Chapter 4: It Really Is the Beta Stage

It seems this game focuses on a farming style?

The players followed Saina in ignorance, crawling out from a sewer manhole; there were not many of them, only nine.

The world outside made their eyes light up.

Tana City is a city with a long history, dating back as far as three thousand years ago; it was once land contested by multiple dynasties, possessing ports, high mountains, rivers, and so on...

There are many religions here, with constant strife, and it has been a chaotic zone for many years, so the architectural style of such a city can be said to be quite fragmented, yet the sense of history is very profound.

Unfortunately, it was night, and there were not many lights around; this was also because Saina, for the sake of safety, chose a relatively remote alley.

The players who crawled out of the sewers finally saw a different new world; they touched the ground, breathed in the fresh air, and found everything fresh.

Looking at these strange people, Saina coughed twice, "Don't look around like that, get on the carriage, I'll take you to the Farm."

Had she known there were only this many people, she wouldn't have prepared such a large carriage; it was truly a bit too conspicuous.

Seeing the carriage depart, two players who had just crawled out of the sewer looked at each other in dismay.

"No way, did we miss the main quest?"

"Is this a bug?"

"If I had known, I would have just gone over to take a look earlier..."

After settling those laborers, Saina returned to the sewers by carriage overnight; she felt somewhat uneasy, as these people arranged by the Calamity were truly too strange, just like that beautiful woman who had seemed so strange for the past few days—their behavior and conduct were different from ordinary people.

"How is it? How did they perform?" Chen Zhi was somewhat impatient to understand the situation with those fellows; he discovered that as a god, he was far too weak, unable to perceive players who were too far away from him.

Even though they were all parts separated from his own body.

In this way, if the other party was not in the city area, he would be unable to sense them; wouldn't that mean he couldn't monitor their behavior?

"Great Lord, they have already arrived at the Farm. I have arranged for them to sleep, and they will be able to work for you tomorrow morning."

Work for me?

Isn't it just acting as laborers at the farm of this young lady Saina's family?

Chen Zhi twitched the corner of his mouth.

To prevent those using the Helmet from becoming as overly addicted as his younger sister, Chen Zhi stipulated that every person would be forcibly logged out after a cumulative 10 hours of entering the game from the moment they put on the Helmet, and they must wait 13 hours before they can re-enter the game.

Although he had long discovered that the daytime here was the nighttime of the original world, and the nighttime was the daytime here, in order to prevent these online players from being too obvious and discovered by others, Chen Zhi could only arrange the login test at this time.

It was all for the sake of caution that he did this, but he didn't expect that by now, it was already 12:00 noon in the real world, and only thirteen people had logged on.

That is to say, if this first batch of newcomers entering the game were addicted to the game, they would likely log off the next morning and would not get up to work as she had expected.

"No need to force it." Chen Zhi waved his hundreds of arms, "This is just a test."

"Following your will, but... the corpses in the sewer seem to be missing a portion." Saina said somewhat nervously.

She was originally supposed to wait for all the corpses to revive before sending these revived fellows to the Farm.

But she lacked that patience; seeing that the other corpses showed no signs of reviving, she directly took the few who had revived and headed to the Farm.

This matter had to be done discreetly, so she hadn't arranged for anyone to keep watch.

It was just that she hadn't expected that there would actually be more corpses reviving afterward.

Sure enough, this God of Calamity before her was not as weak as she had imagined.

Chen Zhi waved his limbs about; of course, these corpses would be missing, but fortunately, they were all within Chen Zhi's sensing range. As long as they didn't go to overly remote places, he could always locate where these fellows were and then let Saina find them.

"Don't worry, they have their own paths to walk." Chen Zhi put on the act of a charlatan; as for what these fellows could do after running off, he wasn't very clear. In any case, let them out first; at worst, he would delete the save data in two weeks.

Inside the Farm, the players locked in the woodshed began to explore freely; they discovered that this game was indeed still in the beta stage, and the main quest could be said to be simple to a certain degree.

Following the quest, there were no rewards or hints at all.

"I think this might be a free-exploration type." One player was the first to propose this idea, "I think we can explore this Farm; perhaps there is something unusual about this Farm."

"Makes sense." Whether male players or female players, everyone was currently in an excited state, but one female player felt this game was a bit terrifying and logged off in fear; she was currently lying on the ground like a corpse.

Looking at the logged-off player who wasn't even breathing, everyone could only sigh that it was indeed a beta-stage game, and there were indeed many places that weren't realistic enough.

At least when asleep, one should be able to breathe, right?

Thus, the remaining few players began a "demolition tour" of the woodshed; they first ransacked the woodshed and only found two large wood-chopping blades.

This meant the others could only use firewood as weapons.

To them, role-playing games were meant for fighting monsters, and having no gear in their hands truly left them without a sense of security.

"Let's go out; there shouldn't be anything worth searching here." The few nodded, dropped the corpses in the woodshed, and walked out of the woodshed.

This was a Farm.

The location of the woodshed was relatively remote, but the terrain was relatively high, just enough to see the layout of the Farm clearly.

Endless fields, several thatched huts where serfs rested, plus a castle that looked somewhat dilapidated.

"Get your weapons ready, let's go into the castle and take a look." Li You said.

"Uh, we plan to look around the surroundings." Two female players said somewhat fearfully, "I feel like we wouldn't be of much help."

Even if they had weapons, they wouldn't know how to use them; the main thing was that this game didn't have any skills or anything, relying entirely on one's own physical reactions.

Being able to persist and not be defeated by the night, these two female players were already considered quite good.

Of course, there were even better female players who seemed to hope even more than the few male players to see monsters soon and go up to slash them a couple of times.

"Let Mengmeng and Mengmeng go explore the map; I'll go with you guys to take a look." Ye Jiaxin, holding a wood-chopping blade, was eager to try, "Just watched the cutscene, this should be a Western fantasy world; who knows, there might be vampires in the castle!"

"Fine, is anyone else going to explore the map?" Li You had already cast himself as the squad leader, although there was no party interface.

"Then I'll go with them." Li Yong said with a smile, "Someone has to protect them, right?"

"You kid, putting romance before friendship." Although he also wanted to "go shopping" with the girls, playing with girls was not as important as fighting monsters. Li You had forgotten his original intention, and assuming there would be monsters in the castle, he waved his hand, "You guys pay attention to observing bugs in the game; this game is still in the beta stage, so if there are problems, it's good to give feedback to the GM."

"Got it, got it." Li Yong abandoned his teammates and, with the two girls, went chatting and laughing toward the thatched huts on the Farm.

(End of this chapter)