Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Ren Suo powered up his computer. After waiting for over a minute, he finally saw a ssage from 360 Security: "This startup took 10 seconds. Your startup speed has beaten 99% of computers nationwide!" Then, he leisurely opened a Word docunt.
Another ten seconds or so passed, and the 2003 version of Word finally launched.
This should give you a pretty good idea of Ren Suo’s computer’s performance: describing it as a "faded beauty" wouldn’t be far off. However, he only used it to watch videos and write essays, so it t his daily needs.
But ever since he started playing the Mini-World Ga Console and experienced its responsive, high performance, he found his old machine less appealing by the day. Electronics hold little nostalgic value; after all, while their performance might not change much, their appearance steadily improves, often featuring more and brighter lights.
In Word, he wrote:
"Over My Dead Body: Chapter One"
"Infiltration: Chapter One"
"Slaughter Dungeon"
He paused, hesitated for a mont, and then added:
The top reward for "Over My Dead Body: Chapter One" was 80 rit Points with a difficulty of two stars, and its exclusive reward was the "Strong Heart Technique."
The top reward for "Infiltration: Chapter One" was 100 rit Points with a difficulty of two stars, and its exclusive reward was "Heart of Deceit."
The top reward for "Slaughter Dungeon" was 60 rit Points with a difficulty of one star; because it was a free ga with a one-star difficulty, there was no exclusive reward.
Because he already had so rit Points, the system not only displayed the top rewards (which hadn’t been shown for last month’s free gas) but also presented a tip: completing any Chapter of a free ga would reduce its total purchase price by a certain amount.
Players could find out the total price of gas using the search function in the World Store.
For example, Ren Suo had played the "Bloody Banquet" Chapter of "Assassin," so it would be discounted when he searched for it, but he didn’t know by how much. He wasn’t willing to spend 10 rit Points just to satisfy his curiosity.
"Over My Dead Body: Chapter One" was a managent ga. Its synopsis read: "Experience the true managent of a family! Amid disasters and calamities, ghosts and monsters, not only do players need to preserve their clan in chaotic tis, but they also have to outwit various powers to break the family curse."
"Infiltration: Chapter One" was a text adventure ga, described as: "With a heart both boiling hot and ice-cold, will you enter the endless hell of lies for a brighter future for your country, filled with hope yet undaunted by the prospect of death, or will you beco a drifter swayed by personal honor and disgrace?"
"Slaughter Dungeon" was a card adventure dungeon-crawling ga, stating: "The Abyss lurking in the dungeon has corrupted the world. For your own sake, you must traverse despairing cities, dark caves, and terrifying dungeons to battle the heart of the Abyss."
Ren Suo took his hands off the keyboard and fell into deep thought as he looked at the docunt.
These three gas were this month’s free offerings, and they all seed pretty good.
However, he could only choose one of the three.
There was a way to play more free gas. The system hinted that if the player’s Level increased, the number of free gas they could select each month and the total number of free gas available would also increase. But Ren Suo currently had no idea how to raise his Level, so he had to adapt to the console and make a painful choice.
After all, there were no ga discounts right now; if he didn’t play the free gas, he’d have nothing to play. With the few rit Points he had, he definitely couldn’t afford any gas after paying for a search.
What should I do? Ren Suo hesitated.
If he ignored the ga content and judged solely on rewards, "Infiltration" undoubtedly had the best value. The short-term benefits were rit Points, and the long-term benefits were ga discounts, though its exclusive reward, "Heart of Deceit," seed useless.
"Over My Dead Body" ranked second. Its value was slightly less than "Infiltration," but the exclusive reward, "Strong Heart Technique," seed interesting. Unfortunately, he didn’t know the specific details of this Skill.
"Slaughter Dungeon" had the lowest value, with both short-term and long-term benefits being unsatisfactory; plus, it had no exclusive reward. It was the kind of ga one would only choose if there were no other options, much like when "Assassin’s Bloody Banquet" was his only choice.
However, considering the ga content, the decision wasn’t so simple.
"Assassin’s Bloody Banquet," ga difficulty: one star. "If You Are Strong, Climb Ten Thousand ters," ga difficulty: one star.
These two gas were unquestionably among the simplest, but were they easy? The forr required so real thought to beat, and the latter had kept him up for several nights.
You should know, although Ren Suo hadn’t bought a ga console before, he did go to Internet cafes to ga. While not quite a gaming deity, he was definitely not unskilled. He simply moderated his gaming for the sake of his future, but his skill level was pretty much top-tier for his age. In FPS and MOBA gas, his classmates would clamber to ride his coattails.
Even for soone with decent gaming talent like him, a one-star ga had nearly stumped him. So, how hard could a two-star ga be?
After much thought, Ren Suo decided to postpone choosing a ga for now. He had been traveling by car all day and was tired; it was probably better to rest first.
CTRL A, Delete.
Ren Suo impulsively deleted everything he had just typed, then took a shower. He reheated his cooled beef brisket noodles with zhajiang sauce, brought them to the computer desk, and opened the Gilirili video website, preparing to watch videos while eating... A late-night snack?
However, when he opened the website, he spat out the scorching noodles he had just put in his mouth, spraying his keyboard and screen with hot, sticky, brown noodle paste.
On the banner at the top of the site, which usually displayed seasonal information and major site promotions, there was now only a simple black-on-white ssage:
If You Are Strong, Climb Ten Thousand ters!
After cleaning up the ss he’d made, Ren Suo took a deep breath and clicked on it, only to find... Holy crap!? A large-scale docuntary series!?
The entire video was split into 55 parts. Except for the last two, each part was 120 minutes long, totaling nearly four and a half days of content!
Each part had its own title. For example, the first three were "April 3rd 00:00–02:00," "April 3rd 02:00–04:00," and "April 3rd 04:00–06:00." They were all categorized by ti, extending to part 54: "April 8th 10:00–11:43."
The final part was titled "Highlights." It seed to be an edited and revised version, but it was also 200 minutes long—nearly three hours!
April 3rd...? Wait, wasn’t that the first day of his training camp? But that was also the second day he uploaded his ga review!
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