Monsters Are Coming
Chapter 57: Dark Land, Activate!

Chapter 57: Chapter 57: Dark Land, Activate!

"I’m so pissed off, the monsters outside are too strong, they hardly give newbies a chance to survive. Luckily, I’m nimble enough to have escaped from a Blood Corpse, and even managed to spit back at the Blood Corpse that chased me for ten blocks right before entering Imperial Tomb Village."

"Looking for a team, is there any high-level player who can start a team and take me to explore outside? It’s too terrifying out there."

"This game is insanely good, even the tactile feedback from touching my girlfriend’s hand feels so real, I can hardly tell the difference from reality. Worth every penny of the 128888 I paid for it."

"Looking for experienced players to team up, as a newbie I don’t know anything. Is there a big brother who can teach me how to match Star Veins?"

"Haha, turned into a little turkey, switching Star Veins is quite interesting, Golden Winged Great Peng Bird development plan activated!"

New players kept pouring in, the Resurrection Point at Imperial Tomb Village quickly became overcrowded.

For this groundbreaking new game, the behavior of all the new players after entering the game was very similar, testing the game’s realistic feedback in various ways, trying to find possible feedback BUGs.

Some players, because of testing too hard, rolled on the ground in pain.

There were also players who got into disputes and conflicts while testing the realism of the game’s feedback, gradually escalating into violent brawls.

Passing veteran players generally looked at the new players’ bizarre actions with an expression that one might use to look at fools, forgetting that they had acted similarly when they first joined the game, performing various stunts to test the game’s realism.

Unlike the previous group of players, this batch of recruited players came to the waning moon scenario of the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.

Outside, there were no Curse Soldiers or low-level Evil Life wandering around, the hunting intensity was much higher than the Waning Moon scenario, lacking a gradual progression in growth.

The weakest Blood Corpse had a Hunting Level of at least 10, causing significant trouble for the newbies stepping out of Newbie Village.

Thus, a large number of players returned to Imperial Tomb Village to start recruiting teammates, hoping to continue hunting by forming groups.

Some newbie players also followed the advice given by veteran players on the local voice channel and headed towards the entrance of the Dark Cave south of Imperial Tomb Village to mine for startup funds.

During this period, various guilds also took the opportunity to start recruiting newbies, offering them mining pickaxes bought for one point of sacrificial power, and even leading them out of Imperial Tomb Village to begin hunting, thus attracting newbies to strengthen the guild’s power and influence.

The addition of these 2000 new players made Imperial Tomb Village particularly lively.

Qi Sheng, always monitoring from the shadows, began looking forward to the revenue growth brought by the new players.

Though the newbie players at this stage could not go hunting alone due to the monster level, and needed to form teams or be supported by veteran players for exploring.

The output of the profits was even negative since death cost 10 points of sacrificial power.

He believed that as long as the players had sufficient growth time, they would quickly adapt to the difficulty of the waning moon scenario.

His daily revenue from sacrificial power would also increase with the growth of this batch of new players.

As for the sacrificial power loss due to the early deaths of the newbies, Qi Sheng did not care.

The sacrificial power consumed for resurrection was essentially still charged to the players.

It would be deducted when players had enough sacrificial power on them, with the real cost being only the initially invested 1000 points of sacrificial power.

While Qi Sheng was monitoring the activities of the new players.

In the real world, Yelan City.

Waking up from a sleep, Tong Xin only felt a splitting headache and general body ache.

Outside the window, the night was hazy. Looking up at the date and time in the bottom right corner of the computer desktop, he was surprised to discover that he had been sleeping on the table for 28 hours.

Huh?!

Just then, Tong Xin noticed a pop-up in the upper right corner:

[Download Completed - 100%]

"Holy shit, did it actually finish downloading?!"

The surprise came so suddenly, the previously groggy Tong Xin suddenly perked up, his eyes widening as he stared at the download completion notification box.

The feelings of grievance, envy, and resentment evaporated, leaving only tears of excitement.

After a brief surge of emotions, he transferred the file to the gaming pod and then pressed the file adaptation button in front of the gaming pod before returning to sit at his computer desk.

Opening the kindergarten chat group, he excitedly began to type:

Preschool Director: @everyone, brothers!!! Your director is about to enter the battlefield, quickly gather to level me up.

Preschool Director: @everyone, I’ll say it again, quickly gather to level me up, and take me along to make money.

After sending the messages, Tong Xin anxiously awaited a response, having already changed into his gaming attire in advance.

After a long while, the gaming pod lit up with a green light indicating adaptation was complete. He decisively walked towards the gaming pod and pressed the start button.

One minute later, Tong Xin, lying in the gaming pod, accessed the virtual desktop.

The desktop setting was simple, apart from the serious games, there were also several improper games hidden in folders.

But Tong Xin’s focus was not on those games that once brought him joy, his gaze precisely locked on the icon of a monster engulfed in blazing flames.

"Dark Land, activate!"

Tapping the game icon with his consciousness, Tong Xin’s mind had already started to imagine the joyful gaming times ahead.

At that moment, a sudden pop-up notification appeared:

[Due to not entering the game within 24 hours, your game qualification has been revoked, the game files have been destroyed, you need to re-download to enter!]

Staring at the notification, Tong Xin’s gaze gradually became vacant.

After a long time, the gaming pod’s lid slowly opened, but Tong Xin curled up inside the gaming pod, tears streaming uncontrollably:

"Wuu wuu wuu~ This is really terrible, how can they bully me like this."

"It’s not right to bully people like this... wuu wuu wuu~."

Half an hour later, the silent preschool group chat became lively again, members in resurrection cooldown started pinging the group owner:

Preschool Group - Zui Nai: Director actually got the qualification, congrats, we’ll go online in an hour to level you up.

Preschool Group - Tie Chui: Hahaha, the Director is finally back, we’ve been waiting for you to take charge, congratulations on your upcoming guild presidency, the Child Group gods return to their positions, it’s time for us to rise.

Preschool Group - Black Ball: (Throwing flowers) (Throwing flowers), Director, go mine in the mines for a while, once our resurrection cooldown is over, we’ll come in to help you level up.

Upon learning that the Director had managed to snatch a qualification, group members congratulated him.

As the Director never responded, they assumed he had entered the game and began experiencing it.

Meanwhile, a player whose qualification had been revoked was still curled up sobbing in the gaming pod, eventually fainting from exhaustion.

...

hours earlier.

Imperial Tomb Village, Primordial Altar.

[Boss, among the Challenger qualifications issued this time, there is one that has not been activated.]

Hearing the Guidance’s notification, Qi Sheng frowned slightly.

He issued qualifications to players with the intention for them to generate profit for him in Monster World; he naturally didn’t allow occupying a spot without working.

Turning to look at the floating Guidance next to him:

"Going forward, take back any unactivated qualifications within 24 hours and reissue them to other players."

[Understood.]