Chapter 149-4: New Black Tide Unit Players (4) |
Soon, the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s infiltration plan was exposed on the player forum.
[Brothers, heads up! The Earthmind Evil Spirit’s at it again with a new trick, stay alert.]
Post author: Stir-Fried Sweet Potato and Tomato
Content: The Earthmind bully’s tactics have leveled up again. This time it’s using infiltration tactics, video proof attached (video file).
Here’s how to tell the difference: players have floating name info above their heads. Even if you hide your name, you can still see a crimson flame mark. But the player templates made by the Earthmind Evil Spirit don’t have that display.
If you see one, kill it on sight. The Earthmind bully’s using infiltration to learn more about us players and plan even more disgusting tactics.
Comment section:
New Era Stone Ape: Where’s the dev team?! The Earthmind bully’s AI needs to be nerfed. What is it even trying to do? It’s using infiltration tactics now! If it keeps evolving, I don’t even want to imagine what comes next. I strongly demand a nerf. Monsters getting buffed with each version update is ridiculous. I do not approve of this design.
EX Reaper: Now it’s confirmed, the Earthmind bully really is playing stand-in mode in the Evil Moon domain. But what confuses me is that the Black Tide’s combat style is completely different from the Earthmind bully’s. Why doesn’t it create natural-catastrophe units to run counter-damage strategies? Why’s it using a full-force push tactic? What is it trying to do, develop a new tactic?
You Chop My Melon, Right?: The guy above makes sense. I’m also curious, can we take the Earthmind bully to fight Evil Entities? I wanna see how it performs. Then we just take a smaller share of evolution points and sacrificial power. Isn’t that great?
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The player forum erupted in heated discussion over the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s infiltration plan.
Meanwhile, atop the Evil Eye Tower platform, the Earthmind Evil Spirit looked confused.
“Evil Eye, where exactly did I go wrong?”
“Unknown. You can continue searching to find the exposure point.”
“Alright.” Unwilling to give up, the Earthmind Evil Spirit nodded at once. In the next moment, a new player unit was generated before him.
But he made changes to the player’s appearance.
Height adjusted, eye spacing altered, eyebrow shape refined… after all the changes, the player looked completely different from before.
Seeing this, the blue-skinned Evil Eye floating nearby appeared very curious, but also agreed that the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s infiltration tactic was indeed a good method to study the player race in depth.
Although it consumed a huge amount of resources, all this effort was for the sake of defeating the player race.
After the new player unit was completed, the Earthmind Evil Spirit linked his consciousness to it with the Evil Eye’s help.
A new round of infiltration began.
But this time, he was exposed and focus-fired the moment he entered the camp.
Unable to comprehend it, the Earthmind Evil Spirit tried again, a third time, a fourth time… until after dying the tenth time, he was completely bewildered.
The player templates he made showed no visible flaws at all, so where exactly was the problem?
Just as the Earthmind Evil Spirit was feeling puzzled, the Evil Eye connected to his back spoke.
“Earthmind, I know where the problem is.”
“What problem?”
The Evil Eye didn’t answer directly. Instead, it transmitted a series of stitched-together visual recordings into the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s mind.
The footage showed the players’ eye movements right before they discovered him each time.
“Earthmind, have you noticed? Every time players looked at you, their expressions were normal, but when their gaze drifted to your upper right, they paused, and their expression changed.”
As it spoke, the video paused on the scenes showing players glancing toward the upper right of his head each time before discovery.
“Why is that?”
The Earthmind Evil Spirit was baffled.
“It’s probably because there’s something in that spot that only players can see.”
Saying this, the Earthmind Evil Spirit enlarged the area players had looked at and outlined the exact position with a black frame.
After hearing the Evil Eye’s analysis, the Earthmind Evil Spirit felt a headache coming on.
If it was a mark that only players could see, he had no way to create it.
Just as the Earthmind Evil Spirit was about to give up, the Evil Eye spoke again.
“Earthmind, perhaps I can try creating this mark that only players can see.”
“How can you make it if you can’t see it?” The Earthmind Evil Spirit was stunned.
“We can filter from the patterns used by players. These are the 30 most common marks players wear.”
With that said, 30 mark designs on Armed Vehicles appeared in the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s mind.
Among them was the Emperor’s Sign flame mark that represents the player faction.
“How do we handle the mark size?” the Earthmind Evil Spirit asked the key question.
“It can be distinguished from the players’ pupil changes. The player information recorded in the database includes their pupil variation.”
“Take the last time you were discovered as an example. The player was 13.62 meters away from you. The pupils of members of the player race adjust according to the distance and size of the object they are looking at. For a larger object at a distance, the pupils will be relatively relaxed, and when the target is farther away, the pupils will show constriction.”
“Secondly, we must also consider that under strong light, players’ pupils will undergo a certain degree of change. Our simulation uses a normal environment as the reference.”
Along with the Evil Eye’s explanation, images of players’ pupil dilation and constriction and the corresponding scenes continuously surfaced in the Earthmind Evil Spirit’s mind.
“Based on the information collected from our many encounters with the player race, it can be found that if a player’s pupils are relatively diffuse, they may be looking at a relatively large object or one closer to the eyes, which occupies a larger reflective range on the retina. If the gaze is relatively focused, they are examining the details of the target. Combining pupil changes with the records in the database can yield a fairly clear analysis.”
“To make the analysis more accurate, we can also use the eye-tracking visual changes of members of the player race to distinguish.”
“Taking a distance of 13.62 meters as an example, I extracted clipped images from all player combat records when viewing targets around 13.62 meters away. For example, when the Evil Entities under our control approach the player, we freeze the frame at 13.62 meters, then capture all changes in the players’ pupils as they track the Evil Entity’s movement. These changes can all serve as reference data…”
Through the Evil Eye’s detailed analysis, the Earthmind Evil Spirit understood the Evil Eye’s idea.
It wanted to simulate, based on all recorded player information, how a player’s pupils change when observing, according to the target’s size and its distance.
Then, using this as a reference, analyze the pupil changes when members of the player race look at the top-right icon of another player.
As the Evil Eye provided more and more data, the Earthmind Evil Spirit was completely baffled.
The blue-skinned Evil Eye floating nearby was listening with utmost attention. Clearly, the Evil Eye’s powerful data processing ability made it feel envious.
This scene was also being monitored by Qi Sheng.
After listening to the Evil Eye’s idea, Qi Sheng applauded in his heart.
The Evil Eye’s ability truly exceeded his expectations. He had thought that after failing ten times in a row, the Earthmind Evil Spirit would definitely choose to give up.
Unexpectedly, the Evil Eye still found a path to keep moving forward.
But Qi Sheng still thought of a question.
“Guide, players’ visual abilities improve with level. Using all players as a reference might not work, right?”
In response to the inquiry, Guide floating beside him shook his head.
[Boss, this method is indeed feasible. The player templates we make are all in the initial state. Aside from slight differences between races, all settings for players of the same race are the same, which also includes visual ability. Even a blind person in reality has the same initial vision as other players in the game. Although leveling up can improve visual ability, within a range of 13.62 meters all players can clearly see the target, so there is no issue with pupil variation.]
[The visual enhancement brought by leveling only manifests when looking at distant targets, due to differences in clarity.]
[In summary, at a distance of 13.62 meters, players’ pupils are the same, unless they switch to a monster form, in which case a noticeable difference will appear.]
After hearing Guide’s explanation, Qi Sheng nodded.
He was very curious about the Evil Eye’s upcoming modifications.
During this period, in order to test new tactics by changing unit types, the Earthmind Evil Spirit made the players a tidy profit.
His sacrificial power income skyrocketed accordingly.
Later, to speed up resource stealing, the Earthmind Evil Spirit replaced all units with offensive unit types that are easy to kill, and his earnings skyrocketed again.
He was very curious what other tricks the Earthmind Evil Spirit could come up with.
Pulling tricks was fine. As long as there were profits, he welcomed it.
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After a day of testing,
the Earthmind Evil Spirit switched to the 23rd kind of mark and hung it in the top-right position.
This time the mark’s design was a mass of burning scarlet flames.
Upon arriving at the player camp again, nearby players only glanced at him and then no longer paid attention.
This made the Earthmind Evil Spirit realize that his Infiltration Tactic had achieved an initial success.
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