Chapter 1
2021-08-23
Chapter 1 is scheduled
“Magic Calendar 3401, Rainy Moon, 26th, Night”
“Heavenly Fire burns the city, the earth shakes, like the end of the world”
“The ring fades, the king’s veins wither, the floating nine cities finally return to the earth, and the magic brilliance fades away”
“—A Brief History of the Empire: Prologue: The Day of Destruction”
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Xia Yuan opened her eyes with a swipe.
In front of him is a familiar mirror, but the person reflected in the mirror is young and unfamiliar.
He has a handsome face with well-defined features, and a head of light black hair that is slightly longer. The pale skin flickered under the flickering candlelight, and the overall temperament seemed a little weird.
Some people raised their hands in disbelief and pressed them on the face with a slight trembling, Xia Yuan looked at the silhouette in the mirror who made the same action, and took a deep breath.
“Boom long long long ——”
The loud explosion of thunder sounded outside the window, causing Xia Yuan, who was still a little stunned, to shiver.
He remembers that night, the thunderstorm caused a short circuit in the power supply, and he had to light a white candle to illuminate himself.
In his memory, three days later—to be precise, two days and 20 hours and 16 minutes later, the game that was ahead of the entire era by an unknown number of years: “Mysterious Era”, will be released for the first time. a trailer.
And began to release semi-open beta qualifications to the whole society, announcing its arrival to the whole era.
In this era when mainstream online games are still in VR, a nearly unimaginable 98.25% immersive game is a complete dimensionality reduction blow to the entire gaming industry.
The opening time of the closed beta server will be opened one week after the release of the trailer, that is, ten days later.
The studios confirmed that their hype wasn’t an exaggeration, but an afterthought.
Decisively began to cancel all other game businesses one after another, and turned to “Mysterious Era” in an all-round way.
When the 15-day closed beta ended, ordinary players who had long been greedy and couldn’t stand it flocked in. For a time, the price of game materials skyrocketed, and countless people became rich overnight by relying on this game.
After “Mysterious Era” officially launched half a month, the daily activities of all other games dropped to almost zero.
I don’t know how many game company bosses have lost their hair because of this, and the wig industry has ushered in a small boom.
According to legend, when “Mysterious Era” first came out, there was a big game maker Boss who didn’t give up and found the chief engineer of the company’s R&D department.
It is hoped that within three months, the principle of the “Mysterious Era” game helmet and game cabin will be cracked, and similar equipment will be developed.
The chief engineer told him on the spot with euphemism and politeness: he was living in a dream.
If someone can crack the principle of that strange helmet within a year, he can take his own ball off and give the cracker a head kick!
After hitting a wall in the technical department, the boss, who still had a bit of luck in his heart, went to the game engineer,
But when he entered the personal office of the game chief engineer, he was shocked to find that this Guy is lazy and plays Mysterious Era while at work!
Of course, game company bosses won’t sit still. They recruited some experts and professors to trumpet that the game is too real and may cause serious identity barriers to players.
And for this reason, I hope that the importers can take action and completely ban this game.
But for some unknown reason, these ‘experts’ soon died down one by one, without any impact on the release of Mysterious Era.
…………
Xia Yuan let out a long sigh, ending the frantic and scattered memories, patted her face lightly, and her brain started to think quickly.
Since the rebirth has reached the time point when the trailer for “Mysterious Era” has not yet been released, if nothing else, we must find a way to receive a place for the closed beta of “Mysterious Era”.
Although the file will be deleted after the internal test, but only by qualifying for the internal test, can you get the priority to purchase the first-generation game cabin that is limited globally.
The game official has only put 5,000 game cabins in the continent where Xia Yuan is located.
Except for the 500 names that are given priority to purchase by internal beta players, the remaining 4,500 are not accessible to ordinary casual players at all, and they are even reserved early before entering the market.
The biggest difference between the first-generation game helmet and the game cabin is the online time limit.
Considering the player’s body needs to eat and go to the toilet, the helmet can only be online for a maximum of 16 hours a day.
A game cabin with nutrient solution as a supplement can be online for 18 hours, which results in one-eighth more game time for game cabin players than helmet players!
This is the difference between Heaven and Earth for high-level gamers who take it as a profession. And everyone’s helmet is bound to their identity, and it is also not feasible to replace the device to circumvent the restrictions.
apart from this , and the nutrient solution matched with the first-generation game cabin, which is also a good thing, but it is only sold to players who have game cabins, and it stopped supplying after only one month of release. The price increase in the future is even more outrageous than the house!
Before his rebirth, Xia Yuan was just an ordinary casual player, and his family was not rich.
As a result, as it should be by rights, he didn’t get a place in the beta test, he didn’t buy the first-generation game cabin, and he didn’t stock up on the first-generation nutrient solution. All opportunities to make a fortune were perfectly avoided by him.
He didn’t even notice when he beat the boss, it turned out that his evasion skills were so slippery!
Although his technology and consciousness are considered high-end, due to the limitation of game time, he has gradually widened the gap with the first echelon who use the game cabin.
This directly fed back to his income, which led to the fact that a month later, when the lower-priced and unlimited second-generation game pods and nutrient solution were released, he was still cash-strapped.
It wasn’t until the third month of the game’s launch that he barely managed to meet what he needed. But at this time, his level has long since opened the gap with the first echelon.
Therefore, he simply let himself go, no longer obsessed with leveling up to improve his strength, but went back and forth to the famous libraries of the continent.
Began to study the documents of “background stories” in various places, trying to find clues related to treasure, hidden tasks, hidden occupations, etc.
Players of this type are collectively referred to as story stream players, and there are quite a few.
Xia Yuan’s analytical skills, insight and luck are all good. In the end, he really unearthed several hidden quests and relics by carefully collecting and organizing the information, and obtained a lot of good things, and his strength returned to the first echelon.
This made him a little fame among plot stream players, and was nicknamed “Lucky Silver Hand”.
In the process, he also accidentally unlocked a hidden title: [primary level relic scholar], when trading unidentified relic items, you can get a 5% price correction.
From then on, a door to the New World opened to him, and the extremely realistic background story of “Mysterious Era” made him fascinated, and even the unemployed regarded the exploration of ancient mysteries as the main task.
ka-cha 哓——boom long long long ——
Another huge explosion resounded through the sky, pulling his thoughts back to reality.
“There are still ten days before the internal test starts, enough…”
Putting aside his thoughts for a while, looking at the younger version of himself in the mirror, his uncontrollable smile climbed up. Xia Yuan’s cheek.
He had ten thousand zhang in his chest, he couldn’t help but raise his chin slightly, put his left hand behind him, and read a poem on the spot.
“Heroes shine in the sun and the moon, and the economy is hidden in the belly. The person like jade on the Mo, the Young Master is unparalleled in the world——”
“Pacha——bang long long long——”
As if in response to his words, a huge explosion resounded through the sky again.
Amid the sound of thunder, the quietly burning candle flame suddenly swayed, and the shadows in the room wriggled slightly, as if they had gained life.
Xia Yuan didn’t notice the slight change in the candle flame, but when he stared at the eyes reflected in the mirror, there was an impulse involuntarily in his heart, his right hand was slightly raised, his lips moved slowly stand up.
speaking of which , haven’t done that in a long time.
The rain outside the window was heavier, and the heavy raindrops slammed against the glass, the dazzling lightning kept dividing the dark night sky, and the huge thunder was incessant.
In the dimly lit room, there was a strange and inexplicable scene——
Under the flickering candlelight, a young man seemed to be possessed by the mirror, constantly staring at the mirror. Do some wacky moves.
The mouth also recites strange syllables according to a certain rhythm, as if carrying out some ancient evil ceremony!
“Rock Scissors – Cloth!”
“Rock Scissors – Cloth!”
…
After a while , Xia Yuan finally decided to stop this senseless act because of his right hand slightly sour in protest.
I didn’t lose a game, as expected of me!
Nodded in the mirror as if nothing had happened, Xia Yuan turned around and was about to leave the bathroom…
…………
?
At this moment, his movements suddenly stopped.
Wait…the penultimate game just now, when I put out the cloth…he seemed, did he…out of the scissors?
Recalling a certain detail from before, Xia Yuan blinked, and her smile gradually solidified.
Can I still lose with the mirror?
It’s still August and summer, but Xia Yuan feels a little chilly in the air.
He turned his head slowly, looked towards himself in the mirror, tentatively raised his right hand, and the movement of the reflection was still synchronized.
Remember?
He was slightly relaxed.
“That’s right, how can the reflection move by itself?”
On the coffee table in the living room, on the dark display of the electronic watch, blood red color forms a row of cold numbers:
[23:59:59]
Although she reassured herself that she was fine, Xia Yuan decided to leave here quickly.
But when he picked up the candle and turned to go out, the flame of the candle flickered inexplicably, and then went out silently! The room instantly fell into darkness——
Xia Yuan was shivered, and cold sweat broke out from her back.
“Boom long long long ——”
At this moment, a huge blue and white lightning pierced the night sky, accompanied by deafening thunder, and the dazzling electric light suddenly knocked the room inside. Shining brightly.
At this moment, he noticed a detail with all his hair stands on end: the corner of the silhouette’s mouth in the mirror quietly evoked a strange arc!
As if aware of his gaze, the reflection in the mirror suddenly turned his head! I don’t know when the eyes that turned into pure black and white turned and stared straight at his face!
Xia Yuan has one’s hair stand on end, her brain is madly trying to escape, but her legs are completely motionless as if filled with lead.
In the next second, the brilliance brought by the lightning disappeared as quickly as it appeared, and the mirror and reflection returned to pitch black.
Only the reflection of the black and white, two colors eyes is still very clear and eerie.
Xia Yuan looked at the mirror coldly, and as his eyes met, a distorted and icy stream of information suddenly came from the dark mirror, and injected into his brain along the connected eyes. middle.
It was an extremely sour feeling, as if there were thousands of small black ants crawling in the gully of the cerebral cortex.
The content of the message is only a short sentence:
“At the end of the seven light and dark cycles, you will come, Unival——”
Passively accepting a large number of With the injection of mental information, Xia Yuan trembled violently like an electric shock, and hugged her head in pain.
The next moment, the ceiling lamp on the ceiling suddenly turned on, and the soft rays of light of off-white color scattered, dispelling the darkness of the room again.
Can you hear it? Here is Pigeon Goo——
zi zi——
(end of this chapter)