My Player 2

Chapter 6 Sense of Reality

Just as Qian Peng was about to try to quit the game, the barrage of comments from the live broadcast room floated across the window in the upper right corner of his field of vision.

"What the hell? This image quality! Are you serious, Expedition officials?"

"This picture is better than PC, it's too real, I'm going to have Happy Valley effect!"

"The authorities are holding back a big one!"

"This is not the Forgotten Cave. The beginning of the new version is different from the old version. Will there be a new plot?"

"Hurry up, host! Help us check if the latency is too high!"

Looking at the heated discussions among netizens, Qian Peng immediately felt relieved.

He picked out a few useful comments and, based on his previous experience playing holographic games, replied to the viewers in the live broadcast room:
"The delay is not high, and the five senses are very solid, just like the real thing. However, I have top-of-the-line equipment here, which is only slightly inferior to the brain-computer interface, so it has no reference value."

As he said that, he moved his fingers and immediately said "Wow!" and couldn't help but praise:
"Don't just look at the graphics. The action system is the core of the expedition. Look! Even the knuckles are made!"

"I kind of suspect that this game has built a complete skeleton for the player character, so the movements are so realistic..."

At this point, Qian Peng remembered his loss of 300 million yuan, and immediately added:
"It's a pity that it's just a half-finished product, without even a cutscene."

However, no matter how tough he was, Qian Peng was still excited.

When holographic games were first introduced, someone proposed the concept of "second life".

However, due to technical issues, no game company has ever worked hard to make the operation feel real.

No, because it's too expensive.
When most games are first designed, they will choose to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, and only make features in one aspect.

For example, Expedition focuses on action because of its poor graphics.

This type of game is fun, but it has nothing to do with "Second Life". After all, the logic of controlling the characters is different from reality. It is really just a game.

It is precisely because of this that "Glory Expedition" is so valuable.

It’s like a dream trip!

After calming down, Qian Peng couldn't help but start to look forward to how this game would be played given such a good foundation.

He looked around and found that besides himself, there were 10 other guys lying on the ground.

Among them are humans, dwarves, elves, Argonians, half-winged celestials, shadow tribes, wind elementals...

For some of them, you can guess what profession they will play just by looking at their race and body shape.

You can tell at first glance that he is an old player.

So the first batch of players of "Glory Expedition" were only 11 people in total?

So which unlucky guy had to spend more than an hour pinching his face?

Qian Peng narrowed his eyes, trying to find the culprit based on the modeling of these guys.

Just then, the Asian dragon lying on the ground groaned and the second one woke up.

He shook his head and subconsciously patted the non-existent dust on his pants with his tail.

Then, a look of utter shock appeared on his old lizard face.

He stared at his tail in a daze, shook it gently, turned to look at Qian Peng, pointed at his tail, with an incredible look on his face.

Before Qian Peng could react, the barrage in the live broadcast room had gone crazy.

"That's amazing! I just saw a shocked expression on the lizard's face."

"Look, what this guy means is... this game won't include Argonian skeletons, right?"

"Everyone, before we discuss the tail, don't forget that there is an elemental life lying on the ground."

"I can't even imagine how much money was spent on this game. It's too much!"

Looking at the discussion in the barrage, Qian Peng swallowed his saliva and began to regret choosing humans.

"Laoxiang, did you see my tail?" The Yalong man raised his eyebrows and said in a Central Plains Mandarin, "It's true."

Qian Peng didn't respond.

He felt that the voice of the Asian dragon man sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it.

So he glanced at the comments in the live broadcast room. "Hey, this friendly Laoxiang dialect, could it be a knife for the head?"

"Who's going to kill me?"

“The best head cut in the world.”

"A three-time champion of the Expedition Cup, a highly emotional player in domestic matches, an undefeated god in foreign matches, a legendary former professional player who will definitely win the championship as long as he can enter the Expedition Cup World Championship."

Sure enough, the brother in the live broadcast room is still very powerful. He has already opened all the boxes of the Asian dragon.

"Are you...Brother Dao?" Qian Peng glanced at the ID above Yalong's head and was 9% sure that the barrage was correct.

The old Argonian named "Dato, not Iai" twirled his beard with a proud look on his face, and suddenly said angrily:

"Who told me to take the first knife? I'm so angry, what did we do to you?"

My goodness, this guy is actually watching his own live broadcast...

Qian Peng didn't know how to respond.

This is a veteran of the "Expedition" professional league!

When he was still writing the guide for new players, Brother Dao had already killed the Koreans like dogs.

At this moment, the dwarf lying on the ground also woke up. He patted his chest with his little hands and said to himself with lingering fear:

"I was so scared. If I hadn't been able to exit the game, I would have almost thought I had traveled through time."

Qian Peng's eyebrows jumped, and he keenly discovered the problem, and asked hurriedly:
"Did you just quit the game?"

The dwarf glanced at Qian Peng and hummed timidly.

Qian Peng smacked his lips and said depressedly:

"That's it. Your body has been lying here all this time, which means we have to find a safe house before logging off next time."

"This setting is very retro." Another player lying on the ground also sat up.

He is generally similar to a human, but has half a set of wings growing behind him.

Qian Peng shrugged, glanced at the comments, and found that everyone had also started discussing this, so he explained professionally:

"Retaining the body after logging off is equivalent to forcing players to log on. In the past, many stupid game planners would use this method to force players to increase their online time."

"The good news is that those games basically die very quickly. Players vote with their feet. There is no need to make playing a game more tiring than going to work."

As he spoke, Qian Peng clenched his fist, then slowly loosened it and sighed:

"The bad news is that, based on the unique graphics and operational feedback of Glory Expedition, it is qualified to die like this."

As soon as he finished speaking, a voice of objection came from behind Qian Peng.

"I don't agree with that."

The ShadowClan player named "Broken Leg" stood up and retorted:

"The original intention of retaining the body after logging off is to create the authenticity of the game world."

"If NPCs can react to players who have logged off, and if we design some corresponding plots, such as homes and inns, it will greatly increase the immersion of the game."

"You're right." Qian Peng didn't argue, "How about you give me an example?"

『Broken leg』: “…”

As the two were talking, other players woke up one after another.

Except for the wind element who couldn't even stand steadily, almost every player would jump around curiously and fiddle with their newly obtained bodies as soon as they woke up.

It was not until the novelty wore off that they remembered there was a human being lying on the ground.

"Is this guy offline?" The nearest elf player walked up to the human and looked at him curiously.

It was not until this time that everyone discovered that there was a golden box on the head of this half-dead human that did not belong to the player.

『Creator God』

(End of this chapter)