Everything Su Yu said was true.
Once players reached Level 50, they would become Tier 3 Professionals in the game.
(In Evolution, Levels 0-9 were Tier 0 Professionals; Levels 10-29 were Tier 1 Professionals; Levels 30-49 were Tier 2 Professionals; and Levels 50-59 were Tier 3 Professionals.)
Tier 3 Professionals could manifest their in-game strength in reality.
Once manifested, they could completely disregard bullets!
Mages and Priests could raise magical shields and even withstand sustained light machine-gun fire!
Defense Warriors and Guardian Knights, whose defenses were even stronger, could fully activate their defensive states after reaching Tier 3 and even withstand the damage from a Soviet RPG-7 40mm rocket-propelled grenade!
Even field tanks could not withstand that kind of damage!
Such earth-shattering power was worth far more than an apartment in a good school district.
Besides, apartments in good school districts would be worthless in six months.
Still, Su Yu's words caused a massive uproar among the players!
At first, no one had paid much attention to the Server-wide Announcement.
Although Su Yu was incredibly skilled at soloing dungeons, and they envied him, it ultimately had little to do with most people.
But things were different now!
The "Level 50 reward" Su Yu mentioned was closely tied to every single person, and they could not help but be moved.
At the village entrance square of Nolan Village.
The players stared at one another in shock.
A moment later, a huge wave of discussion erupted across the square, several times louder than before!
"Oh my god! An apartment in a good school district in a third-tier city?! That has to cost over a million!"
"Do you get it once you reach Level 50? Does everyone get one?"
"Wouldn't the game company go bankrupt handing out rewards that expensive?"
"Tch, how could that be possible? Why would the game company give you such benefits?"
"Even though I don't really believe it either, I think it might be true! If Kexing wasn't confident, why would he dare say something like that?"
"Exactly! Saying something like this does him no good. Why would Kexing lie to us?"
"Enough talking, everyone. I'm going to level up first."
"I'm going too. With this game's quality, I'd keep playing even without rewards. Sooner or later, I'll reach Level 50."
"Come on, come on, let's go level up."
The "loudspeaker" had worked wonderfully. The players' attention had already shifted away from the "gossip about the two major guilds" and onto seriously leveling up.
Some players claimed they did not believe it, but their bodies were honest as they called up friends and headed toward the leveling areas.
A small leveling frenzy immediately swept through every village.
As for outside the game.
On the Official Forum, gossip about the two major guilds was no longer appealing. The entire front page was covered with Kexing's name.
And the matter quickly spread beyond the gaming circle!
In just two hours, the topic "Evolution Level 50 = an apartment in a good school district in a third-tier city?" rose to the top of Weibo's trending list!
Naturally, in an environment like Weibo, very few people believed Su Yu. Most of the comments were nothing but insults:
"Another shut-in idiot who got stupid from playing games. You can get a reward worth nearly a million just by leveling up? Why doesn't he just dream about flying to the moon?"
"Exactly! Let me put this out there: if reaching Level 50 in this game really gives you a reward that can be exchanged for an apartment in a good school district in real life, I'll eat my phone on the spot!"
"Evolution discriminates against women! The Priest in the class demonstration was actually a woman! Do the developers think women are only fit to be Priests? Only fit to receive other people's protection? Sisters, let's tear this trash game apart!"
"What kind of garbage topic is this? It stole the number one trending spot from my precious Xiao? They definitely paid for fake accounts!"
Besides Weibo, a post on Bihui titled "How do you evaluate a player in Evolution claiming that reaching Level 50 grants rewards equivalent to an apartment in a good school district in a third-tier city?" also quickly rose to the top of the trending list.
However, Bihui was much like Weibo. Ninety-nine percent of the commenters below expressed disbelief:
"Thanks for the invite. The moment I saw this, I knew it was said by some kid who's never been beaten up by society."
"To be fair, working people have to toil for forty years before squeezing out a house from between the capitalists' teeth. A game gives you one just for leveling up? Would you believe it?"
"Currently in the U.S., just put on my mask. Can't you see this is an advertisement by the game company? Your intelligence is truly worrying."
"It's all tricks from the game operators. Move along, move along!"
Beyond Weibo and Bihui, platforms such as Du Ba and AB Station also launched in-depth discussions about the matter.
The name "Kexing" became famous overnight and was known by many internet users.
Su Yu knew nothing about any of this.
But even if he had known, he probably would not have cared.
Fame was the most useless thing in this era, and he did not need it much anyway.
Back in the game.
Snowflake was deciphering a rather difficult Hidden Quest.
Not long after Su Yu's announcement, she received a private message.
The message came from her older brother, Snowflake Leopard:
Snowflake Leopard: "Luoluo, I heard from Dad that you're quite familiar with that 'Kexing'?"
Snowflake's eyes lit up, and she quickly replied, "Bro, we're not that familiar. But I know quite a few of his exploits, like... (300 words omitted)."
Snowflake used a great deal of text to describe everything she knew about Kexing's exploits.
However, she did not mention Kexing summoning the Star Forger Dragon King. If the two major guilds learned that Kexing had summoned the boss, it might bring him quite a lot of trouble.
Snowflake Leopard carefully read through the information his sister had sent.
After reading it, he replied, "Then can you help me ask him whether the reward he mentioned is real? Our department takes this very seriously!"
Snowflake joked, "How am I supposed to ask? Seduce him or something?"
Snowflake Leopard: "That's not impossible. Just be careful not to make any sacrifices."
Snowflake: "."
The scene returned to Su Yu.
For the three minutes after the "loudspeaker" ended, Su Yu stood completely still.
It was not because Su Yu was thinking about anything. Rather—he had lagged!
Because of the Server-wide Announcement and the server-wide loudspeaker, at least tens of thousands of players had tried to add him as a friend at the same time.
As a result, the character Su Yu controlled lagged like a PowerPoint slideshow.
The main reason for this was that, in the early stages of the game, the server bandwidth architecture was not fully developed. Too much data arriving at once could cause such problems.
Su Yu did not know whether to laugh or cry.
What a miscalculation. He had not expected so many people to add him as a friend.
It was not until three minutes later, when Su Yu barely managed to disable the "Allow others to add you as a friend" option in the settings, that his character gradually returned to normal.
Once things returned to normal, Su Yu could not help wiping away sweat, his face full of relief. "Good thing I didn't lag out or get kicked from the dungeon. I haven't even looted the boss's corpse yet!"
He looked toward the corpse of the Village Chief of Sheep Village before him.
Su Yu suddenly noticed—the bag dropped by the corpse was actually glowing with golden light!
Su Yu was startled. "Could this be? Did Gold Equipment drop?!"
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