Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Ren Suo turned on his computer and waited for more than a minute before a ssage from 360 appeared, saying: “Current boot ti: 10 seconds. Your boot-up speed is faster than 99% of the country’s computers!” Unhurriedly, Ren Suo opened a Word docunt.
Another 10 seconds passed before the 2003 version of Word launched.
At this point, the capabilities of the computer Ren Suo used must be obvious: it was a faded beauty. Nonetheless, the computer was able to et Ren Suo’s daily needs, and he was still able to watch videos and write docunts with the computer without much problem.
However, ever since Ren Suo started playing on the Mini Worlds Gaming Console and experienced the advanced technological capabilities of the ga console, he started having second thoughts about keeping his computer. His current computer was old and did not have much ‘commorative’ value. Furthermore, while new technology products serve the sa functional purposes as before, their appearance would still beco more appealing and striking.
In his Word docunt, Ren Suo wrote:
[Over My Dead Body: Chapter 1]
[Lurk: Chapter 1]
[Massacre in the Underground City]
After hesitating for a short while, Ren Suo continued writing:
[Over My Dead Body: Chapter 1] (Maximum reward: 80 rits, difficulty: 2 stars, specialized reward: ‘Heart-strengthening’ ability)
[Lurk: Chapter 1] (Maximum reward: 100 rits, difficulty: 2 stars, specialized reward: ‘The Art of Deceiving’ ability)
[Massacre in the Underground City] (Maximum reward: 60 rits, difficulty: 1 star, specialized reward: not applicable as it is a free ga with only 1-star difficulty)
As Ren Suo had so accumulated rits, not only did the system show the highest possible rewards he could obtain for each ga (this was not shown for the free ga of the previous month), there was also a prompt which said:
“Upon completion of any free chapter from a ga, the required rits to acquire the ga would reduce accordingly.”
“The total rits required to acquire the ga can be found through the search function of the World Shop.”
For example, Ren Suo had completed the chapter [The Bloody Banquet] from the ga [The Hitman], and thus the number of rits he needed to acquire the ga would be reduced if he searched for it in the World Shop. However, he did not know how much fewer rits would be required for he was not about to spend 10 rits to perform a search to satisfy his curiosity.
[Over My Dead Body: Chapter 1] was an economic simulation ga. The synopsis read: “Giving the player the opportunity to experience what it is like to operate a family business! In a world of natural and man-made disasters, in a world of ghosts and spirits, in a world full of crises and calamities, the player needs to protect and save his own family in the complex world. The player would also need to be courageous and brave enough to break free from the cursed spell of life and other external vulnerabilities.”
[Lurk: Chapter 1 was an interactive narrative ga. The synopsis read: “With a stone-cold heart, yet bustling with activity, would you choose to sacrifice yourself wholeheartedly for the better future of your nation, even if it ans you would fall into the bottomless hell pit of lies? Or would you choose to be indecisive for your own glory and honor?”
[Massacre in the Underground City] was a card-based action and adventure ga. The synopsis read: “The rotten culture of the abyss hidden within the underground city has infiltrated the world. To save yourself, you have to erge from the corrupt tropolis, travel through the darkest of caverns and leave the horrid underground city by fighting against the strongest enemies at the heart of the deep abyss in a battle of life and death.”
Ren Suo lifted his hands off the keyboard and looked at what he had just typed as he contemplated carefully over his options.
All of the three free gas for the month seed fun.
But Ren Suo could only choose one out of the three to play.
It was not impossible, however, to play all three of them. The system prompted that as the player’s level increased, the number of free gas each month would increase, and the player would also be able to choose more gas to play each month. However, Ren Suo still had no idea how he could increase his player level, so he was left with no choice but to select only one out of the available three.
Furthermore, there was no longer any discount for the purchase of gas. If Ren Suo did not choose to play any of the free gas, he would not be able to play any. With his very limited amount of accumulated rits, he would definitely not be able to afford anything after spending so rits to search for gas in the store.
“What should I do?” Ren Suo pondered.
If he only considered the rewarded rits from each ga, it was obvious that he should choose to play [Lurk]. The short-term benefit was the earned rits, while the long-term benefit would be the discounted ga cost. Unfortunately, the specialized reward [The Art of Deceiving] did not seem to be functionally useful.
The next best option would be [Over My Dead Body]. Although the number of rewarded rits was fewer than that of [Lurk], the specialized reward [Heart-strengthening] seed to be useful, but Ren Suo had no idea what the ability entailed just yet.
The last option would be “Massacre in the Underground City”, with the lowest amount of rits rewarded. Both the short-term and long-term benefits were unattractive. Furthermore, no specialized rewards would be given. Unless he was left with no other choice like before when he only had the option to play [The Hitman: The Bloody Banquet], Ren Suo would definitely not pick this option.
However, if he took the ga content into consideration, the choice would not be as straightforward.
[The Hitman: The Bloody Banquet] had a difficulty rating of 1 star. Similarly, [A Strong Warrior Ascends 10,000 ters] had a difficulty rating of 1 star.
Without a doubt, both of these gas were two of the easiest gas available, but were they that easy? The forr required so amount of brainwork to complete, while the latter required Ren Suo to stay up for a few nights to complete.
Even though Ren Suo had not owned any other ga console prior to the Mini Worlds Gaming Console, but he was still a frequent visitor to cybercafes. While he could not be considered a legendary player in the online gas, he was not a clumsy amateur either. He was not one to neglect his studies and ruin his future, so he always played with moderation. Nonetheless, Ren Suo was essentially one of the best few amongst people of his age. Many of his schoolmates would flock to team up with him to play FPS and MOBA gas.
Ren Suo was essentially a decent gar, but even the 1-starred gas proved to be a significant challenge to him. How difficult would the 2-starred gas be?
After so ti, Ren Suo figured that he would not choose a ga just yet. He had just returned ho after a long ride anyway and instead decided to take a rest first.
CTRL A, Delete.
Ren Suo deleted everything that he had just typed and went for a shower. He heated up the yee-fu noodles with beef briskets in fried bean sauce which had already turned cold, then held it in his hand as he returned to his computer. He navigated to the video site GiliGili, preparing to watch videos as he ate his…supper?
However, as soon as the website loaded, he spat out a mouthful of the simring hot noodles, which covered his screen and keyboard with a brown layer of a hot, gluey mix of noodles and fried bean sauce.
At the top of the webpage was a horizontal banner that usually showed seasonal news and the website’s large-scale promotion events. Yet, it was now replaced with six large words in a black font over a white background:
“A Strong Warrior Ascends 10,000 ters!”
Ren Suo hurriedly cleaned up the ss on his computer, then took a deep breath before clicking into the page, to realize that it was a…what on earth?!
Large-scale serial docuntary film?!
There were a total of 55P (number of separated parts to the entire video), and apart from the last two Ps, they were all 120-minute-long videos! That was a total of 4 and a half days long!
Each individual P had its own title stating the corresponding tistamps. For example, the first few Ps had the titles “3 April 00:00~02:00”, “3 April 02:00~04:00”, “3 April 04:00~06:00”, while 54P was titled “8 April 10:00~11:43”.
The last P was a “Highlights” video, which seed to be a cut and combined version a staggering 200 minutes long! That was almost three hours!
3rd of April…?
Ren Suo recalled that that was the first day of his training camp.
However, that was also the day imdiately after he uploaded his score for the ga!
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