Chapter 2: Starting the Game
What happened to the original world? Did they really transmigrate?
Regarding this, Li Wen discovered after joining the Strategy Team that the leading players had been discussing this.
A player in the group who had achieved considerable success in the divination domain released their own divination. The results indicated that the situation in the original world was likely not optimistic, though the specifics remained unknown.
Therefore, faced with a gaming world familiar to him and with a history he could roughly understand, versus an original world whose situation was completely unknown, Li Wen naturally knew how to choose.
Moreover, Li Wen was reborn for this very purpose. The significance of Urd’s Sting was precisely this.
While pondering, Li Wen anonymously posted on the game forum, briefly elaborating on the game and the transmigration situation. He used a disposable account created on the fly and did not admonish others not to play “World Tree: Origin.” Instead, he simply reminded them to participate more in the game content to avoid dying prematurely due to low level after transmigrating.
After posting, Li Wen logged out of the account.
As for what effect this would have or what impact it would cause, it was beyond Li Wen’s control.
“30 minutes until class, please be mindful of the time! 30 minutes until class…”
The intelligent assistant M2 suddenly jumped out, reminding Li Wen of his current student status.
Li Wen immediately commanded M2 to enter standby mode. After thinking for a moment, he took out his phone and searched for friends on social media applications. After a long search, he finally found the account of his estranged homeroom teacher and sent a leave request note.
“World Tree: Origin has been online for two days, but according to the trajectory of my previous life, most players are still in an exploratory state, struggling to survive. With my memories from my previous life, even starting two days late will have no impact. With the accumulation of the Strategy Team, I will surely become one of the leading players soon.”
“In other words, there is still time.”
Li Wen thought calmly.
After the initial chaos of transmigration, some players had been fantasizing about how to start the game from the beginning, how to quickly level up and obtain rare equipment by leveraging foreknowledge.
The Strategy Team went even further, especially after the existence of Urd’s Sting became known. Dedicated players within the team began to focus on compiling and summarizing content with the ultimate goal of countering Doomsday Twilight.
And the only theoretically feasible path that was ultimately concluded was this one.
Li Wen still remembered the specific content of that strategy.
“First, you need to create a female character…”
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Since “World Tree: Origin” game accounts were bound to real-life DNA, the game characters created were also based on real-life appearances. Therefore, creating a female character as easily as in other games was not possible in “World Tree: Origin.”
However, many problems in this world could be solved with money. Although WG Corporation strictly prohibited the trading of game accounts, this did not stop second-hand dealers. In fact, it would fuel their greed, as rarity drove up prices.
Li Wen searched on the most popular second-hand trading platform during this period and found a seller in the same city with a relatively high credit rating.
After some communication, Li Wen finally purchased a bound game account for 13,999 yuan, which had not yet had a character created, along with limited edition game equipment from GS Corporation.
The standard edition of “World Tree: Origin” was priced at 598, and the deluxe edition was 798. The game equipment, which included the exclusive host and VR developed by GS Corporation for the game, cost less than 4000 yuan. The limited edition would not exceed twice the original price at most.
This meant that the price was somewhat overcharging Li Wen.
However, Li Wen didn’t care.
Firstly, the seller promised to ship as quickly as possible, delivering it to Li Wen within an hour at most.
Secondly, although Li Wen was not from a wealthy family and was even quite strapped for cash, he would transmigrate a year later, so keeping the money would be useless. He should spend it, as delaying would be detrimental.
Finally, the original owner of this game account belonged to the pre-order crowd and had already passed away. This meant that Li Wen did not have to worry about his hard-earned account being reclaimed by the original owner. Although GS Corporation’s game accounts and equipment were bound and cross-device retrieval was not possible, if the original owner went to GS Corporation’s headquarters to reclaim it using DNA authentication, it was uncertain.
In conclusion, reducing unnecessary trouble for a reasonable price was acceptable to Li Wen.
While waiting for the delivery, Li Wen, who was already a bit hungry, quickly prepared something to eat. To be honest, he hadn’t enjoyed the taste of instant processed food for a long time.
By the time Li Wen finished eating, the express delivery had arrived, and as promised, it had not exceeded an hour.
Li Wen opened the package, which contained a not-too-large silver box with the GS Corporation logo printed on its surface.
The contents of the box were not much: a rather rudimentary host, a headset VR, and a few cables of unknown origin.
“The host and the VR are just illusions.”
Li Wen shrugged, then connected the host to his computer and also connected the VR, completing the installation.
He glanced at the time: 08:24 in the morning.
Li Wen took a deep breath, lay down on the bed, put on the VR, pressed the start button, and waited quietly.
It wasn’t long before everything Li Wen could see was replaced by darkness. He felt as if he was being pulled out of a mire or somewhere similar, and then injected into a cold but not irritating unknown ocean.
[Welcome to our company’s product. Retrieving authentication, please wait.]
[Retrieval complete. Citizen ID: TH437***18, Name: *Liang, Gender: Female.]
[Initiating game…]
[Program starting. Game will load in ten seconds. We wish you an enjoyable experience…]
In the pitch-black world, a ray of light appeared at some point. When Li Wen reacted, his vision was filled with indescribable brilliance.
After the light receded, a giant tree, almost towering higher than the firmament, appeared before him.
“World Tree… Yggdrasil…”
Li Wen was filled with hesitation. His firm conviction now wavered slightly, but this hesitation was quickly discarded.
He raised his head. Above him were the stars of the universe, rarely seen in reality. The vast and incomparably magnificent scene was difficult to look away from. Li Wen had already grown accustomed to it and looked past the World Tree.
At the boundary between heaven and earth, vaguely visible were enormous things encompassing the World Tree, but they could not be seen clearly with the naked eye no matter how hard he tried.
Li Wen withdrew his gaze. A mirror appeared in front of him, and when Li Wen saw himself in the mirror, even though he had been through so much wind and rain, he couldn’t help but be slightly shocked.
