Chapter 199: National Announcement

The second-stage Task is very simple.

Besides notifying the Capital City and mobilizing the freelance players, including Chen Shicheng, to launch an attack on the altar, the plan is to mobilize every player in the nation.

To prevent the Righteous Sect Cultivators from panicking and resorting to desperate measures, whatever special means are used for support, the state's choice is to plunge the enemy into a sea of popular war.

Thus, ten seconds later, every registered player across the country received a precisely delivered message on their phone, outlining the current progress of the Break-Formation Task and the consequences of failure.

Moreover, to inform unregistered players, a news article was pushed on every television channel, website URL, and mobile app nationwide.

The headline was unusually conspicuous: Break-Formation Task, Everyone Is Responsible!

This news article avoided the obscure official jargon and spoke in plain language.

After omitting the location of the main forces, the article essentially reminded everyone that the Break-Formation Task in the Mountains and Seas Deification game is underway, urging players near the Capital City to log in immediately and, while safeguarding themselves, assist the freelance teams in attacking the altar as much as possible.

It also emphasized that during the Task, players should not harass civilians, nor burn, kill, or loot; the goal is not to make many friends but to reduce the number of enemies.

With the state's backing, the news instantly ignited the nation; players already up logged onto the forum to check the situation, and those still in bed were woken by relatives and friends.

Throughout the Huaxia realm, except for signal‑dead mountain gullies, every place with people was inevitably paying attention to the event.

That is, the Mountains and Seas Deification forum server is top‑notch; otherwise it would have been blown up by billions of logins long ago.

Given that base, forum posts were refreshing at a rate of tens of thousands per second.

Nevertheless, no matter how fast the feed refreshed, the Cultural Tourism Bureau Logistics Department's outward‑propaganda account post remained at the top, propped up by countless players, with a dizzying number of comment replies.

"Finally it's started!!!"

"Brothers, keep bumping it so everyone can see!"

"At the start of this Task I was already a bit nervous; what if we fail, what do we do?"

"Shut up, upstairs; united we must succeed."

"Right, big shots joining the Task in the Capital City, go for it; Peng Yuyan of City F is cheering you on."

"If you have the time, log into the game right away; didn't you read the news? Have all players attack other formation nodes to tie up the Righteous Sect Cultivators' manpower and cut off their support channels."

"What if my level is too low to win?"

"Are you stupid? Not waiting for others? Don't you know two fists can't match four hands!"

"I'm only level 1 now; I can't even get close to the battlefield, but I'll wander nearby—any attention I draw from the Righteous Sect Cultivators is a profit!"

The comments above are somewhat normal; below, they start to go off‑track, with countless low‑level players discussing all sorts of mischievous tactics, and increasingly inappropriate strategies are quickly refined after being proposed.

That is precisely what the state hopes to see.

As a game that appeared suddenly, it's been three years old, yet it remains a novelty to the world.

Moreover, because it was kept secret in the early stage for social stability, even the strategic forecasting department couldn't be relied upon due to its inexperienced experts. In the end, they can only hope that players will pool their ideas to achieve the effect of three cobblers outshining Zhuge Liang.

Unfortunately, although these players responded en masse and brought over tactics from previous online games, they can't provide much help to the main battlefield thousands of miles away.

But that's irrelevant; this dispersed harassment has a crucial purpose: to cause chaos within the Dayu Dynasty in the game.

A single spark can start a prairie fire! Although the Dayu government has cooperated with the Righteous Sect Cultivators in this player‑targeted scheme, they haven't taken the initiative, merely offering some spots to set up formations, clearly watching and waiting.

Now, with millions of players striking simultaneously, we want them to see that we can make our voices heard and are not a scattered bunch! At this moment, the nation's liveliest city is undoubtedly City B.

City B, across the nation, is just an ordinary second‑tier city, suffering severe population loss and aging.

Yet its location happens to border the Capital City in the game, with a large portion of its districts adjacent to the Capital's outskirts wilderness.

When the Break-Formation Task first began, players here were miserably unlucky; due to their login location, being hunted by the Righteous Sect Cultivators was horrific, with survival difficulty ten to dozens of times that of other places, and compared to players on the Ten‑Thousand‑Mountain front, it was like being raised by a step‑mother.

At the worst, dozens gathered outdoors to dig pits; after logging off, their characters hid in the pits and took turns on watch, living worse than cave dwellers on mountain tops.

Only now has City B turned its fortunes around; while the whole nation watches the Capital City, it has become the brightest spot.

At this moment, the forum threads where City B players gather have also become lively.

"Damn the Three Purities, are we wild folk who eat wind and drink dew finally becoming heroes?"

"Commanders, act quickly; we can't let people from other regions laugh at us."

"Charge, charge, charge! We've been out in the wild so long our mouths are drying up; hurry into the city, I want meat!"

"Urgent notice: someone has already engaged the Righteous Sect Cultivators at the city gate; everyone, seize the chaos and rush in."

"From now on, whether we eat dry or liquid, it depends on this wave."

"Right, rush into the city; at worst we die a few times, that's only a few years of Lifespan, what's there to fear?"

"Exactly, we can't get onto the front lines, but sacrificing a few years of Lifespan to cause some trouble for the Righteous Sect Cultivators is doable."

"Everyone stay calm, don't get carried away; we don't advocate zero‑cost purchases. Remember the Eight Great Disciplines, don't take even a single thread from the masses."

"Nonsense, thanks for the reminder; once we're in the city we'll target those Righteous Sect Cultivators directly, and never provoke the Dayu army!"

The effect of the nationwide mobilization is far better than imagined.

After years of development, Huaxia now stands at the world's pinnacle in economy and military, and the public's sense of honor and cohesion is about to overflow.

In reality we may not be able to declare our return to the world's summit through a war, but in the game we can at least vent our emotions.

Thus, a tranquil morning in the Dayu Dynasty was turned into utter chaos by the players.

(End of Chapter)