Chapter 501 Opening

7:30.

Outside Chunying Gymnasium.

The players gradually became agitated.

Because the ticket checking began.

The players in the front row began to move forward excitedly.

"This is the ticket and ID."

The first person to check the ticket was Li Yu.

Yes.

Li Yu not only used the name of the number one player to get the ticket numbered NO.1, but he was even the first in line...

In the end, he still didn't sell his ticket.

Although it seems that the money from those who bought his ticket is not small, the premium is nearly three hundred times...

No matter how you think about it, it feels like a good profit.

After all, he sold the ticket and it doesn't mean he can't participate. He can buy another ticket.

But.

For some reason, he always has a hunch that the value of this ticket may be much more than this in the future.

Although this hunch is not supported by actual evidence, he finally resisted the temptation and suppressed the idea of ​​selling.

And he doesn't regret it now.

As for why he is the first in line.

This is his little persistence.

He always feels that he has the first ticket, and it is unreasonable not to enter the venue first.

So he came here to line up long ago...

"Hello, you can go in."

The ticket checker at the door said.

Li Yu, whose thoughts were slightly drifting away, woke up.

He suddenly came back to his senses, whispered a thank you, walked in quickly, then stopped and looked around.

Because he was the first one.

So there were no players in the venue except the staff.

The entire venue was basically divided according to the previous e-sports festival.

The main stage is right after entering.

Theoretically, it can accommodate about 35,000 people.

In the past, the finals of the e-sports festival were held here every year.

And further in, there are three other secondary stages separated by partitions. In the past, the e-sports festival was used to hold regional competitions, but now according to the schedule of the carnival.

These will be used as the stage for the symposium.

Linmu Studio's product department executives will appear one after another in the next few days, go on stage, and look forward to the future of the game with the players, and conduct QA questions and answers.

Overall, the venue is the stage of the e-sports festival. After all

, last year's e-sports festival ended only a few months ago, so it can be used right away.

This may be one of the reasons why Linmu Studio was able to prepare for this carnival so quickly.

However.

Although the venue was used, Linmu Studio did not perfunctorily arrange the layout for the players.

Not to mention the various on-site arrangements to adjust the atmosphere.

Many small screens were installed above the entire main stage. The upper part was showing the game logo of Linmu Studio, covering all their games, and the other part was playing some hand-drawn.

The quality of the hand-drawn pictures varied.

Some were good and some were bad.

Because the characters in the paintings were different.

The people in the paintings were also different.

Some were players.

But more were the employees of Linmu Studio.

There were PC departments, console departments, operation departments, and even departments with the prefix of testing.

Li Yu looked at all kinds of weird hand-drawn pictures and smiled softly.

Although the quality was uneven.

But it can be seen that the authors of these hand-drawn pictures have put a lot of thought into them, and the messages below are also written with sincerity. Some are for players, some are for Linmu Studio Carnival, and some are written on it for personal gain, "The boss is so cute"...

Just looking at these fun hand-drawn pictures, Li Yu can imagine the working atmosphere of Linmu Studio.

Li Yu stood there and watched for a while.

It was not until the players behind entered the venue one after another and the staff reminded him that he needed to go to the main stage to find his seat that he moved and went to the row of chairs closest to the stage.

When other players came in, they were similar to him.

While looking at the stage layout, they looked up at the screen above their heads and went to their seats under the advice of the staff.

They all had excitement and excitement on their faces.

On the other side.

Li Yu had already arrived at the first row of the main stage, the middle position.

It was the first time he sat so close to the front.

The whole stage was in full view.

This was also the reason why he was reluctant to sell his ticket.

This position is too good! !

And soon after he sat down.

Soon.

As time passed.

More and more players entered the venue, and some players sat next to Li Yu who was

looking around. Two foreigners and a Chinese who looked about the same age as him.

"Pete, it feels like I'm attending an e-sports festival."

One of the two foreigners, tall and thin, compared the Arabic numbers on the seats, then sat down next to Li Yu and chatted with his friend next to him.

On the other side, a young man who looked like a meat mountain was holding a large cup of happy water bought from McDonald's. He looked at the stage and replied, "Indeed, I just don't know if there is such a good atmosphere in the e-sports festival. By the way, what's the matter with the drums and tubas on the stage? A symphony orchestra? I'm not here to see the Metropolitan Opera House performance..."

"Who knows? Anyway, our purpose is not this. Let me see. The fan meeting of the sequel to "Call of Duty" will be held on the third day. Our purpose is this... But since you have bought the ticket, let's take a look. What if there is a surprise?"

"Okay, what you said makes sense... But I still have the same question. What's the matter with the musical instruments on the stage? It always makes people feel ominous."

"How do I know!"

"... "

Li Yu has a good level of foreign language. He barely understood what the other party said and smiled.

He actually noticed the arrangement on the stage that looked like a symphony orchestra.

This thing is very rare in game-related exhibitions.

He remembered that a few years ago, at the first "Breakout" challenge, Linmu Studio arranged guzheng and other things on the stage to give players a Chinese style opening ceremony.

But it was the finals at that time.

It does feel a bit out of place to start with this kind of thing.

After all, games have never been suitable for classical symphonies.

However.

Li Yu did not have the same worries as the other party.

After so many years of baptism, after the foreshadowing of the "Easter Egg Adventure", he was not worried at all that Linmu Studio would fail at the crucial opening ceremony.

Even if there was a symphony that didn't seem to match the game.

Just like the Chinese players on the other side of him...

"Fuck! Symphony!? Is Linmu Studio going to do something again!?"

Yes.

This was probably the first thought of the domestic players when they saw this scene.

Li Yu turned his head away.

After sighing, the player happened to notice his gaze, turned his head to look at Li Yu, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "Dude, your position is number one, which is good... It can't be that 'Duoyu', right?"

"Hello, my name is Li Yu."

Li Yu smiled at him.

"Fuck! European emperor! No, great god!"

The player immediately became excited when he heard Li Yu admit it.

"No, I was just lucky." Li Yu shook his head.

"Not everyone can find the last Easter egg just because they are lucky."

The player shook his head and said, "At most, I can get a good spot, but I have to compete with a bunch of animals... Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Yi Wenwen."

Yi Wenwen didn't expect that the top player of the 'Easter Egg Adventure' would be sitting next to him, but

he was only surprised for a moment. After looking at Li Yu with a little curiosity, he turned his eyes to the stage and said expectantly, "But the 'Easter Egg Adventure' is over. I wonder how many surprises Linmu Studio will bring us this time!"

"I don't know either, let's look forward to it."

Li Yu replied, and then looked at the main stage with the same expectation.

On the other side.

"It seems that they are looking forward to it..."

The tall and thin foreigner named Pete next to Li Yu looked at the expressions of the two domestic players and said, "So the opening ceremony should not be too disappointing, Marvin. In fact, it won't be bad if you think about it. After all, it is the company that made "Call of Duty" and can beat Gibbs and Dreamland."

"Well, you are right, so... why do you have to put bass drums and tubas at the game carnival?"

Marvin took a sip of Coke, nodded slightly, and then asked.

"I don't know! And why are you entangled with this?"

"It feels like I can't get excited, so... why do you think there are bass drums and tubas?"

"FUCK..."

...

As time went by.

More and more players entered the venue.

Under the main stage, the empty seats were filled one by one.

The venue, which was originally quiet, became noisy.

Because the players all entered.

After many players sat down, they observed the venue and the stage at the same time.

Like Marvin, they also felt that it was strange to see symphony instruments on the main stage.

It is indeed... inappropriate.

If a rock band appeared on it.

The players didn't find it strange at all.

But the symphony does have its flaws.

However, the vast majority of domestic players are still looking forward to it.

Soon,

as everyone arrived,

half past eight approached.

The red curtain on the stage suddenly fell,

covering the main stage.

At the same time, the lights in other parts of the stage were dimmed, and the small screens hanging above the players' heads were also turned off.

This attracted the attention of all the players to the only stage with strong lights on.

"Is it coming?"

Li Yu saw this signal and immediately sat up straight and looked at the stage.

Yi Wenwen next to him was similar, staring at the direction of the stage intently.

Just over ten minutes passed quickly.

At eight thirty,

the stage curtain slowly opened.

The robotic arm suspended above the players also aimed the camera at the stage.

On the originally empty stage,

a whole symphony orchestra appeared in the center of the stage.

A conductor turned his back to the players and picked up the baton.

The other band members were wearing noise-isolating headphones and were also ready. They picked up their instruments and looked at the music score.

The entire venue became silent at this moment.

"Hou Lixie, is it really a symphony?"

Front row.

Marvin spit out the happy water straw in his mouth and was a little surprised to see this scene.

At this time.

The conductor raised the baton and waved it.

The first tone sounded.

Ding...

Then.

The performance began.

But it was not the classical and melodious symphony imagined by the players or Marvin... but a song with a tight rhythm and very catchy.

And the moment the melody sounded.

Almost all the players present reacted.

This is... the main theme of "Sherlock Holmes"!

The super nice BGM that often appears with the Tower of London!

At this time.

The picture on the big screen behind the symphony orchestra also confirmed the players' guess.

The CG of "Sherlock Holmes" appeared.

The scenes of Holmes and Watson tracking down the criminals in the game flashed by quickly.

And the first wave of cheers from the players

came soon .

As the music gradually reached its climax.

At the entrance.

An elegant gentleman with a pipe in his mouth walked out. He came to the center of the stage, then faced all the audience, gently pressed the brim of his hat, and saluted.

The COS was Sherlock Holmes!

"Wuhu~"

At the venue, when seeing Holmes salute everyone with the main theme of the game played by the symphony orchestra,

the players immediately burst into huge cheers.

But some people haven't reacted yet.

For example, Marvin in the front row.

He held the happy water in his hand, still stunned: "Is it just for such a game? That's too..."

He didn't finish his words.

The main theme of "Sherlock Holmes" was played to the end.

At this time, the symphony orchestra suddenly changed the tune!

Seamless connection!

The main theme of "Detective Dee" was played directly.

Then the same thing happened.

As the main theme of "Detective Dee" sounded, an actor who COSed as Detective Dee came up and looked at all the audience, looking intimidating without anger.

"OHHH!!"

After a brief moment of confusion, the players immediately reacted and burst into even stronger cheers! !

It turned out to be like this!

It turned out to be a medley! !

Front row.

Marvin was stunned on the spot.

Pete next to him was also stunned on the spot. After a long while, he muttered: "You see, this is why they put up the bass drum and tuba."

"The principle is..."

But Marvin didn't finish his words.

Because as the main theme of "Detective Dee" was finished.

On the stage.

The symphony orchestra played another variation.

A new melody sounded...

The moment Marvin heard it, his DNA moved!

Because what was being performed was the main theme of "Call of Duty"!

And as the main melody sounded.

The big screen behind the symphony orchestra showed Price leading the team to carry out missions everywhere.

A fully armed man wearing a boonie hat and a cigar in his mouth, who was COSing as Captain Price, walked onto the stage.

He came to the center of the stage, and then looked at all the players with a look of arrogance like a new recruit, and turned around and left.

"OHHH!!!!"

The cheers of the players got even louder!

Li Yu was even startled.

Because just now, two overseas players next to him who were still worried about whether they could have fun suddenly stood up from their chairs and jumped on the spot.

Marvin almost spilled the Coke on him. He

was so excited that he couldn't control himself.

Of course.

In the end, Li Yu just glanced at them, and soon, his attention returned to the stage and continued to cheer!

Because this feeling was really amazing for the players.

The symphony orchestra, which was originally unrelated, played the main theme of the game. In between the performances, various familiar characters came on stage one by one.

At this moment.

The game, classical music and COS fashion show, a perfect combination!

This is a brand new experience that can't be felt anywhere else!

It would be strange if the players didn't cheer!!!

The atmosphere is high!

And then...

It was like going back in time...

starting with the latest release of Sherlock Holmes.

Going back all the way.

All the main themes of all the games released by Linmu Studios were connected into one song, a medley performance!

And then came the representative characters of each game.

After Call of Duty, it was Civilization!

After Civilization, it was Kirby! It was Dark Souls!

Marvin and Pete next to Li Yu.

Unexpectedly, they knew quite a few game characters.

After the appearance of Price in Call of Duty, they would howl after almost every character appeared. And this kind of emotion   reached a climax

after the appearance of the Lich King in Warcraft.   Seeing the Lich King, who was fully armed and holding a 1:1 Frostmourne, appear,   Li Yu cheered the loudest he could, and felt that his voice was hoarse.   And then.   The cheers of the players were a little smaller, although still loud.   But they seemed to have gotten used to the combination of symphony, games and COS.   Until the main theme of Breakout sounded!   The Breakout players, who have a huge base, contributed a big cheer.   However, when it came to the next game, the last game, Fantasy OL, it returned to the previous level.   However.   It's still very big.   On the stage.   COSER Xie Jun heard the deafening cheers of the players, took several deep breaths at the entrance, and then walked out after the main theme sounded, facing the audience calmly, and walked off the stage after posing.   As soon as he walked off the stage.   His legs went weak...   The enthusiasts next to him were quick to support him.   "How is it? Are you okay?"   "Fuck! I'm fine, but this is too outrageous!!!"   Xie Jun waved his hand.   All the COSERs who appeared this time were partly from a large COS group, and partly from actors.   Xie Jun didn't know about the actors, but he really had never participated in a COS show with such an enthusiastic audience!   The young ladies standing outside the venue were not so exaggerated!   He was not playing a young lady, but a grown man!   In fact, it was okay for him. He heard the cheers of the characters in front of him clearly, and was really shocked.   Just as he said, it was outrageous!   "Normal."   The colleague next to him saw that he was fine, let go of his arm, then shook his head, and looked at the stage through the exit door with other COSERs who were leaving the stage: "You also play games, you know this is Linmu Studio! And their symphony medley is really creative! It's awesome! Before the carnival started, I had a hunch that the effect today would be very good!"   "Yeah." Xie Jun finally recovered, turned around, looked at the stage through the exit door. Although he is not a professional actor, he has stage experience, and he will be fine after he comes down.   "It's just a pity." The colleague next to him suddenly sighed.   "What's a pity?" Xie Jun was a little surprised.   "The cheers later were not so enthusiastic. After the initial freshness and excitement wore off, and the games later were relatively old, it was a bit embarrassing..."   "OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"   Xie Jun hadn't finished his words yet.   A cheer that seemed to blow the roof off the floor   rang out!   It was louder and more exaggerated than any previous COSER appearance!   It was as if more than 30,000 people were cheering together!   Xie Jun and his colleagues immediately stopped talking and looked at the stage in confusion.   WTF!!   Is there something even more exciting! ?   ...   Time went forward a little.   The main theme of the last game, "Fantasy OL", came to an end, and the actor who COSed the human character left the stage.   The last wave of cheers also stopped.   After Li Yu gave the last cheer, he was sweating and his voice was hoarse, and he finally let his butt fall on the chair.   "Too awesome!"   Beside him, Yi Wenwen also stopped.   With a flush of excitement on his face, he suddenly turned his head and said excitedly.   "Indeed."   Li Yu nodded, with a pure happy smile on his face.   They all thought it was over.   In fact, it was not just them.   The other players in the venue also thought it was over, after all, the last game "Fantasy OL" had been played.   And in fact.   The symphony orchestra in the center of the stage also stopped playing at this time.   The musicians also breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the enthusiastic audience below the stage, and then smiled softly.   They also had the same idea as Xie Jun.   The enthusiasm of the players... is too outrageous.   Although they all wore noise-isolating headphones to ensure that the performance would not be affected, their eyes could still see it.   However.

They stopped, but the music didn't stop...

Thump, thump, thump.

The main theme of "Fantasy OL" just stopped.

The familiar, simple 8-bit music started playing.

Behind the symphony orchestra.

The game screen of "Easter Egg Adventure" that ended not long ago appeared on the screen. The maid who had been guarding the castle gate said that she would take the players to a new place, just like in the promotional video, and then walked out of the castle.

She walked along the pixel path, all the way forward.

The camera followed her, all the way forward.

As she walked into the forest path, her figure was obscured.

The symphony orchestra was ready again, and then took over the simple 8-bit music when it stopped.

It was the main theme of the symphony in the promotional video of "Forest Carnival"!

As the melody sounded.

On the big screen behind the symphony orchestra, a mixed clip of all the games just now appeared.

All the players looked back at the stage.

Realizing something.

Li Yu tilted his neck.

Yi Wenwen next to him had the same reaction.

He wished his neck could stretch two meters!

The last song slowly reached its climax.

The big screen behind the symphony orchestra

finally froze on the last scene of the promotional video of "Linmu Carnival".

All the characters from the games under Linmu Studio gathered together.

But only.

The poster girl of "Linmu Carnival" was missing - the maid.

And just after this scene appeared.

The next second.

With the main melody. A charming

girl wearing a white maid dress and long hair walked onto the stage from the entrance door beside the stage...

She slowly came to the center of the stage.

Then she stood still.

Just in the middle of all the game characters under Linmu Studio.

However.

The game characters were on the screen, while the charming girl stood outside the screen.

As if within reach.

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"

After seeing the girl.

Almost instantly.

After a very short moment of confusion.

Almost all the players on the entire main stage cheered louder than any of the previous games.

The sound was so loud that it even drowned out the main theme!

It was like the roof of the venue was about to be blown off! !

It was... Lin Yao!

It was Lin Yao in a maid outfit!

For the first time, the players understood what carnival was! !

The cheers and the sound did not stop for a long time.

The other staff members at the exit door were stunned.

When the players' cheers finally stopped, the main theme of the promotional video also played to the end.

The venue suddenly became strangely quiet.

And in this environment.

The pretty oval face of the girl in the maid outfit on the stage showed a moving smile. She pressed the hem of her skirt, bowed slightly, and then smiled and said: "Welcome to the first Linmu Carnival!"

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Her short words.

Once again ignited all the players in the venue!

Without any delay, the shouting rang out again.

Li Yu.

His voice was completely hoarse.

But he still tried his best to make the loudest sound.

The blush on his face due to excitement was visible to the naked eye!

Fortunately, they didn’t sell! Fortunately,

they didn’t sell the tickets!!!

Let alone other things, just by broadcasting this live broadcast.

He could predict the reactions of other players!!

The first audience member of the carnival, the first ticket!

The premium was nearly 300 times?

3,000 times, it felt like a loss!!!

Although I really want to write more, my ability is really limited... I am really sorry

(End of this chapter)