Chapter 50: Chapter 50: Quite Interesting as a TV Show
["What kind of nonsense is this? You’re Han Tian?"]
["Han Tian isn’t that handsome. So unprofessional, hiring someone to impersonate him?"]
["Dude, don’t you remember you showed your face in your old review videos? Don’t you have any self-awareness about what you look like?"]
As expected, Han Tian was being doubted by the netizens because his face was completely different from his real one.
Han Tian smiled and pinched his own cheek. "I’m not mistaken. I’m in the game right now, using my in-game face, so of course it looks completely different from my real one. When you play a game, do you use your own face?"
The live comments stalled for a moment.
’In-game character creation?’
["Lies!"]
["Definitely a liar. How could he really be in a game? Where’d you set up this film crew?"]
["Is this video AI-generated? Can any of the experts here take a look?"]
["As someone in the AI field, I’m not seeing any signs of AI so far..."]
["This is really weird. Is he abroad? People have been searching on Weibo for days and still can’t find the place from Han Tian’s last video."]
Meanwhile, on screen, Han Tian was already heading out with Zhou Xiao and the others.
He introduced as he walked, "This should be our game’s first welcome event. Right now, we get double points for killing demon beasts, so we’re getting a team together to head where they are. You guys are in for a treat for the next few days. As long as I’m online, I’ll be streaming, and you’ll all get to see how we kill demon beasts."
"Let me give you all a brief introduction to the current situation on the Yunzhou Continent..."
Han Tian began his long-winded explanation.
The netizens watched the livestream, most of them just treating it as a fun spectacle at first.
But soon, some people started to feel that something was off.
A livestream with this much hype quickly drew in hundreds of thousands of netizens. It was inevitable that someone would try to attack the stream’s address.
Not to mention, if they could just prove there was something wrong with his stream, wouldn’t that 1 million be theirs for the taking?
Besides, there were other game companies who were unhappy with the popularity of *Starting with a broken sect*. Sending hackers to attack a game’s servers was an old trick.
Even though the game hadn’t started its open beta, this level of hype was already capturing the market. How could they let him get away with it?
They started with the website.
However, after attacking for a long time, they discovered they couldn’t even find the game server’s address.
A game has to rely on a server. It doesn’t have a server?
Oh, wait, they seemed to have fallen into a trap in their thinking.
This game claimed to be a full-immersion simulation. Whether such a game even existed was still a question.
While the other game companies were still puzzling over it, the audience watching the livestream also felt that something was wrong.
Han Tian had been streaming continuously, and the footage was so realistic it was as if they had truly gone to another world.
Along the way, they finally encountered a First-rank Demon Beast.
This First-rank Demon Beast was handled by Han Tian and Jiang Tianya. Flames erupted from their palms, and when two Fireballs appeared on screen, combined with the beast’s terrifyingly real appearance that lacked any sense of special effects, everyone was stunned.
First, the texture of the Fireballs was too realistic. When the camera zoomed in on the demon beast, you could even see the fine hair on its body—it was just a bit disgusting to look at.
If this was all a hoax, the special effects alone must have cost a fortune.
After defeating the demon beast, Han Tian even explained, "This is a First-rank Demon Beast. We haven’t reached the First Mountain area yet. This area is still close to Wang’an County, so lone demon beasts sometimes wander over."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of bells suddenly came from overhead.
Looking up, they saw another Cultivator passing by on a Flying Magical Treasure. The Flying Magical Treasure looked like a woven flying carpet. A Cultivator was sitting cross-legged on it, and bells hung around its edges, jingling as it flew.
"Holy crap—"
Han Tian quickly panned the camera over to the Cultivator.
It was a good thing the local Cultivators of the Yunzhou Continent couldn’t perceive this livestream.
The flying carpet was fast, and it quickly disappeared from everyone’s sight.
"A Flying Magical Treasure, only sold by the Artifact Refining Sect." Han Tian’s voice was filled with unconcealable envy. "You need to be at least in the Late-stage Qi Refining to control a Flying Magical Treasure for travel. We’re just a bunch of weaklings at the Early Stage of Qi Refining right now. Besides, Flying Magical Treasures are incredibly expensive. The cheapest ones start at five Mid-grade Spirit Stones. Most Cultivators can’t afford them."
"If you work hard, you can refine one yourself. I plan on going down the Artifact Refining path later, though personally, I’d still rather use Sword Control."
After all, flying on a sword, or using a Flying Sword Heart Method, was a dream ingrained in the bones of most Huaxia people.
Although modern technology was advanced enough to create photorealistic special effects, Han Tian’s stream had been running for over an hour. The background behind him never repeated, and a constant stream of what could only be money-guzzling special effects kept appearing, all of it unbelievably real.
If it was fake, would they really pay such a huge price just to hype up a game?
Some people didn’t care whether it was real or fake; they were simply captivated by the images on Han Tian’s stream.
Such realistic scenes were even more exciting than watching a foreign blockbuster.
And it was set in a Cultivation world, a favorite among the domestic audience.
People were even analyzing every single frame of Han Tian’s livestream.
「In the real world.」
A certain special department in Huaxia.
"Xiaoqing, have you found anything?"
A middle-aged man with a righteous air about him walked over, rubbing the bridge of his nose.
His brow was furrowed with concealed fatigue.
Xiaoqing looked at him with an expression of disbelief and swallowed hard. "Minister, I don’t know how to explain this, but there’s definitely something wrong with this game. I had our internal colleagues take a look, and we can’t find the source of the game’s server. I also watched this player’s livestream, and even checked the website he’s streaming on. It turns out his stream signal isn’t being sent from the website’s server."
The man was taken aback. "What does that mean, exactly?"
Xiaoqing said, "Let me use a simple analogy. To get online, we need a signal to transmit information, and we use electromagnetic waves for that transmission. But his livestream has no signal. I can’t trace the source. It’s as if the source of the signal vanished into thin air. Or rather, as if there is no source..."
"Something unknown has appeared out of nowhere. And if it’s not unknown, then it’s something far more technologically advanced than us..."
But he was, in fact, cooperating with a website to conduct his livestream.
He was using the website’s server, but the livestream signal wasn’t coming from the website.
Wei Jun’s expression instantly turned grim.
Years ago, he was in an accident during a business trip but was saved by Liang Xueyao, who was traveling with him at the time.
He had suffered a blow to the head, resulting in chronic headaches. For the sake of his health, his superiors had transferred him to this safe, rear-echelon agency.
But Liang Xueyao, that kid, had lost part of his leg, and his dreams were shattered along with it.
Ever since, Wei Jun had always felt guilty toward Liang Xueyao. It was an accident no one had wanted.
Yet Liang Xueyao had never once approached him about it.
Until last night, when he had suddenly sent a message, telling him to investigate a game that had appeared out of nowhere on the internet. He said the game was very strange, and that a player would be livestreaming today, suggesting Wei Jun should watch.
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