Chapter 8: A 10/10 Evaluation
Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio
Lu Wu nodded, using his consciousness to release a new quest in the ga:
“Perpetual Quest: Soul Collector”
Seek ghosts who are newly born in the underworld. Upon discovery, they can be sold at the shop at a rate of 100 soul coins per soul.
At the sa ti, in order for the players to understand newborn ghosts, Lu Wu asked Bei Li to design pictures and link them to the quest list. The players would be able to discern the souls more easily.
The reward of the quest was the best out of all. Quests that solely depended on luck like this also made the ga more interesting.
Whether it would be a lucky day or not solely depended on the player’s looks.
It was the third day since the ga was uploaded.
During that ti, the number of players in Battle Online had increased to 48. Many of them played the ga because of Chen Ziyu, Wang Damang, and the gang’s recomndation. They were the gang who wanted to build the first guild in the ga.
Basically, everyone who had not tried the ga yet was highly dubious of it. However, only those who had played the ga would realize how modernized and playable the ga truly was. Nobody could bear to stop playing the ga once they had the experience.
Lu Wu and Bei Li, who often observed the players’ every move via the artifacts, also understood Chen Ziyu and the gang’s thoughts. They planned to include the guild option in the next optimization.
In order to check on the players more conveniently, Lu Wu and Bei Li went to the underworld once again. He asked Bei Li to forge a subring of the battle ring in the laboratory.
The ring could not survive on its own, but depended on the existence of the master ring. New options of checking on players and releasing quests were also included, and Bei Li was officially the gamaster of Battle Online.
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Mu Qingshui was a professional ga evaluator at Platform173. His job scope was to try out all sorts of new gas and write reports of his experience, then post them onto the website. Although his pay was rather high, he was bored.
Exiting another ga again, Mu Qingshui took off the virtual reality headset and massaged his head, looking reluctant, “What are the authors of these diocre creations that could flood the streets even thinking? I can’t believe they want to participate in the New Ga’s Player Killer List Contest. What a waste of my ti!”
He then launched the webpage, gave an evaluation score of 2 under the previous ga, and ditched it into the eliminated list.
As he scrolled through the table of gas to be evaluated, Mu Qingshui was frustrated seeing more than a hundred gas pending.
Glancing at the other ga evaluators who were doing their jobs, Mu Qingshui took a deep breath. He clicked on the table and chose the next pending ga according to order.
“Hmm?”
He originally planned to test out the ga by playing it right away, but the description of the ga left him dumbfounded.
A simulation ga of just 800 gabytes? Are you kidding ?
Mu Qingshui found it ridiculous. Even a ga like that had the courage to partake in the contest. The authors really did not know their place at all. It seed like he had to propose setting higher participating requirents next ti.
When he read the description, Mu Qingshui was about to give a score of 1 then place it in the eliminated list.
Nonetheless, he recalled the company’s rule of a minimum of a ten minute test run per ga. Mu Qingshui sighed as he loaded the ga into his virtual reality headset and put it on to start his test play.
However, what happened next invoked him to question his life.
The mont he entered into the underworld, the surroundings and the slight breeze were so surreal as though he had traveled into a new world in a split second.
After choosing his character class, Mu Qingshui was completely won over by the ga opening. He was planning to quit the ga after playing for so ti, but he explored the world in the ga instead, finding pleasure in it.
One hour… two hours… five hours passed by as ti slipped away quickly. He was so imrsed in the ga that he forgot he still had many other gas to evaluate.
On the way to the Ghost Mountains, he was lucky enough to co across a newborn ghost as described in the quest panel, and he was rewarded with 100 soul coins. He was exuberant because of that.
After he had sold it to the shop, he bought a blue dagger, which improved his efficiency of creature killing significantly.
He had chosen the character class of a berserker. When his attributes increased, Mu Qingshui could experience a sense of flying while he walked, just like in the movies.
His exploration went on until an alert about the twelve-hour playing ti limitation popped up. He was then exited by force.
An annoyed Mu Qingshui clenched his teeth with fury, “Dang! I was going to kill the Warrior of Wreckage with a single blow! Who the heck was the one who set the ti limit? I’m gonna give him a bad review!”
Mu Qingshui took off his virtual reality headset visibly annoyed, but he was then stunned – the evaluators around him had already gone ho and a new shift had started. It was already 3 AM.
“Shoot! Today’s evaluation tasks…” Mu Qingshui felt his teeth ache. As a professional ga evaluator, he was so attached to a ga that he forgot about his work.
Nevertheless, Mu Qingshui was impressed with the ga and was speechless. He gave a score of 10 for the evaluation.
He spent half an hour writing the evaluation report for the ga and posted under it. Then, he put the ga into the re-evaluation list.
In order to ensure the fairness of the competition, all gas must be reviewed once by every evaluator, and the average score would be taken. That was why Mu Qingshui’s evaluation data alone could not determine whether a ga could go into the next round.
Mu Qingshui was effervescent as he felt he had discovered a precious treasure.
Whipping out his phone, he hesitated and wavered before he called the boss of Platform173 with gritted teeth.
Ring... ring…
The phone rang seven or eight tis before soone picked it up, “Hello?”
“Hello boss, I’m a ga evaluator from Platform173, my na is Mu Qingshui!” Mu Qingshui introduced himself at once.
Wu Guoyi was stunned upon hearing that the caller was a ga evaluator from his subordinate’s company. He glanced at the ti on his phone, his mood worsening, “What is it? Also, how did you get my phone number?”
“Please don’t be mad yet, boss. I only want to report to you a possible opportunity that can expand Platform173 quickly. We can overpower other gaming platforms and beco number one.”
Wu Guoyi who was about to get mad found it ridiculous. It was a good thing for workers to be concerned about the developnt of the platform, but it was also rude to call soone at this hour. Besides, can’t you just inform your supervisor first?
Nevertheless, Wu Guoyi did not speak his mind. He gave it a thought and decided to listen on to the weird worker.
“Alright, I’m all ears!”
Mu Qingshui felt even vivacious, speaking in a determined manner, “Boss, you probably know about our new ga contest, right?”
“Of course, it was I who proposed the event!”
He was a gaming aficionado. Due to his passion, the thought of setting up a gaming platform blossod within him, which led to the rise of the largest gaming platform in the country. The evaluation event was proposed by him and implented with the board of directors’ consent.
“Boss, we’ve found a treasure this ti! During the evaluation, I discovered a ga that feels almost 100% real. I test-played the ga for a whopping twelve hours without spotting any flaws. Moreover, the leveling up in this ga is completely different from other virtual reality gas. It is an epoch-making recreation!”
Upon hearing the news, Wu Guoyi’s expression beca sullen. He switched on the bedside lamp and sat up.
“What ga is it? Which gaming company is the producer from?”
Sensing that Wu Guoyi was interested, Mu Qingshui answered hastily.
“It is produced by a small gaming platform. The na of this ga is Battle Online. What’s more, a very bizarre thing about this ga is its data pack – it’s only the size of 800 gabytes. I couldn’t believe it either after evaluating it.”
Wu Guoyi who heard him almost thought that Mu Qingshui had gone nuts, having conducted too many evaluations.
800 gabytes was around the size of a single item in a virtual reality ga. It was a total joke for it to be the size of an entire ga.
Drawing a deep breath, fury burned in Wu Guoyi again, “What is your na?”
“Boss, my na is Mu Qingshui, and my work ID is #387!”
“Good, you can go to the finance departnt to clear your accounts tomorrow!”
Mu Qingshui who was exuberant suddenly snapped back to reality, just like a bucket of cold water had been poured onto him.
Realizing that he was about to be fired, Mu Qingshui was anxious, “Please, boss, if you have the equipnt around you, you can try out the ga! If what I have said wasn’t true, I will resign myself without having you fire !”
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