Chapter 1: The Journey of the Empire
April 25, 633 in the Zhuxia calendar.
Zhang Sheng glanced at the time displayed on the virtual light wall, leaned against the window, and looked at this sci-fi city in the distance, but his mind was not on it at all.
Back in the past, he didn't expect such a strange thing to happen, and it happened to him.
The Zhuxia calendar is a new calendar used by the Chinese immigrants to open a new round of interstellar immigration after the death of the earth and stars. The life stars of the immigrants of the Huaxia Kingdom are all named after the primordial sexagenary branches, such as [阏運].
The original ten heavenly stems are: Yan Feng, Zhanmeng, Rouzhao, Qiangyuan, Zhuyong, Tuwei, Shangzhang, Chongguang, Xuanhuang, and Zhaoyang.
The planet where Zhang Sheng lives is the eighth star, named Chongguang Star.
At present, Huaxia has only nine life stars, and it has not even used up ten days of dryness, and the population distributed on each life star is far less than that of the former earth stars, the most of which is less than 2 billion, and the least of which is only 500 million three years ago.
The level of technology in the interstellar age is quite exaggerated, but even so, it cannot touch time. Back in the days when humans couldn't stop the demise of the planet and interstellar migration didn't progress for a long time, going back to the past was a popular research topic that has not stopped to this day.
There are no regrets in life, even saints can't do it, going back to the past and making up for regrets is probably what everyone has fantasized about to a greater or lesser extent.
Zhang Sheng's biggest regret is the early death of his parents, maybe it is an illusion, the more advanced science and technology, the more diseases that cannot be solved inexplicably. The son wants to raise but does not wait, the more he grows older, the more Zhang Sheng sighs.
Back in the past, this kind of opportunity happened to him, and Zhang Sheng himself felt that it was wasted.
Five years, the time span is not large, Zhang Sheng also fantasized about being a great man who pushes the whole society forward, but unfortunately he doesn't have that ability. Thinking about his experience in the past five years in his previous life, his focus and energy were all on "The Journey of Empire", and it seems that the prophetic sense can only be used on this.
"Journey of Empire" is a virtual reality game recently developed by Huaxia, with a high degree of realism, almost reaching the level of traversal, and time and reality are as high as four to one, which is the product of military to civilian. Therefore, judging from the calendar, Zhang Sheng has only traveled through five years, but in "The Journey of the Empire" it is twenty years.
The more realistic it is, the closer it is to the reality of everyday life, and the higher the cost of maintaining the character's state.
"Journey of Empire" is based on the background of classical warfare, adding the aura system, incorporating some of the mountains and rivers of the extinct earth star, places of interest, famous generals and celebrities of ancient China, and some legends of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Although it is a war background, it does not affect the experience of casual players, in fact, casual players account for a larger proportion. Combat players have a lower limit of five percent of their pain perception, and they can't be completely shielded, even if it's only five percent, it's an exaggeration to break an arm or leg.
At present, "Journey to Empire" has just been launched for a month, and it has been in the game for four months, and players are still struggling to explore. It's good to have a high degree of realism, but the ensuing troubles make all players want to die, and they are hungry and screaming when they eat three meals a day, and it's not easy to earn food and accommodation every day, and it's even more difficult to get started with the battle.
Everyone is complaining, but no one wants to let them go back to playing the same virtual games as before.
Zhang Sheng walked into the virtual warehouse and landed on "Journey to the Empire".
The world generated by "Journey to Empire" is called the "Great Wilderness", and in addition to the vast wilderness, there are also nine major forces, or nine kingdoms formed by the collapse of an empire.
Legend has it that the last emperor of the Great Xia Empire wanted to make the gods surrender and achieve the unity of heaven and earth, so he led a large army to cut down the sky. But in the end, Emperor Xia still failed, he and his army failed to come back, at the most critical moment, the nine great families of the Great Xia Empire stole the Jiuding of the Great Xia Town, causing the capital Jiuding City to be flooded by the blood of the gods, turned into a place abandoned by the gods, cursed, millions of people died in it, and countless gods fell into it.
The curse of the gods centered on Jiuding City, spreading to all sides, the Great Xia royal family was extinct, the nine major forces each held a tripod, and the migrants went to the east and west, and finally established a feudal state in the distant frontier land in the name of the Jiuding in their hands.
Yang, Jing, Liang, Xu, Yu, Yong, Qing, Yan, Ji, the nine countries are the nine camps, and the players of the nine stars come to one country respectively. Zhang Sheng's Chongguang Star was assigned to the Great Liang Kingdom.
Looking at the familiar and unfamiliar surroundings, Zhang Sheng was in a trance for a moment. This should be the apprentice residence of the Yan Clan's Distillery in Xiaguan Town, Yeyu City.
"Journey of Empires" cannot directly recharge real money into game currency, and can only be bought through [Pixiu Mall], if a player sells it, it can be bought, and the official two-way handling fee is charged.
The problem is that everyone is still in the exploration stage, and there are not many coppers in their hands, except for those veterans, only a few fierce people dare to enter the mountains and forests to hunt beasts. Most people choose to find a workshop in the town to be an apprentice with food and shelter, and Zhang Sheng is no different.
"Zhang Sheng, why did you come up so late today?"
"Something delayed a bit."
"Then hurry up, today you have to inspect the fermentation of the previous batch of wine, be careful of being scolded by the master again."
"Here we are."
After all, the higher the degree of authenticity, the intelligence of the aborigines is not low, in order not to arouse the disgust of the aborigines, it is natural to take a normal name. However, most people habitually use their real names, anyway, the system does not limit the uniqueness of the name, although some unlucky eggs may have hundreds of thousands of "half-brother" brothers with the same name and surname, but the system is used to distinguish the household registration number, and the same name and surname do not affect anything.
"What, you're quitting?" Zhang Sheng found the master of the winery, but he didn't want to continue working here.
He has all the experience he should have, and he knows what he should know, so there is no need to continue wasting time here.
"Yes."
"Well, I was very optimistic about it." The master looked regretful, "You only worked for three days this month, and you have no salary, so I can only give you a month." ”
"Thank you, master."
Their apprentices are cheap laborers found by the aborigines, with food and shelter, and only a monthly salary of 100 copper coins, and the winery will also give a jar of homebrew every month as a benefit.
A copper coin can buy a steamed bun, even if you are an apprentice for a year, you can't afford to buy a leather armor! In his last life, he spent a full year in this small brewery, where he learned cheap winemaking.
This time he's going to take a shortcut!
Three hundred copper coins, this is all his worth, without the support of food and shelter, his operation must be fast, otherwise it is not uncommon to starve to death.
Zhang Sheng spent a hundred copper coins and got into a carriage that went to Yeyu City.