Chapter 50: It’s Quite Interesting to Watch Like a TV Drama
【What nonsense are you spouting? Are you Han Tian? 】
【Han Tian isn’t this handsome, nor this unprofessional, and he’d directly find someone to impersonate him? 】
【Big brother, you wouldn’t have forgotten that you showed your face in your review videos before, right? Don’t you have any idea what you look like? 】
As expected, because of this face, which was completely different from reality, Han Tian was questioned by netizens.
Han Tian smiled and pinched his face, “I didn’t say anything wrong. Because I’m currently in the game and using my in-game face, it’s completely different from my real self. Would you use your real face when playing a game?”
The bullet comments instantly froze.
In-game character creation?
【Scammer! 】
【Definitely a scammer. How could it be real in a game? Where did you set up a film crew? 】
【Are the videos made with AI? Can any big shots research this? 】
【From my AI-related professional perspective, I don’t see any AI traces yet… 】
【This is really a bit strange. Is it abroad? I’ve been searching Weibo for days and haven’t found the place Han Tian showed in his video 】
And Han Tian in the video had already started coming out with Zhou Xiao and the others.
As they walked, he explained, “This should be our game’s first welcome event. We get double points for killing Demonic Beasts now, so we’re preparing to team up and head to a place with Demonic Beasts. You guys are in for a treat these few days. As long as I’m online, I’ll be live broadcasting, and everyone will be able to see how we kill Demonic Beasts.”
“Let me briefly introduce the current landscape of the Yunzhou Continent…”
Han Tian began to chatter.
Watching the live broadcast, netizens initially treated it as entertainment.
But soon, some people felt something was off.
With such a high-profile live broadcast, hundreds of thousands of netizens would surely flood in, and someone would definitely try to attack Han Tian’s live broadcast location.
If nothing else, if they could expose this live broadcast as a fraud, they would get that 1 million.
And then there were other game merchants who were unhappy about the popularity of the game “Shattered Sect” 《Shattered Sect》, and it was an old tradition for them to have hackers attack the game servers.
Even though this game hadn’t even started open beta, such immense popularity was snatching market share. How could they let him get away with it?
First, they started from the website.
However, after attacking for a long time, they found that they couldn’t even locate the game’s server address.
Games rely on servers, and there’s no server?
Oh, no, they seemed to have fallen into a misconception.
This game claimed to be a Holographic Simulation Game. Whether such a game even existed was still a question.
While other game merchants were still puzzled, the viewers watching the live broadcast started to feel something was wrong.
Han Tian had been continuously live broadcasting, and the camera shots in the video were too realistic, truly seeming to lead to another world.
Until they walked along the road and encountered a First Order Demonic Beast.
This First Order Demonic Beast was handled by Han Tian and Jiang Tianya. Both of them had fire in their palms, and coupled with the beast’s realistic and terrifying appearance devoid of any special effects, when two fireballs appeared on the live broadcast screen, everyone was stunned by the scene.
Firstly, the texture of the fireballs was too realistic. When the camera zoomed in on the Demonic Beast, one could see the fine fur on its body—it was just a bit disgusting.
If this were a scam, the special effects alone would cost a lot of money.
After defeating the Demonic Beast, Han Tian explained, “This is a First Order Demonic Beast. We haven’t reached the area of First Mountain yet. This place is also close to Wang’an County, so lone Demonic Beasts will come by.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a bell sound suddenly came from overhead.
Looking up, they saw that other Cultivators were passing by on Flying Magic Treasures. The Flying Magic Treasure looked like a woven Flying Carpet, with a Cultivator sitting cross-legged on it. Bells were hung around the Flying Carpet, and they jingled whenever it flew.
“Holy crap—”
Han Tian quickly moved the camera lens to the Cultivator.
Fortunately, the live broadcast was something the local Cultivators on the Yunzhou Continent couldn’t perceive.
The Flying Carpet was not slow and quickly disappeared from everyone’s sight.
“Flying Magic Treasure, that’s something only the Artifact Refining Sect sells,” Han Tian’s tone was filled with envy. “Being able to control a Flying Magic Treasure to travel at least requires Late Qi Condensation Stage. We are currently just some weaklings at Early Qi Stage, and Flying Magic Treasures are sold very expensively, starting at five Mid-grade Spirit Stones at the lowest. Most Cultivators can’t afford them.”
“If you work hard, you can refine them yourself. I plan to pursue the path of Artifact Refining in the future. Personally, I still want to practice Sword Control.”
After all, flying with a sword, or using a Flying Sword Cultivation Method, was a pursuit ingrained in the hearts of most Huaxia people.
Although technology had advanced enough to create effects that were indistinguishable from reality, Han Tian’s live broadcast had been going on for over an hour, and the background behind him had never repeated. Now, various special effects that could only be achieved with immense Money were constantly appearing, making it unbelievably realistic.
If it were fake, would such a huge cost be incurred just to hype up a game?
Some people didn’t care about the truth or falsehood at all and watched the scenes presented in Han Tian’s live broadcast with great interest.
Those scenes, so realistic, were more engaging than watching foreign blockbusters.
And it was a Cultivation background that Chinese people loved the most.
In fact, every frame of Han Tian’s live broadcast was being constantly analyzed.
In reality.
A certain special department in Huaxia.
“Xiao Qing, have you figured anything out?”
A middle-aged man with a righteous face rubbed his brow as he approached.
His brows concealed his fatigue.
Xiao Qing looked at him with disbelief, swallowed, and said, “Minister, I don’t know how to explain this to you, but this game is indeed problematic. I had internal colleagues look into it, and we couldn’t find the source of this game’s server. I also watched this Player’s live broadcast, and even the website where he was broadcasting. The result was that his live broadcast signal wasn’t being sent through the website’s server.”
The man was taken aback, “What exactly do you mean?”
Xiao Qing said, “Let me use a common analogy. We need signal transmission to surf the internet, and we use electromagnetic waves for transmission. But for this live broadcast, there was no signal, and I couldn’t trace the source. It’s as if the source of the signal disappeared out of thin air, or rather, there was no source…”
“Something unknown appeared out of nowhere. If it’s not unknown, then it’s something more advanced than our Technology…”
But he had indeed cooperated with a website to conduct the live broadcast.
He used the website’s server, but the live broadcast signal wasn’t sent by the website.
Wei Jun’s expression instantly turned solemn.
Years ago, he had an accident while on a business trip, but he was saved by Liang Xueyao, who was traveling with him at the time.
He suffered a blow to his forehead, resulting in a chronic headache as a sequela. For his health, the higher-ups transferred him to this safe rear-echelon organization.
However, Liang Xueyao lost a part of his leg, and his dream was shattered.
Since then, Wei Jun had always felt guilty towards Liang Xueyao. Neither of them wanted that accident to happen.
Liang Xueyao had never approached him about the matter.
Until last night, he suddenly sent a message asking him to investigate a game that had suddenly appeared online, stating that the game was very strange and that a Player would be live broadcasting today, so Wei Jun could watch the broadcast.
