Jiang Qiao opened a can of Coke for himself and sat on the sofa. Hai Lan was lying on the sofa, holding her stomach to digest the food.
In this battle, she consumed nearly half of the resources of Kuroshio Island, and was busy digesting and organizing these resources into real things in the game.
With Hai Lan's computing speed, it might take about half a day. During this time, Jiang Qiao sorted out the things he needed to deal with.
Jiang Qiao’s top priority is to restore the Holy Spirit’s stronghold that was destroyed by the Black Tide Island thieves.
The restoration here does not include some crops from other worlds planted by players. As for livestock such as warm water cows and roasted ducks, Jiang Qiao recovered them back to the Holy Spirit's original world before the enemy invaded.
Although the stronghold was restored, the lord-level dragons that descended on Brand Island from Kuroshio Island settled down on Brand Island.
After killing Deng Xis, the decapitation team gained control of half of Kuroshio Island, and the other half was in the hands of the last island lord of Kuroshio Island.
But this is not a problem, because the last island lord of Kuroshio Island is neutral, and it has no ability to offer more resistance.
The result of this is... the lord-level dragons on Kuroshio Island also changed from being hostile at the beginning to a neutral state, a bit like the dragons on Brand Island.
If players don't bother them, they won't bother them.
This is acceptable from a game operation perspective. Players can still continue exploring on Kuroshio Island, where there are still many hostile enemies, the void, the abyss, and the dormant Annihilation Legion.
However, Kuroshio Island itself can no longer bring a world-destroying disaster to the real world or Brand Island.
This battle also brought benefits to Jiangqiao. The biggest benefit was that the player level cap was officially raised to level 60, and the server's upper limit of the number of people increased from 300,000 to 200,000, finally reaching the 500,000 mark.
Although this number still seems quite small, it is a gratifying number for the Holy Spirit.
Jiang Qiao was not in a hurry to distribute the extra 200,000 places, but was considering whether it was a bit unfair that the qualification of Holy Spirit players was determined entirely by drawing lots.
This is something Jiang Qiao needs to consider later, and the second thing is the improvement of the energy reserves of creation.
In this battle, Jiang Qiao lost 1.3 million points of creation energy used to revive the players, but after Hai Lan absorbed one-third of the energy of Kuroshio Island, Jiang Qiao also received a large amount of creation energy income. Now Jiang Qiao has a surplus of... 700,000 points of creation energy.
"Why do I feel like this thing is never enough?"
Jiang Qiao looked at the large amount of creation energy expenditure in the system book, such as the expenditure on repairing the base, Freya's memory allocation, the expenditure on players' daily activities, and the expenditure on refreshing monsters in the Holy Spirit's main world.
With the increase in the number of Holy Spirit players, Jiangqiao's demand for creation energy also began to surge. At the beginning, the daily server maintenance cost was only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. The bulk of the expenses were the refresh of monsters in the Holy Spirit's main world and the refresh of players' equipment.
But now the daily maintenance cost has increased to 120,000 points, and within this 120,000 points, there are also high costs for 'resurrection of players killed in Kuroshio Island' and 'nutrition fee for Freya'.
Jiang Qiao’s current creation energy income is... 100,000 points, which is a lot less than before!
"Calm down. The monsters on Kuroshio Island can no longer devour the energy that makes up the players' creations. This large expense should be negligible."
Jiang Qiao began to comfort himself in this way. Compared with the imbalance between operating expenses and revenue in the game, Jiang Qiao had a small trouble in reality.
That is…
"The game of Holy Spirit will make people violent!"
Jiang Qiao looked at the latest... news headlines on his laptop, and the expression on his face became extremely subtle.
Hai Lan, who was lying on the sofa behind Jiang Qiao, showed a look of disgust.
The social attention brought by the final battle on Kuroshio Island is really... too great, so great that it has surpassed the scope of the game Holy Spirit.
The result is that some experts have begun to criticize the game Holy Spirit, saying that the game Holy Spirit will make people violent is just the most popular argument at the moment.
The expert analysis in this news article is quite convincing.
One of the sentences is, "The game of Holy Spirit has extremely realistic graphics and experience, and killing is a very common content in the game, so the violent behavior in Holy Spirit is equivalent to rehearsing the violent behavior in reality! Practice! Once you get used to killing in Holy Spirit and feel numb to killing, you will probably do the same thing in reality."
Jiang Qiao himself believed this analysis, but it is undeniable that there is some truth in it, so Jiang Qiao handled the bloody effect of the Holy Spirit PK very harmoniously. The only thing missing was that when a player slashed another player with a knife, the wound would emit a rainbow and star-like dreamy light.
However, this article is just a trick by someone who wants to mess with the Holy Spirit. The subsequent rhythm of the Holy Spirit has not been interrupted. Another article is...
"When you can buy a house by playing video games, is there any need to go to school and work? A child ruined by games."
There is also a video report below this article. The content of the video is an interview about a high school student who skipped classes to play games in an Internet cafe before the college entrance examination in order to get a real estate certificate for the game "Holy Spirit" promotion. The interviewee is the mother of this high school student, who complained in tears that the game had ruined her child.
"Aren't you angry?" Hai Lan sat up from the sofa and became angry.
"Why should I be angry with a fool?" Jiang Qiao bit the straw while drinking iced cola, indicating that he was... very calm.
These reports were of no concern to Jiang Qiao. What Jiang Qiao was really concerned about were some analyses on major gaming forums and some analyses of Deng Xis’ lines.
"I always feel that Deng Xisi's lines don't sound like the lines of a boss's preset plot, but rather like they are spoken to us?" Posted by: Shengun De.
"Analysis of the copy of this decapitation operation, and speculation on why the player Hei Guo Zhu Rou from Leaping Nuclear left the game early." Posted by: Bai Yueguang.
This decapitation operation was broadcast live throughout, and some forum brothers have already felt that the lines spoken by the boss Deng Xis... feel a bit wrong.
But these analyses still remain at the theoretical level, and there are various rhythms in the news regarding these analyses.
Jiang Qiao’s decision was… to play dead.
The Holy Spirit’s customer service is the most ruthless customer service, or rather, the Holy Spirit has no customer service at all.
In addition to analyzing who Deng Xis's remarks were directed to, the Holy Spirit Forum was also dominated by another discussion topic, that is, cloud players.
"Wow, after pulling out all the stops for an account for a whole year I can finally take a look at the world of the Holy Spirit, although it's only in the form of a small ball of light." Posted by: Deep Sea Seal.
"Is the cloud player version just a photo-taking game? Why can't I go to places like Brand Island and Kuroshio Island that you mentioned?" Posted by: Front row to reclaim the Holy Spirit test qualification.
After Zhao Mingwei's online gaming popularity was aroused last night, the number of registered players on Shengling Cloud has exceeded three million.
These three million cloud players will roam in the Holy Spirit's main world and the inner world in the form of elves or light balls.
They couldn't do anything. At most, they could just look at the scenery in the game. They couldn't enter the Brand Island and Kuroshio Island. After all, these were real world areas outside the Holy Spirit's original world.
Jiang Qiao was thinking about the subsequent distribution of Holy Spirit test qualifications, and whether to start with these cloud players. But when Jiang Qiao was thinking about this... Jiang Qiao received a message from his own father.
"Jiang Qiao, have you played the recently popular game called "Holy Spirit"? "
'Why ask this?'
If Jiang Qiao remembered correctly, his own father was also a half-gamer, but he was very busy at work and had no time to play games. At most he would play with his phone in the workroom.
'The Holy Spirit major that was recently discussed by the higher-ups will be opened at Wuhan University. It is not really a major... I can't say how to define it specifically.'
"I don't understand..."
Jiang Qiao sent out a series of question marks. He knew that Wuhan University had an "E-sports and Management major", or e-sports major. Most universities in this era have opened this major.
After all, the popularity of disputes around the world has surpassed that of the "What Club", but why is it that a major is set up specifically for the Holy Spirit? This is too abrupt.
'There is a professor in your school who is doing a scientific research project. There are some dangerous elements in the project. He seems to be a Holy Spirit player. He found that he could test it in the game, but he is old and is not good at leveling up. So he wants to ask if he can find some young people to help.'
'Why do I feel like you're lying to me?'
Jiang Qiao's first reaction was this. Even though he was the game planner, Jiang Qiao felt that his father was joking. However, considering Jiang Qiao's father's identity, this was obviously not a joke.
'Seriously, there are many things I can't tell you about the game Holy Spirit, but you like playing games normally, and you're also a student at Wuhan University. If you have the qualifications to become Holy Spirit, you can contact that teacher. If you don't have them, it's fine. The qualifications to become Holy Spirit are indeed very difficult to obtain.'
'I am playing the game of Holy Spirit, but I may not be able to help.'
Jiang Qiao had no intention of hiding anything. Currently, there were 300,000 Holy Spirit players, and it would soon expand to 500,000. Even if there was any problem, Jiang Qiao still had a way to escape into the game.
'Do you know any players who live in Jiangcheng in the game? Those who don't live in Jiangcheng are also fine. I remember that the Holy Spirit level is 13+. Do you know any high school students in the game? The college entrance examination is coming soon. Ask them if they have any aspirations to go to Wuhan University.'
Do you think I am Jiang Qiao A Meng
Jiang Qiao looked at his father's many requests. Maybe his father really only knew Jiang Qiao as a Holy Spirit player, so he wanted to ask Jiang Qiao's interpersonal relationships in the Holy Spirit to find some suitable Holy Spirit players to help.
But...high school seniors...
Jiang Qiao flipped through the text messages sent by Wanxiang. Recently, Wanxiang has been texting him every day, asking this and that. Some of the messages were about the content of the game, and some were about life ideals.
Jiang Qiao was very annoyed, so every time he didn't talk for long, he would reply, "You should go to bed."
"Why does it have to be from Jiangcheng?" Jiang Qiao asked in a message.
'It doesn't matter if you don't live in Jiangcheng. You can settle down in Jiangcheng. The research project team there is still very interested in the possibility of doing related experiments in the Holy Spirit. It's just that they are very short of manpower. It's very short of manpower... It would be best if you are a student from Wuhan University.'
'… I'll try to find out.'
Jiang Qiao sent a message back to his father, and then looked at the mother who was loudly accusing the game "Holy Spirit has ruined my child!" on the laptop.
Jiang Qiao was also trying to inquire about Yu Chong's situation, but it was indeed unfair to those serious candidates that he was admitted to Wuhan University with such poor grades by playing Holy Spirit.
But this doesn't mean that he can't attend classes... and be an auditor!
At most, he is just a person without a diploma. With his achievements in the Holy Spirit, he can live a good life without a diploma from Wuhan University.
Finally, there is Wanxiang. There is no doubt that this girl will get into Wuhan University, but her mother’s wish is for her to go to Tsinghua University.
Jiang Qiao thought for a while and then sent a message to Wanxiang.
'are you home yet?'
The time now is eight o'clock on Monday evening, and Wanxiang should be home even if she has to go to cram school.
"I'm home," Wanxiang quickly replied to Jiangqiao.
'Do you have time?'
'I have time, but I have to take a shower.'
'…'
Did this girl do this on purpose? Jiang Qiao took a look at the chat records above. Most of them ended with Jiang Qiao's "It's already late, you should go to bed." "You have classes tomorrow, go to bed early."
Now that Jiang Qiao has taken the initiative to find Wanxiang, she wants to use this method to take revenge on Jiang Qiao.
'I have something serious to say. Do you really want to go to Wuhan University? Will your mother agree?'
"I don't agree, so I'll go." Wanxiang replied.
"Then I look forward to becoming your schoolmate when the school starts." Jiang Qiao replied.
'Um.'
Wanxiang talked with Jiangqiao about many things after that. Finally, under the subtle gaze of Hailan behind him, Jiangqiao sent a message urging Wanxiang to go to bed and ended the conversation.
"The human interpersonal relationship circle is so complicated." Hai Lan held her chin and muttered softly while reading various news reports.
"But it's very simple as long as we know how to handle it." Jiang Qiao thought for a while and told his father about the insect control. He didn't tell much, it could only be said to be the perspective of a friend of a friend.
As for the information related to Yu Mushi, the two articles "The game Holy Spirit will make people violent" and "When you can buy a house by playing video games, is there any need to go to school and work? A child ruined by games." have been reported in detail in the news, and this report has been very popular.
Jiang Qiao only needed to send the links of the two articles to his father and let him contact people to find them.
"The Holy Spirits have given so much for Brand Island and everything in their own world. We should prepare a grand awarding ceremony." Hai Lan suggested a little angrily.
"This... is indeed a good decision. Let me think about it... it will be a good opportunity to continue the subsequent plot development. However, I want to know what the subsequent plot is."
What Jiang Qiao has to do next is to communicate with the mistress to see if she knows more information about the fragments of the divine nature, as well as to repair the fragment of the divine nature that has lost its divine power.
(End of this chapter)