Chapter 2015-06-22 Summer Solstice, Sunny

Today, it is inauspicious to travel, auspicious for gaming.

The world-renowned game studio, Bow Qiying II's new Dark Wolf series work, the ancient Zheng-era (Chinese-style) background 'Undying Tribulation,' has been released.

Instantly, this news was known from Ireland to Sakhalin Island, sweeping across the north and south of the country.

Because the Holy Trials had concluded, even Su Zhou bought the game.

However, he didn't play it himself, but instead chose to run to the Shao family and, together with Shao Qiming, sat behind Shao Shuangyue, watching her play the game.

"Are you guys on drugs?!"

As soon as the two sat down in the room, Shao Shuangyue exploded. She grabbed her headphones, wanting to slam them heavily on the table, but remembering that they were her favorite Monster Hunter limited edition, she could only resentfully and gently put them down. "You guys are so much better than me, why do you have to watch me play?"

"To be honest, watching others suffer is more fun than suffering yourself."

Su Zhou answered matter-of-factly, "Especially since I'm already so strong, I can't experience the fun of games that require reaction speed anymore... You understand? It's too slow for me."

"To be honest, that's true."

Shao Qiming, who had put down his phone, also replied seriously. "As the saying goes, others' pain is our happiness."

Shao Qiming had been on the phone. After finishing the call, he looked conflicted. As the top student in the normal academic subjects of this Holy Trial, and with his first-rate transcendent talent, many academies were willing to offer him extremely high scholarships or extremely generous conditions.

However, these conditions were not very meaningful. He wasn't short of money, and in terms of the transcendent, it was difficult to offer better conditions than the three great transcendent academies. So, even though he was very grateful, Shao Qiming rejected them all.

"Speaking of which, if you weren't too young, I think starting a livestream would be pretty good."

Su Zhou was eating melon seeds, watching Shao Shuangyue open 'Undying Tribulation,' and giving advice: "You should study hard at your age, but if you really want to keep playing games in the future, you should also cultivate properly now. Otherwise, when all the game streamers on the internet have the super reactions of cultivators, and you're the only one still playing games with the methods of ordinary people... Huh? A cute, air-headed girl, sounds pretty good?"

"Waaaa! What good does it do you to piss me off?!"

Su Zhou wasn't just bored and teasing Shao Shuangyue. In fact, when he learned about the game Undying Tribulation, he knew that the information disturbance that Yala had mentioned had undoubtedly appeared.

As for why not at his own house... seriously, who knows how many reporters are lying in wait at the bottom of Su Zhou's building? After learning what the 'Transcendent' realm represented, and after getting confirmation that Su Zhou's Holy Trial results were also excellent, many media outlets were determined to find a chance to interview this young generation's world number one.

Yes, only two days after the results were released, Su Zhou had been promoted to the world's number one of the younger generation. The kind of background character you often see in novels and games.

Presumably, in the eyes of geniuses all over the country, and even the world, Su Zhou was probably a background character that everyone was determined to surpass, and he didn't know how many people he had motivated.

These media outlets and reporters hadn't encountered Su Zhou yet. After all, with Feng Zhu's (a character) help, Su Zhou's whereabouts were incredibly secretive. Unless a Metropolis reporter from some American comic book came to interview him, no one would be able to find him. But if that happened, daily life would be too troublesome.

So now, he was temporarily living at the Shao family's house, avoiding the limelight. In a few days, Shao's father, Shao Nantian, would complete his promise and take them to the South China Sea to relax, surf, and dive. After relaxing, the hotspot would probably pass.

"Hey, I don't know why, but suddenly I'm full of energy!"

To be honest, when he heard that they were going to the beach, Su Zhou was really looking forward to it. After all, even though he had been to another world, he hadn't been to the beach much.

And for some reason, whenever he thought of the sea, Su Zhou felt energized, and his whole body was eager to try.

"A swimming dragon enters the sea, a tiger returns to the mountains... endless trouble!"

Yala suddenly told a cold joke, but it also explained why Su Zhou felt that way. Indeed, not to mention dragons, even snakes have sea snakes. It was normal for him to look forward to going to the beach.

Putting his mind at ease, Su Zhou began to watch the CG of Undying Tribulation.

"Oh, the Divine Tree actually awakened because of the death of this old Daoist priest..."

Seeing the CG content, Su Zhou was slightly surprised. Although he had been to the Divine Tree World, many details and various hidden elements were not recorded in reality. "This Divine Tree grows too fast. It's like a mountain, completely blocking the warm wind blowing from the sea to the southwest. No wonder there are always clouds and rain around the Divine Tree."

"But in that case, the southwest side of the Divine Tree will suffer from perennial drought... because most of the rainfall is blocked by the Divine Tree."

Compared to the concept short film, the content of the official CG had many more large-scale scenes, such as the special effects of martial artists fighting, the silhouettes of various Bosses, etc., all of which were very refined. Especially the latter, most of which were familiar faces to Su Zhou, causing him to nod repeatedly: "This level of reproduction is so high."

Although Shao Shuangyue might have some minor problems with her studies, she was very serious when it came to games.

After officially starting the game, it was time to choose a starting character.

【Swordsman】【Warrior Monk】【Blade Master】【Outlander】The black silhouettes of the four characters appeared in front of her.

The Swordsman starts with two light weapon longswords and some miscellaneous small items. He is also good at using some Daoist spells, and is a character with good overall strength.

The Warrior Monk comes with a heavy weapon long staff, and has the highest constitution and initial damage. He is very durable, but not very agile. If you are confident in your skills, he should be a very powerful character.

The Blade Master's silhouette is very slender, looking like a woman. She starts with a long saber, is good at medicine, can heal and apply poison, and can also make amplifying ointments and pills with various effects.

The Outlander comes with a random heavy weapon, can customize his face, has high initial free attributes, can choose his own stat allocation and development, and has some special talents. However, the Outlander has no background, and some special dialogues cannot be selected.

"Isn't this just Zhou Buyi's group of three and me?" Su Zhou thought to himself. Shao Shuangyue didn't hesitate and directly chose the first character, the Swordsman. She also explained, "What you need most to explore is balance. I'll use him to see what insidious traps Old Thief has set in this game."

The following game content was very normal—a squad advancing in the wind and snow, encountering a mysterious Outlander, and the two sides immediately started fighting without saying a word.

"Very realistic." Eating melon seeds, Su Zhou nodded slightly, thinking, "So information disturbance can be restored to this extent? That's amazing... Ah, I've been made into a tutorial level."

He could see that before the Outlander began to attack each time, the character controlled by Shao Shuangyue would receive prompts on how to parry with her sword, how to use spells to reverse the situation in a disadvantageous situation, and how to launch a coordinated attack with her teammates... and then the Outlander was knocked down.

Immediately, Su Zhou was stunned, and the melon seeds fell from his hand: "Ah? I lost? Oh, not knocked down, just knocked back... but when was I knocked back? Didn't I just stand on the wooden stake from beginning to end and pick off all of Zhou Buyi's group?"

Naturally, neither Shao Shuangyue nor Shao Qiming could understand Su Zhou's shock. Both of them were paying attention to the game content and didn't say a word.

After all, as a veteran player of the Dark Wolf series, Shao Shuangyue, although she had not yet cultivated, actually had decent gaming skills. Soon, she passed a series of tutorials and began to clear the map, sweeping away the demonic soldiers hidden in the forest.

With the same starting choice, the process should also be different. At this time, Su Zhou also understood that if Shao Shuangyue chose to start as the Outlander, it would probably restore the scene of him fighting a group of them alone. Each different starting character probably represented a different process and storyline.

And choosing the Swordsman, based on Zhou Buyi's template, the storyline was probably the most orthodox, that is, leading others to clear mobs and fight demonic generals... Of course, the demonic soldiers would be resurrected. If they were not completely killed with fire attribute attacks, they would be tricked by the resurrected demonic soldiers.

The process was fast, and Shao Shuangyue quickly began to attack the first demonic general, Red Earth.

Then, while fighting, Shao Shuangyue died from poison—Shao Shuangyue was suppressed by the Red Earth demonic general's fierce attacks and could only parry and dodge, but while parrying, she discovered that she was poisoned. She didn't have a chance to drink medicine for a while, and died like that.

【DEATH】.

"So it's a limited-time Boss. Either prepare medicine in advance, or blow him up within a minute."

The red font appeared in the center of the screen. Shao Shuangyue didn't feel anything. Logically speaking, dying only after encountering the first serious Boss was already very good. It was enough to prove that Shao Shuangyue was skilled among ordinary people.

But Su Zhou was still quite annoyed: "What's going on? I'm a handsome and elegant young man. Aside from the national teacher and the emperor being a little difficult to fight, which one can't I crush with one hand? How come here, four people attacking such a weak chicken together, and it's always a hard fight?!"

"This game is messed up!"

"Could it be that I'm so bad that even Brother Zhou can't stand it anymore?" The low air pressure coming from the side was obvious even to Shao Shuangyue, and she couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat: "It shouldn't be, I've only died seven or eight times from beginning to end—it's not strange for ordinary people to die dozens of times!"

But Shao Shuangyue didn't know what Su Zhou, who had cleared the game in one life, was thinking.

Soon, after getting stuck for a while, the storyline process started again—after being defeated, the Red Earth demonic general did not die, but retreated. After the protagonist group leveled up, they were about to face a three-way battle with equally powerful demonic generals.

At this point, it was obvious that it was a bit beyond Shao Shuangyue's current strength. In other words, she was stuck.

"The demonic general in red armor will use poison. Go around behind him and hit his head to break the source of his poison gas."

"Just dodge the big centipede demonic general. It consumes stamina quickly. Use Daoist spells to slowly grind it down."

"This demonic general can shoot a gun. Be careful of its ranged attacks."

At this time, Su Zhou confidently guided Shao Shuangyue to attack, with a skilled look: "Temporarily switch to this Outlander as the main character. Doesn't his talent come with immunity to toxins? Use him to kill this Red Earth demonic general first..."

"So Brother Zhou, you've played through it before." After hearing these instructions, Shao Shuangyue suddenly understood: "I was wondering, how could you be so bored?" She followed the strategy guided by Su Zhou and continued to die...

Su Zhou, who was really just that bored, immediately had question marks popping up above his head: "Huh, why is he still getting poisoned? The blood is only dropping a little slower. Isn't he immune to toxins?"

"Wow, Red Earth doesn't eat floating? Is he in super armor?!"

Feeling that she had been deceived, Shao Shuangyue said somewhat aggrievedly: "Brother Zhou, demonic generals are large units, they won't float. Only mobs will be knocked into the air by uppercut attacks."

--But I could easily knock him into the air and push him back a few meters with a single shot back then!

"How could this be?!" At this time, Su Zhou was like the original author of an article doing a reading comprehension question about his own article and getting 0 points. He was very uncomfortable: "It shouldn't be, it shouldn't be like this!"

However, now, Su Zhou had figured out how information disturbance was displayed.

"It's very likely that the inspiration that appeared in the minds of the corresponding Awakened ones does restore most of the information of that world, and even a lot of information that even the local natives don't know."

On the surface, Su Zhou was still watching Shao Shuangyue die over and over again, but he was thinking in his heart: "It's just that, because of the carrier, many storylines and experiences will be rewritten... Thinking positively, some Bosses may not be as strong as in the game, but because of the game process, they need to be stronger."

"But thinking negatively, there may be very strong characters who are forcibly killed by the game's storyline."

"If I travel to another world in the future that has related works in reality, other people's strength might still be able to be referenced, but in the game process, the strength of the opposing leaders probably still needs to be investigated locally."