The developers still haven't forgiven the players.

Fu Yun left the office and casually took out his phone to access the game's official website.

While walking, he read through the 1.04 version update announcement again.

To be honest, he was quite interested in the game and even the so-called development team behind it.

It's not appropriate to make judgments without personally experiencing the game, but there are quite a few suspicious things about this official website alone.

He initially thought the website was too rudimentary and probably didn't even meet the average level of his students.

However, when he habitually accessed the website's backend data based on his expertise, he found that he could not find the website's IP address and port number no matter what he did.

It's so weird.

Is it necessary to deliberately hide this information?

When he tried to crack the encryption out of curiosity but failed, he was basically certain that it was an encryption technology that had never appeared on the market before, and his desire to learn reached its peak.

Especially considering the rudimentary design of this website, it's practically like a savings card with only a few dozen dollars in it, despite having a 19-digit card number.

Moreover, he soon discovered that the team behind the website was so stingy that they only used free bandwidth, and the site would lag even with slightly higher traffic.

Does the team that possesses this brand-new encryption technology not even have the money to rent a server?

He tried to contact the so-called game planners privately, but received no response.

To resolve his doubts and express his goodwill to the production team, he asked his college roommate to help solve the website bandwidth problem.

However, even after he did all this, the team behind the website still didn't give him any response, as if they didn't care at all.

"It's still hard not to care."

Fu Yun sighed silently in his heart.

Of course, he didn't think about aliens; he just didn't understand why this so-called game development team was behaving so unprofessionally.

Let's not even talk about anything else, just look at the latest version announcement, what the heck is 1.04?

It's important to know that in the gaming industry, version number updates all follow the same standard.

The first digit indicates which official version this is; a test version would be 0.

The second digit represents a feature update, and the third digit represents a bug fix or patch.

For example, v0.2.5 represents a beta version, which has undergone one feature update and five bug fix updates.

They don't even understand these established rules in the gaming industry; it feels like they just came up with the version number on a whim.

There are so many illogical things going on, so is this website itself a scam?

Fu Yun took a deep look at the words "Game Qualifications Are Being Issued" and put his phone away.

……

A few hours later.

In the faculty dormitory, Fu Yun held the gaming helmet in his hand, lost in thought.

He has already put on the helmet and completed character pre-creation. Now he just needs to wait for the maintenance update to finish before he can log in to the game.

A sense of retreat began to creep into his mind.

Like Lord Ye who loved dragons but was terrified of them, no matter how well he talked, if he actually got solid evidence, his first reaction would obviously not be joy.

Time passed by, second by second.

Fu Yun took a deep breath, cleared his mind of his complicated thoughts, and put the gaming helmet on his head.

"Then let me see what the truth really is."

In the center of a pitch-black field of vision, the countdown for maintenance shutdown reached zero.

Player "null" has entered the game.

Fu Yun felt his consciousness being pulled away from the familiar bed, and the air he smelled changed to a faint scent of earth and grass. He felt the solid ground behind him.

In that instant, it felt as if countless tiny electric currents surged through Fu Yun's back and throughout his body; everything felt so real that it made him tremble.

"Oh my god."

"Oh my god..."

"It wasn't a prank?!"

Fu Yun heard someone nearby exclaim in surprise.

He could clearly tell that this was not a modulated and compressed electronic sound coming from the headphones, but real sound waves hitting his eardrums.

Fu Yun opened his eyes, and everything in front of him had an unbelievable texture.

Subconsciously, I raised my hand, and my palm was clearly visible in front of me, with every detail of my fingerprints and the sheen of my nails clearly visible.

He tried clenching his fist, and the sensation of muscle contraction traveled along his nerve endings, subtle yet precise.

I picked up a piece of gravel from the side, then let go and watched it fall freely, as if verifying the physical laws of this world.

"This is...unbelievable..."

Fu Yun looked around, his eyes not showing the ecstasy of the other players, but rather a hint of awe for the unknown.

"He doesn't look like much of a threat."

The veteran players stood at the edge of the open space, pointing and whispering, observing the new players with the kind of look one might give when selecting fruit in a supermarket.

Incidentally, when the version update announcement appeared on players' personal interfaces, for safety reasons, players rushed back to the Creekstone Tribe before the update began.

From the players' perspective, since Qinghe Tribe is just there and won't grow legs and run away, it's the same as going there after the update is finished.

The newbie players around them gradually came to their senses and began to talk loudly with the people nearby, sharing their feelings with each other.

The air was filled with a restless energy that was a mixture of excitement, curiosity, and a desire to explore.

Some people couldn't wait to start walking towards the second-floor villa.

On the wall of the house facing the open space, there were two animal skins hanging on them, which contained the "Tiger Fiend Technique" and the "Azure Stream Manual".

Having been a casual gamer on the forum for so long, I naturally know what to do first when I enter the game.

Soon, the area in front of the two animal hides was crowded with players, who kept shouting for the players in front to hurry up.

Besides the two volumes of military strategy manuals, there was another place where a large number of players had gathered.

Dog, who had been resurrected, led the players who had died in the Qinghe tribe to surround Fat Tiger.

"Brother Fat Tiger, according to your post, shouldn't you hand over 'Breaking Waves and Collapsing' by now?"

"That's right, we all gave our lives there."

"Hurry up, hurry up!"

Fat Tiger had no intention of denying it, but he really couldn't produce "Breaking Waves and Collapsing" at the moment.

"No problem, but the animal hide containing the military strategy is still in that tribe. You'll have to wait for me to go get it first."

Upon hearing this, Dog Brother waved his hand dismissively.

"Then let's go! We'll go with you."

"No rush. I said I'd share it, and I won't go back on my word. Let's upgrade first. At this rate, how long will we ever get there?"

Fat Tiger wasted no time; as he replied, he was already doing push-ups.

Dog Brother thought about it for a moment and realized that made sense, so he started training next to Fatty Tiger, and casually asked, "Can you tell me? How powerful is that 'Breaking Waves Collapse' technique?"