"Hi, hello..."
After the battle ended, Lin Yiyi saw that Jiu'er had cald down, so she walked over to her, wanting to greet her.
Although at first, Lin Yiyi ca with the intention of rescuing soone.
But obviously, this overly petite girl didn't need Lin Yiyi's heroic rescue, contrary to her appearance.
Instead, the lump of minced at that had just been hamred at her feet seed to need a doctor more...
"...Huh?"
When Jiu'er saw Lin Yiyi, she suddenly widened her eyes in surprise: "Horizontal-Bar Sis?"
"It's not Horizontal-Bar, it's One-One..."
Lin Yiyi reflexively retorted.
But she quickly realized sothing: "You know ?"
"I'm Sweet Rice Wine Ball! We t at the last gathering!"
Jiu'er imdiately beca excited.
It seed that seeing an acquaintance made her overly joyful. As she spoke, she casually swung her sword in the air, making random gestures that frightened Lin Yiyi into taking several steps back.
But with Jiu'er's reminder, Lin Yiyi began to have so recollection...
"...Ah, little Jiu'er."
She had an epiphany and rembered.
After all, with Jiu'er's height, it was difficult to forget her.
Unlike Lin Yiyi, who focused on beautifying herself, Jiu'er hardly made any changes to her appearance. She just slightly slimd down her face and legs, giving off a not-so-soft and dainty vibe, seemingly harmless like a dumpling.
This 149cm tall sixteen-year-old girl was a legitimate high school student strear. But unlike her delicate appearance, Jiu'er wasn't a dancer or a singer; she too was a strear from the gaming category...
However, different from Lin Yiyi, who focused on single-player gas and was adept at creating strategy videos, Jiu'er's specialty was competitive gas and she was a complete newbie. Even within the streaming community, Jiu'er wasn't very popular. She had been brought along by her brother—a professional esports player—last ti, so she was sowhat like a family mber...
Jiu'er's most famous mont was screaming for help while being ganked, all the while showing off swift maneuvers to counter-kill her opponents.
In a mont of realization, Lin Yiyi glanced again at the minced at beneath Jiu'er's feet and suddenly shivered.
So, so that wasn't just for show...
While the two were talking, other players quickly gathered around them, surprisingly greeting Lin Yiyi:
"One-Line Sis? You're here too..."
"Bar, you ca as well?"
"I'm One-One, not One-Line or Bar..."
Lin Yiyi reflexively corrected them, scanning the crowd.
Then, to her great astonishnt, she found that... almost everyone present was an acquaintance!
Those who weren't acquaintances were all celebrities!
There were retired esports players, famous entertainnt strears, high-ranking national server solo players, and various video ga content creators.
What they all had in common was that every one of them had a considerable fan base... and good gaming skills. Although there were so casual strears, there wasn't a single complete newbie.
Though their favored genres of gas were almost all different.
These people weren't fools either. They looked around and quickly realized this as well.
"...We haven't been chosen by aliens, have we?"
One of them, not at all tense, rrily said, "Doesn't this an our skills have been recognized?"
"The chosen children, huh..."
"Can you still count as a child when you're nearly thirty?!"
"Why can't I? I'm the 'Wandering Child'!"
The "Wandering Child," who deliberately adjusted his appearance to look eighteen, said with conviction and puffed out his chest: "I am that chosen child!"
The others were imdiately rendered speechless.
"Let's not talk about that for now," Lin Yiyi quickly interjected, "Have you completed your tasks?"
"Not yet. There are still twenty-three left."
Kid skimd the task list and casually answered.
"I haven't either."
"I'm still twenty-three short."
Jiu'er answered obediently, subtly inching away from the corpse.
"But the question is, where did those twenty-three people go..."
"I think they saw the situation wasn't good and found sowhere to hide. It's too dark here, we can't see them."
Lin Yiyi frowned and replied, "If it really cos to it..."
As she spoke, she suddenly saw the scattered barrels lying around.
These must be the "Black Fire" ntioned in the main mission.
Her words ca to an abrupt halt.
Seeing Lin Yiyi eying those barrels thoughtfully, the others quickly caught on.
...Should we blow up these barrels?
Once the fire starts, it will imdiately brighten up this place.
If soone is lying on the ground, hiding, we would be able to see them. If they don't get up, the fire could burn them alive once it grows.
It would also be a good chance to see how good this ga's physics engine is. To see if it can handle actions like setting forests on fire...
Originally, Lin Yiyi hesitated sowhat.
After all, no one knew how powerful these barrels were or how long their fuses would burn.
What if, when going to light the fuse, it explodes before one could throw it or get away?
But at that mont, Lin Yiyi suddenly glanced at her task list.
[Special Requirent 3 ( 40 Rating): Kill at least three enemies on your own (1/3)]
...Tch, damn it.
Lin Yiyi gritted her teeth.
She was a top player after all. With these initial tasks, the higher the score, the better the initial rewards, and the smoother the start.
Too bad this ga didn't allow for restarting. Otherwise, with her personality, she would have kept restarting until she maxed out all three special requirents before turning in the task.
Plus, she was supposed to be able to take on two enemies by herself.
Unfortunately, one of them chickened out. Seeing the situation going south, he didn't even fight and just turned tail and ran... As a result, she only completed one-third of her task now.
Those two didn't even draw their weapons; they had no ability to resist. Had she known they would be so easy to kill, Lin Yiyi would have just run over and slit the throat of the person she killed and chased after the runner without needing to use Charge.
And now her legs were still feeling a bit sore...
"We could actually give it a try,"
said a player called "Phoenix": "I have already died once earlier. Right after I created my character, I was surrounded by five people... After I died, I respawned three minutes later. I was teleported to another location and was able to start normally.
"It took two minutes."
"My revival took five minutes... Maybe because my head was chopped off. Does an incomplete corpse increase the revival ti?"
The other players discussed with one another, quickly coming to an agreent.
Once they were certain they could respawn, the players weren't very scared. At worst, they would just lose the chance to complete the first and second special requirents after dying once...
But fortunately, almost all of them were acquaintances. Considering past friendships and everyone's face, they quickly made arrangents.
If the test went well, those who had already died once would throw "Blackfire" to complete the triple-kill task.
They aid to start smoothly with everyone having extra ratings, avoiding a situation where anyone's poor start would hold back the group. anwhile, a few card ga strears were responsible for compiling the 20/40/60/100 rating reward breakdowns, to study how different point tiers would affect the rewards.
Annan, observing from a distance through the Creator's perspective, felt a bit of a stomach ache.
"Are these people really so professional..."
He had originally planned just to wing it, giving rewards based on his whims—extra experience to those who looked pleasing, for example, since the players couldn't possibly check each other's rewards... They lacked the trust and the free ti for that.
This amazing virtual ga was like traveling to another world—could he really have encountered such serious players? Surely they would just shout "Whoa, aweso!" and have fun, and that would be that!
But reality taught Annan that indeed, the players did shout "Whoa, aweso!" and have fun, yet that didn't stop them from taking it seriously.
And it seed they all knew each other. Though not closely, at least to the extent of "roughly knowing who the other person was".
"The selection of beta testers... impressive. Are they all top players from this world?"
Annan's feeling of stomach ache intensified...
He now had to rush to co up with a set of reward rules...
At the beginning, Annan was pondering whether the world recruiting players for this ga was his original world. But listening to their conversations, it quickly beca clear to him: these people were all major strears, famous UPs, even professional players.
Yet Annan didn't recognize any of them.
This was completely impossible, as he was also in the industry. Therefore, there was only one possibility... they did not co from Annan's world.
"...Could there be players coming from other worlds in the future?"
The idea suddenly flashed through Annan's mind, but he quickly dismissed it.
The pressing issue was how to fool these top-level players.
No, first thing's first, he had to deal with the forum... He needed to carefully consider the announcents there.
Annan pulled up the forum administrator page with a gloomy expression and began drafting various plans on it as if it were scratch paper.
He needed to put a bit of pressure on these players.
Seeing the spell "Frost Nova" which he had just learned not long ago, Annan soon ca up with a plan:
Let them use Blackfire. These players didn't know how dangerous Blackfire was, but he did.
Once they had used Blackfire to kill off those people, they would surely realize that these inextinguishable flas were too troubleso. They had undoubtedly caused a disaster.
At that point, he could step in to make a powerful impression! While linking it to the main quest, he could also seize the opportunity to teach them a lesson!
Annan energized himself and hopped off his chair.
That's the plan!
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