The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 257: Defeating the Boxing Champion? Me?
This gameplay trailer is very wrong from the beginning -

The first scene shows a group of hunters with bare hands, bare chests and thighs.

They moved through the jungle full of weeds and green leaves, searching for weapons and armor.

Netizens quickly asked:
"Why aren't they wearing any clothes?"

"For fair competition? If the prey doesn't use weapons, then the hunters don't need them either?"

"No, I'm already itching all over just looking at this picture!!"

"Does a skilled hunter have to go into the hunting ground naked and make weapons on the spot with his bare hands?"

"What kind of Spartan traditional coming-of-age ceremony is this?"

……

In the next ten seconds, the camera switched quickly.

It shows these hunters picking up props given by nature from strange places such as under trees, by the river, in wooden houses, on boulders, etc.

Breastplate, leg armor, boots.

Great sword, great axe, shield.

Hooks, potions, traps.

……

Have everything.

The audience watched as a hunter ran and picked up equipment one by one. When he finally threw out a grappling hook and grabbed the top of a tree, and flew out of the camera with his body pulled out, he was already fully armed.

The speed is so fast that it is simply dizzying!
Everyone almost thought that this person was the protagonist of this gameplay trailer.

Then the old man swung his sword, but his weapon was knocked away and he was pierced in the chest by a spear and died on the spot.

The hunter in the picture was dumbfounded.

Huanyue and the players outside the screen were also dumbfounded——

"What the hell? Why did the big sword fly out?"

"Is the anti-shock effect so strong? A new mechanism?"

"The weapon pierced the chest! It wasn't an error! DreamCraft finally applied the physical destruction effect to the character!"

"But wait a minute, isn't the name of this game called [Eternal Hunting Ground]?"

"Where is the prey? How come the hunters are already hunting before even a single prey is seen?"

……

There were a lot of question marks in the barrage.

Huanyue was also a little confused.

He felt like he was hallucinating.

Because he saw obvious astonishment on the face of the character who was shot through the chest.

But this doesn't make sense!
There is also a camera inside the DreamHub VR glasses, which can capture the player's facial expressions and reflect them in the game.

However, in order to ensure the smoothness of the game, the expressions that game characters can show have always been relatively simple.

This is reflected in both Lord of War and Sprawl.

But the hunter's astonished expression is so rich in details!
Just like a real person.

There was confusion in the surprise, and grievance in the confusion.

Such complex emotions are expressed in just one second of footage...

How can this be?

It must be an illusion!

But this illusion becomes stronger and stronger in the subsequent gameplay trailers.

The hunter holding the large sword was slashing left and right, having a great time.

Suddenly, he was blocked by a spear.

Another "clang" sound!
The sword fell out of his hand.

The hunter's first reaction was not to dodge the subsequent attack, but to look back in disbelief at the sword that was blown away, and then looked at his opponent blankly.

His daze and the loss of his weapon left him unable to fight back.

He was stabbed to death by his opponent on the spot, and his equipment was scattered all over the ground.
-
The spear hunter was fighting with others when suddenly a hunter jumped down on his head and chopped down on his head with a huge axe!

But the hunter squatted down and held his spear at an angle.

The next second, two sounds of metal collision rang out almost simultaneously!
The weapons of the two opponents - the giant axe and the twin swords - were knocked out of their hands at the same time.

The two of them were stunned for a moment before they thought of dodging.

In one of the pictures, Huanyue keenly captured a very small detail - he was sure he saw the Giant Axe Hunter's mouth open and close, and he said something.

The trailer did not show the hunter's voice, and Huanyue could not lip read.

But that's not a big deal.

He refreshed the page and moved the progress bar back here.

Sure enough, a big red bullet screen appeared on the screen——

[Looking at the shape of his mouth, he should be saying "Fuck"]

Within just a few seconds, this barrage received hundreds of likes from players.

The barrage of “Hahahaha” appeared densely.

Huanyue didn't laugh.

"So... this trailer is performed by real players?"

“Was it performed by the development team?”

"But it still doesn't make sense! If it was the development team, why would they be so surprised after the weapon left their hands? They looked as if they hadn't expected it?"

Huanyue was puzzled.

But the answer is actually very simple - under Xu Meng's arrangement, the team responsible for the development of the main world of "Monster Hunter" and the development team of the [Eternal Hunting Grounds] gameplay are two different groups of employees.

When Xu Meng was recording the gameplay trailer for [Eternal Hunting Ground], he invited the employees who developed the main world of the game to come over and try it out.

When explaining the gameplay, he secretly concealed the "vibrating sword" mechanism.

This resulted in the shock and confusion on the faces of every employee whose weapons were knocked away for the first time being 100% real.

When they finally realized: the boss was being disrespectful again!
And when they figured out the details and cooling time of the mechanism, and planned to make trouble for Xu Meng, Xu Meng waved his hand and said:

"Everyone has worked hard. We have enough materials now."

"Let's get here first today."

"Of course, you can continue to play if you want. I'm going to go edit the video first."

After saying this, he retreated quickly.

A group of people were left looking at each other.

What's even more outrageous is that he didn't actually go to edit the video. Instead, he threw the materials to Xiao Meng and ran to the edge of Mansheng City to watch the players jump off the cliff.

When Xiao Meng edited the video, she of course edited it in the most fun way possible and also gave enough face to the host Xu Meng by including all his highlight moments and deleting all the moments of mistakes without leaving even a single second.

What was finally presented was the gameplay preview that players are seeing now.

In the trailer, apart from the battles between hunters and the fleeting monsters, there is also the frost that slowly condenses from the edge of the map to the center.

This indicates that the entire map will be covered by extremely cold ice and snow in the end.

After watching the trailer, players were excited and looking forward to it:

"It's playable now! It means it's almost done!"

“So this is actually a live demo?”

"Probably not yet, but it will probably be soon!"

"It's worthy of the efficiency of dream building!"

"With the holographic display? Otherwise it seems easy to throw away the VR glasses."

"So the holographic display is coming soon too?!"

……

The fans are very optimistic.

Huanyue, however, could not be optimistic.

First, he felt that the game might not come out so quickly - the prey only flashed by, and there was no demonstration of the usefulness of hunting in this mode.

It probably hasn't been finished yet.

The second reason is because——

"When this game goes online, the anchor will be hunted down by passers-by, right?!"

"Do I have to change my name every day?"

The moment he said this, the viewers in the live broadcast room were already rubbing their hands, ready to chop him down.

Huanyue shut up immediately.

Instead, check to see if the official has launched any new challenges, such as "2000 million people across the network are paying attention to the third gameplay preview."

But it's a pity.

After releasing this trailer, the official account fell silent.

So he watched the trailer twice more and decided to go back to the Sky Arena to rush to the next level.

These days, he has made rapid progress——

It has now stabilized from the 50th floor where it could no longer climb, to above the 60th floor.

The highest record even reached 65 floors!
This means that his combat effectiveness has increased by at least 20%!

He now likes to take side roads when he goes out, hoping that some ignorant thugs will jump out and let him test his skills.

Unfortunately, the security around the community is too good, so he always returns disappointed.

In order to facilitate the level rush, he set up the landing points in the Sky Arena.

——This is the benefit for boxers after reaching the 50th floor.

Below the 50th floor, if you want to bind a landing point in the hotel in the Sky Arena, you also need to pay credit points to the hotel.

Just as he was about to set off for the 63rd floor, the heroic sniper suddenly called him:

"Dude, are you still rushing through the levels?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Huanyue asked, "You seem to have played less in the past few days?"

"Oh, I moved." The brave sniper said in a relaxed tone.

"Moving?" Huanyue was a little surprised. "Why are you moving? Where are you moving to?"

"Ningzhou." The heroic sniper replied with a smile, "The house is ready. It's in Jinghu District, very close to the Dream Building Headquarters!"

"Ah, congratulations then."

"Don't be too quick to congratulate me, you are in trouble, haha!" The brave sniper couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Trouble? What kind of trouble could I have?" Huanyue was puzzled.

"I'm in the Dream Building Game Experience Hall now. Guess who I saw?"

"who?"

"Asian Boxing Champion Hou Cong!" The heroic sniper gloated, "There are also several people I don't know, but they look like professional boxers!"

"Soon they will become your rivals."

“Come on! Beat them! I’m rooting for you, hahahaha…”

Huanyue was speechless and almost pointed at her nose and asked:

"Knock over the boxing champion? Me?"

(End of this chapter)