Pokémon, but cultural invasion

As the torches were planted, the screen brightness returned, illuminating the night patrol spirits in the distance, their bodies entirely gray and their eyes like red signal lights.

"So it's a night patrol spirit."

Qishu thought Tingxiang was going to play some kind of horror game, but there's really nothing to be afraid of with ordinary Ghost-type Pokémon.

It is said that once a night watchman finds a child who has been scolded by his mother and is disobedient, he will take him somewhere in the middle of the night.

These pixelated night patrol spirits are different from those in the legends; they float more slowly and appear rather dull.

But their sheer number was overwhelming; pairs of eyes, like red lanterns, drew closer to the two.

"Newbies are easy to kill when ganged up on, I suggest you bury yourself."

Quanshu dug a three-block-deep hole for himself and jumped in quickly.

"You're actually planning to abandon me and run away?"

Just as he was about to seal it off, the strange tree, hearing the commotion, crawled in and stepped on his head.

"Can't you dig one yourself?"

There was nothing he could do, so he dug two blocks to the right, and the top block was dug up by the strange tree.

The two crawled into the narrow hole and covered their heads with mud.

"So dark..."

Qi Shu muttered something, and the eerie sound of a night patrolling spirit drifting overhead came from above.

She took a moment to glance at the dense barrage of comments.

"Nightwatch has received an epic nerf; it can no longer pass through walls."

"I suggest the streamer confront the issue head-on, pick up the wooden sword and prove that he is not just a bully who only bullies the weak and fears the strong."

"By the way, doesn't Director Izumi show his face? I didn't get enough of the live stream last time."

Qi Shu manipulated Steve to spin in the confined space, then suddenly thought of something and revealed a sly smile:

"Director Quanshu, how does it feel to be hiding in a narrow pit with the live streamer DianDian?"

"It feels like I've narrowly escaped death after almost being killed by a terrible teammate."

The spring tree was dug diagonally downwards.

"Don't waste the night, try to find a coal mine."

"boring!"

Despite saying this, Qi Shu smiled broadly, revealing a mouthful of shark teeth.

"Why does the anchor seem unusually happy today?"

"These strange interactions... could there be something going on behind them?"

"Hey guys, anyone want to play online? Mining alone is so tiring..."

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Trainer School, Lucky City, Sinnoh Region.

"The game is finally online."

Ze Li pressed the spacebar to start. He looked around at his classmates who were engaged in electronic simulation battles and felt a pang of guilt.

"But after six o'clock is free time."

Ze Li shook his head to shake off his hesitation. These guys who study from morning till night are the abnormal ones, aren't they?

He put on his headphones and entered the game.

As a player who waited for the server to open, Ze Li was very lucky, as he was born next to a village.

Villagers dressed in brown clothes, with their hands clasped in front of their chests, wandered among stone wells and thatched wooden houses.

It occasionally made strange "humming" sounds.

Ze Li first acted out of player instinct, harvesting all the golden wheat in the paddy field, and then began to observe the villagers.

These strangely calling, lower-class indigenous people seemed unable to communicate.

So he carefully entered each wooden house, ransacking it and looting it thoroughly before leaving satisfied.

In one of the peculiar huts, Ze Li discovers a strange villager.

Unlike ordinary villagers who only mumble and grumble, the strange villager mutters incantations, and staying near it will trigger various prompts.

Iron ingots and berries can be used to craft Poké Balls.

Magma can be used as fuel to burn for one thousand seconds.

The hunger cost after activating sprint is ten times that of walking.

Building a Nether portal requires arranging obsidian blocks into a neat doorway; opening it requires a flint and steel.

...

Ze Li understood that the villager, dressed like a prophet, was a guide for novices and would share some useful information.

He waited a while, and the prophet provided a large amount of information, which was disorganized and chaotic.

However, the information is very valuable and can save players a lot of time in figuring things out.

Ze Li pondered, he was very likely the first player to find the prophet, could he take advantage of that?

He opened the recording software and recorded every word the prophet said.

About half an hour later, Ze Li posted on [Pikachu Pikachu] without stopping for a second.

[A gameplay video featuring tips and tricks from villagers in Tingxiang's new game "Minecraft," continuously updated.]

Although it's unedited, viewers can drag the progress bar to view it.

In the next ten minutes, Ze Li witnessed a miracle.

It took 30 seconds to go from one to one hundred views, 1 minute to go from one hundred to one thousand views, and 2 minutes to go from one thousand to ten thousand views.

Ten minutes later, the video had been viewed over 500,000 times, with over 100,000 people watching online.

The platform's push mechanism directly sent his videos to the homepages of countless people.

Thanks to the flood of bullet comments, the comment section was filled with fans cheering for their streamer.

"This is... the charm of Tingxiang."

Ze Li struck while the iron was hot, sending a second video twenty minutes later.

Several other players who had discovered the village had already followed suit and uploaded videos, but Ze Li didn't care; he was the first to drain the traffic.

"Does this mean I've successfully created a new account?"

The ever-increasing views and growing number of followers of the two videos dazzled Ze Li.

Based on his understanding of Tingxiang, this game is bound to be a huge hit.

He could easily follow up with video production and become a tech blogger.

Chapter 143 A Hundred Flowers Bloom

Mining with the Strange Tree, building wooden houses, catching Pokémon, upgrading equipment...

"Hey, do you remember we were planning to replicate the Prism Tower?"

As Quanshu played around, he felt that the overall direction was off.

"Of course I know."

Qishu was using a tuft of wheat to lure a group of chicks into the fenced enclosure next to the wooden house.

She said, "The nights are so dangerous in this world, isn't it reasonable to build a small wooden hut for defense?"

"Raising some chickens to lay eggs and make cakes for food storage is quite reasonable, isn't it?"

"Besides, I can tell you're really enjoying it, aren't you?"

She closed the gate and decorated the cabin with wool patches dyed with flowers.

A small wooden sign stands in front of the house—"Tree House".

"Let's go dig sand by the river."

Qi Shu pulled out a shovel and walked excitedly towards the river: "Doesn't the Prism Tower need a lot of glass?"

"If we continue to be so slow, someone else will take the lead in Prism Tower."

Quanshu followed.

A few days ago, Qishu invited him to participate in a two-person building competition. He thought that Qishu wanted to use his experience to gain an advantage in the competition.

Now it seems that's not the case. Perhaps Qishu just wanted to play games with him leisurely for a while?

He's been quite busy these past few days, around the time of the movie's release, so he's had significantly less time to play games with Qi Shu.

There are too few good TV series and movies in this world, and it's impossible for two people to watch them together.

So they usually watch recordings of competitions from various regions together, listening to Qi Shu's comments on each contestant.

Izumi's battles were the hardest hit areas, and she often revisited them for repeated viewing.

The feeling of watching myself command Eevee in battle on the screen is quite magical.

After a concise analysis of his mistakes, Kiju would always end with, "With so many mistakes, when are you going to come to the Brewing Light Dojo to give you some pointers?"

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Spring Tree began checking if anyone had managed to defeat the Ender Dragon, but the situation was not optimistic.

Most people had just entered the lower realm when they were beaten to a pulp by the Crystal Lampfire Spirit and the Emerald Firestorm Beast.

He misjudged something.

Having watched too many speedrun and world record challenge videos in his previous life, Izumi mistakenly believed that the players in this world who provided the information could also perform the same maneuvers.

In the early stages of any game, players are all at a fairly average skill level, and there isn't a significant skill gap between them.

Therefore, Izumi extended the Ender Dragon challenge to one week to prevent the embarrassing situation of no one completing it.

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"Get out of the way!"

Little Chrysanthemum tumbled awkwardly across the crimson cube, dodging the eerie blue fireballs shot by the Crystal Chandelier Spirit.

The lightning zebras and vine monsters she tamed didn't have the same deep bond with her as the elves in the real world.

The two sprites foolishly continued to attack the Chandelier Spirit, only to be brought to near-death by two small fireballs.

"come back!"

Realizing that the current Crystal Chandelier Spirit was no match for her, Little Chrysanthemum recalled her spirit and fled towards the portal.

"The monsters in hell are much stronger than those on land."

"Urgent report: A skilled player used the Blizzard King in Hell to create a snowy weather effect, freezing the Chandelure to death."

"Outrageous, have ways to skip class already appeared so quickly?"

Xiaoju'er clicked her tongue in amazement when she saw the comments; the Pokémon in this game could actually control the weather, and the effect was quite good.

She wants to regroup and try again.

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"Replicating architecture is so difficult."

When Lulina actually started working on it, she realized just how difficult it would be to recreate the Breakwater Seafood Restaurant in Waterboat Town.

She has unlocked too few blocks, making it difficult to find suitable blocks to replace the building.

The arrangement of blocks and the size ratio of buildings during replication are also issues.

If she hadn't obtained the design drawings from when the restaurant was built, she really would have given up.

"There don't seem to be many streamers participating in the recreation of Water Boat Town's architecture, so Lulina has a great chance."

"Compared to famous landmarks like Prism Tower and Chimney Mountain Cable Car, Breakwater Pavilion is indeed less well-known."