"How about we make a backup copy of Freya's memories?" Hai Lan suggested a not-so-useful idea.
"Then Freya has new memories every second. Do you want to back them up bit by bit?"
Moreover … are the backup memories real memories?
Jiang Qiao did not mention such a complicated matter, mainly because it was a huge workload. If the method was rough, Jiang Qiao could complete the backup of 130,000 Freya's memories in Creator Mode.
But the backup itself was an action that would harm Freya's consciousness.
The God of God-Eater's divinity was destined to be unable to do too detailed work from birth. This was also Hai Lan's weakness.
"But I will set up a backup mechanism."
Jiang Qiao took out a glass orb. "The moment the player dies, this thing will copy a copy of the information contained in the player's creation energy that was devoured by Chaos."
"What is this?"
Hai Lan took the glass orb from Jiang Qiao's hand. It looked like an ordinary glass orb no matter how she looked at it.
"It's nothing because it hasn't been created yet. But I have to implement this function. The players can read Freya's lost memories through the copied information and play it through a projected video." Jiang Qiao said.
Hai Lan did not ask why he did not use this ability to directly implant Freya's memory. After the players' energy was devoured by Chaos and killed, it would be plundered by the players themselves. Everything would return to its original state.
If there was a conflict between the two memories, it would be a big problem.
"Should we announce this death penalty on the official website?" Hai Lan asked.
"It's better to let Freya tell the players themselves."
Jiang Qiao did not intend to inform the players of this death penalty in the form of an announcement.
Because … Jiang Qiao really couldn't write such an announcement. Moreover, if he wrote an announcement on the official website, it would give people the feeling that the lousy producers were using Freya to mess with them again, and they would even feel smug about it.
If Freya told the players herself, it might dilute the impact in this aspect.
Although the difference was not that big.
"Actually, even if the players don't go to the Blacktide Island, you can still find a reason to let Freya move around freely, can't you?" Hai Lan suddenly asked.
"And then after the Blacktide Island eats up Brandt Island, it will continue to eat up the Blue Planet?"
"…"
Jiang Qiao knew that he had been involved in a war, a war for his own survival, a war of all kinds of strange factions on the star map. Although the Holy Spirit was a game, it was also related to the life and death of the real world.
But Jiang Qiao did not want the players to bear such a heavy burden. But they had to bear this responsibility, even if the players did not feel it.
There was a kind of … feeling of having to be the hero's hero.
"Convey this to your sisters … in a gentler way." Jiang Qiao said to his Freya.
Jiang Qiao's Freya nodded, and then she slowly closed her eyes. Half an hour later, Jiang Qiao's Freya finally opened her eyes again.
Jiang Qiao could see exhaustion in her eyes. It was obvious that communicating with thirteen of her own kind in a row was very tiring.
Even if her calculation and learning ability were the strongest among all the Freya.
"Holy Spirit, will you also go to the frontline?" Jiang Qiao's Freya asked Jiang Qiao with tired eyes.
"Maybe, but my leeching ability is very good. I haven't died more than a few times in the game, and it's the same in any dungeon. So don't worry."
Jiang Qiao knew what his Freya was worried about. But when Jiang Qiao's Freya heard Jiang Qiao's reassurance, not only did she not feel relieved, but she fell into confusion.
Because Freya had developed her own consciousness and personality in Brandt Island, most of the time she was taken care of by the Holy Spirits and was even brought to the Inner World to play a few times.
But Jiang Qiao's Freya had never had much contact with Jiang Qiao, let alone being taken out to play by Jiang Qiao.
"When the problem of Blacktide Island is solved and the Inner World is completed, I'll bring you to a place called the Playground."
Jiang Qiao saw the reason for his Freya's confusion and promised her something that sounded like an unscrupulous boss motivating his employees.
There was no Playground map in the Inner World at the moment. Players had been calling for the lousy developers to replicate a real-life Playground and put it in the Inner World. But when Jiang Qiao saw the suggestion, Blacktide Island had already appeared, so Jiang Qiao did not have the energy to deal with things related to the Inner World for the time being.
But Jiang Qiao still planned to replicate the famous places in the real world into the Inner World, and the Playground was a must.
"Holy Spirit, I don't know what you're talking about, but I'll wait …" Freya said in a voice that only Jiang Qiao could hear.