I Have a Group of Earth Players
Chapter 5

Mining, farming, assembly line?

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"Hello? Mom? Oh, a blind date? Uh... I can't make it. I have to work overtime this weekend. Yeah, that's what happens when your son is in this profession. Coders don't get Saturdays and Sundays, you know?"

"Yeah, we'll talk later. I'm hanging up now..." The fatty in the game pod unblinkingly lied to his mom.

It's rare to get a weekend off, how could he let something as boring as a blind date ruin it? Can girls be as fun as games?

After hanging up, Pu Yunchuan scrolled through the game icons inside the pod, preparing to choose a good simulation game to spend his pleasant weekend.

Should he solve a suspenseful case with a policewoman today, or have a forbidden love with a beautiful teacher, or transform into a soldier king to conquer a cold and arrogant female CEO?

Ah... such a difficult choice...

"Dear player: G Ni Tai Mei, hello. According to the latest Stay-at-Home Order from the Federal Entertainment Administration, many simulation games have been ordered to be removed from the shelves because they are too corrosive to the physical and mental health of young people, including..."

"What?!" Pu Yunchuan's fat trembled, and he quickly clicked into his favorites to see if anything had happened to his treasured collections.

Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard: Removed from shelves. Campus Evil Young Master: Removed from shelves. Urban Leisurely Journey: Removed from shelves...

Reason for removal: The content is vulgar and unbearable, extremely YY. According to investigations, as many as seventy players have died suddenly due to excessive indulgence, and millions of players have suffered from indescribable diseases. It has seriously endangered the physical and mental health of citizens and violated Articles 43, 71, and 85 of the Virtual Network Law. According to the requirements of the Administration, such works have been banned, and the designers who created these works shall not put new works on the shelves for five years.

This game pod platform firmly supports the regulations of the Administration and hopes that the majority of designers and players will join us in resisting vulgarity and building a healthy environment for the virtual world...

"I X#& you @¥#, you piece of shit ##*&, go to hell you XXX!"

Pu Yunchuan looked at this announcement, stunned for a minute, and then cursed like a shrew, using vulgar language that the author couldn't write.

After cursing for a full half hour, Pu Yunchuan lay exhausted in the game pod, thinking to himself: What's the point of playing games then? Should he call his mom and tell her he's not working overtime and can go on a blind date?

After thinking about it, he looked at his bloated body, a haggard and greasy face, and also suffering from an indescribable disease, and immediately dismissed the idea. He sighed, clicked into the game platform, and thought he'd find a mainstream game to pass the time.

Titan, Dungeon, League of Legends version 198, looking at a series of games that once made him forget to eat and sleep, the fatty couldn't muster a trace of desire to click in. The brothers who used to play together have all gone their separate ways, some getting married, some raising children. Rather than going online and seeing a bunch of grayed-out friend icons and adding to his depression, he might as well find a new game to check out.

"Huh? Star Sea?" Pu Yunchuan was stunned. Titan is so popular now, and there's still a clueless company daring to release a science fiction game?

He curiously clicked into the reviews and saw it written: Folk masterpiece, the graphics completely crush any game on the market, remember, any game!! The early game pace is slow, but it has a 100% real experience, as if you have really traveled to another world and started a new life. It is an absolutely unmissable work!

Graphics: Five stars, Models: Five stars, Gameplay: Provisional five stars, click in, and you are guaranteed not to regret it!!

"What the!!" Pu Yunchuan's mouth twitched, and he thought: What a joke, which review company is being so exaggerated? Even if they're paid to do it, this is too much hype, right? The graphics completely crush any work on the market? A folk masterpiece? If there was such a game, the media would have blown it up already, okay?

Another unscrupulous review company, I've been in the gaming world for so many years, do you think I'll be fooled by this kind of clickbait title?

I'm going to click in today and see what this game that's blowing its own horn looks like!!

"What? Still have to wait in line?" Pu Yunchuan was amused when he clicked in and saw that there were still over a thousand people ahead of him. A folk work is being hyped so much, and they're even deliberately hiring some shills to do this kind of thing, right? Do you think I'll believe your server is full?

Tch!

"Hey? Ugly Delivery? Give me a pork chop bento and three bottles of War Horse, yes! The kind that lets you stay up for two nights straight, give me three bottles!"

I'm staying up all night to wait in line today, I'm going to go in and see what this damn game looks like!!

"This is..." Pu Yunchuan stared blankly at his surroundings, thinking: Could it be that he fell asleep after waiting too long and had a dream? As expected, drinking War Horse to stay up for ten nights straight is just a legend?

But if it's not a dream, the graphics of this game are too awesome, right?

"Hey, newbie!" Just as Pu Yunchuan was sighing, a burly Green Titan next to him shouted, "What are you spacing out for? Hurry up and sign the contract to have the surgery, make room for the players behind you, don't delay their queue!!"

"Oh, oh..." The fatty nodded quickly upon hearing this.

He had seen this kind of situation before. When a new game server opens, there are too many people in the novice village. To ensure the map isn't too laggy, there will be a limit on the number of people, so there will be queuing. But how many years has it been since this situation occurred?

Nowadays, there are many game companies, not to mention many private studios and designers. No less than a thousand games are launched every year. The novice village being full like this has only happened with Titan, which had been delayed for twenty years.

He always thought it was the game deliberately hiring shills, but looking at the expressions of the people around him and the game graphics, he guessed there really were so many people.

"This contract..." Pu Yunchuan stared at the contract, somewhat dazed.

The Green Titan next to him said impatiently, "Are you really reading it line by line? It's not like you're really selling yourself. Hurry up and sign it, don't delay the people queuing up behind you!"

"Oh, oh..." Pu Yunchuan quickly nodded and signed, but after signing, he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt like something was lost.

"Quick, queue up inside for surgery!"

"Surgery?" The fatty quickly asked, "What kind of surgery?"

After understanding, Pu Yunchuan realized the setting was to give players new races through biological surgery. This setting was quite interesting.

He walked outside the biology lab and saw a green light ball handing him a form with biological surgeries to choose from, which were the so-called races.

Pu Yunchuan looked at it. There were three existing race choices. One was the Green Titan, the kind maintaining order in the hall, looking like the Hulk, big and burly. Pu Yunchuan disdained it. Although he was fat, he liked to play agile and elegant ADCs in both Dungeon and League of Legends. He always had no interest in brainless meat-shielding warriors, and it said on the form that the Green Titan's early job was mining.

Mining? What a joke? He wasn't going to see beautiful girls and instead come to the game to mine? Did they really think his brain was made of iron?

Then he directly looked at the choices behind.

The second type was Developer. The direction of evolution was the brain, which would maximize the development of the modified person's brain, thereby obtaining terrifying calculation abilities. The later route was to take on professions such as manager, scientific researcher, and precision instrument operator. In the early stage, they were responsible for controlling various precision instruments in the base and the energy decomposition work of the Fire Ant Mine.

The third type was Wood Elf. The direction of evolution was more complicated. In the early stage, after retaining the brain, they would become pure spiritual bodies, and then they would evolve the perfect body unique to the elf race. After having a body, the direction of evolution would become more diverse. In the first stage, they could only be responsible for the maintenance of base crops and the tracking and cultivation of biological specimens in the form of spiritual bodies.

After reading it, the fatty was stunned. The early choices were either mining or farming? There wasn't even a single route that called them to go out to level up and fight monsters. What did this game want to do?

Could it be that they really wanted players to build a base together and then carry out interstellar expansion?

Damn, this design ambition is too big, right?

Even with artificial intelligence and high-energy computers later on, no mainstream game has been able to break through the leveling and monster-fighting mode. Those so-called high degrees of freedom and innovative gameplay are all bragging. This is also why he later became obsessed with raising games, because fighting was all the same, and it naturally became boring after a long time.

Did this game want to step into a new field?

The fatty immediately became excited. Regardless of whether it would be a bad ending later, just because it had this heart, he would definitely support it like crazy. When it went into public beta, he would buy it even for 10,000 Federal currency!

"Hey, hey, what are you spacing out for? The people behind are waiting, hurry up and fill it out, are you going to mine, farm, or work on the assembly line?"

"Mining, I'll mine!"

Compared to turning into a ball and floating around, it was more interesting to become a Green Titan and mine

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