Chapter 218: Impact of the Global Public Test

His post not only contained the hot term 'Yinxiang Incense', but also attached the ID of the Iron Blood Great Wall big shot, instantly attracting many people to click in, and replies quickly appeared below.

This heat lets you guys ride on it.

So blatantly flaunting a big shot's ID, aren't you afraid of getting 404? Hey, here you're outside the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements, just riding on it, huh?

??? Turning the tide???

. Why is your title so fresh and unconventional?

Turbulence is a kind of vicious poison. Turbulence is the North Hu Wild Boar.

Upstairs!!!!

This damn is the real deal; there's really a link to Yinxiang Incense below, the same one those big shots use!

After a brief doubt, someone quickly discovered that the title was unique.

Other things can be faked, but this title is issued by the game, a one-of-a-kind item, so it's impossible to forge.

In the reply section hundreds of floors below, Whale Fall also appeared, replying with 'Understood', then wrote a long paragraph of thanks, and also tagged the official account.

This instantly confirmed Chen Shicheng's account identity, causing the post to explode across the internet, with countless players flocking to worship the big shot, pushing the post to the homepage.

On Chen Shicheng's side, the panel began popping up notifications of successful Yinxiang Incense sales, and the gold balance on the panel started skyrocketing.

Of course, besides gold, various other items appeared in the storage slot—these were from players who lacked gold and paid with other items instead.

In less than ten minutes, aside from the fifty Yinxiang Incense he kept for himself, both new and old versions sold out completely, while his storage slot filled with assorted odds and ends, and his gold balance reached an astonishing figure.

In less than ten minutes, aside from the fifty Yinxiang Incense he kept for himself, both new and old versions sold out completely, while his storage slot filled with assorted odds and ends, and his gold balance reached an astonishing figure.

Fortunately, after killing Monk Jiankong, he obtained a Storage Bag, expanding his storage slot a bit; otherwise he really might not have been able to fit all this stuff.

Chen Shicheng rummaged through these items; unfortunately, they were all ordinary gear and elixirs, the most being bundles of various Spirit Seals, while what he most wanted was nowhere to be seen.

Besides wanting to make a fortune selling Yinxiang Incense, he also harbored a hope of picking up a bargain.

Just in case, just in case, could he exchange for other copper pieces?

This wasn't him being idle and wanting to satisfy his collecting obsession; rather, after completing the Breaking Formation Task, he momentarily had no idea what to do next.

Thanks to Merit Points, his upgrade path was not only exceptionally smooth but also leaps and bounds; however, the downsides of such rapid advancement have now surfaced.

Unlike other normally leveling players, as soon as he entered the game he ran around aimlessly, lacking any systematic understanding of monster distribution on the map; wanting to keep leveling, aside from charging into the Capital City's Righteous Sect Cultivators' garrison to go on a killing spree, he actually found no suitable spot. So he set his sights on copper pieces—items even the Eye of Bai Ze couldn't handle—surely there's some big secret behind them.

In a xianxia-themed 'game', such uncertainty represents not only danger but also opportunity.

Danger, put another way, is experience points! Opportunity needs no further explanation—check out the Slay Immortal Grand Formation! After deciding on his next move centered around copper pieces, Chen Shicheng rested for a night, satisfied his appetite, and wanted to go online to continue playing, but he was destined not to be able to enter the game smoothly.

Because with the conclusion of the Breaking Formation Task, the game's Global Public Test began the next day!

Early that morning, Song Bingyuan called, having all members of the Cultural Tourism Bureau Logistics Department disperse to various corners of C City to prepare for some disturbances.

For a whole day and night, C City seemed to turn into a ghost town; aside from some occasional offline old players, not a single person could be seen, all malls in the city shut down, and no stores opened.

Of course this is only temporary, because with the veterans' guides, on the first day of entering the game everyone was busy following the guides to understand the game, with no mind for other little tricks.

But at noon the next day, players who had been hungry for a day and night gradually went offline, started to fill their stomachs, and the subtle, silent changes began to show.

First came all kinds of violent incidents, which rapidly increased unavoidably.

During the previous large-scale Closed Beta, only over 1.7 million new players were added, but in the game, while Chen Shicheng was traveling, he encountered several waves and even had conflicts.

But this time, 1.5 billion people all entered the game! With the guides in place, many players upon entry easily leveled up by one or two tiers; the increase in bodily attributes made many prone to swelling, becoming much more irritable, feeling they could solve everything with their fists.

On the first day of the game, with so many people crowded together, resource competition inevitably led to looting; and because spawn points corresponded to real life, those involved in conflicts or even killings were often next-door neighbors.

Thus conflicts arose in this way.

Those who suffered losses or even died in the game at night would naturally go door-to-door seeking an explanation by day, and back and forth this turned into armed brawls.

Those with slightly steadier emotions and still some reason are fine—regular police can handle them—but there are always some hot-headed folks who, relying on a sudden surge of strength surpassing the police, start causing trouble; that's when the Cultural Tourism Bureau Logistics Department personnel must be deployed.

Chen Shicheng these past two days has been with Song Bingyuan and other colleagues from the Cultural Tourism Bureau Logistics Department, handling these trivial matters he considers as petty as chicken feathers and garlic skins.

The C City Cultural Tourism Bureau Logistics Department, after experiencing the stadium recruitment drive, saw its numbers increase significantly to over a hundred, all of whom were Closed Beta players, and with the organization's help they all successfully reached level five or above.

But placing these people in C City, with a population of several million, is like pouring a cup of water into a lake—completely inadequate; everyone is busy to the point of running around with their feet kicking the back of their heads.

Chen Shicheng was no exception; after handling a case of neighbors poisoning each other, he nonstop rushed to C City Experimental Middle School to deal with a vengeful spirit murder case.

Solving the case at his level was extraordinarily simple—no need to protect the scene; just strolling around, he located an abandoned warehouse not far from the school based on residual energy. A simple altar with lingering yin qi nearby was likely where the culprit performed the ritual. (Chapter End)

There is still a crude altar with lingering yin qi; that should be the place where the murderer cast the spell. (End of chapter)