These Players Are More Sinister Than Ghosts
Chapter 13

Explosive Review

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Su Yu Niang's first move after starting the stream was to open the game recording.

She adjusted her sitting posture, ignored the flood of comments, and began explaining the recording.

"Good evening, everyone. Tonight, we're not playing games, and we're not reading private messages as your caring little sister. We're just going to chat and share something interesting."

"Recently, I reviewed a game that was simply heaven-defying. You'll know when you see it from my first-person perspective. This game has one hundred percent realism. Aside from the pain being noticeably toned down, it has smell and taste—"

Su Yu Niang got straight to the point, constantly dragging the progress bar.

As her explanation continued, the scenery in the recording kept changing, vividly displaying all kinds of high freedom and high interactivity.

The players inside could even mold mud.

The viewers were commenting too:

It was obvious from the recording that the stones, wood, and buildings were not just textures.

Did you see that? These beasts went crazy, touching and playing with everything. Arm wrestling, building castles, lifting each other up, making human towers—these small fry even came over and tried to nibble my wife's feet. Good thing my wife ran fast! When they see my wife at conventions, they're timid as mice, but in the game, you all just... Players of this generation are seriously perverted!

In previous games, at most you could lie down and peek under other players' textured skirts, and you'd clip right through them anyway. Totally meaningless. But now I'm really looking forward to it. This game finally isn't guarding against us upright gentlemen anymore. It's right up my alley.

The game designer said this was heaven-defying: Holy crap, Money Boy doesn't distinguish between genders, and you people can even do this? If you want to look, can't you look at yourselves?

Most of the comments were discussing all sorts of details.

And as the recording continued, the visual impact it brought grew more and more intense.

The scene gradually developed a powerful sense of atmosphere. The swaying wind, clouds, trees, sleeves, and flying long hair constantly revealed details of light and shadow, making people unable to stop themselves from wondering: How wonderful would it be to be there in person?

Some people began to suspect it was fake.

But they were quickly refuted. Rendering scenes on the level of a mythological blockbuster would cost an astronomical sum. The visual impact was simply too overwhelming!

Amid the expressions of many people holding their breath, Old Steward's appearance drew everyone's attention, and countless comments flooded in:

Immortal bearing and sage-like bones.

Immortal bearing and sage-like bones +1.

You can tell at a glance that this temperament doesn't belong to a True Person.

Another group kept spamming that they wanted to see underwear and under skirts.

Then the footage jumped ahead, arriving at the conversation between Jiu Cai Rong and Old Steward.

The brave young man with a resolute expression spoke with words that struck the ground like iron, his voice shaking the mountains:

"Our people—love! Wetting! The bed! When we wake up, it's everywhere."

Everyone's expressions shifted in succession from confusion, to shock, to utter bewilderment. They could only exclaim, "Well, damn!"

So this was how the game was played!??

Especially that famous line, "Your values must be right. People can go to the toilet, but they can't become public toilets." It sent many Pure Love Warriors into wild joy, shouting that this was exactly how it should be.

They couldn't keep indulging those cuckold-game designers like this.

They had to fight for it to become a pure love game.

No matter what, the full recording lasted over ten hours, yet it took only a little over forty minutes to fast-forward through and give everyone a general look. It was an ultimate visual feast.

"I'll upload the complete ten-hour video later."

"You can download it yourselves. I'm sure I'm not the only one who recorded my screen. Other players probably recorded their perspectives too, so you can watch theirs."

"After all, there are another nine hundred audience perspectives. It's just that I'm a little more famous, so everyone followed me first."

Su Yu Niang sprawled carelessly in her chair, sitting in an ungraceful pose as she scratched the sole of her white-stockinged foot, with not a shred of image to speak of.

Yet someone kept spamming nonsense comments like "jade feet, jade feet" and "stop playing with them and let me play."

"Next, let's connect with Jiu Cai Rong, who received Old Steward's approval and became the Mountain Villa's temporary steward, to discuss this hit game."

Right before everyone's eyes, Su Yu Niang connected directly with Jiu Cai Rong.

Jiu Cai Rong was no fool either. He immediately opened a Live Stream Room. Although he did not have much traffic, this move was clearly intended to draw viewers over to his own stream.

After all, as a working man, how could he not know this was his chance to take off?

He had worked for so many years. He had once started a physical breakfast shop, failed miserably, and returned to working for others. He understood the cruelty of it all even better.

At this moment, he felt that he had a chance to soar.

Jiu Cai Rong took a deep breath. "Hello, I'm your fan."

Su Yu Niang had experienced this sort of situation far too often and was completely relaxed. "Are you one of my Fish Fryers too? Really?"

Jiu Cai Rong said, "Of course. You're that remarkable woman who scratched her feet while gaming, got reported for being excessively erotic, and actually had her Live Stream Room banned."

Su Yu Niang silently withdrew her hand from her white-stockinged foot. "Ahem, ahem. As the steward, do you have any exclusive information you can reveal?"

Jiu Cai Rong took a deep breath. He had clearly prepared a script long ago, yet he still seemed somewhat restrained.

"There is some exclusive information. First, let me announce my plans for tomorrow. The dormitories should be roughly completed around noon, so there shouldn't be any problem with the initial move-in.

"Although the Food Pipeline network hasn't been set up yet, the water pipes and shower channels can be built slowly. We'll make do with buckets for now.

"In the afternoon, we'll start organizing everyone to forge iron and turn everyone into qualified little Blacksmith leeks."

Su Yu Niang asked, "Food Pipeline?"

Jiu Cai Rong said, "The Food Pipeline. The preliminary plan is to use muddy water to wash the food down into everyone's mouths. If it isn't built yet, we can only ask the dormitory administrators to insert tubes and feed everyone who isn't online every day.

"Of course, the position of dormitory administrator will always remain. They'll be responsible for running the dormitories. Their usual work includes turning cranks to rotate the linked Iron Net beds and releasing water to wash everyone through the communal showers.

"Mm, it's roughly like taking care of vegetative patients."

Su Yu Niang nodded. "Then once the dormitories are finished, everyone can start forging iron tomorrow afternoon. Can you explain it in more detail?"

Jiu Cai Rong gradually relaxed and began speaking animatedly.

"There's not much to say about forging iron. We have a Magic Copper Mine here. According to the information in the steward's archives, Magic Copper can not only forge all kinds of artifact blanks, but is also the raw material for making Magic Coins."

"And Magic Coins are forged from the fingernails of us Money Boys. In other words, we eat Magic Copper, grow fingernails, then forge them."

"The Magic Coins we make are like button batteries when installed on artifacts. Magic Coins can be recharged repeatedly. A string of copper coins can quickly absorb energy and recover when placed in an environment rich in spiritual energy, but like batteries, they have a limited lifespan in terms of the number of uses."

One Magic Coin = one Spirit Stone that could be recharged repeatedly?

There was quite a lot of information packed into that.

It could be said that this was the core forging gameplay mechanic for Blacksmiths.

And this energy mine was equivalent to oil in the real world. Its value was easy to imagine.

After all, several major countries had fought oil wars!

One could imagine how powerful the owner of this mine had to be in order to monopolize this mineral vein.

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