On the second day after the lord returned, Grandpa Lu, who had been listless before, suddenly perked up when he saw so many new NPCs. After observing them with great interest for an entire day, he immediately began writing a second guide for the Dawnlight Reviews column.
"Hello, everyone. It's me again, your beloved Grandpa Lu. First, I'd like to thank all the netizens for liking my previous guide. It occupied the gaming-post hot-search rankings for an entire month and was never surpassed by a tasteless post like Brother Zhi Teaches You to Eat Dumplings. Grandpa Lu is deeply gratified. Many friends have been urging me to update with a second guide. Let me explain here: it's not that I didn't want to update, but that there really wasn't anything to update. The game had only a little content in its early stages, and I'd already covered everything worth saying in my first post. There wasn't much point in making a second one."
"Fortunately, although this game moves slowly, it still knows that it can't remain unchanged forever. Three days ago, the lord personally selected the player with the highest Glory Points from each race to follow him back to the Great Alliance on a procurement mission. I was honored to become the Wood Elf representative this time. Below, I'll first talk about my experience on the mission."
"First of all, I have to say that this game absolutely isn't unfinished! I know that, as the game's popularity has gradually increased recently, many companies have hired Troll Armies to start smearing it. I honestly can't understand it. There are only a few thousand players in the game, yet the review section has nearly seven hundred thousand one-star reviews from different users. Some people even wrote long essays criticizing it as unfinished. I really want to ask: Have you played it? Have you? If you damn well have, then have the guts to reveal your ID! There are only so many players in the game, and they usually crowd into Newbie Village. Give me a name, and I guarantee I can prove you exist!"
"Next, I'll post a group of screenshots. These screenshots can prove what I'm saying. They come from the places we saw during this mission: an Interstellar Train several thousand zhang long, academy scenery like the Celestial God Palace, and a super-large free-trade market. That market in particular was far beyond my imagination. Just one market felt like it might be larger than an entire urban district. We walked for three full hours, yet there were still countless shops as far as the eye could see. The variety of goods nearly blinded my titanium-alloy dog eyes. They sold high-tech products, magic items, interstellar monsters, and even mechas!"
"Yes, this game has mechas. Here, I want to apologize to all the players I previously advised not to choose the Developer class. Latest news: as classes develop in the later stages, only Developers may have the chance to become Mecha Warriors. Moreover, aside from becoming Mecha Warriors, Developers can also choose magic-based classes!"
To those who had already entered the game but, influenced by my previous article, hadn't chosen Developer, I sincerely apologize. Grandpa Lu was wronged too. The game hadn't given away a single hint—who the hell could have known that this awful class would have such a glorious future? And who could have imagined that a science-fiction game would have Magic Masters? Still, I have to say that the Developer class is extremely tedious in its early stages, practically equivalent to being an assembly-line worker. Those who are a little more talented, like the expert Yu Nv Wu Gua, become absorbed in all kinds of algorithms. The fun is far inferior to playing an Elf or a Hulk. If you can't stand that, I still don't recommend this class.
"Now I'll talk about the game's changes. The base has hired a new batch of NPCs, apparently to guide us through advancement. The largest group consists of Developer instructors. Their subjects include electrical and mechanical engineering, mechanics, chemistry, biology, agriculture, medicine, and other common technical fields. According to the lord's rules, whether you want to advance into a mage class, become a Mecha Warrior, or take some other Mental Department class later, you must choose one technical field to study. Anyone who wants to become a Mecha Warrior must master both mechanics and electrical and mechanical engineering."
This was practically going back to university for remedial classes. Learning knowledge inside a game—after living this long, it was honestly my first time hearing of such a thing. What a positive and exemplary game! Once again, let us mourn in silence for the Developer players...
Of course, for Developer players, the best news was the few instructors specializing in magic at the base. The mage classes had four instructors, teaching Arcane Arts, Elemental Shaping, Divination, and Demon Department specialization respectively. With the magic professions divided so finely, I had no idea what the later combat system would be like. Since everyone had only just begun receiving instruction, I didn't know the characteristics of these four magic classes, especially Divination. What was this thing even for? During battle, would you predict whether you'd throw a left punch or use Thousand Years of Death?
The Hulk instructors were numerous as well. Including that mighty Chief Instructor, there were sixteen of them in total. PS: That chief instructor was damn mighty!!
Unlike the complicated Developers, the Hulks clearly seemed to be a warrior race. According to the lord's rules, Hulk players could apply for lessons after moving bricks for two hundred hours. So newcomers should obediently move bricks and stop complaining. Before you arrived, we'd already been moving bricks for two months, all right? Besides, applying for lessons required points. If you didn't move bricks, where would you get the points to spend?
The lessons were all combat-related. I went to learn a little about them, and they mainly fell into two major departments: the Berserk Department and the Weapon Specialization Department. The Berserk Department's specific training seemed to involve guiding Bloodline Berserk. I interviewed two players who had learned berserk transformation about how it felt. According to them, while berserk, they felt omnipotent, but five seconds later they felt as though they were about to collapse and die. The contrast was unbelievably exhilarating.
The Weapon Specialization training was more straightforward: training with cold weapons. The ten instructors each specialized in a different type of cold weapon. The most popular were the Spear Department and Battle Axe Department, while the least popular were the Bow Department and Iron Fist Department.
However, this was what puzzled me. This seemed to be a science-fiction game. I'd already seen those enormous settings earlier, a world with mechas and warships. So what use could training with cold weapons possibly have?
The last instructors were those for us Wood Elves. I didn't know why, but our Wood Elf instructors currently numbered only one. She was an incredibly beautiful cute girl, as if she'd stepped right out of a painting. My new wife was already reserved.
That girl's current job was to guide us Wood Elves into forming proper bodies. I still didn't understand what that meant. After a day's guidance, everyone had become bizarrely different. The smaller changes were from a ball into an oval, while the larger changes directly turned someone into a lump of soap.
I myself became something resembling ice cream. According to that instructor, forming an Elf's body was an extremely important process. Different forms foretold your future class. So I was very curious: what class would that lump of soap become later?
"Finally, here's one more piece of news. The lord just announced that there would be a large-scale cooperative mission later, and a group of players with excellent training results would be selected to participate. He didn't specify the exact standards, but I estimate I have no chance."
Ever since that bastard Liver King crushed me to death on the planet last time, I seemed to have returned in a new body. I had already become familiar with projecting Mental Strength, but now I felt I had to adapt all over again. I suspect this game uses a death-reset system. Once you die, you can revive, but the thing you evolved before **seems to be impossible to replicate. So everyone, be extremely careful when carrying out missions outside. Whatever you do, don't touch anything you shouldn't.
I myself am the perfect example. I used to be the number-one Elf player, but after reviving, my progress in forming a body couldn't even keep up with some newcomers. I guess this mission is out of my reach. That damn Liver Emperor's ancestor must have been chicken offal. For the rest of my life, I'll fight him to the bitter end!!
All right, that's all I'll write for today. If there are any new developments later, I'll update immediately. If there's anything I didn't mention, please have the experts in the game correct me. I'm off to have my wife guide me. See you all later!
After reading the post, Xi Ye habitually scrolled down. The post had only been published for half an hour, but the comments below already numbered over ten thousand.
The missing person has finally returned! Damn, you need to talk about more! Does that mage class have any requirements? If you choose Developer, does that mean you can definitely become a Magic Master?
Exactly! You only said that your instructor was beautiful. Post a screenshot!
Wow, that train screenshot is awesome! Where did they hire this art team? It's freaking amazing!
This mecha is even cooler! Holy crap, look at those details and that texture! I've decided—I want to become a Mecha Warrior. If that means studying electrical and mechanical engineering, so be it. At worst, I'll go through university all over again. By the way, is the electrical and mechanical engineering knowledge in there reliable? Can you use it in real life after learning it?
Grandpa Lu, are you sure you became ice cream? A lump of shit is a lump of shit—no one's going to laugh at you. By the way, you Elves choose classes according to your forms. What class will you become? A dung shoveler?
It seemed that no one still suspected how strange the game was. After reading the comments, Xi Ye nodded in satisfaction. As long as he had the Developer players sign confidentiality agreements, he should be able to keep the operation concealed for quite some time.
Speaking of which, would this mission really work? Xi Ye felt somewhat worried. According to Intelligent Big Data's calculations, the virus outbreak and civil unrest would most likely occur in a month. The mission was scheduled to last seven days, which meant the players had only half a month to train. Could they really be sent out to carry out the mission?
At this thought, Xi Ye began to worry again. Sigh... Being a boss really wasn't easy...
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