On the Importance of Finishing Work

"Starry Sky" is the hottest online battle game in the league today. There are single-player battles, multi-player battles, and even large-scale battles with hundreds of players regularly organized.

It is rumored that...

"Starry Sky" is modified from the simulation training system of the military department. If one becomes famous in it, one will even be recruited by the military department.

When this rumor first came out, it was ridiculed for wishful thinking.But soon someone discovered that the top three masters in the standings would disappear strangely after a period of time...

Another netizen submitted a "report" anonymously because he was worried (?), and his words... were relatively fierce.

In the end, I was given a red warning and my account was banned because——

【Innocently insulting military personnel】

That person quietly went to the forum and posted the reason why he was banned, although the post was quickly deleted.But the rumor that no one believed, spread more and more widely...

As a result, this already very popular game ushered in a wave of peak entry.

It also occupied the headlines for several days on Starnet several times, and was once rated as "the most popular holographic game ever".

The heat generated in this way is only the normal heat of an excellent holographic game.

However, it is after the first comprehensive update of "Starry Sky" that it really endows "Starry Sky" with a meaning far beyond "game" and makes it a "national activity" in the true sense.

Because of an image——

...a battle image of former Union Marshal Don Griffin.

Nine years ago, that is, the fifth year of the operation of "Starry Sky", the game suddenly underwent a large-scale update. During the update period, logins were prohibited for three consecutive ephemeris months...

It is "three ephemeris months", not "three days"!

Rounded up, it is half an ephemeris year! ! !

For a while, Starry Sky players complained.

Phrases such as "Enter the 'universe'" and "Enter the 'Zerg'" appear frequently on Starnet.

After all, holographic games have developed rapidly in recent years, and each has its own highlights.

——Three calendar months, enough for netizens who like the new and dislike the old to leave an old game that has no freshness behind.

On the star network, the prophecy emperor asserted everywhere——

#星空空间 restarts the day, is the time when the glory ends#

There are even old nostalgic players who spontaneously organize a farewell ceremony, euphemistically saying, "I hope to keep the memory in the good time".

After three months...

……

…………

So fragrant! !

… Xingkong slapped the faces of the netizens with only an opening expansion that was less than a dozen seconds long.

As the first batch of old players to enter the starry sky, Abel actually re-entered the starry sky with the mood of saying goodbye.

Before he entered, he had already listed the maps he was going to log in this time. After taking a group photo with these maps, he planned to bid farewell to the game that had accompanied him for five years.

After all, he has traveled all the maps that often appear, and he is familiar with the attributes of the npc monsters in the starry sky, and his points ranking has reached the upper-middle level.

Even without this update... well, without this update, he would probably have played for a while longer.

But three months was enough for him to get familiar with another game - "Zerg".

As the name suggests, this is a holographic game with "Zerg" as a gimmick, and the "monsters" in it are much richer than those in "Starry Sky"——

Take a "humanoid dungeon" just cleared by Abel as an example. There are vicious and ugly Zerg minions, but they are very easy to defeat, allowing people to fully enjoy the pleasure of torturing and fighting Zerg; there are also evenly matched, which can inspire players to fight Zerg officers of all levels of consciousness... The most important thing is that the Zerg queen I met at the end of the fight... She has a childish face, and the translucent butterfly wings behind her are shining with crystal light...

This is simply the ultimate ideal of a gaming otaku...

On the forum, countless people howled "I can", "Your Majesty, please accept me"...

Abel smacked his lips, and complained about the monster settings in "Starry Sky" again in his heart.

——Does the planning department of "Starry Sky" get paid for nothing?After all these years, the monsters inside are still the same, he thinks he should learn from the "Zerg"...

Thinking about this in his heart, he hesitated whether to write an opinion for "Starry Sky" for the sake of the feelings of old players, but in the end he still wanted to advance the game.

The opening background is still the cosmic space before the update.At first glance, I was still shocked by the depth of this universe, but after so many years, I have long been tired of watching it...

Abel is waiting for the opening animation to pass... But this time, it is not the same quiet, peaceful, profound and moving...

The space was only quiet for a moment, before it was occupied by a dense "buzzing" sound.

Although he knew he was in the game cabin, Abel couldn't help rubbing his arms.

——This voice made people's hairs explode.

He didn't know it at the moment, but compared with what happened next, the voice was already very kind.

The perspective in front of him shook slightly, and he focused on the distance. Abel watched helplessly as a group of dense, overwhelming black waves rushed towards him.

And the few planets caught in the line of sight faded away from their original colors almost instantly, turning into grays that lost their vitality.

Abel couldn't help but retreat, but the player entity was not shown in the opening animation. He could only stand still and watch the wave getting closer and closer.

He recognized it...

That is a kind of monster in the starry sky, called "black beetle".

But at this moment, a group of Zerg swarmed in, their moving mouthparts crowded together, facing his direction.

Abel couldn't help it, he screamed and waved his arms, trying to touch the power supply of the game cabin.

"Don't come here!! Go away!!!"

Those disgusting bugs did not divert from Abel's consciousness, they moved forward at the same speed as before, and they arrived in front of his eyes in a blink of an eye, and he could almost see the fluff next to the mouthpart clearly.

In the midst of extreme panic, his brain became extremely active, and he remembered...

In elementary school textbooks, there are descriptions of black beetles.The mouthparts of this kind of insect are not well developed, but it will secrete a kind of mucus, which will wrap the prey until it is corroded into a soft state...

But the knowledge that came to mind suddenly did not help the current situation, and even further deepened his fear.

He had already given up looking for the power supply of the game cabin, and directly hammered on the bulkhead with his fists, hoping that there would be some malfunction in the game cabin, and he would be ejected directly.

As for the mental damage caused by the forced ejection? ?Compared to this, of course the psychological trauma of being eaten by the Zerg is more serious! !

However, the safety of the game cabin that the Star Company has boasted countless times has become an obstacle for Abel at this time. As the Zerg gets closer, his mood becomes more and more desperate.

The thoughts in my mind were extremely chaotic, and even the Queen from the "Zerg" appeared unexpectedly... The pure face became particularly disgusting in the memory, and the alien butterfly wings were even more disgusting.

— Zerg! ! !Nasty bugs! !

In an extremely desperate situation, a light cannon swept over.

Where the bright light pointed, the huge bugs were cleaned up, leaving only a few scattered ones that were lucky enough to be out of the range of the light cannon.

... Abel didn't know how to describe the shock of that moment.

All of this is fake, it's just the opening expansion of Xingkong.

——This is the fact that he realized immediately when he was out of danger.

but……

--【saved】

These words circled in my mind clearly, enlarged and boldly.

Someone saved me! ! !

Almost completely subconsciously, he followed the trajectory of the light cannon and looked over.

Xingkong seems to have understood the player's mentality for a long time, and the perspective changes quickly...

What caught the eye was an "iron lump".

Yes... iron bumps...

Alliance mechs are replaced from generation to generation.

And "Starry Sky" takes the space battle as the background, and mecha combat is naturally an important part.As for the mecha that players can choose, no matter whether the mechanical structure is reasonable or not, its shape must be cool.

In comparison, this... "mecha"...

It's so old... it's only in textbooks.

But maybe the light cannon just now was too shocking, with the blessing of the "rescued" gratitude filter, now seeing this "iron lump", he actually felt a sense of comfort from the bottom of his heart.

Within the range of sight, the iron lump was driving forward rapidly. Compared with the various special effects in the game, its progress seemed monotonous and boring, but...

The action of rushing into the swarm of insects alone seemed somewhat heroic.

Abel felt his eyes warm for some reason, and when the perspective was pulled in, the shell of the mech became transparent, passing through the cockpit, and a pilot wearing a bulky protective suit appeared in his sight.

The drumbeat of the music in his ears suddenly rushed, and for some reason, Abel's heart suddenly lifted, and an inexplicable tension condensed in his heart.

The angle of sight changed, and it turned into the front of that person...

Abel froze for a moment.

An old-fashioned protective helmet, only the part around the eyes is transparent.

He only saw a pair of clear red eyes, which seemed to be the best red gemstones, and even the cold and sharp killing intent showed a different kind of beauty.

He suddenly remembered the ruby ​​that went viral on the Starnet a few years ago with an auction price of billions...

As a member of netizens who eat melons, he also followed suit and felt that the local tyrants had money and had nowhere to spend it.

but now……

I just hate that he is not a rich man.

Sweat dripped from his forehead, the man frowned and shook his head, a few strands of sweaty silver hair fell on the side of his cheek.

Silver hair...red eyes...

With such two iconic things, a guess suddenly came to mind.

Until the end of the expansion and entering the game, Abel was still a little dazed...

After reacting, he didn't care about the group photo he planned at the beginning.

Quickly logged into the game forum and asked tremblingly——

[I just have a question, is the mech pilot of this expansion... Marshal Griffin? ! 】

1L: Me too.

However, although……

Landlord... Title warning.

2L: xk is...to be cold? !

……

Abel only refreshed once, and in a blink of an eye, a building with more than ten floors was built, but there was no movement after that.

I went out and took a look, and sure enough, there were already several red hot posts in the forum.

However, everyone's thoughts are not optimistic. They feel that the management of "Starry Sky" is really a showy operation this time.

Do you feel that the game is almost over, and there will be a wave of big things at the end.

Some people even picked up——

#Bradley Sean, court-martial scheduled#

Everyone knows that the military department's protection of Marshal Griffin's portrait rights has gone crazy.

In the years since the marshal's death, the military has fought with the Griffin family no less than a hundred times over the matter of the marshal's portrait rights.

Although netizens eat melons again and again, their impression of the Griffin family is inevitably much worse.

After all, when Marshal Griffin was alive, he was called the idol of the league.Now that his bones are still cold, the Griffin family hastily jumped out, trying to use his name for profit...

Even though it has been said countless times that the star network is rich in all kinds of strange things, behind every virtual character is indeed a citizen of the alliance.

They know that when they are safe and secure in the rear of the alliance, someone will guard the territory for them; they are sitting comfortably at home and logging on to the star network, and someone has paid their lives for it...

Not all of them are heroes, but because of this, they will have respect for heroes.

#Star Marshal Griffin#

Almost immediately, this hashtag became a hot search on Starnet.

Since its appearance, the rankings have been flying all the way, and soon it was at the top of the list.

Some people lamented whether there was some personnel change in the management of Xingkong that they didn't know about. Maybe this time the show operation was caused by the xxx of the Griffin family.

I really don't blame the people of the alliance for thinking too much. It's true that the Griffin family has done a lot of similar things these years...

Even netizens are very familiar with this process.The next step is for the military to file a lawsuit, and the other party is waiting for the court summons...

But this time the development of things is really beyond the public's expectations.

The trending search has been on the top of the list for three days, and its popularity is comparable to that of the big star in the Solaro galaxy. Three days later, netizens finally saw the response from Starry Sky Company.

The melons in the hands of the people eating melons fell all over the ground.

——It was not the subpoena from the alliance court that netizens expected, but... a notice issued by the military department and the Starry Sky Company.

The consistent style of the Propaganda Department of the Alliance Military Headquarters is concise but profound.

Immediately, a big cow netizen did a reading comprehension, to the effect that——

Between the Zerg and humans, there is a race. The race is endless, and now some young people in the alliance are too dangerous in their thinking (Third brother private goods: I will not name and criticize a certain game here).

In order to let young people remember the history, the military department has specially released certain military videos and related materials, and cooperated with Xingkong Company, so that young people can personally experience the difficulties faced by their ancestors.

……

A netizen named "Third Brother" read a long speech, interpreting the military department's short [-]-word speech into a [-]-word essay.

Netizens were convincing, but the game named "* clan" criticized without naming names, although it did not encounter the fate of being banned, but very few people played it. The ephemeris month is closed.

After that, it wasn't long before it was dug out by a certain "outstanding" child of the generation of the Griffin family behind it.

There have been a lot of similar facts about the Griffin family over the years. Netizens are powerless to complain, from the blind trust at the beginning, to the righteous indignation when the accident happened for the first time, and now...

Netizen: I feel bad for being handsome, why was I born in such a family?

1L: +1

2L: +2

……

3874L: + Union Citizen

……

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No matter how these past events are, they don't have much influence on Shiyue.

What he needs more now is a job, a job that can make money.

Shi Yue's initial positioning was "power leveling", but he soon discovered that it might be a bit difficult.

Inside the starry sky, the accounts from silver to higher are all genetically bound. It is not impossible to change people, but the operation process is very complicated, which also involves a problem of trust.

Moreover, to a certain extent, it can be regarded as spreading its wings on the verge of breaking the law.

Time · Law-abiding · Good Citizen · Yue: ...

After doing a little market research, he withdrew his fluttering little wings.

Because he found another business opportunity - "to play with"! !

Shi Yue once again proved that as long as the technology is excellent, there is always a way to make money reasonably and legally.

then……

A very down-to-earth boss appeared in the starry sky.

He is obviously skilled, first-rate consciousness, and well-known in the high-level arena, but he can meet people in the low-level arena from time to time.

On the Xingkong Forum, not just one person posted that after going to the high-level field, being brushed back to the intermediate field, it really makes life worse than death...

[It's like eating the food in an artificial restaurant that is full of color, flavor and taste, and suddenly returned to the time of Dundu Nutrients]

All the "poor" netizens didn't know for a while whether they should be angry "this person can afford artificial restaurants" or "he can enter high-end restaurants".

After arranging hundreds of layers of lemon essence, I finally got a reply with a different style of painting.

[It seems that from the top-end deluxe version of the game cabin, it suddenly fell to the F-level entry-level gift version. 】

……

This post suddenly became popular, and a group of "masters" who were in the tail of the high-level area and wandered up and down repeatedly wrote down messages full of sadness here.

Literature and art are like "I would like to practice hard behind closed doors for three days in exchange for a day of high-level games", and the rough ones are like "one more tm win streak, and I will return to high-level games, hahahahahahahahahaha" , That smile is full of sad meaning.

……

However, in any case, there is a consensus that "after going to the high-level field, I can no longer bear the game experience of the mid-level field".

However, this is not the case for this random number as the name, the big guy who is honored as "Seven Gods" in the world.

Although his ranking in the high-level field is stable, let alone the middle-level field, even the junior field often sees this figure, which makes people very confused.

until……

Someone saw his post on the forum: [Play with me, 300 star coins/hour, special request price is negotiable].

Obliterated in a bunch of accompanying posts, inconspicuous...

The author has something to say: Audience: Boss, where is your backbone? !