The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 414 Why is this place called Ice and Fire Island? (asking for monthly votes)

The train whizzed past.

The player who died suddenly dissipated in particle effects and failed the assessment on the spot.

The brave players on the platform quickly came to their senses, jumped off the platform without hesitation, and continued to run into the tunnel.

Hua Zhou stood there in a daze, her shoulders bumped by the people passing by her on both sides. It took her a while to make up her mind.

Gritting my teeth, I carefully followed the team.

After this, players will be much more careful when entering the tunnel.

Except for a few brave people who dared to run on the tracks, most people just ran along the edge of the tunnel.

As soon as he heard the sound of a roaring train, he stopped immediately and pressed his body against the wall, fearing that he would be sent away.

When the second train rushed over, Hua Zhou saw a man covered in gorgeous armor made of dragon soul, being carried past by the front of the train and being sent back to the platform with screams of "Ahhhhh".

When they passed by each other, the brother gave her a horrified look.

Hua Zhou laughed out loud on the spot.

I felt relaxed and followed the team, running and stopping, and soon ran out of the tunnel and onto the open track.

The air transportation system of the sprawling city is quite developed, and the skyrail is the main artery of the entire air transportation system, which can reach almost every area of ​​the city.

In addition to the outermost large ring, the interior is full of various forks and height differences.

The lowest point is only 20 meters high, while the highest point is over meters.

Now, the candidates are running on this complex aerial track under the guidance of examiner Long Hao.

From time to time, a Skyrail train would rush towards you, or you would be chased by a Skyrail train behind you!

Players on the ground, today they have endless fun to watch—

Players were constantly being hit by the train and falling from the sky, screaming and hitting the ground, then turning into a ball of light and disappearing.

……

The players on the ground watched the fun and laughed every time someone fell down.

The players in the sky are in trouble.

Running is a physical activity.

Now we have to be nervous and fight with the train, which consumes a lot of physical energy.

Less than 20 minutes into the assessment, players participating in the assessment began to fall behind.

After 30 minutes, the number of people falling behind began to increase rapidly.

The players who were shouting and chatting while running all shut up and started to save their energy.

One hour later, the elimination rate of players suddenly increased, with tens of thousands of people being eliminated almost every minute and every second!
Now everyone understood why only users using the Fantasy Game Suite were allowed to register.

——If you don’t play games with the Fantasy Game Kit and run on the omnidirectional treadmill for two or three hours every day, you are not qualified to take this assessment!

With the technology of Dream Building, it is entirely possible to use a motion capture matrix (camera combination) to allow ordinary players to participate and run together.

But now, people who exercise every day are pulled over by the examiners and the Skyrail, and they stop to vomit wildly.

If someone who has no habit of exercising comes here, he would have vomited from running a long time ago!

Hua Zhou reached his limit after an hour and a half and could no longer catch up with the main group. He could only try to keep up at a walking pace, hoping to hold on longer.

During normal games, you can run and stop, and control your own energy and rest.

With the rest window designed into the game, Huazhou can be played for four to five hours continuously.

But now this kind of hard running without any water is another matter!
This isn't gaming at all.

——It’s obviously a marathon!

Hua Zhou eventually ran out of energy and was caught up by an Aerial Train, where he was eliminated.

Two hours later, there were less than 800 million players left following Long Hao.

The players watching the fun didn't know the exact number, but when they looked up and saw that there were so many players behind the examiner, they were still surprised:

"Two hours! This is almost a marathon, right?"

"No, the pace is not very fast. I saw a live broadcast of a heroic sniper who only ran 12 kilometers."

"Only? 12 kilometers in one breath is outrageous, bro!"

"A group of gamers ran 12 kilometers in one breath without getting red in the face or out of breath... It's really exaggerated."

……

But this is just the beginning.

Everyone thought that after crossing the 2-hour mark, the elimination would be very fierce, and this round of assessment might be completed in another half an hour.

But in reality, another hour passed and these people were still running!

Examiner Long Hao had to speed up and eliminate more players at a faster rate.

In the end, it took a full 4 hours and 17 minutes to complete the first round of assessment.

Successfully reduced the number of players participating in the [Hunter Assessment] to one tenth of the initial number.

The physical fitness and long-distance running endurance of the Dream Building players shocked netizens and even refreshed the society's impression of the "game players" group.

When the examiner led the team down the track and announced on the ground the end of the first round of assessment, a large group of people collapsed on the spot and fell to the ground.

Long Hao shook his head: "Next, let's meet your second round of examiners."

"?" The heroic sniper collapsed on the ground, his legs so stuffed with lactic acid that he could barely move. "Now? Are you serious, boss?"

What he really wanted to say was...

"Dream building, are you serious?"

Let players run more than 20 kilometers in one breath, without any rest after finishing, and then continue to the second round?

Are you here to test the players or to select special forces?

Other players also protested.

Even the older brother who still had the strength to stand was shaking his head wildly.

But Long Hao remained unmoved.

Soon, a glowing circle appeared on the ground to his right. The next moment, the circle turned into a hole.

Under everyone's surprised gaze, a workplace cowherd in a suit and glasses crawled out of the cave.

The professional pushed up his glasses and said politely, "Hello, my name is Nob, and I'm your examiner for the second round of assessment."

"My assessment is simple: survival."

"The assessment criteria are the same as Long Hao's: one in ten people who persevere to the end can pass this round of assessment."

An old man who was exhausted looked around, a little confused: "Is it difficult to survive in the sprawling city? I can live for a year with 1000 credit points."

Others also commented:

"Yeah, it won't turn into a pee-holding war, right?"

"Shut up! I need to pee already!"

"Heh, you're young! I put on diapers before the test!"

……

The brave sniper did not waste his energy talking, he was very sure that things would not be that simple!
Sure enough, a light flashed on the glasses of the new examiner named Nob, and a faint light appeared under everyone's feet at the same time, which quickly expanded into a hole.

Everyone's feet suddenly went empty and they fell into the dark hole at the same time.

The darkness lasted for a long while.

Just when the brave sniper began to analyze whether the second round of assessment was "sewer survival", the dark environment finally lit up.

He fell onto a patch of grass along with everyone else.

Looking around, I found that I had come from the sprawling city to an isolated island in the ocean.

Everyone stood up one after another, all feeling a little confused.

I have absolutely no idea where I am.

Until a friend sent a private message to the Heroic Sniper: "Aki, your location has become [Ice and Fire Island]!"

——Without setting the privacy option, players can see the current location of their friends through the friend bar.

The brave sniper became even more confused when he saw this private message.

"The examiner named Nob just now teleported us to the sea?"

"Ice and Fire Island?"

"Where is the ice, where is the fire?"

He rubbed his sore thigh and climbed up the nearest pile of rocks to observe the situation, but he could only see that the center of the island seemed to be shrouded in a faint green poisonous mist.

There was no sign of ice or fire.

He replied to the private message uncertainly: "Are you sure it's Ice and Fire Island, not Poison Island?"

"Definitely and for sure!" my friend was very firm.

"Okay, but I really can't see any characteristics of ice and fire."

After the brave sniper replied to the message, he sat down again and started to play badly.

Whether it was the Ice and Fire Island or the Poison Island, he no longer had the strength to keep running.

Looking around, other players had similar reactions to him.

Stimulated by the new environment, he got up and looked around, then quickly gave up and took a rest.

At first, the brave sniper was worried that the poisonous fog in the center might be some kind of "shrinking circle" mechanism, which would spread out soon and force everyone to move.

But after resting for half a day, the feeling of fatigue had greatly improved, and the poisonous fog showed no sign of spreading.

This made him feel relieved and he started chatting with his friends:
"Looks like this is the survival phase. Once we rest we'll have to find water and food."

"With so many people, there won't be enough animals on this island, and the competition for hunting will be very fierce."

"Catch fish to survive? It seems difficult to catch fish without a fishing net. Let's find a branch to make a harpoon later."

"Fire is also a problem. We can't eat raw fish, right?"

"If that doesn't work, you can try eating grass..."

The heroic sniper took a rest while looking at the sea and explaining his tactics to his fellow sailors.

But as he was speaking, he suddenly became quiet and his eyes widened.

"What's wrong?" The netizens were confused.

The heroic sniper said nothing and flipped the live camera.

Then his figure disappeared in the live broadcast room, and was replaced by a blue sea.

Lines of question marks floated across the live broadcast room.

My fellow netizens don’t understand, what’s so beautiful about the sea?

A few seconds later, a sharp-eyed netizen realized something was wrong.

"Wait, there's something in the sea!"

"The sea is...freezing?"

"No, there's someone in front of the ice! He's... riding a bicycle???"

……

As the man in the sea got closer and closer, the water friends finally saw clearly what had surprised the brave sniper so much—

There is a person riding a bicycle on the sea! !

What’s even more exaggerated is that wherever that person rides his bicycle, the sea water will freeze!

He pedaled his bike slowly along the frozen sea, getting closer to the island.

On the other side of the island, a sailing warship was slowly approaching the shore.

The heroic sniper adjusted the camera position to reappear in the picture.

He frowned and said:
"Brothers, I have a bad feeling!"

(End of this chapter)