Chapter 117: Players' Fierce Protests!
After building the towers, he upgraded them one by one. The human army didn't leave either; they just guarded the spot, waiting for the arrow towers to finish.
The streamer and viewers were all puzzled. What's the deal here?
Why not end the match already? What are they waiting for? With this army advantage, they could just A-move and win!
Soon, the arrow towers were completed.
The flock of gryphons that had been blocking the towers flew away, and only then did the streamer and viewers see the formation of the arrow tower cluster.
The streamer was silent for a full minute.
The barrage went completely insane.
"Holy crap, what the hell am I seeing!"
"Damn, is this humiliation? Is this outright humiliation?"
"He's really messing around! I'm speechless!"
"Wow, Evening Wind feels like he's about to lose his mind."
Right in the center of the map, the massive arrow tower formation was clearly arranged into two huge English letters: NB!
And it even had an exclamation mark!
The stream's popularity exploded, hitting nearly 300,000 viewers, and the entire screen was flooded with "66666"!
Evening Wind's Blademaster also saw this tower formation and was so enraged he lost his mind. The Blademaster activated Blade Storm and charged straight in!
After spinning through a full Blade Storm, the towers were mostly destroyed, but the Blademaster also fell.
Evening Wind typed "gg" and immediately quit the game.
Too infuriating!
Too shameless!!
...
The barrage exploded, and Evening Wind's private messages exploded too!
The player groups were all discussing this match, and many people were privately messaging Evening Wind.
"Evening Wind, were you even playing seriously just now?"
"Evening Wind, that doesn't seem like your real skill level!"
"Say something, man!"
Evening Wind was speechless too. This match was way too suffocating to play, and he had a belly full of anger with no outlet. Then all these people came asking questions—wasn't that just rubbing salt in the wound?
Deny it? No, too many people recognized his alt account's ID. Claim he wasn't playing seriously? Also no—if you don't play seriously and get beaten, who's to blame? You'd just be laughed at.
Fine, he'd just play dead!
As soon as the replay of this match came out, the forums got lively again. The Silent fans went on a rampage, digging up all the old posts claiming Silent couldn't handle high-level matches and thrashing them one by one.
"Silent can't handle high-level matches? Then what's this? Even Evening Wind got stomped!"
"Random race beats Evening Wind—are you convinced or not?"
"Those who said he's an AI, come out now! Have you ever seen an AI arrange towers into an 'NB' with an exclamation mark?"
Soon, the Silent haters fought back just as fiercely.
"Winning so ugly and still showing off? Building that many towers is way too shameless!"
"Yeah, Evening Wind was just outplayed. If you've got the guts, fight head-on!"
"This completely violates the spirit of competition!"
"But honestly, humans feel really broken. You can play like this? I never noticed defense towers were this strong before. I'll try it too."
Some were arguing, while others had already studied this crazy tower-rushing tactic and were using it to climb the ranked ladder.
Especially many high-level players—after studying it, they found this strategy was incredibly effective!
In short, on larger maps, you'd go Archmage to quickly expand, then invest heavily in spamming towers. Every time you expanded, you'd build a tower cluster. Then you'd skip mid-tier units and rush straight to the ultimate air army of Gryphons and Dragonhawks, basically drowning the enemy in gold.
And this strategy wasn't just for fighting Orcs; it worked against Elves and Undead too, with just minor tactical adjustments along the way.
Human players were greatly encouraged, as if they saw the dawn of humanity's strong resurgence!
...
After beating Evening Wind's alt, Chen Mo continued his ranked matches. The opponents he faced afterward were far below Evening Wind's level, so Chen Mo didn't pull any more tricks—he just played standard and crushed them one by one.
In one night, he climbed straight to over 3700 points, and then couldn't find any more opponents.
Chen Mo felt a bit tired, so he logged off.
Although Silent logged off, the storm in ranked matches didn't stop.
That very night, a wave of tower-building swept through ranked games. It was almost a given that human players would build towers, and even many players whose main race wasn't human started practicing the human tower-rush strategy.
The scariest part was that this tactic was used in both low-level and high-level matches!
Low-level players with poor micro couldn't outplay Blademasters or Death Knights? Build towers!
High-level players with good micro found towers even more advantageous, so they built towers too!
That night, who knows how many Blademasters and Demon Hunters were shot dead by arrow towers.
The other three races were full of complaints.
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The next morning.
Su Jinyu said to Chen Mo with some panic, "Boss, it's bad. A lot of people on the forums are posting protests, saying the human defense towers are too strong and demanding nerfs."
Qian Kun also said, "Yeah, boss, it does seem a bit strong. Should I nerf the tower's HP a bit? Or the build time? Or both?"
Chen Mo shook his head. "Nerf what? No need."
Qian Kun said, "But boss, there are a lot of other race players protesting on the forums. Could this affect our game sales..."
Chen Mo was speechless. "You're worried about sales? Don't worry. Within three days, I guarantee they'll all shut up."
Su Jinyu looked skeptical. "Really, boss? Are you sure?"
Chen Mo nodded. "I'm very sure. Ignore them. Oh, forget it—players are our bread and butter, so I'll respond a bit. I'll post on Weibo."
Chen Mo opened Weibo. In one night, several hundred people had @'d him, demanding a nerf to human defense towers.
Chen Mo posted a Weibo: "The stats of human defense towers are completely fine. No nerfs. Every race has ways to counter human defense towers. Please do your own homework."
Soon, players flooded the comments.
"Chen Mo! Come out and I swear I won't kill you! Are you balancing with your feet? Such broken towers and you say they're not strong!"
"Yeah, if you won't nerf the tower's HP, at least remove the mini-towers!"
"Exactly! Building these towers makes you a total porcupine! So cowardly!"
"Can you buff the Undead???"
"Go watch Silent's match replay from yesterday! He completely ground Evening Wind down just by building towers! There's zero entertainment value!"
"Ahhh, I can't take it anymore! I'm going to the experience store to ambush Chen Mo! Anyone coming with me?"
"Above, let's go together!"
The public was furious, but Chen Mo remained unmoved.
Still, Chen Mo was a bit worried that players might actually come to gank him. After thinking it over, he decided to just go to the internet cafe to lay low for a while.
Sigh, these players are too fragile. This is nothing—just a few defense towers and they can't handle it?
Wait until the human demolition rush comes out later—are you even going to keep playing?