Regardless of the power struggles and turbulent times at the top, the hottest topic in real life remains the "Paradise" series test. After its launch, its popularity has not gradually subsided as everyone expected, but has instead continued to rise.
The feedback was even more intense than before when various forces desperately spent money to buy topics for hype.
Before, the audience was passive.
Now the audience is active.
The topic of "Paradise" is overwhelming, occupying all information channels. As long as you are not isolated from the world, you can browse information about it on any website, forum, or various media.
Some of the original topic-focused forums have been experiencing multiple downtimes and crashes in recent days due to the influx of traffic. And one after another, the forums have collapsed.
The only thing that remains strong is the official forum set up by SHIELD specifically for it, with technical support from Stark and Heberon.
Thousands of posts appear every second, and the number of floors can accumulate to thousands of levels in a short period of time. How can this popularity be so great? Everyone who sees this data can't hide their surprise.
Hebron and Stark's network technology is sufficient to block and filter all repetitive and invalid content and users. It can be said that everyone active in the forum is a genuine and active person. Many of them are the first users of Paradise. The dozens of lucky people who gained power first revealed themselves in this forum operated by S.H.I.E.L.D.
Although the people of S.H.I.E.L.D. did their best to suppress the heat and deal with the aftermath at the first moment, it was obvious that the news had spread on a large scale. These actions made even those who did not believe it become skeptical.
After all, Paradise is too real, as real as a real world. Although many of its mechanisms and details are constantly reminding you that this is not reality, people who enter it will still often confuse it with reality.
This essay, created by the planet's top game designers who racked their brains while locked in a small dark room, has become a favorite of all game lovers and participants as soon as it was launched, thanks to the support of data dimensions.
The only complaint some people had was that the first wave of game worlds released were too monotonous. They were all horror-themed worlds! Some even featured plots reminiscent of classic horror films.
Simply put, if you don't have a big heart, you will be scared to death when you enter this paradise world where all sensory experiences are quite real.
The reality is that countless of the first large-scale users who entered the game were frightened, kicked out of the world, and eliminated. Most of them experienced real fear in these paradise worlds.
Even in some plot worlds without any ghosts or monsters, or even without obvious enemies, the atmosphere and environment alone are enough to make people suspicious and self-destructive.
As if seeking revenge, those designers used various methods, and madly stuffed frightening elements into the worlds they created in their own areas of expertise.
But thankfully, they haven't gone so far as to give the game an impossible ending. They've also hidden a lot of Easter eggs and details for users, allowing clever and careful gamers to decipher the code or complete the game.
Finally, scores will be given based on performance.
Of course, what they don't know is that the world they designed will be compared and arranged within the data dimension according to its excellence and difficulty, and then certain connections will be established through secondary processing of the data dimension.
End users will also give evaluations based on performance.
The method is not new, but it is indeed effective.
Profits and reputation are always the irresistible driving force poison for human beings.
At least for now, the most popular, highest-ranked, and most famous people and posts on the forum are the highly rated and excellent users among the first batch of users, and the strategy groups that shared their strategies.
The reason why those dozens of lucky people who gained power attracted so much attention and commotion was because they were the well-known top-notch ones among the first batch of users.
In Nightmare's words: These people are a perfect match for me! They're worth remembering and investing in.
Therefore, based on this understanding, users on the forum discussed it very actively and launched associations and speculations. In the end, the conclusion that was recognized by the majority was that as long as one ranked well in the first pass, one could gain extraordinary powers!
As for where this extraordinary power comes from?
Who cares?
Perhaps it's some kind of official experiment, or something else. As long as you can truly grant me extraordinary powers, I can temporarily ignore the reason.
So what S.H.I.E.L.D. is feeling the most pressure now is that more and more people are demanding that the park be reopened as soon as possible and that investment in virtual cabins be increased again.
As for whether there are people who want to pour cold water on the situation or jump out to stir up trouble?
The waves are not big.
As a major project endorsed by the Council and many countries, and involving a large number of the planet's top corporate giants, those who had objections spoke out under the information bombardment at the beginning of the launch, and those who should keep silent were kept silent.
As for the game designers who had participated in the construction of Paradise, they were dazed by the immense fame and popularity they had gained. All public and private communication channels were bombarded with countless people seeking attention and insider information. Having just been freed from S.H.I.E.L.D. and eager to leave and return home, they were forced to pack up their belongings in a matter of seconds and desperately sent out a distress signal to S.H.I.E.L.D., urging them to send someone to pick them up and let them return to the work they loved so much!
But most of them were either taken under protection by their own country's officials before SHIELD arrived, or they disappeared inexplicably and fell into the hands of the dark world.
The value displayed by [Paradise], and the allure of first-pass excellence or the possibility of obtaining extraordinary power, was enough to make many forces greedy and take huge risks to act. As the designers who constructed part of [Paradise], they undoubtedly became a hugely popular commodity.
The result of these various forces was that small-scale chaos began to escalate. Game designers, in particular, began to feel unsafe. Some daring individuals even attempted to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. and steal all of Paradise's designs, with unpleasant consequences.
Nick Fury, who escaped unscathed from the hearing with Ross and others, felt that the world had become more absurd than ever after capturing the intruder and getting the answer.
This sense of absurdity immediately seemed normal to him after Strange and Luke revealed their next plan to him and the Council.
Want to make the new currency the currency of [Paradise]?
Others may not know this, but Nick fully supports it! It would be best to impose more restrictions and give S.H.I.E.L.D. more power. For example, they could force S.H.I.E.L.D. to collect some of the new currency users earn, like adding value to the park. After all, his S.H.I.E.L.D. is considered one of the official entities of the park, right?
If that doesn't work, you can also embed a module for trading new currency and real currency!
Let me pay off my debt first!
Otherwise, every time I see Mephistonian in an alliance meeting, I feel a sense of crisis.
What about those designers who are under official custody or have disappeared?
Nick had no intention of making a big move. He could certainly use S.H.I.E.L.D.'s name to demand the designers be handed over, or to locate the missing designers, but they could just as easily play it safe and use all sorts of rhetoric and delaying tactics to faze him. As for the dark world that might intervene? That was an even deeper, unfathomable mess. It was a hodgepodge of forces, each with its own hidden horde of veterans, like a nesting doll. Even S.H.I.E.L.D. had a few aliases in the past. The waters were too deep.
Anyway, the world information those designers have can only serve as a crude reference. In fact, the embellishment of data dimensions will not affect the [Park]. That little reference is just a small benefit for those supporters.
Rather than allowing more chaotic organizations to appear in [Paradise], it is better to let these official countries that know the ins and outs of the matter take the lead and still form an external power structure in [Paradise].
We are all acquaintances, so we can discuss anything together, right?
For example, exchanging real money for new currency at a certain rate?
This can be discussed internally first, and then after the [Paradise] is actually running, we can reap a wave of profits in the early stage and form a thinking inertia.
As for the financial and practical problems that arise from this?
That is something that financial practitioners and politicians need to consider, not something he should consider.
There is no doubt that apart from Nightmare's group of super-sized beings, the one that has gained the most benefits and has the greatest future potential in this [Paradise] is undoubtedly his S.H.I.E.L.D.
It's no wonder that some people are so jealous that they try their best to pick peaches at all costs.
It's conceivable that, having already committed themselves, they'll have no intention of backing down. If they don't gain control of SHIELD from him this time, they'll undoubtedly seek it elsewhere. That's a given. While the combined might of General Ross and his group might struggle to shake up SHIELD, they'll still be a formidable force against other individuals and forces. Those who have finally managed to unite this force will undoubtedly seek a mutually beneficial platform.
In fact, those people didn't make Nick wait too long. They used various means and interest transfers and even exchanges, and after paying a certain price, they established an organization that had some overlapping functions with S.H.I.E.L.D.
Sky Hammer Bureau.
As the first Director of H.A.M.M.E.R., Ross even created an elite team called the Thunderbolts, similar to Nick's Avengers. Unlike S.H.I.E.L.D., H.A.M.M.E.R.'s funding and shareholders included numerous corporate giants, including Norman Osborn, who had invested heavily.
For the Board of Directors, S.H.I.E.L.D., with its fractional stake in the new currency, is naturally irreplaceable and remains their true son. However, given the pressures, interests, and considerations from all sides, it's not impossible to have a backup. At the very least, it could create a sense of urgency for Nick and S.H.I.E.L.D., and that would be a perfect endeavor.
Nick, a seasoned veteran, naturally understood this. He had never considered the Hammer Bureau, formed by Ross and his team, a true threat. He hadn't before, and now that Paradise had provided a new way to acquire currency, he was even less so.
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Silent City.
On the dimensional rainbow bridge.
The brilliant halo was like mixed paint splashed on the wall, polluting the area.
A familiar figure, with a thin body, quickly jumped out from the halo. The next moment, the Rainbow Bridge was completely closed.
"Master Strange, you just went out for a trip, how come you brought back a, um, girl?" Luke looked at the dusty Strange and the strange girl standing next to him, blinked, a little puzzled.
"The situation is a bit bad. She is Dormammu's daughter Clea." Strange carefully checked his body and energy. After finding no hidden dangers, he breathed a sigh of relief and introduced her to Luke with a slightly relaxed look.
"Fortunately, you pulled me back in time, otherwise..."
As he spoke, Strange seemed to have thought of some terrible consequences, and he shivered uncontrollably as if his whole body was exposed to the cold air of ice and snow.
He almost became the first Supreme Sorcerer to achieve the feat of bathing in the energy of the abyss!
"We just asked you to discuss business, but you kidnapped someone's daughter?"
Luke's words immediately made Strange roll his eyes. The levitation cloak floated up from behind Strange, stopped abruptly in mid-air, and rushed towards Luke.
There was also a red ribbon around Luke, which suddenly jumped out from behind him like a venomous snake hunting its prey at the critical moment, fighting with the levitation cloak.
"Why is it here?" Strange frowned at the red ribbon. He had a very bad impression of it because it had attacked him and slapped him several times the first time they met. If it weren't for the protection of the levitation cloak, he felt like his teeth would be pulled out.
"I'm so tired of looking after the kid. Becky made him a little wilted, so I brought him out to get some fresh air." Luke didn't care about the ribbon fighting with the cloak of levitation. After all, when two magical equipment with spiritual consciousness met, there would inevitably be a fierce battle.
As little Becky grew older, her destructiveness and troublesomeness grew. Aside from being somewhat well-behaved and manageable around him and Ina, when they weren't around, Venom, now a professional babysitter, described her as a wicked, festering little devil.