I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 728 - 728 727. Players Great Expedition _1

Chapter 728: 727. Players’ Great Expedition _1 Chapter 728: 727. Players’ Great Expedition _1 For this group of players’ first expedition, Lu Ban not only needed them to experience the real brutality of the Night Country, tempering their spirits and wills, but he also needed them to serve a promotional role.

Since the corresponding internal interface had not been opened, “Morning Star” could not be livestreamed, and livestreaming software was unable to capture what the players saw and heard.

The reason for this wasn’t any trade secret; rather, it was because the operation of “Morning Star” was the product of Lu Ban’s spur-of-the-moment thinking, lacking the logical electronic circuitry and signal systems of normal humans, so it was naturally impossible to capture.

Therefore, Lu Ban on Earth, acting as a paper person, hurriedly created a livestreaming software, planning to broadcast the grand scenes of the players’ expedition for promotional purposes when the time came.

If you were to say that Lu Ban was short on players, that would definitely not be the case. Now, there were tens of millions, if not millions, of players around the world wanting to enter the world of the Night Country, vying to serve Lu Ban, to toil as oxen and horses in building Sunset Town.

But Lu Ban needed some high-quality human players.

If the first batch of closed beta testers were “players,” people for whom the game was more important than life, then the second batch would be industry elites who enjoyed playing games.

And for the third batch of players, Lu Ban wanted to recruit some who might not play games often, but were top-notch in their own fields.

Such a need naturally required certain promotion.

Live broadcasting was the best promotion.

Lu Ban had Li Zijian contact websites and TV stations, planning to buy the prime time slot on a TV station to broadcast the scenes of the players battling the huge monsters for publicity and promotion.

Once the recruitment of the third batch of players and the live broadcast were announced, the news caused a global sensation.

Almost all media and entertainment-related newspapers ran the story on the front page; all kinds of self-media, public accounts, talk shows, and all media were discussing [Cage].

According to what the players revealed, this expedition should be the largest player action since the beginning of the game’s testing period.

The previous Demonic Beast attack was only experienced by the closed beta testers, and no imagery leaked out, leaving the other cloud players itching with curiosity.

This time, with the official live broadcast, it was simply too exhilarating.

Some might ask whether these players didn’t want to participate in the testing themselves?

Aside from not being selected, sometimes, players truly enjoyed watching others play more than playing themselves.

On one hand, there were those with clumsy hands, who suffered terribly when playing themselves but felt exhilarated watching others smoothly take on bosses. On the other hand, there was a schadenfreude in seeing others suffer through areas they had already played through.

Then, there were those players who simply didn’t have enough time to indulge in games; why bother spending time on a game they bought with their own skill?

Moreover, according to what the closed beta testers had disclosed, this game was extremely hardcore, with operations no different from reality, and quite a few players were just fair-weather fans, quite content with watching others’ live streams.

In a certain construction group, in Zhou Changqing’s department—

These civil engineering people were studying the requirements Zhou Changqing had provided.

Since the materials in the Night Country were different from reality, existing calculations couldn’t be applied directly and had to be altered.

This task couldn’t be accomplished by ordinary people, only computers; thus, Zhou Changqing brought the data out to be input into the software by his colleagues for simulation.

Nighttime.

Zhou Changqing’s colleague Zhu Wei was in the office, staring at the computer, examining the results in the simulation software.

The software had many uses, one of which was to input the model of a building, confirm the materials, and, ultimately, determine if it could remain stable under a variety of conditions.

In normal use, only extreme natural disasters like typhoons and earthquakes would be entered into the simulation.

But now, they also had to consider the impact of the Demonic Tide.

After all, in the real world, there aren’t any scenarios where a fifteen-meter-tall wolf crashes into a house.

To test the fortitude of the fortress, they had to rewrite the program, creating even more scenarios.

Zhu Wei yawned, planning to go home once this simulation was over, if there were no issues.

The rest of the department had already left for the day, and now there were only a few people still working overtime in the entire building.

While waiting for the results, Zhu Wei was in no rush to dedicate the remainder of his value but instead flipped through the magic introductory book.

The contents of the book had been transcribed by Zhou Changqing, but nobody in the department could make heads or tails of it.

Zhu Wei used it to pass the time.

He skipped past the introductory section that had already been discussed and directly started reading about magic.

As he read, Zhu Wei always felt something squirming in his brain.

It was like a voice, whispering in his ear.

Ordinarily, when he read these contents, his head would soon throb with pain as if his brain had been struck by a bell ten-odd times, but for some reason, tonight, as he read, Zhu Wei felt his thinking was crystal clear, as though he was born understanding these things.

He quickly grasped the composition of the first spell, and the voice that hovered around his ear became clearer, its language, although Zhu Wei couldn’t understand it, mysteriously made sense to him.

It was urging Zhu Wei to give it a try.

Zhu Wei blankly set down the book. He raised his hand, feeling a certain power coalescing at his fingertips.

The office lights flickered twice. The wind from some unknown place rattled the windows, and Zhu Wei felt the murmuring voices by his ear suddenly grow enormously loud. That hoarse, continuous, tempting voice seemed as if it were resounding in his brain, merging with his own inner voice.

Zhu Wei felt as if something was about to burst forth from his hands.

Simultaneously, the figure of a person slowly emerged behind Zhu Wei. It seemed to be a young woman, brimming with youthful vigor.

The next moment, just as Zhu Wei was about to snap his fingers, a hand covered his, firmly restraining it.

Zhu Wei, in a daze with lifeless eyes, turned to look to his side.

He saw a young girl holding his hand while her other hand was placed on her rosy lips, a finger raised in a silencing gesture.

“Don’t be too curious, okay?”

That seductive voice reached him, Zhu Wei’s eyes vacant as he slowly nodded.

Immediately after, the computer beeped. The results from the simulation software had come out.

Only then did Zhu Wei come to his senses. He did not understand what had made him space out. He checked the simulation results, which were mostly consistent with the previous predictions. He saved the data, turned off his computer, and prepared to go home.

As he stood up, Zhu Wei realized he had stepped on something. Looking down, he saw it was the magic book.

He hastily picked up the book and glanced over the magic content.

He didn’t understand a thing, and the headache began to rush back.

Zhu Wei put the book away and quickly left the office.

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