Chapter 65: The Fear of Resurrection
Saturday, October 26th, Earth time.
Zheng Qingyue, a sophomore student, did not play games when she got up early on the weekend. Instead, she washed up, made a bowl of instant spicy noodles, and sat in front of the computer to browse the forum.
The daily login limit for the game "Another World" is twelve hours. As a game, this online time should be enough to satisfy most players. However, this game can be played while sleeping. Many people put on helmets and neck protectors before going to bed, thinking that they would play for a few hours and then log off. In the end, they played until dawn in reality, and eight or nine hours passed just like that...
With three or four hours left, I can only log in at the right time, play for a while during lunch break, play for a while after dinner, and then wait anxiously for midnight to come and refresh the online time...
Zheng Qingyue couldn't help but stay online for more than six hours after midnight. After a whole day passed in the game, she realized that her game time was tight on Saturday, so she hurriedly logged off.
The reason why Zheng Qingyue, a top student with relatively strong self-control, broke her online routine was... she finally succeeded in changing her job.
As a player with the highest potential, he has only just completed his first job task. The imbalance of the professions in this game is exposed from the moment he changes his job...
But all the efforts are worth it, at least in Zheng Qingyue's own opinion, after completing the job change baptism and obtaining four skills, she is really very satisfied.
Opening the forum, Zheng Qingyue was not surprised to see the brilliant experience (showing off) post by someone who had completed the job change with her last night:
"Hello everyone, I am Miaobishenghua. My new book "The Prequel to the Wolf King" is now online on XX Literature City. Friends who like to read fantasy adventure novels, please support the genuine version."
"I've gotten off topic. Ahem, let's get back to business. I've successfully changed my job and finally become a mage apprentice [sticker] [sticker]"
"Although I am very happy, I have to repeat it a thousand times: the mage's job transfer task is really too abnormal! I don't recommend it to new players! When this game is open for testing, new players must carefully consider whether to play as a mage! It is really too difficult!"
Omit five hundred words of complaints.
"The four skills of the mage were already posted by Boss Ouyang a week ago. I will post them again here for the convenience of players who haven't seen them:"
"Corrosion: Reduces the target's mental resistance by 5%, causing the target to continue to suffer shadow damage."
"Slowdown: Reduces the target's mental resistance by 5% and slows the target's movement speed by 20%."
“Dark Blessing: Causes continuous shadow damage to non-undead creatures and continuously restores health to undead creatures.”
"Shadow Power: Causes a large amount of shadow damage to non-undead creatures, and restores a large amount of health to undead creatures."
"Compared to the first-level skills of other professions, the first-level skills of the mage are simply abnormal! They have both damage output and control, and can be used for both fighting and healing!"
"After I got the skills last night, I practiced with my friend. The Walker's elementary Wind Control can offset most of the effects of the Slow Spell. It's a tie with me if I take medicine and fight with him. If I take medicine and have a bow, my chances of winning may be lower. Of course, everyone knows that I'm clumsy, so my mage is definitely not the same as the mage of Boss Ouyang."
"If it's against a warrior knight who doesn't have the elementary wind control technique, there's no doubt about it, it's a complete defeat!"
"Although the warrior's charge can effectively get close to me, as long as the warrior can withstand the damage from the charge, there is nothing the warrior can do to the mage."
"There's no need to talk about the knight. The only attack skill of a first-level knight squire is a flat attack. I can offset the damage of the knight by casting a dark blessing on myself."
"This is still a civil war among the Undead. Shadow power cannot be used. If it is used, it will only add blood to others. If a new race is added in the future, I feel that no matter which race it is, it will be difficult to defeat the Undead Mage in a one-on-one fight."
Under Miaobishenghua's proud boasting post, cloud players without accounts were wailing and asking when the public beta would be available, while players with accounts were very confused about whether they were right or wrong for not choosing the mage...
"Why is this game not open for pre-order? I want to reserve an account!"
"The skill system is too unbalanced, isn't it? Shouldn't leather armor naturally counter cloth armor? Is a 50-50 split okay?"
"Fuck, it's been almost ten days since I changed my job to a walker, and you told me that the master is the best? Can I cancel my account and start over?"
"As expected of a wizard, wizard 6666!"
"It's over. Zhan Diao is still Zhan Diao. There's no way to turn things around . Fortunately, I, your brother, have found my way back and become a walker. A 50-50 chance is better than no chance at all."
"I'm already changing my job as a wizard! I must succeed before next Monday!"
"After dinner, the wizard went out for a walk. Suddenly, a knight with a sword came out from the bushes and chopped him in the face. After a while, the wizard asked: What? The knight smiled and said: I'm giving you a scraping treatment."
“Hahahaha, scraping is okay!”
"Fuck, I changed my job to Knight, and my girlfriend is changing her job to Mage. Is it too late for me to break up with her now?"
"Wake up, you don't have a girlfriend!"
Zheng Qingyue finished her breakfast while listening to the stupid comments of these players, calculated the time...she resisted the urge to go online and started doing her homework.
Course notes, homework, unit tests, chapter assignments, 2,000-word essays, various drawings...
It was almost eleven o'clock in the morning when Zheng Qingyue's cell phone rang.
"Qingyue, come online soon! There's an event!" On the other end of the phone, my childhood friend Tang Jia's voice changed.
"Activity?" Zheng Qingyue subconsciously opened the computer webpage and refreshed the official website. "There is no announcement on the official website?"
"There's an announcement in the game, saying that this is a regular activity that will be launched every weekend. Stop dawdling and come online quickly. We're all waiting for you!" Tang Jia roared anxiously.
Zheng Qingyue looked down at the progress of her homework... thinking that there was still a day and a half left over from the weekend, she said, "Okay, okay, I'll get started right away."
Within a few minutes, a certain academic master who had been eager to try his luck appeared at the game's launch point with the ID "Entropy does not increase".
Noon in real time is already late at night in the game. When En Bu Zeng opened his eyes, he saw the pitch-black Exile Town without even street lights... Players all have night vision functions anyway, so it doesn't matter whether it's dark or not.
All the online friends were waiting for her near the spawn point. When she showed up, Tang Jia came over eagerly: "You're finally here. Check out the in-game announcement."
"...Hmm?" En Buzeng ignored Tang Jia and looked around in confusion.
It was still the familiar Exile Town line point, the familiar empty streets, but for some reason, the lack of entropy just made it feel a little depressing, as if I were trapped in a small, closed box.
At this moment, a window popped up on her game panel, with a message in black font: "Exile Town is shrouded in some kind of ominous situation."
"Uh... why does it feel like I'm playing an immersive single-player horror game?" En Bu Zeng closed the window and started reading the announcement.
"Online Patch Update Version 1.06"
"With the arrival of civilians, Tarantan, which had been silent for many years, has regained its vitality."
"The undead proved their respect and appreciation for life. They welcomed the new residents of Tarantan in a friendly manner. They realized that they had to become stronger in order to protect their homeland, Tarantan, and the people who depended on Tarantan."
"An ominous shadow sprouted at this moment. When vitality was radiating on this land, it seemed that some terrible existence was gradually awakening from this ancient land..."
“Weekend limited dynamic plot: "Resurrection of Fear" is now available.”
"The terrifying existence attracted by the flesh and blood of the living came uninvited when darkness fell and invaded the homes of the undead."
"Successfully resisting erosion will earn you contribution points, which can be converted into Tarantan reputation in equal proportion."
After reading the announcement, En Bu Zeng's first reaction was: "This opens up a new way to obtain territory reputation. The production team wants to be a human being. They finally realize that their setting of only high-level materials in exchange for territory reputation is unreasonable?"
"No, the dog planner doesn't want to be a human being." Tang Jia said expressionlessly.
"That's right. We thought the same as you at first. We were taught a lesson and realized that the production team is still a bunch of dogs." Jia Luo said with a pained look on his face, "Qingyue, guess why all of us are waiting here for you to come online?"
Entropy does not increase: "...You guys were wiped out?"
Tang Jia, Yang Ying, Jia Luo and several new individual players who had joined their team nodded in unison with sadness.
Entropy does not increase: "..."
Well... the activities held by other games are called welfare, but don't even think about it for this game...
Tang Jia, who took the captain's post, added Entropy to the team, and the group moved together. On the way, Tang Jia introduced the situation: "I didn't play the game when I went to bed at night, saving the time for the day. When I came in the morning, there was nothing happening at dawn in the game. At dusk in the game, which was around 10 o'clock in real time, the NPCs suddenly 'went off work' early. Except for the two in the Chamber of Commerce cafeteria and the zombie NPC, all other NPCs hid."
"We were still wondering when we received the message 'Exile Town is shrouded in an ominous situation', and then the announcement came out. But we didn't think too much about it at the time, and we were just forming a team to go and get materials..."
"You're too long-winded. Let me do it." Jialuo pushed Tang Jia away and said to En Buzeng, "If there is an activity, we will definitely do it. We didn't go to kill monsters. We first looked for clues to the mission in the town. Then Sister Ying found a rustling sound coming from the wooden house near the Warrior Guild."
"Yeah, I found it." Yang Ying continued, "We often pass by that wooden house. I remember that there was no NPC living in it. I leaned over and looked inside from the window. I saw a bed, a table, and a civilian NPC sitting on the bed."
"I didn't think much about it at the time. I thought this wooden house was also allocated to the civilian NPCs we brought with us, so I prepared to leave..."
At this point, Yang Ying paused, his tone becoming a little strange: "After I turned around and took two steps, I remembered... the NPCs we escorted all the way here were all middle-aged and elderly. There was only one young one, and I remember that he was assigned to the sewing shop. I have never seen the young woman sitting on the bed before."
Entropy does not increase: “???”
Even Entropy was shocked: "What the hell - why does this sound like the rhythm of a horror game?"
"The more terrifying thing is yet to come." Yang Ying said with a pained look on her face, "I realized something was wrong, so I turned around to look, and that woman was actually lying on the window silently looking at me, with her face less than half a meter away from me!"
Entropy does not increase: "..."
Yang Ying seemed to be more resistant to horror stories. Even if entropy was not increasing, she would have been a little creepy just to hear about it, but she didn't react much and continued to describe the situation at that time: "'You saw me?' She spoke to me like that. Aren't civilian NPCs interactive? We couldn't understand what they said at all. Moreover, this NPC's hair was flying, and its eyes were black, without pupils, just like our eyes. I knew this was definitely not an NPC, but a monster, so I chopped it down with my knife..."
"As a result, my knife went right through the monster, and I didn't hit it at all. The monster stretched out its hands and hugged me... and then I was killed instantly." Yang Ying couldn't help but curse, "Damn it, the monsters in this event mission can't be hit, and the announcement didn't make it clear!"
"That's right!" Jia Luo said painfully, "I saw Sister Ying was killed in an instant, and I turned around to run, but this monster could actually teleport, and suddenly it passed through my body and ran in front of me, and said to me 'You saw me too', and hugged me, and then I was gone."
"Me too." Tang Jia said bitterly, "I was very far away. I was the farthest away, and I didn't even run away!"
Others also complained: "I'll be killed instantly just by looking at it. Is the planner who designed this monster a moron?"
"I feel like the planner really doesn't want to be a human being anymore!"
"What a stupid activity!"
Entropy does not increase: "..."
Just... can one of you come and get scared with me? I get goosebumps just by hearing it, okay...
She suddenly missed her brother Lahong and Shenmi Xuexue, who had discovered the spider's nest together. At least they were normal people and their reactions were similar to hers...
