Chapter 43: Bait

At 10 o'clock in the evening, Du Gang submitted today's report and re-entered the game world of "Dark Sand".

This is already the sixth day that this epoch-making virtual reality game has officially begun testing.

In the past six days, this game has accumulated great popularity, especially the customs clearance videos released, which have become a daily conversation among players, and the popularity can almost be said to be unbeatable, occupying most of the world's game forums and important sections of news media.

So far, there are fewer and fewer players who still firmly believe that it is a huge scam.

Most players' attitude towards it has turned into an eagerness of anticipation and resentment.

Although the vast majority of the beta qualifications for the game "Dark Sand" were issued to domestic players, a small number of places were also sent abroad.

There are not many of these foreign players, but after layers of screening, almost all of them are some top game masters, and they already have a lot of fans and credibility on the site.

Therefore, after these people came out to praise the game "Dark Sand", more and more players who have not played this game have begun to believe that this is indeed an epoch-making virtual reality game made of mysterious black technology.

It's just that I don't know when the official will continue to increase the number of closed beta places as agreed in advance.

So far, foreign players have not shown particularly excellent quality in terms of customs clearance, and the reason is simple, they are missing the most important link, which is the knowledge of Chinese history.

can only wait for domestic players to come out with clearance videos and guides, and then translate them into other languages, and then these foreign players can try to clear the customs.

In this regard, many foreign players are also calling for the game "Dark Sand" to launch a copy of Western profession and Western history as soon as possible.

And the official also gave a response: there will be, but not in the short term.

The official did not give much explanation, but the word "there will be" can be regarded as a pie for foreign players, which can be regarded as temporarily calming their emotions.

The real reason is simple, it just can't be published.

Dark Sand is not a game, it's actually history that has already happened in the past.

History is a river connecting antiquity and reality, and only Chinese history has a complete inheritance from antiquity to reality. Much of the history of the West is either close to reality, or it has been broken since ancient times, and the completeness and continuity are much worse.

So, even if there are some copies of Western history in the future, Dark Sands will definitely have a lower priority and will only exist as a side line.

At present, Meng Yuan has not even made a sharp deal about Chinese history, and he certainly does not have the spare energy to pay attention to historical slices related to Western history.

In short, the game is getting more and more popular.

But Du Gang's investigation of this game still has made little progress.

Even if he had already cleared the Assassin's Trials.

Entering the game world of "Dark Sand" as usual, Du Gang pondered whether to go to other trial dungeons to have a look, or continue to smash the assassin dungeon and improve his customs clearance process.

Just when he was struggling with this, suddenly, the space in front of his eyes appeared as ripples like the surface of the water.

A young man with delicate eyebrows, a handsome face, and a little mournful, came to him.

Du Gang was stunned for a moment, because he had seen this person.

Isn't this the "persuasion brother" I met when I first entered the game "Dark Sand"?

The place he was in was still the Heavenly Palace that floated in the air before entering the trial dungeon, surrounded by smoke, and the thick white stone pillars reached into the sky, like the abode of immortals.

When he first came, he met this persuasion brother, with the title of "mediocre returner who failed the trial" on his head, and after spreading a negative energy to him, he also handed him a special jade pendant that could enter the trial copy, symbolizing the identity inheritance of the order.

Obviously, it's all a cutscene arranged by the game, and every player will meet this brother when they enter the game, and they will go through the same process.

But after that, the persuasion brother never appeared again.

"Hello, Mr. Du Gang.

"To reintroduce myself, I'm the head of operations for the game Dark Sand, and you can call me 'Beichen'.

"I know that you are special, so I want to talk to you openly and honestly today.

"You can ask any questions you have, and I will do my best to help you answer them."

Meng Yuan made a simple self-introduction, although his face and name are fake, but the identity of the person in charge of game operation and maintenance is too real to be true.

Meng Yuan didn't dare to say that he was the chief designer of this game, although there were only two people in this game, he and Shen Shang, and the identity of Shen Shang was more like a programmer or a miscellaneous planner, but Meng Yuan was also very self-aware and knew that this game was not designed by himself at all.

At best, he is an operation and maintenance person.

Du Gang couldn't help but be surprised.

On the one hand, I was a little surprised, because the official of this game has always been very mysterious, and he has a non-answering attitude towards everyone, and this time he actually sent an insider with such a high status to meet him, which is really a little flattering.

The person in charge of operation and maintenance is a key person who can almost be equal to the main designer in the architecture of a game.

On the other hand, it is full of vigilance.

Because Du Gang didn't know how the other party knew that he had a "special identity"!

As the head of the special service team, the content of his work is strictly confidential, and there is almost no possibility of any leakage. But the other party's attitude was so determined, which of course made Du Gang full of vigilance.

However, when you think about the mystery of this mysterious company, and think about the black technology that cannot be explained by science at present, including EEG ripple recognition technology, it seems that the priority of this matter can be put on a back burner.

Meng Yuan beckoned, and two wide stone chairs that matched the scene appeared in the scene, signaling Du Gang to sit down.

Actually, this thing is not comfortable to sit on, but there is no way, you have to keep your own force.

Immediately afterwards, Meng Yuan raised his hand to Du Gang, and Du Gang noticed that there was a cigarette between the two fingers of his right hand at some point, which had been lit, and it was his favorite brand to smoke.

"Feel free." Meng Yuan said.

Du Gang was silent for a moment, and then said, "Thank you." ”

It seems that the head of operations named Beichen knows a lot more about him than he imagined. Even he knows about his love of smoking, and he also knows the specific brand.

This no longer seems to be explained by a simple leak of information.

Du Gang picked up the cigarette and took a puff, and found that the taste was no different from the real one, but here, when he exhaled, he no longer exhaled the smoke, and it seemed that the second-hand smoke was directly ignored by this virtual world.

After the pleasantries, it's time to get down to business.

Du Gang had too many doubts, but he could only ask them one by one.

"Mr. Beichen, what kind of company are you? Where is the address? These virtual reality game technologies ...... Where did it come from? ”

Meng Yuan didn't answer immediately, but sold it a little.

"I can give you a very clear answer to these questions. However, once you know these truths, you won't be able to access some of the most important aspects of the game.

"Are you sure you want to know?"

Du Gang hesitated slightly, and then nodded: "Sure." ”

Although he likes the game "Dark Sand" a lot, whether it is out of the need for work or a sense of responsibility, he must know the truth. As for missing a part of the experience, it's not a heavy price to pay for him.

Meng Yuan nodded, obviously expecting Du Gang to make such a choice.

"Okay, then I'll go straight to the showdown, after all, "Dark Sand" wants to hide from the players all the time, and it really needs your cooperation.

"Actually, Dark Sand is not a game.

"You see the CG of the game at the beginning, all the things about the Orderer, it's all true.

"There are indeed demons in this world, and demons are indeed hiding in the past history and are ready to move, trying in vain to tamper with the historical line of the past, and even enter reality and harm the world.

"And "Dark Sand" is actually a special selection process for the orderers, with the purpose of selecting the right people to enter a specific slice of history, destroy those demons, and maintain the safety of all mankind.

"And all the technologies you see that can't be explained by science are actually the special abilities of the order."