Chapter 115 Second Round of Internal Testing
It's Thursday, November 7th, Earth time, and there's only one day left until the monthly rare item auction.
When the players were speculating on the game coins in full swing, the senior NPC finally put up this month's auction items.
The auction items from Warrior Mentor Charlie Rex are three long swords that are very impressive in appearance and have even more impressive properties:
"Sword of Berius"
"Blessed sword of the God of Fire, Berius. Increases attack power by 20% and fire resistance by 50%."
"Additional Fire Damage: When attacking, the target will suffer fire damage equal to 30% of the weapon's damage."
"Indestructible: Armor penetration increased by 30%."
Players who rushed to the Westham City Hall bulletin board early in the morning to check the auction items were blown away by the attributes of this sword.
"Nimatong Magic Book can only enchant equipment with one entry, but this thing actually has two entries?!"
"Double attributes are nothing, the equipment's special effects are amazing! 20% attack increase, plus a battle roar to make you invincible!"
"I'm afraid sword weapons can be used by warriors, knights, and walkers . This is crazy!"
Qin Guan, who was not very serious about his profession, felt a strong desire to possess the weapon attributes. He ran out of the crowd and immediately ran to the teleportation point to log off and call Xiao Zhou...
Last month, when the auction items were released, players were forced to work hard. This month, the official was more prudent and no longer forced players to work hard to gain reputation for the auction rights. As long as the reputation with the professional mentor reaches close, they have the right to bid.
But this is not a good thing for the players who really want it. For example, when the undead horse was auctioned last month, the bosses unanimously monopolized the auction rights, so this time it is impossible to play...
After booking the game coins from the studio, Qin Guan still felt uneasy, so he called Miaobishenghua again.
Soon, Miaobishenghua was launched online.
"Anyone with a close warrior reputation can bid, and the chances of losing out are too high." Miaobishenghua personally went to the Westram Town Hall to check the auction notice, and came out to meet Qin Guan, saying, "Even if there are few warrior players, there are still many people with close reputations. The ones we are familiar with include Yang Ying, Sandwich Gummy, Ji Tang, and the few warriors that Brother Lahong has just trained."
"Yang Ying and Gummy Candy are both selling game coins, so they shouldn't come to compete, right?" Qin Guan said, "I don't think Ji Tang will come either. He got so into it after becoming the mayor of the player town that I haven't seen him come out to kill monsters with Yang Ying and the others."
"It's unlikely that Yang Ying and Xiao Tang can afford to take the photos, but they can definitely take the photos on behalf of the boss." Miao Bi Sheng Hua said earnestly, "Boss Orange Cat has been getting close to them recently. He and his friend will definitely come out to grab them. And there are also people from Brother La Hong's side. Three swords really aren't enough to share."
Qin Guan suddenly felt a pain in his balls...
There is a RMB player named Orange Cat, who also plays a warrior. He spends a lot of time online but his level is almost like that of a lazy player. He just barely completed the first level this month... He is the lowest among all players and is so bad that anyone who sees him would think he is hopeless.
It’s bad enough that he has clumsy hands, but he also has money and likes to get the best equipment!
Qin Guan couldn't stand the thought of turning a top-grade weapon into a pendant for clumsy players like the Orange Cat Boss to show off - it was such a waste of resources!
"Don't be anxious. Isn't this just the first time an item has been put up for auction? Last time, they had the Orb of Deception and the Undead Horse. This time, there should be two more items. Let's see what Lord Yang has to offer. If the items are good, maybe we can attract wealthy bosses over there." Miaobishenghua comforted.
The announcement on the official website only said that the Warrior Instructor and the Mage Instructor would release the auction items on the 7th, but did not say what specifically would be released; Qin Guan himself was not very concerned about what new things the Mage Instructor Lord Yang would release, but when he thought about it, what Miao Bi Sheng Hua said made sense, so he suppressed his anxiety and teleported back to Exile Town with Miao Bi Sheng Hua to wait for news.
It was already eight o'clock in the real world and afternoon in the game when the elusive Lord Yang (actually just an illusion projection) slowly appeared and posted an auction notice at the gate of the town hall in Exile Town.
After seeing the contents of the auction announcement, the players who came to watch suddenly burst into a loud "WTF" -
"Book of the Dead"
"A special type of item. When the holder is a captain/team leader, the holder can summon team/team members to the vicinity of the holder."
Qin Guan immediately forgot about the "Sword of Berius" and drooled as he stared at the auction item that Lord Yang took out...
The most criticized thing about the game "Another World" by players is that you will be kicked offline as soon as you die. After the death penalty time has passed and you can go online, you can only be resurrected at the town (stronghold) teleportation point.
It's okay to spawn monsters in a spider nest or a poisonous fog swamp. It only takes a few minutes to run back from the nearest resurrection point to reunite with teammates. But if the activity place is far from the resurrection point, such as when doing an expedition mission, then dying means being out of touch with the team.
Why are the adventurous (and suicidal) players unable to have fun so far and can only play around in places not far from towns (resurrection points)?
Isn’t it because the setting that you have to die and return to the city if you die is too unfriendly!
If you can get this item, let alone forming a group to kill monsters, even if you form a team to go deep into Tarantan to open up new wasteland, you will definitely get a lot of support!
If there is another expedition mission or something, whoever gets this item will be cried and called daddy by the players!
After wiping his saliva and pulling Miaobishenghua out of the crowd, Qin Guan said with a firm look in his eyes: "Huahua, we must get this thing!"
Miaobishenghua nodded and was about to say something when he heard a familiar voice excitedly ringing out not far away: "Magic, you have props like this?! Buy, buy, buy!"
Qin Guan and Miao Bi Sheng Hua turned around and saw the orange cat boss, who was wearing top-grade equipment and had the ID "There is an orange cat" on his head, waving excitedly at the crowd: "Brothers and sisters, are there any more copper coins? I'll take as many as you can!"
"...Damn, I almost forgot about this guy!" Qin Guan looked pained.
Miao Bi Sheng Hua was speechless. He had hoped that Lord Yang's auction items would attract the bosses so that Qin Guan could bid for the Vulcan Sword. He didn't expect that Lord Yang's items were too awesome and they also needed them. He could only say, "I think, why don't we say it in the (WeChat) group, and everyone can pool their money to increase the chances of winning."
Qin Guan said helplessly: "Okay, I'll go talk to the group."
Lahong was leading his men in the poisonous fog swamp to collect materials for the Blood Alliance quest. When he heard that Lord Yang had released an incredible item, he immediately committed suicide and logged off without saying a word, and used WeChat and phone to contact the gold farming party...
In the dense forests of the Sorenson Mountains, Yang Qiu, covered in blood, struggled to observe the reactions of the online players in the matrix to this round of auction items. He let out a light breath, tiredly withdrew his mind , and collapsed to the ground motionless.
The "Sword of Berius" released by Rex is indeed made in China, just like the steel blades used by the players...
However, Yang Qiu added a layer of dark gold, a magical material left over from building a teleportation array (the real thing used by living people), to the swords, enhancing the solidity of these three modern industrial products so that they could withstand double enchantment. If they were to flow into this world's black market, they could be sold for a few gold coins, so it wasn't considered cheating fellow Chinese.
As for the Book of the Dead, it was a trophy he picked up in his early years. Although it is called a book, it is actually a long scroll woven with the hair of a special magical beast. It can carry semi-permanent magic inscriptions. When necessary, the scroll can be unfolded to cast the inscribed spells.
The semi-permanent magic originally engraved in this scroll was "Spiritual Vision". The old noble who collected this thing used it to determine whether his subordinates and women were loyal to him. Yang Qiu washed away this useless mental magic and engraved the summoning of the dead for resurrection and teleportation on it, which became the so-called "Book of the Dead".
These two items are given to players through auction. In addition to regularly recycling game coins, they are naturally for the purpose of improving players' ability to attack and their endurance in field combat. To build a railway from Westram to Exile Town, it is impossible without these energetic players to escort the construction team.
Of course, according to Yang Qiu's estimation, a construction team of at least two thousand people would be needed to protect it, and the current number of players would definitely not be enough.
Yang Qiu let himself lie on the ground and rest for a long time. When he was almost recovered, he struggled to stand up, opened the space-time rift and returned to Earth.
Soon, an announcement was posted on the official website:
"Announcement on the issuance of the second batch of internal test accounts"
"Dear players and friends, the second round of stress testing for the game "Otherworld" is about to begin. Three thousand beta test accounts are waiting for you to claim."
“The official website has opened an account application portal. Players who pass the 100-question questionnaire will participate in a random draw and have a chance to get a beta test account.”
"The second batch of internal test accounts will still be issued for free, and only the helmet material fee of 188 will be charged."
After posting the announcement, Yang Qiu, who had just taken a quick shower, sent another email to "Director Lu", asking them to provide 3,100 helmets made of high-quality materials and promised that 100 of them would belong to them...
Let’s not talk about what “Director Lu” felt when he received this email. Once the news about the 3,000 beta test accounts was posted on the official website, the cloud players who had been paying attention to the official website of “Alien World” for a long time were shocked.
Because the account is too stuck, the attention of "Alien World" on the Chinese Internet is no longer as high as before. After all, the pace of life on Earth is very fast, the popularity of the Internet is very short-lived, and netizens are very busy. If a big pie that can only be seen but not eaten is drawn for too long, it will inevitably be forgotten by netizens - let alone games, even blockbuster movies and new electronic products will be treated the same way.
If it weren’t for Qin Guan, the internet celebrity UP host, who regularly updates high-quality game videos on Bilibili to keep the topic popular, the official website of "Alien World" and the player forum might not have much daily traffic...
In short... there are only cloud players who can learn about the game "Alien World" through videos, screenshots and players' discussion posts. There are still many people who want to try it themselves. After the announcement was posted, more than 10,000 people clicked on the application interface in less than half an hour.
Then, these cloud players were confused...
I just wanted to play a game, and you asked me to take a personality test?!
Someone hastily answered the 100 questions, and a dialog box popped up: "Dear player friend, your overall score is insufficient. Unfortunately, your application has failed."
"Is it poisonous?! I just applied for a game account?"
The cloud players who didn’t even qualify for the random draw were furious and rushed into the player forum to rant... and that was it.
Most cloud players are relatively calm. There are very few impatient people who can maintain such a long-term interest in a game that they cannot play. They just answer the questionnaire honestly and wait patiently for a response.
Yang Qiu slept in a private house on this side of Earth for the whole afternoon. He got up at dusk and checked the background of the official website. He selected a list of 3,000 people based on the highest comprehensive score of the psychological personality test questionnaire customized by professionals, packed it into a compressed package, and sent it directly to "Director Lu", asking "Director Lu" to help him check whether the files of these 3,000 people are innocent and whether they have committed any crimes.
After receiving the compressed file, Professor Yin Zhengliang stared at the computer screen in silence for a full thirty seconds...
How to say it... He directly announced to netizens that he had released 3,000 accounts, and then casually sent away 100 accounts from their side as a consolation. This operation actually made Professor Yin Zhengliang very angry. They have been cooperating for such a long time and he still plays this trick. What does this guy think of them?
As a result, this guy turned around and handed over the background check of 3,000 "player accounts" to them...
"This is... he doesn't mind the government interfering, but he doesn't want to be controlled by the government, right? " The young researcher next to him said with a smile, "Anyway, this guy just doesn't want the government, that is, us, to take the lead in his alien world plan, right? What on earth is this guy thinking? I don't understand his attitude."
"I think this issue cannot be viewed one-sidedly." The researcher sitting opposite adjusted his glasses. "No matter what the National Security Bureau thinks, this 'Lord Yang' is indeed not opposed to cooperating with us, and he is very generous to our people. Westram said to hand it over to Ji Tang, and he didn't make any comments, which shows that he still trusts the country."
"Xiao Zhang is right, that's the truth." Professor Yin Zhengliang exhaled and said, "This person can come and go freely in the 'other world', so he regards the 'other world' as his own private land. This cannot be said to be a thought problem. He is not a comrade in the organization. According to the observations and conclusions of Comrade Guoan and our investigation, this person should have been an ordinary citizen before the 'accident' occurred. Ordinary people have their own ideas and do not have unconditional trust in the country. We cannot blame ordinary people for their ideas. Instead, we should reflect on whether our work is not done well enough and whether our cadre team needs further education."
At 2:00 p.m. on November 7th, Earth time, before Yang Qiu could pull off the trick of asking "Director Lu" to help him investigate the player's background, Westram, which was in the middle of the night, welcomed several special guests.
The security team members on duty at the town gate closed the doors and windows and slept soundly inside. A few furtive figures looked inside from the window, looked at each other, and simply stood up and walked into the unguarded town.
The dark streets in the town were very quiet. Not only were there no people, but even a wild cat could be seen.
"This place has become like this." One of the intruders said in amazement. "What the hell, Westram was not like this last year. The streets were bustling at this time."
"It seems that the villagers were not lying. The new lord of Westham really shut down all the most profitable businesses here." Another person said with a sigh, "There are still some nobles who don't like to make money. This is really a rare story on the continent."
The leader turned around and called to his companions: "Stop talking about this, hurry up and go see if the town hall is really full of valuables and gold coins like those bumpkins said."
The two men, who had just been amazed at Westram's transformation, quickly shut up and followed the leader.
The three men, dressed in black and carrying weapons and crossbows smeared with black oil, had obviously been to Westham and were quite familiar with this small town. Instead of taking the main street in the town, they went around to Martin Street, hiding in the shadows of the buildings and accurately groping towards the town hall.
Halfway through the walk, one of the people who had spoken earlier could not help but whisper, "Even the patrolling militia is gone. This place is too defenseless, isn't it? Could those country bumpkins who have never seen the world be mistaken? The new lord has so much wealth that he is not worried about attracting thieves at all?"
"Didn't they attract us here..." another person interrupted, but was quickly shut up when his companion turned around and glared at him.
"We have no hostility towards the new lord here. We just came here to explore the situation for our employer." The leader said expressionlessly.
The other two quickly responded.
As they were talking, the three of them walked out of Martin Street, which was not too long, and turned into the alley leading to the town hall.
When they were still several dozen meters away from the town hall compound, the three furtive figures walking along the wall suddenly realized something was wrong.
From a distance, the pitch-black town hall looked no different from other buildings in the town and did not look like any human activity was going on.
But...how come they all heard faint noises coming from the direction of the town hall? It didn't seem like there was no one there?
The leader raised his hand to signal his two companions to stop, stared at the town hall courtyard for a while with a frown, took out a magic scroll that recorded a detection spell that could be reused several times, and unfolded it carefully.
Using creature detection magic, there were indeed no living creatures larger than a mouse in the town hall.
The team leader rolled up the magic scroll and put it close to his body. He stared at the town hall courtyard in confusion for a while, then waved his hand, signaling his two subordinates to continue moving forward with him.
Forty meters, thirty meters, twenty meters...
When they were within a range of twenty meters, the three of them heard quite clear "click, click" sounds, as well as a "KABAKABA" sound made by something unknown.
"What the hell is this?" one of the subordinates was puzzled.
The leader made a hushing gesture, looked around, and made a gesture to climb over the wall.
The two-meter-high wall of the town hall compound could stop ordinary thieves, but couldn't stop these three guys who were so skilled and daring that they dared to sneak into the town in the middle of the night. Without making any sound, the three men climbed to the top of the wall.
The people in this world generally suffer from night blindness caused by malnutrition. Without a light source, they cannot see objects more than a few meters away. These three people are strong and have ruddy complexions. Not only do they not have this problem, their vision is far better than that of normal people. With the faint moonlight from the sky, they can even see clearly a mouse crawling twenty or thirty meters away.
Relying on their superhuman eyesight, the three people who climbed up the wall saw a scene that shocked them...
There was indeed no one in the town hall compound, only a few skeletons wearing clothes and strange fish-scale armor.
These skeletons were not wandering aimlessly like the undead creatures they had seen while escorting the caravan. Instead, they sat in a circle under the notice board in front of the town hall building, gesticulating like living people chatting, and making strange "KABAKABA" sounds with their trembling jaws...
The three intruders: “…(゜ロ゜)(゜ロ゜) (゜ロ゜)”
What the hell is this?!
Before the three shocked people could figure out what they had seen, they heard strange "click, click" sounds.
Two skeletons appeared in the direction of the main street in the town, and trotted into the yard from the gate about ten meters to the right of the wall where the three people were clinging.
The skeletons that seemed to be chatting sitting under the bulletin board immediately jumped up and rushed towards the two skeletons who had just arrived with their teeth and claws bared.
"Brother, are you selling copper coins? I'll buy them at a high price!"
