In the playground of a university of science in City C, the wind is howling, as if a person is shouting in a valley, and the whole sky and the whole world are filled with this sound.

A lean young man, wearing a shirt like a bamboo pole and carrying a cloth pocket, walked across the playground. The man put his hands in the pockets of his trousers and whistled not very loudly.

The man walked through the crowd of people loitering around the playground, walked along a green path planted with plane trees, and stopped in front of a row of buildings. When I looked up, I stopped in front of an Internet café that said "Aoki Internet Cafe".

The man didn't stay long, walked into the Internet café, handed his ID card to the front desk of the Internet café, and said casually: "Open a machine." Then, ignoring the waiter's gaze at the front desk, the young man walked straight in.

The young man was obviously familiar with this Internet café, so he chose a window position, turned on the computer, entered his ID number, and then chose an online game and entered the game.

The man pressed the button quickly in his hand, his eyes glued to the screen, as if there was some treasure on the screen. There was a rush of keystrokes, sometimes short, sometimes soothing, and after a cup of tea, the man withdrew his eyes from the computer screen. muttered to himself:

"Most of today's online games are money-making games, and poor students like me really don't have the opportunity to show their strength. League of Legends can also be played. The man was in a very bad mood, obviously hit by the game, and couldn't help but whisper secretly.

The man turned on his phone and began to peep at the screen. Suddenly, on today's headlines on the mobile phone, a row of words was written. "This year's biggest game, Empire, will be officially launched today." The typography is written in bold, apparently for eye-catching. Seeing this row, the man seemed to have been injected with hormones, and suddenly became excited.

The man's surname is Lin Mingzhi, and he was just admitted to the polytechnic university in City C not long ago, so Lin Zhi left his family and went to university in City C alone. Lin Zhi is a typical Internet addict teenager, who has been playing online games since he was a child under the leadership of the people around him, although he is not a hardcore player, but he is not far behind. Lin Zhi's polytechnic university, whose real name is Hengyu University, is one of the key universities in country Z.

Because Lin Zhi was admitted to this key university, the parents of the family were very pleased, and prepared a three-piece set for Lin Zhi to go to college - mobile phone, computer, bank card, under the eyes of the second elder, Lin Zhi took the train, came to City C, and started his college life.

Not long ago, after the end of military training, Lin Zhi was bored, so he went to an Internet café near the school to play games. This brings us to the scene we just had.

"Empire" is the much-anticipated online game, which is a game created by the domestic online game giant "Destiny Games" for ten years, and this game has just been released when the news of the public beta is going to be released, it has attracted a large number of players from all over the world to make reservations. "Empire" can be so concerned, firstly, it is inseparable from its elaborate production, and secondly, it is said that in the game, players can trade freely, which is much better than some money-making games, although rich people have a great advantage in the game, but there will not be a situation where rich is an uncle, and no money can not afford to go.

This game has released some expansion packs before, which is about the plot of "Empire", and Lin Zhi probably knows a thing or two after watching it. "Empire" tells the story of the "Twilight of the Gods" on the Imperial Continent that is coming, and all the warriors who are called to fight together on the Imperial Continent and create the Unparalleled Empire. The open beta starts today, and the server must be extremely popular.

For this game, Lin Zhi has been looking forward to it for a long time. As early as January, when he learned that the empire was going to open beta, Lin Zhi was already eager to try. Now after a month of waiting, the open beta time of "Empire" has finally arrived.

Lin Zhi looked at the time, it was 9:55 in the morning, and there were still five minutes left before the "Empire" open beta. Lin Zhi opened the game menu on the computer, selected the menu of "Empire", and clicked in. At this time, a splendid colorful painting appeared, showing a warrior with a sword in his hand, holding a sword into the ground, an archer holding a bow and arrow in the back to cover, and a mage casting a spell, the light flashing in the palm of his hand......

There's a button to enter the game at the bottom of the screen, but it's grayed out right now, so I think it's time yet. Lin Zhi was not in a hurry, and slowly waited for the arrival of the open beta time.

Time passed minute by minute, but Lin Zhi was not the slightest impatient. Lin Zhi exhaled a light breath of turbid air to refresh himself slightly.

Lin Zhi took out the helmet on the desktop of the Internet café and put it on his head. In the era of Lin Zhi's life, VR technology has developed rapidly and has penetrated into all aspects of people's lives. Lin Zhi's helmet is made using VR technology, which can allow people to enter the virtual world of online games. Nowadays, all slightly larger Internet cafes have this kind of helmet. Lin Zhi put on a helmet and finally entered the virtual game world, but it was pitch black in front of him, which should be because the game had not yet been openly tested.

“3，2，1。” Lin Zhi silently counted the time in his heart.

Lin Zhi saw that the time in the upper right corner of the field of vision was ten o'clock, and Lin Zhi clicked into the game, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

Lin Zhi looked at the place in front of him, it was a bright room.

At the same time, a prompt appears above the field of vision: "Please create a character."

Lin Zhi clicked "Create", and a row of character images appeared in his field of vision.

Without exception, these characters are all male characters, and it turns out that the helmet automatically identifies Lin Zhi's gender.

Lin Zhi looked at it, and there were four races on it, namely Maya, Oriental, Nordic and Sea God.

Lin Zhi clicked on the introductions of each race and looked at it, and after a while, he made the characteristics of each race specific and subtle.

There are two professions in the East, which are warrior and knight.

Warriors: Warriors are the main force in the battle in the East, and these people, with their own great strength and vitality, play a role in defeating the enemy in team battles. Able to provide protection for our rear units.

Chivalry: Chivalry is a chivalrous man who walks between various races, and always pursues the spirit of hoeing the strong and helping the weak. Chivalry is extremely agile and dexterous, and his only hobby is to collect and learn all kinds of martial arts cheats. Knights can take on any position they need in a team fight.

Northern Europe is further divided into warriors and mages.

Norse Warriors: With their devotion to holy warriors, Norse warriors can learn many holy warrior skills, which is the guarantee for the Nordic nation to stand tall among the powerful of the imperial continent.

Mage: One of the great pride of the Norse nation is to have a strong team of mages, who use mana as motivation for battle and life. Mages hate bloody hand-to-hand combat and use magic to attack each other. Mages are adept at inflicting specific damage on enemies with bizarre spells or inflicting special status effects on their opponents.

The occupation of the Mayan race is shaman.

Shamans: The Maya were a race that relied on the belief in gods for their powers, living in the rainforest. The Mayan race was adept at using axes and blowpipes, and was adept at refining medicines. The medicines used by the Maya ranged from healing and life-saving medicines to poisons that sealed their throats with blood.

The Poseidon profession is divided into hunters and artificists.

Hunter: Hunter is a profession that believes in freedom, and in the long-term struggle with nature, hunters have developed good combat habits. He is good at using bows and arrows, and is the main force of the team's back row output.

Artificer: The Artificer is a class with kinetic stones as its main power, and specializes in using a weapon called a gun. From an early age, the artificist had to undergo rigorous physical training before he could use the gun.

After thinking about it again and again, Lin Zhi chose the Mayan shaman as his profession, named it "Burning Sky", and clicked "Enter the game". Lin Zhi only felt that the sky was turning for a while, and he reacted that he was in a small village. Around Lin Zhi, there are many players who have just entered the game like Lin Zhi, and these players are waiting for the server to open early, and they will enter the game one after another as soon as the server is opened.

Lin Zhi saw an exclamation mark on the head of an old man nearby, and his heart was overjoyed. "There is a mission!" Lin Zhi secretly thought in his heart, and hurried over to greet the old man.

"Old man, is there anything I can do to help?" Lin Zhi said.

"Young man, the mosquitoes here are annoying, if you can eliminate a few jungle mosquitoes for me, I have a reward for you." The old man said while driving away the mosquitoes around him, and it seemed that he was not lightly harassed by mosquitoes.

"Okay, I'm going to get rid of the Jungle Mosquito." After the old man finished speaking, Lin Zhi saw that a new task appeared on his interface. Lin Zhi clicked to accept without hesitation.

At this time, the task of "Eliminate Ten Jungle Mosquitoes" appeared in Lin Zhi's task box.

Mission: Eliminate 10 Jungle Mosquitoes.

Rewards: 1000 XP, 2000 Copper Coins, Starter Gear Pack X1.

Lin Zhi looked at his experience bar, which said 0/900, Lin Zhi couldn't help but be happy, when he completed this task, he should be able to upgrade to level 2. As for copper coins, Lin Zhi already knew in advance that in the "Empire", the currencies traded were divided into gold, silver and copper coins. The conversion ratio is 1 gold = 10 silver = 1000 copper coins. However, this is only the conversion ratio on the surface of the system, in fact, no one will exchange gold coins for copper coins, because gold coins can only be obtained by recharging, and the recharge ratio is 1R=35 gold coins. If you buy and sell copper coins with players, you can buy more copper coins

Lin Zhi clicked on "Task Finding", and saw the figure of the jungle mosquito not far from the old man. When Lin Zhi saw it, he couldn't help but gasp, this jungle mosquito was half a person tall. Lin Zhi couldn't help but complain a little, the mosquitoes that the old man drove away just now were still of normal size, how could he become a half-human-tall mosquito as soon as he did the task, no wonder it was called "jungle mosquito".

Lin Zhi looked at a long bamboo pipe in his hand and thought: This is the shaman's exclusive weapon - the blowpipe, I hope it can deal with the jungle mosquito.