The Boss Behind The Game

This day was undoubtedly a difficult day for Li Tianxia. He was still at the studio even though it was already eleven o’clock at night, smoking while waiting for the online promotion event of the new games on Platform173.

Unlike Li Tianxia, many players on Platform173 were keeping an eye on the changes of the website at the same time.

Two big games would be officially released to the public today, which was a joyous event for the players. They were ready to enter into the games and experience it as soon as the games were released.

But apparently they were only anticipating the two games with good potential, which were Natural Evolution and The Rise of Protoss. They had no feelings toward Battle Online as it was just a random unknown game.

When the sound of the clock striking midnight echoed throughout the city, Li Tianxia and all the hopeful players clicked the button to refresh the webpage.

[First day of the Battle of New Games, today’s recommended games are as follows:]

Battle Online (10)

Natural Evolution (9.2)

The Rise of Protoss (9.1)

Big red words appeared on the homepage of the website, but everyone was surprised to see the ratings.

In their opinion, this event of the battle of new games is supposed to be the contest between Natural Evolution and The Rise of Protoss, what the hell is this Battle Online that received a perfect score?

Driven by curiosity, they clicked on the game as they wanted to see the brief introduction and evaluation of the game.

100% similar to reality? Is this real?

Everyone was baffled upon seeing the introduction, they quickly scrolled down the page to see the comments of the evaluators on this game.

Game Evaluator Wang: “I have to say, you will probably let slip an epochal game if you are simply looking at the brief introduction, even I couldn’t resist its charm.”

Game Evaluator Li: “Experienced it with an intention to give it a try, but I couldn’t help but be addicted to it in the end. An absolute perfect score to it.”

Game Evaluator Feng: “I have experienced the game for about 22 hours before I gave my score. Apart from the experience in the game that was extremely similar to reality, I was appalled by a hidden function as I had the distinct impression that my body was getting stronger. What kind of feeling is that? I chose to be an assassin and I could feel myself going at lightning speed in the game. I’m addicted to the feeling of being a superhuman. I really wanted to give a score of 100 to this game, too bad the highest score is only 10.”

Game Evaluator Qian: “I’m a man of immense curiosity. In order to explore the game, I did not follow the instructions of the quest to go the Ghost Mountains but wandered around the game instead. Apart from the topography that looked extremely real and left me in astonishment, I’ve encountered a Ghost Man wearing armor and interacted with this NPC. I fully felt it was an actual intelligent creature standing before me, rather than an NPC. This game is too terrifying, I’ll give a perfect score to show my respect. Oh yeah, as a last reminder, don’t try to anger the NPC in the game out of curiosity, I was fucking killed. [Sad Face]”

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These game evaluators were very famous influencers in the gaming community. Their highly complementary remarks had certainly incited the curiosity of the players.

As a result, many players clicked to download the game out of a strong desire to know more about it.

Meanwhile, Li Tianxia was browsing through the comments from the game evaluators right now with an uncertain expression on his face. How could he believe that a game with a total size of 800MB was able to achieve the dreadful 100% real virtual reality? This truly was a complete joke in his eyes.

Then, he chose to download the game. He put on his headset and began his experience in the game.

The CG scene that was implanted at the beginning of the game appeared before him in an instant. Numerous ferocious skulls of monsters could be seen among the swirling clouds in the gloomy sky.

All the players who entered the game were undoubtedly amazed by the realism of the scene.

As the story developed, 10,000 Yin soldiers appeared, their feet stomping in unison. When the players witnessed this, their enthusiasm was ignited.

An epic battle began at this moment…

When the CG ended with the world looking as though it had turned into a sea of fire, the game officially began and the panel to choose their character class appeared before them.

Li Tianxia was just like all the other players, being in a state of astonishment at this point in time.

In the opinion of Li Tianxia, the making of the trailer was more than 800MB! What kind of crazy company is this? How exactly did they manage to compress it to a size of 800MB? This is totally against common sense.

In order to take a closer look at it, Li Tianxia chose to be a Berserker and officially began the game.

After entering the game, he noticed that he was surrounded by a swarm of players who just got into the game as well. Right now, they were standing around and pointing fingers at the Mansion of the Dead that had been burned and fallen into ruin.

“The great King of Beiqi, let me carry on your unfulfilled wish and recreate the glory of your past!” shouted a youth who was standing beside Li Tianxia right now. He was staring at the Mansion of the Dead that had fallen into ruin, his face full of grief and indignation.

“Seven, cut it off, let’s go and find the boss quickly. This game is so freaking amazing, I’m afraid that we won’t be able to kill and steal later when the number of people increases,” the youth with the middle-school syndrome still wanted to express his speech but was pulled away by his teammate. They hurriedly ran out.

Li Tianxia looked around and fell into silence. Now only he understood the reason of Wu Guoyi saying those words back then. Although he was a professional, he still found this game unbelievable.

He would not dare to even think about achieving 100% realism in a game with the current capability of technology.

However, he had to believe it as such a game really existed before him now.

At this moment, Li Tianxia’s mentality had changed from feeling unfair to exploring and learning in the game.

Following the instructions of the quest, he followed behind the large number of players and started running toward the direction of the Ghost Mountains according to the map.

However, the popularity of the game was obviously way beyond his imagination. He could not even complete the initial quest of hunting and killing ten Wandering Souls as the place was filled with people roaming around looking for Wandering Souls.

More than a dozen people would surge forward whenever they found a Wandering Soul. Li Tianxia was dumbfounded at the sight of this as he was totally unable to kill or steal anything.

Unlike Wang Damang and his team, many new players were as good as dead when they were facing the Wandering Souls alone. Such a creature like a Wandering Soul was in fact stronger than using Yin energy to cohere into a player. If you did not have a robust physique and were simply fighting hand to hand, even a Berserker who was initially quite powerful, would not be a match for the Wandering Soul.

A ray of white light kept appearing from time to time, indicating that the players were killed by the Wandering Soul and exited the game.

In spite of that, there were still a large number of players entering the game.

Li Tianxia had to find another way to complete the beginner’s quest. He broke away from the crowd and walked to the side.

His thought was certainly correct as he found a Wandering Soul that was alone in no time. A feeling of excitement filled his heart, he raised his sword and charged toward the Wandering Soul.

Although Li Tianxia was not as strong as those professional players in terms of combat skills, he was fully able to dodge the attacks from the Wandering Soul as it was not agile enough.

Looking at the Wandering Soul turning more and more transparent and going to disappear soon, a sense of satisfaction rose inside him. He had completely forgotten his true purpose of entering the game.

Just when he wanted to strike heavily with the sword in his hand and reap the life of the Wandering Soul, a silhouette suddenly emerged on the other side and knocked him so brutally that he fell down on the floor. A bloody number of -5 appeared on his head.

Right when Li Tianxia was confused about what actually was going on, another two silhouettes appeared behind him. They took out a dagger at the same time and stabbed him mercilessly in the neck.

-8

-9

[You have been killed by player Ye Xue’er!]

The screen gradually darkened, the dying Wandering Soul was reaped by the sword of a Berserker who knocked him into the air.

The two female assassins turned around and made faces at his dead body.

My kill was stolen! And I’m dead!

Li Tianxia was dumbfounded at this moment.