Chapter 510 The Greatest Kindness
"In the blink of an eye, the fourth test has already started."
He stood close to the earth wall and gave me medicine, saying with emotion.
"That's right. When the closed beta test started, there were only three of us running around in the Novice Village. It wasn't such a lively scene at all." Miaobishenghua, who was also clinging to the earth wall, said nostalgically.
"Have you two finished talking nonsense... Which god suggested going back to Exile Town at this time last night ?" Qin Guan said with a pained look.
"You." Miaobishenghua tilted his head.
"Didn't you say that we should come here first to see if there are any reliable newcomers before the team fight starts?" He followed closely behind to finish off the enemy. "As soon as we passed the ball over, we were blocked by the enemy. We couldn't even move, let alone recruit newcomers."
"Then didn't you two remind me?" Qin Guan shouted.
Qin Guan's shouts were drowned out by the noise of people, which was even more noisy than the Spring Festival train station in the early 2000s...
Qin Guan, who was bent on recruiting new members to develop the Blood Alliance, had actually considered the problem of overcrowding in the Novice Village, so he suggested coming over to take a look two hours (game time) after the fourth test players entered the village.
But no one would have expected that many of the fourth test players who logged in on the first day had read the experience posts written by old players who had experienced the terrible congestion during the third test. Many of them were "smart" and chose to wait a little longer after login was opened before going online... and then the current situation became possible.
At this moment, the number of undead within a hundred meters of the Exile Town Cross Street Teleport Point was so high that it was suffocating. The newbies who had just logged in didn't even have time to appreciate the holographic environment they had been waiting for for many days before they were pushed out of the teleport point by the people who logged in later. They were involuntarily swept away by the crowd and filled up all the spaces where people could still stand...
Cries such as "Let me go! I don't want to be stuck here!" and "Help, my foot is off, my foot is gone" were heard one after another, blending together into one, and it was impossible to tell who was shouting.
Fortunately, all the players are skeletons, so there is no question of sexual harassment, otherwise the situation would be even more chaotic...
The three veterans had the same experience as the newbies who had just come online. They were carried far away by the crowd as soon as they teleported over, and only stopped when they were pushed against the wall. After a while of mocking and complaining to each other, they reluctantly pulled their hands free and grabbed the wall behind them, and climbed out of the bone hell with great difficulty.
The newbies next to him also followed suit and climbed up. Players from all directions chose to evacuate from high places, and the congestion situation improved slightly...
The area in the middle of the entire Exile Town was so crowded that there was no room to move. The three of them hopped along the buildings on the street and ran all the way to the territory of the big rat in the south of the town before coming down from the roof.
After more than a year (Earth time) of hard work (brick-moving tasks) by the old players in the first, second and third tests, the ruins in the south of the town have been cleared; and because the open field map must be opened out of the town from here, the old players are accustomed to forming open field groups, setting up stalls, and competing with each other here. It can be regarded as a popular gathering place for players in Exile Town.
On the day of the fourth test, it was natural that this place would be used by old players to sell obsolete equipment to new players who had just entered the game...
"A 70% new set for beginners who want to kill monsters! A set of steel blade and fish scale armor for only 20 copper coins! Can be used offline!"
“A beginner’s top-quality enchanted shoes that increase your running speed by 5%! A great tool for running errands! RMB transaction, no bargaining!”
"Newbies, look here! There are daggers with bleeding effects and short bows with hit effects. If you buy one, you can go solo on the mining map even if you are level 0!"
A bunch of newbies who will probably have to queue up for a long time to even get the task of covering up their ugly appearance (T-shirt and big shorts) in the short term, definitely don’t have much game coins, so offline transactions become the first choice... Anyway, the official of this game does not care about the studio or offline transactions, so the players just need to communicate among themselves.
As soon as Sanyuanlao came down from the roof, he saw an old acquaintance behind a stall not far away.
"Orange cat? Why are you here?" Miaobishenghua asked in surprise.
"I'll set up a stall." A ginger cat, who was eloquently selling equipment to a newbie, said with a blushing face.
"No, how did you squeeze in here with so many things on your back?" Miaobishenghua pointed at the miscellaneous second-hand goods on the stall.
"I came here early. I came here half an hour before the fourth test players entered to grab a seat. Otherwise, how could I squeeze in?" The orange cat boss explained naturally, then turned to look at the hesitant new player, pointed at Miaobishenghua who just came over to talk to him, and said, "Brother, have you seen her? Miaobishenghua, the strategy master in our "Another World", she knows me, I definitely can't cheat you out of these hundreds of dollars!"
The newbie's eyes lit up when he saw the wonderful writing, and he hurriedly walked around the stall and came over: "Hello, Mr. Huahua, I have read all your strategy posts. By the way, I have also read your book. I paid to read it, so it was not for free."
Wonderful Writing: "...Hello."
"That's it, boss. I want this set. Just give me the payment number." The newbie turned around and waved his hand with a swagger .
"Sure, sure." The orange cat boss smiled and quickly reported his payment number. He also asked the other party to leave a decimal point when transferring the money, so as not to record it to the wrong person...
The newbie remembered the payment number and logged off right next to the orange cat's stall...
"This is... one hand pays the other hand receives the goods? You also have to go offline to confirm the transfer? Then who will watch over the stall for you?" Miaobishenghua wiped the sweat off his forehead.
"No need for that. I asked him to transfer a few cents more as a mark. We can just check the account later." The orange cat boss said generously, "If anyone dares to default on the payment, I will post the video of the transaction on the official website and report him. Then his account will be closed."
Wonderful writing: "Emmmm..."
Well, the game officials do often not care about things, but they are also very decisive in banning accounts... and once an account is banned, it will never be unbanned, so players had better consider whether it is worth it before doing anything outrageous.
Give Me Medicine also came over and looked at all the equipment on Orange Cat's stall, including all kinds of equipment, including blank equipment, and said angrily: "I say, Orange Cat, you are such a big boss, and you still make such a small profit? How much can you make by reselling such a set of garbage?"
"You don't understand, Brother Yao, this is called pursuit!" The orange cat boss disagreed, "Even if I only make five dollars from selling a set, I'm happy, happier than if I picked up two hundred dollars."
Give me medicine: "emmmmm..."
The two of them silently said goodbye to the orange cat who was pursuing them and went to find Qin Guan who had just separated from them.
The studio opened by Qin Guan's friend was also soliciting business in the square. Several employees of the studio stood behind the stalls selling N-hand equipment, material supplies, etc. There was also a wooden sign next to the stall, with a row of large characters written in carbon: "Xiao Zhou Studio sincerely accepts the business of leveling, including one-level tasks and one-level reputation materials."
As the two approached, they heard the boss of the studio, who was talking to eight people at a time, skillfully introducing the business to the newbies who came to consult: "Bosses, you have seen how crowded the Novice Village is. It is no exaggeration to say that even the brick-moving tasks in the past half month are hard to grab, not to mention the limited-time guild tasks. If you want to catch up with the main force of players, then choosing our leveling package is definitely the most profitable. We can take you to higher-level maps to swipe monsters and get materials. When you can become a professional guild, we will directly give you the reputation materials for the professional guilds, which is more cost-effective than buying them separately..."
After listening to a few words, he asked Miaobishenghua in a puzzled voice: "How do Xiao Zhou and his team do this business? Reputation materials are much more expensive than power leveling, right?"
"You don't understand this, right? They come here to sell reputation materials and train their bosses, and leveling is just a bonus." Miaobishenghua also whispered, "They are used to playing with their bosses. Will their bosses look for them when they need a second level upgrade? Who should they buy materials from? Who should they buy materials from when they want to practice life skills? When they want to exchange equipment, should they trust the profiteers outside or a studio like theirs that values integrity?"
Give me medicine: "..."
"This is actually what Xiao Zhou learned from Aipincaiying." Miaobishenghua added in a low voice, "Aipincaiying is smart. They directly recruited the boss into the Blood Alliance. Look at how many people who make a living from games they have supported?"
Give me medicine: "..."
"These guys really know how to have fun. A civil engineer like me is too ignorant." He said in admiration as he gave me medicine.
The three of them gathered at the studio booth for a while, and when they saw that the team was almost formed, Qin Guan said goodbye to Xiao Zhou and led the two friends back to the teleportation point.
"I'll ask Xiao Zhou to help me keep an eye out for potential newbies, and introduce them to me if there are any. After the big group activity is over, I'll organize some people to come back and lead the newbies to clear the Spider's Nest." Qin Guan said as he climbed onto the roof, "This fourth test is an opportunity. Our Blood Alliance can't keep being suppressed by Brother Lahong and his team. We have to fight well to turn things around."
For traditional games, to determine whether a player is a heavy player or not, you have to look at the online time. Those who are only online during holidays and prime time at night are just light or moderate players.
It is difficult to judge a game like "Another World" where players log in during sleep... Unless you are married and cannot wear a helmet when sleeping at night, purely casual players can often play all night long - for example, Crouching Dragon and Phoenix, who go straight to various fishing spots every time they log in.
This kind of pseudo-heavy player who does nothing during his online time and is too lazy to even go for the second transformation, it’s not that the way he plays the game is wrong, but it obviously does not meet the recruitment standards of the Great Blood Alliance... When there is a civil war among players, this type of player really can’t help much.
Qin Guan knew that most players had to work or study during the day, and could only go online at night and on holidays. He had no intention of recruiting a group of professional players who were online 24/7 to join the Blood Alliance. So those who met his standards would have to be new players who could go online at night and dare to go to the Spider's Lair...
This map can be regarded as a powerful tool for screening out the "lazy fish content" of players. Nowadays, 99% of the lazy fish in the game who do nothing and just hang around after logging on, have given up the fight and chosen to lie down after experiencing the beating of this map.
They can't even fight on the Spider Map, let alone on the Wilderness Map. They're just a drag when doing combat missions (dealing with cultists), and don't even expect them to be of much use during a civil war - this is Qin Guan's logic for selecting characters.
Although it's a bit simplistic and crude, there's really nothing wrong with this logic...
Qin Guan squeezed back to the teleportation point and left. Not long after, another "rare guest" appeared above the teleportation array.
At this time, there were still fourth-test players coming online one after another. Before this person could even stand firmly, he was pushed off the stage by the player who had just come online, and he was almost broken into pieces.
"I think I bumped into someone? Sorry, I didn't see it... Ouch!" The newbie who just came online was confused and apologized instinctively, but was bumped down by the person who came online later.
"Leave the teleportation point! Don't stay around there, there will be traffic jam!" Across the street, a player who was queuing up to receive a zombie NPC mission shouted a warning.
Zhao Zhenzhen hurriedly stood up and quickly left the dangerous area.
Leaving the crossroads teleportation area... it wasn't much more relaxed, there were still densely packed skeletons everywhere, and most of them were naked, without even a "look" to cover up their ugliness...
Fortunately, these newbies in the fourth test were not interested in getting stuck in traffic, and most of them obeyed the rules and walked on the right. Those queuing up to receive tasks also stood as close to the wall as possible to make room for traffic.
Zhao Zhenzhen followed the flow of people and moved slowly towards Shenghuo Lane. The distance that usually took her half a minute to jog took her more than ten minutes this time.
There are still a lot of people in Life Lane. Many newbies who can't get into the professional guilds, can't receive tasks, and are desperate about the overly long queues for zombie NPC brick-moving tasks simply come here to play the life profession.
Of course...you still have to queue up here, but there are far fewer people queuing than in other places.
When Zhao Zhenzhen arrived at the Undead Chamber of Commerce, she saw that even players were queuing up for "daily tasks" such as helping the cafeteria wash potatoes and fetching water...
"Only in the 'game' can you see these guys who rely on takeout for survival scrambling to do the work in the kitchen." Zhao Zhenzhen shook her head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and walked around the queue of players to the back of the cafeteria.
The two most senior "online GMs" are now taking turns to be online. Master Liu, who is currently "on duty", saw Zhao Zhenzhen coming over and waved with a smile: "Xiao Zhao, here!"
"Engineer Liu." Zhao Zhenzhen took a few quick steps forward and without wasting any time talking, she directly took out a thick stack of folders from her backpack and spread them out to show Master Liu the engineering drawings on them.
"This is a huge project." Master Liu paused to monitor the players, carefully looked at the blueprint for a while and said, "Isn't it a bit difficult to build a river bridge of this difficulty now?"
"If this bridge is not repaired, land transportation between Innadri and Odysseus will not be possible." Zhao Zhenzhen said, "Even if it is difficult, we have to grit our teeth and do it."
Odysseus is the only company in the Rhineland that has a complete shipbuilding and maintenance industry chain. If Odysseus moves away, the Rhineland shipbuilding industry will not be able to continue to develop, and it will be good enough to be able to maintain and repair the existing ships...
What's worse is that the engine power structure of this plane is different from that of the Earth plane. Unless ships are purchased from the Earth plane to replace Innad's existing fleet, just the maintenance will be enough to cause headaches for the national team.
The Odysseus family is willing to share technology, and Phoenix has promised that once their family settles down, they will accept the students sent over here and help the Undead regime train workers and technicians. However, the national team is obviously unwilling to rely on others for the stability of important domestic transportation (yes, the national team has already regarded the Odysseus territory as its own backyard), so opening up land transportation and ensuring smooth land transportation has become a necessary move.
Master Liu also knew the habits of his family, so he said nothing more and looked through the documents carefully.
Building a bridge across the Barcelo River between the Territory of Innadeli and the Territory of Odysseus, with a planned length of 340 meters, a width of 24 meters, and a driveway of 20 meters, would be a piece of cake for China on Earth.
In this dimension... Actually, it's not a big problem. Rebars, steel and concrete can be imported from China anyway...
But this is obviously not the goal of the national team. What the national team hopes is that the Rhine people can slowly develop their own technology tree with the help of the Chinese people, rather than opening their mouths and waiting for others to feed them.
This first cross-river bridge built in the Rhine must ensure that it is "purely made in the Rhine" inside and out; it must ensure that the Rhine people can, after completing this project, be able to replicate more bridges and start construction of more large-scale projects without the assistance and guidance of the Chinese.
That's right... No matter what Lord Yang's attitude is, the national team is still making preparations step by step for the possibility that one day they will lose contact with the other world and never have contact with it again - the various projects promoted by the national team are always moving in the direction of supporting the independent .
This is the greatest goodwill that the Chinese people have towards this extradimensional civilization that is separated by a distant dimensional universe and cannot be directly contacted on a physical level.
