Chapter 115 : Chapter 115
Chapter : 115
Yan Yunqing casually refreshed the forum, and a new post popped up, floating at the very top, followed by a "new" symbol, indicating it was a newly posted thread.
It was just that the title of the post captured all of Yan Yunqing's attention.
[Report—The closed beta time has changed! Go look at the official website! It's been moved up!!!]
Yan Yunqing was startled and subconsciously looked at the countdown at the very top of the panel.
Because this countdown was calculated in hours, Yan Yunqing didn't notice anything amiss when he first entered.
After all, with a time in the four-digit range, it was difficult for anyone to tell how many days it represented at a glance.
2352:34:26
Yan Yunqing did a quick conversion and found that the time had indeed been moved up.
According to the initial calculation of over seven thousand hours, the closed beta should have been in August, which meant there should be at least three thousand eight hundred hours left until now.
But now there were only two thousand three hundred hours left, which was about 98 days.
Yan Yunqing: ???
Didn't that mean there were only three months left?
For a moment, Yan Yunqing's scalp tingled. He didn't know what the people behind this game company were trying to do, or why they had moved up the closed beta time.
Did something he didn't know about happen that caused this early closed beta?
Yan Yunqing pressed the spot between his eyebrows, a little unable to figure it out.
He clicked on that post. In just a few minutes, the number of replies to that post had already reached dozens.
[Report—The closed beta time has changed! Go look at the official website! It's been moved up!!!]
Original Post: [Screenshot of the time before the change][Screenshot of the time after the change]
1F: Someone's spreading false news again. Have you ever seen a game get released early? Anyway, I've only seen delays, never an early release.
2F: Hmm, wait?!
3F: I came in here ready to curse, but after seeing the original post I was stunned. Rushed to the official website to take a look, the time really has changed!
4F: !!!! Holy shit, I just posted a thread telling Guitu Company to serve me the shit so I can taste it, and Guitu is actually planning to serve it up???
5F: Alright, please call the person upstairs the only prophet in the entire forum.
6F: It's really been moved up?? By about two months, what's going on? Guitu Company finally can't hold back and is planning an early release?
7F: No, they haven't even announced how to get closed beta access, and they just moved up the time? Guitu, are you really a makeshift troupe?
8F: No, haven't you guys realized that Guitu is a makeshift troupe? From the very beginning, there was no promotion, it was all up to the water friends to hype it up and promote it themselves. Have you forgotten how crude the official website was before the first gameplay video came out?
9F: So does anyone know how to get closed beta access? The closed beta is starting in three months, and I still don't know how to get access. I'm anxious, anxious, anxious, I'm the king of anxiety.
10F: Don't be anxious. As far as I know, there is currently no public way to obtain closed beta access, and there is no news about internal appointments. At the very least, none of the well-known streamers have received a closed beta invitation.
11F: So in three months, I'll be able to see my master Joker, is that right?
12F: 11th floor, a person can't, at least shouldn't…
13F: I don't want to, I just want to be Joker's dog wuwuwuwuwu
14F: I'm different. I think that Xavier from the new gameplay video is so handsome, especially when he reached out his hand to reveal that Ace of Hearts and said "I'll take it". I feel like my eyes are about to pop out with heart-shaped pupils!
15F: I don't care about anyone, I only care if this game is really like it is in the gameplay videos? Aaaahhhhh I'm going crazy wanting to play this game, please let me get closed beta access and log in right now!
16F: What's wrong with Guitu Company? Suddenly moving up the game's closed beta time? Combined with the new gameplay video, I have reason to suspect that this game hasn't secretly become a □□ game with a foreign IP, right? Don't let me have waited for three years, only for it to be a scam in the end!
17F: Heh, do you even need to ask if it's a scam? There are only three months left until the closed beta. Have you seen any news claiming a breakthrough in brain-computer interface technology? The basic equipment for a full-dive game hasn't even been made, so where would you get a full-dive game to play?
18F: That's true, can't argue with that point. Without the equipment, where would you play a full-dive game? It can't be that they're saying it's full-dive, but in reality, they're just serving up a shoddy VR game, right? Or maybe it's just an animated game… all done through post-production video editing, and what you can actually experience is just endless clicking and watching story animations?
…
34F: Stop arguing. Actually, my uncle is someone from the higher-ups. He told me that it's best not to play this game right after it comes out, and to wait and see.
35F: Alright, the "my uncle" party that the forum keeps begging for has also appeared, huh? But why isn't this "uncle" from Guitu Company? The higher-ups? Which higher-ups? Are you trying to say that this Guitu is very likely a brain-stem microwave? When you die in the game, your real-life brain also gets microwaved?
36F: For real, don't scare me, okay?
37F: 36 don't be afraid, this kind of "my uncle" party has been popping up endlessly over the past three years, all of them are naysayers. It's obvious that competitors are causing trouble. Just ignore them. For this kind of "my uncle" party, just ignore them all. As for the higher-ups, I only listen to news released by the official media. I don't listen to rumors, I don't believe in rumors, and I don't spread rumors.
38F: hhhh here we go again, the competitor suppression theory. This Guitu has been around for over three years, without a single physical copy of the game, and not even a single promotion. Would any competitor really be afraid of this kind of company and this kind of game?
39F: There are indeed a lot of people muddying the waters on the forum to belittle Guitu. We don't know, and we don't dare to ask! Maybe it's because Guitu hasn't been released for three years and still has so many water friends looking forward to it, they're just jealous.
40F: Same as the 34th floor. I also have family members in the higher-ups. A while ago, they did come back and vaguely revealed this news to us. Full-dive games and all that, the current technology is definitely not mature. It's indeed better to wait and see.
41F: Huh? A second "my uncle" party has appeared. What's going on? Is it really a brain-stem microwave?
…
The replies that followed were all over the place, discussing why the closed beta time was moved up, and also discussions about the new gameplay video.
Yan Yunqing went to take a look. Not only did they release the scene where Joker sneaked into the dungeons of Mandiper and blew things up everywhere, incidentally saving people, but a segment of his gamble with Inuo as Xavier was also selected and released.
[The black-haired, red-eyed young man sat lazily on a leather long bench, his back resting against the backrest. His fingertips caressed a playing card as he looked at the person opposite him with a half-smile.]
[He reached out, his fair fingertips resting on the back of the brilliant golden card, and pushed the card to the center of the gambling table.]
[The camera focused on the corner of his mouth, and those thin lips curled up slightly, softly uttering two words]
[—"I'll take it."]
[His fingertips flipped over the playing card, and an Ace of Hearts appeared before everyone.]
[The black-haired, red-eyed young man turned around, grabbed a handful of chips and threw them high. The golden chips rained down, heralding a new round of revelry.]
—[“This is an underground kingdom filled with money, desire, resentment, and sin.”]
—[“And I will become the one and only king here.”]
Two lines of subtitles appeared at the bottom of the video. Yan Yunqing couldn't hear the sound.
Everyone discussing the new gameplay video thought that these two lines were said by this newly appeared Xavier, and that he must be the final big boss of the casino.
Yan Yunqing: ???
Slander, this is slander!!! He never said that, okay! That must have been said by that false god Morgan.
That damned Guitu Company, editing these subtitles together with the scene of his victory. Isn't this just implying that he was the one who said it?
This is complete and utter slander!
The person behind Guitu Company has a malicious heart!!!
Yan Yunqing gritted his teeth and threw a set of cat-cat punches at the air, imagining that there was a culprit in front of him being beaten.
Not only did his mood not improve much, but he felt even more aggrieved.
So angry, he wanted to hit them but couldn't. This feeling was as well as it could get!
Yan Yunqing took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled, managing to calm himself down.
“Don't let me find you!”
Yan Yunqing snorted coldly and closed the new gameplay video analysis post. Out of sight, out of mind.
Just looking at the speculation about whether he was the big boss behind the casino made Yan Yunqing angry. He was not that black-hearted ghost Morgan!
Tsk, he had also experienced malicious editing for once.
Returning to the first post that discovered the early closed beta, Yan Yunqing fell into deep thought.
The closed beta time being moved up must mean that something had happened, but Yan Yunqing was temporarily unaware of what it was.
However, the few posts in the thread that vaguely mentioned that the higher-ups had noticed this game caught Yan Yunqing's attention.
Perhaps other netizens didn't care about such "my uncle" parties and thought they were fake.
But Yan Yunqing, on the contrary, felt that these "my uncle" parties were nine out of ten real.
Everyone else treated this game as a pie in the sky that had yet to be realized, but only Yan Yunqing knew that behind this game was indeed a real world.
A game that connected two worlds. Yan Yunqing didn't believe that on Blue Star's side, this game wouldn't show any abnormal behavior.
Just by promoting it as the world's first full-dive game, it would have been noticed by the Uncle Hats.
Yan Yunqing didn't believe that this company could have any proper establishment procedures, so once it was noticed by the Uncle Hats, it meant that the strange things behind it would definitely be known to the people in the higher-ups of the country.
As for whether the country would attach importance to it, Yan Yunqing was not sure about that. But looking at these few replies, Yan Yunqing guessed that the country seemed to be already taking action?
Yan Yunqing rubbed his chin. When the game officially entered closed beta in the future, could he even meet people from the country?
***
Blue Star, Huaguo Special Incident Handling Department.
“Chief! The closed beta time has changed!” A thin man wearing glasses exclaimed, “It's been moved up by nearly two months!”
“What?!” A middle-aged man who heard this bad news strode over, leaning on the back of the man's chair and bending down to look at his screen.
“Look, the original time was over three thousand eight hundred hours, now it's only two thousand three hundred left, moved up by two months!”
The middle-aged man took a closer look, frowned and slammed his fist on the table. He stood up and ordered, “Notify the leader of the advance team that the time has changed.
The closed beta has been moved up by two months. They don't have much time left, tell them to get ready as soon as possible!”
“Yes!”