Creating a Virtual World

Chapter 19: Challenges ahead

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The next day, at the Junlin Team Club.

Zhao Mingwei finished his training and was reading the news on his mobile phone.

An honest internet-addicted teenager like him seldom reads news, but from yesterday till now he has been browsing news on Weibo all day long.

News about Jiangcheng Food Street.

But there was nothing... No orcs, no abyss hunting, and Jiangcheng Pedestrian Street didn't even have any signs of being destroyed.

The only news on Weibo was that a building in Jiangcheng Food Street caught fire and the fire brigade came to rescue.

If it weren't for the equipment, Memory of the Light Elf, still lying quietly in his equipment bar, he would have suspected that everything that happened last night was false.

"Master Xiao, what equipment did you get in the Abyss Hunt yesterday?"

Lin Xi came up to Zhao Mingwei with a lunch box. Lin Xi's personality was not as calm and upright as Zhao Mingwei. He was the type who loved to show off and especially liked to talk big.

Judging from Lin Xi’s appearance, he must have gotten some good equipment during the Abyss Hunting yesterday.

"The memory of the light elf." Zhao Mingwei opened the APP on his mobile phone, called up the equipment bar display function, and showed Lin Xi his equipment.

"Special equipment. Just pretend I didn't ask."

Lin Xi smacked his lips. He had gotten a level 25 epic hand cannon during the Abyss Hunt yesterday. He wanted to show off to Zhao Mingwei, but it turned out that Zhao Mingwei got better equipment than him.

Zhao Mingwei did not go to Lin Xi to ask about the news of yesterday's abyss hunting. He asked Lin Xi on the night he returned.

Lin Xi's answer was that he had indeed participated in the Abyss Rift, and it was in the virtual Jiangcheng Food Street scene, but when Zhao Mingwei said that "monsters appeared in the real world", Lin Xi's reaction was that Zhao Mingwei had been under too much pressure recently and it was time for him to take a break.

This made Zhao Mingwei feel so creepy that he didn't touch the game for the whole night.

"Captain Zhao, the gifts from fans are piled up at the front desk and there's no more room. Do you want me to bring them up and show them to you?"

A club staff member suddenly popped his head into the training room and asked Zhao Mingwei.

"Bring them all here." Zhao Mingwei said.

That staff member, no... two, three staff members came one after another carrying a large pile of variously packaged gifts and placed them behind Zhao Mingwei's seat.

"Tsk tsk, Xiao Ye... I debuted at the same time as you, why don't any fans remember me?"

Lin Xi felt jealous when he saw so many gifts. For the gifts sent by fans, the club usually gives them all to the staff to handle. There are very few professional players like Zhao Mingwei who will review every gift.

Zhao Mingwei seldom posts on Weibo and rarely hangs out on Tieba. He is a perennial monster on forums, so he seldom responds to fans online.

But Lin Xi knew that Zhao Mingwei was very attentive to the gifts from fans. He would basically read the letters and then put them away. He would wear the clothes he could, and if there were too many, he would just pile them in the closet. As for the food... he would let Lin Xi taste it first to see if it was poisonous before asking other people in the club to eat together.

"I remember there were a lot of posts on Tieba criticizing you. This should also be a way of remembering you." It's true that Zhao Mingwei is a straightforward boy, but his ability to complain is no worse than Lin Xi, especially when it comes to complaining about Lin Xi.

"Damn! I get angry just talking about this. Yesterday I used a pseudonym to scold someone over a hundred floors above Ruizhi. Oh! I'll help you open the presents."

Lin Xi began to open the gifts given by fans, and Zhao Mingwei also picked up a few and examined them.

Suddenly he saw a packaged fried chicken steak. Sending food as gifts is a common way for fans living around the King's Landing Club to interact with each other, but most clubs have banned it, even prohibiting fans from sending gifts directly. Only the King's Landing had built a special security checkpoint.

The chicken chop was indeed from the one Zhao Mingwei often ate at Jiangcheng Food Street, but the message on the chicken chop made Zhao Mingwei's hands stiffen for a moment.

The content of the gift message is very simple, only four words.

Thank you and keep going!

Zhao Mingwei looked at these four words in silence for a long time. Without saying anything, he opened the plastic bag in his hand and started eating the chicken steak.

"Is Lin Xi still playing online games at night?" Zhao Mingwei asked while eating.

"We definitely have to play with a group. I got a level 25 epic hand cannon yesterday but haven't used it much yet." Lin Xi suddenly remembered something and added, "Old Song is coming too. He contacted me yesterday. His game ID is Mo Shigui."

Old Song's real name is Song Zhenning. He is the coach of the Shangcheng Nuclear Team. He was an old teammate of Zhao Mingwei in the past when they founded the Junlin Dynasty. Three years ago, he had a disagreement with the management of the Junlin Team. After being forced to retire, he moved to the Shangcheng Leaping Nuclear Team to become a coach.

"Old Song also has an account? Let's make an appointment tonight to place bets together." Zhao Mingwei said.

… … …

In the morning, Jiang Qiao was still consuming the benefits brought by the plane fragment, including how to use the 22 square kilometers of land and who to give the 100 player places to.

But what really caught Jiang Qiao's attention was that the area of star map exploration had become larger.

"There are so many fragments around the Blue Star..." Jiang Qiao was holding the System Book in his hand, which already displayed many plane fragments of different colors.

These plane fragments remained where they were, unlike the scarlet and pitch-black planes that wandered around and devoured other planes.

The system book also includes the latest instructions from the Creator Jiang Qiao.

'These new plane fragments can be regarded as additional dungeons and side quests in the game. They each have their own set of operating rules. After the invasion function is turned on, we can allow players to enter them and obtain the energy needed to create the world from the plane fragments, as well as increase the upper limit of the number of players on the server. At present, I most recommend this plane fragment.'

Jiang Qiao finished reading the description he had written, and soon a pure white plane fragment quickly approached in Jiang Qiao's field of vision.

At this moment Jiang Qiao saw all the data of this plane fragment.

Special Plane Fragments

Plane type: magic and superpowers.

Civilization level: None.

Plane size: ten kilometers.

Biological level: 30~60.

World rules: Time cycle is incomplete, life cycle is incomplete, physical laws are complete, magic laws are intermediate...

These data are nothing. What Jiang Qiao values is the plane description attached by the creator himself.

'This plane is a derivative plane of a complete world. The plane fragments themselves only consist of a tower. Creatures from another world have spent hundreds of years challenging this tower, but no one has ever been able to reach the tower master. This plane only has one creature with self-awareness. Other challenging creatures are the same as monsters in the game, with fixed attack methods. Finally, it is explained... Hailan's current level is not enough to detect the complete world plane. If you want to get more information, you can take the players to try to challenge the Creator Jiang Qiao.'

"It feels weird to read my own explanations." Jiang Qiao finished reading the series of explanations. "Isn't this the Sky Tower? Or... the Death Tower? I think it can help players level up and increase the upper limit of players on the server, so I decided to choose this one."

Jiang Qiao now has four creation indicators to obtain: the energy required for creation, the upper limit of the number of players on the server, the area of the game map, and the upper limit of the player level...

Jiang Qiao has the means to obtain the first three items, which is to kill creatures from other planes. While players gain experience, Jiang Qiao can also obtain the energy needed for creation, and the upper limit of the number of players on the server can also be increased.

If you want to expand the area of the map, you need to completely swallow up other plane fragments. This is also simple. Jiang Qiao can expand it further by swallowing one or two small plane fragments.

The difficult part is the last one, the player level cap... or the level cap of all creatures in the entire game.

Now Jiang Qiao can only create NPCs and monsters up to level 50. If he wants to raise the level cap, he must collect Hai Lan's divine nature.

"I remember there is a sea-blue fragment of the divine nature near the Blue Star." Jiang Qiao searched on the star map and indeed found a deep blue plane fragment.

The world of fragments of the divine nature of the sea blue·small.

Plane type: magic, super power, chaos.

Civilization level: Medieval.

Plane size: thirty-seven kilometers.

Biological level: Level 50~60.

World rules: The time cycle is incomplete, the life cycle is incomplete, the laws of physics are complete, and the laws of magic are advanced...

Plane description: Don't read it! We need all players to reach the maximum level to play this dungeon. There is a group of troublesome guys in it, so quickly recruit more people to join, increase the upper limit of the server players, and also raise your own level. Creator Jiang Qiao.

Are you making fun of yourself? Shouldn't I be serious when I'm in Creator Mode

Jiang Qiao was somewhat speechless when he looked at these instructions, but this did remind Jiang Qiao that it was time for him to open this game to the players of Blue Star in some way.

(End of this chapter)