Empirical Evidence and "Rewards"

"Things are quite unusual. After yesterday's tests, we found that some users still in their mission cooldown period, who were not selected as tourists, had somehow successfully logged in as well—"

"More precisely, it did not, as in previous cases, restrict more users from entering the Newcomer Trial—frankly, we still cannot determine whether this carries any special significance."

The conference room was still brightly lit.

Groups of people sat in their seats, nearly all middle-aged or elderly, starting from their forties and fifties. Some had skin wrinkled like chicken skin, and every one of them held documents in their hands.

The one holding a microphone and speaking, on the other hand, looked relatively young.

"Based on the information fed back to us, we have currently confirmed only two so-called Large-scale Newcomer Trial Planes."

"One is the Corrupted Heroes' Graveyard, which clearly leans toward Western fantasy and can be called the Cemetery District for short. The other is the Tokyo District, which appears to have a modern setting but is in fact extremely dangerous."

Two conspicuous headings appeared on the large screen behind the speaker: [Cemetery] and [Tokyo].

"In these two areas, the tasks given to tourists seeking to become official users differ. In the Cemetery, they must hunt. In Tokyo, their qualifying task is survival!"

"These are two entirely different concepts."

"It is clear that their orientations differ: one requires taking the initiative, while the other requires passive survival!"

As the mouse moved, large amounts of images, annotations, source analyses, and other information appeared on the screen. There were bizarre, abnormal things and humanoid figures: Skeletons with extensive damage between their bones, armor constantly falling apart as they moved, and a piece of rusted iron in one hand that could scarcely be called a blade.

Or enormous human figures two