Chapter 9 (1/2)
Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
Li Mu, a 22-year-old male, of ordinary appearance and ordinary family background, was an ordinary college student in China.
However, he had another identity–an anchor of virtual reality games.
Since virtual reality games became hot all over the world two years ago, he became one of a legion of anchors with his passion for games and live-streams. He earned some money with his eloquence and story-telling ability.
Nevertheless, different from many anchors who concentrated solely on the game, his main work was to evaluate various kinds of virtual reality games. In his words, although virtual reality games emerged endlessly and became increasingly more exciting, no game could really surprise him and keep him playing…
Therefore, in his profession, he had a nickname, “king of nitpicking.” He specifically caviled at various kinds of virtual games.
In fact, this was normal.
Although virtual reality networks developed fully in recent years and many ordinary families had game cabins, most virtual engines that were sold in the market could not function well. When people were playing games, various kinds of bugs always emerged and made them helpless.
And Li Mu made his audience laugh by discovering these bugs.
Li Mu sat before his computer, made a cup of instant coffee, and opened the backstage of his live-stream.
“I’ll look for an objective of the new episode of Mu’s Evaluation.”
He sighed as he looked at the data from his backstage.
Recently, all the new games sold were of such poor quality that he did not want to evaluate them.
Because many people saw the chance to make money through virtual reality games, individuals of all trades came to develop games. But as their technology was limited, the quality of the games designed by many corporations was too low…
Li Mu could be considered to be a popular anchor. He despised those rubbish games. He only appreciated those great works that cost a lot!
After all, he was only satisfied that he could discover bugs in great works!
“I haven’t seen the web page for a week. Let me see what the new works are like on the web page!”
While singing a song, Li Mu went to the web page that recommended virtual reality games.
His gaze unceasingly swept across advertisements.
“Eastern fantasy again? This topic has been chosen too many times. Boo, it’s the special effect of 50-cent advertisements…”
“Shooting? Wow… that’s fine. But there are already many good works… Besides, I have focused on this topic in former episodes. I want a change this time…”
“The growing up of pretty girls? Ha ha ha… It’s good… Good… No, I don’t want my account to be closed yet.”
He skimmed through the advertisements of games while talking to himself.
“Hmmm?”
All of a sudden, he paused as his mouse stopped at an advertisement.
“The Kingdom of Elves?”
That was not a very attractive advertisement. There was a grand World Tree on the front cover. A beautiful, holy blonde elf with her eyes closed, was praying to the World Tree.
Although the elf maiden was very good-looking on the front cover, this front cover could at most only be counted good in vast advertisements of virtual reality games.
After all, the front cover was like a face. Everyone could make a good-looking front cover! But there were so many games that did not match their front covers…
Li Mu never believed in front covers. And what attracted him this time was not the front cover, but the click rate under the advertisement of the game.
“What the hell? A click rate of three million? Did the corporation buy it on Taobao?”
What surprised him was that the advertisement only appeared two days ago and unexpectedly had a click rate as high as three million!
Once his curiosity rose, he could not suppress it.
He took a sip of coffee and clicked the advertisement.
Like many other advertisements, this advertisement had only one promotional film and a link for reservation. What surprised Li Mu was that there were more than 10,000 comments below.
This phenomenon was uncommon on the virtual reality games’ web page.
He did not click to play the promotional film directly. Instead, he glanced at the comments.
“Demasia: Damn! Did the developer ask a film company to make the promotional video? Did their expenditure explode?!”
This was the comment that earned the most likes.
Fantasy?
Li Mu raised his eyebrows.
Did this subject matter decline in China now? It was the least popular in demand. But it was hot in Europe and the US…
Most of his interest was gone. But because he was bored indeed, he read on.
“African Lucky Player: Fantasy Internet games have long declined in China. If this game can be hot, I’ll eat shit in a live-stream.”
This was the second hottest comment. And the number of likes seemed to show the potential to surpass the hottest comment.
“Boo…”
Li Mu could not help but laugh.
Nowadays, people liked to swindle others.
He clicked a like on the spot and then turned downwards.
“The Forward Hair on Legs: Thought-accelerating technology? It sounds marvelous. But does it really exist?”
This was the third hottest comment.
Thought-accelerating technology?
Li Mu froze.
What is this? It seemed that he had never heard it?
He read the comment carefully. Then, he found to his surprise, that it seemed like a new technology mentioned by the developer in the brief introduction of the game. It was said that this technology could enable players to think faster in the virtual world.
Players only spent 15 minutes in the real world to stay in the game world for an hour!
That was to say, players could sense more game time!