VCRMM: Chapter 397

Paul didn’t want to scream so miserably.

However, the next moment when he clicked confirm to enter the game, he found that the surrounding text descriptions had disappeared.

He turned into a meteor and rushed straight toward the planet called Escher from a height of tens of thousands of meters high.

He felt as if his whole body was about to burn up. Once he encountered the planet’s atmosphere, his speed dropped significantly but the high temperature was even more torturous.

Paul’s heart was beating so fast that it rushed straight into the sky. After passing through the atmosphere, it rushed toward the ground with an unstoppable momentum.

He wasn’t afraid of heights, or he wouldn’t have chosen the talent of a wind warrior, but who could stand such an exciting scene? It was a thousand times more terrifying than skydiving!

Paul screamed all the way and even forgot that he was in a game. Just when he thought he was going to fall to the ground and be smashed to death…

Everything came to a sudden stop and he fell into darkness.

Paul was gasping heavily. The darkness was so quiet that he could hear his own breathing and the beating of his heart…

It was all so real that he was completely shocked.

Gradually, light appeared in the darkness.

The light became brighter and brighter, illuminating the surrounding areas. Then clear ambient sounds gradually entered his ears.

Paul looked at everything in front of him blankly, watching the figures constantly appearing and disappearing from the magic circle under the magnificent dome of this hall.

Under the extreme impact just now, he was extremely stunned and couldn’t come back to his senses for a long time. Even the system notification sound in his ears couldn’t wake him up until lines of barrage floated from the live broadcast room in front of him.

[Hahahaha, are you surprised or shocked to death?]

[I’m laughing to death. There are actually people who choose to land directly without changing the realism. This streamer is really a warrior!]

[Don’t laugh. I didn’t read the system notifications at first and I’m a bit afraid of heights. I almost had a heart attack when this happened.]

[Hahaha, he is using a game helmet. Even if it is set at 100% realism, it is only 80% of the game cabin. The horror level has obviously been reduced!]

Due to the refined CG, the option to adjust the sense of realism was placed after selecting the profession. If it was skipped, they would experience what it felt like to be a meteor hitting the ground.

It was a means used by the game team to attract players. It was also an opening CG that many thrill-seeking fans liked very much and never got tired of.

Of course, if the sense of realism was lowered to 0, they would go directly to the birth point. The players could choose it themselves.

Paul couldn’t understand the Chinese comments in the barrage, but he still saw one or two comments in the international common language that showed concern for him.

At this time, Paul finally found his voice.

“Oh my god, what was that just now?”

He screamed miserably when he fell down, but Paul was actually very brave. He recalled the feeling of adrenaline rushing and felt it was extremely thrilling.

He wanted to do it again!

“What? That was just the opening CG? It really isn’t magic?”

Paul looked around and turned his hands over and over again. “F*k, this is so real!”

He looked at the lines on his palm, gulped and realized… He could actually do such a delicate action like swallowing!

Then he wiped his forehead again, only to see that his palms were sweaty. It was sweat from the fright just now.

“Brothers, I really think I have come to another world!”

Paul said seriously.

Then he raised his hand and pinched his face hard.

“Hiss! It hurts! It really hurts!”

“The touch is so real!”

Paul touched his cheek, which was slightly hot after being pinched.

He finally understood why people who played Starry Sky Age said that Hegemony was a half-finished product!

Compared with Starry Sky Age, Hegemony was simply a shoddy product. He hadn’t forgotten that he was using low-end equipment.

What if it was a game cabin, high-end equipment? What would the experience be like?

Paul simply couldn’t imagine it. Looking at the world in front of him, if it wasn’t for the user interface and live broadcast room screen floating in front of him, he really couldn’t believe that this was a game.

“Get out of the way! Don’t block the road!”

Paul stood still and was bumped into by a teleported player. He was pushed aside and hurriedly ran out of the teleportation hall.

Paul staggered to his feet. Instead of feeling the discomfort of being hit, he was startled once again.

“My character model wasn’t penetrated!”

This was one of the points that Hegemony was criticized for. The problem of character penetration was very serious.

Of course, nothing could be done about it.

Hegemony was really popular. Once there were many players, it was easy for the phenomenon from online games to occur and the experience would worsen.

However, Paul discovered that there was no penetration phenomenon at all at the crowded birth point of Starry Sky Age.

He could even feel the air becoming heavy due to there being too many people in this crowded place.

“Everyone, this is amazing! Starry Sky Age is beyond my understanding. I am so excited to see what will happen next?”

“New braves, please gather here!”

A man who looked like an NPC stood at the door of the teleportation hall and shouted loudly into a loudspeaker. Once Paul heard this voice, a guidance task popped up in front of him.

After he accepted it, he squeezed through the crowd.

[None of these NPC faces are repeated! The modeler is too detail-oriented!]

[It doesn’t matter how detailed the facial features are, they all have the same expressions. Is this a game with 99% realism? I can’t see it.]

The NPC guards maintained order at the scene. They looked impartial and ruthless, but in fact, this was the best expression to show when facing the braves.

It was because once they acted special to the braves, such as smiling at them, the braves were likely to pester them and ask them for a hidden mission!

If they were pestered and forced to give a mission, they would be in trouble later. It was because missions required rewards! Then after giving a mission, there would be a steady stream of braves asking them for rewards later!

After the wallets of several high-ranking guard captains were emptied, all the guards who had long-term contact with the braves had learned the skill of facial paralysis.

Paul didn’t know this. He kept looking around as he waited.

He also noticed the NPCs’ expressionless faces. He thought this was a point worth talking about. However, when he approached an NPC guard to take a photo, he found something was wrong.

A guard nearby… seemed to have just peeked at him!

Paul couldn’t help moving closer.

Then he noticed the NPC’s eyes flickering. As his face got closer, the young NPC guard’s pupils trembled.

“You… were you looking at me just now?” Paul asked tentatively.

He actually hadn’t expected to get a response. Then he saw the NPC taking one step back and shaking his head with a pale face. “No, I didn’t. Don’t talk nonsense!”

All the guards nearby looked as if they couldn’t bear to watch.

Young people were still too impatient. The brave would definitely pester him now.

Paul was a bit confused. He felt that the NPC in front of him was so vivid that it was hard to tell that this was a game character.

He reached out to touch the guard’s face, but was grabbed by a nearby player and dragged to the side. He apologized to the guard while dragging Paul, “Sorry, sorry, he’s new here. He is sorry for offending you!”

Paul, who was dragged away, was even more confused.

Wasn’t the interactive system of Starry Sky Age too amazing? He really felt like he was being dragged around in reality.

The guard’s expression finally relaxed as if he had survived a disaster.

[Wow, this little brother’s frightened expression is so cute!]

[Paul, how can you tease an NPC? Let me do it!]

[Is this the birthplace of Glass Sea City? I’m going to see this guy! He is so handsome ahhhh!]

“Brother, you actually dared to openly provoke an NPC? Aren’t you afraid of losing favorability?”

On the other side, the player who kindly dragged Paul away let him go and said, “If three NPCs have negative favorability toward you, you won’t be able to use the faction warehouse!”

Paul looked at this familiar player and belatedly realized…

“Everyone, I actually understand what they are saying? These NPCs and players are speaking in the standard international language!”

Paul’s fans saw it too.

To be honest, the opening CG was really cool, but as audience members in front of the screen, they couldn’t be fully immersed in the scene no matter how thrilling it was.

However, they gained a different feeling when the guidance task was done later.

As a virtual reality holographic game that became very popular this year, Hegemony was naturally a game that every hardcore fan couldn’t miss. They also watched a lot of game broadcasts.

Therefore, they could easily distinguish that the details of Starry Sky Age were obviously richer, to the extent where no flaws could be found even with a magnifying glass!

They would believe it if they were told that this was a movie made by real people!

Moreover, after the game system detected that Paul was a foreign player, it automatically switched to the international common language mode. The conversations of the NPCs and surrounding players were translated in real time!

It was so terrifying!

From this point, it could be seen that Starry Sky Age shouldn’t be intended to be xenophobic or there would be no need to create a language translation system that would never be used.

Maybe… It was really because the production capacity of gaming equipment couldn’t keep up that they didn’t open overseas servers!

Woo woo woo, they really wanted to play this game too!

In the game, the player who dragged Paul away smiled at him. “Brother, this is your first time playing the game. Do you want to join my mercenary group? I’ll take you flying!”