msmithbooks Chapter 22 Game Screen Recording
Chapter 22 Game Screen Recording
"Is this the fun game you mentioned that can lower mental energy?"
Beside the big locust tree at the village entrance, Yan Junchi looked up and surveyed the surrounding game environment, his tone full of blatant disdain and contempt.
"Indeed, this is the first time I've ever played... such a 'simple' game."
Accompanying Yan Junchi into the game were his two friends, Gao Yang and Fang Haoyu. At that moment, Fang Haoyu was scrutinizing the game environment with a critical eye, clicking his tongue in agreement with Yan Junchi.
"Tian Baiwei, I didn't mean anything by it..." Yan Junchi said with a "I'm doing this for your sake" expression, "I think... your most urgent task should be to play more good games."
He deliberately emphasized the word "okay" to mock Tian Baiwei for not having played any high-quality games, which was why she treated trash games as treasures.
"Luckily, only 6 of us came this time."
"Otherwise, this game, which can only accommodate a maximum of 10 people at a time, wouldn't be able to hold so many of us..."
"Alright, alright..."
Also coming in this time was their class monitor, Geng Yao.
Geng Yao wasn't actually that interested in games, but she knew about the feud between Tian Baiwei and Yan Junchi, so to prevent the two groups from fighting in the game, Geng Yao had to come in and try to smooth things over.
"The game hasn't started yet... Yan Junchi, please be patient. Maybe the game just has a simple login environment."
"After all, this is a game for competition. Sacrificing some unnecessary design elements to meet the competition requirements is understandable, right?"
With Geng Yao mediating, Yan Junchi, out of respect for the class monitor, merely snorted and refrained from further mockery.
Geng Yao breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Tian Baiwei, who had been lost in thought since entering the game: "Baiwei, how do we play this game from here on out?"
Tian Baiwei was immersed in experiencing the new content of the game update—
She finally smelled it!
However, the smell in the air seemed to be different from what she had expected: she thought she would smell the cold, desolate scent of the wilderness, but what rushed into her nose was a mixture of damp earth, decaying wood, and old incense.
It has a very strange smell... Why did the game's creators design such a smell?
She was deep in thought when she suddenly felt her arm being gently pushed.
"Weiwei, Weiwei, the class monitor is calling you..." Liang Lexuan, her friend who entered the game with her, was trying to bring her back to her senses.
Tian Baiwei quickly snapped out of her thoughts and looked at Geng Yao: "Ah? Oh..."
"Oh... the NPC will appear soon..."
Speaking of "NPCs," Tian Baiwei not only thought of the elusive village chief, but also recalled the village chief's sudden smile before the last game failure, which made her shudder.
"laugh……"
Yan Junchi noticed Tian Baiwei's trembling and couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Now I'm genuinely curious, just how terrifying is this game? It hasn't even started yet, and it's already scaring Tian Baiwei, who ranked first in the last combat training, like this?"
Tian Baiwei shifted her thoughts from the village chief to Yan Junchi. Uncharacteristically, she didn't refute him, but instead asked him a seemingly unrelated question: "In that case, you shouldn't mind if I record this game, right?"
Although he didn't understand why Tian Baiwei suddenly said that, Yan Junchi certainly wouldn't show weakness in front of her: "If you want to record, then record..."
"Anyway, I wasn't the one who got scared..."
Having received permission, Tian Baiwei gave a meaningful smile, not even bothering to argue with Yan Junchi about his mutterings.
"you……"
"You mean... one of those college students who said they were coming to do social research?"
The sudden, rough sound startled everyone.
This time, the "lucky one" who got "hit right in the face" by the village chief was Fang Haoyu, who happened to be standing on the very edge.
He was jolted by the sudden chill on the back of his neck, and jumped up as if electrocuted. Gao Yang, who was standing not far from him, was not startled by the village chief's sudden appearance and voice, but was startled by Fang Haoyu's sudden leap. He gasped and staggered back two steps, almost tripping over Yan Junchi.
The scene was somewhat comical, and it was faithfully recorded by the camera that Tian Baiwei had just turned on.
Although Tian Baiwei was prepared this time, her heart still skipped a beat when she saw the village chief appear silently in the thick fog.
However, Tian Baiwei maintained a calm and composed demeanor, and even mocked the three people on the other side who had almost collapsed, feigning concern as she asked, "Hey, you three... are you alright?"
"Were you startled?"
After being rebuked by Tian Baiwei, the three people came to their senses.
To cover up the fact that they were startled at the very beginning of the game, Yan Junchi coughed lightly: "Ahem...we, we weren't startled."
"We are...we are..."
His words caught in his throat, clearly unable to find a suitable excuse, until he saw the village chief's expressionless face, at which point a thought flashed through his mind: "We were surprised because of this NPC, this NPC is so poorly made, that's why..."
"Yes, yes, yes..."
The other two quickly echoed this sentiment, then began to criticize the village chief: "Look at his stiff expression, he looks like a mannequin."
"Exactly, it's obvious that they didn't even bother with any debugging."
"This is the first time we've seen such a poorly made game. We were so surprised that we overreacted. Sorry for the embarrassment..."
The village chief, the center of the discussion, stood quietly in place, seemingly blending into the deathly silence around him, as if what Yan Junchi and the others were saying had nothing to do with him.
Seeing that Yan Junchi and the others had finally stopped talking, he continued, "I am the village chief here."
"Let's go..."
The village chief glanced at them indifferently, then turned around: "I'll take you into the village."