Chapter 132: Another New Player
At midnight, some players were already asleep.
After all, there were still a lot of office workers.
Hearing the @ at this moment, those who heard it were startled awake from their deathbeds, while those who didn’t continued to sleep soundly.
Of course, only a very small number of players didn’t hear it.
Almost all those who knew the news logged in immediately.
Zhou Xiao was one of the players who had logged off. Upon logging in, he saw that Wang’an County was not significantly affected, but the atmosphere was much more somber than usual.
The cultivators were nowhere to be seen, and the common people had all returned to their dormitories.
Zhou Xiao grabbed Fan Guozhou from the crowd: “What’s going on?”
Fan Guozhou turned back, also a bit panicked: “When Zhen Weida and the others went to find resources, they encountered a wave of Demonic Beasts gathering on the way, and they were all advancing towards Wang’an County. The scale they saw was hundreds of Demonic Beasts, and there might be more behind them. Han Tian and the others are rushing back, but we don’t know if they’ll make it in time.”
Tier 1 and Tier 2 Demonic Beasts, to put it bluntly, had no Spiritual Intelligence.
They also had no intention of actively attacking, but they weren’t truly stationary like monsters that would occasionally respawn.
Some wandering Demonic Beasts would occasionally stray to the outskirts of the county town.
This was also one of the reasons why the common people worried about going out.
However, Wang’an County had a history of Demonic Beast invasions.
The specific reasons for Demonic Beast invasions were unclear; they would often gather together and attack in unison.
In any case, they would kill cultivators on sight and also eat people.
After a Demonic Beast invasion, even Spirit Herbs would be trampled into a mess.
Not to mention that many lands had been developed outside the city, all planted with Spirit Herbs.
An ordinary Player could handle one or two Tier 1 Demonic Beasts without much issue, and now Zhou Xiao and the others could even handle Tier 2 Demonic Beasts individually.
But hundreds or thousands of them!
Zhou Xiao’s scalp also tingled.
The game did not yet have built-in voice chat, so players could only communicate with each other through the System.
Zhou Xiao quickly asked the System: “System, where is that group of Demonic Beasts now?”
The System replied: “Honghuang and the others are currently searching for the Demonic Beasts’ tracks.”
Zhen Weida and the others had only seen the Demonic Beasts halfway and rushed back to report.
Based on the direction they discovered, Honghuang and other Players went first.
Another group of Players was on their way back, but there was also a distance gap from First Mountain. Like Han Tian, they didn’t know if they would make it back in time.
According to Zhen Weida’s account, the group of Demonic Beasts was only half a day’s journey from Wang’an County.
It was still nighttime, which was somewhat disadvantageous for cultivators fighting Demonic Beasts.
The Players currently within the Sect, along with some Rogue Cultivators in Wang’an County, and the number of cultivators in Flying Sparrow Sect was still unknown. In total, there were less than a hundred cultivators.
It wasn’t just Zhou Xiao and the others; Song Jiulai was almost stepping onto Netherworld Sect’s territory!
“Damn it, how could there suddenly be a Demonic Beast invasion!”
Now that she had reached Foundation Establishment and her permissions had expanded, she didn’t plan to personally meet the Outer Disciples. The System would assign Spiritual Roots to New Players later.
Who knew such a thing would happen.
If she didn’t go back, she didn’t know what would happen to Longevity Sect under the Demonic Beasts’ ravages.
“I thought Shui Ping was just talking casually back then, I didn’t expect her to actually be making a flag!”
It hadn’t been long, and the Demonic Beast invasion had truly appeared.
“Only Tier 1 and Tier 2, that’s still good news. Players should be able to hold on until you return,” the System comforted, then added, “I’m just worried there might be Tier 3 Demonic Beasts later.”
Generally, Demonic Beast invasions don’t happen without reason.
Without Spiritual Intelligence, they needed to be suppressed forcefully.
Such a large-scale, coordinated Demonic Beast invasion likely had a Commander behind it.
Song Jiulai’s heart grew cold: “My Sect, my assets, absolutely cannot suffer any losses!!”
She had diligently led Players and had just begun their lives on the Yunzhou Continent. Was it easy to develop to this scale?
The Flying Sparrow Sect hadn’t even been annexed yet, how could such a thing happen!
Moreover, Shui Ping and Su Huanli were not at Flying Sparrow Sect now, so Song Jiulai estimated there weren’t many Flying Sparrow Sect disciples.
Longevity Sect had mostly Life Players remaining.
Life Players generally disliked combat, and their combat power was extremely weak!
Song Jiulai rushed back at her fastest speed, consuming Tier 4 Pills if her Spiritual Energy ran out.
The events in the game did not affect the New Players who were currently cautiously competing for quotas.
At 12 o’clock in the game, the quota competition officially began.
In countless cities, some cheered, while others slammed tables in anger.
Fifty quotas, fresh out of the oven.
“I got it, I got it, hahahahahahahahaha!”
Screams of ecstatic joy could be heard.
Some, after getting the quota, felt a slight relief in their hearts but showed no expression on their faces.
They immediately called their superiors to report.
“Yes, I got the quota.”
“You got it?”
The voice on the other end of the phone sounded surprised, as if they hadn’t expected the woman to get it.
After a pause, the voice on the other end gained a hint of relief: “It’s good that you got it. Go in and take a look. Perhaps… perhaps this game will truly be beneficial for you.”
The woman responded with a faint “Mm.”
The person on the other end sounded even more like they were rambling: “You don’t have the equipment, right? I’ll have someone send it to you immediately. Just tell me after you’ve played and understood it, and then you log off…”
“Okay, I understand all the requirements. I’ll go in and take a look first.”
After hanging up the phone, the woman’s face remained expressionless.
However, thinking about what she was about to do, she found it somewhat amusing.
Did such a game truly exist?
She still found it somewhat absurd.
When Wei Jun called, she still found it hard to believe that he would ask her to do such an absurd thing.
But he said, “Go and try it.”
A moment later, there was a knock on the door, and a calm, serious voice said, “Hello, Officer, we have delivered your items.”
The woman opened the door.
She watched them carry the equipment into her room.
Looking at the simple VR equipment, the woman still found it hard to believe: “With just this, I can really…?”
“We are only responsible for delivering the items.”
After the young Soldier finished speaking, he saluted her.
She nodded and, after they left, examined the set of equipment.
It was quite simple.
And unlike those on the market, it seemed to have been modified by the base. This VR equipment was a helmet.
It was more like the virtual-feeling network helmets from legends.
And it was also more like…
Deceptive things.
The woman pulled at the corner of her mouth, and before putting it on, she saw the scar at the corner of her eye in the mirror.
She couldn’t help but twitch her eye again.
It wasn’t something she controlled, but an involuntary muscle movement.
She would always lose control when she was a bit nervous, especially when thinking about things. The faster it twitched, the more it affected her nerves.
It was a sequela of the injury.
It prevented her from engaging in detailed thinking.
From then on, she fell from heaven to hell.
Taking a deep breath, she put on the helmet, and her vision went black.
Preparing to start, a game she believed to be a scam.
