After Zhuo Wu haphazardly created his character, he started frantically clicking on the "Enter Ga" button on the panel in front of him, although continuous clicking couldn’t make the progress bar move any faster.
But this was like playing old computer gas a long ti ago, where the left mouse button stood for normal attacks. Even though the attack speed was clearly displayed in its nurical value, players still couldn’t help but try to click the left button at super high speed, as if the faster they clicked, the faster the attacks would be.
A flash of white light passed by, making Zhuo Wu involuntarily squint his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, everything in front of him had changed. He was now on a bustling and busy street, with a light drizzle falling from the sky, and he was surrounded by anciently dressed NPCs.
The drizzle fell on his skin, and Zhuo Wu could clearly feel the coolness of the raindrops where they landed. Taking a deep breath, the scent of apricot flowers entered through his nostrils, traveled down the respiratory tract to his lungs, and only after his brain had processed it did he realize it was the scent of apricot blossoms.
"Holy shit! Impressive!" Zhuo Wu perford the fine tradition of a gar right on the street, bringing the first thunderous shout to this world.
Zhuo Wu just kept inhaling on the main street, this completely one hundred percent realistic ga experience was so exhilarating, he was freaking blown away!
Curious and surprised, the local residents of Qingliang were all watching this person who had suddenly appeared, but after seeing his actions, they all chose to keep a disdainful distance.
The announcent was right after all; humans born from the Heavenly Dao anomalies are indeed neurotic, it’s not strange whatever they do!
This phenonon wasn’t unique to Zhuo Wu, players who appeared in various places in Qingliang City all had similar reactions. The player forums were also filled with intense discussions, surprised that the ga’s promotional catchphrase wasn’t just hot air.
Zhuo Wu looked down at himself; he was only wearing a set of simple, coarse cloth clothes, and had nothing else.
Opening his character panel and inventory, his Level was still a pathetic 0, with all attributes low enough to be pitiable. There was also absolutely nothing in his inventory, even cleaner than his rugged face that no girl could bear to look straight at.
"Tch, not even a newbie gift pack, negative review!"
"Wait, what’s that sll?" Zhuo Wu suddenly caught a whiff of barbeque scent amidst the faintly moist apricot blossom fragrance of the street.
He had wanted to casually ask the surrounding NPCs if there were any quests he could trigger, but after slling that aroma, his body started moving on its own.
It was too enticing!
Following the street, Zhuo Wu ca to an inconspicuous alley, only to discover that the source of the sll was a barbeque stall.
"Holy crap!! Did the ga’s modelers feast on drumsticks for every al?"
Zhuo Wu, once again stunned by his discovery, rembered how in older gas there’d be so many handso guys and beautiful girls that you could count them all day and still not be finished.
But only after seeing the two people at the barbeque stall did Zhuo Wu truly understand what those seemingly ga-only beauties were missing.
They lacked soul!
To verify he wasn’t dreaming, Zhuo Wu even pinched himself hard.
"Yowch, that hurts like hell, why is this ga so damn real?"
Zhuo Wu grumbled and opened the built-in ga cara, ready to take screenshots and record videos, casually casting an Investigation Technique on the two people.
When he was on the main street, he had discovered this novice skill that ca with the player, and he had also tried it on the NPCs on the road. After a simple experint, he roughly understood the skill’s function, which was to let players distinguish who is a boss and who is a scrub.
Even the NPCs walking on the road were at least a few levels, while he, at Level 0, was like a chicken among cranes.
"What’s the matter?? Is the skill broken?" Zhuo Wu stopped his stealthy actions to check the prompt panel. Aside from the golden nas of Liang Yi and Su Youyi, the two NPCs, the rest were all question marks.
"What are you ’?’ about? I’m the one that’s all ’?’ here!"
"Wait a sec! Golden??"
After mulling it over, Zhuo Wu ca to a realization. These NPCs, which didn’t reveal any attributes other than their nas, couldn’t they be big shots? The NPCs he had investigated on the road only had blue nas at most. Zhuo Wu wasn’t clear about the highest quality color in this ga, but NPCs with golden nas were definitely no ordinary Joes or Janes.
Isn’t that how it goes in movies? A top-notch master hidden away at an unassuming street stall.
This kind of thing has already happened in other gas!
"Pfft, what a joke! This crappy panel shows my Luck value as 1. Bullshit, having the luck to run into a big shot right after entering the ga and it’s still 1?"
Just as Zhuo Wo was about to rush forward and latch onto the big shot(s), he realized those two big shots at the barbecue stall had disappeared!
Zhuo Wo was flabbergasted. Where did my big shots go?? Is this karma?
...
On the other hand, Su Youyi, thoroughly satisfied after her al, was happily following behind her senior brother.
"Walk slower, digest the food a bit. Otherwise, you’ll turn into a pig before you know it," Liang Yi reminded her with a smile.
"Would you dislike if I got fat?" Su Youyi posed a deadly question.
"I’m afraid the master would lop off my head from eight thousand miles away with one strike," Liang Yi joked. If Chen Hua saw that he let his junior sister get chubby, it’s quite possible he might really clean house.
"I won’t get fat, I’ve got it under control," Su Youyi said with a beaming smile.
Liang Yi walked side by side with his junior sister, hand in hand, in the autumn breeze filled with light rain, but his mind was on the purpose of his journey.
He waited for twenty minutes after the beta test started, and the spawn location was still empty, without a single player in sight. Yet he clearly rembered that in his previous life, he entered the ga imdiately.
All his actions since his transmigration have been within this world, could it be that the butterfly effect could actually cross worlds? That powerful?
After thinking hard for a long ti and still not coming up with an answer, Liang Yi simply gave up. Continuing to ponder over it would be nothing but a waste of brain cells.
As for the player he had just encountered, Liang Yi saw through his identity the mont he appeared. Only a player entering the ga would be dressed in coarse clothes without even a pair of shoes, poor as hell, his foolish deanor plain for all to see.
Liang Yi didn’t want to avoid contact with players, but he thought it was still too early for that. Right now, players have just entered the ga and still don’t understand anything. Their knowledge of the ga cos only from the scant background information on the official website, barely better than nothing.
Players generally think that NPCs that appear early on are weak, perhaps with the exception of the village chief of Newbie Village? If Qingliang City is regarded as Newbie Village, wouldn’t that make Emperor Zhou the village chief?
However, most players still believe that NPCs appearing later in the ga are more formidable.
If Liang Yi were to interact with them now, there’s an eighty percent chance they would treat him like so kind of beginner’s guide, perhaps even a gold dal beginners’ guide?
Only when they have a preliminary understanding of this world will Liang Yi appear before them. By then, revealing his identity and making use of the players would be more convenient.
Besides, players are almost all Level 0 now, and might not even be able to beat a common passerby; they really aren’t much use at present.
Walking along, Liang Yi also saw many excited players causing chaos here and there.
Like those who refuse to walk properly and instead jump around, bumping into passersby and getting beaten half to death.
Or those who discover they have no money, try to enter residents’ hos to scavenge, and get thrown out after a beating with sticks.
Those who chase after young ladies for a marriage quest end up being reported to the authorities for indecent motives, caught on the spot by the Shadow Guards.
What Liang Yi found most unbelievable were the odd talents who wanted to experint right in the middle of the street to see if the ga would have a mosaic when they stripped naked.
But these people were just exceptions; most players still choose to start the ga normally, wandering around to take in the sights and understand the ga situation. There were few who threw themselves in prison right off the bat.
What’s the deal? Afraid of progressing too quickly in the ga, so you set a little shackle for yourself? Letting other players go ahead for a week?
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