Now that there were policies for resurrection and restricting enemy numbers, Pei Guang began to consider increasing the team's damage output.
Pei Guang had seriously studied the characteristics of the dreamscape.
Based on the characteristics of the dreamscape and the rules once established by the Family, Pei Guang added a new policy.
As everyone knows, the Family in Penacony is Order under the banner of Harmony.
Naturally, he had to use something that conformed to Order.
[Policy 3: Dreamscapes must abide by secular morality and public order and good customs]
[Remark: Any unit possessing a Path is prohibited from acts violating secular morality and public order. Violators will have all damage received converted into true damage. After stopping the immoral behavior, the buff will disappear after one week.]
After writing the third policy, Pei Guang let out an even more perverted smile.
Why not set laws? Because Pei Guang knew that some things the True Stings did might actually be legal.
Laws are set for humans, or at the very least for intelligent units. But here was the problem: True Stings didn't seem to have much intelligence.
All of Penacony's laws were also set for people.
What? True Sting invasion? Invasion laws target invaders.
After all, no one thought True Stings could appear from the inside, and damn well be born from the Dreammaster.
And being born from the Dreammaster, according to Penacony's current legal ordinances and some of the Corporation's regulations, what the True Stings were doing might really not be illegal.
Because there is no law stating that True Stings cannot eat people...
In this case, using laws to restrict them might allow the True Stings to exploit loopholes.
Although the code was written this way, Pei Guang knew very well that when the code ran into a bug, the code was still written this way.
Therefore, Pei Guang lowered the standard and directly used the moral baseline to constrain the True Stings, and it was secular morality and public order and good customs.
What is secular? Naturally, it's the universal concepts observed by most people.
Since True Stings have a hive mind, no matter how many units there are, theoretically, they count as one.
And how many people are there in Penacony? If these people think it's immoral and violates public order and good customs, then it definitely violates them.
Look at what these True Stings are doing… occupying the Grand Theater and stopping the Charmony Festival?
And what are these bugs queuing for? Queuing to breed! Pure public indecency in broad daylight; it's too immoral. How can anyone do this?
Even if one wants to do it, it should be done secretly.
As for Pei Guang killing True Stings? That's just too moral.
Ask a thousand people, at least nine hundred would say Pei Guang is right to kill them, ninety-nine would think he is too merciful, and one that he is a traitor to the human race.
This was an open scheme against the True Stings.
Although the policy couldn't kill these True Stings directly, turning them into squishy targets was still a weakening.
Because of this, Pei Guang was very happy and excited.
However, just as he was laughing happily, he received a prompt from the system.
[Player Pei Guang violates Penacony's secular morality and public order and good customs. All damage received is converted into true damage.]
"Gah?"
Pei Guang looked at the system prompt, completely stunned.
Violating public order and good customs? What did he violate? Was it the chaos in Dewlight Pavilion?
But it shouldn't be. Even if he violated it back then, the new policy should only be calculated from the moment it took effect.
He hadn't done anything yet?
Although his laugh was a bit perverted, laughing pervertedly doesn't touch upon morality.
Pei Guang checked the specific reason.
It would have been better if he hadn't looked, but upon looking, Pei Guang's eyes were filled with confusion.
"When did I trigger this? Could it be?"
Pei Guang turned his gaze to March 7th.
Feeling Pei Guang's gaze, March 7th scratched her head in confusion: "Ah Guang? What's wrong? Is there something wrong with me?"
Pei Guang walked up to March 7th and held March 7th's hand: "I like you."
"Huh?"
March 7th's brain short-circuited a bit.
Such a direct attack, and in front of so many people, how could she handle it!!!
Just as her brain was screaming, Pei Guang frowned and shook his head, then walked in front of Stelle: "Stelle! I like you."
Stelle: "Hehe~"
Stelle stood with her hands on her hips proudly, as if this was a matter of course.
However, Pei Guang noticed that the system gave no feedback.
Did that mean confessing to two people at the same time didn't count as a violation?
Pei Guang fell into deep thought.
Finally, he fixed his gaze on Firefly, whose eyes were twinkling. "I like you too!"
The moment he finished this sentence, Pei Guang received a warning that he had committed a violation. At the same time, the duration of the buffs on his body was reset.
At this moment, Pei Guang looked at Firefly in shock, while Firefly looked at Pei Guang, somewhat baffled.
Although it wasn't a confession to her alone, she was still quite happy to hear Pei Guang say he liked her.
But why did Pei Guang reveal such a shocked expression?
Firefly lowered her head and looked at her own body.
There was nothing wrong, right? Even in terms of figure, she felt she seemed to be better than March 7th?
Pei Guang looked at Firefly with a complex expression, asking in a tone that was tangled and mixed with a trace of pain: "Firefly, let me ask you a question, and you must answer me truthfully. In my hometown, eighteen is considered an adult, and according to the system time, 365 days count as a year. Excluding the time you spent in dormancy, from your birth until now, have you passed fourteen years of age?"
Pei Guang understood that in this universe, the standards for adulthood varied across different regions. Some species died of old age in eighty-something days, while others were considered minors at two or three hundred years old.
But Pei Guang was clear that some of his system's settings regarding age were based on his own standards.
Hearing Pei Guang's inquiry, Firefly's brain suddenly clicked.
She opened her mouth, wanting to say something: "I... I am a minor who has lived for thousands of years?"
March 7th: "Huh?"
Stelle: "Huh?"
Welt, who had been watching the show all along, felt he had stumbled upon a huge scandal: "Huh?"
Dan Heng: "Miss Firefly is a long-life species?"
Himeko: "Ah Guang, you..."
Pei Guang looked at everyone with a complex expression: "I finally understand what it feels like for elves and humans to fall in love..."
Actually, Pei Guang was indifferent to this feeling. As a player, he prioritized looks; age wasn't a problem. Lifespan was even less of a problem.
Not to mention, even if Firefly only had a few years left to live, he currently had ways to make Firefly live to a normal person's age.
But the problem was, he had just set a policy.
It was originally targeted at the True Stings, but it ended up targeting himself?
Well, this is great. Him hitting the True Stings deals true damage, and them hitting him also deals true damage.
I really played myself, uh!
Pei Guang was full of regret! He regretted not asking everyone's age before formulating this policy.
It was too ridiculous! Who could have imagined that Firefly, who looked even older than March 7th, could be judged as a minor?
He regretted even more not formulating age policies based on different creatures. If he dated Bailu, that would normally be judged as a violation, but the system might not count it as one. But Firefly is normally not a violation, yet the system counts it as one.
Where could he go to reason this out?
All his helplessness finally turned into a sigh: "Sigh! Don't mention it. I pitied myself. But it's not a big problem. Isn't it just becoming squishy and dealing mutual damage? At worst, I'll just ditch all defense today."
True damage, essentially, means fighting the boss without armor. Not a big problem.