"Hey, have you pre-ordered "Arthur"?"
"Sure, I already pre-ordered it half a year ago, okay?"
"The game is said to be fully hosted by AI, and players dominate the world. Everyone says it is the game with the highest degree of freedom in history."
"When I saw the simulation in the trailer before, I felt that the VR was super realistic."
"Isn't it said that gaming time during sleep can last for more than 4 hours? The longest time before was only 3 hours."
"When it goes online tonight, hurry up and make an appointment with me, gentlemen."
Zhao Xu looked blankly at the college classmates who were having a heated discussion in front of him.
The green faces in front of him are all his memories from 10 years ago.
This scene seems similar.
His heart tightened, and countless memories scattered out of his mind like flying catkins.
10 years ago, "Arthur" was launched today.
No one noticed that the curtain of the new era quietly opened on this day, ushering in the real great era.
On the first anniversary of the launch of Arthur's server, a devastating meteor shower appeared out of thin air on the earth, and all life was reduced to ashes.
However, humans discovered that they had traveled to Arthur's world after the meteorite rain.
Former Arthur players have perfectly inherited everything in the game.
The upper-level players in the game have become masters among the people of the earth in Arthur, and the original forces of the earth have also been shuffled.
Zhao Xu didn't pay much attention to this game in his previous life. He waited until almost eight months after the server was launched before he was forcibly pulled into it by his classmates to recharge their class's guild.
His online frequency in the game was three days for fishing and two days for surfing the web. He had just been upgraded from level 1 to level 2 until before the time travel.
At this time, the average level of the large group of players who have entered the game since the server was launched is already almost level 5, and some of the high-end players in the front are even over level 10.
Zhao Xu, who was slow to enter the game, was only level 2.
But as one of the lucky ones among the six to seven billion people on earth who has played this game in advance, he is undoubtedly among the upper echelons of the earth's forces.
In Arthur, with the help of his professional rank and classmates, Zhao Xu quickly provided a corresponding life for his family.
It's just that for the next few days, Zhao Xu's luck in life happened to be overdrawn.
The small town where he was stationed was attacked by a black dragon that suddenly arrived three years after traveling through time.
There were hundreds of casualties throughout the town, and his family members perished in that crisis, including his new wife.
Zhao Xu's life has lost its color since then.
He had just been drafted by the lord to go into battle and escaped disaster, but he has since been burdened with the yoke of revenge.
For the next six years, he spent every moment striving for revenge.
Going back to the end of his memory, Zhao Xu joined an adventure team that conquered the black dragon.
But before entering the black dragon's lair, the team was attacked.
The last impression left in Zhao Xu's mind was the black dragon's oncoming breath.
With the regret of death, Zhao Xu was reborn and returned to the classroom 10 years ago.
He returned to the moment before the game was launched.
The whole world, including game development companies, except Zhao Xu.
No one knows that Arthur is actually a real alien.
After time travel, countless people beat their chests and wondered why they didn’t play this game in the first place.
Even employees of game development companies will be useless after a year as long as they have not played games in their spare time.
After Zhao Xu took a deep breath, he woke up with a start. He quickly took out his mobile phone and logged into the TC game store to pre-order the game in advance.
As a paid pre-order game, "Arthur" comes with a hefty price tag.
However, no matter how popular the game was after the server was launched, no additional paid props were provided.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xu's eyes fell on the pre-order packages in the mall.
Arthur Standard Edition, 299rmb.
Arthur Deluxe Edition, 599rmb.
Needless to say, the standard version. In fact, most players buy the standard version.
The deluxe version, on the other hand, gives players an extra set of clothing, which is equivalent to paying 300 to buy the skin, and the given clothing cannot increase any combat power.
But Zhao Xu's eyes were not there. A year later, the earth was destroyed and tens of trillions of wealth were turned into ashes.
At this time, for an extra 300 RMB, you can change into clothes from another world. It's like pie in the sky, and you would be a fool not to change.
Zhao Xu directly clicked on the pre-order interface for the deluxe version without saying anything.
But just before he was about to go through the iris verification to pay, he suddenly felt a shock all over his body.
He recalled something.
Many years later, he accidentally came into contact with a high-level boss and heard such a legend from the envious look on his face.
This game has dual elites, that is, dual professions.
Dual career allows players to have two parallel career lines at the same time, but the levels do not overlap.
If an ordinary player is a level 3 warrior who works part-time as a level 7 mage, then he is a level 10 character.
But for those with dual professions, when they reach level 10, they can choose a level 10 mage for the first profession route and a level 10 priest for the second profession route.
Essentially, they are still level 10 characters, but they just have the professional abilities of two level 10 professions.
They still only have the health, attack power, expertise, and saving throws of a level 10 character.
But with the added resources of another professional line, they can become the best among players.
According to the big boss, the dual elite profession is actually a system that will be fully opened in the future as a version upgrade to attract players again.
When the game is launched, a very small number of accounts will be opened to test the dual elite mode, also to facilitate testing of the strength and future adjustments.
As a test account, its biggest advantage is that you can experience the game for free.
But the price is that the account will be recycled after one year.
This point is also to avoid the imbalance among the majority of players. As an account that will be recycled, no matter how strong it is, it will be like this, not to mention that there is still a time limit.
Even many players who participated in the test, seeing Arthur's growing popularity, simply gave up their unclaimed accounts and purchased the game again.
But everyone didn’t know that one year later, before the account was to be recycled, everyone actually traveled through time, and the game characters who naturally became reality could no longer be recycled.
The one-year period has become permanent.
These accounts are also a unique group of privileged accounts in the world of Arthur.
According to the big boss, there are very few test accounts that persist until the later stages.
But as long as they survive to the real world of Arthur, the owners of these accounts are all strong.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xu stood up directly, turned around and prepared to walk out of the classroom door. If the bell rang in a few minutes, he would not be able to run away.
"Hey, Brother Xu, Marxist-Leninist Lao Huang told me to take roll in the last class. You're going to die." Roommate Zhang Qi called out to him quickly.
Zhao Xu didn't even take the textbook, he just waved his hand and said, "I'm a little busy in advance."
Before he finished speaking, his figure flashed out, and at this moment he happened to pass by the students who were scattered in the classroom.
After Zhao Xu turned out and went out, he found a nearby flower bed and sat down. He immediately picked up his mobile phone and called TC's game customer service to ask about the dual elite test account.
Before even talking on the phone for a few words, Zhao Xu's expression slowly turned serious.
Before he could get too far into the process, the customer service staff rejected him using polite and formulaic language.
The other party stated that the issuance of test accounts had been completed half a month ago.
Participants in the test are all invited players, and this test is not planned to be open to a wide range of players in the short term.
In a word, he has no chance, so don’t think about it anymore.
Think about it, the dual elite test account, no matter how bad it is, even if you try it for free, it is still stronger than ordinary players.
It's really open. Everyone must have an account to try it out first, and they won't be subject to the 2-hour time limit for the refund service.
This answer made Zhao Xuzhi frown.
He knows very well that he is not an expert.
He only entered the game seven or eight months after the server was launched. Even if he played little, it was only after players had figured out mature upgrade routines and had someone to guide them. If the two offset each other, he would only be able to stay in the game for four months. Later upgraded to level 2.
This is the most precious year of the virtual world.
After entering the real Arthur world in the future, everyone's upgrade speed will slow down a lot.
It is not an exaggeration to say that one year is worth ten years.
Zhao Xu also adheres to the concept of revenge. He survived many times and overdrawn his future lifespan before he could barely reach level 5. Otherwise, according to his ordinary life trajectory, he might not reach level 3 or 4 in 10 years. That’s all.
If he didn't have the blessing of dual elite accounts, even with his 10 years of experience, he would still be in the first echelon of players.
When he meets the black dragon in his previous life who killed him like a chicken, he will spit out the same thing.
He must have enough level to be able to protect his family.
After Zhao Xu calmed down for a moment, he immediately clicked on the x-fish platform.
In addition to posting your own second-hand discarded supplies on X Fish, many people have also been selling various services and even new products on it in recent years, and you can even buy certain goods.
Zhao Xu directly stated that he wanted to purchase the one-year double elite test account of "Arthur".
When it came time to fill in the price, he ignored any further discussion and simply filled in the price of the game at 599.
It is equivalent to the other party using a one-year test account and replacing it with a permanent luxury version private account. The only difference is that you cannot experience the features of dual elites.
Test accounts now include more than double elite accounts, there are many other test types, and some are no different from ordinary accounts.
So he specifically specified that he wanted a 1-year double elite test account, which is also the longest lasting test account.
Sure enough, as soon as Zhao Xu posted it, seeing that he still had enough credit points, a private message was sent to him.
"Do you want an account for testing powerful races every six months?"
Zhao Xu, a powerful race, naturally knows this. In fact, this is also the content that everyone knows will be released later.
The characteristic of powerful races is that they provide more abilities, and it is not surprising that they can even reach four or five character levels, allowing new players to make up for the gap with old players.
A major selling point of Arthur is the global server.
However, the account recovered after half a year has no meaning.
The account duration is not based on the activation time, but the server launch time.
Otherwise, he can keep it and give it to his friends.
After Zhao Xu refused, several more private messages came in.
There was even a 24-hour test account for 10 yuan. Zhao Xu didn't bother to reply, so he just went to the next one.
"Brother, if you want a semi-annual double elite test account, I'll charge you 299."
After Zhao Xu accidentally clicked on an article, he was overjoyed when he saw the words "double elite", but when the half-year period appeared, he felt cold in his heart.
The Emotional Double Elite is still available for half a year.
"The price is very cost-effective. Even if you are not an experienced player, you will not receive this invitation account. My six-month period is quite long, and many of them are only three months."
Seeing the other party's reply, although Zhao Xu didn't want it, he still patiently tried to get the other party's information.
The other party sells it for 299, which is actually because accounts like Double Elite are powerful only in the later stages.
The shorter the time, the lower the level naturally, which cannot truly reflect the intensity of the dual elite profession.
If it can last three or four years and cover the entire life cycle of the game, then some big guilds will be willing to invest tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands in such accounts.
After some communication, the other party felt that Zhao Xu didn't want to buy it either, and he didn't reply at all.
In this way, until the evening, half an hour before the server started at eight o'clock, Zhao Xu did not receive the one-year double elite test account.
According to the current intelligence, I am afraid that the number of dual elite test accounts is much smaller than what he imagined.
Suddenly, Zhao Xu's cell phone vibrated. Someone was chatting with him privately.
"I have a one-year dual-elite system account in my hand, and I also have a potential point test."
Potential point
Zhao Xu froze for a moment. He had never heard of this ability, but it didn't matter, as long as he had two elites.
Just looking at the other party's dialogue is actually a hint to add money.
In fact, he would buy it no matter how much it cost, even if it was hundreds of thousands, he would convince his parents to lend him such a sum of money.
This is not buying a game account, this is buying a life.
"How much?" Zhao Xu did not immediately give him a price.
"1000." The other party directly doubled Zhao Xu's demand price.
"You are exaggerating." Zhao Xu typed immediately.
Although he couldn't help but feel endless joy in his heart, he still tried to bargain.
Agreeing too readily will only make the other party suspect that you are selling yourself off and causing trouble.
Next, Zhao Xu pretended to cut the price, but he didn't dare to really cut the price and make the other party ignore it.
After some counter-offering, the deal was finally settled at 800. The process was more physically and mentally exhausting than writing a few high-number papers.
After the other party agreed, Zhao Xu asked the other party to publish the product under his title according to the x-ray process, and then he paid instantly.
There were no surprises in the whole process.
Looking at the game activation code sent by the other party, Zhao Xu couldn't help but be excited even though his mental age was over thirty.
The activation code, a string of uncomplicated numbers, was his future in this life.
(End of chapter)