Chapter 25: Would You Believe It?
The Player ID for brewing alcohol was 【Fan Guozhou】.
His family business was brewing alcohol.
He learned these skills from his family since he was young and was very skilled at brewing.
Not only ordinary strong liquors, but even fruit wines were no problem for him.
In reality, he could also mix Western liquors, truly a jack-of-all-trades in alcoholic beverages.
He had an idea when he saw that the mortals here didn’t lack grain.
People at the foot of the mountain could eat white flour freely, so if grain wasn’t lacking, things like alcohol would definitely be easy to make.
He didn’t believe that modern craftsmanship could be inferior to the cultivation world!
And it really was!
Cultivators didn’t pursue food and drink, and mortals yearned for longevity. While things beyond basic sustenance had developed quite well, they were far from the rich ideas of modern people.
He and Chen Miaomiao tried eating the roots and stems of the Blood Bead Grass, and after not getting poisoned, they started having other thoughts.
“Big Shot, if this thing can be used for alchemy, would it have the same effect if put into alcohol?”
Chen Miaomiao thought it was feasible: “I just don’t know how the disciples of the Medicine Sect actually refine pills.”
If they used a different method, it was unknown if it would work when used in brewing.
A Wu heard them discussing this and immediately said: “You can buy them, basic alchemy books are very cheap.”
These were common books on the Yunzhou Continent, and cultivators could buy them if they had money.
Only high-level alchemy or artifact refining techniques were kept secret.
After all, each Sect had its own unique signature.
Chen Miaomiao’s eyes lit up: “Very cheap?”
“Ten low-grade Spirit Stones are enough, but the alchemy furnace is too expensive. A furnace costs at least one mid-grade Spirit Stone, and it’s prone to exploding, so I can’t afford it.”
Chen Miaomiao heard this: “Buying alchemy books first is fine, I’ll focus on the alchemy aspect.”
She knew very well that her development direction had to be focused on one area; it was impossible to pursue everything.
With so many Players, others would pursue different things.
While they were discussing, Song Jiulai had just come out, and then the sky anomaly from earlier occurred.
That fiery aura spread across the Yunzhou Continent, scaring all the Players who were online into immobility.
It was an aura that was difficult to describe, truly embodying absolute oppressive presence.
It was like the fear from within the bloodline that an animal feels when facing the king of beasts.
That phoenix cry further ignited the Players’ nerves.
Until the aura dissipated, the Players online were stunned.
“Holy crap, what was that? So awesome?”
“What Big Shot made a move?”
“So f***ing amazing, when can I cultivate to that Realm?”
“Did this Game release a BOSS early?”
The Players whispered amongst themselves. A Wu was also startled, but he had been here for over ten years and had occasionally seen such phenomena.
Chen Miaomiao then asked him: “Senior Brother, what just happened?”
A Wu shook his head: “I don’t know either, perhaps a Mighty Cultivator passed by.”
Seeing that he didn’t know, Chen Miaomiao stopped asking.
The world currently displayed in this Game was just the tip of the iceberg. She really didn’t know what kind of splendor the legendary Myriad Immortal Sect held.
Fan Guozhou wanted to brew alcohol, so this time he and A Wu went down the mountain to observe the market conditions.
Chen Miaomiao had been in the Game for a day and a night, and her body couldn’t take it anymore, so she chose to log off.
The moment she took off her VR glasses, apart from a slight discomfort on the bridge of her nose from the prolonged pressure, Chen Miaomiao found her mental state to be surprisingly good.
Looking at the time again, after logging in late last night and resting for a few hours, she entered the Game at eight in the morning, and it was now one in the afternoon.
Chen Miaomiao was startled by her own immersion.
Had she really been playing for so long?
She opened her mobile phone and found that many people had sent her messages.
“Absurd.”
Chen Miaomiao murmured and quickly replied to everyone.
Because she liked living alone, she rented a house near the school, so playing games wouldn’t disturb others.
Feeling hungry after leaving the Game, she first made a bowl of noodles to fill her stomach.
In the afternoon, a friend invited her out for milk tea, and Chen Miaomiao thought about it before agreeing.
When they met, she was also checking messages in the Game Group. Even though she wasn’t online, they were still communicating game information.
All fifty people had joined, and no one had thought of quitting the Game yet.
Her friend looked at her constantly chatting and was puzzled: “What are you busy with? You didn’t reply to my message this morning either.”
Chen Miaomiao said gently: “I’m playing a game.”
“What? You’re playing a game?” Her friend looked at her in disbelief: “You can get this immersed in a game?”
Chen Miaomiao never let games delay her replies.
Chen Miaomiao: “Yes, the game is too fun. I’m playing a holographic game, and it’s so realistic, it feels like I’ve traveled to another world and started a second life, so it’s too fun to stop.”
“What nonsense? Are you out of your mind?”
Her friend looked at Chen Miaomiao as if she were crazy: “Do you know what you’re saying? Holographic game? Do you know that our country hasn’t even made significant breakthroughs in virtual technology yet?”
Chen Miaomiao took a sip of milk tea: “How should I put it… I’m not crazy, I’m telling the truth. The game I’m playing is called 《Shattered Sect》. You can only make a reservation now, and it’s unknown when the next quota will be released. You can search for it.”
Looking at the time, Chen Miaomiao said: “I want to go back and continue playing. I have academic tasks next week and won’t have as much time as now. I’ll treat you to this milk tea, bye.”
Friend: “Ah?!”
Holy crap, she’s gone mad.
Chen Miaomiao, the Big Shot in their major, has gone mad.
She’s become so obsessed with a game.
If her mentor found out, she’d be scolded to death!
With a skeptical attitude, she searched for the game 《Shattered Sect》 and found that it was indeed quite broken.
There was nothing but a website.
There wasn’t even a reservation button now.
The only announcement was that the non-deletion test had provided 50 quotas, which had long since been filled, and the game was currently in its non-deletion test phase.
How could Chen Miaomiao believe such a fake game?
Her friend thought pityingly that perhaps she hadn’t played enough games to believe such an outrageous fake game.
Then she discovered that this game even had a small trending topic.
A gaming big shot named Jing Baotian had also praised this game extensively, and now his fans on Weibo believed that he was either taking bribes or had gone mentally insane from playing the game.
This was the opposite example in the eyes of parents.
At the same time, another Player was facing a similar dilemma.
“Jiang Tianya, Dad finally came back for dinner today, why are you so absent-minded?”
Jiang Tianya looked up at his father, who was always busy with research and rarely came home, and hesitated before speaking.
“Dad, if I told you that our country now has a game that can make you feel like you’ve traveled to another world, would you believe me?”
