VCRMM: Chapter 299

“The first phase of the Siasa Ruins Exploration—the game team finally got serious about the VR plot?”

On this day, as countless guild players were vigorously exploring the strategy to defeat the screaming dryad, such a post was quietly posted on the forum.

Many players who saw this title for the first time didn’t think much of it. After all, the ruins exploration mission was released less than a day ago. It was impossible for someone to find the ruins so quickly, right?

The moment they clicked on the post and saw the video, countless people exclaimed at the same time. ‘F*k!’

The video started in complete darkness. The slowly brightening silver-white light rendered the entire dim space with a feeling of emptiness and loneliness, which made people’s nerves tense.

“Hello, everyone. Guess where I am now?”

The young man’s slightly silly voice suddenly sounded. It perfectly destroyed the sense of mystery and was despised by the players in the barrage.

“That’s right. Welcome to the Siasa Ruins! I am everyone’s favorite streamer, Changan Yipianyu!”

Deng Jianan advertised himself before showing the system notification. “I’m not kidding you. This is really the Siasa Ruins.”

The players had to believe it after seeing the system notification records.

[6666.]

[This streamer is awesome! So where are the Siasa Ruins? How did you get in?]

[Brother An, I’m an old fan. Please send me a private message.]

The moment they saw this, countless people clicked pause before contacting Deng Jianan through various channels.

The Siasa Ruins!

Inscription master!

This was what the big guilds were determined to obtain. The energy of Starry Sky Age had gradually emerged. The more resources the guilds in the game, the greater the benefits they could convert.

For a profession with bright financial prospects like an inscription master, the inheritance must be in their own hands.

At the same time, the teams still fighting the screaming dryads, especially the guild aces, couldn’t help coughing up blood after hearing the news.

How did these two people enter the ruins?

On the other hand, the casual players were more focused on the video content.

[Sprite World? Becoming sprite-sized? So did the streamer become bigger or smaller?]

[My blind guess is bigger.]

[Nonsense. There is no such open space in the dense Siasa Forest. If he grew into a giant, it must be in another dimension.]

Since it was an edited video, Deng Jianan couldn’t interact with the barrage. He finished shooting the system notifications and continued to explore the surrounding environment, allowing the audience to experience that mysterious feeling again.

In particular, it was now night. Watching it alone when it was quiet gave them the type of scary atmosphere of an outdoor adventure.

“High energy warning ahead!”

At this moment, subtitles suddenly appeared.

Immediately afterward, the beautiful and strange sprite boy appeared on the screen. The camera gave him a close-up, causing a burst of screams from the barrage.

[A beauty critical strike!]

[Ahhh, is this the little sprite mentioned in the mission clue? He is so beautiful!]

[He is running away. Chase him!]

The audience watched Deng Jianan and his companion chasing the sprite boy to the top of the huge black hole. They saw the boy disappear into the darkness and couldn’t help saying that it was a pity.

Then the subtitles appeared again.

“High energy warning. Brother An will show you the first carefully crafted cutscene CG by the game team!”

The audience’s curiosity was aroused.

Everyone knew that the degree of freedom in Starry Sky Age was ridiculously high. NPCs particularly liked to follow the plot on their own. Once they missed it, the plot would never be reproduced again unless there was a player recording it.

This was also one of the reasons why the fans of the games were anxiously urging the game company to quickly launch new game helmets and game cabins. Even though the number of game experience stores across the country had increased to 500, it was still unable to meet the needs of the players.

So, what was the cutscene CG that Changan Yipianyue mentioned?

In the picture, Deng Jianan and his companion put on searchlight hats and flew into the deep black hole together. Even with the beam of light, the visibility range was extremely low.

Suddenly, the picture brightened.

[Ding~ You have triggered the inscription illusion.]

The system notification appeared and disappeared. This dusty piece of history finally became known to the world again through Deng Jianan’s lens.

The inscription illusion wasn’t a 2D picture and made them feel as if they were truly part of it. If they stretched out their hands, they seemed to be able to touch the characters in the illusion.

In fact, Deng Jianan did so.

He stood on the treetop and reached out to touch the boy standing next to him. Then, for the first time since playing Starry Sky Age, he experienced going through the model.

He waved his arms but felt nothing. The boy in front of him was just a virtual image.

Deng Jianan withdrew his hand and started to listen quietly to the boy’s story.

He seemed to have arrived in Siasa a hundred years ago.

He was on the battlefield, watching people use all types of skills he had never seen before to deal with the strange beasts that suddenly appeared. He watched them return triumphantly and celebrate together by drinking around the campfire.

The lively and energetic atmosphere could infect almost everyone.

Then things started to go downhill.

There was no background music in the illusion, but there was in Deng Jianan’s video. He added background music to the video, making it more touching and tear-jerking.

Ultimately, Siasa was destroyed by the invasion of alien plants. The elderly and children in the underground ruins died one after another from hunger and disease, leaving only that lonely figure.

The old man was carving something on the stone wall, and his old voice also sounded in the illusion.

“If you see this inscription illusion later, I should be gone. But I left behind the entire inheritance of the inscription master lineage.”

“This is my last gift to the world. I hope you can inherit it and let the history of inscription masters continue…”

At this point, the video went dark and a line of subtitles appeared.

[The first episode of the exploration of the Siasa Ruins ends here. To know what happens next, please watch the next episode!]

Then the video stopped abruptly.

Countless viewers exclaimed.

[That’s it?]

[I was enjoying it. Why is it gone?]

[Brother An, you are so short.]

[The quality of this CG is so high. It feels like I am completely back to that scene. How shocking would it actually be on the scene?]

[I’ve unlocked a new way to watch movies.]

[Is it… that type of short movie?]

[The person upstairs, please put on your clothes!]

[So, where is the entrance to the ruins? I want to go in and take a look. Not to mention the inheritance, just watching the CG is worth it.]

The first wave of players who watched the video started a heated discussion on the past.

Firstly, judging from the end of the video, Turles and the others had moved underground and there was the scene of Turles carving on the stone wall. Then this ruin was likely to be underground.

However, after a hundred years of changes, the entrance to the underground ruins could no longer be identified based on the video.

Now, less than a day had passed since the inheritance mission was released. During this day, the number of screaming dryads that had been killed was no more than three.

The items dropped by each tree were almost all visible. There were so many eyes watching, so it was difficult for any guild to maintain complete confidentiality.

Thus, it was obvious that killing the tree dryad wasn’t the correct way to get the clue to the entrance of the ruins.

This conclusion made countless mercenary groups fighting monsters almost cough up blood.

It turned out that all this time and all these strategies were a waste?

But it was no longer appropriate to stop at this time.

It was okay for those who had just started, but for those who were halfway through, it was hard to back off. They could only continue to fight hard.

After all, they had spent a huge price before. If they stopped now, the cost sunk into it would be too high. Even a big guild couldn’t afford the loss.

If they continued to defeat the screaming dryad, they could at least get one or two dropped items to make up for their investment. It might not be worth it if they stopped now and looked for the ruins.

Deng Jianan’s exploration video caused countless large guilds to adjust their strategies. Undercurrents surged in Siasa Forest. The players who kept rushing over no longer joined the ranks of attacking monsters.

They turned to the dense forest map and started a thorough search.

However, the arrival of night and the disruption caused by the screaming dryads meant that the progress wasn’t smooth. They could only advance slowly.

As for Deng Jianan and his companion, they naturally didn’t give up on contacting the two people, but they never received a reply.

In addition to the ruins issue that everyone was concerned about now, the information revealed in the historical materials of Deng Jianan’s video attracted the attention of many research enthusiasts.

[God has mercy on us! The NPC might’ve stolen the plot again, but they finally left us information!]

[This historical material is so shocking. The information that can be analyzed is terrifying!]

A famous research expert on the forum started to talk.

[Let’s not talk about the culture of Siasa for now. We will explore this later. Through this illusion, we can finally infer what exactly happened in the natural disaster that swept across all of Escher Star a hundred years ago.]

[The strange beasts mentioned by the people of Siasa are the interstellar beasts we are facing now.]

[Hundreds of years ago, the interstellar beasts emerged from cracks and invaded Escher Star.]

At this point, the researcher released a few screenshots. In them, one could clearly see the huge crack in the void where the first wave of alien beasts appeared.

[This should be a space crack, connecting to another planet or even another world!]

[The first wave of invaders were wiped out by the indigenous NPCs, but their numbers were too large and their strength shouldn’t be underestimated. What was even more deadly was that various highly aggressive alien plants appeared out of nowhere, such as the screaming dryad.]

[Under the invasion of such a large number of alien beasts and plants, on the entire Escher Star, no other country survived except for the once strongest country, the Roland Empire.]

[However, this planet is very large. It can’t be ruled out that there is still life lingering in some corner of the planet, just like Turles in the Siasa Ruins.]

[His life might’ve come to an end, but there are still lives like the sprite in the ruins.]

[This should be the entire background story of the novice planet—Escher Star. The main task of the braves from another world is to rebuild the civilization of Escher Star from the ruins!]

[Now I am curious about how the last wave of alien plants appeared out of thin air? In addition, where did these alien beasts, known as interstellar beasts, come from?]

[It is too hard to find an NPC who witnessed the disaster a hundred years ago.]

[Perhaps we will need to wait until the interstellar map is opened to find the answers to these questions, but this historical material is still very valuable!]

Deng Jianan also saw this long review and couldn’t help giving a thumbs up to the researcher.

However, he was now more concerned about the results of Yin Xing’s test, because… he hadn’t come out?

Had he passed the test?

In the test passage, Yin Xing was carefully reproducing the inscription left by Small Round Biscuit.

Of course, even if the inscription was engraved successfully, it wouldn’t have any special effects. In order for an inscription to have any effect, in addition to perfectly reproducing the pattern, it also required the injection of corresponding materials and energy.

However, perfectly reproducing the inscription was the foundation. It was also the focus of Small Round Biscuit’s test.

This didn’t pose a problem for Yin Xing.

As a former architect, he possessed excellent drawing skills. The architectural blueprints he drew were comparable to machine printing.

Even the sprite boy, who was hiding and secretly observing, couldn’t help nodding secretly and started to look forward to this human.