WTYTIAAN Chapter 161

Chapter 161

Chapter 161

Where it originally displayed [Guests cannot reply], a reply input box appeared at some point.

And the login information displayed next to it was precisely his newly registered player identity, [Rian].

He could actually reply to the forum now? ?

No, was this game system this powerful?

Yan Yunqing swallowed and tentatively typed a sentence.

“The owner，around？No NPC Is it？Your week？”

“The owner，around？No NPC Is it？Your week？”

[The owner，around？No NPC Is it？Your week？]

Click Send.

The little chrysanthemum spun around twice, and a message saying “Sent Successfully” appeared.

It really sent successfully!

Yan Yunqing refreshed the thread, and sure enough, he saw that the latest comment on the thread was contributed by him.

Taking a deep breath, Yan Yunqing controlled his slightly agitated mood.

Before, he could only browse the forum and couldn’t participate at all. Now, his [Rian] identity could reply to the forum!

Did this mean he still had a chance to communicate with those friends he knew from his original world?

Although Yan Yunqing always said that because of his parents’ passing, he didn’t have much attachment to his original world and that it was the same wherever he lived, how could someone completely sever their ties to the past?

Especially after his parents passed away, the few families that had raised him, those uncles, aunts, and their families, had all left warm memories for Yan Yunqing.

He didn’t know if he had died or disappeared in his original world. Either way would make those uncles and aunts who once cared for him sad, right?

If there was really a chance to contact them, it would be great. At least he could tell them that he was living well in another world…

Thoughts raced and emotions surged. It took Yan Yunqing a while to calm down and restrain the homesickness that had suddenly sprouted.

After calming down, another worry emerged in Yan Yunqing’s mind.

He still hadn’t figured out the entity behind the Return Journey game. What was the purpose of pulling people from Blue Star into the game as players?

Yan Yunqing could only confirm one thing for now: this entity behind the Return Journey game harbored ill intentions toward him, the people of the Ermann Continent, and even the players from Blue Star.

If he rashly contacted the uncles and aunts he used to know, it might not only fail to reassure them, but also drag them into danger.

Yan Yunqing closed his eyes and reopened them, his expression returning to calm.

He refreshed the thread. The thread starter, who had been locked up in the small dark room, couldn’t help but complain bitterly, and he also replied to Yan Yunqing’s questions in great detail.

12L: I was too excited when I first logged in. The Return Journey’s VR is really awesome, the five-sense simulation is really amazing. I think I woke up in a small forest? Oh, there was a small stream next to me. I don’t know if there were other players, but before long, I was surrounded by those damned savages! They didn’t give any newbie guidance at all, they just started killing right away! Too ruthless!

The words revealed a strong sense of resentment, and Yan Yunqing almost laughed out loud.

Forgive me, forgive me.

Yan Yunqing chanted “Amitabha, may Buddha forgive me” a few times in his heart and continued to browse the thread. Amidst a lot of complaints, the thread starter interspersed some small clues, and Yan Yunqing extracted them one by one.

However, he wasn’t familiar with Romunike, and he didn’t have anyone like Alice there. It was really difficult to launch a player rescue plan.

Forget it, he would leave those few players who had been captured by the savages for now. He had to first investigate the accurate birth points in Romunike and then move the original newbie village over there.

Yan Yunqing closed the thread without any hesitation and returned to the forum, refreshing it to make sure that no other deceased players had come out to post. He then closed the forum.

Destination: Romunike.

*

Cheng Tianyu, who had been freely exploring the game for more than seven hours, received a reminder from the game about anti-addiction. He learned that he was about to be kicked offline and that the system was asking him to find a safe place to log out in advance.

Cheng Tianyu rubbed his nose and couldn’t help but sneeze, moving the bouquet of flowers in his hand further away. “This game is too realistic, it can even show the symptoms of pollen allergies.”

“Brother A, the game system is reminding me that I’m about to be forcibly logged out,” Cheng Tianyu said, turning his head to see [Big Brother A] solemnly counting the copper coins in his money bag. “Brother, what are you doing?”

[Big Brother A] didn’t look up, muttering, “3, 4, 5…”

“12!” He counted back and forth several times, but the final number still stopped at 12. [Big Brother A] couldn’t help but contort his face. “This is too stingy! I did eight quests, and I only got 12 copper coins?!”

Twelve copper coins couldn’t even buy the most ordinary staff, let alone better weapons and equipment!

The lowest-level white weapon in that weapon shop cost 50 copper coins! ! !

[Big Brother A] almost raised his head and howled “profiteer”.

“Brother, it’s okay, it’s okay. At least our levels are almost at Level 1. When we log in tomorrow and grind for a while, we’ll get an initial gift pack when we break through Level 1. Maybe we can get a weapon from it?” Cheng Tianyu comforted [Big Brother A].

In these eight hours, several people had already appeared on the level leaderboard. Because there were more monks than congee in terms of quests, not many people could get quests. Most people were still exploring the world and story of the Ermann Continent in the initial newbie village.

There wasn’t much information that could be found out in the newbie village, but it was enough to give the players who were eagerly waiting for milk a little sweetness.

The information about the level gift pack was discovered by a lone wolf player in the newbie village who was lucky enough to receive a series of quests. Because he received the series of quests, his level rose to Level 1 after completing them, and he received an initial box. With dog-like luck, he opened a green-quality long sword that could be equipped below Level 10.

Don’t look down on green-quality weapons as trash equipment in other games, but in Return Journey, which had just launched, with extremely limited channels for obtaining equipment, a green-quality long sword was already the best weapon they had ever seen at this level.

[Big Brother A] and Cheng Tianyu were so jealous that they almost lost their minds.

And the eight quests they did were completed as a team. The two of them went to grind with the NPCs, and the quests they received shared experience, so their levels could barely rise to the edge of Level 1.

“The game is reminding me here that I’m about to be forcibly logged out as well. Let’s find a safe place to log out. Since the system is notifying us, there must be a reason,” [Big Brother A] said, struggling out of the nightmare of only earning 12 copper coins after grinding for a day, an hourly wage of only 1.5 copper coins. He suggested, “The one we went to before at the entrance of the village seems to be a bachelor, right? We should be able to spend one copper coin to stay at his house for a night.”

As for where to sleep? Players weren’t really sleeping when they logged out, they could just find a safe corner to lie down. What else was there to care about?

“It costs one copper coin…” Cheng Tianyu hesitated. “Is it necessary? Can’t we just find a corner in the village to log out in?”

[Big Brother A] patted Cheng Tianyu on the shoulder. “Orange, it’s obvious that you haven’t studied Return Journey’s background story properly.”

“We players play the role of Skyfallers in Return Journey. Our descent is to help the people on this continent resist demonic creatures, so demonic creatures are the game’s monster units, right?”

Cheng Tianyu nodded.

“But we haven’t heard of anyone receiving quests about demonic creatures for so long. At most, it’s just hunting wild chickens and rabbits at the entrance of the village. It can be seen that demonic creatures are a very dangerous type of creature in this world.”

[Big Brother A] spoke eloquently, “And the villagers repeatedly emphasize how terrifying the demonic creatures are, that their favorite food is people with the talent to cultivate. Isn’t that exactly what the player camp is all about? And the game system repeatedly emphasized that we should find a safe place to log out before forcibly logging us out.”

“Why is that? There’s only one truth—”

[Big Brother A] struck a classic pose. “Players may still encounter attacks from demonic creatures after logging out, and players may receive some penalties if they are eaten by demonic creatures.”

“The serious consequence would be that demonic creatures slaughter a large number of players, and then massacre the newbie village. Oh, generally games shouldn’t do this, but this is a VR game. From what we’ve seen so far, Return Journey has a high degree of freedom. At least there’s a super artificial intelligence supporting the calculations, so it’s really possible that an event like a village annihilation could happen.”

“A minor one would be some continuous debuffs on our bodies—of course, none of this is important. If we’re attacked and killed by demonic creatures after logging out, we’ll lose experience.”

“We finally managed to reach the edge of Level 1 and will soon be on the leaderboard. I don’t want to return to square one!”

[Big Brother A] gave a lot of reasons. It wasn’t until he couldn’t make it up anymore that he said his true thoughts.

Cheng Tianyu: …

Cheng Tianyu: “Okay, brother, you can just say that you’re afraid of losing experience, you don’t need to make up so much nonsense.”

[Big Brother A] chuckled. “Did you think I was just trying to fool you? No, this is really what I deduced after careful consideration.”

“This VR game is so realistic, the feeling of death must be very realistic as well. In order to prevent players from confusing the game with reality, the game officials must take some rules to restrict us. Just watch, there must be serious consequences for character death.”

Cheng Tianyu gave an insincere “mm-hmm” a few times, but he was also afraid of being attacked and losing experience when he logged out. He still agreed to [Big Brother A]’s suggestion and ran to the bachelor’s house to ask for a place to stay.

The bachelor was easy to talk to. He collected one copper coin as a token fee and gave them the empty room next door to stay in.

The two of them wandered around the empty room, took stock of their gains for the day, and were forcibly kicked offline by the game with reluctance.

At the same time, countless players who had logged into the game as soon as it launched were kicked offline, leaving only a few players who had logged in later to freely explore the game.

In an instant, the number of posts on the forum surged.

[I announce that Return Journey will become the only true god-descended game in the last ten years. This is simply a dimensional strike!]

[Grandpa, I’ve really played a realistic VR game]

[Before entering the game, I had a skeptical attitude. After entering the game: OMG, it’s an epic masterpiece!]

[Before playing Return Journey: Heh, how fun can it be? After playing Return Journey: Game Daddy, please let me play for another eight hours!]

[No, do adults still have anti-addiction measures? Is the Return Journey studio out of their minds? Setting up anti-addiction measures for such a good game, do they not want to make money? I allow you to open a paid gaming service after eight free hours every day! I can buy points]

[…]

At the same time, posts about death penalties and resurrection cooldowns were also pushed to the top. Among the three thousand players, there were always a few who liked to court death.

They didn’t expect that they would be forcibly logged out after dying once, and that they would need a cooldown to resurrect after putting on the helmet again.

For a while, the forum was filled with excitement and complaints, all about Return Journey, crowding out all the posts about other games.

The water friends who didn’t manage to grab an internal beta slot couldn’t help but have question marks all over their faces. “What’s going on? Is the forum being invaded by the Return Journey’s water army?”

It could only be said that people who didn’t manage to grab an internal beta slot really couldn’t understand the excitement of the internal beta players at this moment.

This feeling was like people who had been eating chaff and vegetables all their lives suddenly eating a Manchu Han Imperial Feast.

There was such a delicious game in this world?!

No one could resist exploring a grand and magnificent other world!

Cheng Tianyu finally realized that [Big Brother A]’s guess was more than half right after seeing the death penalty post in the forum. There really were serious consequences for game character death!

At this moment, he was very grateful that he and [Big Brother A] had spent a copper coin to stay in a safe house when they logged out, so they didn’t have to worry about their game characters dying while they were offline.

The game officials didn’t specify when the internal beta would end, but everyone’s game time was fixed every day. If he died and couldn’t play the game for two days, how much of an experience gap would he fall behind?

That wouldn’t do.

And [Big Brother A], who had returned to reality, had already opened a computer document and started writing the text for the next video. Before this, he had prepared several templates, waiting to experience the Return Journey game today before choosing one to produce.

However, after experiencing the Return Journey game, [Big Brother A] found that all of these texts were useless.

Because the realism of Return Journey far exceeded all the games he had played before. The game studio’s statement that “this will be a game of a new era” was not an exaggeration at all!

[Big Brother A] dragged all the previously prepared texts into the recycle bin, created a new document, stared at the blank document for a long time, and solemnly typed the first line of text.

[At the beginning of the video, I need to frankly admit: I was wrong, all the previous speculations I made about the Return Journey game were completely wrong.]

[…]

At the same time as the players’ carnival, Yan Yunqing rode a griffon and quickly arrived at one of Romunike’s newbie village spawn points to meet with Divick.

“Have you investigated the situation around the three newbie villages?” Yan Yunqing jumped off the griffon. His physical qualities had been dramatically improved at level 73, and even the extremely fast griffon wouldn’t make him feel dizzy.

“Yes, there was a slight error in the location where the Skyfallers appeared.” Divick followed Yan Yunqing’s footsteps. “Our people have investigated one location and led them to one of the newbie villages.”

“Have you not found the remaining two locations yet?”

Divick shook his head.

However, another silver-haired youth who came with Divick answered the question: “The Romunike royal family has a tight grip on the entire empire, and it’s difficult for our people to act. We haven’t found them yet.”

Yan Yunqing’s gaze fell on the other person. He hadn’t seen this person before, but he should be a member of the dragon race since he was so close to Divick.

As expected, when Yan Yunqing looked over, the silver-haired youth smiled and introduced himself, “Your Excellency, my name is Wendell. Princess Isabel asked me to work alongside Prince Divick.”

Divick nodded silently and stepped forward, inadvertently blocking Yan Yunqing’s view of Wendell. “Red dragon hybrid. His mother is Isabel’s subordinate and grew up in Dragon Valley.”

So he was a hybrid. No wonder he looked like a smiling tiger.

He knew it. The dragon race all had muscles for brains. How could there be a sesame glutinous rice ball of a person?

“Then please take care of Divick.” Yan Yunqing, who had his view blocked, didn’t think much of it and continued to ask, “Have you investigated the Eternal God Cult’s stronghold in Romunike that you found before?”

Divick quietly cocked his dragon tail.

“All of Romunike’s overt strongholds have been destroyed by Princess Isabel.” Wendell answered smoothly. “There are no unusual movements in the several hidden strongholds. We have people secretly watching them.”

Yan Yunqing nodded. He had read the posts on the forum that said they had encountered face-smacking kills as soon as they logged in. He could basically confirm that there was at least one other player spawn point in a remote location where other forces were entrenched.

However, the Romunike Empire was vast, and most of their manpower was spread out and sent to various newbie villages. It was impossible to move too many people to search for that unknown spawn point in Romunike.

Moreover, it wouldn’t be good if the Romunike royal family noticed. Yan Yunqing still wanted to slowly transition the impact of players logging in on the Ermann Continent. If the Romunike royal family discovered the players’ special nature first, whether it was to kill them all or make use of them, it wouldn’t be good news for Yan Yunqing.

“It’s okay. In that case, you can focus all your attention on the location you’ve already found.” Yan Yunqing said, “I have other plans for the remaining locations.”

Wendell still had that smiling look on his face, but he didn’t immediately agree to Yan Yunqing’s instructions. Instead, he turned his gaze toward Divick.

Divick nodded. “His orders are my orders. All actions will be based on his instructions.”

Wendell blinked, concealing a fleeting look of surprise in his eyes, and obeyed with a salute. “As you wish.”

He saluted Yan Yunqing again. “Then I will go down and make arrangements now.”

Yan Yunqing nodded.

After Wendell left, Yan Yunqing asked Divick, who had been following him closely, “Doesn’t he know my identity?”

Although Yan Yunqing was the initiator of this plan, apart from a few people who already had contact with him and were roped in, the remaining implementers of the plan didn’t know about Yan Yunqing’s existence and his identity.

But since Wendell was sent by Isabel to Divick’s side to help him, shouldn’t he know his identity?

Divick hesitated for a moment. “I didn’t say.”

Then he paused and added, “I don’t know if Isabel said it.”

Considering the personalities of these two siblings, that wasn’t impossible.

Yan Yunqing didn’t dwell on the question and said to Divick, “I’ll be staying here for a while, but I have something to do. It’s inconvenient to reveal my identity. You don’t need to follow me.”

Divick was unwilling. “I can also hide my identity.”

Yan Yunqing shook his head and refused. “It’s more convenient for me to do what I need to do without you.”

Divick: “…Understood.”

“Then take me to the new location you found. Did you find a suitable reason to explain why their descent and the village are located so far apart?”

“…Well, we said that the village near them had just been attacked by demonic creatures and that no one survived.”

Yan Yunqing was curious. “Was there really a village near there that was attacked by demonic creatures?”

Divick: “No, but there was a stronghold disguised as a village that Isabel just destroyed with her people a few days ago.”

Yan Yunqing: …

Does Isabel know that you’re talking about her being a demonic creature behind her back?

“Take me there.”

*

At this moment, the players in the Romunike newbie village, like the players in other newbie villages, were both marveling at the realism of the game and eagerly experiencing the fun of the VR game.

Yan Yunqing concealed his identity and observed for a while. He confirmed that the players hadn’t discovered that the newbie village was so far away from the spawn point, and they were even discussing whether it meant that the newbie village they had randomly teleported to had a special background since their experience was different from other players’ experiences on the forum.

After all, other players had a guide NPC appear shortly after logging in to briefly introduce the world view and then lead them into the newbie village. However, they were different. They had been logged in for a long time, and the surrounding area was desolate.

At that time, they thought this game was a sandbox game. They would start by felling trees and building a pickaxe to start mining.

Just when they were touching the trees in the small forest and felling them with enthusiasm, a group of people dressed as villagers finally appeared, looking at them in surprise and asking what they were doing.

Then, these players received the news that the village near their spawn point had been attacked by demonic creatures a few days ago and that everyone had died. These villagers were actually from the neighboring village, coming here to worship their dead relatives and friends.

It wasn’t until these villagers led them to a village 108,000 miles away from the spawn point and a village chief who seemed to be a guide NPC appeared to introduce them and called them Skyfallers that the players finally realized: Oh, this is the newbie village!

However, after they logged out, they learned from other players that other newbie villages were next to the spawn point and that there were no accidents like theirs. This made them begin to suspect that they had randomly teleported to a special newbie village.

Even when communicating with other NPCs, they were subtly inquiring whether there were special people or special events happening in the newbie village.

The NPC who was asked sweated profusely: The people above didn’t tell them how to answer this!

This hesitation revealed a flaw and was discovered by careful players.

If the NPC denied this matter any further, it would seem like they were overcompensating, very fake. It also meant that there was definitely a problem with this village.

A player who claimed to be a contemporary Sherlock Holmes said, “Something definitely happened here. Maybe it’s related to the village that was attacked by demonic creatures near the spawn point before. Based on my years of gaming experience, this is very likely to be a hidden quest!”

The other players in his team nodded in agreement: “Indeed, it’s too strange. It’s strange that all the NPCs are using the same tone to say that nothing happened. It’s like they’ve discussed it in advance. They say they don’t know anything when they meet strangers.”

“They don’t tell us anything. It’s very likely that the clues we currently have are not enough to trigger this hidden quest, so next we can collect more clues about the village that was attacked by demonic creatures. Only then can we trigger the hidden quest.”

“Do you think it’s possible that the people in that village didn’t die from a demonic creature attack at all, but that it was caused by people? Maybe it was even done by people in our newbie village?”

High-level NPCs disguised as ordinary people in the distance: …

Should they hear it or should they not hear it hmm?

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