The developers still haven't forgiven the players.

"So..."

Peng Zhi ended his daydreaming and asked a practical question: "Where should we start?"

Zheng Wen said uncertainly, "I remember the standard ingredients should be limestone, iron powder and clay, and the latter two can be replaced with other materials."

If you're not a professional in this field, the average person in modern society wouldn't actually bother to learn about this knowledge.

Thankfully, they were playing a game, not actually transported to ancient times.

Players often display tremendous enthusiasm when researching game guides.

Peng Zhi said reassuringly, "It's alright, you guys keep practicing, I'll go offline and check out the traditional manufacturing process."

As they were talking, more than a dozen people emerged from the dilapidated stone houses around the open space. Their clear eyes were filled with curiosity, shock, and excitement, and it was clear at a glance that they were a group of college students.

Seeing this, Old Kuai had no choice but to stop his training and get up to greet them.

It was also clear from the conversation that these college students were new players brought in by Lao Kuai.

"Old Kuai is quite popular." Ke Yun clicked her tongue in amazement after counting the heads.

Like Peng Zhi, he simply brought along a few fathers and sons from the dormitory.

Strictly speaking, their situation is more common.

College students are creatures who, apart from their roommates, may not be able to remember the names of all their classmates by graduation.

Just as Lao Kuai had finished explaining the precautions to his friends, Keyun suddenly grabbed Peng Zhi's arm and suggested, "How about we become sworn brothers?"

Upon hearing this, Peng Zhi, Lao Kuai, and the players standing around all looked completely bewildered.

"Alliance, guild, legion, organization, whatever the name, it's all about that."

Ke Yun got more and more excited as she spoke: "Think about it, although it's unclear whether the official team has designed a guild system, in this type of game, forming a team is definitely more advantageous than going it alone."

Old Kuai was somewhat tempted, but still said, "We can wait for Brother Gou and the others to come back and discuss it together..."

"Foolish!"

Before Lao Kuai could finish speaking, Keyun interrupted him directly: "Lao Kuai, you need to consider the generation gap, right? Brother Gou and the others are all middle-aged people. It's questionable whether they'd even want to hang out with us. There's no need to rush them. We might as well just hang out on our own."

Ke Yun also realized that the three of them had recruited quite a few people, and felt that the time was right before making this suggestion.

After all, there are only fifty test players in total. With two dormitories and Lao Kuai's dozen or so buddies, the total number is over twenty, so we can definitely start from scratch.

"I think it's okay."

Peng Zhi did not object to the proposal. Having an organization would make it easier for him to form a construction team: "If everyone has no objections, let's draw up some rules first."

We're all the same age, so it's very relaxing to be around each other.

A player standing next to Lao Kuai chuckled and chimed in, "This game hasn't opened up the guild system yet, so a simple framework will do, right? One leader, two sub-leaders?"

"There are only three of you veteran players among us, so you three can decide how to divide the loot."

"Let's leave it at that for now. If we don't think it works, we can just hold a vote later."

The players immediately started discussing among themselves, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

They were all college students addicted to games, with little political awareness. Besides, it was just a game after all, and they didn't think there were any real benefits to being the leader, so naturally they wouldn't argue about it so fiercely.

With everyone present as witnesses, the assignment of leaders was completed quickly.

Peng Zhi was elected as the leader, while Lao Kuai and Keyun each received the title of deputy leader.

It's worth mentioning that since more than half of the players in the organization were recruited by Lao Kuai, everyone originally thought that he should be the leader.

However, considering that he had not yet completed the upgrade, Lao Kuai felt ashamed to be the leader and voluntarily gave up the position of chief to Peng Zhi.

"Thank you for your kindness, brothers."

There was still a sense of ceremony in taking office; Peng Zhi cupped his hands and turned around.

The college students present cheered enthusiastically, leaving the two remaining middle-aged players on the open space dumbfounded.

Having established the organization at lightning speed, and before even having time to decide on its name, Peng Zhi handed over the task of leading the new players in training to Lao Kuai and Keyun, while he went offline to research the modern cement-making process.

The whole process exuded a strong sense of haste.

……

"If there are any new players, we should probably shut down the server for an update."

Even though making a clay figurine doesn't take much time, there's still a risk of it being exposed.

Jiang Chen stood inside a crooked stone house, secretly observing the players' progress like an outsider.

All fifty players who obtained "test qualifications" have already logged in.

He had anticipated that this groundbreaking gaming experience, with its ability to replace sleep, would be enough to captivate players.

If this is indeed a game developed by a developer, then metrics such as player retention rate and average online time will be frighteningly high.

That's exactly what happened.

Through the caster's control over the clay figure, he could easily understand that the online players, despite doing different things, were all working themselves to the bone.

To him, they are all good players; there are no bad players.

Now that things are on track, there's no need to continue closely monitoring the players' actions.

With this thought in mind, Jiang Chen turned around and connected to the real network, ready to take a look at the rudimentary official website he had created.

Unexpectedly, when I opened the webpage, there was a noticeable lag.

He has never had any network problems since he acquired this ability.

He frowned slightly, realizing that the problem was not simple.

I quickly used my administrator privileges to access the website logs, and a four-digit number was clearly recorded in the Page View data.

He didn't intend to use this website to trick people into investing, so he naturally wouldn't embed code in the webpage for precise statistics. But the web server's built-in access records actually generated so many page views.

bad!

Who's secretly spreading this propaganda behind the scenes?!

Having attention is certainly a good thing, but the problem is that he doesn't have the ability to maintain so many clay figures at the same time, and it's impossible to convert all these potential users into players at once.

"Where are all these people coming from? Don't overload the website, I don't have the money to rent servers."

The cloud server company that Jiang Chen chose was quite conscientious; they were very generous with the computing power they provided during the trial period, so the website wouldn't crash for the time being.

His mind raced, and he came up with many solutions, but none of them were truly effective. After some deliberation, he decided to watch a sword-forging competition to clear his head.

Unfortunately, as soon as he opened the short video website, he sensed a danger signal from a clay figure.

Jiang Chen chose to share the clay doll's vision, and after seeing what had happened, he couldn't help but click his tongue.

For some reason, it gave me the feeling of watching my own level 1 marksman suddenly E into the faces of five enemy players and get instantly killed.