CHAPTER 61: CHAPTER 58: SECRETLY PEEPING

Handsome Nanren: "Newcomers of the second beta test, tremble and fear, have you realized how awesome we first beta test veterans are! We have decided to take you newbies to the ’Elf Race’ dungeon as a welcoming gift!"

"What? Take you to fight the boss? No! This fresh literary and artistic game can’t be so tacky. It’s obviously a plot-oriented narrative game, so of course, we’re going to use the narrative to pretend to be mystics!"

"Yay!"

"Awesome veterans!"

"A plot-driven game, witnessing history change!"

All the second beta newcomers immediately cheered, shouting enthusiastically, "666 to the veterans."

Zhu Zhengwei secretly peeked at their plan to cause trouble, kept a calm face, and gave their post a like, silently encouraging them to work hard at mining.

Hmm...

He rested his chin in his hands and fell into contemplation.

Although he had liked it, whether or not to let them be was still a question.

Currently, the pros and cons are obvious.

Pros: The few seconds of jet exchange with the local "Spirit Medium" will greatly boost their mining efficiency.

Cons: They might influence the world’s direction through "Spirit Medium" communication and cause various disturbances.

This is a very real problem!

However, after some consideration, Zhu Zhengwei still felt it was a virtuous cycle.

Endless mining is arduous and dull, and providing miners with a certain amount of entertainment is necessary.

This is the direct motivation to drive them to mine diligently; the more these miners work hard, the easier it is to achieve "NeuroCoin" freedom, and become truly distinguished figures in the crypto world.

"Right now, they can only perform a ’spirit manifestation’ once by mining hard for over a decade, but as for them interfering with the plot? Choosing a direction isn’t impossible, just worried they’ll go overboard."

"But the possibility of them going overboard right now isn’t high."

"If it’s only individual funny ones who jump out and talk to the locals alone, a ridiculous style might arise everywhere causing trouble, but if they are making a collective, deliberated decision, then it should be much better!"

After all, when there are more people, they will form an organization, arrange the dialogue scripts, and the options and choices made won’t be too out of line.

"Their collective, prepared speech will most likely be serious."

"And to speak individually, that would require their cultivation to reach a very high level before they can speak."

Right now, this wild grass can only speak collectively because they’re too weak, needing a vast collective resonance of ’Qi’ to speak.

When in the future, the senior miners who can speak individually, how to deal with it?

Zhu Zhengwei didn’t have an answer in his mind either.

We’ll talk about it then. If this one Immortal Herb chatters everywhere it meets people, having spring dreams like, "Touch me," "I’m so itchy," sealing off their malicious bug potential to speak alone would be fine.

"Anyway, I hold the final interpretation right over this game."

Zhu Zhengwei figured out all these intricacies and then calmed down.

"However, I still can’t relax; I’ll use this Fairy Forest to conduct a pilot test on them to see if this incentive mechanism can operate properly."

"If it works, then this would be the core mechanism to encourage miners in the future."

He squinted his eyes and continued to spy on the enemy situation.

To be honest, the miner management of "Mobile Dream Net" is quite the university course.

Soon, that group of netizens, by constantly discussing, was studying the arrival lines, researching which animal to grant "Qi," and finally had a debate about the animal.

They had three choices.

1. Snake.

Maybe they could get a dragon, since it’s a romantic symbol in culture. Even if not a dragon, a snake demon would still be nice.

2. Cats and dogs.

There are still quite a few cat and dog lovers.

3. Dragonflies. Yes, dragonflies.

And through continuous hardcore analysis and discussion, they finally concluded: dragonflies.

Because players possess extraordinary Divine Techniques.

A player, claiming to be a young PhD in the field of biology, who studied under a renowned biology supermaster, expressed his opinion on this matter.

My Teacher is Superman: "The reason is simple, according to the producer’s intention, the style of this game is realistic and hardcore! I found that this game’s biological experiment is extremely reasonable, it’s not fictional, and it could indeed have consulted our industry’s biological experts, possibly even consulting my mentors and peers. The style of experiment with Witch over there seems vaguely in line with ours!"

"And this biological modification certainly has limits. Otherwise, what is our level for? We are low level and not able to just do whatever we want, likely we can’t afford anything big."

"Small insects are the best magic modification choice, do not aim too high, and, dragonflies also fit for an Elf magic modification, possibly even to become a third type of Tree-man...Forest Fairy, a little fairy with transparent dragonfly wings."

"Yes, that’s the optimal solution!"

"Dragonfly, small-sized, adding some human genes... could they gain a bit of wisdom? If they can, they would become little elf lab assistants, able to fly, intelligent, simply perfect, even able to help with miscellaneous tasks, immediately making the style of painting more beautiful!"

"The most, most, most crucial point is, the little elves would take care of us Immortal Herbs, fluttering around, carrying little flower baskets amidst our flowers, isn’t that beautiful?"

That sentence is simply too enticing.

Luring them in with irresistible charm.

Honestly, who could resist pretty little elf ladies flapping their small transparent wings to take care of you?

Moreover, in such a breathtakingly picturesque wallpaper game?

Super Sweetheart Circle: "Ahhhh! I’m in love! Dear sisters, I really want such little sister companions (heart pen sketch.JPG)"

Handsome Nanren: "My roommate’s dying wish was to have such an elf lady take care of him!"

My Teacher is Superman: "Hehehe, please, little lady, don’t feel sorry for me because I’m a delicate flower, hehehe, just feel free to sit on my petals as a throne, trample on me, mistreat me, hehehe!~~"

...

???

Zhu Zhengwei, seeing this, was suddenly dumbfounded.

You people?

Something’s not right!

Zhu Zhengwei observed for a while, and couldn’t help but be amazed, you’re discussing all these tangle of things while watching scenery on my forum every day?

He felt these people were really quite the heavyweight talents.

All because of the widespread promotion by those two clownish roommates. It was originally a very niche game, thoroughly filled with pure landscape-watching niche literary youths, players easy to manage.

But now?

The reputation has risen, attracting some oddly shaped fools who don’t admire the scenery and cause trouble everywhere.

Hey!

I’m clearly just a fresh and arty game!

Zhu Zhengwei stood up and paced back and forth in the dormitory, and then burst out laughing,

"Alright! They are indeed a group of scenery lovers, old perverts, and troll army advisors. Didn’t expect they had this trick up their sleeves to destroy the foundation, initially thought they’d screw up and waste ’Qi’ for nothing, but they’re quite level-headed, knowing to find a small insect for maximum benefit...this game, letting them mine for free, I’m at a significant loss!"