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Chapter 137: Weird and Bizarre
Expert A carefully browsed through the various settings and adjusted them to the options he was accustomed to.

What he hates most is motion blur.

As a speed runner who pursues the limit, motion blur will affect his judgment during the character's movement. Not only because the picture will become blurred during the movement, interfering with his recognition of the enemy's attack trajectory, but also because it will hinder him from capturing information in the game.

Any detail he missed due to motion blur could have a negative impact on the final time record.

So the first thing he does when he enters any game is go into the settings, find the motion blur option, and make sure it is turned off.

Of course, there are other similar settings, such as perspective shaking, lens effects, etc.

He left no one behind and wiped them all out.

Turn it off, turn it off, you must turn it off!

In the settings, he also saw a special option, Official Timing Tool.

This option is enabled by default and is displayed in the upper left corner of the screen.

Expert A understood the meaning of this option at a glance and exited to the game start interface.

All the operations to modify the game settings actually didn’t take too long, less than half a minute at most.

Some players may choose to enter the game directly because they want to speed through the game and don’t want to waste any time.

But he is not like that.

As the saying goes, sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. If you don't adjust the settings to the way you are most familiar with, and then start setting them after entering the game and not feeling comfortable, you will waste more time.

Expert A let out a breath and pressed the UI to start the game.

Netherworld Mountain and Sea, start!
The game opens with a Chinese ink painting-style CG, which plays from left to right as if on a huge scroll.

At the same time, an old man's voice came from the air.

"A long, long time ago, a giant turtle carried the heaven and earth on its back as it walked across the vast ocean."

As he narrated the story, he used a goat-hair brush to paint on the yellowed rice paper, and the ink spread across the paper.

As he described, a giant turtle appeared on the rice paper, carrying several mountains and moving slowly.

Seeing this, Master A was already deeply attracted by the artistic style of the picture, and didn't even realize that his mouth was slightly open.

When he saw the ink painting on the screen, the cultural hints from his soul made his soul resonate quickly with the game content, and an inexplicable surge of emotion rose from deep in his heart.

"The giant turtle carried the three mountains of Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou on its back, but it swallowed up the sun and moon and disappeared into the sea."

As the picture changed, the sun and the moon disappeared at the same time, and a strange ink color appeared in the picture. The sea and the sky were extremely difficult to distinguish, and only the outline of the giant turtle was clearly visible.

The giant turtle floated in its original place, and with a violent vibration, it completely sank into the sea, and the three mountains of Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou also disappeared at the same time.

"After an unknown amount of time, the sun and moon were reborn between heaven and earth, and the giant turtle's body transformed into thirty-six caves."

As the old man paused, the scene changed rapidly!
The brush in the old man's hand trembled violently, and the ink splashed on the paper like a huge wave. The camera actually penetrated the paper directly and entered the underwater world.

In the deep sea, all kinds of seaweed, strange rocks, and corals appear alternately, and among these things, there are actually exposed bones!
Without further ado, the camera continued to move forward, revealing the true brutal scene before our eyes!
A huge, scaly, python-like creature was tightly wrapping its body around an equally huge fish. This fish was even stranger, with a human face that looked very sad.

It wailed in pain, but a bird song with a hint of sweetness came out of its mouth, which created an extreme contrast with the scene on the screen.

The python-like creature was savagely biting the fish's body, and had even torn off half of its body. It was obviously dead.

Blood was sprinkled in the water like a cloud of mist, and the scarlet color was very eye-catching among the ink-black. The fish around it would try to swim over from time to time, and when the python-like creature wasn't paying attention, they would quickly bite off a piece of meat, turn around and swim away quickly.

The scene before him was absurd yet reasonable, harmonious yet cruel, and the red of the blood stimulated the last bit of nerve in Master A.

His whole body was trembling slightly, as if he was shaking from the cold.

But he was not cold, but overly excited.

It’s this feeling, this dark, absurd and strange feeling!

This completely reminded him of the day when he first played "Bloody Dungeon", and he was equally excited and thrilled.

No! Not even as exciting as today!
"Millions of years of accumulated poison, the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance, have all eroded the ocean."

"The thirty-six caves transformed into thirty-six filthy abysses."

The screen began to flash back continuously, with countless strange-looking monsters attacking each other and dying one after another.

"Countless lives slaughtered each other, eventually turning into dry bones. Their poisonous blood spilled into the sea. The thirty-six filthy abysses were like the thirty-six gates to the Nine Nether Hells, emitting a dark luster."

"Later generations called it the Netherworld Mountain and Sea."

As strange music sounded, a hermit crab's claws appeared in the dark purple miasma and crushed a cracked piece of curved jade.

As the protagonist appears, the camera quickly pulls up and rushes out of the sea!

However, when he rushed out of the sea, he found that it was also pitch black outside, as if there was no sunlight!

The ink on the scroll swallowed everything, and a few strokes of blood were splashed on the paper, writing the seal script of "The Netherworld Mountains and Seas".

At this point, the opening CG comes to an end.

On the other side of the screen, Master A sat there for a long time without moving.

A raging fire burned in his chest, and his heart was beating so fast that it seemed like it was about to burst out.

The shock brought to him by the opening CG was even greater than when he first saw the actual gameplay trailer of "Netherworld Mountain and Sea".

The scene just now kept replaying in his mind: the scene of a giant turtle carrying a fairy mountain painted in black ink gave people a more majestic momentum than the 3D picture.

The undisguised killing between the ugly monsters directly touched his heart.

Without any warning, life disappeared in an instant, as light as a hair. This contempt for the struggle of life aroused the desire for fighting deep in his heart.

Absurdity and reality are intertwined, cruelty and beauty are blended.

This mixed and complex emotion is exactly what he longed for when playing old-fashioned single-player games, but what he has been unable to pursue in new-generation games for so many years.

Expert A took a deep breath and prepared to start the game.

Such situations were happening all over China, and many live broadcast rooms were stunned by the CG that appeared in just a few minutes at the beginning.

I was shocked!
Not everyone likes this style as much as Master A, but no one can deny the production level of this CG and the extent to which it explores the theme of Shan Hai Jing.

"Wow." After watching the CG, the salted fish god of war only uttered these two words dryly.

He didn't expect that he would be stunned by "The Netherworld Mountains and Seas" right from the start.

On the other side, the super black cat was completely conquered by the opening CG and rushed into the game with excitement on its face.

He even prepared energy drinks, ready to fight all night!

Sleep? What are you sleeping for!

When a large amount of caffeine is taken into the body, the brain is not aware of fatigue at all.

Many anchors did not enter the game immediately after the CG was played, but paused for half a minute to organize their thoughts and recover from the shock.

This is still the case even with speed-run events, which shows the strength of the opening CG of "Netherworld Mountain and Sea".

There was even a female anchor who was so scared that she cried after watching the CG.

But when her friends urged her to quit the game, she wiped her eyes and said aggrievedly, "I haven't even started playing yet."

As expected, the opening CG alone made players have great expectations for the quality of "Nether Mountain and Sea", and its game content also did not disappoint the players.

As soon as the expert A entered the game, he used the console controller to control the hermit crab protagonist on the computer.

The first feeling the game gave him was that the operation was extremely smooth.

He couldn't explain what made the protagonist's movement feel so smooth. After all, as a hermit crab with a pair of large claws, the protagonist's movement speed was not fast at all.

But he felt that the operation felt very good, even smoother than many foreign 3A action games he had played!

This also set the tone for his entire gaming experience. With the efforts of Zhou Kuang, Feng Qi and more than one hundred other colleagues in the production team, players' gaming experience will only get better and better from the beginning.

Expert A took a deep breath and felt the handle vibrate gently with the flow of water around him on the screen. The light in his eyes became more and more intense.

He started playing the tutorial at the beginning of the game.

And when he didn't notice, the number of viewers in the live broadcast room had risen from double digits to triple digits.

He controlled the character to move forward. As monsters appeared, he was also learning the rhythm of attacking and dodging in the game. After killing a few monsters, he found that he had an inexplicably familiar feeling.

He manipulated the character skillfully, dodging enemy attacks, performing light attacks + heavy attacks, and counterattacking.

Everything seemed to happen naturally.

His fingers moved smoothly on the joystick of the controller, and every movement was controlled with precision.

As the protagonist moves forward, the surrounding environment becomes increasingly darker and weirder, but his state becomes more and more passionate.

There were countless monsters in the tutorial, but none of them could hit the character controlled by expert A.

"Old A is worthy of being Old A, his learning ability is still so fast"

"I said this game is suitable for him, but unfortunately I have poor hands and eyesight and can't play this kind of game."

"Passing by"

“The anchor looks pretty awesome.”

"What is the anchor playing?"

"Technical boss 666666"

“Where do all these people come from???”

The old fans of Master A who just entered the anchor room were confused. Usually there are only dozens of people here at most, so why are there more than a hundred people today?

He opened a new webpage and checked the homepage of B Station, only to realize that it was the activity on the homepage of B Station that recommended all the anchors who were live streaming the game "Youming Shanhai", and Master A naturally also got some traffic.

Even according to the progress of different anchors' games, Bilibili will constantly adjust the amount of traffic the anchors receive. If a big guy with good skills and fast strategies appears, he is very likely to be selected by Bilibili as the "recommended anchor" of this activity page.

This event was even featured on the homepage of Station B! If you can become a "recommended anchor," you'll get tons of traffic!
Finally, in less than twenty minutes, Master A successfully passed the teaching part and came to the first mini-boss.

Among the entire B station, these are considered to be the fastest anchors.

He finally had time to look at the comment section of his own live broadcast room on Bilibili, and was shocked by the number of people in the room.

Expert A never expected that there would be so many passers-by who didn't know him. He did care about the number of spectators before, but that was a long time ago.

Ever since he realized that "Bloody Dungeon" would never become popular again and the audience for the game themes he broadcast would never increase but would only decrease, he gave up caring about the number of viewers in the live broadcast room.

But today, his live broadcast room welcomed so many new viewers that he was a little overwhelmed for a moment.

So he said hello and turned back to play games. After all, even if he were allowed to continue working now, he would have long lost the ability to do so.

As he controlled the protagonist forward, a frightened school of fish suddenly swam forward at a rapid speed!

Master A's intuition immediately told him the enemy's position, and his eyes were faster than his reaction, and he immediately caught the shadow behind the stone.

Sure enough, he heard an unpleasant noise and a monster rushed out from behind the rock and appeared in front of him.

This is the Blood-Weeping Mermaid that Niu Tieming defeated after spending a lot of time and trying countless times when he was trying out the game!

As a rookie quality inspector in "Netherworld Mountain and Sea", his strength is definitely not low for a novice who has only fought against monsters in the tutorial.

Zhou Kuang could fully predict that some players would be so depressed by this part that they would become withdrawn and eventually choose to quit the game.

However, this is a necessary test. If you can't even defeat the Bloodthirsty Mermaid, then let alone challenging the more difficult bosses later.

For such players, if their level is not high enough to balance the negative feedback, continuing to play will only be torture.

Therefore, Zhou Kuang believes that some persuasion is necessary.

Every game has its own audience. No matter how popular a cultural product is, there will always be people who disagree with it.

What's more, "Netherworld Mountains and Seas" is a soul journey?

The mermaid holding an ancient bone spear has a female upper body and a fish tail covered with bone spurs in the lower body, with black blood constantly flowing from her body.

When Master A saw the monster in front of him, a hint of fanaticism appeared in his eyes and he subconsciously licked the corner of his mouth.

He had always liked these strange, bizarre, and peculiar monster designs, and the mermaid before him captured his heart at first sight.

so cute!
(End of this chapter)