Chapter 171: Limited-Quantity Flash Sale

【"New Calamity" Version 1.1.2 Update Bulletin: New test map mission registration added, with instructions for the limited-quantity flash sale of the new test Helmet.】 ——by: Calamity Apostle

Lovely Believers, it has been a long time since we last met. Recently, with the growth in the number of game participants and the increase in active forum members, Tana City has presented a flourishing scene.

However, we must still be cautious of the invasion from the Barbarians; they have been lingering outside the fortress of Tana City recently, attempting to charge in and snatch away everything we have.

The Lord of Calamity states that these situations truly have nothing to do with Him; He is merely adjusting His own state and has no intention of bringing calamity to Tana City.

Fortunately, there are you, these lovely Believers.

I heard that you assisted the War Church in repelling wave after wave of Barbarians. Well done, the Lord of Calamity is proud of you.

Furthermore, some Believers have already begun to go to Port City to expand trade, which is a good thing.

However, everyone must also be careful; there are many crises in Port City. Those ubiquitous Sea Monsters, as well as the Storm Church with which you are not familiar, are all matters that everyone needs to pay extra attention to.

Of course, there is no need for everyone to worry too much; there are also quite a few delicacies by the seaside.

It is said that some people also want to go to the Royal Capital to take a look, and others want to go to Gannaer to have a peek. This is not a problem, but currently, these maps are still under testing. The Lord of Calamity does not wish for everyone to run out and wander aimlessly, so it is suggested that everyone register first. If your requests are legitimate, our merciful Lord of Calamity will open the maps of these regions for you. However, due to testing reasons, maps outside of Tana City currently cannot undergo image and video review. Please, Believers, save the information yourselves and return to Tana City for review.

At the same time, we have added 500 test Helmets as part of the stress test.

To ensure fairness, these Helmets will be sold via a limited-quantity ID flash sale. The price for a single Helmet is 8999 yuan. Believers who wish to participate in the flash sale, please make a reservation on the event page within the forum.

Event reservation time: February 7, 2024, 14:00

Flash sale time: February 9, 2024, 14:00

The test Helmets will be mailed out via express delivery within one week. The unified login time for Believers is February 17, 2024, at 20:00 in the afternoon. We welcome everyone to head to Tana City and build the game world together with us.

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This announcement was released when there were the most players. At seven in the morning, the forum instantly exploded.

Even on Weibo, there was a bit of movement, impacting the top 20 trending searches on a small scale.

Feng Buxi: This Helmet actually only costs 8999?

Huiwan Entertainment: My colleagues at work were even saying, is this game not releasing any events for the Spring Festival? Turns out they actually released a flash sale event...

Luoye Tingqiu: It seems I have to prepare for this as well.

Ye Shengzu to Luoye Tingqiu: Don't be anxious, your Helmet will be there.

Luoye Tingqiu to Ye Shengzu: Grandfather, are you finally prepared to save me?

Zhuguli to Luoye Tingqiu: Hahahaha, I think you had better be prepared for the flash sale.

Blue Entertainment: The people in our company were already on holiday, but now everyone has to work from home. I estimate that once the flash sale starts, we will have to work overtime during the Spring Festival again.

Fang 11: So when exactly can I log in? Has this bug been resolved? Do I have any compensation?

Yunxiao to Fang 11: I think it's good enough that they aren't taking back your Helmet. After all, we all got those Helmets for free, and this thing costs 8999!

Huihuahua de Ai Ai: To be honest, I was shocked when I heard the price was 8999. I thought this thing would at least take a high-end route and sell for 39999 at the very least...

You'eryuan to Huihuahua de Ai Ai: If we're talking about a black heart, yours is the blackest.

Ku'aijiu: But at a time like this, the game looks quite complete already. Why still engage in hunger marketing? Wouldn't it be better to just open it for purchase? Even if it were 50,000 per unit, I'd be willing to buy it if you sold it at a high price. Isn't it bad to just go straight for hunger marketing?

Feng Buxi to Ku'aijiu: Think about it, the NPCs in this game are all calculated in real-time, and everything relies on the system to simulate real situations—pure AI. This kind of thing is a massive consumption of server resources in itself. What does adding one new player mean? It means there are at least hundreds of NPCs who might interact with this player that need to be calculated. Unlimited access is impossible.

Zhuguli: I think so too. The Barbarians attacking the fortress use different methods every time; you could say every calculation is different.

Huihuahua de Ai Ai: Putting it that way, I think our game is even more amazing. No wonder I haven't seen my brother for half a year.

Approaching the Spring Festival, many players no longer need to go to work and are already in a state of rest.

Chen Zhi can see the number of newly registered players and the surge in the number of discussions directly from the backend.

Currently, the number of active people in the forum has exceeded 70,000, and these 70,000 people are actually just here to draw for these 500 Helmets.

It is truly a bit crazy.

There are even quite a few players explaining for themselves why only 500 units were released in limited quantities.

Chen Zhi also wanted to release many more, but there was no way; he cannot control so many players.

And he truly does not wish for these players to run around wildly.

Because running around wildly means he cannot control the behavior of these players.

If it were a case of potential personal injury, that would be one thing; players would automatically log off.

But what if they did something else?

Although no one has come to manage it yet, and all kinds of official approvals are under normal review, he dare not gamble—gamble on whether there are players among them who will do bad things.

Therefore, he can only let those obedient players with a purpose go out, and temporarily cannot let those troublemaking players run around everywhere.

This is all he can do.

The mission Evans received is not difficult to do, because due to the reason for being caught this time, Master Jones himself is also somewhat wary of him.

After all, his existence might cause Master Jones and the Brown Family to become enemies.

This shrewd nobleman does not wish for such a thing to happen. After Saina returned, he hinted openly and covertly for a day, asking Saina to drive this troublesome person away.

At the very least, he cannot let the nobles of the Royal Capital feel antipathy toward him.

Otherwise, he would not be able to sit in this position of Governor of Tana City very securely.

Fortunately, the Lord of Calamity arranged work for Evans, and he can finally take off the burden of being with Saina and carry out a task alone.

Externally, he is a boss going out to do business alone. Having worked for Master Jones for more than ten years, he is fully capable of standing on his own and becoming a true merchant.

No one in Tana City knows he is of noble birth, and now this trend is also a good time for doing business.

Having tidied up the courtyard, Evans opened the door and sat down behind the desk.

Just as he opened the door, a new Believer walked in, asking how to register.

"I'd like to ask, is registration currently required to go to Port City?" this player asked, "What information do I need to register?"

"You write here, um, name, reason, and the amount of money and goods you are carrying..." This is Evans's first time doing this kind of work; his previous work did not require such troublesome registration.

Then this player wrote Chinese characters on it, all of which were things Evans could not understand.

"Can you, uh, I mean, can you use the Tana Language?" Evans's face turned dark.

Isn't it said that these people can speak Tana Language? And didn't Andrew's side do a pretty good job?

This player let out an "ah" and then said, "I only know a few simple words. If you ask me to speak, it's fine, but if you ask me to write, that's really making things difficult for me."

Even for this sentence, the player still mixed in their native language.

It's just that it didn't affect Evans's understanding.

"Fine, I'll ask, and you answer." Evans knew that the work of the Lord of Calamity would definitely not be this easy to do.

It was a pity that he was originally a high-and-mighty butler, but now he had to do such basic work.

After he finished registering this player and looked up again, he already saw quite a few players lining up behind.

He knew that those new Believers were interested in fresh things.

But surely not so many people could be interested, right?

"Are you all sure you want to register?" Evans's face turned even darker.

The players behind nodded like they were pounding garlic; although going on a long journey required quite a bit of money, Luolita had become rich overnight because of it.

She had just like that become a wealthy person in the Royal Capital, and she could also provide accommodation for the players.

This was such a convenient and easy thing; any player with a little time and a little spare money wanted to go and take a look.

What if they could pick up some bargains?

The players who came here all had this kind of thought; since the official side had updated, there must be a reason.

Actually, these players could also run out on their own; although Chen Zhi could sense them, he couldn't just let these players run off and get lost.

What he could do was force these players to log off.

But leaving their bodies outside was, in the end, not a good thing.

That was why he stipulated that players needed to update, and he just needed to punish the players who intentionally triggered bugs.

However, what he didn't expect was that almost all the players who wanted to go on a long journey had registered.

It was clear that the game testing qualification was quite binding, especially after seeing so many people scrambling to buy them on the forum; these players who already possessed testing qualifications cherished their accounts even more.

Even Chen Ai didn't dare to mess around casually.

It was just that she didn't plan to go outside and take a look either.

Her good friend Yezi hadn't gone out, and she still had a lot of work to do.

It was said that she had painted the dome of the Sun Church, and many nobles had come to order Paintings from Chen Ai.

Coupled with the fact that Chen Ai's Paintings were indeed painted well and the style was very unique, many nobles bought them, so she was indeed not interested in going out.

But that didn't mean she didn't want to participate in these activities.

"These three paintings are entrusted to you." Chen Ai held her prized Paintings, "Although these paintings didn't use Spiritual Material, I feel that the mysterious aura within them is no worse than those that had materials added; I always feel that these paintings can sell for a good price."

"Leave it to me. Are there any other requirements?" Luolita said, taking charge of everything, "You'd better make a list. I heard that because of the Sun Church, pigments and such are not easy to buy anymore."

"Indeed, if possible, I need to purchase a large amount of pigments. Recently, many paintings couldn't be color-matched, especially mineral pigments; these things are truly too scarce in Tana City." Chen Ai said sincerely, "Of course, if I could purchase those suitable Spiritual Materials, it would be even better. I really didn't expect that these materials could have the effect of shocking the soul and magnifying the effect of the Painting. It's a pity that, until now, I still don't know what Aikemengde added into them."

"I can help you ask around. I heard that I can become a Fortune-teller today, and Ye Laoshi will also be back." Luolita said with some excitement, "Although I don't really want to become a Fortune-teller, I plan to experience it first."

"We don't have any objections either." Mengmeng came out carrying a cake, "But don't forget, you need to register if you want to go to the Royal Capital."

"I've already registered. I didn't expect that the one in charge of registration would be Evans. I even asked, and it's said that it's because something happened in the Royal Capital and he was kicked out by Master Jones, so he had no choice but to be in charge of registration here."

Players liked to discuss NPCs.

Many people were speculating about who Evans actually was, especially after reading Luolita's post.

Ye Laoshi had also said that this person Evans was not simple; as an Awakened, his combat ability was not low, his strength was formidable, and he had external enemies.

Many players wanted to find out the story of this NPC, but what made it difficult was that Evans was an NPC who didn't like to communicate with players.

"It's a pity that his favorability is too hard to grind." Luolita shook her head helplessly, "If possible, I hope you can grind it well. I feel that he can definitely drop other formulas; at least the people hunting him down think so."

The players who wanted to go out were all busy ordering various supplies, each planning to make a fortune in the game.

No one understood the importance of merchant running better than players. Chen Zhi finally approved the departure requests of sixty-seven players, and he didn't issue any quests at all.

These players were going to do business themselves; there was no need to impose quest requirements on them.

……

Inside Mufeng Bar, Fred Nall poured a glass of Wine for Yunxiao and said somewhat obsequiously, "If there is any place where you need help, be sure to call me. My winery has aged wine from over twenty years ago; it can definitely sell for a good price."

"I think you could also try those pottery vessels; your wine bottles themselves have great selling points." Yunxiao gave his own suggestion.

If it weren't for Fred, Yunxiao wouldn't have known that there were people in Tana City who would use pottery to hold wine.

This style was completely a style that only players would have; under normal circumstances, wine pots in Tana City were made of tin.

Being able to use pottery to hold it was, on one hand, because Fred was poor enough, and on the other hand, it was also because Fred was a person who knew how to innovate.

"Don't even mention those pottery vessels. There is still a batch in the warehouse; no one likes to use pottery to hold wine, it's too easy to break." Fred shook his head, "And it's too expensive to transport to the Royal Capital."

"Why not transport them to Port City?" Yunxiao proposed another suggestion.

(End of this chapter)