Chapter 509: Fourth Test Opened
When Enwei hurried back to Saint Turis Territory overnight, Delburg had basically stabilized.
Seeing the municipal building whose entire outer wall was destroyed but at least had not collapsed, Envy felt relieved... At least the place where the battle took place did not become a white land, which meant that Yang did not let the monster exert its full strength, and Delburg's loss should be acceptable.
Without disturbing the clerks who were rescuing archival materials from the ruins, Envy hurried to the lord's mansion in a low-key manner.
After a night's rest, Brother Lowell was in good condition, but his face was a little pale and his eyes were not as bright as before. It was obvious that he was injured at the soul level, but he was still able to recover naturally.
Anthony, who served Lowell, looked quite bad. Envy had just exchanged a few words with Lowell and asked about the situation in Delburg yesterday, when he found that Anthony, who was standing by the window, was absent-minded, with a straight look in his eyes , staring blankly at the empty space, and seemed to be muttering something...
"What is he doing?" Enwei pointed towards the window in confusion.
"After I was attacked yesterday, Ms. Karina and Anthony risked their lives to save me, and both were attacked by that monster." Lowell rubbed his forehead hard, looking annoyed and ashamed. The muscles around his mouth were tense, and he gritted his teeth and said, "It's really weird. I didn't even notice that this person was different..."
Enwei understood the monk's unwillingness and comforted him, "This is not your fault, monk. It should be considered my fault. If I had been more alert, stayed away from this person earlier, and brought the news back as soon as possible, you would not be caught off guard."
Lowell practices the way of an ascetic. His body is stronger than his soul, and his perception is slightly insufficient. It is his responsibility to provide Lowell crisis warnings.
Rowell said hurriedly, "How can you say it's your fault, Enwei? I should be grateful to you. If you hadn't tried your best to inform Yang... the consequences would be disastrous."
Enwei's expression was very complicated... How should I put it... It was only due to a lot of coincidences that he accidentally forced the monster's true identity out...
Feeling that he was unworthy of Lowell's gratitude, Enwei was embarrassed to respond and asked, "Where's Yang?"
"Talk to Ms. Karina in the room on the second floor." Lowell pointed upwards.
"Will it disturb them if I go up now?" Enwei stood up and asked.
"Of course not, Yang is waiting for you." Lowell said.
There were not many servants left in the manor. The younger servants were sent by Lowell to learn literacy. Only a few old servants who were unlikely to learn new knowledge or make contributions in new fields were left to maintain the mansion. After going upstairs, Envy asked the old servant who was wiping the vase and soon found the room where Ms. Karina was.
The female black magician who was badly injured less than twenty hours ago... now at least looks much more energetic than Brother Lowell. Enwei pushed the door open and walked in. The lady sitting on the bed with bandages on her arms and a neck brace on her neck was even in the mood to tease Enwei: "Hey, man, your current skeleton is really not bad."
"Glad that you're okay, Karina. Your new look looks unique too." Envy responded before looking at Yang, "What are you talking about?"
"We are discussing a topic related to you." Yang Qiu, who was sitting in a high-back chair beside the bed, nodded slightly.
"Me?" Enwei was stunned.
"To be precise, it's about you and me." Ms. Karina said excitedly. She raised her hand and pulled a high-backed chair from the window with the hand of a mage and placed it in front of the bed. "Please sit down, Enwei. I'm sure you will be interested in Yang's proposal."
Enwei glanced at Yang Qiu, raised his hand to pull down the back of the chair, adjusted the direction of the chair, and when he sat down... he almost figured out what proposal to make Ms. Karina so excited.
He was reduced to a skeleton while trying to save Lowell, and Karina was seriously injured while trying to save Lowell. It seemed that they had gained Yang's trust... So this guy, who had all kinds of bad habits but always calculated the accounts in this regard very clearly, decided to fulfill his promise in advance.
Yang Qiu waited for Enwei to sit down before he formally said, "It's better to say it's a commission than a proposal... I hope to entrust you two to complete a task for me and my undead souls that only you can accomplish."
"Huh?" Enwei was stunned. Did he guess wrong?
Yang Qiu continued, "I need skeletons that are as strong as my undead and have not yet been given birth to soul fire. At least 200,000 of them. If there are more, I will take them all."
Enwei: “???”
"Where did you get so many--" Enwei almost blurted out the word "compatriots", but considering the presence of Karina, he swallowed it back, "What do you want so many soulless skeletons for?"
"Of course, it's to let my undead friends feel more of the beauty of this material plane." Yang Qiu said calmly, and raised a finger. "If we can gather enough skeletons, I will provide you two with a great opportunity to greatly reduce the risk of losing control. Enwei, you know the details, so I won't repeat them."
After receiving the soul and evil energy from the man who traveled a thousand miles to deliver food, Yang Qiu's spiritual strength doubled. Of course, the "server" had to be expanded as well... Anyway, the territory is big enough now and it will be expanded again before the end of the year, so there is enough space for those idiots to hang out.
Tarantan's "inventory" has been completely dug up by him. If he wants to open up more places for the internal test, he will have to go to the Dimension Demon Realm to find "game characters"; Yang Qiu does not have the time, so it is just right to entrust it to these two.
Enwei glanced at Yang Qiu.
This is actually the early fulfillment of the promise made when I entrusted him to come to Shijia, but it is not free, I still have to charge some interest, right?
"Of course you can...but my space props were destroyed by that guy who called himself Larven." Enwei said expressionlessly.
"It's okay, I can lend it to you." Yang, who was wealthy, took out a ring from his hand and handed it over.
Enwei: “…”
Karina, who had already learned about the benefits of the matrix from Yang Qiu, was obviously impatient and took the initiative to say, "I know a small dimensional demon world that has the soulless fire skeleton you need. I'll set off after I recover a little."
Yang Qiu couldn't wait even longer than her, and took out a bunch of alchemical potions, magic cores and magic crystals - they were all handed in by players anyway, and he didn't need them very often.
After "spending a huge amount of money" to knock out two black magicians, Yang Qiu went downstairs and chatted with Lowell for a few words. He did not rush back to Rhine, but asked Lowell for an empty room to stay in temporarily. He then opened the space rift and returned to Earth.
Next... Yang Qiu stayed on the Earth plane for half a day and issued two announcements.
The first one was the announcement of the fourth test of "Otherworld", which claimed that it was expected to open 200,000 accounts, but it was not open to applications from the public. Only players who did not pass the last round of lucky draw in the third test would be allowed to reactivate their applications...
That is, 200,000 places will be selected from the 270,000 applicants with no criminal record and no religious beliefs who were screened by the national team during the third test. The national team is very busy, and Yang Qiu is embarrassed to let them go through the review process again.
270,000 for 200,000, the chance of winning is not small, but after this announcement was made, the official website and forum of "Alien World" were still overwhelmed by all kinds of fancy posts and crashed...
After the third test was opened, leaked videos and screenshots of the game "Alien World", as well as short essays such as mission diaries and local customs written by individual literary players, have gone viral many times; countless innocent netizens were hooked into this pit out of curiosity, and painfully fell into becoming cloud players, eagerly waiting for the public beta.
A large number of cloud players finally waited for the announcement update, but your small-scale production team refused to open the public beta test, and only released 200,000 internal beta test accounts. Those who didn't catch up with the third beta test application didn't even have a chance to try their luck? !
The cold-blooded game producer Yang Qiu ignored the crashed official website and did not try to do anything stupid like checking the forum to read the feedback from players. He calmly opened Weibo and randomly found an art blogger with few fans and low quotes. He contacted the business account in his signature and inquired about the price of making the poster.
After agreeing on the price, Yang Qiu sent the half-length photos of Kingsley, Envy (living version) and Karina, and asked the artist to draw the picture according to his requirements.
While the young artist was busy drawing, Yang Qiu was also busy writing the second announcement...
When the official website, which had been crashed by the public, was finally accessible two hours later, Yang Qiu had completed editing the announcement and the art designer had also submitted the drawings.
Soon, a new avatar consisting of three faces appeared on the official website of "Another World": the red-haired boy Kingsley, the blonde world-weary handsome man Envy, and Karina, who was the only lady among the three despite her average looks.
Clicking on this header, or clicking on the newly refreshed announcement above the fourth test announcement, will jump to the same page:
"Anotherworld Survival Version Update Announcement"
“After a period of testing, the sub-game “Survival in Another World” has won the love and praise of the majority of players. The production team is very encouraged and has specially upgraded the version of “Survival in Another World”.”
"1: The open "Survival" server area is named "Kingsley". The daily opening hours of this area remain unchanged, and you can apply to increase the number of accounts to 20,000."
——Once Kingsley’s wizard tower is built and his mental matrix is transferred to the core of the magic network, it will have no problem accommodating more than 10,000 anchor points at the same time.
"Two: The two newly opened "Survival" server regions are named "Envy" and "Karina". The daily opening hours of these regions are the same as those of the "Kingsley" region. The number of accounts that can be applied for is tentatively set at 3,000, and will be gradually increased in the future."
“Three: When the number of accounts that can be applied for in the two regions of ‘Enwei’ and ‘Karina’ reaches 20,000, and 10% of the players in the server have won more than ten games and successfully killed at least one non-player target in each win, the season system will be launched. Please look forward to the content of the season.”
"The production team of the game "Otherworld"."
After this announcement was released, the player forum, which was filled with various greeting posts, stopped immediately...
Countless cloud players who were desperate for the fourth test accounts flocked to the official website and frantically registered "Survival" accounts - if they couldn't experience the fully open big world, being able to play the holographic chicken-eating game was at least a consolation.
Less than ten minutes after the announcement was made, the pre-registration spots for "Battlegrounds" were snapped up.
After finishing the chores on Earth and returning to the Otherworld, Enwei and Karina had already diligently brought back the first batch of skeletons from the Dimensional Demon World and delivered them to Yang Qiu...
In the next few days, the two spellcasters worked hard to find a suitable dimensional demon world to make up the number of skeletons, while Yang Qiu was busy running between the alien world and the earth plane, making runes that could connect the player's soul projection with the matrix, assembling login helmets, and shipping... He was busier than Envy and Karina combined.
When the hard-working Yang Qiu returned to Tarantan with several space props filled with "game characters", Enwei and Karina also received their reward - providing Earth players with the opportunity to play a holographic chicken-eating venue.
While Enwei and Karina were adapting to the operation matrix and using their imagination to construct the PUBG map, Yang Qiu, who had returned to Tarantan, was also busy and worked hard to build two novice villages:
The first was to increase the number of buildings (solved by earth magic) and zombie NPCs in the Desolate Stronghold, copy all the "novice tasks" that could be copied from the Exile Town, and urgently draw a group of supervisors and prisoners from the prisoner road repair team to serve as "living NPCs."
Secondly, I chose a campsite that was used by the prisoner road repair team, arranged teleportation points, increased the number of buildings, filled it with zombie NPCs, copied the "novice mission" of the exile town, and added "living NPCs"...
The Exile Town was nearly overwhelmed by the 30,000 players back then, and now 200,000 Erha are being released at once. It will definitely not work without adding a novice village.
The Kenyan investigation team, which had been "trained" in Exile Town for a long time, was divided into two groups and filled into the two newly added novice villages, Desolate Stronghold and Wilderness Camp respectively; this group of resentful guys were more brutal when they killed players than the former thieves whose ferocity had been worn down a lot, and they were just right for teaching the fourth test players a lesson.
Yang Qiu, who was only one step away from becoming a demigod, worked tirelessly for more than twenty days and almost vomited blood before he finally prepared for the fourth test.
On June 28th, 1033 in the alien world, two hundred thousand brand new natural disasters quietly descended upon the alien world.
