The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 250 Brain: I understand! Body: No, you don't! (Two in one)

Having just registered as a boxer, Huanyue was filled with pride as he strode into the Sky Arena.

Before, he was just an ordinary otaku.

But under the influence of Zhumeng, after he started exercising day after day, his physical condition and mental outlook changed rapidly.

Finally, at the Global Survival Competition of [Age of Madness], he accepted the results of his hard work over the past few months.

Travel thousands of miles alone, chase Xu Meng, and hunt the giant beast!

Finally, he successfully obtained the title of [Hunting Master].

For him, the biggest gain from this challenge was not the 20 yuan reward from Xu Meng, nor was it the opportunity to appear at the award ceremony.

But my self-confidence has been greatly enhanced!

——Being the ultimate winner in a competition with millions of participants and tens of thousands of people competing directly is an extremely amazing confidence-boosting experience.

As he walked down the podium amid applause, Huanyue held his head high, extremely confident that he had talent in gaming.

Under the influence of this confidence, when Xu Meng announced that the first player to reach the 100th floor would be rewarded with a [Holographic Display Device], he did not hesitate to make a bold statement:

"Sky Arena 100th floor, easy to take!"

If he hadn't had that last bit of rationality left in him, he would have almost said "I won't stop broadcasting until it reaches the 100th floor."

Although he didn't say so, under the instigation of the property manager and netizens, he set the goal of "reaching 7 floors in 100 days".

With this confidence, he stepped onto the ring on the second floor.

——Although the Sky Arena looks like a tower, the interior space is very spacious. When Huanyue first walked in, she almost thought it was a comprehensive shopping mall.

There is a wide variety of snacks, souvenirs, sports equipment, and martial arts peripherals.

After registering my identity at the service point and getting my ID card and map, I discovered that there are even restaurants, medical services, clothing stores, accommodation, martial arts schools, etc.

It can be said that it has everything.

However, the first wave of players who came here were not here to shop in the mall.

Huanyue didn't stop and quickly ran to the second floor.

Starting from the second floor, the environment is similar to that of a Colosseum.

There are nine circular viewing seats that are like steps, stacked from low to high, surrounding the arena in the center.

On the ring, eight large screens were arranged in a circle, broadcasting real-time game images.

Huanyue took out her ID card and chose [Go into battle].

The system matched him with an opponent instantly.

He looked at the 1-minute countdown, quickly ran down from the viewing platform and jumped onto the ring.

His opponent soon appeared.

The referee looked at the two players, and after confirming that they were all OK, he immediately waved his arm and said, "The game begins!"

Below the 10th floor, it's all just noobs fighting each other.

The referees did not allocate much computing power, and their behavioral logic was very simple.

After the game started, Huanyue and her opponent looked left and right, and no one took action.

They are all waiting for the “how to play tutorial” to pop up.

But after waiting for a full minute, the instructor didn't come out, but the referee spoke first -

"Negative play."

"After the 10-second countdown, both teams are still passive in the game and are eliminated."

"10, 9, 8..."

“?!” Huanyue immediately became nervous and ran towards his opponent.

The opponents are similar.

Huanyue had no fighting experience in real life, so he could only recall the scenes he saw in the movie and raised his arms in front of his chest for defense.

But his fighting stance is very non-standard and his defensive effectiveness is worrying.

Not to mention, his opponent has no moral principles at all——

Just kick him in the stomach!
"!!" Huanyue felt a pain in her stomach and subconsciously bent down to protect herself.

The opponent saw an opportunity and swung his arms to start a barrage of punches!

With a series of loud noises, Huanyue's characters fell into stiffness one after another, and their health points kept decreasing - at the same time, their bodies were in pain!

He had almost no power to resist and was knocked down on the ring.

When the referee announced the winner, he was still confused.

After being pushed off the ring by the referee, the opponent hurried over to apologize:

"I'm sorry, are you okay?"

While apologizing, there were also some complaints: "I thought you were so great..."

"I didn't expect it to be so fragile."

"???"

Huanyue was still rubbing the part that was hit, but upon hearing this, she immediately stopped and looked at the guy with a questioning look on her face.

——Although the stimulation from the somatosensory synchronization suit will not cause injury, it will still hurt.

He suspected that this guy was plotting against him!

Unfortunately, he was still live streaming, so he could only say calmly: "It's okay, it's just a game, I have to accept the loss."

But the other party's next sentence made him completely unable to hold back: "Can I take a photo with you? I'm your old fan!"

Huanyue was speechless for a long time, but finally sighed and said, "Forget it, come on, come on."

……

This game heralded the beginning of Huanyue’s suffering.

He learned shooting in [Hell on Earth] and learned cold weapon fighting in [Age of Madness].

——When it comes to actual combat, whether it is useful or not is another matter, but at least you can use it and you won’t panic when fighting.

But fighting with bare hands...

That's another matter entirely!
Almost starting from scratch.

The only good news is that most of his opponents also started from scratch.

In addition to people like Long Cheng Feijiang who have rich experience in real-life hand-to-hand combat and are very skilled in holding, reaction, and distance control, they quickly stand out and rush through the bottom layer.

When most players fight, it's like a fight between thugs, just a pure fight.

The somatosensory synchronization service also smooths out the differences in physical fitness among players, which makes it basically a 50-50 chance for Huanyue to win or lose in a fight.

It means wearing a somatosensory synchronized suit and hitting it, and it will get more painful the more you hit it.

He was hit from behind and grimaced in pain.

He had to switch operating modes and tried tactile glove operation and PC operation.

The result was even more outrageous -

The movement of the tactile glove requires one hand, which greatly reduces the operational flexibility, which is not worth the cost.

The PC is very flexible, but the operation is very cumbersome.

[Attack] has four angles: up, down, left, and right, corresponding to four key combinations; [Defense] also has four angles: up, down, left, and right, corresponding to four key combinations.

What’s even more outrageous is that these movements are all fixed movements.

It's okay against players with tactile gloves and PC players, but it's completely unstoppable against players with somatosensory synchronization servers.

——The body-sensing synchronization service tracks the player's body movements. Once you are familiar with the PC's defensive movements, you can pass through the gaps in the defense and hit the opponent's body.

You can even squat and attack your opponent's lower body.

When Huanyue was trying to operate the PC, a fan grabbed her legs and threw her character to the ground.

Then there was a burst of wild kicking.

Of course, the PC can also crouch, but [Crouch] + [Attack] + [Attack direction], this operation is really a bit cumbersome.

The attack distance is also difficult to grasp.

Sometimes I feel like I can hit the target, but in the end I fall just short.

And this tiny distance is often the dividing line between victory and defeat.

After trying a few games, Huanyue switched back to the motion-sensing synchronized suit and continued the battle.

At the same time, there were more and more fans who wanted to go on stage to beat him up, and more and more fans who watched him being beaten up from the audience.

This made him feel that the atmosphere became more lively with each floor he went up.

The feeling of social death is also stronger.

——After all, being beaten up in a live broadcast room feels different from being beaten up under the eyes of so many people!
Fortunately, Dream Building still has some humanistic care:

If you win you go up one level, but if you lose you don't go down one level.

Thanks to this mechanism, although Huanyue's odds were 50-50, the floor kept rising.

This gave him some hope.

Until reaching the 50th floor.

The rules have changed.

If you lose again above the 50th floor, you will be demoted to a lower floor!
And when you reach the 50th floor, it seems like you’ve entered a bigger player pool, and the number of fans you can queue for is greatly reduced.

But it’s not all good news.

Because his new opponents are even more shameless than his previous fans!
The first opponent he faced kicked him in the crotch!

Huanyue was directly stunned.

It’s not because of the pain - Xu Meng still noticed this detail.

But the feeling of "being kicked" is still there!

Even with the realistic visual aid, he still felt obvious phantom pain, and before his brain could react, his hands reached down to protect him.

As a result, his head was completely unprepared and was kicked by his opponent!
Knocked out on the spot!

After the game, the audience laughed uncontrollably.

Huanyue felt psychologically traumatized.

He persisted in fighting for more than twenty rounds, with some wins and some losses, but his level remained at the 51st or 52nd floor.

The goal of “reaching 7 floors in 100 days” is getting further and further away.

Although the netizens were gloating over his misfortune, when they saw that he was really starting to feel frustrated and depressed, they all gave him advice:

"Learn some dirty tricks! Kick in the crotch, poke in the eyes!"

"Don't give up, host. If you don't charge forward now, it will be impossible in a while!"

"Why don't you go and see how the masters fight and learn their ideas?"

……

Huanyue looked at the comments from netizens and suddenly felt that they made a lot of sense.

Besides, he was really tired, so he just went with the flow and ran to the 72nd floor to watch a higher level of competition.

When I took the elevator to the 72nd floor, my fans were already waiting at the door.

"Come on, come on! The duel between Dragon City Flying General and NPC boxer! Dragon City Flying General's odds are 1.3 times, it's a guaranteed win!" Orange Juice was also here, and he invited Huanyue to take a gamble right away.

"???" "Can I still place a bet?"

Huanyue had been fighting with others in the ring and had no idea about this mechanism.

"Yeah! It's almost too late! Take out your ID card, and hold on tight!"

Huanyue found a seat and sat down, then took out her ID card as she was told.

This ID card is like a small panel.

It not only has options for [Go into battle], [Respond to a challenge], and [Appoint a battle], but also [Personal information], [Wallet], and [Props].

In addition to the digital ID, the most important personal information is the [current level] and [highest level in history].

The current level of Huanyue is 50, and the highest level in history is 57.

I opened my wallet and saw that the balance was only 500.

"I only have 500 points. Should I bet on Dragon City Flying General?" he asked Orange Juice.

"500 points, did you buy anything?"

"No." Huanyue was puzzled, "Why do you say that?"

"If you didn't buy it, after exchanging all the credits, you should have 3000 points!"

"Amount?" Huanyue was even more confused.

Huanyue's reaction made Orange Juice realize that he had not paid any attention to this aspect.

So I quickly explained to him -

The universal currency of the Sprawling City is [Credit Points].

In this virtual city, except for free transportation, most other goods and services must be purchased with credit points.

When everyone first came to the city, their credit points were all 0.

However, Dream Building has opened up cash recharge channels, as well as redemption channels for "Frost and Snow Plan" gold coins and "Lord of War" bonds.

However, these three methods have a limit on the amount.

Every month, you can get 1000 points for each channel.

Refunds are available but not redeemable for cash.

The gold coins in "Frost and Snow Plan" come the easiest, and the exchange rate is the most exaggerated -

【1000 : 1】

It takes 1000 million gold coins to exchange for 100 credit points.

It seems like a lot, but in fact, "Frost and Snow Plan" gives sufficient benefits.

Unless you have just drawn a new character and want to raise it, old players can easily save tens of millions of gold coins in their backpacks.

If a new player cannot save up enough gold, he can still do four or five days of gold dungeon play to get enough.

It is actually the easiest one.

The exchange rate of "Lord of War" is [100:1].

10 bonds, no more, no less.

If I don't play cards, the income would be about winning 20 times or losing 40 times.

The last one is the pay-to-win channel, [10:1].

The 1000-point quota has been used up and 100 yuan is needed.

In terms of cost performance, it is really not that high.

Everyone speculates that Xu Meng created this krypton gold channel not to make money from players.

Because players can exchange game currency for credit points.

Only those netizens who have never played the Dream Building game before and are just here to join in the fun need to spend money to buy credit points.

After the virtual city was opened, there were many such netizens.

The server cost issue has to be considered.

So Xu Meng set up this special credit point redemption method.

As a result, if netizens who want to join in the fun want to spend money, they only have two choices: either spend money, or play "Frost Project" or "Lord of War" and become dream-building players.

In this way, the money spent on the server is not wasted.

Betting in the Sky Arena is the fourth way to earn credit points.

For matches above 50 levels, spectators can bet on the players.

The contestant lost and lost all his bets.

If the player wins, he will get the profit according to the odds.

If you have good vision and luck, becoming rich overnight is not a dream!
——Of course, no matter how many credit points you have, they cannot be exchanged for money, and the God of Gamblers can only enjoy glory in the sprawling city.

Orange Juice concluded: "So quickly defeat the Dragon City Flying General! His winning rate is very high!"

"I won the first 50 floors in a row, jumping directly from the 20th floor to the 36th floor! I stopped skipping levels after the 50th floor."

"This time the opponent is an NPC, so it's a sure win!"

Huanyue checked the wallet records and found the source of the 500 points.

In the first 50 floors of the Sky Arena, 10 points are given for every 100 floors.

After lamenting about being stingy, he quickly exchanged his 3000-point quota to its full limit.

Afterwards, he did not bet all on Dragon City Flying General as Orange Juice said, but instead placed a small bet of 200 points to join in the fun.
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The countdown ends and the game begins.

The opponent of Dragon City Flying General is a female NPC.

The female NPC stretched out both of her palms forward, with one palm facing inward and the other facing outward. She swung and buckled her feet and performed a classic [Single Palm Change] starting move.

Huanyue tilted her head and her expression immediately became strange.

"What the hell is this?"

"Baguazhang??"

"Can this thing really be put on the ring?"

There was also a lot of discussion in the audience, and it was obvious that everyone had similar ideas to Huanyue.

Soon, this NPC girl proved one thing to everyone with her actions——

I don’t know if I can get on the ring in real life.

But in the game, absolutely!

The fighting style of Dragon City Flying General is clearly inspired by Sanda and is very realistic.

The attack and defense are well-controlled, and the distance is managed very accurately.

But the NPC on the opposite side is as strong as him, and even faster than him!

He circled around the Flying General of Dragon City with a nimble figure, fighting as he turned!
In less than half a minute, Long Cheng Feijiang felt a little dizzy, and with a fierce punch at a twisted angle, he successfully knocked his VR glasses away.

In his live broadcast room, the audience heard a loud "click" sound at the same time!

The consequences of losing vision are self-evident.

——The Flying General of Dragon City descended back to the 71st floor.

A VR goggles was also lost.

However, as a team commander, he was well prepared to deal with unexpected situations and immediately put on spare VR glasses to continue fighting.

Huanyue followed him down to the 71st floor to continue learning from experience.

Orange Juice wailed that his 2800 credit points had been cleared and he was back to the time before liberation.

I feel like crying but I have no tears.

……

In the next few games, Dragon City Flying General's opponents were all people Huanyue could understand - either they were players with good skills, or NPCs who practiced modern fighting.

Huanyue only watched a few games and found out:

The battle on the 70th floor is completely different from the battle on the 50th floor or below!

Below the 50th floor, both players and NPCs are at the level of street brawlers.

Only when you get close to level 50 can you barely reach the level of a fighting enthusiast.

A fight could easily turn into a fight of fists.

But when he reached the 70th floor, Huanyue watched several games in a row and found that both teams played in a very methodical manner, which made the game much more entertaining to watch.

——It’s even more exciting than real fighting matches!
Huanyue looked carefully for a long time and discovered the secret inside -

【speed】!
Dream Building has slowed down the boxers and NPCs!

In real-life top-level fighting matches, the boxers’ punching speed is so incredible that they need to be filmed with a high-speed camera and then released in slow motion so that the audience can see the details clearly.

This results in the moment of attack being always swift and deadly.

The battle was over in the instant the audience reacted.

It is extremely difficult to recreate the exciting scenes in the movies where people fight back and forth with punches and flesh-to-flesh for a long time.

But dream building limits the maximum movement speed of modeling.

Whether it was the full-strength punch of the Dragon City Flying General or the dazzling Bagua Palm of the female NPC, the actual speed was a little slower than in reality.

This slowness allows both sides of the battle to react and better defend or dodge.

In addition, after being hit, the character will only lose health and become stiff, and the probability of being KOed in one hit is greatly reduced.

Under the influence of these multiple factors, the viewing experience of the battle has been greatly improved!

After realizing this, Huanyue immediately became excited:
"I understand!"

"?" Orange Juice was still worried about his credit points, and asked back, "What do you know?"

"Cultivation secrets!" Huanyue stood up, "I know how to become stronger, improve my winning rate, and reach the 100th floor!"

"What secret?" Orange Juice asked again.

"Don't fight based on your instincts! Don't be afraid to attack! Keep your eyes open and see your opponent's moves clearly!"

"Everyone's attack speed has been slowed down. As long as you calm down, you can react!"

“Attitude is the key!”

Afterwards, he ignored Orange Juice's confused look and quickly returned to the 50th floor to restart the match.

When he was matched with his opponent and walked towards the ring again, Huanyue said coolly to his fans:
"I totally understand!"

……

Thirty minutes later, Huanyue was punched in the stomach by her opponent, and the electric current stimulated her abdominal muscles to tighten suddenly.

He grimaced in pain!
His health was depleted and he was defeated again.

This finally made him unable to hold back and he yelled, "Fuck your mother!"

"I don't want to play anymore!!"

There is nothing wrong with his thinking.

But his body couldn't keep up.

He had never felt it so deeply as he did now—

Understanding it with the brain and understanding it with the body are two completely different things!

(End of this chapter)