Chapter 58: Chapter 58: Gathering 100 Inner Sect Disciples
This was something they had learned about long ago.
Sect Master dies, game over.
Recalling the information they had gathered about the girl in the real world, Liu Wen Yu grew pensive.
She continued to question Zhen Qiang, "This place, the Yunzhou Continent—is all the current information about it the same as what the player Han Tian has presented?"
Zhen Qiang nodded. "Lord Han is in charge of compiling the info. He bases it all on the places he’s been so far. The game map is huge, incredibly huge. Right now, we’re just running around in a small county."
Liu Wen Yu tapped on her laptop and asked thoughtfully, "In your personal opinion, do you think the locals in that game are just a string of data, or... a bit more like people? Like us."
Zhen Qiang was taken aback.
’He hadn’t really considered that question.’
He thought for a moment. He had been to many places recently and met many ordinary people.
Every single one was different.
Zhen Qiang hesitated. "Like... us. They each have their own thoughts. They aren’t formulaic NPCs."
The players had, in fact, already been guessing at what was going on.
They were just all pretending not to know.
’What’s the point of being so smart sometimes?’
’It’s just a game. Just put your head down and play.’
Having a miraculous encounter like this in one’s life was already unbelievable enough.
Liu Wen Yu’s heart skipped a beat.
She slowly began to smile. "So, you’re all currently in a small place called Wang’an County? Subordinate to the Major Sect, the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect?"
Zhen Qiang nodded. "From what I can tell, the Sect Master wants to make the Sect bigger and stronger. But I’m out now, so I probably won’t get any follow-up quests. We have a game group chat, though. If anything happens, everyone will talk about it there."
Liu Wen Yu asked, "Do you know when the next recruitment slots will be available?"
Zhen Qiang was on the verge of tears. "If I knew, I wouldn’t be this worried right now! I don’t even know if I’ll be able to snag a spot next time."
Liu Wen Yu said, "Alright, I understand. Thank you for your cooperation today."
Zhen Qiang asked cautiously, "So... is there anything else?"
Liu Wen Yu stood up, shook her head, and smiled. "Mr. Zhen, just pretend we were never here."
Zhen Qiang watched as they vanished.
Then, he let out a breath.
’Even if there is some major issue, that’s for the government to handle.’
’Right now, all he was worried about was his own spot.’
Meanwhile, after leaving Zhen Qiang’s home, Liu Wen Yu was reeling.
She had only managed to feign composure in front of him.
No one could hear such information and not be shocked.
It was world-shaking.
Utterly unbelievable.
A potentially epoch-making revolution had just appeared out of nowhere.
’What exactly is this game trying to achieve?’
***
"ACHOO—"
Song Jiulai let out a huge sneeze and flew into a rage. "Someone actually left a comment cursing me out! Write down his ID; he’s not getting picked next time we open up slots!"
’Instead of questioning if the game is real, they’re on Weibo complaining that I haven’t released new slots, calling me a damn planner using scarcity marketing.’
System: "It’s fine. Once they get in, they’ll all become your children anyway. He will pay the price for being so unfilial."
"..."
With nothing better to do, Song Jiulai was browsing the internet.
She’d scroll through some gossip from time to time.
’Honestly, she really wanted to know if anyone had given her a proper burial after she died.’
’Unfortunately, she could only operate on the internet and couldn’t contact any of her old friends.’
’Of course, she couldn’t contact them anyway.’
’What if she scared one of them to death?’
Shifting her thoughts, she went back to worrying about her current situation. "Why hasn’t there been any news since Mu Qiu? There are only five days left before the quest deadline, and the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect’s Immortal Sacrifice Ceremony is about to start. I still have to hurry back to Liu Xian City."
System: "In any case, if we don’t complete the quest, we’ll just kick the bucket together. No big deal."
"..."
’Are you even capable of saying anything human?’
Of course, the System had never been one for human talk.
Song Jiulai couldn’t help but ask out of curiosity, "Where exactly did you come from?"
It could provide heaven-defying Elixir Pills and allow Song Jiulai to connect two worlds. It was only temporarily lacking energy; it wasn’t that it lacked the ability.
Its Level was even higher than that of the Cultivation Civilization.
System: "Don’t ask such pointless questions. You know I won’t answer."
Song Jiulai: "Then how did you end up choosing me? Was it because I saved a kitten and you discovered the radiant light of my kind humanity?"
System: "I ran a random selection among all the people in your world who died at the same time. It landed on you. You’re actually pretty lucky."
Song Jiulai: "..."
’What a chilling answer.’
’But that’s fine, too. It just means I’m lucky.’
’And luck is part of success!’
Since she had some free time, Song Jiulai took a look at the player donation points leaderboard.
Because it was just a simple welcome event, aside from the double points, Song Jiulai hadn’t set up any leaderboard rewards.
A leaderboard would mean having to give out extra rewards.
And in her current stingy state, there was no way she’d agree to that.
But she could still see who had the highest donation count at a glance.
Logically, Han Tian and Jiang Ya, those unscrupulous big shots, had teamed up, so they should be the fastest at killing demon beasts.
But their donated points weren’t accumulating as quickly as another group’s.
This four-person group consisted of Ma Xiaoben, Ma Xiaoniao, Wu Dahu, and a new Daoist.
The event offered double points, and the points from donating a First-rank Demon Beast were calculated based on the price of Spirit Stones—10 points per stone. Yet somehow, this group was now over 200 points ahead of the big shots’ team?
"They’re that good?"
Song Jiulai was a little surprised.
The System gave a cold chuckle. "They’ve latched onto a big shot from the Taohua Sect."
Song Jiulai was amazed. "They can even find big shots to latch onto?"
The System said: "Seems to be an Inner Sect Disciple from the Taohua Sect. Lots of resources. The Daoist managed to swindle them with just a few words."
"Impressive," Song Jiulai said, not expecting the players to be so capable. "I can’t believe they found a method like that. Well, whatever. If they can get the double points, it just proves how resourceful they are."
After all, they managed to fool a disciple from the Taohua Sect, and a suspected Inner Sect Disciple at that.
Generally, the treatment of Outer Sect Disciples and Inner Sect Disciples in a Sect is vastly different.
The players who had joined so far were all Inner Sect Disciples, which was why Inner Sect Disciples of the Longevity Sect were a dime a dozen.
But new players who joined later wouldn’t be able to enjoy this kind of treatment.
Song Jiulai planned to release 30 more slots next time, once she had enough energy, to bring the total number of Inner Sect Disciples to 100.
From then on, all incoming players would uniformly be Outer Disciples. They would have to meet certain requirements to be promoted to the Inner Sect.
’Early adopters should get some perks, right?’
Other than helping them with Opening their Spiritual Root at the beginning, the game basically required players to strive for everything themselves.
’You have to dangle a carrot in front of them.’
Song Jiulai stretched. "Once we’ve gathered 100 people, it’ll be time to start the game’s big Version 0.1 update."
’As for the open beta?’
’We’ll see if we can even make it that far.’
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