Chapter 12: Like a Movie

This batch of players all logged on at night, which corresponded exactly to the daytime in the game; there were not many of them, totaling only six people.

Mainly, most players lacked guidance after logging on and ran into the Sewers to throw their lives away; the remaining ones could be considered quite lucky to have been picked up by Andrew, waiting on the spot for the deity's arrangements.

Saina did not want to deal with these burdens, but she dared not defy the deity; these fellows brought by the Calamity were indeed full of misfortune, causing so many things to happen on the very first day they arrived at her Farm, truly worthy of being Believers of the Calamity.

The players, who had been waiting for a while, were already prepared to log off and complain to see if some bug had glitched out again, but upon seeing Saina walk over, they all became excited one by one.

It was said that the daytime players had triggered a plot and were wiped out; with their experience, it should be relatively easier to follow the Farm route next.

At least they wouldn't just die outside for no reason.

Looking at the few fellows peeking and poking about, Saina said with a cold face: "Some very unpleasant things happened last night. I hope that after you arrive at the Farm, you will not walk around as you please; the work you need to do is to survive. There will be many things in the Farm that require you to do, for example, harvesting the fields! I do not wish for the situation from last night to happen again!"

This isn't right; it's completely different from what was said on the forums earlier.

What does she mean by unpleasant things happened last night?

And why can't we walk around? Isn't a game map meant for people to explore?

Shurima Dalu, who had flipped through the walkthroughs, gasped; could it be what he was thinking?

After exiting the Sewers, the blinding sunlight surprised him even more; he hadn't expected the time in the game to be constantly moving forward every moment!

Although many games had similar settings, such as countdown-like server-wide quests, seasonal changes, or weather shifts between day and night, this kind of real-time weather progression still made Shurima Dalu sincerely feel the sincerity of the developers.

What is realism? This is it!

Even the NPCs were updated in real-time, and there was absolutely no sense of the uncanny valley; they looked very real, as if they were live-action role-playing, making one suspect whether the other party was a living person.

After getting on the carriage, Saina seemed to remember something and said somewhat reluctantly: "My Lord is merciful; you can receive monetary rewards for participating in the process of cultivation. Every day, Semilton Farm will pay you 30 Tana in wages. If you can finish the autumn harvest work within three days, the Farm will pay each of you an extra 10 Tana. I hope you will not disappoint me."

Hearing about the rewards, several players nodded in sudden realization; that's more like it, it seems the game is still keeping up with the times.

Watching Saina take those few players away, Chen Zhi felt much more at ease. Those players who hadn't logged on by now probably wouldn't log on today either, but that didn't matter; he already had plenty of the test data he wanted.

His gaze shifted to the side, and he saw Chen Ai, who had just logged on.

Unlike other players, Chen Ai logged on directly in front of him; Chen Zhi always felt uneasy if he didn't keep an eye on her.

But now that it was an open beta, Chen Zhi could only watch his younger sister go find her teammates and play the game with them.

He had already decided that as long as his sister didn't leave Tana City, he would just keep watching her.

"Sure enough, there are so many problems; my brother is just unreliable." After waking up, Chen Ai, wearing a stunningly beautiful face, began looking for her friends in the Sewers.

During the day, she went out to play with her girlfriends, and at night, it was just the right time to play games together.

It was just that her girlfriends used different accounts than she did; after all, it was a game her own brother made, so she could create a pretty face for herself in the game, and her respawn point was completely different too.

"Yezi, Yezi, where are you?" Chen Ai didn't care about that much and shouted with her small voice; the Sewers were filled with echoes.

"I'm here!" Yezi instinctively grinned, "This place is just too disgusting."

"You'll get used to it; it's a game, after all," Chen Ai said dismissively, "Let's go, I've already scouted it out; ahead is the exit to the Sewers."

The two opened the manhole cover and arrived on the surface.

"Outside the alley is the main road; this place is a pretty good spawn point and isn't easily discovered," Chen Ai held Yezi's hand, "But I haven't been up here either. According to the quest, we should be going to the Farm to harvest wheat, but well, it's the testing period anyway, and the earnings will be taken back in the end, so let's just look around."

"Is this really a game?" Walking out of the alley, Yezi rubbed her eyes in disbelief, "Everything here feels just like the real thing."

"I wasn't bragging to you for nothing, right? It's really just like reality. It's a pity I only did some simple tests a few days ago; this game should still have quite a few imperfect areas." Tana City during the day was quite lively, with small vendors selling items everywhere on the streets.

There were also more patrolling guards; some nobles sat in carriages, dressed in finery, while others wore rags and begged by the roadside.

The guards would drive the beggars away, yet a new batch of beggars would immediately squat there to beg for food again; two newsboys were shouting something, hoping that the decent people passing by would buy something from them.

In short, every NPC in Tana City was vivid, as if they were real.

"It's like watching a movie," Yezi touched her chest, "I even have a heartbeat."

"Haha, of course you do. This game is truly epoch-making; I didn't expect my brother to have developed it." Chen Ai led Yezi out of the alley, and immediately quite a few people looked at her.

There was no help for it; her face was simply too beautiful.

As if she were not human.

Plus, her style of dress was also very alternative; the nobles of this era preferred to wear fluffy, large dresses, while she was in a cheongsam that accentuated her figure.

It looked both full of charm and somewhat alternative...

"Beautiful young lady, I am Victor Emond; I wonder if I might have the honor of knowing your name." The somewhat aged Viktor maintained a gentleman's etiquette; as the owner of a theater, he felt it necessary to have more interaction with this beautiful lady.

Chen Ai said with a smile: "Emily."

This was the name she had given herself.

It was only for two weeks anyway; after two weeks, she might want to change to a face with a different appearance.

"Oh, Miss Emily." Viktor did not ask why the other party had no surname, but instead gave her a Business Card.

"I am the owner of the Emond Theater; I hope to invite you to visit my theater..."

(End of chapter)