Chapter 97: Impact and challenge
Su Can was interested in Blizzard's World of Warcraft, just as he had been interested in Facebook back then. It was a pioneering undertaking, and both would change many familiar things in the future. For many future homebody men and women, perhaps they would remember their first journey across Azeroth Continent, their first experience of the world and story Blizzard had created with its customary ease, breaking down the entire framework of traditional Western fantasy and reshaping it. There were also the experiences of calling friends together and running dungeons with countless others in their dorm rooms. They would remember the alluring, tantalizing voice of a female battleground commander, remember getting the girl beside them to clumsily play the game, then fantasizing about the two of them vanishing from the world like the legendary condor heroes.
Back then, a bowl of instant noodles was enough to keep them fighting. Back then, they felt friends had never been so dependable. Back then, a best buddy would always toss over a cigarette, then clench his own between his teeth and say in a cool voice, "Let's log on."
Back then, perhaps there was also a girl beside them. What she liked might not have been the monotonous healer class, endlessly replenishing health, but she had always been used to the guidance of the boy beside her and accepted her assigned role with a little smile. It drew teasing and jeers from countless sour grapes in the game. Back then, there was the excitement of taking down the black dragon for the first time, the chill in their hands and feet the first time they killed another player and took their loot, the magnificent, blood-stirring sight of their first forty-person raid fighting together, and the friendships in epic