Lu Ping looked out the car window at the huge electronic screens on the outer walls of the buildings.
It is obvious that Dreamweaver City is covered by fog all year round and does not see sunlight, but when all these billboards are lit up, the Lower Ten District will still be illuminated as bright as day, giving Lu Ping a strange and bizarre illusion - as if this is still a previous life. In this modern technological city, people live a beautiful life, and the sin and filth in the shadows are just a dream.
But he soon came back to his senses, laughed at himself, and continued to watch the promotional video of the virtual game "Datang".
I have to say that just looking at the CG seems to be a huge, expensive production. The scenes are grand and the pictures are exquisite. There are famous mountains and rivers, overseas fairy islands, prosperous cities... many scenery details are lifelike, and the music is also fascinating.
But it is obviously not the Tang Dynasty in history, but a fictional fictional world. Because in Lu Ping's promotional video, he saw an elegant immortal riding a flying sword across famous mountains and rivers, a powerful warrior who could break mountains and rocks with one punch, a Taoist holding a fly whisk and stepping on auspicious clouds, and a monk wrapped in the golden shadow of the Buddha. , various monsters with different images...
Obviously, it is a game world with various extraordinary professions, the setting of the bad streets in the previous life.
It's just that as a virtual game, it definitely feels different when you actually play it. Imagine that your nerves are connected to the virtual network and you are really walking on the antique streets. You can feel the unevenness of the floor tiles on the soles of your feet, and you can smell the depth of the alley with your nose. The aroma of wine comes from everywhere. If you are thirsty, you can sit down and drink a cup of fragrant tea at a roadside tea shop, and watch the literati or the Yingying Yanyan in the attic...
You can even visit a brothel and really feel the style of the Tang Dynasty; or go to the battlefield and personally charge into battle and kill enemies with your own hands; you can even become an immortal and a Buddha, fly into the sky and escape from the earth, and become a demon and ancestor...
If this world is as real as the promotional video, it will definitely have a strong appeal to people.
Especially in this world that has been invaded by the hell dimension, for those poor people who live in numbness every day and may have never seen the sun in their lives, such a virtual world means all kinds of enjoyments that are absolutely unavailable in reality!
But Lu Ping soon realized that this might be another trap of capitalists... Once this game becomes popular, all the hard-earned money of the poor will probably be invested in the game.
This is not uncommon. Many poor people in the Lower Ten Districts have the mentality of enjoying one day at a time. It is normal to use money to pursue temporary excitement...
At that time, as long as the capitalists maintain the operation of the game server, they can continue to sit and count money.
Lu Ping thought of this and paid a little attention to the upper right corner of the promotional video, where there was the logo of the game company.
He was slightly startled.
"Dream Web Company?" Lu Ping frowned, "The company where Qi Jing works? And... the ability granted by the third-turn spider undead is also called Dream Web."
What is the relationship between the two? Is it a coincidence? Or is there another reason?
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At the same time, Montnets Tower, 42nd floor.
In a huge silver-white conference room, a group of people sat around a 10-meter-diameter round table.
A promotional video for the game "Datang" was also played on the deepest wall of the conference room.
"Everyone." After the playback ended, a middle-aged man in white with black hair mixed with white silk said in a calm tone, "Eleven years, a full eleven years of design and development, and now it's finally time to release it.
"At present, this matter is the most important thing for the whole company. No matter what work you have been doing before, I ask you to put it aside first and do your best to do the work related to the release of "Datang"."
"I'll make some arrangements... Manager Zhang." The middle-aged man in white suddenly looked at a fat man.
It was an old man with gray hair, a lot of fat all over his body, and tiny eyes. He was the supervisor surnamed Zhang who went to Qi Jing's office to coerce her into doing unkind things!
"Mr. Qi, please tell me." Manager Zhang listened with a smile. Although his expression was not flattering, he was still respectful.
"Director Zhang, you are mainly responsible for collecting neural data..." the middle-aged man in white said.
suddenly.
The door of the conference room opened with a "chi-" sound.
The man in white's words stopped abruptly!
Everyone turned to look at the door in confusion... Only the company's management can open the door of this high-end conference room, but in order to release the game, all the senior executives who can come should be here...
Who is opening the door outside?
In everyone's surprised eyes...a slender spider leg stepped in.
Then came the second one, and then the third one!
Everyone's expressions changed.
The three sword legs are the third-level spider undead. This is something that everyone in the top management knows... and the third-level undead have a high status in the entire Dream Network Company!
The visitor quickly entered the conference room.
It was a slim woman with long hair, with a slender waist and a slender body, which could even be said to be a bit too long... Her hair was even wet, dripping with mucus, and she was casually wrapped in a gray cloth curtain. Like a curtain that was casually ripped from someone's house.
The whole person looked slightly embarrassed and exhausted, like a person who had just taken a bath and wrapped himself in a towel, or like some weak animal that had just emerged from an egg.
"Xiao Jing?" The middle-aged man in white with half-haired hair was stunned, and then a hint of joy flashed in his eyes, "You...succeeded in the third transformation?!"
The expressions of everyone in the conference room changed!
Deputy Director Qi Jing... was originally a second-level undead, as everyone knows.
It is said that when she underwent the second transformation, her soul almost couldn't bear it, and her consciousness almost collapsed and she lost herself... So when everyone heard that she ran to participate in the third gift ceremony, they all secretly thought that this woman was crazy.
But she didn't expect that she would actually become a third-turn undead?
Every third-level immortal is the director responsible for a large part of the company's business! Very high authority!
The one whose face changed even more was the fat manager Zhang.
His little eyes widened, and his hands rubbed nervously under the table.
Qi Jing raised her head and glanced at him obviously, but her eyes were calm, as if she was no different from looking at other people... Then she nodded to the middle-aged man in white: "Yes, Third Uncle, I succeeded."
"I know that the company's games have been released, so I came over quickly. Please continue to arrange your work...I listen carefully."
"If there's anything you need me to do, just feel free to arrange it."
"Okay." The middle-aged man in white nodded slightly and continued the topic.
Because of Qi Jing's appearance, he slightly changed the division of labor, but the meeting ended quickly and smoothly.
Everyone went back to their offices, but Qi Jing was stopped by a middle-aged man in white to stay alone.
"Xiaojing, I'm really surprised that you were able to successfully transform three times." The middle-aged man surnamed Qi looked serious, "But tell me honestly, did you do this to avenge Xiaodie? What's next? , are you going to find Chaofan who killed Xiaodie, and even take revenge on the organization behind him?"
"I must warn you. This is the most critical period for the company. Nothing can go wrong... No matter what kind of revenge plan you have, you must put it aside for the time being!"
"For the company's ten-year plan, you must not mess around, do you understand?"
