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When the real machine demo was released, Super Tomato was still live broadcasting, and I happened to watch it with my water friends.

After reading it, he was completely dumbfounded.

"Are we playing a game?"

It was his only thought.

How has he been playing these days?

If it is a small monster, then hold the shield and lean over carefully, block it first, then slash with the sword, then block it again, and then slash the second sword...

This cycle continues until the mobs are killed.

This is his most common tactic for fighting monsters.

Sneak attack?

Generally only mobs sneak up on him, and he doesn't sneak up on mobs!

As an internal beta player, he is much clearer than the melon-eaters watching: Those little monsters will not stand there stupidly, waiting to be attacked and instantly killed by you.

On the contrary, they are very clever!

It is really Lin You's route planning and timing control that are so good that such crazy sneak attacks and instant kills all the way occur.

Under normal circumstances, when you see two little monsters, you have to cheer up and deal with them cautiously.

Recklessness can indeed win, but it is also very likely to die suddenly.

— that is very dangerous!

"Or……"

"In the middle and late stages of the game, the attributes are improved, and the equipment and weapons are better. Is it possible to play a similar unparalleled effect?"

After watching Lin You's demonstration several times, Super Tomato was a little shaken.

I even had some doubts about my own game level...

*

Seeing the players falling into the carnival, Super Tomato and A Yi doubting their lives, Lin You nodded with satisfaction, and turned his eyes back to the matter in front of him——

New home renovation.

On the day of the hibernation operation for the veteran, before Lin You left, He Peng told him about changing the villa.

But that day Lin You was anxious to go home to watch the fun of the internal beta players, and he didn't have any special desire for the villa, so he postponed it until the next day to see it.

By the way, I also brought Zhu Cixia with me.

Lin You himself doesn't know how to decorate, and he has no interest in learning it.

But coincidentally, one of the princess's double majors is art, and she also knows a thing or two about interior design - considering the little princess's wide range of hobbies and outrageous learning ability, maybe more than one or two.

Anyway, Lin You brought the little princess with him.

However, after visiting the house, Zhu Cixia didn't make any comments.

Because the decoration design of this villa is led by a top designer who Lin You has never heard of, but to Zhu Cixia, it is very famous. The standard is very high.

What's more rare is that this master didn't engage in any fancy show off, but designed the villa very comfortably from the perspective of life and daily needs.

Lin You was very satisfied.

The little princess is also very satisfied.

——In the heart of the little princess, she will definitely live with Lin You in the future, so she takes it more seriously than Lin You.

After seeing the house, Lin You let Zhu Cixia freely decorate the walls or furniture, and he himself started to upgrade the intelligence.

This house is not only lived by Lin You and Zhu Cixia, but by him, the princess and Xiaomeng.

Xiaomeng's life experience must be fully guaranteed!

Therefore, Lin You plans to carry out a comprehensive digital upgrade for this villa.

Xiaomeng cheered happily, and took the initiative to massage Lin You's shoulders and legs, and transformed into [Limited Edition Xiaomeng with Blue Hair] again, with a pink head and a blue head, working together to give Lin You a double massage—in order to ensure the authentic effect, He also carefully closed his eyes.

According to Xiaomeng, this is called "blind massage", which she just learned!

As for the top laboratory that He Peng and the others were very concerned about, Lin You just checked the location, took a key and left.

This kind of casual attitude made He Peng somewhat speechless.

——The effort they have spent in this laboratory is much more than that of the house in which people live!

But Lin You really has nothing to do recently, so it's inevitable that he doesn't pay much attention...

*

In addition to the decoration of the new home, there is another happy event that makes Lin You very happy——

In the past week, as Lin You paid out a large sum of bonuses and demanded that the factory be fully produced, this week's production of [Mirage 2.0] mainframes exceeded any other week in the past!

More than 70 million mainframes rolled off the production line and were quickly shipped to the world.

Among them, the proportion of air transportation is astonishingly high!

In just one week, the number of users who activated the mainframe soared from the original 560 million to 600 million!

Another milestone reached.

— and this is while many hosts are still on the road.

Moreover, Lin You still does not intend to let the factory control production capacity.

The number of users who signed up for a Yunmeng account but did not purchase Mirage hosts also doubled in the past week, reaching 70 million!

Among them, of course, many are for the convenience of obtaining information in the virtual world, chasing trends, or being too shy to afford it.

But the rapid increase in a short period of time is enough to show that many of them are tempted by [wish] and [gold], and plan to rush in to chase their dreams!

To put it more bluntly:

One week is simply not enough to fully digest the heat and influence generated by the [Wishing Event].

Especially, on this Friday, someone really got a 25kg pure gold trophy and became rich overnight!

——After the latest issue of "Metropolis News" was broadcast, the player circle was certainly screened by "Dark Souls", but in the larger public opinion field of the global Internet, the news about [Pandora] and [Ultimate Challenge] The heat is even better!

Up to now, Lin You is no longer worried about the previous goal of [650 million users], because in his expectation, the achievement of this goal is already a certainty!

It's time to look at 700 million! Even 800 million!

...

Well, 800 million is not realistic...

But Lin You is not unprepared for a plan to reach 800 million users:

If the new graphene chip has not been successfully mass-produced in the middle of the year, the [Mirage 3.0] version, which is a two-in-one version of the "game console" and "octopus head ring", will be launched in advance, and the old-for-new strategy will continue to be adopted, and the recycled [2.0] Mainframe, sold at a discount to third world countries.

At the beginning, the first generation of hosts was launched for too short a time, so it was not easy to make discounts. In addition, the collection value of the first generation of products made the first generation more expensive than the second generation.

Now [Mirage 2.0] has been on the market for half a year, the new generation of hosts is on the market, and the price of the old generation of hosts is reduced, which basically conforms to the normal replacement rules.

...

...

In the next few days, Lin You focused most of his energy on "upgrading" his new home—mainly in the form of pointing at Yue Pengju and Jian Xingde.

His "upgrade" did not make any major changes to the original indoor environment, mainly adding cameras, microphones, sensors, atomized holographic projections, intelligent control systems... and other various equipment.

And these things, Yue Pengju and Jian Xingde are completely competent.

While Lin You was busy, the players were not idle either.

The battle intensity of Pandora had already been reduced, but as more mainframes were delivered to the owner, brand new "gold diggers" poured into Pandora again, pulling the battle intensity back to the peak again!

Ever since, [War Reporter] really appeared!

——Lin You, as always, keep what you say!

On Tuesday, A Yi was once again called for help by his good brothers. When he led the team into the Pandora jungle, he met a war reporter in the middle of the fierce battle.

At that time, he and his good brothers were fighting with a team of players from an unknown country in the dense forest. When his heart was beating wildly and he was very nervous, a person suddenly jumped out from behind him!

A Yi, who had the experience of "being stabbed to death by a surprise attack by a tree", turned around without even thinking about it!

"ah!"

An exaggerated scream.

"You want to sneak attack me?! Ha..." A Yi was just about to start to feel complacent when his laughter got stuck in his throat.

Because the old man who was killed by him with an ax was wearing a green steel helmet on his head, a bulletproof vest, dark gray overalls, an electronic watch in his hand, and a work card hanging on his chest.

A fairly classic war correspondent attire.

But in the Pandora Jungle where everyone wears auspicious clothes, this outfit is too unusual!

Especially on the shoulders of this old man, he is really carrying a huge professional video camera!

A Yi was immediately blindfolded, and it took him a long time to realize what was going on:

"War correspondent?"

"Really?!"

After reacting, he immediately felt a line of words float out of his head——

[merit-10]

"I'm not going to be on the Met News again, am I?"

Ah Yi felt that something was wrong.

The good brothers around also thought of this, laughed and congratulated him in advance for "being on TV".

In fact, we didn’t wait until the next issue of Metropolis News. That night, there was a new program in the Metropolis——

"Pandora Jungle Documentary"

In places with monitors such as billboards, TVs, bars, etc. in the metropolis, the live battles captured by war reporters will be broadcast live intermittently.

Because these live broadcasts were selected by the [Pandora Operations Team] from players around the world with the highest intensity, the most bizarre death methods, and the most exciting battles, they were immediately widely welcomed.

——Not only the NPCs are enthusiastic about following the drama, but casual players are also super interested, and even many pictures have been spread outside the virtual world.

Inexplicably, it became another advertisement for the virtual world.

*

Unlike A Yi, who often "deserts", Super Tomato devotes most of his time and energy outside the live broadcast to the closed beta of "Dark Soul".

At first, like the large number of internal beta players who watched the real machine demonstration, he also tilted the focus of exploration towards [a street in Nanshi].

——No way, the size of Luoyang City is already astonishingly large, and "Dark Soul" has made the city full of enemies, and they are the kind of enemies that may kill you if you distract yourself a little bit.

In this case, it is impossible to explore all the maps in just 7 days of internal testing.

Not to mention that Super Tomato has to live broadcast normally, and the exploration time is limited, so a trade-off must be made.

The [Nanshi Street] that Lin You demonstrated was the focus of exploration after Super Tomato made a choice.

As for the purpose, apart from the fact that Lin You showed a lot of "second kill skills" and the difficulty of land reclamation has been reduced, he also has a certain mentality. He wants to challenge Lin You to kill all the way to the past and make a classic re-enactment.

but……

I don't know if others have succeeded, but Super Tomato died miserably anyway!

After he entered [a street in Nanshi], he chose to use the automatic hook claw of the mechanical prosthetic hand like Lin You, and fell from the sky, trying to kill the invisible monkey in a flash.

However, with a crisp sound of "铛", the sword in his hand slammed into the ground!

"Boom!"

Before Super Tomato had time to adjust his movements, his chin slammed into the hilt of the sword hard, and stars flashed in his eyes instantly.

With a "poof", three bloody teeth spit out.

Then, a short knife stabbed into his waist.

Super Tomato turned his head with difficulty, just in time to see the figure of a monkey slowly emerging from the air.

Then, a large blood-red character appeared in front of his eyes——

【ah】!

"Did I not aim?" was Super Tomato's first reaction.

After being resurrected, he watched Lin You's demonstration again and compared the terrain carefully before making the next attempt.

This time, even when he let go of the claws, he and Lin You reached a perfect synchronization.

but--

"clang!"

Another sword hit the floor.

"puff!"

Three bloody teeth.

"ah!"

The waist was stabbed in by the monkey.

Finally--

【ah】!

...

After being resurrected again, Super Tomato had to accept a reality:

That invisible monkey wasn't there at all! !

"Damn, what is this?!"

"The demonstration of the real machine is also a scam!?"

The super tomato mentality exploded.

After a while, he adjusted his mentality: "No, although Lin You likes to deceive people, he has never cheated in games."

"There should be some misunderstanding here..."

With the little trust left in Lin You, he studied for more than half an hour before he finally figured out what was going on——

This invisible monkey is not a fixed point monster.

It actually keeps moving!

Lin You had timed it well, calculated that it would move to that position at that time, and was able to kill it with one blow.

After figuring this out, Super Tomato was silent for a long time.

He had already thought of the scene where tens of millions of players ran to this place after the game was officially released, imitating Lin You in playing "Justice from Heaven", but all of them were knocked out by the floor and stabbed in the back by monkeys...

It's really... It's scary to think about it!

Due to the anchor's professional habits, he felt an instinctive fear of harming so many players at the same time.

But soon, he realized that this was all Lin You's fault, so he immediately changed into a mentality of gloating at other people's misfortunes, and watching the excitement is not a big deal.

After that, he continued to open up the street according to Lin You's "video guide".

He can't be as smooth as Lin You. Sometimes if he doesn't grasp the timing well, it will trigger a chain reaction, alarming other enemies, causing "quick kill" to "strong kill", and the movement will inevitably become much louder.

But even so, Lin You's "video guide" also provided him with a lot of convenience in opening up this street.

At least, the first monster in each small area can basically get the first chance to kill it in seconds.

There is no need to study the terrain that can be used and the weaknesses of animal elite monsters, and they can be used directly.

However, when he finally walked to the end and came to the boss, he saw [Vajra Ape] and [Monkey Man] who had been awakened by the screams of other animal elite monsters.

This is a big problem!

Lin You was able to instantly kill [Vajra Ape] because the boss was still sleeping. He grabbed the saber in the neck of Vajra Ape, and directly chopped off the boss's head.

But now people are awake!

As soon as Super Tomato appeared, the BOSS glared at him with two pairs of blood-red eyes, what a sneak attack! ?

Even if it successfully flew onto the shoulder of the Vajra Ape, it still had to face the defense of the [Monkey Man].

It is impossible for this thing to kill quickly, it can only be challenged head-on!

After Super Tomato spent more than 3 hours defeating these two bosses with one against two, he no longer had any hope for the idea of ​​"mowing the grass like Lin You in the later stage".

He resolutely left this street and continued to search for the way to the imperial city.

The closed beta is coming to an end soon, he at least needs to figure out: what is the situation with his sister now?

After exploring along the way, he met some NPCs sporadically, and got some information from the introductions of some weapons and props.

All these messages are saying that the sweetheart is gone.

But Super Tomato still doesn't want to believe it.

Until Wednesday, the last hour before the end of the closed beta, he picked up a large piece of soul core in the imperial city for nothing.

In the past, only dim soul flames could be picked up for nothing, and [soul core], most of them were dropped by bosses.

Even if not, there must be BOSS or extremely strong elite monsters guarding it.

——Anyway, it is impossible for players to pick it up from the ground so easily, and even monsters are walking around this soul core.

Even though the closed beta is coming to an end soon, the joy of picking up a huge sum of money for nothing still makes Super Tomato very happy.

But before he could laugh out loud, he was shocked to see the name of this soul core——

【Xinxin's soul core】

"??!!"

Super Tomatoes are shocked!

"F*ck!"

"My sister is really dead??!"

For the sake of continuity, this chapter is for today!