Jiang Qiao brought together Zhao Mingwei and Lin Xi... and a confused mechanic lady Xia Shan to form a four-person team.
Without a nanny, the only nanny in the guild who provided milk for free went to work as a mercenary on the battlefield.
The forest within a radius of 700 meters from the initial base was extremely chaotic. Jiang Qiao could only describe the situation as chaotic. No matter how few steps he took, he could see a large number of skill special effects bombarding him.
Jiang Qiao walked along the initial base for a long time but didn't see any monsters. It was really like a swarm of locusts, with no grass growing at all.
"Master..." Zhao Mingwei, who was following behind Jiang Qiao, suddenly said, "Have you ever thought about one thing?"
"What is it?"
Jiang Qiao released his wind spirit and floated into the sky. The wind spirit's detection ability allowed Jiang Qiao to discover the spell thief without... making his teammates suspect that he had activated a perspective hack.
"This game may have some connection with the real world," said Zhao Mingwei.
"… "
Jiang Qiao's spellcasting action paused slightly at this moment, but it didn't take long for him to start thinking about how to answer Zhao Mingwei.
Zhao Mingwei and Jia Nai Bu Jia Jia were the few among all the Holy Spirit players who knew that the first Annihilation Legion invaded the real world.
"Are you talking about the AR version that Holy Spirit is going to release soon?"
At this time, Lin Xi helped Jiang Qiao find an excuse. He took off his headphones. When Lin Xi was following the team, he was busy looking for various BGMs for fighting monsters.
"AR version... um, AR version." Zhao Mingwei did not refute Lin Xi's statement, he just continued to lead the conversation along this topic.
“No way, it’s not like you haven’t played the AR version of Dissidia before. The AR version of Dissidia is just a bunch of… that.” Lin Xi immediately changed his adjective after seeing Xia Shan who was listening curiously in the team.
The team's voice chat is on now, and Xia Shan's voice is still that of a very heroic girl. Lin Xi does not rule out the possibility that the other party has a voice changer, but there are girls in the team, so he has to restrain his dirty talk.
"I know this. The AR version of Dispute stopped maintenance after one year of its launch. It's really boring." Xia Shan also tried hard to integrate into the conversation between the three bosses at this time.
She was a person who was very wary of strangers on the Internet, but in Xia Shan's eyes, Jiang Qiao was already a good person worth interacting with. After getting to know Jiang Qiao, she became more talkative.
"Does Changqing know about this, too? And Xiao Ye, I advise you not to look forward to the AR version of Holy Spirit. Isn't it a joke to have AR in an action-based online game like this?" Lin Xi said the second half of the sentence to Zhao Mingwei in a private chat.
AR means augmented reality. Different from VR, which requires you to put on a helmet to enter the game world, AR is a technology that uses AR glasses to project games into the real world.
This also leads to the fact that many skills and combat methods in the game world cannot be reproduced by players in reality. After all, a super swordsman player in the game may be a weak otaku who doesn't even know how to hold a sword in reality.
This is the gap between games and reality.
Therefore, when Lin Xi saw the news about the launch of Holy Spirit AR on the official website, he did not have any expectations in his heart.
"What if you could restore your original skills in reality?" Zhao Mingwei asked again.
"I'm a gunner, Xiaoye. I can use skills by pressing the shortcut bar. Of course I can." Lin Xi said speechlessly as he summoned a flamethrower. "Just pulling the trigger is a skill, but those swordsman players are in trouble. I don't know if they can perform a phantom sword dance in reality."
Xia Shan suddenly laughed out loud when she heard this. Of course, Xia Shan knew the swordsmen's skill of Phantom Sword Dance, where the speed of swinging the sword was so fast that it could not be captured by the naked eye.
There is a combat assistance system in the Holy Spirit game, so any swordsman player can release the skill "Phantom Sword Dance" smoothly as long as he thinks of it.
But if you change to the AR version, you won’t be able to use the combat assistance in the Holy Spirit when wearing AR glasses.
The way "Dissidia" handles this is that there are only skill effects, and players are not required to take corresponding actions.
But an action-oriented VR online game becomes boring without combat. Mage players don’t mind much, but warrior players will protest collectively.
This also led to the discontinuation of the AR version of Dissidia less than a year after its launch.
"Well, you are right." Zhao Mingwei did not refute Lin Xi's statement.
"Another perfunctory answer. Mr. Xiao, what have you been hinting at recently? The experience of the game Holy Spirit is indeed very real, but you can't be so confused about the game and reality, right?" Lin Xi asked.
“… I was just wondering when the next Abyss Hunt will be.” Zhao Mingwei changed the subject.
Jiang Qiao's emotions became more complicated after hearing Zhao Mingwei's words.
"Abyss Hunting? Master Xiao, do you have any special equipment you want? Just go to 4396 and buy it. Your advertising endorsement fee is enough to buy several pieces of special equipment, right?" Lin Xi also used private messaging to say this, and only Xia Shan could not hear this private messaging.
"I never buy equipment when playing games, I only get them by killing monsters, so I'd better upgrade to the maximum level as soon as possible to avoid losing the next Abyss Hunt." Zhao Mingwei added.
Their current level is fifty, and the Holy Spirit's level cap is now fifty-five.
"I say, let's... We may not have time to get top-level equipment after work starts, but it's not difficult to get to the maximum level." Lin Xi didn't quite understand Zhao Mingwei's series of hints.
But Jiang Qiao, who was standing next to him, felt more and more complicated the more he listened.
Zhao Mingwei actually knew that the Annihilation Legion that appeared in the Abyss Hunt was not a monster in the game, but a monster that could actually invade the real world.
Zhao Mingwei, who understood this, was in a state of being prepared for danger in times of peace. In other words, a sense of crisis surrounded Zhao Mingwei all the time. He was very afraid of what might happen if the players lost when the next Abyss Hunt started and the Annihilation Legion arrived.
In Lin Xi's mind, if the players lose, they lose. At worst they can revive and fight again. But Zhao Mingwei knows that if the players lose, the tragedy of Jiangcheng Food Street will be repeated.
"And you're just daydreaming. If you can't find a girlfriend in real life, be nice to your own Freya. Just in case she really becomes your girlfriend."
Zhao Mingwei realized that the atmosphere in the team was a little silent, so he changed the topic to a more relaxed one.
"Oh my god! Haha... Lao Zhao, I do have a few female fans in real life, but it's not like I can't even find a girlfriend, right? Only a otaku would really consider Freya as a dating partner, okay?"
When Lin Xi heard what Zhao Mingwei said, he really wanted to use the flamethrower in his hand to smash Zhao Mingwei's face, because there was a real girl in the team!
Zhao Mingwei's words were equivalent to tearing down Lin Xi's place.
"I'm not kidding, I'm serious." Zhao Mingwei said as he gave himself a Mind Qi Dragon and Tiger Roar BUFF and said, "So you must protect your Freya."
"You don't have to tell me, the main quest will be interrupted if my Freya dies!" While speaking, Lin Xi also gave himself a combat BUFF.
Lin Xi didn't understand Zhao Mingwei's hint at all. He still only regarded Freya as an NPC required for the main quest.
But now is not the time to worry about this.
Lin Xi and Zhao Mingwei were both experienced professional players, and they discovered that there were monsters lurking around them without Jiang Qiao reminding them.
On the other hand, Xia Shan looked around in confusion. After seeing that Jiang Qiao had also given her a combat BUFF, Xia Shan quickly summoned out her prototype for combat.
(End of this chapter)