The Players And The Protagonist Want To Kill Me – Volume 1, Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Explosive First Test, Top-tier Expansion
“Finally off work…” The young man entered the room with a sigh. “The brother and sister from today were really pitiful.”
Lin Fan, a 24-year-old male with an average appearance and height, has a big appetite and loves sleeping. He doesn’t own a car or a house.
Officially, he works as an orthopedic surgeon. Today, he had to recommend amputation to a paralyzed girl whose leg veins had completely necrotized, leaving her brother, Qi Wubai, heartbroken.
They truly are a pitiful pair.
Every day, Lin Fan’s greatest wish is to not go to work. But beneath his surface identity, he has another one.
Once he’s home, he sheds his white coat, sits in front of the computer, and transforms into a well-known gaming evaluation host on Little TV Station.
For Lin Fan, gaming is an integral part of his life, a love that’s hard to give up. With artificial intelligence and network development technology at its peak, gaming cabins have become the norm.
Lin Fan only hears about the antique games from his father, games that could only be played on computers many years ago.
Today’s games are called virtual reality technology, a top-tier technology developed from VR.
All games today are pursuing realism and open worlds, improving the intelligence of NPCs, but there is no game that can do it all to the extreme. The second world of humanity is still far from being a luxurious dream.
Lin Fan has never given up on his dream. Every time there’s a new game, he’ll play it.
However, those AAA masterpieces that boast about how realistic the five senses technology is and how realistic the physics engine is always end up disappointing.
He hopes that in his lifetime, he can encounter a game that can provide a completely realistic, immersive experience, rather than selling a product under false pretenses.
Perhaps it’s a Class disease for all doctors; Lin Fan is very meticulous in everything he does, a trait that also carries over to his game evaluations.
His game evaluations are renowned for their absolute impartiality, devoid of any hint of favoritism, garnering him a dedicated fanbase in no time.
Every day, thousands of games are released online.As he sits in front of his personal electronic terminal, opening the Little TV Station, an intelligent robot butler approaches with a box of instant noodles, even thoughtfully adding a ham sausage.
This moment marks the start of his quest to discover good games, a journey shouldered by his hundreds of thousands of fans.
“So many private messages from fans?”
Lin Fan’s eyes lit up, anticipating a slew of recent game releases. Having been absent from the Little TV Station for three days, he found a dozen private messages awaiting him.
The first message caused Lin Fan to blink in surprise:
“Brother Fan, I want to give birth to a monkey for you!”
The odd request momentarily puzzled him. The next message struck a chord:
“Brother Fan, can you provide your address? You haven’t updated in three days. My parents are worried you might be sick and want to send you some local specialties.”
“I’m afraid they’re going to send razor blades!”
Lin Fan pursed his lips, quickly skimming through some irrelevant private messages. Finally, he stumbled upon some normal game recommendations.
“Let’s see… A fantasy cultivation game… boasting over eighty sects, thousands of immortal skills, special effects rivaling those of movies… all flashy, but trash!”
Dismissing it, he moved on. “A horror decryption game? Damn it! Don’t they know I’m afraid of ghosts? I won’t test this one, onto the next.”
He scrolled further. “‘The Girl Next Door’s Netorare’ This one’s intriguing! Let’s bookmark it first…” Despite his age, Lin Fan still felt the urge to rescue even virtual characters.
With his resolve strengthened, he continued browsing,
“Huh? What’s this?”
A poster with exaggerated colors and poor production quality caught his attention.
“The nine major countries jointly create the second world, with Red Queen acting as the core processor?”
“‘Cain Continent’ Creating the most realistic gaming experience?”
Fake!
Lin Fan knows Red Queen.
However, the collaboration among the nine major countries to create this virtual world appears questionable, no matter how you look at it. If it’s so impressive, why hasn’t it made the news yet?
Although it appears dubious, it must be said that the impressive introduction has indeed piqued his curiosity.
Today, he wants to see how formidable the game, claimed to be jointly created by the nine major countries, really is. If it dares to deceive people, he won’t hesitate to transform into the Immortal Nine Calamities of the Internet.
He clicked on the link below the poster.
What appeared was a slightly more detailed game poster, at least it was clear enough to see the figures, unlike the pixelated style outside…
It was a huge map sandbox, with orcs, humans, elves, and demons sitting around it.
To be honest, this poster looked very low-quality. Shouldn’t there be one or two pretty girls on it? There were only two big men and two creatures that weren’t even human. Looking at this broken sandbox, how can it attract players?
After looking at the cover, Lin Fan didn’t hold out much hope for this game.
It was probably just a rubbish game with a flashy exterior. However, he still patiently clicked on the video portal below the poster.
It was the game’s promotional video and reservation window. What surprised Lin Fan was that the comments below the promotional video were really scrolling non-stop, with new people joining every second.
To be honest, this situation is only seen in flagship games from some top-tier game studios.
Could it be that this game called “Cain Continent” is really that powerful? With curiosity, Lin Fan clicked on the game video, and his eyes went from bland to stunned, and then slowly to shocked, taking less than a minute.
From the Chinese region, a player named “Idle True Lord Who Originally Caught Fish” also clicked on the video link. He wasn’t in a hurry to watch the video. He was first attracted by the diverse comments below the video.
[Fat Chicken with a Round Face] Shocking! Why is a certain special effects company not making movies properly and instead making games?
[Picking Your Chicken Baby] Western fantasy game? Forget it. Although the trailer looks great, I just can’t get into it.
[Not Doing Human Affairs] Carefully crafting CG, but making games with poor quality? (Penguin’s confused expression)
[Idle True Lord Who Originally Caught Fish] shook his head regretfully. Western fantasy games were popular in the early days, with games from Pickled Vegetable Country dominating the scene.
The shiny, alluring characters inside were very appealing to players, but now most players are tired of the aesthetics and prefer fresh immortal cultivation games.
He continued to scroll through the comments, then a special comment from the Game King of Nine Dragons Coffin popped up:
[Lin Fan Is Extraordinary] To be honest, being able to produce such special effects indicates that the game developer has at least reached the top level in special effects application in games. I am very much looking forward to the game content.
[Can Be Wrapped Around the Waist] Haha, if this game can survive the test server, I’ll buy five electric fans directly!
[Sun Piercing Steel Plate] I pledge here, if this game becomes popular, I’ll eat shit from Zhe Province to Sichuan Province!
[Draven Smells My Feet] …Wow, from mild to spicy, brother’s appetite is pretty good.
“Oh, Lin Fan also said it’s good? Then I can look forward to it…”
He looked at those few comments following Lin Fan’s, all full of character.
[Idle True Lord Who Originally Caught Fish] grinned. He always admired those ruthless people who cheat and torture their little brothers in various ways, so he immediately commented with approval for these two brothers and even gave them a like.
The dreams of netizens are guarded by him!
Then [Idle True Lord Who Originally Caught Fish] continued to scroll down to other comments.
[E forward without taking care of children]: “Through the Queen’s super brain to achieve a 100% restoration of the five senses and NPC intelligence, can someone knowledgeable explain? Can such a thing really be done?”
A 100% restoration of the five senses?
That’s quite a boast.
Seeing this, [Idle True Lord Who Originally Caught Fish] couldn’t help but laugh.
There hasn’t been a virtual reality game on the market that dares to claim a 100% restoration of the five senses.
Even achieving 20-30% is considered remarkable. Other games are still struggling to reach the 30% threshold of the five senses, and you claim to be at 100%?
Which game company can boast like this?
He scrolled to the bottom of the page and saw the game’s developer.
“Blue Star Nine Country Federation? What the hell?”
[Idle True Lord Who Originally Caught Fish]’s vision blurred. He considered himself an old player on various gaming platforms, familiar with well-known game companies like the back of his hand.
But he had never heard of this game company before, as if it had sprung out of nowhere.
Was it just established? He switched tabs, typed “Blue Star Nine Country Federation” into the search bar, and clicked search. A page about the Blue Star Nine Country Federation popped up, but there were only two lines of text:
Established on April 29, 2088
Representative work: “Cain Continent”
[Idle True Lord Who Originally Caught Fish] exclaimed, “Damn.” It really was just established, and just yesterday. Yesterday?!
[Idle True Lord Who Originally Caught Fish] was dumbfounded. They made the game and the promotional video in just one day? Are they kidding?
Now, he didn’t know where to start criticizing. He simply clicked on the play button and started playing the promotional video made by this game company in one day…
The screen opened to a black screen, but gentle and warm background music gradually began to play.
The screen slowly brightened from black. It was a beautiful demi-human town, with Gothic-style houses with red-tiled roofs nestled among the green trees.
Children chased and played in the town, their laughter echoing above the town like silver bells. It’s worth mentioning that they had furry ears on their heads and various animal tails behind them, each one mischievous and exceptionally cute.
Demi-human women, wearing flower wreaths, hung clothes at the door, while vendors opened their shops and loudly hawked their goods.
Pedestrians smiled and walked together, chatting and whispering, their conversations indistinct through the screen.
The camera pulled back, and the town gradually became a distant view. Around it were golden wheat fields and curling smoke. This was a depiction of the peaceful and serene life of demi-humans in a fantasy world.
The scene changes. The background music becomes solemn and tense. The cold-faced human king sits high on a cold steel throne, surrounded by twelve knights.
They wear bright silver plate armor, with crimson capes trailing behind them. The crystals on their helmets reflect the light of the chandeliers, and the tower shields in their hands bear the image of an angry, fire-breathing dragon.
Suddenly, the king raises the sword in his hand and swings it forward violently.
He opens and closes his mouth, seemingly saying something, and the murderous intent in his eyes almost materializes.
This is the command to attack.
The army rushes out of the royal capital like a torrent of steel, with the black dragon flags fluttering in the wind.
A war dominated by destruction and aggression begins.
In the fortress, countless demi-human soldiers clad in armor are fighting bloodily, resisting the attacking enemies. But as magic flashes, the world fades, and a huge meteorite falls from the sky, brutally smashing down a section of the city wall…
In the wilderness, a dense group of heavy cavalry charges at the demi-human infantry. Weapons clash, armor collides, warhorses neigh, and soldiers from both sides fall dead from time to time, their blood dyeing the land red.
In the center of the picture, a demi-human general with red eyes, her body swelling several times, transforms into a silver-gray giant wolf with wings on her back.
She looks back at the broken defense line, with a determination to die and hatred, she resolutely rushes into the human army.
In the once peaceful town, squads of cavalry charge in, slaughtering everywhere without mercy. Their cold helmets conceal their faces, only revealing their sinister eyes.
The blood-stained longswords are chilling, and the dragon flags flutter in the wind.
These magnificent scenes, without any traces of special effects, are like a movie, making [Idle True Lord Who Originally Caught Fish] extremely enjoyable.
The horror and cruelty of war make him shiver with fear.
The heroic and majestic music makes his blood boil.
He couldn’t help but want to become one of the demi-human soldiers in the picture, fighting to defend his homeland.
Who wouldn’t love these cute little ones with animal ears and tails?
Moreover, they are the ones being invaded.
At the end of the war, the defeated demi-human royal capital was captured, and the heroic demi-human king was nailed to the throne.
The peaceful and serene country turned into a scorched earth under the sound of the horn. In the temple, the young fox-eared Saintess cried bitterly.
The statue of the Goddess in front of her had been pushed down by soldiers long ago, and the headless body of the pope lay on the side, blood staining the pure white walls.
In the secret chamber of the palace, the youngest Demi Human Princess was handed over to a plain-dressed woman and quietly taken out of the palace…
The scene changes again, more than ten years later, the demi-human royal capital has become the territory of the aggressor country, with eagle flags flying everywhere.
The surviving remnants of demi-humans lingered between the human empire and the orc Empire.
The mournful background music sounded, and scenes of demi-humans being enslaved, whipped, bullied, and sold began to appear alternately in the picture.
They had lost their homeland and could only wander around.
In a dark corner of the Eagle Territory, the grown-up beautiful Saintess wore patched and washed-out sacrificial robes, kneeling in front of the statue of the Goddess, praying with tears in her eyes.
In the deserted jungle, the Demi Human Princess, covered in scars, honed her martial skills. She gritted her teeth, holding a sword taller than herself in both hands, fighting against a fierce magic wolf.
The background music gradually intensified, the Saintess’s prayers becoming more sorrowful, and the Demi Human Princess’s battle growing increasingly dangerous.
The scenes on both sides gradually merged together. Suddenly, the background music stopped abruptly, all sound fell silent, and the distant church bells rang.
The camera slowly pulled back from both scenes, and the third shot came to the center.
Outside the small town, a human boy wearing a straw hat looked up at the sky.
On his neck, a necklace emitted a faint and soft light, and golden shadows appeared one after another around him.
They looked different, full of curiosity, as if they came from another world.
It’s obviously the precursor image of the player’s arrival. Many virtual reality games use this technique in their promotional videos to enhance immersion.
The scene plunges into darkness again, and after a few moments, rows of slowly magnifying fonts appear consecutively on the screen:
“Red Queen Core Calculation, bringing you a 100% sensory experience for the most authentic gaming sensation.”
“Nine major national joint productions, wholeheartedly creating a second home for humanity.”
“The disputes between nations, the mysteries of swords and magic, the fate of demi-humans, await your revelation.”
“On May 1st, the fantasy masterpiece ‘Cain Continent’ will start its first test! Welcome to make an appointment!”
The promotional video ends here.
[Idle True Lord Who Originally Caught Fish]’s hand trembled slightly as he held the mouse. His eyes remained fixed on the now darkened promotional video window, as if he hadn’t fully come to his senses.
Suddenly, he slammed the table and stood up from his chair, unable to contain the excitement in his heart, shouting:
“Darn it! If this game is as good as the promotional video, I’ll praise it to the heavens!”
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