dognovel Chapter 77
Chapter 77
Many players were so captivated by the beauty that they didn't know what to do, foolishly reaching out to catch the flowers, taking a sniff, and enjoying the faint fragrance of peach blossoms.
There is a huge ball on the dashboard, which changes shape about once a minute.
Two phoenixes chased each other, their tails, wings, and heads intertwining to form a ball.
When it transforms into the second form, there are two golden dragons, coiling their tails and whipping their heads as they chase a dragon ball.
There were many white porcelain plates of varying heights around the ball, and the plates were decorated with many flower patterns.
There is a fee for admission: two taels of silver for spectator tickets and 50 taels of silver for tickets to participate in the competition.
Many players have bought tickets to participate in the competition. At this point, there are three options: player, guest, or pet.
Guest spirits are like flower fairies or similar figures.
Players who choose different regions will be placed in different regions after entering.
Players participating in the competition can stand on the central circular platform, while spectators can sit on the chairs on the steps.
At this point, the participating players, pets, and guests will appear on the stage in turn, and you can also swipe to watch them.
If you think it looks good, cast your vote.
Each player only has ten voting opportunities, so pay close attention.
After the player in the middle goes up, they need to stay for ten minutes, then choose the pose they feel most satisfied with as a ghost image to leave behind, and then they can leave.
The results will be available at midnight.
Many participating players left behind afterimages and then started checking the competition status to see what other players were wearing.
When it's fun, there are not only support tickets, but also non-support tickets. You can even buy props to smash decorations you think are ugly, and buy flowers to fly on decorations you like.
The props used for smashing and decorating included a colorful rouge box, lip balm, face cream, white powder box, roses, Chinese roses, chrysanthemums, and so on—all cosmetics and fresh flowers.
The person who gets hit gets 30% of the player's purchase of items. Standing still and getting hit can earn money. Lin Shuying has set a precedent.
Because her game currently doesn't have ads, players who get hit only receive 30% of the revenue. She plans to increase that slightly if there are ads later on.
It's acceptable to achieve a 30/70 split between the platform and users, similar to her previous life, or even a 20/80 split on some platforms.
This approach transforms the game into a massive, mutually beneficial entity, solidifying its position and increasing player engagement.
Just like some platforms in the previous life, the platform itself earns channel fees and traffic fees, while at the same time kidnapping more people to the ship.
As more people share the pie, the platform's ships will spontaneously expand, from small wooden boats to cargo ships, to large cruise ships, and may even become an unshakeable island.
At that time, many business and market experts said that channel commerce would become the third upgrade of business model. Although we did not see it, it was really popular before she left, and many real industries, offline businesses and shopping platforms were swept up in it.
That's a long way off; it's too early to talk about all that.
The costume contest isn't the focus of this update; the focus is on the Chinese martial arts world, and the things that Lin Shuying and Wei Linwei painstakingly created.
The players who entered initially were mostly combat players, especially the group that the Grand Marshal forced in. They had a mission: to challenge NPCs, and it was incredibly fortunate that they didn't get captured during those challenges.
Players entering this instance will be shrunk tenfold, making the map appear enormous.
One player exclaimed in disbelief, "Qingfengyi can afford such a large map?"
"That can't be right. Even with the newly arrived Wenchang Shenxing and Kuilang Shenxing players, there are only 2.3 billion players, which is at most 40,000 square meters of area. But look at this map, I would believe you if you said it was 300,000 square meters."
This map features rugged mountains and rocks. The player's entrance is a grassy area connected to the opposite mountain by several iron chains. Below is a circular lake, but there are no bridges, boats, or other means of transportation.
There are two enormous towers on either side of the lake, with bells hanging from their tops, and people are ringing them.
The sound of the bells echoed throughout the entire map, loud and far-reaching.
The mountain is very, very high; you can't see the top from there.
Players would never guess that the mountain is over 6666 meters high at this scale!
There are many small houses on the mountain, and some of them have wisps of smoke rising from their chimneys.
Players couldn't wait to climb the iron chain and try to cross, but many of them were too weak and fell into the lake.
It's really, really far from here to the big mountain in the middle; it takes more than ten minutes to climb.
Suddenly, a message appeared in front of me saying that I could fish here?
The player immediately dived into the lake, which was the same lake where he had caught goldfish before.
There weren't many goldfish this time, and there were other fish whose names weren't displayed unless you got close.
He also saw a treasure chest!!
Shiny and shiny, with gold patterns on a red background?
He rushed down, but the lake was too deep and he wasn't a good swimmer; he only stayed underwater for a dozen seconds.
After dying and returning, he anxiously posted a message on the world channel:
"There's a treasure chest underwater! Aaaaaah, I didn't find it!!"
"Hey, the one who just fell down?"
"Is there really a treasure chest?"
"Really! It's a very luxurious treasure chest. I wonder what treasures are inside."
Upon seeing the message, players jumped in like groundhogs leaping off a cliff, many of the more lively players instinctively gasped upon seeing the glittering chest, only to choke on their water and return to their homes.
Those who could swim rushed forward with all their might.
The first batch of players were mostly newly recruited soldiers, all of whom were skilled in water combat and were incredibly fast.
The first player to rush to the box opened it without even looking at its name, put the contents into their backpack, and ran away.
We had no choice but to run; there were people everywhere behind us, more than a dozen of them chasing after the box.
After returning home, I found that a lot of things had fallen out of the house, including weapon fragments, weapons, repair tokens, legendary tokens, black iron, and red gold.
He put the things on the table; there were quite a lot of them.
Currently, some StarCraft players who don't quite understand its purpose and have little experience with online games need more time to figure it out.
The weapon was a dark-colored sword, its handle wrapped with a white cloth strip. The blade was extremely sharp, far superior to the Ink Chrysanthemum Sword in its power.
"Brothers, look at my haul! This sword is completely different from the Ink Chrysanthemum Sword. Pictures, pictures."
Compared to the Ink Chrysanthemum Sword, this iron sword has a stronger sense of use and impact, while the Ink Chrysanthemum Sword is more decorative.
Some players in the guild saw this and quickly went to the service desk to check the details, only to find out that there were so many details about the "Heroic Jianghu, Timeless Weapons" event!
"My mech marshal, no wonder this event will last for two months, there's so much to it."
"Explanation: There are three types of treasure chests this time: bronze, silver, and gold chests, found only in the lake. Inside the chests are materials for making clothes, such as silk, cotton, linen, and brocade. You can take these to the clothing NPC to have your clothes made. Here are the clothing diagrams and material requirements. You can also talk to the NPC to unlock various material locations and collect them there. There are also iron ingots, black iron, red gold, and ebony, etc., used for forging weapons... Come to the service center for more details, there's too much to list!"
"Additional notes: It mentions that if you're going for the clothing and accessories route, don't provoke NPCs or engage in combat. This will automatically reduce your weapon fragment acquisition rate and increase your clothing fragment acquisition rate. Decide on your route now!"
This was specially designed by Lin Shuying to protect the gaming experience of both groups of players, so that they could play different games in the same instance with minimal interference.
This event organized by Qingfengyi has a bit of a reading comprehension feel to it. If you want something, you have to look at the details, write down what you need, and start grinding.
If you don't want to grind, that's okay too. Only 40 legendary artifacts and the top ten sets are limited edition during this event. All other clothes, weapons, and items can be purchased in the shop after the event ends.
However, the items for this event are very expensive. The free versions that are relatively easy to obtain are only available during the event, and you have to pay for them after the event ends.
She seems to have grasped some of the key points of game design, hahaha.
The famous artifacts throughout the ages are divided into four categories: precious swords, musical weapons, the eighteen kinds of weapons, and famous treasures.
The set includes ten sets for men and ten sets for women, two sets of armor, three sets of masked outfits, and five sets of martial arts attire.
The weapon description includes a brief account of a famous person who used it, but the stories are only given in general terms, and Lin Shuying couldn't possibly remember all of them.
However, there are countless famous heroes, warriors, generals, and celebrities in China, too many to list in books, and countless of them are associated with weapons.
Guan Yu's Green Dragon Crescent Blade, Zhang Fei's Eighteen-Foot Serpent Spear, Liu Bei's Mandarin Duck Swords, Qin Shi Huang's Shining Night Sword and Qin King Sword, and the Zhanlu Sword forged by Ou Yezi for the King of Yue, etc.
Some of these weapons have very long lifespans. For example, the Zhanlu sword drifted from the hands of the King of Yue to the hands of Yue Fei. After years of wear and tear, it disappeared from people's sight, having passed through countless owners and lying dormant in the dust for an unknown period of time.
The axe is also a very famous type of weapon in China, and many famous generals used it.
Fu Hao, who wielded a bronze axe, was a great female general and commander. Judging from the weapon she used, one can guess how brave and valiant she must have been.
So dashing!
There are also the Bagua Xuanhua Axe of Cheng Yaojin, the Mischievous Demon King of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the Double-bladed Axe of Li Kui, among many others that Lin Shuying is unaware of.
Relatively speaking, among the well-known weapons that have been passed down, swords are the most common, and various large-scale assassination scenes are basically fought with swords and daggers.
The stories include Jing Ke's assassination attempt on the King of Qin with the Hundred-Step Flying Sword, Zhuan Zhu's killing of Wang Liao with the Fish Intestine Sword, Nie Zheng's elimination of Xia Lei with the Long Sword, Yao Li's self-inflicted injury assassination attempt on Qing Ji, and Yu Rang's killing of Yi to resolve regrets.
I didn't realize it until I thought about it carefully. After some reflection, I discovered that there were many warriors in China, especially during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, when many famous assassins, swordsmen, and knights-errant emerged.
This truly proves the saying that heroes emerge in times of chaos.
These characters and weapons couldn't all be made into main storyline NPCs and events, and abandoning Lin Shuying was too much of a sacrifice, so they were all carefully considered. Therefore, they were all placed in a mysterious blind box for players to unlock gradually. However, the threshold for unlocking is quite high; it remains to be seen whether players will be able to discover it.
However, good things always take time to appreciate; otherwise, people won't cherish their value.
How can you just reveal hidden content directly? You have to unlock one thing at a time. Otherwise, the game loses some of its charm. Good things should be revealed little by little, like lifting a veil.
It must be so exciting to gradually unveil the image of your beloved's wedding makeup.