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Chapter 91
【Don’t Bring Nuclear Weapons to Japan】
『HAO』Strategy Thread part1047
【That Region is Barely Hokkaido】
111 Anonymous Player
Requesting help spreading the word:
If you see any 『HAO』streamers, please remind them in the comments not to head directly to the target location. There are asshole enemies waiting there that will instantly obliterate you with instadeath attacks.
112 Anonymous Player
I got obliterated, how are we supposed to deal with that……
113 Anonymous Player
>>112 An NPC named Nakamoto? is trying to regroup. In the stream I’m watching, he’s gathered about 100 people and is attempting to launch a counterattack on the Strain from the opposite direction.
114 Anonymous Player
This is why 『HAO』is a shitty game. Don’t put instadeath attacks in a game with login restrictions.
115 Anonymous Player
What about the overseas players?
116 Anonymous Player
>>115 The overseas players are at their respective bases, so I don’t think they’re participating?
117 Anonymous Player
>>116 No, that’s not right. They’re participating in the attack from other bases. For example, the American server dispatched from Base 2 and took heavy casualties from the nukes, but they’re putting up a good fight. I think they’ll probably reach the central point in a few more days.
118 Anonymous Player
The Infinite Horizon is absurdly huge, yet the objective isn’t that far away. What a mystery.
119 Anonymous Player
I heard they’re aiming for the eyes and brain, not the mouth, so there’s no need to go all the way to the edge of the Infinite Horizon.
120 Anonymous Player
What’s the logic behind not being able to communicate?
121 Anonymous Player
>>120 Direct communication has an extremely short range, so we’re relaying through a comm device set up at the target location to keep in touch. But now that’s been seized from us. Well, we can still share info through stream comments.
122 Anonymous Player
Communication isn’t the issue here. There’s no guarantee the info coming through is even accurate. More importantly, I survived but got captured. What the hell was that? I felt this insane discomfort and got forcibly logged out.
123 Anonymous Player
Yeah, there are other reports about that. People say they feel really sick a while after being captured. It’s probably because the sensory data exceeded the tolerance level on the VR device side, but that’s straight up criminal. Also, what’s the point of capturing players instead of just killing them?
124 Anonymous Player
Huh, for me it forcibly logged me out the instant I was captured. What’s the difference?
125 Anonymous Player
>>124 Probably timing. From what I saw on streams, people started getting forcibly logged out immediately once more and more were being captured. I guess even these shitty devs realized it was bad news.
126 Anonymous Player
Another offense to add to the rap sheet of the 『HAO』 devs…
127 Anonymous Player
Oh, Kana and Nakamoto have joined forces! Now there’s a pretty good number gathered.
128 Anonymous Player
You’re right, I see the pretty Beastkin lady on this side too. She was with the 『Order』, right?
129 Anonymous Player
>>128 The person who was playing with Orange.
130 Anonymous Player
>>129 Got it, thanks. Also, NPCs are reviving again, huh.
131 Anonymous Player
If we interpret this “Ver” thing as not just an update, but more like switching routes, it kind of makes sense. Like we’ve switched from the Ark route to the nuclear missile route.
132 Anonymous Player
>>131 In that case, it reinforces the theory that 『HAO』 is the future even more.
133 Anonymous Player
>>131 >>132 Take that kind of talk to the occult thread or the Orange thread. It’s definitely interesting, but still.
134 Anonymous Player
Speaking of which, how’s Orange doing?
135 Anonymous Player
>>134 Getting his butt groped by a handsome dude.
136 Anonymous Player
>>134 Picked up a blonde beauty.
137 Anonymous Player
>>134 While he was logged out, the handsome guy drew on his face, but the blonde girl erased it.
138 Anonymous Player
>>134 Currently on a journey with three people: an androgynous blue-haired handsome guy (Teo, pilot of a fusion unit), and a blonde (Jellyfish, connected to 『SOD』, a second-class restricted individual). Landed quite far from the target location but is currently approaching it. Doesn’t seem to be reading the comments, or perhaps he doesn’t need to because he’s already foreseen it.
139 Anonymous Player
Hardcore players are scary…
140 Anonymous Player
I’m a resident of the Orange-dedicated thread, wassup.
141 Anonymous Player
That place gives me cult vibes, it’s creepy… Plus it seems like there are some incredible people there.
142 Anonymous Player
Incredible people (narrowly defined, not applicable at all outside certain circles)
143 Anonymous Player
>>142 Starting today, those people are putting out Orange ads all over Tokyo. They were deciding who’s in charge of each station and debating which sites would be most effective to advertise on. Their wallets must be as deep as the Mariana Trench.
144 Anonymous Player
I went to the station this morning and it was covered in Orange ads lol, so that’s what it was. It kept playing endlessly looped and unnecessarily cool montages of Orange killing it. My secondhand embarrassment was at MAX.
145 Anonymous Player
The Orange thread is already operating under the premise that 『HAO』= the future. To think I’d witness the manufacturing of a cult with my own eyes…
146 Anonymous Player
It’s even more culty than 『SOD』lmao. Reality really is stranger than fiction.
147 Anonymous Player
Oh, so the 『HAO』real-life event has started? I only watched the opening ceremony speedrun, how was the rest?
148 Anonymous Player
The Apollyon pilot experience was awesome. It felt really sluggish, but on a totally different level than existing robots. It really felt like it was one with my body. Apparently the performance is low because it’s the Ver1.06 model without NMM installed.
149 Anonymous Player
>>148 For real? That makes me kinda want to go. I heard it’s insanely crowded, but I’d at least like to check it out on the day of the battle royale.
150 Anonymous Player
I also met the real Orange. He left after just watching without piloting an Apollyon, but he was talking to some blue-haired handsome guy.
151 Anonymous Player
A blue-haired handsome guy… Why does that sound familiar…
152 Anonymous Player
He was also with a white-haired beautiful girl and some kids. Sisters, maybe? I bet they’d look amazing cosplaying as Beastkin.
153 Anonymous Player
White hair… Why does that sound familiar…
154 Anonymous Player
Lmao at forcibly trying to connect the dots. This is top-tier conspiracy theory stuff.
155 Anonymous Player
If that blonde woman shows up too, I’m seriously joining the Orange thread.
156 Anonymous Player
Oh, Orange successfully pulled off a preemptive nuclear fly-away.
157 Anonymous Player
What?
158 Anonymous Player
?????
159 Anonymous Player
Speak English.
160 Anonymous Player
I see, so nuclear weapons existed to fly through the sky. (While watching the stream)
161 Anonymous Player
Nakamoto, who was trying to take them down…
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