Chapter 1

The "Parallel World" has five basic attributes: Constitution, Strength, Agility, Intelligence, and Spirit. Each level up awards 5 attribute points, and Gu Fei unhesitatingly added all the points to Agility. Then he waved his fists and feet, and sure enough, his movements were much faster than before. He was overjoyed. If this continued, he could not only guarantee a return to his normal level, but also, because this was a game, he could continue to add points and even reach a speed that his real self could not achieve. Gu Fei didn't want to become such a freak. He only wanted to return to his real self. He planned to add the extra points to Strength so that his attack power would be like his real self. Right now, it was too weak. Gu Fei clenched his fists.

But speaking of it being a game, it was inevitable to plunder the defeated monsters. After adding points, Gu Fei began to search the six guys. In the end, he found two meat-cutting knives and six small money bags. The little monsters weren't very rich. Each money bag only had a dozen or so copper coins, which Gu Fei put into his own money bag. He scraped off the rust from the two meat-cutting knives, lifted his mage robe, and stuck them in his waist.

In order to be completely realistic, "Parallel World" did not have professional restrictions on equipment. There were only some attribute requirements, and most of them were in terms of strength. As for beginner-level weapons like these that had no attribute requirements at all, of course anyone could use them.

Gu Fei tidied himself up and turned to walk towards another hill.

There was another bonfire and six brothers. But before Gu Fei had time to see if the other party looked exactly the same as the previous six, the system issued a prompt: Dear player, the game will disconnect in ten seconds, please be prepared to log off. 10, 9, 8...

After the countdown, the game disconnected, and all the simulated scenes disappeared before his eyes. Gu Fei returned to reality.

"What's going on!" Muttering to himself, Gu Fei connected to the official website.

At this time, the developers and operators of "Parallel World" were sitting together, holding an emergency meeting overnight to discuss the many problems that had been exposed on the first day of the public beta.

Because it was the first holographic game in history, in order to maintain its mystery, "Parallel World" had been developed in secret until the internal testing period when it began to be heavily promoted. The internal testing was all done by internal personnel, and everyone's main focus was on the important parts of conventional online games, such as characters, tasks, skills, and equipment. However, a lot of problems that were exposed on the first day of the public beta were almost all due to the holographic technology, which made people feel unacceptable.

First of all, according to the information collected from the player complaint channel, the overly cute monsters in the lowest-level training area were the most complained about problem. Female players were furious about this, and male players were afraid of being despised by female players for killing the little cuties, so their dissatisfaction with this setting was even stronger than that of the female players.

In addition, the single and repetitive images of NPCs, buildings, trees, and so on in the game could also be forcibly solved technically. What was really棘手 (jí shǒu, troublesome) was the problems caused by people.

In just half a day of the public beta, the frequent violent incidents in the game really made the officials a little helpless. The simulation of the human sensory system was the core of the entire holographic game, and violent incidents occurred on this most basic framework, which could not be solved by technical modifications at all. After repeated research, it was decided to classify this kind of fighting as PK (player kill) in nature, and the scope of PK protection was increased to level 10. As for whether players would wave weapons in the game and use skills with their right hand during PK, while using a self-developed "monkey steals peaches" with their left hand for a sneak attack, they could only wait and see.

"This is also good! It's realistic! Haha, holographic games are all about reality, this is exactly our original intention." A high-level participant in the meeting comforted everyone.

But the next problem was so bad that it couldn't be covered up even with reality as an excuse: female players were sexually assaulted by male players.

The game staff really didn't expect that holographic technology would expose the dark side of players so thoroughly. But since sensory simulation was a complete system, it was definitely not within the capabilities of the game company to simply remove the relevant sexual parts. Moreover, this was actually a hidden selling point in the game, and the higher-ups were unwilling to completely ban it.

The final solution could only be to design an option that respected the wishes of both parties. But this stumped the technical staff again. Imagine in a warm and gentle environment, a pair of lovers can't help but want to develop further, and "clang," a prompt box pops up: A sexual invitation from so-and-so, do you accept? Even if you choose yes, the original harmonious atmosphere will become no.

Furthermore, how to grasp the degree of this sexual content? Only that thing counts as sexual? Then what about a kiss? What about a touch? So-and-so is going to touch you, do you accept? When someone at the meeting hypothetically proposed this prompt box, everyone at the meeting felt like vomiting.

"Anyway, let's make it first, we can observe the players' reactions and opinions, and then make adjustments." In the end, the big boss made the decision.

After discussing a few more issues, the meeting adjourned, and all departments immediately began to work hard. It was definitely a miracle in the history of online games to go back to the drawing board after only half a day of public testing. Fortunately, this time it could be covered up with "the first time using holographic technology, so there is not enough experience," but everyone's pressure was undoubtedly very high.

The big boss looked at the busy figures flashing out and nodded with satisfaction. Then, he saw that there was still one person sitting in the position without moving, looking at him with a smile.

After everyone left, the big boss spoke: "Xiao Wu, do you still have something?"

"The boss knows my heart!" The person called Xiao Wu stood up, walked to the boss, and pulled a chair to sit down.

"Speak!" The boss looked at him. This Ye Xiao Wu was a member of the game planning department and one of the core members of the entire game production team.

"Uh! What I saw today makes me think that there might be a problem with our game." Xiao Wu said.

"Oh?"

"Because it is a holographic simulation, some people will bring the skills in real life into the game. In this way, they will have a natural advantage over other players. This is quite detrimental to the game balance we have been pursuing!" Xiao Wu said.

"What skills will affect the game?" the boss asked.

"For example, kung fu!"

"Kung fu?"

Xiao Wu nodded affirmatively: "Today in the game, I met a person whose profession is a mage, bare-handed, and defeated three knights at the same time. I think he is someone who knows kung fu."

"Are there really such people!" The boss frowned.

Xiao Wu said: "Think about it, police, soldiers, martial arts practitioners, boxers... etc., may create this imbalance in the game!"

"Then what should we do? We can't ban people from playing our game because of their profession." the boss said.

"There's no way." Xiao Wu also shook his head.

But the boss smiled: "If there is no way, you wouldn't have stayed to talk to me about it."

Xiao Wu also smiled: "It's just that this kind of person gave me an inspiration."

"Speak."

"Traditional online games, everything revolves around combat. But now we are a holographic simulation, should we increase the development efforts and enhance the functions of other systems besides combat? Let people with a skill in life be able to bring this specialty into the game to play, in this way, it can be considered a balance!" Xiao Wu said.

"What you said is simple, but the development is very difficult." the boss said.

"We can try!"

"Okay, you come up with a specific plan, and we will discuss it at the next meeting." the boss said.

"Okay!" Xiao Wu was overjoyed, "Then I'll go first."

"Wait!" the boss stopped him, "I said, why did you enter the game again? Don't you know the rules of the game industry? As a member of the game company, you are not allowed to play the company's game, some strictly demanding companies, even relatives are not allowed!"

"I have never agreed with this point. We come out to make games, of course, we love games, why should we lose the right to play games because of this? Don't worry, I am a self-disciplined game worker, in the game, I am just an ordinary player." Xiao Wu said.

"With your understanding of games, can you be ordinary?" the boss said.

"Don't worry, I won't touch any of those hidden things, okay?" Xiao Wu said.

"I will find someone to pay attention to you, what is your name in the game?" the boss asked.

"Hong Chen Yi Xiao!" Xiao Wu smiled and left the conference room.