Chapter 72 Safe Zone 1 (3) - Learn to browse Tieba
Wu Yi was awakened by the aroma of food. At first, he thought he was dreaming, but after lying in bed, he realized that he could smell the aroma of food.
It looks like hot pot!
He sat up abruptly, then stomped out the door into the living room in his slippers.
"Wow, Sister Meng, I love you so much!"
When Wu Yi saw the table full of ingredients and the big pot in the middle of the table, his mouth watered.
"Alright, alright, stop being so cheeky. Hurry up and wake Cheng Chuan up for dinner. He's been sleeping for so long, he won't be able to sleep well tonight."
Li Mengqi had just brought out the last plate of beef from the kitchen when Ning Shu had already set out the bowls and chopsticks.
"Okay!" Wu Yi happily ran over and knocked on Cheng Chuan's door.
When Cheng Chuan came out, he was all smiles when he saw the table full of delicious food, but he was more restrained than Wu Yi, who was as excited.
After the group sat down, the pot was already boiling and bubbling.
"Let's start eating quickly. I've rolled out some noodles. We'll cook some more noodles after we finish the vegetables," Li Mengqi said.
While eating, Ning Shu asked curiously, "Sister Meng, didn't you say you were going to run a dungeon? Why did you suddenly change houses?"
Li Mengqi: "I was originally going to run a dungeon, but I had to cancel at the last minute. I was thinking that I didn't have enough space at home, so I decided to go somewhere else."
Cheng Chuan: "This place doesn't look that cheap."
Li Mengqi didn't tell them the exact rent amount, but only charged them 10 points per person per month.
However, he believes that this is definitely not a place where everyone can afford to stay with just 10 points.
"Well, I got this cheap price by pulling some strings; it's a personal favor," Li Mengqi explained without hesitation.
I see.
Ning Shu: "Sister Meng has so many friends."
Li Mengqi laughed: "If you can survive in the game for a few years, you'll have just as many friends as I do."
Ning Shu fell silent upon hearing this. Several years... Li Mengqi hadn't left the game for so long. Did he really intend to stay in the game forever?
Cheng Chuan had obviously thought of this too: "Sister Meng, you know so many people, but which one of them has successfully left the game?"
Li Mengqi looked up at them and said, "No, I've only watched my friends die one by one."
Ning Shu: "Perhaps you don't know they left?"
Li Mengqi nodded: "That possibility cannot be ruled out, but so far, I haven't heard of anyone leaving."
Leaving the game was a popular topic a few years ago, but nobody mentions it anymore. What players care about most now is how to survive.
Most newcomers are like you; they are initially very fixated on this issue, but gradually they give up and focus on the life in front of them.
By the way, you can search for the keyword 'leaving the game' on Tieba (Baidu's forum); there are many related posts there.
After showing off a few bites of meat, she gave a tip: "You guys need to learn how to browse online forums. There's usually a lot of unexpected information there."
Almost every time a new instance is completed, there will be new updates; I'm referring to the updates you can see.
Ning Shu understood what she meant: each time they completed a new instance, they could see content related to that instance.
"Sister Meng, um, I noticed that almost none of the props we received came with instructions on how to use them. How did you guys solve that?"
Actually, Ning Shu wanted to ask if there were any risks involved in trying them one by one.
Li Mengqi was stunned for a moment, unable to understand how such a group of people had saved her.
"There's an item manual in the shop. You can buy it with points and then use it to see how to use the item."
After speaking, he looked at Ning Shu and the others and said again, "Besides browsing the forums more often, you should also shop in the store more often."
That sounds like you're looking down on them!
Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit off, Wu Yi quickly said, "It's rare to have hot pot today, so let's not talk about games and just focus on eating."
During their subsequent conversation, the group deliberately avoided discussing games.
That night, Ning Shu couldn't sleep, probably because she had slept too much during the day.
She remembered Li Mengqi telling her to browse Tieba more, so she lay on the bed and started scrolling through the interface.
The first thing I did was search for posts about "leaving the game" using the keywords, and sure enough, a lot of related information popped up.
Ning Shu sorted by popularity and clicked on the top-ranked post, which was from 10 years ago. This should be when the first batch of veteran players appeared.
The content mainly discusses how to escape the game, and it has over 100,000 replies, making it the number one most popular post.
She read through all the top-ranked posts and found that almost none of them contained any particularly useful information; they were all just wild speculations.
The only plausible possibility suggested by some is to continuously increase one's game level, which might lead to more clues.
This idea was proposed two years ago and was agreed upon by many players, but there have been no updates on related information since then.
It seems that no one has implemented it or there has been no feedback after implementation.
That's true. If you persist with something for a while and then find that something else is more urgent, the original thing naturally becomes less important.
It's not that nobody cares about how to leave the game, but rather that the level of attention to it has decreased.
Ning Shu spent more than three hours reading posts on this topic, then exited the search interface, returned to the Tieba homepage, and found that a new post about "Dark Night Paradise" had been pinned to the top.
The post is titled "The bizarre things I encountered in the Dark Paradise dungeon, you'll definitely regret not reading this!", with the last six characters highlighted in red and bold.
She had heard Li Mengqi say that each player sees a different pinned post, and the game usually pushes relevant post information automatically based on the dungeons that players have already experienced.
A post that was pinned to the top and seen by her must be related to her. Moreover, just because of those last six words, she felt she had to take a look, so she clicked on it directly.
[Laughing out loud:]
Hey everyone, guess what I encountered in this dungeon?
Players were actually begging in the dungeon! And the NPCs actually gave them food and water.
This dungeon was incredibly difficult; I almost used up all my points just to eat. I never expected there to be such a simple way to eat.
If I had known this would happen, I would have learned a thing or two, so I wouldn't have spent all my points.
The problem is that even though I completed the game, I only earned 10 points because I was at the very bottom of the rankings, which is a huge loss.
Later, when I was doing quests, I didn't see any of those begging players. I don't know if they died or if they had finished the game.
However, I personally think that if you run out of points to eat in dungeons in the future, you might as well learn from others: as long as you're shameless, eating won't be a problem!
The post was short, just a few sentences, but Ning Shu wondered if the person the other person was referring to was herself and Cheng Chuan.
Probably not, since there are so many instances of the same instance; maybe they're referring to someone else.
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