Chapter 45: Chapter 45: Saying You’ve Transmigrated Can Cause a Tsunami
After Liang Xueyao familiarized himself with the environment, new players started to trickle in.
Although none of the new players had quite as strange a reaction as Liang Xueyao, it was clear they were all going down the same path the veteran players once had.
"Holy shit, holy shit!!!"
"Oh my god, oh my lord, this is actually a game? I didn’t actually transmigrate?"
"Why is there a foreigner here?!"
"I can’t believe this is a game! Holy shit, I really thought it was a joke! Mom, I’m playing the real-life Sims!!"
"My thirty years of single-guy hand speed weren’t for nothing! I actually snagged a spot! This is awesome, fucking awesome!"
The players were awestruck, each displaying varying levels of culture and refinement.
Zhou Xiao and the others were completely understanding.
After all, when they first arrived, they had acted like complete idiots, marveling at everything. It took them a day or two to get over the initial shock.
Zhou Xiao was in charge of one group of newbies, and Fan Guzhou was in charge of another.
This was mainly because the two of them were more akin to life-skill players, and since they were always running around Wang’an County, they were perfect for guiding new players who were unfamiliar with the environment.
This time, another player from Zhou Xiao’s chat group had made it in.
It was "Old Taoist Ascends," who, after entering the game, was left completely dumbfounded, seemingly turning into a drooling idiot.
He ended up slapping his thigh, speechless, with nothing to say but "Awesome!"
[The twenty new disciples have all arrived. Sect Master Song Jiulai will be here shortly.]
’The new players have arrived. It’s time for my performance again.’
As the twenty new players gathered in the new area, Song Jiulai appeared with a smile.
Ever since she reached the Qi Refining Middle Stage, she projected an extra layer of natural, imposing authority when facing a group of players who didn’t even have Spirit Roots yet.
She was like the bright, clear moonlight in the sky, full of inscrutable mystery.
In other words, she was putting on a very convincing act.
"Welcome, everyone, to my Longevity Sect. As new members, I hope you all have a wonderful time on the Yunzhou Continent."
"I won’t waste time with unnecessary talk. After your Spirit Roots are opened, your senior brothers and sisters will guide you on Sect missions."
With that, she waved her hand, and twenty Spirit Root Inner Cores appeared.
These were newly issued by the system once the players had entered.
The players who received the Spirit Root Inner Cores sat down on the ground, waiting to log back in after their talent-awakening period was over.
Among the twenty players who entered this time, there were still only two women.
In real life, these two were avid celebrity fans; otherwise, they wouldn’t have had the "decades-of-being-single" hand speed needed to snatch a recruitment spot.
They had originally just seen the game trending online and, out of boredom, had fought to get in and play. Who knew they would stumble upon such a huge surprise?
"SHHH-"
After his Spirit Root was opened, Liang Xueyao logged off.
Back in reality, feeling the pressure on the bridge of his nose, a trace of confusion once again flashed through Liang Xueyao’s eyes.
’Why is it that when I’m in the game, I have no sense that I’m playing a VR game at all?’
It was as if he had gone to a completely free world, yet when he opened his eyes, he found the safety harness around his waist was still securely fastened.
He couldn’t feel it at all while playing the game.
But regardless, this time, Liang Xueyao looked down at the empty pant leg on his right side.
Ever since the accident, he had been resistant to looking at his leg, but he could never completely block out the awareness of it.
It was the same this time; he could still perceive the complete lack of sensation in the lower half of his right leg.
But this time was different. The usual heavy depression was gone. Liang Xueyao called his cousin. "Hey, cuz, are you in the game? I’m in the middle of my Spirit Root opening, so I can’t get back on."
Jiang Tianya had just gotten home. Hearing this, he asked, "What’s your timer set for?"
Liang Xueyao thought for a moment. "Two hours and forty-five minutes."
"Not a bad talent, that’s pretty good." Jiang Tianya wasn’t too surprised. "Mine was three hours."
Liang Xueyao could hear the faint amusement and self-satisfaction in Jiang Tianya’s voice and rolled his eyes. "Seriously, cuz? You’re even competing with me over this?"
Jiang Tianya let out a laugh.
Then, both fell silent for a moment. After a while, Jiang Tianya said, "It feels like we haven’t chatted this casually in a long time."
"...Cuz," Liang Xueyao’s voice was a little strained. "How did you find this game?"
"Would you believe me if I said I was just bored?"
He’d seen the announcement in a gaming group chat he had joined a long time ago.
He never posted in the group, so most people didn’t even know he was there.
That day, when Zhou Xiao posted the link, he just happened to be bored and clicked on it for a look.
He then realized this game wasn’t like the usual ones on the market. Coupled with the gimmick of a full-dive simulation, his curiosity was genuinely piqued.
And so, by sheer luck, he got into the game.
"We’re very lucky," Jiang Tianya said. "And now, you’re one of the lucky ones, too."
Liang Xueyao agreed with Jiang Tianya, but he found something strange. "Do you think this seems like technology our country currently possesses?"
"It’s impossible anywhere in the world. Full-dive simulation is scientifically impossible. For the human brain to simulate a 100% realistic environment... never mind anything else, how could you make the sense of touch 100% real? Can you even control yourself in your own dreams?"
Liang Xueyao was shaken. "Then where did this game come from?"
"That’s why I said it’s strange. And... I found out something interesting."
As Jiang Tianya spoke, he looked at the public information on his phone that he’d had someone dig up. "Do you remember that our Sect Master is named Song Jiulai?"
Liang Xueyao replied, "I know. They said it when I entered the game."
Jiang Tianya continued, "Out of curiosity, I looked up the name Song Jiulai. And I discovered that in the real world, in Lin City, there was an orphan girl also named Song Jiulai. What’s more, she looked a lot like our Sect Master, except the Sect Master looks like a flawless, perfect version of her."
Liang Xueyao asked, "Is she the creator of this game? Is that why her name appears in it?"
Jiang Tianya said, "A month ago, she died saving a cat."
Liang Xueyao: "..."
***
"ACHOO!"
’Damn it, how can I still be sneezing when I’m already a Cultivator in another world?’
Song Jiulai adjusted her clothes. "Did I catch a cold? But I don’t feel cold."
System: "Did you finish the TV show?"
Song Jiulai slapped her thigh in anger. "I finished it! If I’d known the ending was going to be such crap, I wouldn’t have watched it! What kind of decent show swaps out the male lead in the last episode? Are the director and screenwriter trying to get revenge on society?"
After finishing the show, Song Jiulai also scrolled through the news to see if there was anything about herself.
She searched for a long time but found no news about herself.
She had died in a car accident saving a cat, for crying out loud, but it didn’t even make the local news.
Song Jiulai suddenly felt a bit wistful. "My whole life, I really was just another face in the crowd of the Great Thousand Worlds, unable to even make a single ripple."
System: "If you posted online that you’ve transmigrated, you wouldn’t just make a ripple. You’d cause a tsunami."
Song Jiulai: "..."
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