Chapter 960: Game World, Verdant Forest
“Is this the game interface that regular players see?”
After connecting to the game link from a perspective beyond that of an ordinary player, I finally saw another realm.
Once I immersed myself in this experience, it felt like a dream, where I could detach subjectively at any moment.
However, I couldn’t find a way to connect with fortune, not even from my superficial understanding of fortune alchemy.
This is a fictional pixel world, nonexistent in reality.
If I were to define it… virtual pixel?
Perhaps this is another form of extraordinary pixel, and maybe this is the rest of their corresponding concept interpretations, just like how I can conceptualize plant growth as the Great Knowledge Tree.
Players in this world can shape “extraordinary pixels,” “material pixels,” and “virtual pixels” through the All Worlds Terminal; I wonder if there are other concepts as well.
But it’s probably unlikely, as creating something isn’t just about having an idea; it requires practical collaboration, along with the modification of theories, concepts, and experience.
At this moment, I found myself in a “void” of virtual space, with endless pixels laid out on the ground.
Before me was personal account registration.
The registration for the main account was simple, and this account’s nature is similar to… an ID card.
However, there is no concept of ID cards in this world; they don’t even track the world’s population, with countless individuals piling up in mixed areas and disaster settlement zones.
Only the urban cities on the ground and well-structured high-end players, player members, etc., are officially registered.
They only care about these people and only need to control them.
Binding the account to a person started off easy for me; it even only required a fingerprint!
Of course, this is from my perspective; after all, it’s extremely difficult to replicate fingerprints in this world.
Not only is acquiring fingerprints hard, but fabricating them is even tougher. If someone has the ability to obtain and replicate fingerprints, why would they need to steal accounts?
They wouldn’t need to at all.
So I easily completed the account registration.
Next was character creation.
If it were a game that snatches players, there would be functions for scanning the physical body and additional free adjustment abilities.
For head-mounted devices, gender is mostly correct, appearances are random; while you can change them, adjustments require game currency, and they certainly can’t be changed online. You either need money to exchange or top up.
If you spend, you can get stronger!
But for the lower-tier players in the game, getting stronger means doing tasks, grinding bounties, or such. After finalizing my character, I entered my personal space.
This personal space is not as vast as when I logged in earlier but is a small area where prompts appear on pushing, allowing you to spend money to unlock and expand your personal space.
The occupying area and height, along with the expansion of the local space, are all calculated separately.
At this moment, my attention returned to what was in front of me.
Because the number of pop-up windows in front of me was just overwhelming.
However, I still called up my personal information, which showed my entire three-dimensional image.
With silvery long hair and crimson eyes, this was my signature look.
I must say, people in reality indeed live hard lives, but the game isn’t bad at all; at least it offers high freedom.
Modifying the in-game character’s appearance is very flexible; hair color, eye color can change, and you can add tattoos, adjust breast size, and more.
Perhaps they think that however reckless players are in the game means nothing.
After reviewing the information, I began – examining these pop-up windows.
I must say, the content above is indeed explosive.
Some of them are official announcements, while most are related to the game.
Some are official activities, and others announcing new game information, reorganizing old games, and who has made achievements that were promoted by the officials; these are all honors.
After dismissing all this non-nutritive content, I finally found the new player guide.
Unexpectedly, the permissions of these activity pop-ups are higher than that of the novice guide, indeed hard to evaluate.
After a very simple new player guide, I roughly understood how to play the game.
First of all, this game does not have level upgrades, only membership levels, which means you can only become a member by exhausting your abilities and strength.
In place of combat levels is combat strength, which is essentially a combat power score.
Combat power is reflected by weapon scores; there are overlaps in some weapon scores, and the added combat power score does not exceed the standard weapon score.
Moreover, combat scores have applicable ranges.
The so-called combat coverage means that if a gun has a combat score of 10, equipping two of them won’t yield 20 but will translate to 15 or even possibly 12 or 13, since the score’s value to some extent reflects the maximum output potency; overlapping evaluation in damage signifies that output firepower and coverage will normally accumulate, etc.
However, how these data weights are calculated is not specifically displayed.
Additionally, the combat range stipulates a certain scale of destructive power.
For instance, a combat range with a maximum score of ten thousand is rated as “city-destroying level”; it’s impossible to single-handedly have the ability to destroy a city; simple combat stacking would be infinitely covered by the combat score.
Thus, players cannot enhance their combat score limit through the stacking of low-tier equipment.
The limits of a single weapon truly impact the combat score!
This made me think of the combat platform developed by players; the heavy weapon suppression on it is the simplest form of stacking combat power. The reason the combat platform doesn’t expand endlessly is likely due to the severe overlapping of combat scores among similar weapon types, which leads to such a result.
Let’s set aside the matter of weapons and combat power for now.
Right now, it’s about game accounts.
There can only be one main account per person, but that doesn’t mean you can start playing the game right away.
Different games require different character accounts, and some of these character accounts need to be purchased, while others can’t even be bought for money.
Moreover, the types of games also vary.
From the information I’ve gathered, not every game in the All Worlds Terminal is a real world; many are purely virtual games, which I can roughly distinguish, especially those without any world view background — they are mostly those, along with games requiring money to buy tickets.
Currently, what leaves me speechless is: as a newbie, it seems there is no direct route to access real-world games.
The only access to real-world games is through the laborious game.
Of course, it’s not literally moving bricks, but rather a game composed of a heavy task chain rated poorly.
That’s why these games can sustain such a player base, primarily due to their stable income.
Other games might only occasionally receive quests, triggering them can also be troublesome, income is unstable, and there’s a risk of losing money spent on game tickets.
In some games, character deaths incur a significant deduction of game currency as compensation!
That’s yet another set of uncontrollable risk losses.
Only those with superb skills and tremendous combat power can enjoy the game; ordinary people can only be mere laborers.
There are many games I cannot enter, but I can observe general information.
However, I searched for a long time without finding a game called “Sinful Star.” However, I did see a “server closure” notice within past queries, followed by many confused and insulting comments.
But regardless of how nasty those comments are, it’s likely that not a single one would appear on the desk of the esteemed Game Architect.
“It seems the completely lost world is indeed shut down, and it can no longer be found.”
Then, I searched the game library for “Catastrophe Witch,” but, unfortunately, I couldn’t find that either.
This was information I obtained after my reverse intrusion.
According to the story of them dispatching an advance team to invade and then sending more people to take a look, it should belong to internal testing, so it’s naturally not findable now.
Players are stuck in the Main World and must halt their exploration.
I had originally thought of another way to reach the Main World.
What a pity…
Regardless, I still plan to experience this so-called game first.
The newly registered account didn’t offer any desirable newbie package; however, since I’m still a game gunner, I received some packages.
After flipping through some strategy posts in the game, there were some suggested steps, but such guides are rare.
After all, in this world, who hasn’t been influenced since childhood? Only someone like me, an outsider, would trip over every step.
Many replies below the introduction post mock this type of guide, scoffing at who would take such a thing seriously.
“Eh~ at least this kind of post isn’t worthless.”
After dismissing this post, I had no intention of following the advice written there.
Otherwise, I’d genuinely end up as a laborer moving bricks in the game world.
Perhaps the poster was truly kind-hearted, trying to teach how to make money, but it seemed absurd to me.
Wealthy people have their own ways to play.
Opening the “Rich Man’s Package” distributed by the game suits provides a substantial amount of startup funds and even a random character account.
However, it is not permanent, and it comes with only one life; once dead, there’s no more.
Moreover, this character is randomly created within the game, and the appearance of the main account’s character cannot be transferred.
Though it might seem troublesome, from another perspective, isn’t this a method of invading our world?
Replacing the characters that originally existed in that world.
Once I log in, one life will be fully extinguished.
But… I harbor no compassion regarding this.
A person dying, bringing hope to that world…
Isn’t it worth it?
After all, I’m not just pasting a character; I’m also a summoning rune that can summon my real body or clones to that place!
The higher-ups in the game world are still sitting comfortably at their meetings, right?
I let them experience the feeling of sitting on pins and needles.
Just thinking about the world they dominate and harvest possibly shedding small tears makes me want to laugh.
But it’s no use; who told them to mess with me?
The enmity between me and the players was settled long ago in the Small World of Plant Technology!
Though I can no longer resonate with the feelings of the past, I don’t need to discuss right or wrong with them; the issue of stance and personal grudge must fully silence one side to rest.
“Verdant Forest seems like a nice game,” I murmured, looking at the only game I randomly drew qualifying for.
Checking the game’s introduction, it’s a continent covered by forests, where elf groups live.
Currently, this game has discovered dozens of elf types, including Forest Elves and Nature Elves, along with countless elf communities.
“Wow, isn’t the Main World’s Aquime Academy already grafted into the game world? Is this how they let the game world dominate a small world of elves… or do those servants not know?”
However, knowing that this world is closely associated with wizards, they might have suppressed this information.
After all… aren’t wizards also raising Wood Elemental Sprites?
There’s nothing a wizard wouldn’t dare to do.
Yet, some comments below this game left me even more stunned.
This game seems to have been played to death, with elves becoming a… capture industry.
In other words, slaves… and even many… sex-related services.
After all, elves are truly beautiful and align with human aesthetics, making it easy to predict such an outcome after being invaded.
But to have it so brazenly, it indeed shocks my understanding.
This further fuels my hatred for this world.
Such incidents undoubtedly occur in every world, even in the Main World, but… sigh.
Some matters don’t need excessive discussion; differing values cannot be reconciled. Only death can make them understand; after all, whatever person knows they are about to die will ultimately react similarly.
With such thoughts, I clicked on the Verdant Forest game icon.
This is currently my only character account.
When my mind dove into it, everything in front of me became slightly hazy.
Of course, it was merely visual haziness; the body of the clone could still sense everything around.
This feeling is somewhat like… a clone of a clone?
As the scene before me gradually clarified, the previously dark and cramped personal space transformed into an expansive area at that moment.
Huge, stout trees filled my view.
The dense canopies shone bright green under the sunlight, with light taking on shapes in the forest; a breeze blew, and the light wove and danced.
I looked down at my outstretched hands, which couldn’t be called delicate, but the proud figure assured me this was undoubtedly the physique of a female elf.
“Is it also a female character matched…? A vibrant life, just like that… dies?”
I sensed the condition of my body, feeling not a single hint of conscious resistance.
Or perhaps there was, but I couldn’t perceive it.
Understand that I am merely a game’s character as a clone now; I can’t even use mental power to conjure, construct spells, nor see the so-called fortune.
Oh——!
Just as I was lost in thought, an arrow whizzed through the air, and I narrowly dodged back.
If I hadn’t evaded, that arrow would have pierced my neck!
