Global Games: Reporting the Great Ascension Stage at the Start

This post attracted a lot of attention because many players from overseas servers shared their experiences.

Now everyone realizes that only East Asia features the Three Kingdoms period, while Europe, America, and eastern Japan are still dominated by Western fantasy. However, World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings are very famous, and quite a few people in East Asia are familiar with them.

Shen Hua was very clear about this.

Later in the game, players can travel across borders and occasionally encounter Western wizards, vampires, paladins, and the like in the Three Kingdoms region.

Shen Hua was somewhat sentimental.

Players are still having a great time, and the forums are filled with laughter. It will also give rise to many hilarious and entertaining streamers, like the one with the "[Partial Necrosis]" comment.

But if his whistleblower report is approved and the "psychic and biomass recycling" issue is made public, what will the world become?

"Sigh," Shen Hua sighed inwardly.

……

Just then, a gentle knock sounded on the door, accompanied by a familiar, soft female voice: "Hua Hua, are you hungry? Come out and eat."

This is Shen Hua's mother's voice.

"Okay, coming right away." Shen Hua hurriedly got up and dressed.

The air was still quite cold in February, and the heating in the house had been turned off more than two weeks ago. He put on a very thick cotton pajama set and quickly walked out of the room.

A month earlier, when the upheaval began, Shen Hua quit her job, left her rented apartment, and returned home to live with her parents.

After all, who would be in the mood to work after something like that happened? Everyone would want to go home and be with their family, and Shen Hua was no exception.

Pushing open the bedroom door, I saw three dishes already laid out on the dining table: braised mutton, chicken soup, and garlic oysters.

Aunt Shen was busy in the kitchen, fiddling with the rice cooker.

"Mom, this is a feast!" Shen Hua walked to the dining table with a smile, eager to try it.

"What do you mean by 'plenty'?" Aunt Shen turned around and smiled. "These are all canned goods; you can eat them after heating them up with hot water. Hua Hua, if you're hungry, you can eat first, and I'll cook some rice porridge."

Due to the drastic changes, fresh grains and vegetables have been unavailable in farmers' markets and supermarkets this month, all restaurants have closed, and all kinds of takeout services have disappeared.

After all, at this point, who would still be interested in working, selling vegetables, or delivering food? Unless they're broke, everyone would quit their jobs and go home, and society as a whole would be at a standstill.

Fortunately, the government intervened in time, spending heavily to win back many key employees and utilizing a large amount of stockpiled AI robots and electronic equipment, thus ensuring residents' basic electricity and water needs were met.

But forget about food.

People can only buy canned food, instant noodles, and bagged rice and noodles—these are mass-produced industrial products.

The good news is that there is an ample supply of food from industrial production lines, and there has been no shortage so far.

The three main dishes on the table at this moment—braised mutton, chicken soup, and garlic oysters—are all canned goods that were stored up before. They can be heated up and eaten immediately, which is why Aunt Shen was able to put them on the table so quickly.

……

After washing up, Shen Hua sat down at the dining table and began to eat with relish.

He ate very attentively.

If it were his past life, he would definitely complain, "We've been eating canned food for a month now, when will this ever end?"

But now he didn't say anything, and just felt a strange fragrance when he tasted it.

"Is it good?" Aunt Shen came out of the kitchen, wiping her hands with a dry cloth. "The rice porridge is already cooking; it will be ready in 20 minutes."

"Delicious, really delicious," Shen Hua exclaimed sincerely.

Psychologically, he hadn't eaten for a thousand years, and coupled with the psychological trauma caused by food in the game, the canned food tasted especially delicious at this moment!

But just then, an excited voice rang out from the master bedroom: "What's so delicious about that! Haven't you gotten tired of it after eating it for a month?"

The one who made that sound was Shen's father.

Under Shen Hua's gaze, his father, with a ruddy complexion but thinning hair, walked out of the master bedroom and smiled at him, "Hua Hua, how was the game?"

"Not so good, I'm not very good at it." Shen Hua shrugged. "Judging from your expression, you're having a good time?"

"Of course!" Mr. Shen exclaimed excitedly, "I've cultivated a group of leaders and colleagues within the game. You might not know this, but even my 60-year-old bosses are standing guard and keeping watch on my orders! I've also contacted my old buddies from playing World of Warcraft..."

Mr. Shen talked on and on, while Shen Hua listened patiently as he ate.

In the game, Shen's father is actually the leader of a guild, having built a guild of considerable size.

Although they are not as famous as those big guilds that can take over spirit stone mines, they are quite well-known in their newbie village, and their number of players has exceeded 100 by the 10th day of the game!

"I didn't expect Dad to be so amazing!" Shen Hua said with a small compliment, giving her father a thumbs up.

"Of course!"

As he spoke with great enthusiasm, Mr. Shen proudly declared, "Your dad is a veteran internet user, a professional gamer, a hardcore player!"

"Back in 08 when Wrath of the Lich King was released in World of Warcraft, my guild raided Ulduar with zero buffs and zero buffs on Lich King. I was the guild's main healer!"

"Come on," Aunt Shen interrupted impatiently, "Stop showing off your little gaming achievements. Hurry up and wash up and eat, or the food will get cold."

"Why can't I show it off? That's an achievement too!" Mr. Shen said, getting more and more excited. "What's wrong with letting our son hear about my glorious achievements?"

"How dare you!" Aunt Shen immediately straightened her face: "Back when we were clearing the dungeon with zero lights, which crazy healer went and auto-attacked a pro, only to get killed and make such a basic mistake?"

"You didn't even get into the inner area in P2. If it weren't for my high damage from Bark and Starfall and you still alive, you wouldn't have been able to clear it at all!"

"Okay, I was wrong." Mr. Shen seemed to remember something and immediately felt guilty. He deflated like a punctured balloon and ran off to wash up.

Seeing her parents bickering, Shen Hua secretly found it amusing.

To be fair, my parents are definitely veteran gamers, and they're quite skilled at playing games. Not just online games on computers, they're also pretty good at Ascension.

In his previous life, if his parents hadn't sold everything they owned, including their top-tier magical artifacts and talismans, he wouldn't have been able to gather the resources needed to advance to the Golden Core stage.

"By the way, Hua Hua, what kind of spiritual root do you have?" Aunt Shen sat down at the dining table, looking at Shen Hua with a hint of expectation in her eyes.

"A mixed spiritual root," Shen Hua answered truthfully.

"A mixed spiritual root." A hint of sadness flashed in Shen Ma's eyes.

However, this hint of sadness vanished quickly, and she immediately smiled and said, "It's alright, the three of us in the family all have mixed spiritual roots, as do the vast majority in the game, it's no big deal, we can just work harder in the future!"

Just then, Shen's father returned from washing up and said, "By the way, Hua Hua, which newbie village are you in? I didn't see you in my newbie village."

"Well... how should I put it? The starting village doesn't have house numbers."

"Whatever," Shen's father waved his hand dismissively. "Then let's meet in Tan County. I'll add you to the guild then... I still have two Qi Gathering Pills here, I'll give them to you then. I haven't even been willing to give these pills to the Heavenly Spirit Root kid in the guild!"