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Chapter 109: Bloodthirsty Mermaid
As Niu Tieming pressed the confirmation button on the handle, the game world of "Youming Shanhai" officially opened its doors to him.

The first level is the underwater map that they have shown fragments of in the actual game demo trailer. After being redesigned by Feng Qi and his colleagues, the map guidance is now many times better than before.

As the vice president of gaming business at Antarctic Interactive Entertainment, Niu Tieming is naturally not a novice who has never even played a game.

Although he was very busy with work and had no time to play games, he relied more on reports from his subordinates and game videos on the Internet to gain an understanding of today's popular games.

But that's much better than those senior executives who know nothing.

When Niu Tieming saw the opening animation in front of him, his pupils suddenly contracted.

With the help of Xu Yanjie, this camera movement is completely different from the clips in the previous trailer.

Xu Yanjie skillfully utilized the powerful features of Unreal Engine to significantly enhance the visual impact.

One of Xu Yanjie's greatest contributions is that he brought his technical team's understanding of Unreal Engine 4's water simulation technology.

Previously, Wu Qianhe had at best simulated the ocean's water environment, but he was completely baffled as to why and how best to do so.

For example, the shot in the opening animation where the camera shuttles through the deep sea water uses Unreal Engine's high-precision fluid simulation technology to present the most realistic water flow possible.

Coupled with the support of Unreal Engine's dynamic lighting system, the angle of light can change with objects such as waves and plants.

When light encounters seawater, the engine and scripts accurately calculate the physical phenomena of lighting through a series of complex parameters to present realistic lighting effects.

When light and shadow show a natural feeling through the ups and downs of the sea, and accurately illuminate the various creatures and buildings in the map, it can truly give players an immersive gaming experience.

The opening animation revealed the tip of the iceberg of the map environment, which made Niu Tieming extremely impressed by the artistic design of "Youming Shanhai".

With the support of top-level technology, Yang Ji's dark style can truly bring out his 100% strength.

He controlled the protagonist to enter the game, and the handle vibrated gently along with the water flow around the screen.

The vibration was transmitted to Niu Tieming's palm through the handle, making his eyes more focused.

The tutorial is not that difficult. It just briefly introduces the game mechanics and then lets Niu Tieming kill some monsters on the road.

Maybe it was because he hadn't used a controller for a long time, or maybe it was because he had never played this kind of game before and lacked adaptability and understanding of soul travel, but Niu Tieming died two or three times even in the novice tutorial.

This caused beads of sweat to appear on his forehead.

Good man, even if I haven’t played the game for a long time, I won’t die in the beginner tutorial, right?
And not just once!
This made him feel humiliated.

However, Zhou Kuang understood him very well. For those players with poor adaptability, it is not that easy to experience a game of a type that they have never played before.

For players who are adaptable, this is not a problem.

This is what is called the disparity of the world.

Once these players with poor adaptability play for a period of time and gradually become familiar with the game system, their gaming skills may not be worse than those of the game masters.

Zhou Kuang calls this type of player "slow-burning, conservative players." Niu Tieming put down his controller and wiped the sweat from his forehead, secretly encouraging himself to quickly master this game.

Zhou Kuang had reminded him that the game "Netherworld Mountain and Sea" was difficult, much more difficult than ordinary action games.

But Niu Tieming didn't care at the time. After all, how difficult could it be?
But now it seems that Zhou Kuang was probably right, this game is really difficult.

Niu Tieming wiped the sweat from his palms, picked up the controller again, stared at the screen intently, and began to explore the operating skills step by step according to the knowledge learned in the previous tutorial. The controller in his hand gradually became warm from holding it.

As the game progressed, Niu Tieming explored larger areas and became increasingly amazed by the rich details in the map.

When he controlled the protagonist to kill another crab monster, he passed by a reef area on the seabed. He found that the texture of these reefs glowed strangely under the light and shadow, and the seaweed on it swayed wildly with the water flow.

Because of the dark artistic style surrounding it, this small area appears particularly magical and beautiful.

Niu Tieming can occasionally see ultra-small luminous jellyfish shuttling between the gaps between the reefs, flashing and illuminating a small area around themselves, like a dream.

These are the results of several months of meticulous craftsmanship by the art team led by Yang Ji. They referred to a large amount of marine biological data, ancient geological documents, and the original text of the Shan Hai Jing, just to truly restore this fantastic underwater landscape.

After finally getting through the tutorial, Niu Tieming encountered the first level, which was also the first real mini-boss in the entire game!

When he controlled the protagonist with the handle and pushed the left joystick to climb over the glowing coral reefs, a group of frightened small fish suddenly formed a group and swam forward rapidly.

Suddenly, a discordant sound like nails scratching on a blackboard was heard from the bottom of the sea, and a pitch-black monster rushed out from behind the rock.

A mermaid appeared, holding a bone spear covered with ancient symbols. Its upper body was a pale female body, while its lower body was a fish tail covered with bone spurs, and every scale on its body was oozing black blood.

This is the mermaid species described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas!

But it looked abnormal from the outside. Not only was there no focus in its eye sockets, but blood was also constantly flowing out of them, which looked extremely terrifying.

There are bone spurs protruding from some parts of its body, as if they are sticking out of the body.

Rather than a mermaid, he is more like a mermaid puppet that has been killed.

The mermaid immediately launched an attack, swinging her long black spear and shooting a barrage of pearls. These pearls shot towards the protagonist like bullets.

Fortunately, Niu Tieming was focused and quickly pressed the dodge button to avoid the barrage.

At the same time, on the other side of the sofa, Feng Qi and Zhou Kuang were closely watching the progress of the battle.

Niu Tieming's operation was not very good. He kept dodging and then waited for an opportunity to attack continuously.

Sometimes he couldn't dodge the mermaid boss's attacks and could only lose blood in vain, and sometimes he was hit by the mermaid boss's combo because of his greed.

Fortunately, the mermaid boss is not very willing to attack. As long as he stays away and drinks medicine, the boss will not chase him immediately.

(End of this chapter)