“Fuck, stay still!”
A burst of agony exploded from Wang Zixu’s shoulder, as if his shoulder blade were about to shatter in the next second.
He turned his head and looked.
A burly man with a face full of coarse flesh was smashing the butt of a gun down at him.
Immediately after,
several people beside him swarmed forward, fists and feet raining down like a storm.
Dull thuds kept sounding.
Ribs, abdomen, face—every part of him was sending pain to his brain.
He really couldn’t take it anymore!
Wang Zixu hardened his heart and decisively turned his pain perception down to the lowest setting.
In an instant, his body felt light.
He could even meet the other party’s fists head-on and strike back.
His leg bone had already been broken,
yet he still struggled, locking onto the nearest man like a mad dog, both hands clawing fiercely toward the pistol at the man’s waist.
Amid the chaos, he vaguely heard someone say,
“Brother Biao, he’s kind of hard to handle. What do we do?”
“Fuck it, kill him and feed him to the fish!”
The words had barely fallen.
Bang!
A gunshot exploded.
Immediately after came several more shots.
Bang, bang, bang—!
Wang Zixu’s body suddenly went rigid.
He subconsciously lowered his head. Blood blossomed one after another from his chest, waist, abdomen, and thigh. Warm liquid rapidly gushed out, soaking through his clothes and pants.
He reached out and touched it. His hand came away bright red.
The sensation, the temperature—almost exactly the same as reality.
He stood frozen in place, his mind completely blank.
The strength in his body was rapidly drained away.
With a thud, he toppled over.
He crashed onto the deck.
Wang Zixu’s body rose and fell faintly.
At this moment, he was not completely dead yet.
He still had a hazy consciousness.
Only, he could no longer control this body, and the colors in his eyes were growing weaker and weaker.
His vision gradually blurred…
He could feel someone lifting him by the head and feet, tossing him off the boat like garbage.
Yet he could do nothing.
Splash—
The river water instantly swallowed him.
A sense of helplessness and suffocation surged over him.
Just as he was about to lose consciousness completely, blue subtitles suddenly appeared before his eyes.
【Game Failed!】
【Dear player, this survival challenge has been terminated.】
【Danger may come wearing the guise of “family” and “help.” Please remain especially vigilant.】
【You only have one life. Trust must have a bottom line.】
【A game can be restarted. Life cannot be reloaded.】
Wang Zixu took a deep breath, still a little unable to react.
Perhaps it was because his pain perception had been lowered to the minimum,
but dying in the game had not given him much of a sense of reality.
Even though the blood-splattering effects were made so lifelike,
and the physiological state before death had been simulated in every detail, he simply could not feel afraid.
He had reason to suspect that the virtual helmet’s built-in protection mechanism had taken effect, deliberately blunting the impact of death.
Or perhaps
it was because he had experienced bloodier scenes in other games, and naturally carried a filter toward game worlds.
He wasn’t sure.
After all, this was his first proper experience with a virtual helmet.
Wang Zixu’s mood slowly calmed. He opened Bloody Golden Triangle: Survivor again.
No matter what, he was still a fairly skilled gamer.
Yet he hadn’t even made it past the beginner plot at the start before the kidnappers beat him to death outright.
How fucking embarrassing.
This time, he had to plan properly. He couldn’t be like just now again.
【Cooling-off period remaining: 56 minutes 39 seconds】
Damn it!
Why did he have to wait this long after dying once? Wasn’t this kind of resurrection mechanic afraid of losing players?
After exiting the virtual helmet, Wang Zixu immediately opened the Spend-Persuasion Discussion Group.
Freeloading King: “@Sister Ying, are you dead?”
This completely out-of-nowhere message instantly blew up a bunch of lurkers.
Getting Ready to Quit: “If you die, just restart, right? Don’t tell me this game needs resurrection coins!”
Newbie Player: “What’s going on? Tell us about it.”
Sister Ying: “Eye-roll.JPG”
She had actually died over ten minutes ago.
And she had finally understood what Chen Jiajun meant when he said it was unfriendly to pretty female players.
She had gotten off to a terrible start right away,
and Sister Ying was so angry that she quit the game on the spot.
She hadn’t even figured out the game before she died.
It was too embarrassing to even mention.
Refusing to believe it, Shen Yingying clicked restart, only to actually be told there was still a cooling-off period…
She was furious!
She called Chen Jiajun, but he didn’t pick up.
She had nowhere to vent her anger!
Three Times a Day: “Holy shit, you’re already playing? Hurry up and tell us! Is this game really like Brother Jun said, a 100% immersive virtual reality game?”
Sun and Moon Same Error: “Is there a recording? Post it so we can see.”
Freeloading King: “The game doesn’t have a recording function developed for now. Although this experience was very short, I did summarize some useful intel.”
Getting Ready to Quit: “Good brother, hurry and tell us!”
Although Wang Zixu was still a student, he had dabbled in quite a lot of games.
He spent years haunting all kinds of forums and Tieba boards.
His figure could be found in the featured strategy posts of many games.
Among them, quite a few grind-heavy guides and free-to-play guides for pay-to-win games had come from his hand.
Even quite a few bros in the group had used his guides, and the praise rate was very high.
The title of Freeloading King was fully deserved!
Although his performance just now in Bloody Golden Triangle: Survivor had been somewhat painful to watch, and he had given up first blood not long after the opening,
with his many years of accumulated gaming experience, as well as his seasoned analytical and deductive abilities,
he had still managed to summarize some information from it.
“Let’s start with the game background.”
“The story is set in a realistic-themed fictional world. The overall style is extremely grounded, blurring the boundary between virtual and reality.”
“The opening plot is quite intense. You get scammed abroad right at the start, are brutally kidnapped, and afterward, the game helps you sort out the plot threads through a recap.”
“It’s worth mentioning that the game has an extremely high degree of freedom, but its shortcomings are equally obvious.”
“Because there’s no common quest panel or prompt window, everything depends on figuring it out yourself.”
“So newbie players can easily get lost, as in, after entering the game, they have absolutely no idea what to do.”
“Based on my many years of gaming experience, I judged that the first main quest is to escape from the kidnappers.”
“Unfortunately, because I resisted too fiercely, I was done in, so I can’t confirm it at present.”
“As for more clues and information, we’ll probably have to wait until the official public beta, or gradually unlock them as the plot progresses.”
“Oh, right, the NPCs in this game can actually speak a Germanic dialect. Even a language that was eliminated eight hundred years ago can be used. The designers put some heart into it.”
“Now let’s talk about the game realism everyone cares about most.”
“Without exaggeration, it is the most realistic game in my mind.”
“Setting aside subjective feelings, this game is almost no different from reality.”
“The five-sense feedback is astonishingly detailed, and the environment and character interactions are top-tier.”
“What impressed me the most was the pain setting.”
“Although the promo says it’s a 100% realistic immersive game, pain that’s too realistic would definitely drive away a lot of players.”
“Taking player tolerance into consideration, it can be freely adjusted in-game, and there’s also a hidden protection threshold.”
“To put it plainly, once the pain exceeds the body’s limit, the system automatically adjusts it. It’s quite humanized.”
“After praising the awesome parts, I also have to complain about a few settings that make my vision go dark.”
“First is the resurrection mechanic. After death, you actually have to wait for a one-hour cooling-off period? What is this, a divorce?”
“I understand the dog planners want players to reflect more on their actions and the plot, but isn’t one hour a bit too long?! If you ask me, 3 seconds is already pushing it. (laugh)”
“Lastly, why can’t we use nicknames in the game? Why does it have to use our real names? We can’t even choose our gender! Strongly recommend the official team give players a little more freedom of choice and update the settings ASAP!”
“@Jun!”