Work Prophet
Chapter 314 - 72: 1.0 Version Launch

Chapter 314: Chapter 72: 1.0 Version Launch

Li Yu stepped out of the residential complex and first went to the nearby convenience store to buy a bottle of Master Kong iced black tea.

Unscrewing the cap, he tilted his head back and gulped down two big mouthfuls, and then... his whole body began to ache.

He just couldn’t die; it didn’t mean he couldn’t feel pain.

The recent fight, although he had the upper hand throughout, still left him with quite a few hits, and since force is mutual, his fists might have landed on Wang Kai and Song Xiaofei, but his knuckles were starting to hurt as well.

But Li Yu was in a pretty good mood nonetheless.

Also, he saw An Yixin outside the convenience store afterward, and she was in a great mood too, looking at him with both admiration and excitement. Li Yu grabbed another bottle of zero-degree Coca-Cola, paid with Alipay, and tossed it to An Yixin.

She caught it, opened it, and took a satisfying sip.

Li Yu knew that An Yixin had also seen what had happened on the rooftop.

After being chased away by Li Yu, she didn’t go home, but instead ran to the rooftop of the next building and hid behind the parapet.

Li Yu couldn’t be bothered to criticize her and simply said to her, "Let’s go."

On the way back, An Yixin hummed a cheerful tune.

"What song?" Li Yu asked after listening for a while.

"It’s ’Massage’ by Palmy, the Thai diva. Sister Palmy’s songs are all really nice. Uncle, you should take some time to listen to them too."

Li Yu took out his phone and did a quick Baidu search, "You call a 41-year-old woman ’sister’ and me ’uncle’?"

"That’s because you hardly ever smile, uncle. You always look so serious."

"I’m not even 26 years old yet. Stop calling me uncle."

"Then what should I call you, the immortal big brother?"

"..."

"The immortal big brother, you are really good at fighting."

An Yixin said, "Taking on two at once, and beating them so bad they couldn’t even get up. If I had your skills, that’d be great. We could team up and patrol the city every night, fighting evil and promoting good.

"But it looks like you’re really not a vampire; otherwise, you would have turned Wang Kai and Song Xiaofei into your blood bags by now."

"They probably won’t do bad things again, but if you see or hear about anything similar, let me know."

"Okay." An Yixin nodded like a pecking chicken.

...

The next day when Li Yu went to work, Miss Rabbit saw the bruise on his face and was startled, "What happened?! How did you end up like this?"

Li Yu didn’t want to explain too much and simply said, "It’s nothing, just got into a fight."

As a result, the Lady became even more anxious after hearing this, "A divine war? Did other gods lead their armies over? Who won in the end, and was our Lord Sabbath injured?"

"Uh, it wasn’t that serious, just a normal fight."

Li Yu originally didn’t want to wear sunglasses at night as it seemed a bit crazy, but seeing Ireya on such high alert, he still took out the "Game Sunglasses" and put them on his face, covering his slightly swollen eyes.

Last night, aside from getting into a fight, Li Yu also received the final version of the upgrade system from Sea Dog. After checking it and finding no issues, Li Yu paid Sea Dog the remaining amount.

And this time, he planned to launch the system.

This could be considered a 1.0 trial version, to first see how effective it was; any subsequent issues could still be addressed with continuous updates and iterations.

Li Yu had Yadun gather the preachers from the Preaching Institute and announced the news to them, then had someone record the relevant content.

The main focuses for public promotion were the merchandise in the exchange store and the corresponding Divine Country points, as well as the means to acquire Divine Country points (upgrade).

And the timing of the system’s arrival was just right; it could help drive the current farming tool reforms and cultivation methods being implemented by the Double Rest Sect.

This was destined to be a day remembered by posterity, the day when the great Divine Country upgrade game, which would later entice tens of millions of believers to immerse themselves, unable to extricate themselves and willingly become internet addicts, officially began.

With the Double Rest Sect’s full operation, all the Saturday followers in Green Field were informed within a few short days about another new gimmick launched by Prophet Merlin.

Sea Dog, worthy of his name as a veteran game planner, despite having each project he worked on turn yellow, learned through successive failures how to make a good game.

Adhering to the game design principle of not giving players too much right from the start, treating players as if they were clueless.

The 1.0 version of the Divine Kingdom Store didn’t have many commodities, only one page’s worth. Li Yu later simply had Zhang Yanlin contact a printing shop to print them all out and make posters. Simple and intuitive, they were posted in the center of every village.

Although the store had few items at this stage, each was carefully selected, including the newly promoted farming tools; the rest were also good items that could improve the standard of living.

For example, the windmill grinding vouchers, each of which could grind twenty pounds of flour, saved the usage fee that had to be paid at the Lord’s mill, and didn’t require any manual labor.

There were also condiments like salt and pepper. The prices of condiments on the Bratis Continent were always high. Even if the believers were too reluctant to consume them themselves, they could make a small profit by selling them.

Fresh dogfish, another product Li Yu was currently focusing on promoting.

Although it wasn’t the breeding season for the dogfish in the ponds yet, Li Yu had decided to start cultivating the habit of eating fish among the followers of the Double Rest Sect.

Otherwise, if the freshwater fish farming industry were to expand later on, and fish sales were poor, it might demotivate the breeders.

It would be better to start now, even if the Double Rest Sect had to spend money to buy fish from outside to feed everyone. For this, Li Yu had specifically adjusted the price of dogfish to 1 Divine Country point for 3 pounds, which, compared to other items in the store, was quite a bargain.

These goods were already available on the Bratis Continent, so people could easily calculate their actual value, thereby allowing believers to understand more directly the preciousness of Divine Country points.

This was to let everyone spontaneously accept this new general equivalent.

In addition to these regular items, there were also some unique items from the Double Rest Sect in the Divine Kingdom Store, such as the red brick houses, which were placed at the most prominent spot, first on the poster.

Li Yu even specifically allocated a small area for it, complete with exterior and interior photos for introduction.

In Sea Dog’s words, the presence of this signature product was to incentivize everyone to work hard and upgrade! Of course, its selling price was also very high—a whopping 1999 Divine Country points.

But anyone who saw the pictures would be attracted, automatically hearing in their minds the voices of the preaching Sabbath members.

"Do you want what’s inside? If you do, I can give you everything. Go upgrade! Earn Divine Country points and buy all the good stuff!"

The believers were stirred once more. Following the distribution of eggs, the Double Rest Sect finally had another big activity! This time there were more things being given away, and they were of higher value—even houses were put up! (At this point, most people had not yet realized that Divine Country points were actually a form of currency. In the eyes of the people, the Divine Country points that could be obtained through upgrading seemed just like things given for free.)

Now there was only one question left, how to upgrade?