Jiang Qiao washed his face with clean water from the fountain in the Deputy Chief's dormitory.
"Agent, are you alright?"
Queen Mey stood beside Jiang Qiao, watching as Jiang Qiao placed his hands on the edge of the fountain and took deep breaths.
"I'm fine," Jiang Qiao took the towel Queen Mey handed him and wiped the water stains off his face.
"I can't believe you can't even bear the sight of a beheading."
Hornet Knight shrugged helplessly. The reason why Jiang Qiao's face was so pale was because the executioner and Wolf Rider had acted too cleanly.
Although it was Jiang Qiao's order, Jiang Qiao had overestimated his mental endurance when he saw a person being beheaded in front of him without the mosaic.
"Without Hai Lan's divinity, I'm just an ordinary person."
Jiang Qiao wiped the water stains off his face and looked at the Four Horsemen and Queen Mey.
"Ordinary person?
Agent, your joke isn't funny at all, "the executioner said.
"Joke?
I'm curious, what kind of impression do you have of me? "Jiang Qiao asked.
"A cunning … schemer?" The executioner thought for a moment before coming up with this evaluation.
"A schemer that makes people wary," Wolf Rider added.
"A dangerous fellow."
Hornet Knight's words were concise.
"Thank you for the compliment."
Jiang Qiao didn't know where the Four Horsemen got their impression of him from. Perhaps it was because Jiang Qiao was the mastermind behind the players' actions … but perhaps even the players themselves didn't realize it.
However, these bad impressions of Jiang Qiao could be put aside for now. Right now, Jiang Qiao still had a lot of things to deal with. One of them was the information he had obtained from Deng Xiesi's memories after the System Book ate a part of his brain.
"It's time for another meeting. First, about the true identity of Brandt Island."
Jiang Qiao moved a wooden table and flipped open the System Book to the page with Deng Xiyi's character card.
[Deng Xiyi Xiyi
Gender: Male
Title: Eternal Follower
Age: 51 (429)
Level: 57 (Main Body Level: 57)
Race: Human, Perfect Crystal Breed, Chaos Spawn
Class: None
Expertise: Research, Education, Bewitching, Management …
Personality Bias: No Fixed Personality Bias
Profession Skills: Research LV52, Management LV32, Recording LV51, Farming LV52, Fighting LV41, Magic LV72 …
Class Bias: NPC Management, Ancient Research, Combat …
Growth Potential: Elemental Resonance B, Holy Resonance B, Undead Resonance B, Super Resonance B …
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Description: Deng Xiyi, who was killed by the Four Horsemen, was only 51 years old, but his soul was already 429 years old. During this period, he had reincarnated at least three times … From the key information extracted from his memory, the race of Brandt Island used to be one of the allies of the God Eater.]
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"What race?
Chaos Spawn?
What Cthulhu Element again? It's getting a little boring, isn't it? "
Jiang Qiao couldn't help but complain when he saw his creator personality's evaluation of Deng Xiyi … The term Chaos was only used to describe the race of Brandt Island in a language that Jiang Qiao could understand.
After the System Book devoured Deng Xiyi's memory, Jiang Qiao had a preliminary understanding of what Brandt Island was.
The simplest way to describe it would be … Brandt Island was everything, and nothing at the same time. In its infancy, it had an extremely strong ability to imitate others. Basically, it could transform into anything it wanted to. However, this race had one thing in common, and that was … laziness.
Extremely laziness … Brandt Island had many followers, and Deng Xiyi was just one of the most prominent ones. However, the island itself had no ill intentions towards anything. It didn't need sacrifices, didn't need food, and didn't have any ambitions. It only wanted to silently lie down on the spot and be a salted fish.
However, Brandt Island was too … powerful to this world. Its existence itself was a threat to the gods of this world.
The gods wanted to steal the power of Brandt Island, and Deng Xiyi probably had the same idea. He wanted to steal the power of Brandt Island to do something.
"However, I'm really … not interested in these background stories from so long ago."
Jiang Qiao explained half of the story to the four Knights, before closing the System Book and tossing it back onto the table.
"But this might contain … the truth about the destruction of our world," Queen Mey stepped forward, hoping that Jiang Qiao would continue divulging the key information in Deng Xiyi's memory.
Queen Mey was very concerned about what had happened to Hai Lan when she died.
"If you are so interested, come and take a look for yourselves."
Jiang Qiao took out a USB flash drive from the System Book and handed it to Queen Mey. "Inside is a copy of Deng Xiyi's 429 years of memories. If you have the time, you can watch it as a TV series."
"Thank you."
Queen Mey received the USB flash drive from Jiang Qiao with both hands. It was as if she was holding a holy object from God.
Jiang Qiao did not really want to investigate the reason why Hai Lan's level returned to zero in the past. Jiang Qiao only needed to consider the present and the future. Now, he needed to let Brandt Island be completely devoured by Hai Lan. In the future, he needed to defend against the invaders on the star map.
"This … is this a machine called a USB flash drive?"
During this period of time, Queen Mey had been working hard to learn how to be a modern person. However, she had very little contact with real computers. What she usually used were the various gadgets built into the game Heaven Palace.
"The television that the axeman bought a few days ago should be able to be played with a USB flash drive."
Jiang Qiao turned his gaze to the axeman beside him. Without waiting for Queen Mey to give the order, the axeman had already bowed slightly towards Queen Mey in a very ancient etiquette, meaning to invite her in.
Thus, Queen Mey led her Knights into the axeman's dormitory to watch the TV series.
"Jiang Qiao, the rampage in the Spirit Vein Forest has ended. I have also repaired the strongholds of the guilds."
After seeing that Queen Mey and the others had temporarily left, Hai Lan's figure silently appeared beside Jiang Qiao. She was still in her translucent ghost form.
From Hai Lan's voice, Jiang Qiao could hear … the feeling of 'quickly praise me'.
"Are you really not going to say hello to them?"
Jiang Qiao asked about another matter. Every time Hai Lan appeared, it was when Queen Mey and the others weren't present. Even if Hai Lan was currently in her invisible state, it was the same.
"We'll talk about this in the future when there's a suitable opportunity." Hai Lan said.
Jiang Qiao didn't continue to ask. He directly began to pay attention to the losses of the players after the war and the number of deaths.
"How many of the NPCs who turned into monsters survived?" Jiang Qiao asked.
"Thirty-seven people. This is the number of NPCs who survived in the wild. The other NPCs who lived in the players' strongholds all survived." Hai Lan said.
Wild NPCs referred to the 300 NPCs that Deng Heath had turned into monsters and used to attack the players' stronghold. In the end, only 37 of the 300 NPCs had survived … Although this tactic was effective, it was an extreme suicidal tactic.
"There's more, there's more!
After this battle, I've completely mastered the Spirit Vein Forest. To make an analogy, it's like eating a seventh of a whole pizza. "Hai Lan said.
"That really fits your analogy. What happened next?
Did you gain anything? "Jiang Qiao asked.
"The server limit increased by 50,000 in one go. Half a month ago, you said to save up half of the limit, so I didn't directly send it out."
The System Book also appeared in Hai Lan's hands. She flipped it to the first title page. On the title page, the number of registered players on the server was 60000/120000.
The Holy Ghost Public Beta had been going on for almost two and a half months. In these two months, on the Heavenly Palace Gaming Platform, the Holy Ghost's reviews had changed from the initial flood of good reviews to the current mixed reviews.
The reason was that the players who gave good reviews were basically those who had obtained the right to take the test. Those who gave bad reviews were naturally those who waited on the official website every day to draw for the right to play the game, but in the end, they didn't draw for two whole months. There were also some foreign friends who didn't even have the right to draw.
For those who didn't draw the right to play the Holy Ghost, the only answer Jiang Qiao could give was: I'm also very desperate!
Fortunately, Brandt Island provided Hai Lan with a large amount of Creation Energy and Soul Limit. Now, Jiang Qiao had 60,000 slots in his hands. This amount of slots wasn't even enough for a province in China, let alone the whole world. The current craze for VR online games wasn't something that could be compared to the decline of PC MMORPGs.
Compared to the tens and hundreds of slots that the Holy Ghost gave out every day, 60,000 was already a number that was enough to make players excited.
"Have the haters arrived?
It's about time to start the next step of the plan. "
Jiang Qiao glanced at Weibo and Tieba. There were already people who had started the momentum of the Intercontinental Tournament, questioning the four professional teams for playing other games during the Expedition Ceremony.
This wave of momentum didn't affect the Holy Ghost, but it did indeed make the Holy Ghost famous.
If the first wave of Holy Ghost's popularity was limited to … the veteran players and the cloud players who specifically stared at the game's news on Weibo and Tieba.
This time, the Holy Ghost officially appeared in front of all the players, and it also had a certain amount of exposure in front of the public.
"Next step of the plan?
The opening of the Inner World? "
Hai Lan knew that Jiang Qiao had been laying the foundation for the Inner World for the past half a month. The entire society was also vigorously promoting holographic projection and AR equipment.
Now, some holographic projection of traffic lights and billboards on the streets of Jiangcheng were gradually being installed. As for AR equipment, it had also become popular in recent years.
"It's just publicity. The official opening will take some time. First, we need to shoot a promotional video to welcome the new players. This time, I plan to let Queen Mey film it."
Jiang Qiao did a very simple warm-up exercise. In the past two months, Jiang Qiao had been very careful with the publicity of the Holy Ghost. He had even been thinking of not letting the Holy Ghost enter the public eye.
After all, the Holy Ghost was an 'illegal' game. This was not something that Jiang Qiao could control. The Holy Ghost was an epoch-making game. It was bound to receive the attention of the world.
Since that was the case, Jiang Qiao wanted to make it the most popular game in the world.
Although the current number of players was not enough for Jiang Qiao to become the most popular game, perhaps it could become the most popular game.
However, this was all to lay the foundation for the opening of the Inner World.