Chapter 142: Update Content
Taking off the game helmet, Zichen felt a pang in his back.
It’s no wonder; sitting on a small chair leaned against the cabinet for several hours, who could endure that?
Several hours…? Oh no!
He had become so engrossed in the game that he forgot he was supposed to be accompanying Ziyu.
Looking to the right, his sister was intently staring at her phone.
Can patients play on their phones?
Noticing the gaze beside her, she continued scrolling through her phone, nonchalantly saying, “Bro, are you playing that game called Dream of the Mists? It looks quite interesting.”
“Yeah.”
At that moment, the door was pushed open.
It was the nurse. She frowned and said, “Playing games in the hospital? You’re quite the brother.”
“That’s not fair; I’m playing the game to make money,” Zichen replied earnestly. “Ziyu, right?”
“Mm-hm, brother is working really hard!” Ziyu nodded.
“…” The nurse restrained her urge to slap someone. “Anyway, I’m here to check on things. Your sister has been recovering well these past few days, and if all goes smoothly, she might be discharged tomorrow.”
“Really!?” Both exclaimed in surprise.
“Well… it depends on the checks. Miss Ziyu, please come with me.”
“Okay.”
…
Bored, Zichen browsed the forum.
It was almost all about the battle from today.
Among the most popular posts was an official response to the monster siege.
It was from an admin account called ‘Skywalker,’ with a profile picture of a rogue rabbit.
In the response, he mentioned that the monster siege was originally intended to occur a month after the game’s launch, but after the launch, the progression of the plot was left to the system to operate on its own; they only made modifications to values and bugs. This meant that players had pushed this segment of the story forward.
Although it was an obvious attempt to shift blame, many players linked it to the golden boss kill just before the world announcement.
And Wu Mei was indeed a regular player in Huawucheng.
While it couldn’t be definitively said that there was a connection, everyone would probably think so until the truth came to light.
It seemed this person was the cause of it, Zichen thought.
He just didn’t know how he managed to kill a gold-level boss, with health easily exceeding 100k.
Additionally, Starry’s skills as well as the forms of the Wishcaster and Swift Shadow Wolf had been exposed, but thankfully others were unaware of the true existence.
Ten minutes later, the door opened.
Zichen quickly stood up, looking surprised at the two coming out, “That was quick?”
“Just a checkup; it didn’t take much time,” the nurse said, then added, “Your sister’s body has recovered well; she should be able to leave tomorrow.”
“That’s great.”
“Why are you reacting so coldly?” the nurse asked, surprised.
How could he not be cold? He already knew about this.
Starry had mentioned that when she woke up, she connected with Ziyu’s consciousness, but she could only observe and couldn’t even control her own body.
Even in her original world, quite a few things had happened.
However, during the connection, Ziyu’s body was gradually recovering; to be more precise, her immune system had steadily risen to nearly normal levels.
“Bro, I don’t want to stay here anymore… let’s go home,” Ziyu said, pouting at the thought of having to stay another day.
“Okay.” Zichen nodded.
“Hey, you really should stay for another day’s observation! What if something goes wrong?” the nurse hurriedly urged.
…
In the end, they still completed the discharge procedures.
Sitting in the taxi, Zichen dozed off.
Ziyu looked at the official forum for Dream of the Mists, clicking on a hot post, and the cover image was of a girl with purple hair and red eyes.
“…!”
…
Zichen didn’t realize when it started, but he discovered he couldn’t control his body.
In front of him were a bunch of people tied up in all sorts of ways.
Seeing their clothing, Zichen recognized that it was the familiar dream again.
“Finally finished tidying up; the trouble Ziyu caused really is…” Starry sighed, feeling exhausted.
Zichen tried to ask what was going on but couldn’t convey anything.
He wanted to know why there were tear stains on his face when he woke up a few days ago.
But no matter how he spoke, Starry had no reaction.
Can’t she hear me…
“We’ve arrived,” the driver’s voice broke the silence in the car, making him feel more awake.
Zichen shook his head; it was too uncomfortable to sleep in the car.
…
The next day.
“Ah~” That was a good sleep.
His parents had already left for work while Ziyu was reading.
What was she reading?
Curious, Zichen leaned over to check the book title—”Fiery Palm.”
Not only that, but there were also several similar books beside it—”Head of a Sect,” “Wind Absolute Gate”…
“…”
Do girls like reading this stuff? He didn’t quite understand!
Whatever, Zichen didn’t disturb her and quietly walked away to eat.
After finishing his meal, Zichen looked at his phone and calculated; more than 12 hours of maintenance time had passed, time to log in!
Swish!
A familiar figure appeared at the North Gate of Yunshui City.
The mess from yesterday was gone; the soldiers on the city walls were solemn and silent, and anyone who didn’t know would think the siege was fake.
Aijue walked back and forth on the city wall, his brows tightly knit.
Upon closer inspection, the information for the soldiers had actually changed!?
The originally level 25 silver-grade soldiers had more than half transformed into silver-grade elites ranging from level 30 to 35!
And Aijue himself had reached level 35, exuding a proud aura; judging by this momentum, he must have broken through to platinum grade!?
“Warriors of the city, I remember you!” Aijue greeted Starry.
“Ah…? I’m honored…”
The consciousness of Starry’s true form hadn’t appeared yet, perhaps still asleep.
“Wow! That’s the real Starry! I want to take a photo with the goddess!” An observant player noticed the commotion.
“I’ll be damned, it’s true! I want one too!”
For a moment, the crowd went into an uproar; not only players but even ordinary NPCs wanted to come over to take a look.
Rushing onto the Swift Shadow Wolf, Zichen hurriedly escaped the scene.
“Beep!”
A friend message.
It was from Brother Shiu.
“Brother Shiu? What’s up?”
“Did you see the update content today?”
“Not yet, I just woke up.”
“Then take a look now; it might be directed at you… and Starry.”
“Um… let me check.”
He pulled up the update content this time.
First, there were various repairs to cities and personnel supplements, along with the addition of many reconstruction tasks.
The second item was that due to the appearance of the first guild order, the guild function and adventure group function were officially opened.
No need to explain the guild, while the adventure group was equivalent to the crystallization of a squad.
Unlike the guild, adventure groups could accommodate a maximum of 50 people regardless of the level reached.
By continuously completing adventure group tasks, players could raise their recognition among NPCs, and when a certain level was reached, NPCs would approach them, and such tasks were often hard to come by, making the adventure group a brand new way to take on quests. Choosing like-minded teammates was essential.
By the way, each person can only join one adventure group, which doesn’t conflict with guilds.
The third item was optimization regarding boss level suppression.
The so-called optimization added extra damage reduction and armor penetration effects on top of the original hidden attack and defense bonuses.
In other words, overpowering a boss at a lower level had become even more challenging.
“…” This was clearly targeting him! The battle in Yunshui City was far beyond reason, and it actually prompted the officials to revise the data.
