It was impossible to expect little yers to keep secrets, so after Murphy slightly leaked some “inside information” to Brother Loyalty, before afternoon arrived, news about rge numbers of neers joining in three days” had already spread all over the forum.
For those eagerly waiting yers, this was like sweet rain descending from heaven, making the entire forum as joyous as a new year celebration.
Previously, Administrator Alpha had admitted in a post that all current forum members were “reserve test personnel,” and repeatedly assured that once the production of gaming helmets increased, everyone on the forum would be able to enter the game and contribute their part to Transia’s rise.
Now that the long wait had finally yielded an opportunity, people were naturally delighted.
However, in Administrator Alpha’s forum group, some people quickly noticed “subtle changes” in the situation.
Leading Pigeon: 【??? Wasn’t the total number of people on the forum just over 500 a few days ago? How did it suddenly expand to over 700 today? And the numbers are still increasing? Also, why do all you neers have such strange names? Is this another mysterious special group?】
Wholesale Invincible Old Fording: 【Huh? Strange? I don’t find it strange at all. We received invitations through the otherworld beacon sent by Knight Typal toe to Transia and participate in this grand event, spreading the light of order and justice, isn’t that perfectly normal?
And why call it a ‘group’? We’re clearly a proper team!】
Torrent Knight Amir: 【That’s right, that’s right, the super proper kind! My great Torrent Knights Order is fully prepared, just waiting for Lord Murphy to open the dimensional portal to enter the otherworld! We must rebuild the name of knights and not let the Torrent’s glory fall.】Ah Yuen: 【Tone it down, guys. While it’s fine to use local etiquette when meeting RP parties in game, this is the forum, which belongs to the real world realm, brothers. Can we talk normally?
So you’re saying these forum neers are all RP yers?】
Archmage Marin: 【Yes, you can basically think of it that way. After Typal posted his game screenshots and recordings in several tavern groups we frequently visit, you should have seen how explosive it was. Anyway, several professional RP taverns have already exploded, everyone is extremely interested in this kind of surreal ‘call to duty’. The ‘ck Scythe Council’, ‘Farstrider Camp’ and ‘MI:7’ are all eager to try, while the ‘Deep Mountain Mining Company’ and ‘Craftsmen Council’ are also actively contacting us.
Even the ‘Blood Sail Pirates’ and ‘ckwater Pirates’ have been alerted.
However, currently the Torrent Knights Order doesn’t n to issuerger scale summons to ourpatriots, after all other otherworlds still need them. In any case, conservatively estimated at least 500 people have filled out applications in the past two days.
And as this trend spreads, those self-proimed rational folks who are still waiting and watching will eventually join in too.】
Onboard Joy Stick: 【??? How many people do you actually have? I thought RP yers were rare in any game, but looks like there are quite a lot?】
Wholesale Invincible Old Fording: 【Haha, few in one game, but add up multiple games and isn’t it a lot? Those groups of ours also have Novice thresholds, only veteran role-ying yers can possibly answer those questions correctly. We have not only remnants of the Silver Hand, but also Battlefield Old Six, Crusader Sleep Sister Warchief and Wastnd Scavengers.
Oh right, I think I also copied the link to an EVE group earlier, those guys seemed interested too, they’re much more professional than us.
As for numbers
Just our few groups add up to about 2,000-3,000 people I guess?】
Meow King: 【We’re doomed! If they alle in there won’t be any way forward for us regr yers, these guys will do everything possible to maintain that fantasy vor, this is really troublesome.】
Lumina Yanghen: 【What’s wrong? Looking down on us RP yers? We’re not inflexible either, and most of us are order aligned. We empathize better with NPCs than regr yers and are willing to spend time doing those quest chains regr yers don’t want to run. Brother Alpha choosing us was the right choice.
Besides, the brothers who joined these past few days aren’t just RP parties, didn’t Brother Stick also recruit many former professionals to join in this grand event?】
Onboard Joy Stick: 【I just do small stuff, nowhere near as dramatic as you guys, suddenly having hundreds of people running over but what you said makes sense, regr yers might not have the patience to do administrative management.@@novelbin@@
This really needs you roley folks to handle, otherwise it’s useless even if we conquer territory but have no one to manage it.】
Dump Truck Iaido: 【Brother Stick, got time tomorrow? Bring your brothers ande with us to Smuggler’s Woods to collect some debts.】
Onboard Joy Stick: 【Huh? What do you mean? What debts are we collecting in that ghostly ce?】
Dump Truck didn’t exin, but posted a screenshot of the “Thief Hog’s Message” quest triggered earlier in game, which brought out many lurkers.
Honest Dog Egg: 【??? The NPC we cultivated stole our earnings? Damn, how can we tolerate this? Brother Stick hurry and dispatch the army to eliminate them!】 ?α????è??
Sword Saint Ashina: 【Eliminate what? Hog is an NPC force we worked hard to cultivate, it and the Blood w n are currently the only gnoll tribe we canmunicate with, and didn’t they exin very clearly? They’re just helping us safeguard it, just go ask for it back tomorrow.
I guarantee you, Hog isn’t a bad guy.
Well, maybe it is a bad guy, but it’s a bad guy on our side, its name was even personally given by Lord Murphy. If you go eliminate the Blood w n, be careful Lord Murphy doesn’t exile you to the frontier.
There’s clearly a quest chain in there.】
Onboard Joy Stick: 【Little Ashina makes sense, you guys handle this yourselves, the winged cavalry assessment starts tomorrow, I need to work hard with my brothers to pass the assessment and transfer to cavalry.】
Fatal Orchid Huahua: 【Brother Stick have you gone stupid? You’re a vampire, you can fly! What cavalry are you trying to be?】
Onboard Joy Stick: 【Hehehe, it’s a man’s romance,dies wouldn’t understand, yes I can fly, but I don’t need to fly all the time right? Those armored warhorses are so cool.
Besides, I can fly, but do I have to let a modernmander lead infantry that’s not even up to Napoleonic standards?
You must be joking!
I can’t spec into the firepower superiority doctrine I want right now, at least let me spec into mobile deep strike doctrine! How do you expect me to do multi-line pration without mobility in actualbat?】
Sinking Fish ying Games at Work: 【@Fatal Orchid Huahua, sister, let me ask, are there many girls in our game?】
Spicy Gugu Chicken: 【Yo, a wild girl appeared! Master ball, throw!】
Lumina Yanghen: 【@Sinking Fish ying Games at Work, not many, just five of us now, but once you’re in game we can look out for each other, where are you from, girl?】
Sinking Fish ying Games at Work: 【Sigh, called here by an unreliable boss to y games with him, besides me there are three other unfortunate sisters together, we can’t not y or we’ll get our wages docked.】
Heaven’s Chosen Grayman: 【Wait! When I was having barbecue with Little Rich Brotherst night he mentioned this, the four sisters are Old Ho’s secretary team right?
Real professional managers!
Wow, the administrative professions are blessed now!
Sisters please give us amateur converts more guidance once you’re in game, the administrative department is under a lot of pressure right now.
I heard a batch of new refugees will be resettled soon, I’ve seen Regent Miriam working overtime for several days straight, she lookspletely exhausted.】
Sister Pomegranate Uproots The Weeping Willows: 【@Feel You Poor, look at them and look at you, embarrassing.】
Feel You Poor: 【Stop scolding stop scolding, you’ve scolded me stupid, I was drunk unconscious from your drinking gamesst night, just woke up from the hangover, are students nowadays such heavy drinkers?】
Medical Insurance Warrior Great Sion: 【Brothers I made a CG movie about 《Reality Realm》, it’s uploaded to a site now, link below, please everyone go give it a like, thanks.】
Life Is Pretty Good: 【??? We actually have a content creator among us? Hey have you talked to Brother Alpha about making derivative works? Don’t want to cause copyright issuester, I see Alphapany has quite strong capabilities, might bankrupt little brother with just onewyer’s letter.】
Medical Insurance Warrior Great Sion: 【Got permission beforehand, Brother Alpha said we can make whatever derivatives, also said the dev team doesn’t manage these things, but there’s one requirement that we can’t use the game name, just feels really strange.
Anyway everyone watch it first, if you have any feedback you can tell me, this is my first time making something like this, still not very skilled.】
Sword Saint Ashina: 【Got it! Getting you a captain subscription right away.】
Feel You Poor: 【Me too me too, gotta support our own brother’s work.】
Life Is Pretty Good: 【Mm mm, count me in.】
Dump Truck Iaido: 【Damn, you did pretty well, awesome awesome, I’ll get you one too, to show support, keep it up!】
Medical Insurance Warrior Great Sion: 【Damn damn! Don’t do this, brothers! The pressure is too much!】
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Just as Medical Insurance Warrior Great Sion’s CG movie was being uploaded to the video tform, Brother Loyalty who was busy adjusting weapon ballistics in the Crimson Citadel forward camp warehouse looked at the time on his character interface, mentally calcted the time flow rates between the two worlds, then chose to log out and rest, taking off his helmet in his office.
He would actively exit the game at this time every day, not for any particrly important reason.
Purely because there were twenty minutes left until work ended, just enough time to listen to his subordinates’ work reports for the day, then everyone could happily end their time cking off at work and go home.
Back in reality, Brother Loyalty first got up to move his body that had grown plump from years without exercise, then took a sip from his thermos of red wolfberry tea, and finally walked to the window to light a cigarette.
A few minutester, the office door was pushed open and two subordinates walked in.
“I’ve sorted out the helmets for you, just in time for the dev team’s promise of new yer entry, you can follow this batch of selected testers to enter Transia.
Remember!
First thing after logging in three dayster is to disguise yourselves properly, don’t expose any tells.”
Brother Loyalty blew out a smoke ring, patted the ck helmet on his desk, and said to the two distinctly characterized subordinates before him:
“Then, our team’s medium to long term mission is to help me get this Transia arms factory up and running. Once this is done well, my influence in Transia will naturally rise, which will be very helpful for advancing ourter missions.
And once we have a basic foundation, it’ll be easier to ‘mix in sand’ter, doing military industry is clearly the best choice in Transia’s environment.”
“Hey, team leader, isn’t this too high profile? Didn’t the higher ups say to investigate first without startling the snake in the grass?”
The tall “Mustard Madman” couldn’t help asking:
“Won’t being so proactive expose us?
We can’t even figure out what courier service they use to deliver things right now, really just like aliens, we’ve watched surveince footage until our eyes nearly went blind these past few days without finding any clues.”
“Yes we need to investigate, but in the current situation where you know nothing, you can only enter their prepared scenario to practice first, close-up investigation is also a very important part.”
Brother Loyalty blew another smoke ring, thenined:
“These good things never fall to us, every day it’s all these trivial matters, but in my opinion, we’ve definitelynded a big job this time.
This project doesn’t look that big yet, but it’s definitely worth following long term.
What I mean is, don’t rush to find details, let our team ‘settle down’ over there first.
From my current experience, this thing seems to really just be a super realistic game apart from those inexplicable transportation links andpletely iprehensible technology points, basically no major issues.
Don’t worry, the higher ups have given enough time.
Consider this a vacation this time, didn’t they say to find joy in work?”
“That’s easy to say, but we still need to write reports.”
The tall and thin Master Ziweiined:
“We can’t exactly write about your current experience dealing with WWI level arms in the game in the report right? That’s just asking to get wages docked.”
“So I n to take the initiative!”
Brother Loyalty grinned, and in the rising smoke, he said:
“I’ve already had Wanderer go copy the materials we need from brother departments, we brothers are all retired from the military, hope you haven’t forgotten that knowledge.
Mm, the first mission is to figure out how to set up a semi-automatic weapons production line first, help this Transia quickly establish a basic military industrial system.
I’ve got some ideas now.
At present, regardless of what background ‘they’ have or what they want to do, if they can see some value in us from this and grant us higher freedom of action permissions in this reality game, then digging deeper bes possible.
Also I applied to the superiors yesterday for several new team members to assist us, they’ll arrive tomorrow.
You two remember to behave properly, the neers this time are youngrades, temporarily transferred to our side, so we need to stay united, can’t lead them astray.”
“One more thing, team leader.”
Master Ziwei reminded quietly:
“Among the current testers there’s already onedy with ID codename ‘Lumina Yanghen’ confirmed overseas should we arrange for her return to the country?”
“No need for now.”
Brother Loyalty nced at a set of data on theputer screen, saying:
“The current level of information control is sufficient to ensure that in other ‘colleagues’ eyes, she’s just an ordinary international student who likes staying at home.
But acting rashly would instead add unnecessary danger to her personal safety… she is in their territory after all.”
“Bang”
The office door was pushed open at this time, a staff member covered in sweat reported:
“Team leader, 10 minutes ago, a gamey highlight clip of 《Reality Realm》 was uploaded to a site, currently trending rapidly.
This is codename ‘Alpha’ first breakthrough from small circle social groups to actively prate into the public information sphere.
Should we intervene?”
“Get to work, damn it! Have to work overtime again, my wife stewed soup waiting for me to drink at home!”
Brother Loyalty flicked away his cigarette butt, rubbed his ears, and said:
“Isn’t this what we’ve been working on this past month? Suppress the trending as quickly as possible! Regardless of what attitude ‘Alpha’ holds towards our world, or what it wants to do here, we’re not yet prepared to let the public know the truth.
Sigh, this might well be the world’s first confirmed case of ‘third kind contact’, I feel both fortunate and helpless. Just when I was about to safely retire, ran into this.”