Chen Nian was still skeptical: "A man?"

Shafla didn't bother arguing with Chen Nian about the gender of the characters. After all, it was a game and these things could be changed.

As long as you have enough achievement points, it is not difficult to jump back and forth between genders. You can even possess the characteristics of both genders and become a real shemale.

He paid attention to Chen Nian's every expression and reaction, and asked with concern: "How are you? Are you feeling unwell?"

Chen Nian's soul was taken away by the game: "It's okay, everything is normal. Can I play your account?"

"I remember there was a neural adapter. Create a new account and I'll teach you how to use it. Otherwise, you can just use my account. It's the most difficult part at first and it's easy to get lost."

What Shafulai said made sense. Chen Nian said "Okay". He lay on the bed and watched the eldest prince open the cabinet to search.

Schafflet quickly found his spare neural adapter in the bottom shelf of a closet. He plugged it in and checked to make sure everything was functioning properly.

"Just go ahead and register a new account." Shafley sat back in his chair. "I'll use this to log in to my own account."

"Okay." Chen Nian continued to use the latest adapter that Schafflet had adjusted for his head circumference. He reconnected and, under Schafflet's guidance, found the option to create a new account and clicked on it.

When creating a new account, neural matching and identification must be performed first. Each person's brain wave signals are different, similar to the unique identification method of fingerprints. The so-called device change login is also based on this principle.

After three minutes of scanning, the interface lit up again, and the initial human model appeared in the center of the open space in front of Chen Nian.

The beginner's guide also popped up, and Chen Nian followed the instructions and tried to reach out and touch the mannequin's body.

The relevant data of the body shape will pop up on the side immediately. The next step is to adjust the data according to your own ideas and create the character shape.

Chen Nian suddenly became excited. It was the first time for him to be fully immersed in creating a character.

The perfect character creation system is definitely one of the highlights of the Electric Fantasy Kingdom. The system will initially generate an initial appearance that best matches your real image. Chen Nian looked at the young man in front of him and suddenly had the illusion that it was Chen Ci standing in front of him.

When playing games, you definitely can’t use real-life appearances, otherwise it would be meaningless.

Moreover, he was the prince's consort and absolutely could not cause any more trouble for Chen Ci.

Chen Nian quickly went over all the parameters and started the character creation journey without saying a word.

Schafflei has already put on the backup neural adapter and entered the game.

Most of the names in the friend column are lit up, and there are nearly a thousand people online in the union list. As the vice president, Shafley has been missing for a long time, but he has been like this for several years. There are always various important things in reality.

Less than five seconds after Shafley logged in, he was bombarded with news that he would be given cherries for free.

"Brother, I've been waiting for you for more than an hour, and you're finally here."

"Sorry, I have something to do temporarily." Shafulai still gave his usual reply. Anyway, it was no big deal for Bai Zui Yingtao to urge him to go online. They had a good relationship, and it was normal for them to follow his lead.

The birthplace is still the luxurious bedroom on the 88th floor of the headquarters.

Shafla opened his eyes and turned over out of habit, trying to get off the four-meter-long bed, but he almost fell to the ground.

He quickly reached out to hold it, and then he noticed that the big bed had been replaced.

Instead, there were layers of bunk beds like shelves, five or six in total, reaching all the way to the ceiling. The bed boards were only 70 centimeters wide, reminding him of the sleeper berths on trains thousands of years ago.

The wallpaper and floor are no longer the elegant dark red, but the inorganic white covers the entire space, and the ceiling has become a skylight, through which one-way glass one can clearly see people walking on the top floor.

Where the door should have been was an elliptical halo with a blue glow at the edge. Shaffley recognized it as an element from "Portal" at a glance.

He glanced over and saw more familiar objects. They walked out of the old 2D screen and became real things around him.

This is the charm of the game Electric Fantasy Kingdom.

He was only away from home for two days, and the office had completely changed, with a sci-fi feel like a space opera.

Shaffley was used to it, as Bai Zui Cherry often changed the office into a brand new style every few days. Fortunately, his decoration was limited to these few floors and did not affect the entire headquarters.

He pushed the door open and saw several scantily clad cyber dancers twisting their bodies in the living room.

Shafla walked past them as if he didn't notice them, and canceled the invitation. The dancers immediately stopped and walked out one after another.

Passing through the living room, Guild President Bai Ge Yingtao and four or five guild leaders were sitting at the table in the conference room.

Seeing Shafulai coming in, Baige Yingtao snorted twice: "Oh, the busy man is here, I thought you were going to abandon us."

"I've been quite busy lately." Shafley sat down next to him. He looked at the time on the wall. "Is there anything important?"

"Nothing, the new version is about to be released, and I want to gather everyone together to discuss the follow-up arrangements."

Next week will be the 10th anniversary of the release of Electric Fantasy Kingdom. The game will enter the new version 10.1. The official has not released too much information yet. We only know that the name of the new version is "Return to Eastern Europe".

As you can guess from the name, as the water level recedes, the Eastern European part gradually emerges from the seabed.

Currently, the sea kings known to be active in the waters of Eastern Europe are Sheila and Gale. Both of them are extremely cruel. Sea level drop is inevitable, and they can only move to deeper oceans, but they will never let humans take back this land so easily.

It is clear that they have been the overlords here for thousands of years.

When Guild Athanasius was first established, its goal was the entire Eurasian continent.

In the new version regarding Eastern Europe, the greatest possible benefits will definitely be gained, after all, after Eastern Europe is the more developed Western Europe.

In recent days, the gaming forum has been full of expectations for the new version, with many talented people publishing plot reasoning and layout previews based on rigorous data.

Shafley has also seen a lot. As the vice president, before each version update, he will discuss the general direction of the next step with the rest of the guild's management and make arrangements in advance.

Rather than a fantasy game, this is more like an adventure in another parallel world.

Normally, Shafley would definitely attend the meeting, after all, it was rare for his president to be serious.

But now Shafley couldn't calm down and think, he was still thinking about Chen Nian.

"You guys discuss it first, and when you're done, just send me a copy of the meeting minutes." He said to Cherry, "I have to go find a friend."

"Friends? In real life?" Bai Gei Yingtao exclaimed in surprise, "After all these years, this is the first time you've heard you want to find a friend."

Everyone likes to call real-life friends to play games, but Honsha is different. Bai Ge Yingtao has known him for nine years, but has never seen him play with his real-life friends.

Shafley: "Well, he has never played before and it's a new account. I have to go to the novice area to find him."

The HR manager asked curiously, "New account? Your friend hasn't wanted to play with you in these years."

"He was busy before, so there was no chance." Shafulai looked at the time again. More than ten minutes had passed. "I'll go first and wait in the novice area, so that he won't be confused about what to do."

Naggio: "A pure newbie?"

Shaflay: "Yeah, a complete novice."

Bai Ge Yingtao: "Then you should go quickly."

Shafulai stood up and went to the elevator, directly selecting the teleportation location, and went to the original site of Cinnabar in the novice area.

In the fantasy kingdom, the six beacons are the novice areas for players. As the water level gradually recedes, more maps are expanded. Those areas that were once submerged in the sea are full of dangers. The closer you are to the beacons, the safer you will be.

After Shaffley left, the people at the conference table exchanged glances and saw the same smirk on each other's faces.

After a few seconds, everyone stood up at the same time.

Playing this large-scale online game, teasing newcomers is definitely one of the fun things.

I'm curious about what my friends in real life are like, and it's definitely not a free cherry.

After all, this vice president only said that he was a rich second-generation and never revealed any other information.

Shaflay emerges from the teleport point.

During the period when the sea level receded to hundreds of meters, large areas of land returned to human hands, and beacons were no longer the only habitat.

A lot of functionality was moved from Beacon, and since version 4.2.6, Cinnabar has become a completely newbie zone.

Shafley hadn't paid attention to the affairs of newcomers for a long time, and was a little confused about where he was born. He checked on the forum and went to the water purification system.

There aren't a lot of people at the birth point. This game has been extremely popular for nine years, and those who can play it have already been playing it. Most of the newcomers are smurfs of old players, and they will quickly skip the guidance process.

He looked around but couldn't find anyone who looked like Chen Nian.

Shafley didn't know how long it took Chen Nian to create the character, but it took him a full three hours to fine-tune the current character image.

You have to wait until the character is created before you can add Chen Nian as a friend.

Shafley found a place to sit down and waited patiently.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Shafley and others were anxious. After a long time, they still couldn't find the target. So they simply opened the document during this period and made a preliminary plan for the next version.

He looked up from time to time, paying special attention to the newcomers with boyish looks.

More than 20 minutes later, Shafulai noticed a purple-haired boy. He was not tall, about 1.7 meters, and looked cute, but not as pleasing to the eye as Chen Nian in real life.

Just as Shafley was wondering whether the boy was a character created by Chen Nian and was about to go over, he heard someone walking over.

Shaflay raised his head and saw the broad and majestic chest, then raised his head again and saw the strong neck, then raised his head again and finally saw the man's face clearly.

This is a burly man over two meters tall.

To call him a burly man is an understatement. He is more like a wall than a person, standing fiercely in front of Shable, casting a huge shadow that completely covers his entire body.

He was broad-shouldered and thick-waisted, with arms so muscular that the muscles bulged out. One could no doubt believe that he could knock anyone to the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau with one punch. Even Shafley, who was nearly 1.9 meters tall, looked dwarfed in front of him.

The big man had a red beard that merged with his red hair. The thick hair covered most of his face, and his grey pupils made this enthusiastic face look strangely cold.

He looked extremely fierce, and his new attire clearly told Shaflay that he was a newcomer.

They looked at each other.

Shaflay had a strong sense of foreboding.

He stood up, still needing to look up at the big man, and asked tentatively with a barely perceptible tremor in his voice: "...Chen Nian?"

"It's me." The big man spoke in a brisk tone, but his voice was extremely rough, which was full of incongruity. Can you imagine a two-meter-tall iron tower being cute?

Under Shafley's astonished gaze, the big man looked around curiously and exclaimed, "Wow, I'm so tall. So this is what it feels like to be tall. You can see so far."

Shafley: "...Why would you want to do this to yourself?"

Chen Nian shrugged: "No way? I think it's pretty cool. The view from the top is great."

Shafla could not describe the feeling in his heart at that moment. The cute and handsome boy suddenly transformed into a muscular iron tower man.

Chen Nian: "The character's appearance can be changed in the future, right? I remember you said that if you have enough achievements, you can even change your gender."

"It can be changed," Shaflay said after a lot of effort. "But it will take some time until you reach a high enough level to open a store."

Chen Nian: "Ah, this game doesn't have any operation that can quickly upgrade and become stronger by charging money?"

Shafley: "No, although there are krypton gold items, the main thing is to test your hard work and operation."

Chen Nian didn't mind: "That's great, I'll play with this look for two more days and experience a different perspective."

Shafley looked at the top of Chen Nian's head. "Mono" was the name he gave himself.

“Are there any mandatory novice tasks?”

Chen Nian browsed the entries in the sidebar: "It seems not, the degree of freedom is quite high."

"Then I'll take you around so you can get to know each other better. In the game, we'll call each other by our IDs, not by our names."

"Okay." Chen Nian nodded obediently. It should have been a cute action, but with such an appearance, it was so eye-catching that it made people want to poke their own eyes out.

Shafley took Chen Nian to the transmission point of the water purification system. Many areas on the map were not open to novices, but since the two formed a temporary team, Chen Nian shared Shafley's map.

"It's so huge." Chen Nian zoomed in and out of the map and couldn't help but sigh, "Is this the Earth before it was flooded?"

Shafley: "In fact, it's much bigger than this. A new version will be released in a dozen days, and then the water level will continue to drop. Maybe it will slowly return to its original state."

Chen Nian nodded. He had watched the live video of Electric Fantasy Kingdom before, so he was not a complete novice. Now that he could experience it himself, he would not be at a loss.

“I want to visit more places.”

Schaffray agreed: "Many people use this game as a travel simulator, so it's good to be a casual player."

The two of them came to the transmission point. Chen Nian looked around and suddenly looked at a place behind Shafulai. He lowered his head and whispered in his ear, "It seems that there are a few people following us over there."

Shafla immediately turned around and saw the bushes not far away shaking suspiciously.

"Wait a minute." He walked over and kicked inside.

"Ouch!" Three men staggered out from the bushes. They stood up straight and pushed each other. No one wanted to be the first.

The cherries were free, three for ten yuan, and there were three people in the kitchen.

"…What are you doing?"

"Just passing by." Bai Gei Yingtao scratched his head and laughed.

Shafulai was speechless, while Lageou fixed his gaze on Chen Nian who was looking curiously not far away. He covered his mouth and whispered, "Vice President, is this your friend? Why do I feel like he and the president have a lot in common?"

Chen Nian's outfit is indeed the style that Bai Geyingtao likes.

Shafley turned around and waved to Chen Nian.

Chen Nian came over immediately, and the three tall men all raised their heads and looked up at him.

"Hello everyone, I'm Mono, a friend of Bengshemai Liu." His rough voice echoed in everyone's ears.

"We are from his guild." Bai Ge Yingtao has always been a very outgoing person. When the other two were still surprised by Chen Nian's burly figure, he had already laughed and patted Chen Nian's shoulder. "I have played with Lao Beng for such a long time, but this is the first time I see him bring a friend with him."

Chen Nian looked down at him and immediately noticed the Peppa Pig tattoo that Bai gave Cherry on his chest.

...So cool! He wants it too!

Shafley: "Didn't you say you wanted to discuss the arrangements for the next version?"

Bai Ge Yingtao: "You, the vice president who holds the financial power, have already run away. What are we still talking about? We can still talk about it tomorrow when you are free."

Chen Nian responded: "Ah, did I disturb you?"

Cai Geou: "It's okay, it's okay. This is the first time the vice president has brought in a new member."

"I'll talk to you later. He and I don't have much time to be online tonight. Let's take him around first." Shafulai used his eyes to warn the three people not to follow him.

"Then we'll go to the branch base in Novosibiria." Bai Gei Cherry said to Chen Nian, "You guys go check it out, this game is really fun, see you guys when you're free."

The three sneaky people pushed and shoved away. Chen Nian looked at their different backs and said, "Is the guy named Bai Ge Yingtao the president of your union? He seems to be a nice guy."

"Well, I've known him since I first started playing, which is almost ten years now."

Ten years, much longer than he had known Shafla, even longer than some couples had been together.

Chen Nian was quite envious of this kind of friendship: "Do you know what he does in real life?"

"He is a worker in Lanluan's ecological tank. After we have a good relationship, we will also talk about many things in real life."

"You, you certainly can't tell them the truth."

"Of course, I made up an identity for myself as a rich second-generation."

Chen Nian nodded thoughtfully. It seemed that he would have to find a fake identity for himself in the future.

Hmm... what should I write? A high school girl who comes from a poor family and often has many dark thoughts and hopes for redemption? Or a miner who works hard in the Xingye Level 5 filter and has to work in three shifts?

Chen Nian and Shafley left the water purification system through the transmission point, without noticing that the peeping trio who were supposed to leave had sneaked out again.

Ten Yuan Three was a little disappointed: "I thought it would be a girlfriend or something, who knew it would be such a big brother."

Cai Geou: "That's right. The vice president just got dumped last month. I thought we were a couple. We could play games together to improve our relationship."

Baige Yingtao stroked his chin, thinking: "Actually... it's not impossible that he has a partner."

Three for ten dollars:?

Lageou:?

They looked at each other, thought about what was said, and then fell silent.

Chen Nian and Shafley knew nothing about this.

Shafulai wanted Chen Nian to experience the unique charm of the electric fantasy kingdom as soon as possible, so he took him to several places with the best scenery first.

The city that is sinking in the sea in reality is perfectly reproduced in the game. The surface was once submerged by the sea and then reappeared, forming a large wetland. The buildings have been only ruins for thousands of years, and the mechanical parts have been plundered by the original creatures. Now they are exposed to the sun and air in a different shape, like a work of art.

A large number of animals have also returned to the most suitable habitats to run freely, no longer being protected in small ecological tanks.

The breeze brought the scent of flowers, sheep were strolling on the grassland, and flocks of birds were flying overhead. Everything he saw, heard, and felt was so real, so real that Chen Nian thought this was another parallel world.

Chen Nian had never seen such a vast land. It stretched firmly under his feet, blocking the spread of the sea and giving him confidence that came from the soul.

With this perfect sensory simulation alone, Electric Fantasy Kingdom will be forever engraved in the monument of gaming history.

Time always passes quickly when playing games, and in the blink of an eye it was already 11:30 in the evening.

It was almost ten o'clock when they finished the spiritual power class. Chen Nian spent a long time creating the character. All in all, he only toured the place for thirty or forty minutes.

"It's getting late, let's log off today. I'm afraid you'll feel sick if you play for too long. After training tomorrow, if we have time, I'll take you to the guild to check out other things."

"Okay." Chen Nian suppressed his reluctance and left the Electric Fantasy Kingdom together with Shafulai.

We can still play tomorrow anyway, don't be so anxious.

The dark blue color of the login interface returned to his eyes, and Chen Nian saw the carefully created character standing in front of him. He raised his head again and again, and his neck was sore from looking up. He was quite satisfied with his image in the virtual world.

After disconnecting from the adapter, he regained consciousness and fatigue suddenly overwhelmed him. Chen Nian then realized that he had been exhausted for a long time.

It was his first time to do mental training, and his energy was exhausted. After taking a tour in the metaverse, he was already a little overdrawn.

This kind of overdraft is even more terrifying than physical overdraft. Chen Nian couldn't even lift his hands.

He could only lie straight in bed, unable to control his voice.

Soon, Chen Nian felt someone approaching and the neural adapter was removed from his head.

He saw Shaflay looking at him worriedly, his violet eyes reflecting a weak look that was very unfamiliar to Chen Nian.

Shafley: “Are you okay?”

Chen Nian was unable to make a sound and could only nod and shake his head.