078: I Was Socially Anxious Before Entering the Game, and I'm Still Socially Anxious After Entering It-Did I Come Here for Nothing?

The next moment, he struggled to open his eyes, but the burning pain on his face made him squint again.

"Ouch—that hurts... This game is so realistic."

The young man slowly stood up and, following the game's tutorial, began searching for his ID card. As he pulled out his terminal, his bruised and bloodied face was reflected on the screen, and a series of data appeared on his retina: [Name]: Saga Akira

[Game Nickname]: Caramel Snail [Title]: None

[Race]: Carbon-based life form - New Generation Homo Sapiens

Gender: Biological Male)

Age: 19

[Template]: Normal Descendant (No Bonus) [Faction]: Layered Abyss - Galaxy Nebula - Fiennes Federation - Azure Planet - Heavenly Ring Nation [Total Level]: lv.2 - [Main Class]: Commoner lv.1 (0/50)

—— [Secondary Occupation]: Street Punk lv.1 (13/100)

The barrage of information was exhausting for Caramel Snail; the dazzling array of attributes made this kind of realistic game a novel experience for him, a complete novice in gaming.

Most of the beta test slots were taken by large companies, guilds, professional players, and clubs. The few remaining slots were mostly bought up by streamers.

As the only player who started playing as an ordinary player, Caramel Snail was the envy of everyone on the forum. Here, he became an outlier, and he himself didn't have the confidence to try and join in the fun with those big names.

—Although that's what he thought in his heart, he was enjoying so much praise and envy from so many people on the forum for the first time, and that feeling made him a little giddy.

Even when a fellow player asked him, "Snail Snail, I heard that the professional esports teams from Fragrant Chicken have all arrived in Nura City, what are you planning to do?", Caramel Snail, without thinking, blurted out:

"Since we're all together, I'm going to test how strong these pros are! I'll have a one-on-one match with them before the closed beta ends."

Less than half an hour later, a user with the ID 'XXG· Fried Chicken Cutlet ' replied to the post: Great! You've got guts, let's give it a try! Caramel Snail's heart skipped a beat.

'Oh no, we've attracted the main target here.'

The Caramel Snail was very upset.

I've already made all that boasting, I can't just let it go like this... What will I do when they release a bound volume later?

He's a social terrorist online, or socially anxious for short, but in real life, he's genuinely socially anxious, suffering from social phobia!

Most importantly, Caramel Snail is a complete novice when it comes to gaming, with no gaming experience whatsoever. He could only cram at the last minute, repeatedly watching the trailers, introductory videos, informational materials, character traits, and local customs released by Qiqiao Network to thoroughly understand the game.

Caramel Snail doesn't ask for anything else, he just wants to reach the Level Cap of the closed beta before it ends.

In the short time since it arrived, Caramel Snail has figured out its identity: Heavenly Ring Nation, Nura City, an ordinary street thug, and the name of this body is ' Saga Akira '.

The information in the terminal showed that Saga Akira's mother was kidnapped from Outland by her father, who was a soldier. She was subjected to a lot of physical abuse from a young age, and domestic violence was common. On one occasion, when he was drunk, he drew his sword and hacked his mother to death.

When Saga Akira, still a primary school student, opened the door to return home, he only saw his father kneeling beside his mother's corpse, carefully wiping his beloved sword, completely ignoring his mother on the ground.

Judging from Saga Akira's recorded diary, he was terrified of going home. His father, on the other hand, valued him highly as his eldest son, believing him to be a promising samurai, and constantly beat and scolded him.

After entering junior high school, Saga Akira suffered from bullying and harassment from older students because his mother was from Outland People, because of his pale skin and poor background. Unable to bear the humiliation, he chose to leave school and escape to the streets, where he hung out with some thugs and became an ordinary hooligans.

Fighting, selling bootlegging liquor, debt collection, smuggling goods—such a life was devoid of hope. Saga Akira, being a somewhat educated man, was in extreme inner turmoil and ultimately collapsed during a brawl.

Although this identity is tragic, it was carefully chosen by Caramel Snail.

Based on his understanding of Sky Ring, this country is divided into four distinct classes:

The traditional political group and the chosen descendants of the Old Era — the Royal Family.

The major conglomerates that control the nation's economic lifeline—the Zong family.

Samurai are mercenaries who serve as both soldiers and security groups.

Ordinary people engaged in production—the lowest caste.

Among them, the lowest caste are not entitled to have surnames.

For the untouchables to rise above their circumstances, they either need education to enter a religion and become laborers, or they need to join the military and fight as mercenaries for security companies, thus physically working as laborers.

Basically, the Sky Ring doesn't care about the lives of the commoners. Even if the samurai class kills a commoner, they can just pay a small fine. As for Outland People —what a joke, they have no nationality, Police Station won't even file a case against them.

Military personnel are subject to the control of their companies and the state, and their orders are strictly obeyed.

In Caramel Snail's opinion, the easiest way to level up in the early stages is to fight and Street Punk.

Saga Akira's father was, after all, a samurai, so he not only had a surname but also a basic level of education, which qualified him to study at Martial Arts School.

However, the skill levels of Martial Arts School vary greatly, and the fees are very high, so the road to becoming a "Martial Artist" is still very long.

Caramel Snail cautiously crossed the street, activating his "Disguise Mode" and calling Saga Akira's friends. Those bastards were useless; they'd agreed to deal with the thugs on the other street together, but they all ran off, leaving Saga Akira to get a severe beating.

"Hello, oh, it's Akira-kun. I'm sorry, something urgent came up at home, so I have to go back now."

"I'm so sorry, Saga-san, you don't mind this, do you?"

"Oh, you're still alive? That's amazing. I thought you were dead."

The mockery from his cronies not only enraged Saga Akira's "Disguise Mode" personality, but even Caramel Snail herself couldn't help but curse out:

"You son of a bitch! I was almost beaten to death, and you're apologizing to me? You just wait! I'll beat you to death! Fuck you...!"

Caramel Snail is supposed to be a socially awkward person, but he never expected that Yanxia Country players would have such an unexpected linguistic advantage and imagination when it comes to swearing.

The language of Heavenly Ring Nation rarely contains vulgar language; insults are basically limited to terms like "idiot," "stupid," and "bastard." However, Caramel Snail's mouthful of the national essence, coupled with its surging momentum, completely stunned the thugs on the other end of the phone.

Caramel Snail never expected that after he finished his tirade and felt refreshed, the system would trigger a notification: [You have triggered Side Quest— "《Teach the Cowards a Lesson》"]

I saw a very interesting comment. "Watching 'From the From the Star Abyss ' is like paying to watch Tieba."

Scarlet laughed so hard she squealed like a pig.

Then I took a look. I joined Tieba in 2010, when I was still in elementary school. I am indeed a long-time Tieba user. I also started using Weibo and Zhihu a long time ago, but I have never been able to make them successful. Writing novels is still the best option for me.

Sometimes people call something a tired meme, but I've gotten used to using it myself. After all, I'm not very aggressive. The guys on Tieba are very outspoken, so let them say what they want.

You can check out the Kamen Rider Tieba; it's even more abstract there. Starting with the Kamen Rider Gekido Literature" section, the entire "Kamen Rider Forum" forum has become more abstract than "From the From the Star Abyss," with posts about things like "Convenience Store," " Zhan Hen," "Genshin Impact," and "Ding Zhen, " etc. It's quite amusing. Rather than saying I'm abstract, it's more accurate to say the entire internet has become abstract.

Right, what did Yuan Shen do to you?