Chapter 2
Not long after, Ye Bai's eyes lit up.
Illuminated by candlelight, she was in a closed stone chamber. Under her feet was a platform with some strange patterns remaining on it, which looked like a broken magic circle.
Directly opposite the sight is a tightly closed stone door with a familiar three-pronged tree totem carved on it. If you look closely, you can faintly see a halo of light.
"Even the login interface has become holographic..."
Ye Bai, who had never seen such a scene, was amazed for a moment, then looked down at his own 'body':
He is wearing the initial equipment of off-white vest and shorts. Although his gender and race have not changed, his body shape is not consistent with Ye Bai's real body shape. He is taller and his muscles are more symmetrical. His body shape is very standard no matter how you look at it.
When his eyes fell on the body, Ye Bai felt that he could adjust the bones, muscles, and fat of this body. This was the "face-pinching" function. If he wanted, he could directly restore the real appearance to the game.
Ye Bai just swept it but didn't make any adjustments at all.
I don’t know to what extent the two “Wanjie” overlap, but as a producer, Ye Bai is familiar with the data design of each game.
The core design of "Wanjie" is open world and high degree of freedom. There is no race or occupation to choose when creating a character, but the body shape and character attributes are linked.
It not only affects the character's initial attributes, but also affects the growth coefficient after the character is upgraded.
Specifically, for a character with fully stretched muscles, when leveling up, the strength growth is 1.2 times that of the standard body size, while the agility growth is only 0.7 times that of the standard body size.
There are more penalties than gains, which is the price of "biasedness". The advantage is that you can meet the requirements for changing jobs at a lower level, which is suitable for players who have determined their career system early on.
However, for Ye Bai, a producer who knows many ways to obtain high-level items and hidden tasks in the game, there are many channels for upgrading. Deducting 0.3 growth coefficient from any attribute will not be cost-effective in the later stages. Of course, she chose to become a hexagonal warrior!
As for the face, it has basically no significant impact. Aesthetics is a relatively personal thing. No matter how beautiful it is, it is still based on the basic charm value. However, it is worth noting that the "appearance of an ancient god" that exceeds normal human aesthetics will reduce the charm value and affect the NPC's initial favorability towards the character.
Ye Bai stepped directly out of the platform. Even if the appearance was locked, it could no longer be changed... Well, except for krypton gold. However, when she made "Wanjie" that year, the mall was still under design. Currently, no similar existence has been found in this holographic version of "Wanjie".
The stone chamber is in full view, the only special thing is the stone door with a totem in front of it.
Ye Bai followed the 'cutscene' he logged into the totem with his hand and pressed on the core of the trident tree in the totem.
The totem on the stone gate lit up with a mysterious light, and at the same time fed back a thought to Ye Bai -
【identity】
【Secret Key】
Seeing this, Ye Bai's eyebrows moved, and suddenly a bold idea came to his mind. He used his consciousness to input his GM (game manager) account in "Wanjie".
Identity: Bai Ye
Secret key: 009527#
【Character created successfully】
"Sure enough, there is no such good thing..." This reminder made Ye Bai sigh with regret.
Creating a character means that you have just completed the registration of a new account instead of logging into the original account.
If you can really log in to Ye Bai's GM account, any item you take out from your backpack should be able to be sold at a sky-high price in the game auction house. Not to mention the character's strength. As an administrator, his combat power is certainly beyond the game limit. Any BOSS that comes up can be killed in one hit.
But this is normal. If Ye Bai could really log in, the first thing she would feel would be horror. Currently, the two worlds have the same settings, which is already a huge opportunity for her.
"Boom..."
"Mr. Bai Ye, thank you for coming across all realms..."
Accompanied by a faint whisper, the door in front of him slowly opened, and the light engulfed Ye Bai's figure.
…
Twilight Town.
"Here's your reward."
"Thanks."
Players who handed over the hide received five copper coins from the hunter in town.
The hunter showed a satisfied look, glanced at the player as if he were a fool, and then quickly closed the door.
The player named Lieyang who left also smiled when he saw the system prompt.
Hunter Chopper's favorability +1, current favorability (5/100)
By selling animal skins at low prices to this greedy and stingy hunter, he finally increased his favorability to 5 points. Combined with the favorability with several other residents, the relationship between Lieyang and Dusk Town changed in the camp relationship panel, from cold to neutral.
[Neutral: Most residents of Twilight Town are willing to try to communicate with you.]
"It's really not easy!" Lieyang sighed. There are only a few NPCs in Dusk Town who are willing to issue tasks under cold relations. The number is limited every day, and there are other players competing.
However, once the faction's favorability reaches neutral, there will be more mission opportunities, and the time spent in these three months is worth it.
Lieyang exited the game contentedly and reported the progress to the research group of the consortium that trained him. Now all forces in the universe attach great importance to Wanjie and have invested a lot in the game, both in terms of personnel and resources.
The research team over there brought Lieyan some new information: "You're on the right track to improve the town's favorability. The Yehe civilization in the Virgo Cluster just released news that their players have joined the town and are no longer refugees. Our intelligence channels have also found that they've entered the big city and appear to be taking on job transfer quests."
"Yehe Civilization, one of the first civilizations to come into contact with the Ten Thousand Worlds?"
"Yes, they discovered it three years ago when Wanjie was first launched. They are at the forefront of the game's exploration progress. Tsk... They were originally a mid-to-low-level civilization, but now they have achieved rapid development by selling game guides to other civilizations."
The first few civilizations that discovered that Wanjie could improve mental strength made a fortune in silence. It was not until too many people came online that the secret could no longer be concealed and the news became widely known to the universe. Most of the players in the game today have only joined in the last few months. Wanjie is different from other games on the Star Network. It is extremely unfriendly to players. There is no guidance and the monsters are strong. If you want to avoid detours, it is best to buy strategies from the first few civilizations that entered the game and explored it.
"City? Job change? Just as I speculated before, job change tasks are only available in big cities!" Lieyang's face showed realization, and then he immediately opened the universe news.
There is no need for a dedicated gaming forum anymore. At least five out of ten hot news items on Starnet are about "Wanjie".
Soon, Lieyang saw today's headline news with a screenshot attached: [The era of 'refugees' is over!]
Three years after the server was launched, all players initially started out as "refugees" with an extremely low status. Almost all NPCs initially treated them with indifference or even disgust. Players could only move around small villages and towns, and if they came within ten meters of a large city, they would be mercilessly hunted down by the city gate guards. Wanting to go in and change jobs was a fantasy, and of course the worst off were players born in the wilderness, who had no choice but to delete their accounts and start over.
Now, finally someone is different.
Role: ** (hidden)
Level: 20
Status: Freeman
…
While the entire galaxy was marveling at the birth of the first non-refugee identity, Ye Bai also glanced at his mediocre standard initial panel.
Role: Bai Ye
Level: 0
Identity: Divine Blood (Bloodline Level: Thin)
Health: 100/100
Physical strength: 100/100
Psychic power: -/- (not awakened)
Strength: 1
Stamina: 1
Speed: 1
Resistance: 1
Spirit: 1
Skills: None
After walking out of the stone chamber, Ye Bai was surrounded by barren mountains and wilderness, with no one around.
She was stunned for a moment, then opened her backpack and looked at it with a look of surprise. She had actually encountered such a good thing!
Due to the relationship between infrastructure elements and background settings, "Wanjie" does not have a standard novice village. Each player's birth point is a random location and will be divided into three types: cities, villages, and wilderness.
The three types of birth points each have their own advantages and disadvantages. Being born near a city allows you to get in touch with high-end professions earlier, but the disadvantage is that there are fewer tasks for novices and no suitable monsters for leveling; there are more leveling opportunities in villages and towns, but there are only primary professions; the wilderness is full of dangers and has no tasks, so the probability of appearing is far less than the first two.
At first glance, being born in the wilderness seems to be a difficult mode, but in Ye Bai's eyes it is actually a hidden good start.
At this moment, there was a lonely initial item lying in her backpack, which was a golden legendary item.
[Void Gate-Creation]
[Description: Open a different dimension that contains the 'Seed of Creation'.]
[Status: Activatable]
This is the standard dungeon key that every player is born with. The 'Seed of Creation' dropped by the dungeon boss is simply a city-building order. After using it, the player can enclose land and become the lord of a place.
The copy key has a limitation on its use: it can only be used in an area within a radius of thirty miles from a town - after all, you can't build a city on another lord's territory.
However, on this continent, monsters become stronger the farther away from the town they are. Normally, players born in a town need to reach level 20 and undergo their first job change before they have the strength to cross this distance.
The wilderness birth point has everything you need, but its only advantage is unmatched by the other two birth points, which is that it is more than thirty miles away from any town, so you can enclose land and build a city early!
The sooner you take office as a lord, the sooner you can use the territory resources to strengthen yourself. Ye Bai doesn't know how long the server has been open. This start will undoubtedly narrow the gap with the previous players to the greatest extent.
Next, Ye Bai did not use the copy key immediately, but searched the nearby area and indeed found some wreckage.
In order to prevent players born in the wilderness from dying at the start, the area within fifty meters of the birth point is a safe zone where monsters will not spawn and debris will be generated regularly. Among them are five basic white-board weapons: long sword, wooden stick, shield, axe, and bow and arrow.
"Wanjie" has a weight-bearing system. Before expanding the space backpack, it is best to carry only two weapons. Carrying more will affect the speed of movement.
Ye Bai quickly made a choice:
【Old Wooden Sword】
Grade: Poor
Attack: 5
Attack Speed: 1.0
Description: It's old and made of wood, but at least it looks like a sword should.
Unreliable Shield
Grade: Poor
Defense: 5
Description: Just make do with it, what else can you do?
The reason for this choice is that although the attack damage of wooden sticks and axes is higher, the attack speed is very slow, and they are weapons that need to be dual-wielded, so you can only hold one. The wooden sword can also be used in combination with a shield.
As for the only long-range weapon, the bow and arrow, it looks tempting, but Ye Bai is very clear that before the level 20 job change, there is no precision compensation for professional skills. The hit rate of long-range weapons is very touching, and the damage is like scraping, which is the most useless of all weapons.
After choosing his weapon, Ye Bai immediately found a tree nearby to experiment with the combat system.
This is also what she is most unsure about at the moment——
In the "Wanjie" created by Ye Bo ten thousand years ago, any operation could be done with just the movement of fingers, but this "Wanjie" seems like a real world, all actions are immersive, and the battles seem to be the same.
"Bang!"
Ye Bai took the wooden sword and chopped at the tree hard.
The tree trunk honestly emitted a '-1'.
“…”
Trees have no defense value. Under normal circumstances, according to the longsword attack, the standard damage caused should be 5 points.
Ye Bai took a deep breath. Could it be that holographic games were like those online novels, requiring players to master their own combat techniques? She had never even killed a chicken in real life!
When this question arose, the relevant 'game settings' naturally emerged from Ye Bai's consciousness.
[Pain setting: 100%]
[Free Battle Mode: Enabled]
The former is easy to understand, but the latter... Ye Bai's eyes moved, and he chopped at the tree trunk randomly again without any method.
The damage values kept popping up: '-2, -1, -1... -6!'
Ye Bai shook his knuckles, which were rubbed sore and numb by the handle, and with his professional acumen, he quickly figured out the meaning of this free combat mode.
In the keyboard age, scoring a critical hit depends entirely on probability and luck, but in the holographic age, it depends on real-life strength. There are many powerful interstellar players, and those powerful players in reality will also be masters in the game. They can directly increase damage through combat skills and achieve critical hits every time.
It can be imagined that this free combat mode is definitely the mainstream among StarCraft players.
And Ye Bai... chose to turn it off directly and set the pain to the lowest 1%.
Ye Bai chopped at the tree again.
This time, it was obviously different. As Ye Bai gave the thought of "attack", her limbs seemed to be guided by something, and then she swung out a standard and ordinary sword.
'-5, -5, -5...'
Until the tree was chopped down with a thud, the stable damage remained unchanged. There were no lucky critical hits, but there were no malfunctions either.
In this non-free mode, Ye Bai's consciousness becomes another form of keyboard, and his body will faithfully execute instructions.
The pain level was set to 1% to prevent injuries and bleeding during battle from affecting her thinking.
Any ambitious interstellar player would not set it up like this, because the holographic game is more like a collective time travel, and the abilities mastered in reality can be fully utilized in the game, not to mention that this is also the "Ten Thousand Worlds" that can improve mental strength. The interstellar strongmen regard this as a major opportunity and are working hard to improve their strength. Only crazy people would "discard their own martial arts."
But Ye Bai is different. This controllability is actually a huge advantage for her, a producer who can maximize the use of the rules of the game.
After all, the most fundamental difference between games and reality is that its rules do not allow for variables and accidents. Mastering the rules is equivalent to predicting the results.
Ye Bai took out the copy key from his backpack.
[Please select the challenge level of Alien Space: Normal, Hard, Elite, Nightmare]
"Nightmare."