Sparking Nationwide Discussion!

Su Yu was telling the truth.

Once players reached level 50 in the game, they would become Tier 3 Professionals.

(In "Evolution," levels 0-9 are Tier 0 Professionals; levels 10-29 are Tier 1 Professionals; levels 30-49 are Tier 2 Professionals; levels 50-59 are Tier 3 Professionals.)

Tier 3 Professionals could manifest their in-game strength into reality.

After manifestation, they would be completely fearless of bullets!

Mages and Priests could erect magic shields and even withstand sustained fire from light machine guns!

Defensive powerhouses like Fighters and Paladins, upon reaching Tier 3, could activate their full defensive stance and even endure a single hit from a Soviet RPG-7 40mm rocket launcher!

That kind of damage was something even a field tank couldn't withstand!

This world-shattering power was far more valuable than a unit of school district housing.

Besides, school district housing wouldn't be worth much in half a year anyway.

However, Su Yu's words still caused a massive stir among the players!

Initially, they hadn't paid much attention to the server-wide announcement.

While Su Yu was incredibly skilled at soloing dungeons, and they envied him for it, it didn't really concern most people.

But now, things were different!

The "level 50 reward" Su Yu mentioned was directly relevant to everyone, making it impossible for them to remain indifferent.

Nolan Village's entrance plaza.

Players looked at each other in stunned silence.

After a moment, a huge wave of discussion erupted in the plaza, several times louder than before!

"My god! School district housing in a third-tier city?! That must be worth over a million!"

"Do they really give it out just for reaching level 50? Will everyone get one?"

"If they're giving out such high rewards, won't the game company go bankrupt?"

"Pfft, how could that be? Why would the game company give you such a benefit?"

"I don't really believe it either, but I think it might be true! If Nemesis didn't have confidence, why would he dare say something like that?"

"Exactly! Saying something like this doesn't benefit him at all, so why would Nemesis lie to us?"

"That's enough for me, everyone. I'm going to go level up."

"I'm going to level up too. Given the quality of this game, I'd keep playing even without rewards. I'll reach level 50 eventually."

"Let's go, let's go, time to level up."

The "loudspeaker" effect was very effective. The players' attention had shifted away from "gossip about the two major guilds" and onto serious leveling.

Some players claimed they didn't believe it, but their actions spoke louder than their words as they called their friends and headed towards the leveling areas.

A small leveling craze swept through all the villages.

Meanwhile, offline.

On the official forums, the "drama" involving the two major guilds was no longer interesting. The entire page was covered with "Nemesis's" name.

And the matter quickly went viral!

In just two hours, the topic "Evolution: Level 50 = School District Housing in a Third-Tier City?" had climbed to the top of the Weibo trending list!

Of course, in the environment of Weibo, very few people believed Su Yu. Most of the comments were filled with a chorus of scolding and criticism:

"Another shut-in who's gone crazy playing games. He thinks he can get nearly a million in rewards just by leveling up? Why doesn't he think about flying to the moon?"

"Exactly! I'll make a promise here: if the rewards for reaching level 50 in this game can truly be exchanged for school district housing in reality, I'll eat my phone on the spot!"

"This game 'Evolution' discriminates against women! In the class demonstration segment, the Priest class was a woman! Do the game developers think women are only fit to be Priests? Only fit to be protected by others? Sisters, let's go and trash this garbage game!"

"What kind of garbage topic is this? It stole the number one trending spot from my beloved Xiao Meiren? They must have paid for water armies!"

Besides Weibo, a post on Bihui titled "How to evaluate a player in 'Evolution' who claims: reaching level 50, the game's reward is equivalent to school district housing in a third-tier city?" also quickly reached the top of the trending list.

However, similar to Weibo, about 99% of the netizens who commented did not believe it:

"Thanks for the invite. As soon as I read this, I knew it was said by a kid who hasn't been beaten by society yet."

"To be fair, our hardworking laborers toil for 40 years to scrape out a house from the capitalists' teeth, and a game gives it away just for leveling up? If it were you, would you believe it?"

"I'm in the US, just put on my mask. Didn't you guys realize this is an advertisement from the game company? Your intelligence is truly questionable."

"It's all just a ploy by the game operators, move along, move along!"

In addition to Weibo and Bihui, other platforms like Du Ba and AB Station also engaged in in-depth discussions about the matter.

The name "Nemesis" became famous overnight, known by many netizens.

Su Yu, however, was completely unaware of this.

But even if he had known, he probably wouldn't have cared.

Reputation is the most useless thing in this era, and he doesn't really need it.

Returning to the game.

Snowflake was deciphering a hidden quest of considerable difficulty.

Not long after Su Yu's announcement, she received a private message.

This private message was from her brother, "Snowflake Leopard":

Snowflake Leopard: "Luo Luo, I heard from Dad that you're quite familiar with that 'Nemesis'?"

Snowflake's eyes lit up, and she quickly replied: "Brother, we're not that familiar. But I know quite a few of his deeds, such as..." (300 words omitted)

Snowflake wrote extensively, describing all the deeds she knew about "Nemesis."

However, she didn't mention the matter of Nemesis summoning the [Star Forger Dragon King] because if the two major guilds found out it was Nemesis who summoned the BOSS, it might bring him a lot of trouble.

Snowflake Leopard carefully read through the information his sister sent.

After reading it, he replied: "Then can you help me ask him if the reward he mentioned is real? Our department is taking this very seriously!"

Snowflake playfully asked: "How should I ask? Am I supposed to seduce him?"

Snowflake Leopard: "It's not impossible. Just be careful not to sacrifice yourself."

Snowflake: "..."

The scene shifts back to Su Yu.

For three minutes after the "loudspeaker" ended, Su Yu stood still without moving.

This wasn't because Su Yu was thinking about anything, but because he was stuck!

Due to the server-wide announcement and the server-wide loudspeaker, at least tens of thousands of players added him as a friend simultaneously.

This caused Su Yu's character to lag as if it were a slideshow.

The main reason for this situation was the incomplete server bandwidth architecture in the early stages of the game. Too much data at once would cause this.

Su Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

He had miscalculated, never expecting so many people to add him as a friend.

It wasn't until three minutes later, when Su Yu 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 couldn't help but wipe his sweat, looking relieved: "Thank goodness I wasn't disconnected or kicked out of the instance. I haven't even looted the BOSS's corpse yet!"

He looked at the corpse of the [Village Chief of Sheep Village] in front of him.

Su Yu suddenly noticed—the bag dropped by the corpse was actually gleaming with golden light!

Su Yu was startled: "Could this be? A golden equipment drop?!"