Chapter 70
Chapter 70: Game Second Test Launch
“Mom, you eat slowly, I’m not hungry.”
“Hey, are you a cat? You eat so little?”
“I’m full, I’m full!”
Lin Fan put down his chopsticks, waved to the middle-aged woman at the dining table, and hurried back to his room.
He closed the door, went to his gaming pod, plugged in the power, and then heard his mother’s nagging voice from outside again.
“Xiaofan, don’t stay at home playing games all day long. Go out more, chat with the opposite sex.”
“Even Xiao Wang has a partner now, when will you bring one home for your mom?”
“You’re already 24!”
Lin Fan listened to the incessant chatter from outside his room, shrugged indifferently, and muttered quietly:
“Who needs a partner when games are so fun, pff!”
“The second closed beta is about to start!”
Lin Fan muttered to himself. He checked the time, and when the hour and minute hands coincide at 12 o’clock, he immediately opened the gaming pod and lay down inside.
“Welcome back, Player, Lin Fan.”
The electronic voice of the gaming pod immediately sounded in his ears.
“Starting game ‘Cain Continent’.”
“Ding dong—’Cain Continent’ game is starting, new version found… ‘Cain Continent’ 2.0 version update complete.”
“Logging in with identity ID…”
“ID: Avatar, welcome to Cain Continent, wish you a pleasant gaming experience.”
The familiar game voice echoed in his mind, and Lin Fan felt his vision darken for a moment, then a never-before-seen image began playing automatically in his field of vision.
“It’s a new expansion!”
Lin Fan’s eyes lit up.
The last expansion had already been hyped up on the internet and turned into various trashy game advertisements.
He wondered what kind of high-quality expansion the game developers would come up with this time.
The screen slowly brightened, accompanied by a light and hopeful background music.
In the scene, players appeared around Ye Hao and Saintess Zoe.
Players were laughing and playing around, some surrounded the two NPCs, and others were running around outside Dawn Town.
This was the first time players descended into the temporary scene. Lin Fan even saw his own figure in the footage.
Back then, he had slapped himself, and now seeing his past self was somewhat laughable and absurd.
“I didn’t expect the game developers to include players in the expansion.”
Lin Fan smiled slightly. This surprise made him feel the intentions of the game developers and made him look forward to the upcoming content even more.
At this moment, the gentle music gradually gave way to stirring war songs, and the scenes in the video began to quickly switch and rotate:
There were players entering Dawn Town for the first time, with rough tactics and funny maneuvers.
There was the brutal and bloodthirsty Eagle Lord, dominating the players like wheat.
There were scenes of blood and flesh flying in the Black River Territory battlefield, where orcs fought fiercely with players.
There were also players fighting first-tier Demonic Beasts, enduring hardships and finally smiling as they advanced.
The scenes were interspersed with the figures of these first-test players, but there were also the cheerful voices of Saintess Zoe and the arrogant demeanor of Ye Hao.
Every detail was fragmented into patches of light and shadow with the gradually deepening background music, and finally the scene changed:
Saintess Zoe, with a golden face, lay weakly on the bed, her brows furrowed as if enduring great pain.
The players in the next room looked despondent, helpless.
The atmosphere became oppressive, and the background music became tense.
Then, the cold and indifferent Eagle Lord descended from the sky, stepping arrogantly on the bodies of players as he stormed into Saintess Zoe’s room, and then, amidst the desperate gazes of the players, he abducted Saintess and left.
The last scene showed Ye Hao kneeling at the door of Saintess Zoe’s room, crying bitterly.
Even in the expansion, Lin Fan could keenly feel the hatred emanating from Ye Hao.
The expansion gradually fell into darkness amidst a mournful and bleak song.
“Zoe…”
Lin Fan clenched his fists.
“Don’t die… We’re coming!”
As soon as the thought crossed his mind, everything lit up before him.
In his field of vision was a crudely decorated wooden house, with several common wooden furnishings.
This was Lin Fan’s home in the game.
He looked out at the morning square outside the window.
The sky was clear, the sun was shining.
Newbie players dressed in burlap were gradually descending in a golden light.
…
In a small cabin outside Dawn Town.
Fat Chicken with a Round Face stepped out of the room, her face somewhat unpleasant.
Last night, she summarized and posted everything she had seen and heard along the way.
The post recorded her conversation with the Eagle Lord and included some photos of the clinic and the demi-human girl.
Once the post was published, there were few voices of agreement.
Instead, those who cursed her managed to push her onto the hot searches.
No one believed her words.
Now she had been labeled by all the players as a “shill” and a “lackey of the Eagle Lord.”
In the eyes of the vast majority of players, the Eagle Lord is a complete villain, having never done anything good since arriving at Dawn Town.
Either he’s dealing with players or tormenting the protagonist.
Just look at how Ye Hao has been beaten up?
Even the Eagle Lord flirted with Saintess Zoe, ultimately causing her severe illness, and now nobody knows if she’s still alive.
After the Eagle Lord abducted Saintess Zoe, the situation reached a climax, and the suppressed emotions of the players reached the breaking point.
After Saintess Zoe was taken by the Eagle Lord, enraged players began attacking the official game forum, leaving abusive messages under the official game’s posts.
In less than two hours, there were over ten thousand posts abusing the game officials and the Eagle Lord.
How many players are there in total?
This means that each player posted dozens of aggressive abusive posts.
Players demanded that the game officials return Saintess to them.
They questioned why the game officials had set such a disgusting boss.
Why were there bosses over level forty appearing in the novice village game, and even worse, over level fifty on the third visit?
A game boss can still level up, can you believe it?
Some even held up screenshots of Ye Hao crying bitterly to question the game officials:
“Doesn’t your conscience ache? Is this the protagonist of the game or the victim of a comic?”
Now the highest-rated post on the forum is a recruitment post made by a player with the ID Avatar.
The post is titled:
[For the Best Saintess, Let All Players Unite]
This post vividly describes his life after coming to Dawn Town, Saintess Zoe’s kindness and beauty, the moments of happiness between the players and Saintess Zoe, and the evil and brutality of the Eagle Lord.
The replies to this post reached hundreds of thousands, and almost all first-test and second-test players who got the slots became active.
A war is brewing.
Players have completely plunged into madness.
No one will listen to Fat Chicken with a Round Face’s explanations, and no one pays attention to the contents of her posts. She doesn’t even dare to live in Dawn Town now.
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