On December 29th, the aftermath of Christmas has not completely faded, and the footsteps of New Year's Day have quietly approached.

However, the whole world is crazy about something else.

In front of the New World Super Game Center in NY, USA, people look up at the data displayed on a huge display on the building's exterior wall.

After four days of fierce competition, 10 cities were selected from 278 bidding cities, and their NY city is currently in the first place.

The problem is that the gap between the top 10 is not huge, and the rankings have changed several times in the past few days. Even if you are in the first position now, it is far from worrying.

The top 10 cities are all international metropolises, and who will be weak.

US NY, HC HK, JJ J, H.A. magic capital, H.A.D., L.L. of France, MNH of Germany, SL of South Korea, HSD of the United States.

Compared with offline service stations, the competition on online forums has entered the white heat.

"All Japanese players, please don't vote for the DJ now, as the location of Shinsegae's first overseas game center, we must win this BG!"

"Please choose our romantic capital, we will give video game fans all over the world the most romantic NG!"

"Brothers of Huaxia, please vote for the imperial capital!

"Friends from the mainland, Hong Kong compatriots need your support. Please don't forget that we are also a member of Huaxia when considering the Imperial Capital of Demons!"

"Players of the Korean people, let the world see the spirit of our Han nation!

Every minute, every second, posts from several major cities are coming and going, taking turns to be at the top.

The voting statistics page of New World is displayed in real time, and in front of 2 billion users, the votes in major cities are like stopwatches, changing numbers.

30 million, 31 million, 33 million!

The number of votes, which changes every second, stimulates the heart of every player all the time, and the rankings of several major cities change up and down minute by minute.

Powerful and famous people from various countries have also joined this unprecedented global war.

The President of the United States posted on his Twitter: This is no longer just about who will hold NG in the end, this is a battle for status, and we, the US city of NY, will definitely stand on the commanding heights of the world!

Australian singer Justle posted: It's a pity that our city did not enter the top ten, but please don't give up, we will continue to vote for our city, until the last moment, we will definitely not give up!

Fang Sichun, a first-line star in China, published an article on Weibo: Magic City, Magic City, asking for votes for his hometown, and proud of the top ten in the three cities of Greater China!

Japanese legendary filmmaker Kono Kumaji: I didn't expect to fall in love with games at the age of 60, The Legend of Zelda makes me feel like I'm in a childhood fairy tale fantasy, I really hope that Shinsekai can hold NG in Japan, I've already voted for DJ, I know, my strength is so meager, but I believe that friends who love games as much as I do, must have the same expectations as me, so please support the only Japanese city in the top 10, and vote for it!

Korea National Television: As the country with the highest degree of professionalism in video games in the world, we really can't imagine that there is a better city to host NG than SL, please everyone vote for our SL, and let players from all over the world come to SL to see our video game business!

In the prime time of French television at night, there was actually a canvassing advertisement.

"The video game industry is re-leveraging the global economy, so let's try to be the eye of the storm in this storm!"

At this time, how can there be no major media websites?

"In the 4th NG Bidding City, the top 10 competition is extremely fierce, and so far it is still impossible to predict who will win!"

"The most terrifying vote in history, 1.63 billion people participated in the vote, one-tenth of the world's population participated in this vote, billions of eyes are staring here, who will end up with the fourth NG?"

"How terrifying are the events of the New World? NG is far more pompous than the Olympics, and the world is boiling with global participation!"

"According to expert analysis, the final decision will still be in the hands of the New World officials, and they hold 20% of the decision-making power, which is enough to decide the final outcome under the current situation!"

"The most concerned event in the world in 2020, the NG host city vote, New World Games will draw a big question mark in 2020!"

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While the whole world was going crazy about this vote, there was one person who stayed out of it.

Bihai Pavilion community villa area.

Picking up the teacup, Lindy blew open the tea leaves floating on the surface and took a sip of tea.

Slightly bitter.

Lindy likes to drink tea, the light fragrance can make Lindy's impetuous mood calm, and the slightly bitter taste is like Lindy's blandish life.

However, after tasting the slight bitterness of the tea, it is a faint sweetness lingering between the lips and teeth, not strong, not greasy, and light just right.

Putting down the teacup, Lindy looked at the simulated world of "The End of the World" on the ground.

If there were other people present at this time, they would definitely exclaim that the entire world map of "The End of the World" is actually the world map of the real world today!

I wanted to create a game that was realistic enough!

That's what Lindy said back then. The world map of "The Last Days" is based on the real world.

On the map, Lindy divides the regions into regions, each of which is marked with a degree of completion, and at this time, all regions of the five continents and four oceans have reached 100% completion.

Finally, the world of "The End of the World" has been set, and the next thing is to use the formation in the mall to make this world.

It took only four months to build a game world, which is far more time investment than "Heart Demon"!

On December 31, at 7 p.m., New World announced the official assessment scores for all cities.

The top 30 cities have the same score!

This wasn't meant by Lindy. These cities are all large cities, and they all have the strength to host NG, and since everyone fully meets Lindy's requirements, then Lindy is not stupid enough to offend players in any city and give a certain city a low score.

Lindy left 20% of the decision-making power only to prevent some people from using improper means to manipulate the voting results and finally elect cities that Lindy was not happy with.

Fortunately, under the real-name registration system of New World, it is difficult to swipe votes, and since the player's vote is fair, Lindy also announced the final official score in line with the principle of fairness and justice.

With 7 hours left before the final voting deadline, Lindy decided to leave the final decision to the players to decide.

On the last day of 2020, in the last hours, the whole world seemed to enter a sleepless night, and the final battle was tragic.

"Ask for votes, ask for votes! The magic capital now has the highest number of votes, all Chinese players, don't waste any more votes, and vote for the second-ranked magic capital!"

"My brothers, NY needs you, the United States needs you, maybe usually you don't care about any ridiculous patriotic feelings, but now, we need you!"

"Players from Daehan, where are you? There are still four hours to go, and SL has dropped to fourth!"

"Bet on honor, Japanese players, and at the last minute, please explode your little universe!"

Time passes minute by minute, and the rankings of several major cities still have not stabilized, especially the top five, NY, Modu, DJ, SL, BL, the difference in the number of votes is only a few thousand votes, in the face of the massive number of users in the new world, the gap of several thousand can be reversed in an instant.

The final 10-second countdown to the ringing of the New Year's bell in 2021 has begun.

10, first NY.

9. DJ first.

8, BL first.

7, the first magic capital.

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People from all over the world gathered in the square in front of the Shinsegae Super Game Center, looking up nervously at the huge LCD monitor.

At 24 o'clock, hundreds of millions of players finally ushered in the final result.

The competition for the host city of the 4th NG, which has been called the biggest puzzle of 2020, has been revealed at this moment.