In-game time, 6 a.m. sharp.

5 p.m. ET sharp. John M. Fiennes, an American professional gamer in New York City, was having dinner in his apartment while keeping an eye on the clock on his watch, which showed that it was five o'clock in the afternoon, and he had just finished his dinner, put on his holographic helmet, and appeared on 6 "Empire". "Empire", which is popular all over the world, also has many game fanatics in the United States, and a large number of American professional gamers are devoted to this game. Although the overall number of professional gamers is not as large as that of countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea in East Asia, the level is top-notch.

John appeared in the North Island, in his own tribe of barbarians.

It's early in the morning, and the entire island is covered with a faint white fog, and it's hazy hundreds of meters away. John woke up the barbarian peasants who had slept in the camp, assigned each of them his work, and then he left the camp with thirteen strong barbarian men and set out on foot to a predetermined spot a few kilometers away.

There will be a small battle to be fought today.

In fact, he didn't want to get into a military conflict so early, his original intention was to upgrade his tribe as soon as possible, and after the tribe was upgraded to the Bronze Age, he would use more advanced troops to sweep the surrounding players to gain hero experience points, and then go directly to the strategic map of "Empire" - the world map. The small war of more than a dozen people on the novice map really didn't pique much interest in him.

He was completely forced into this war, and God knows why that Iraqi player had to trouble the Israelis instead of him - if the Iraqi player had found him, he wouldn't have to be so troublesome, and he could have easily had a good time with the Iraqi player.

But that Israeli player can't do it, it's too weak to beat that Iraqi player.

It's actually nothing, it's out if you can't win, it's very common in the game. However, the Israeli approached him, paid him $2,000, and asked for his help in resisting the Iraqi player.

Although there were countless reasons to refuse to send troops, for the sake of the $2,000, he nodded and agreed. He decided to help the Israeli player, who was on the same island, and fight the arrogant Iraqi player. In order to avoid losing too much of himself, he decided to use the white fog as a cover in the early hours of this morning to attack the opponent's camp with lightning and the tactics of attacking the opponent's camp hard, and hit the strength of the Iraqi player hard.

John was confident that the moment the sun rose at nine o'clock, the war would end and all would be calm again. Although there are several other nationalities on the island, everything is under his control.

Israeli time, midnight sharp.

In Jerusalem, Israel, a middle-aged white-collar player, Weisge, waited nervously until 0 o'clock before he boarded the 6 game. He boarded 6 games at about the same time as John, an American player who was a few kilometers away on the same island.

Weisge was extremely indignant yesterday, he was playing this kind of virtual war game for the first time, at the beginning he was still inexplicably excited because of the highly simulated war game, but he never expected that the living environment in this kind of game would be so bad, he was actually attacked several times by a nearby Iraqi player with a few barbarian warriors in one day, almost completely annihilating his entire tribe.

To his surprise, there was another American player on the same island, who looked like a master of the game - there were a dozen barbarian warriors and dozens of peasants in his camp alone. Weisig immediately asked the American player to help him fight against that Iraq. The American master asked for a $2,000 honorarium and let himself do everything to him. Weisg hesitated, but immediately agreed. As long as you can survive this game, $2,000 is not much.

The action is right here this morning.

Armed with the only four barbarian warriors in the tribe, Veesg came out.

Twenty-seven minutes later, Visig came to a gentle river shoal in the middle of the island, and now John was sitting on a stone on the shore of the riverbank, waiting with a dozen barbarian warriors.

When John saw that Weisge had come on time, he immediately smiled and said, "Weisger, have you written down everything I told you yesterday?" ”

Weisge smiled: "You know, don't worry, I have memorized all the content of this operation." ”

"That's good."

John nodded, without the slightest intention of getting up, and still sat and waited for a while, checking the time from time to time.

Weisge wondered, "What else to do?" John, are you waiting for someone? Is there anyone else going to take part in this battle? ”

John laughed, "No, I asked Lucas Sarkozy, a French player with some strength, but he didn't participate in our fight. The Iraqi player we're dealing with has allied itself with his neighbor, the Egyptian player. I asked Sarkozy to come in the hope that he would be able to send troops to the Egyptian player next to the Iraqi player to contain the Egyptian player, so that the Egyptian would not suddenly appear and disrupt our battle plan. ”

After waiting for another five or six minutes, and the Frenchman still hadn't appeared, John began to complain anxiously, "What are the damn French doing, don't you know how to be punctual?!" ”

Visig shrugged his shoulders and said disapprehantly: "The French always like to be late, not so much expecting the French to be punctual as expecting Italians to stop eating macaroni." Wait. ”

Fifteen minutes later, a French player with eleven barbarian warriors appeared from afar and staggered to them.

"Sarkozy, why are you here now?"

"The fog was too big, I accidentally got lost! I'm afraid it will take an hour or two for the fog to clear up, and we'll have plenty of time to finish the battle. You've just arrived, right? Okay, now that we're all here, I think we can get started. You two go attack the Iraqi player's camp and hand over the Egyptian player to me. After Lucas Sarkozy finished speaking, he pointed at John and said, "I tell you, you must not mess things up, for the sake of my old friend John, I will only help you this time, not the next one." ”

John couldn't say a word.

The Frenchman had a red face after drinking too much wine, and his pace was unsteady, obviously because he had drunk too much wine and made a mistake, and said that the fog was too big.

He simply didn't say anything and acted immediately. He jumped up and called on Visg to rush to the Iraqi player's territory with a dozen barbarian warriors. Sarkozy, on the other hand, led his troops to the Egyptian player's camp

After landing on the territory of Egyptian players on the North Island of 6, I walked for nearly half an hour among the woods of the white misty plains, but I never found the camp of Egyptian players. Qin Xiaobai and 6 Bing walked to the most likely place in the Egyptian player's camp, but they didn't find anything. 6 Bing was very embarrassed, she only knew that this site belonged to an Egyptian player, but she hadn't seen this player's camp with her own eyes, so she couldn't find it.

Qin Xiaobai walked silently, and he intuitively felt that there seemed to be a serious atmosphere on this island.

In the past two days, the entire game has entered a period of frequent war, and the frequency and intensity of small-scale battles are even higher than during the closed beta.

The 10,000 players in the closed beta are all professional gamers or hardcore game masters, and the war is about strategy and efficiency, and will not start a war easily. But when it was officially operated, hundreds of millions of ordinary players, they fought more out of a battle of will, and a battle could arise at any time because of a small contradiction quarrel.

I'm afraid this island will also be quite war-frequent.

When passing through a forest, suddenly, Qin Xiaobai stopped vigilantly and pricked up his ears to listen. Hundreds of meters ahead, there is the sound of weeds moving and numerous hurried footsteps!

He immediately made a gesture and retreated!

6 Bing immediately came to his senses and commanded the barbarian warriors to slowly follow Qin Xiaobai to retreat, retreat to the side of the woods, and then lie down in a dense grass. More than ten seconds later, Qin Xiaobai and 6 Bing saw a European player hurrying over with eleven barbarian warriors.

"It's a European player! But is he an Israeli player, an American player, or a French player? ”

6 Bing looked at the European players who had just passed and wondered.

Qin Xiaobai sneered in a low voice at this time, and said, "This world is really small, I will actually meet him here." ”

"Who is he?"

"Lucas Sarkozy, a first-class player in the FTPP list of French professional players, is somewhat famous in France, and was invited to participate in the closed beta of "Empire" as a French professional expert. However, his fame is only in France. ”