This Isn't a Game, It's Heroes and Epics!

Zhu Zhengwei logged onto the internet.

Of course, it was not his own built-in forum, but a fairly popular domestic Game Forum. It seemed there was a trend of the game catching fire outside.

He discovered there had to be several hundred posts inside. It was extremely niche, still fermenting within the circle.

Do not look down on a few hundred posts. This was already no simple thing.

He had never promoted it himself, and it was even still in beta testing at present, with beta players required to keep it strictly confidential.

Although most Beta Games on the market said they required beta players to keep things strictly confidential.

But who would really hold beta players responsible?

There were even some shameless game companies that took the initiative to leak information, encouraging beta players to promote the game, scooping up the audience's attention in advance to build momentum for public release. This was already an unwritten hidden rule.

"But I'm not that kind of gaudy, cheap hussy! I really do want you to keep it confidential! Why have you started promoting it anyway??" Zhu Zhengwei's face darkened slightly. He even wanted to hold them accountable for leaking the Beta Game.

But there was no way to hold them accountable. He himself was an unregistered nobody.

He had to be exceedingly careful, searching for Servers one by one, pulling them into the dream to mine, building his own Four-dimensional world, and advancing his world's civilization.

There absolutely could not be another Servers blunder like "Peerless Fierce Man."

At a first glance, all the "leakers" were voluntary promoters of the game.

And most of them were girls. After all, the main target group for this beautiful game really was girls.

But Zhu Zhengwei instead felt a tiny trace of fear precisely because they were all girls, because the combat power of female players was very strong!

Of course, after Zhu Zhengwei saw the posts from the two "girls" beside him, he was no longer at all certain just how many of this Wallpaper Game's players were truly girls.

"Good thing. They're probably all cross-dressing big shots."

His heart loosened with relief.

The two fellows in the dorm had already started posting.

Super Sweetheart Round: "A few days ago, I already promoted this niche, beautiful masterpiece game Mortal World to everyone and introduced the gameplay. Beautiful Wallpaper scenery. Sisters who like it can come take a look. It really helps you sleep super well. I suspect there's some latest Brainwaves technology or Black Technology in it. In short, I slept sweetly and soundly, and my head was much clearer the next day."

"The main gameplay of this game right now is looking at scenery and experiencing the plot—the surging grandeur and vastness of the Torrent of History. It's just like a movie, following an anime, watching a drama. It has practically pioneered a new genre of human VR Game!"

"The story plot is also being serialized in written text all along, made into a fan novel. Everyone can take a look."

"Personally, I feel that in the future, most nutritionally empty web dramas and TV dramas may all be directly impacted by this serialized VR movie game, haha."

"As for asking for videos and pictures? In fact, as everyone knows, a game during beta testing doesn't really allow leaks. This game also has a built-in forum, and the player videos and live Wallpapers on that forum are really super beautiful, but none of us can post them. I guess the forum will only connect with the outside internet during public release. Very regrettable. If any sisters can squeeze into a beta slot, you'll be able to see it!"

They were even acting cute?

You two perverts!

Zhu Zhengwei narrowed his eyes, looking at the fine deeds the two roommates beside him had done.

It seemed that, in order to keep him from doing a handstand and spraying diarrhea everywhere, and to get him appreciated by the company behind Mortal World, they were putting in great effort.

Although Zhu Zhengwei had also secretly advised them to give up.

They had scoffed at it, extremely displeased: "I think you just don't want us brothers to become wildly famous in the future! Even if the game company doesn't take notice of us, we still have a chance to ride this game's massive popularity, make a big haul, and become famous video creators."

Zhu Zhengwei immediately felt they could not be persuaded.

You two insist on going against me, is that it?

Sigh, having two crazed voluntary promoters in his dorm was truly annoying!

But after he secretly glanced at their posts, he was still very confident and did not panic in the slightest.

"Heh heh, not a big problem!"

Zhu Zhengwei glanced at the outside forum. "Game pictures and videos can't be transmitted out, so the impact definitely won't be too great."

For his Wallpaper Game, what was it selling?

Scenery!

Visuals!

"Besides, I came prepared."

He began to calculate.

"With ordinary games, wouldn't they have to do beta testing for a good few years? Wouldn't they have to spend a huge amount of time fixing piles of BUGs? Wouldn't they have to wait several more years for a license number? I can keep beta testing forever and spread it on a small scale!"

He fundamentally did not need promotion.

Because even if this kind of Wallpaper Game had few people, it would be enough for him to use them as Servers.

After all, the expansion speed of his Mobile Dream Network definitely could not keep up with the number of game players flooding in!

And if the game became popular and famous, it would instead make accidents more likely. He also did not need that many players, so it was fundamentally not worth it.

One had to know that in reality, there were countless online games in beta testing like this. One more of his made no difference. He was an ordinary, unremarkable "Minesweeper" game, a scenery-viewing game. Could it become popular while still in beta testing?

No way, right?

He felt his requirements were not high.

In reality, after beta testing for a few years, he could expand some Servers, then take off directly.

What would the four-dimensional world become after three years in reality?

He did not dare imagine it!

"Heh heh heh, you two are like mantises trying to stop a chariot. Can you really keep me from developing quietly? As long as I'm given just a little time to grow, really, just a little." Zhu Zhengwei said inwardly, too lazy to bother with their publicity outside, and walked up to the sink.

Pfft!

The Qi Shield formed a little bowl and began catching water.

He washed his face and felt utterly delighted. Having extraordinary power really was convenient.

But Zhu Zhengwei had simply never guessed that the actual effect would be far greater than he had imagined.

Because these two fellows were, more or less, Roll Kings too. They had racked their brains researching copywriting, and when it came to writing novels, they truly had skill!

At this moment, Li Pang got off the bus after finishing his part-time job, feeling exhausted all over.

These past few days had truly been far, far too tiring.

Recently, he had never been sleeping well. To earn money by working, to lose weight, to prepare for the postgraduate entrance exam, to buy his goddess the women's watch she loved—even when eating in the cafeteria, he was so drowsy he could barely stay awake.

He wished he could split time into two portions to use.

The pressure had been huge lately.

Just then, he logged onto the forum and saw someone in his Moments sharing a recommendation post for a game. He noticed one of the keywords: sleep.

Helping people with insomnia—this was clearly something he did not need.

Right now, he felt that if he collapsed, he could fall asleep immediately!

But he immediately noticed another line: improve sleep quality, wake up refreshed and clear-headed.

Huh?

This was good!

He only slept four hours a day now, but when he woke up, he was still too tired, his whole body weary. Clearly, his sleep quality was not high.

The benefit of improving sleep quality moved him.

This was obviously the threshold for becoming a high-quality human male.

So he clicked open that post and started looking at the game. In the end, merely reading a bit of the plot made his whole person completely absorbed, entranced by the storyline of the novel Mortal World.

The magnificent, surging plot described inside, Stone Light Emperor Zhizheng's life, the three stages of his life appearing in the Tea Shed, and even the perspective of the players on the rooftop at the time—these all made one feel the grandeur of history.

Words were the medium most capable of carrying fantasy, enough for him to fill in the images in his mind and let his thoughts soar.

The further he read, the more his eyes unknowingly grew moist.

When he saw the Divine Being's Three Questions Three Answers, so exquisitely crafted, he could not help praising it more and more. And at the final moment, the novel wrote that all the Immortal Herbs players sang a dirge, sending off the saint.

For some reason, tears suddenly began to circle in his eyes, as if he too were singing that dirge together with those players. In an instant, all kinds of feelings mingled in his heart.

"This is a great hero!"

He gave his evaluation.

He looked at the comments, and it had already gone completely explosive.

Everyone was discussing the novel's plot, incomparably excited and moved.

The entire forum had somehow become like a fanbase for this fan novel. It was clearly supposed to be a game, yet it looked like a post in a novel forum.

"Wow, this story is genuinely wonderful!" one netizen replied.

"Stone Light Emperor Zhizheng is a true hero. He clearly knew that was the most sorrowful thing, yet he chose to die openly and honorably as a human. The most glorious sacrifice is the fate of the Human Emperor!" someone else said.

Li Pang deeply agreed.

In particular, that line Stone Light Emperor Zhizheng sighed to the Divine Being resonated with him the most: [Mortals must accept their own mediocrity, and the strong must accept their own deaths. That is the most sorrowful thing in this world.]

It was precisely because he did not accept his own mediocrity that he struggled desperately and worked hard, even exhausting himself to this point, relying on a single thread of willpower to keep himself from falling.

One of the top comments made Li Pang's heart shake fiercely!

"I have to say, Stone Light Emperor Zhizheng lived as the hero in our hearts! His life has an epic grandeur. Even through words, it is as if I saw, amid lone smoke rising over the great desert, the three turning points of his life beneath that Tea Shed. I feel as if I have already seen that lonely yet stubborn mortal who crossed through countless fields of smoke and blood, that mortal who swung his blade at the three mythical emperors, and beneath the Tea Shed in the twilight of his later years, posed Three Questions Three Answers to a god. He was tenacious, desolate, heroic, melancholy, and tragic."

Many people liked this top comment.

Was this not far more thrilling than those lovey-dovey soap operas that made people cry??

This was a man's hot blood!

Heroes and epics—this was the romance of humanity!!!

Li Pang sighed and discovered that not only had he silently picked up tissues, quite a few people in the comment section were choking up too.

"Just seeing this serialized novel made me cry. Stone Light Emperor Zhizheng, don't die, waaah waaah waaah! (crying.jpg)"

"I personally write novels, and I simply can't reach this level. The plot, the lines, the design are too ingenious. Just reading the novel, I can feel a shocking level of expressiveness! I can't help thinking this way: is this really a novel? Is it a game plot? In my eyes, it feels like real history from another world!"

Li Pang also agreed very much.

Originally, he had only wanted to find a sleep-inducing game to lull himself to sleep, but this game named Mortal World had already sunk deep into his heart. He too seemed to have become one of the wild grasses within it, an onlooker of this mortal world.

Beneath this vast starry sky, who was not an onlooker of history?

The hundred years of a human life were, in the end, nothing but weak and fleeting dust.

This game could be said to be the first game that had ever moved him so deeply. The game production company was so conscientious, so worthy of his admiration, that he instantly fell into the pit.

"I'm definitely sleeping this game."