Chapter 1056: with translation of chapter title

No. 179: The speedrunner has arrived.

To be honest, Omer's livestream setup is very cautious.

Rather, most mercenaries in this world have this caution, which can already be considered part of professional competence.

After all, there are truly many clients who like to nitpick the work itself, and there are even more cyber supervisors constantly urging the work every second.

That's why those streaming sites have so many mercenary streamers.

They blur everything except the work screen, which may not even produce any streaming effect.

They never considered becoming streamers professionally; they just open the stream for the client to see, and that's enough.

Omer is no different.

At first, his stream showed nothing but a pure script-writing interface, letting them see the content being edited and the slight flicker of the word count.

As for when the word count isn't changing, what he's doing is known only to himself.

But this streaming state obviously couldn't be maintained.

Because Rhine Life is indeed a game.

Although there is a test entry, and although entering it leads to a blank space, the way the whole room then completely changes is like being immersed in a game world with an enhanced AR system.

But that program indeed requires you to sync the network and establish information connections.

The result of this connection is that it overrides the creation window, and the streaming system, following its set priority, captures the topmost interface.

In other words, it's the first-person perspective of the Rhine Life game system's UI.

As for that, Omer, who had just arrived and was already under attack, had no time to notice.

Thus, this stream screen seemed overly sudden to a group of doujin circle members.

【Steel Horse Mercenary: What are you streaming, mercenary? Why aren't you typing?】

【Cloudy Still Sunny: Did you really become a mercenary? The weapon that wolf-eared girl beside you is holding is really special—why is there a protractor hanging from the hilt?】

【I Want to Become an Inlay Master: Laughing so wildly, great physique, good looks, I love it, I love it.】

【I Want to Become an Axis Slayer: Wow! Black giant wolf! Hehehe, black giant wolf drool soybeans. jpg】

【Cloudy Still Sunny: Huh, beast control, right? Wow, is the mercenary's weapon really that ferocious? Is that a coffin? Why are you smashing people with a coffin! That's too brutal.】

【Digital Quick Print:??? @Second Creation Mercenary, is Teacher Li in Jiangxi?! Look at the streaming interface!】

【Ink Brush Painting: @Digital Quick Print, quickly tag everyone, send the confidentiality agreement; kick out anyone who doesn't keep it confidential on the spot.】

【Digital Quick Print: Oh okay, I'm flipping through.】

【I Want to Become an Inlay Master: This is exaggerated? Maybe I should just quit first; it feels like some kind of trouble…】

【Cloudy Still Sunny: Wow! What kind of work is he doing? This death-state description doesn't even seem like a normal mercenary.】

【Steel Horse Mercenary: You never know what real-life identities netizens have.】

Speaking of which, I've always suspected the president is a top-performing horse girl, after all, much of her information seems like firsthand frontline intel, those little secrets and details that gossip reporters don't know.

【Digital Quick Print sent a document.】

【Digital Quick Print: @All members, I've blocked the chatroom stream; please each sign this confidentiality agreement within one minute, otherwise I'll kick you out of this temporary chatroom in two minutes.】

——two minutes——

【Digital Quick Print: Alright, then I'm restoring the teacher's stream; please everyone abide by the agreement, don't cause irreversible consequences for both sides.】

【I Want to Become an Axis Slayer: Come on, President! I want to see the big wolf!】

【Ink Brush Painting: …】

【Digital Quick Print has opened the stream.】

【Cloudy Still Sunny: Wow, intense, is this a monster movie set now?】

【I Want to Become an Axis Slayer: …big wolf… waa waa waa my big wolf!】

【Ink Brush Painting: …this scene… I feel like I've drawn it before.】

【Steel Horse Mercenary: What?】

【Ink Brush Painting has withdrawn a message.】

【Ink Brush Painting: President, open private chat permissions for me; I'll try to see if I can get him to notice this.】

【Digital Quick Print: Oh oh, okay.】

——

【Administrator privileges have been connected, codename: Xi; please specify the command you desire.】

Quietly, tip-toeing past the year's location, she logged in after overcoming colleagues' requests to gain access to the art group's permissions, and Xi immediately began typing on her well-practiced keyboard.

【User ID 666 has been locked.】

【ID change: Ink Brush Painting, completed.】

【Ink Brush Painting: Wake up! Don't get lost in hallucinations! Omer Linton!!!】

The program that intervenes in the player character directly pulls its terminal priority to the highest; thus, any message the player receives will be displayed in the most impactful, conspicuous manner.

Xi wasn't aware that, aside from her own messages, Omer had also coincidentally received a message from Qi; but the moment she realized Omer had awakened, she had already withdrawn the statement that would directly provoke questioning.

Even if she speaks next, her words will inevitably expose some facts.

But who let him actually come into direct contact with the core of the Rhine Life team's project?

That bunch, we'll definitely hold them accountable later!

As the art team of this project, even if Xi isn't particularly interested in learning about this game, she still knows some prerequisites necessary for art creation, and moreover, Muerlsis forcibly stuffed some information into her to boost her motivation.

This includes the existence of a simulated wasteland.

In their homeland, the land called Terra, the domain where demons exist is called the Wasteland; demons can absorb and occupy people's emotions to achieve assimilation, turning humans into puppets and sources of contagion—a special existence whose tricky nature makes it one of the disasters threatening everyone.

Even to this day in Terra, these disasters have not been completely eradicated, which is why the game Rhine Life came into being.

Not only is it to give training to those employees who have just crossed over here, to understand everything about their hometown, and also to incorporate many cultures belonging here, so as to subtly let them become familiar.

Moreover, they tried to find some solutions to problems in works that arose from the cultural fusion of the two worlds.

But such solutions, everyone naturally has the patience for them.

They knew such problems wouldn't be solved quickly, and to keep them from being put before those employees, they buried them deep.

For example, the place where Aomo fell is actually a sacrificial site.

He could choose to flee all the way, which would give him a certain chance of survival.

He could also fight to the bitter end, but that battle is doomed to be endless; all living beings sacrificed for the ritual throughout eternity will appear as demon puppets to block him, to stop him from breaking the ritual, breaking the seal.

Most players lack the stamina to keep fighting, and even lack the ability to resist the fear of demons.

They permeate everywhere; if your heart has ever wavered even slightly, black blood will flow through you.

And even if one truly overcomes all that, they will reach the wasteland at the ritual's depths.

That is the Abyss, and also the underlying layer of the entire game world.

It lies beyond the border of the ancient consciousness domain.

And it is well known that those who walk in the Abyss will inevitably be assimilated by it.

In the designers' expectation, most players who fall into this place early on will meet instant death.

Even veteran staff, even elite staff, are no exception.

Under endless demon sieges, strong combat power cannot decisively affect survival.

Thus, naturally one cannot speak of fully activating this most detailed demon dungeon data, thereby advancing the game's lifespan into a countdown.

But...

Is it really like that?

If I unleash power far beyond your expectations, and possess an existence even more cunning than demons, how should you respond?

Undoubtedly, bringing many lives, Aomo Lindun brought a surprise to the entire production team.

And this surprise will continue onward.

Because his next step is Rhein Life.

That is to say, Suzi, who is in the midst of ecstasy, needs to frown.