Conquering OtherWorld Starts With a Game

"Why is this damned thing so fast?!" Yang Ying gripped a broken wooden stick, intending to fight back, but after being clawed twice, she met a glorious death.

Yang Qiu's lips twitched. "Sis, even I can tell that this monster is too much for the players to handle. Don't be so stubborn…"

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Before he even finished muttering his sentence, Yang Qiu witnessed the player called Stuffed Gummy attempt to grab the corpse ghoul by the waist before being sent flying by a powerful kick, crashing into the wall and falling apart.

Yang Qiu: "…" Oh, well. Players can respawn, and being stubborn has its advantages.

After four consecutive deaths in their party, the players finally realized their inferiority and hurriedly scattered in panic. 𝗯𝐞𝗱𝗻𝐨𝘃𝐞𝐥.𝗻𝗲𝐭

Run toward the zombie general! Yang Qiu shook his head.

After the player with the ID Win By Grinding was grabbed and killed by the corpse ghoul, the zombie general's "Fury" buff was activated—it was actually Yang Qiu briefly lifting the sealing rune that restricted this zombie's aggressiveness. With an enraged roar, the zombie general swiftly charged toward the corpse ghoul as if he were Usain Bolt in a sprint.

"What the hell?!"

The players jumping and dodging about were astounded by the slow-moving zombie general's sudden burst of lightning speed.

In the next moment, these newbies in the magic plane witnessed firsthand the combat style of this world. In an instant, the zombie general, clad in tattered armor, caught up to the agile corpse ghoul. With a swift moment, he grabbed the corpse ghoul by the neck and slammed it against the ground like a sandbag. Then, with a clenched fist, the zombie general ruthlessly pounded the triangular-shaped head of the corpse ghoul…

"Holy crap! Our general doesn't use a sword?!" Qin Guan exclaimed in astonishment.

Of course, the zombie general didn't use a sword. The armor it wore and the longsword hanging by its waist had been added by Yang Qiu to give the "leader of the undead race" a certain degree of prestige.

"Such a shame! Why is the leader a zombie while we are skeletons? Skeletons can't possibly engage in such a domineering melee battle!" Give Me Medicine remarked in envy.

Unceasing Entropy, Qin Guan, and the others didn't feel like giving a reply.

Even though zombies were formidable, they wouldn't play the game if only zombies could be selected as game characters. They couldn't bear the idea of being surrounded by zombie teammates—no matter how good a zombie was!

With his bare fists, zombie general Lancelot Edgar pounded the corpse ghoul, which was originally created through sacrificial rites, into ashes. When the "Fury" buff was removed, the zombie general slowly picked up "Yarlyn's body" and carried it to the surface.

After "Yarlyn" was placed inside a small wooden hut, the zombie general, acting as if it had accomplished a great task, recited a series of predetermined lines, urging the undead players to unite and fight against all incoming enemies, then announcing the content for reaching 80% quest completion had been unlocked.

In simple terms, after slogging away for several hours and losing half of their comrades, the players had finally earned the opportunity to grind the reputation for Yang Qiu in new ways…

While the zombie general provided the concluding storyline, Yang Qiu, who had been spectating all this while, issued a timely announcement to all online players via the imprint matrix:

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System Announcement: Congratulations to players "Give Me Medicine," "Unceasing Entropy," "Blossoming Strokes," "Vanilla Pudding," "Yang Ying"… for completing the worldview breakthrough quest, "Birth of the Undead Race."

As the completion rate of the worldview breakthrough mission has exceeded 80%, new content in the server will be unlocked.

《Patch Update 1.04》

1: Players Unceasing Entropy, Yang Ying, Stuffed Gummy, Study Obsessed, and Brother Lahong discovered an underground passage leading beyond the town during a quest. At the end of the passage lies a cave infested with spider-like creatures. Players can now form teams and explore this area.

2: Players Blossoming Strokes, Unceasing Entropy, Give Me Medicine, Vanilla Pudding… successfully deciphered the history of Exile Town and how the undead race came about during a quest exploration. Taranthan's Territory Prestige system is now unlocked. Players can obtain territory prestige by defeating monsters and contributing materials to the Lord of Taranthan.

Mayoral election is now unlocked. The player with the highest Territory Prestige on the monthly settlement day will assume the role.

3: Blood Alliance system unlocked. Players who have reached level 1 and successfully completed a job change can receive Blood Alliance quests from the Zombie General, "Lancelot Edgar."

4: Blood Alliance bases unlocked…

5: Main storyline quests have now been unlocked. Players who have reached level 1 and successfully completed a job change can receive the "Birth of the Undead Race" quest from Zombie General, "Lancelot Edgar," to uncover Exile Town's hidden past.

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Many grinders laboring away tirelessly and a few casual idlers let out exclamations of surprise.

After carefully reading the contents of the announcement, these players who were addicted to grinding or only wanted to play by themselves when logging in let out screams like "666," "Boss is awesome," "F*ck! I have to be level 1 to even play!"…

Beneath the Town Hall, Ou Huang, who disliked collective activities, casually browsed the announcement before turning his attention back to the Great Leaf Vines.

Similarly, fellow lone wolf Jia Luo was busy doing manual labor to accumulate copper coins while striving for the final two points of Potential to hit level 1. She stood in a daze for quite some time after reading the announcement, mumbling to herself, "It's said that we must form teams to explore the monster-spawning points. Does that mean solo farming can't be done? Indeed, these sorts of monster-spawning scenarios aren't very solo player-friendly… Should I go find a small group to join?"

Roughly ten minutes after the in-game announcement was made, the official website also posted the update notice.

There were many who frequented the forum daily, eagerly waiting for account releases. Such netizens immediately sparked a lively discussion, with various posts urging the release of beta accounts:

"Patch has been updated to 1.04 already, when will new accounts be released?"

"What can 300 players test? Development team, release new accounts quickly! I'll help you test for free, I'm really good at finding bugs!"

"Why did I hesitate and not grab a helmet back then!"

When Yang Qiu, who was back on Earth, checked the forum, he wasn't surprised to see the bunch of routine posts requesting beta accounts dominating the page.

"I understand that feeling… I remember feeling just as anxious when I couldn't afford to buy GTO and could only watch others play. However, this much spam is unacceptable. Banned from posting for three days."

Yang Qiu expressed sympathy for these non-player netizens eager to enter the game but wasted no time in deleting their posts and issuing bans.

After deleting over a hundred meaningless spam threads, Yang Qiu suddenly noticed a post with a completely different style—

"Shocking News! You Won't Regret Seeing This!"

"What groundbreaking news could there be within ten days of the game's launch?" Yang Qiu wondered as he clicked on the post.

Yang Qiu's body trembled when he glanced at the main post.

"Let me tell you some shocking news: the financial blogger who criticized the development team for their scheming money-grabbing tactics was actually paid to publish that Weibo post!

"The person who paid him initially failed to obtain the helmet but immediately received it after paying the financial blogger to publish that Weibo post!"

Yang Qiu exclaimed, "What? Such a move exists?!"

It wasn't just limited to him. Other non-player netizens who clicked on this post were taken aback as well.

"What the hell! Is that for real?"

"How does OP know?"

"Damn, no wonder! There were people offering it for 500 or 800 the day before, but by the second day, it was only 300 yuan everywhere!"

"Those 300 yuan ones are from studios. My sister got a helmet from a studio and I even scolded her for spending money foolishly back then!"

"My friend also got his helmet from a studio. I bet that studio must be crying now!"

"F*ck me, I'm already crying. I sold my helmet at that time! Does the OP know who the scheming scumbag is? I want to kill him!"

"I sympathize with you, LOL… Wait, why are tears welling up in my eyes?"

"Ahahaha, I didn't even have a chance to buy a helmet. By the time I found out about OtherWorld, there were no unbound login helmets available. I couldn't get one even if I had the money!"

"Developer team, please release accounts!"

"People really go to great lengths to seize helmets. Compared to that, my news feels insignificant. My dad works at the NeuroTech Center, and a super impressive scientist from there contacted me a few days ago, asking me to wear the helmet and participate in their experiment…"

Yang Qiu's body shuddered again when he reached this comment.

Then… he opened a search engine to find out what exactly this NeuroTech Center was…