Chapter 9 "The Lost Shadow"

And this change also means that the social atmosphere has become more and more stable. The tense situation like before where everyone was a soldier and on alert every second is no longer there. Naturally, people also have to be fully alert at all times when playing games.

The situation gave rise to resistance.

It would be fine if the game was fun, but the problem is that the quality of the current games is becoming increasingly unsatisfactory. Either there is a problem with the combat power or the plot is poor, leaving players with no sense of gaming experience.

Fortunately, the time is short, and Lin Jiu can continue to gain popularity by following the players' anger about the current situation of the game. Once he stays in this type for a long time, the audience will feel tired and gradually stop paying attention to him.

He has no special skills. If Lin Jiu, who is rejected everywhere when looking for a job in reality, loses this audience, he will really not be able to hold his head high in front of all his relatives, and his parents will be looked down upon because of his involvement.

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Lin Jiu didn't want this, but he searched over and over again for works worthy of awards in the innovation plan. His eyes turned red, but he couldn't find the results he wanted.

Are you ready to switch careers to another type of career?

Lin Jiu asked himself this in his mind, but the answer he got was extremely cruel.

What would he do if he didn't have any special skills? He suddenly changed his genre because he thought he was not cool enough fast enough.

Not willing to stop there, Lin Jiu exited the post and planned to go back to the Innovation Project to see if any miracles happened. However, just before he exited the game forum, a recruitment post with five views and one comment entered.

his vision.

Internal beta recruitment?

Lin Jiu hesitated for a moment, then clicked in.

After the page changed, a cover with an overall depressing style appeared on Lin Jiu's light screen. On the cover, a graceful woman in wedding clothes was sitting quietly on a stone bed, with a strange red hijab.

Up to the tip of her nose, the blood-red lipstick reflected the lack of any blood on her face.

I don't know if it's the light or an illusion, but at first glance, the bride's hands folded on her lap seem to be slightly blue, and her nails are unnaturally long and pointed.

The hem of the wedding dress is not flat, and where the shadow falls, you can see some red irregular beads hanging from the hem to the ground, forming a layer of curtain.

It was obviously a scene of great joy, but the entire cover except for the bright light on the bride, the surrounding environment was dim and blurry. Lin Jiu struggled to distinguish for a while before he could roughly see the structure of the surrounding environment.

The four characters "Wandering Shadow" are written in regular script on the right side of the cover. Broken and old red cloth strips are tightly wrapped around the words like a long snake. There are also yellow symbols attached to the knotted areas of the cloth strips, as if to prevent something.

Something breaks through the seal.

And I don’t know if it was Lin Jiu’s illusion, but he always felt that the color of the bride’s clothes on the cover was a very strange red, not like a real red at all.

But these are not the main points. What really surprised Lin Jiu was that the wedding dress style on the cover was unexpectedly ancient. If he had not seen the clothing of pre-interstellar humans in the holographic museum, he might not have been able to recognize it.

It's a wedding dress.

Lin Jiu originally wanted to take a closer look at the cover, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw that there were only two remaining spots at the bottom. Lin Jiu, who was interested, quickly clicked on the link and quickly signed up.

After it showed that the registration was successful, Lin Jiu couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. He cut out the cover and sent it to a history blogger he knew. He could be so bold and use this kind of picture as a game that ordinary game developers would not dare to use casually.

With the cover on the cover, Lin Jiu could not feel that he would lose anything by signing up this time.

There is an unwritten rule in the game production circle, that is, the game cover must be consistent with the overall game style, and there must not be any behavior that deceives players.

Otherwise, once a player complains to the Game Management Bureau, once verified, the game will be removed from the shelves no matter which company it is from.

But what makes Lin Jiu feel strange is that since the cover of the other party is so beautifully produced and a lot of investment must have been spent, the producer behind it must not be any worse.

That being the case, why not directly participate in the innovation plan and promote yourself vigorously? Even if you don't know the content of the game, just this cover can attract many players.

Lin Jiu couldn't understand and didn't have much time to think about it.

The number of people recruited for the internal test was full, and there was only a soft sound in the background. An account with a picture on the cover of the game sent a series of links and a 500 internal test fee, as well as his feelings about the game that he needed to fill in afterwards.

RMB 500 to test a game is a very low price for a professional game tester. However, since the other party would choose to post recruitment posts on game forums, they had no intention of recruiting good game testers.

To put it more bluntly, the other party may be collecting the opinions of ordinary players on this game so that it can attract more players after modification.

This method has not been used by game companies before, but because it has had little effect, gradually, no game companies are spending this kind of money in vain anymore.

Lin Jiu looked away from the cover and looked at the bright sunshine outside the window. The feeling of panic subsided slightly.

There were still four or five hours before dinner time. According to the time flow rate of reality and hologram of 1:10, Lin Jiu thought about it, got up and walked in the direction of the holographic cabin.

Although the time given by the other party was two days, Lin Jiu, who was curious, did not intend to postpone it until night. And for some reason, Lin Jiu always had a feeling that if he played at night, something terrible would happen.

"Wandering Shadow" is an asymmetric confrontation game, divided into single-player dungeons and multi-player dungeons. Players can play roles in the game through drawing lots or self-selection.

During the performance, the player cannot do anything that goes against the current character image. Once the suspicion reaches 90%, the game will automatically determine that the player has failed the game.

Because even if the same player chooses the same character to enter the game every time, the amount of information they can obtain varies. It may only be a short sentence, or it may be all the information about the character. Therefore, once the character is decided,

I can only pray for better luck.

Different characters in different dungeons have different tasks to complete. Human players need to work hard to survive the attacks of ghost players, or even defeat them. Once the health bar of the character played by the player is cleared before completing the task, the game will be deemed to have failed.

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Lin Jiu, who entered the game through a link, came to a dim stone chamber. Unlike the dilapidated stone chamber on the cover, the stone chamber he was in was obviously completed not long ago, and there were still some stone powder left on the chisel marks.

Because Lin Jiu chose a single-player dungeon, he was the only one in the depressing and eerie space. The sound of wind blowing in from the cracks in the rocks made him observe the surrounding scene with some uneasiness.
Chapter completed!