Lu Mingfei squatted on a computer chair with several broken seams, scrolled the mouse wheel with a serious face, and read word by word the promotional content of the game called "Nine Layers of Ghost Realm" on the black web page.
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Judging from the introduction, it is about a group of adventurous travelers who learned through urban legends that there is a secret passage hidden in the Beibai subway transportation system. Entering through this passage can lead to an unknown and mysterious subway space.
There are nine brand new subway lines in the space that are independent of the Beigai subway line.
The nine subway lines are divided into nine upper and lower floors, connected together by running abandoned subway trains. According to urban legend, there is an open space deep in the tunnel of the ninth floor, which is the deepest part of the nine-floor subway line, which is the 'Line 9'.
There is an evil dragon named "Fenrisulfr" sleeping there, recovering from his injuries on countless gold and silver treasures.
The adventure traveler played by the player has the duty to save the world. He goes deep into the dark subway space, passes through the terrifying followers of the dragon on nine subway lines, avoids countless dangerous traps, and looks for scattered companions and hidden objects.
The supreme dragon-slaying weapon "Seven Deadly Sins" in the subway. Collecting this set of sacred weapons will make it easier for players to defeat the powerful BOSS at the end of the level when facing the evil dragon.
Lu Mingfei clicked on the entry about "Seven Deadly Sins" in the setting collection, and immediately saw the prototype alchemy sword combination that could still be recognized even after the game style, from the Tai Sword to the Saber Sword, those that had been tempered by Norton's hands.
It is almost impossible to say that the top alchemy weapons are "similar". Every pattern on each sword of the Seven Deadly Sins has an inevitable meaning. The game-style weapon modeling is almost a 1:1 complete replica of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Sin, speaking of coincidence, it is too self-deceiving.
Lu Mingfei would rather believe that the modelers of this flower and bird game company were outsourced to Mr. Norton in the sky, rather than believe that this game called "Nine Layers of Ghost Realm" is a coincidence.
The problem was serious. Lu Mingfei once again switched to the code-grabbing interface for the internal test. There was still a five-minute countdown. He looked up at the other machines in the Internet cafe. Rows of people were waiting in front of the same page. There were always people.
I refreshed the page and exclaimed "Holy crap, it's stuck", and then started to hurriedly close the browser and re-enter the page.
Even when Lu Mingfei slid the scroll wheel and clicked on the settings set, he could feel that the game's official website was obviously stuck. This meant that many IPs were accessing this page at the same time. If the game company's server was slowed down, it might be blocked again.
Within two minutes, the Internet cafe was filled with collective complaints. This also proves that the non-mainstream promotion method of this game is particularly effective. A large number of taps have already begun to promote it, but it is not clear whether it will be promoted by other game companies in the future.
Competing to imitate.
When Lu Mingfei was still thinking about this, his mobile phone on the table began to vibrate. He quickly picked it up and took a look. The caller was Su Xiaoqiang. After answering the call, he put it to his ear and asked straight to the point, "What are you doing now?"
What's going on over there?"
"It's nothing, I'm just sitting in the Internet cafe." Although it sounds like he's passive and sagging, it's really not like that. Lu Mingfei's squatting in the Internet cafe is still a decision made by Su Xiaoqiang and others after a meeting.
It was paid out of Su Xiaoqiang's pocket, which seemed to imply that the Internet was being used at public expense.
"Be prepared with both hands. The webpage on the mobile phone can also be used to grab codes for internal testing qualifications, but the Internet speed is definitely not as fast as the Internet cafe. I asked Norma to also make preparations to grab tickets at the same time."
"What's going on there now?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"We were at the headquarters of Flower and Bird Games but failed."
"What does it mean to fall short?"
"Putting money short means making money." After Su Xiaoqiang finished speaking, he hung up the phone and looked at the words "Company Southeast Asia Tour Team Building, Rest for Seven Days" posted in front of the glass door with no expression of joy or sadness.
There are heavy iron chains on the double-open glass doors. From inside the glass doors, you can see the empty front desk. The words "Bei'an Flower and Bird Culture Communication Co., Ltd." are clearly hung on the white wall behind the front desk, proving that they indeed have no business.
Wrong place.
The elevator in the office building nearby opened with a crisp sound, and Wei Lewa and Ling walked out, "Indeed, they all left. It seems like they left yesterday. Some people saw the entire company's employees gathering together under the office building and boarding a tourist bus.
The double-decker bus of the travel agency was towed away. I don’t know which travel agency it is. I called several people and they all said they had not taken this business.”
"You don't stick to your post at this time when the game is about to be tested, but instead organize the company's team building?" Su Xiaoqiang stood in front of the double-open glass door, weighing the padlock wrapped around the chain with his left hand, "If there is no ghost here, who will?
Where is the letter?"
"This game itself is pretty weird, right?" Veleva smiled bitterly, "Putting this kind of sensitive information openly on the Internet, even though it is done in the form of a game, in the eyes of the people above
This is no different from provoking "Abraham's Blood Pact". I guess the school board is about to explode, right? By the way, what's the reaction from the orthodox side? They should react to something like this, right?"
"There doesn't seem to be much reaction from the orthodox side, at least Lin Nian didn't call me. After all, the "Abraham Blood Pact" has no control over the orthodox side, and their attitude towards the secret of hybrids has always been ambiguous.
"Su Xiaoqiang said.
"Are you going to break in?" asked Ling beside Veleva. Although the padlock looked very strong, it was useless to them.
Su Xiaoqiang raised her head and glanced at the surveillance camera in the corner, but Wei Lewa held her hands and said one step ahead of her, "The cleaners also cleaned this floor this morning. It is estimated that all useful documents have been taken away. It feels like the door has been broken."
You won’t get any useful information if you go in.”
"Where is their server unit? Has Norma found out?" Su Xiaoqiang turned around and asked, "As long as we can find the server, we can have a way to talk to people from the game company."
"Norma is checking. So far, they have only found the location of the server unit on their official game website. It is the page where you can grab the internal test code immediately. It is a rented independent server from a large company. It is of no use if you find it. The server unit of the game is estimated to be
We can only trace it during the official internal beta test, and what Norma can do now is very limited."
"How are the arrangements for Norma to help us get the qualification for the closed beta test of this game?" Su Xiaoqiang turned to look at Veleva, "If we can't find someone to make the game for the time being, we have to start with the content of the game itself.
Now, the qualification for closed beta is very important. Judging from the information on the official website of the game, this game should hide a lot of information in a way that is just a joke to everyone."
"Norma will control thousands of virtual machines to grab codes together when the qualifications are issued. The efficiency is definitely faster than our manual grabbing of codes, but I still suggest that we try it ourselves according to the time. After all, we need to consider risk management and control.
Question." Veleva raised her phone, and there was the code-grabbing interface on the official website of that game. There were still three minutes left in the countdown.
"If you can't get it, you can try to buy it. Lu Mingfei said that the Internet cafes are full of people paying attention to this game. If Norma and we both lose, let Lu Mingfei find a lucky one in the Internet cafe.
I spent money to buy the qualification from him. To passers-by who don’t know the inside story, the internal beta qualification code of a domestic game should be no more delicious than a meal of ribs." Su Xiaoqiang said.
"There are still two minutes left." Wei Lewa raised her phone, "Why don't you try somewhere with a better network signal? The WIFI in the tea room upstairs seems to be pretty fast. I know the password."
Su Xiaoqiang took one last look at the empty game company inside the glass door, put away her phone and quickly followed Wei Lewa and Ling to the elevator.
The three-minute countdown passed minute by minute. Countless people in various Internet cafes in Bei'an gathered around the screen and pointed at the same black interface. The blood-red countdown disappeared little by little, and countless people only faded slightly.
His sweaty hand was placed on the mouse, his index finger was about to move, his lips were lightly moistened by his tongue, and his pupils, which reflected the white light of the screen, gradually shrank as he concentrated on it.
Lu Mingfei also started to get nervous. There were still three minutes of countdown left. He squatted on the computer chair and held his legs with his left hand. He held the mouse with his right hand straight and refreshed the page every time.
The refresh of the page would be more laggy than the last time, and he would be frightened every time it was refreshed, but this was a necessary process.
According to his experience in trying to qualify for internal testing of games, if you don't do this, the most likely outcome is that you will wait until the countdown is over and the interface will freeze instantly. If you press it again, it won't respond. After refreshing, it will freeze and then click again.
Sorry, the qualifications have been issued.
From time to time, people shouted in the Internet cafe. Not far away, there seemed to be a regular customer of the Internet cafe called Brother Gou, who had booked two rows of machines with a group of boys. Brother Gou was playing "StarCraft" by himself, his
Each of the boys smoked a cigarette and a bottle of NutriExpress, staring at the countdown on the screen with red eyes that had stayed up too late.
Lu Mingfei was quite envious of the handsome guy who was honored as Brother Dog. He also wanted to play "StarCraft" while waiting, but he didn't have Ma Zai to turn on the computer to help him grab the code, because this thing
It requires a mobile phone number to register. He only has one mobile phone, and he can only grab it once if he turns on the computer multiple times.
When Lu Mingfei was in a daze, a computer next to him was poked open by an outstretched lotus-white arm. A familiar breath followed the path of the air-conditioned wind and enveloped the chair squatting like a hozen.
Lu Mingfei, he sneezed and turned his head reactively, and at a glance he saw a girl wearing a white skirt and square-top leather shoes who had pulled out a chair next to him. Her movements were a little reserved, as if it was her first time in such a smoky atmosphere as an Internet cafe.
The place.
"Ah, why are you here?" Lu Mingfei quickly put his feet down from the chair and looked at Chen Wenwen with some surprise, "Isn't our appointment time at six o'clock?"
They originally made an appointment to have dinner together at six o'clock this evening. Lu Mingfei took the initiative to ask, and Chen Wenwen readily agreed. This was a story that should have been mentioned later. Including this afternoon, Lu Mingfei was bored with the game.
While watching the video, I was quietly thinking about this matter.
He didn't tell anyone about this matter, not Su Xiaoqiang, Ling, or Lin Nian.
Chen Wenwen, who was not familiar with the structure of Internet cafe machines, stood in front of the chair and looked left and right, wondering how to turn it on. Lu Mingfei on the side reached out and pressed the startup button next to the computer screen, and saw the screen light up normally.
Chen Wenwen awkwardly nodded to Lu Mingfei and sat down, "I have no classes this afternoon and have nothing to do. Didn't we make an appointment to have dinner yesterday? When we were chatting on text messages this morning, you said you would be busy all day today.
I'm surfing the Internet at the Internet cafe here, so I was wondering if I could come to you."
Lu Mingfei didn't expect that Chen Wenwen would actually come to him after he mentioned it casually. He didn't have time to react, but his heart trembled quietly.
"Did I disturb you? I can go back if it's inconvenient." Chen Wenwen asked in a low voice, paying attention to Lu Mingfei's obviously dazed expression.
A buddy holding Nutrition Express who happened to be passing behind Lu Mingfei heard these words and couldn't help but glance at Chen Wenwen who was speaking. He was a little surprised by the girl's youthful temperament and her sparkling eyes.
For a moment, he looked at Lu Mingfei on the chair in surprise. His eyes were mainly focused on Lu Mingfei's chicken head and dull eyes. Then he raised his lower lip and nodded with a puzzled look on his face. He didn't know that he was sighing with emotion since ancient times.
Beauties love idiots, but I still lament that God is so blind, even a black-bone chicken can match a phoenix.
"There's no such thing. I'm just sitting here waiting." Lu Mingfei glanced at the countdown on the web page. There was still one and a half minutes left. He suddenly had an idea and whispered an apology to Chen Wenwen.
He stood up and came to Chen Wenwen, held the mouse of her computer to open the web page, and quickly entered the URL that he was already familiar with and pressed Enter to enter.
After the webpage was stuck for a few seconds, the countdown started. With one minute left, Chen Wenwen also looked at Lu Mingfei's screen, then looked at the other computers in the Internet cafe and asked, "Mingfei? Are you here?"
"Grab a qualification code for the closed beta test. It's hard for me to explain the specific reasons, but one more chance is an opportunity. Can your mobile phone receive text messages? Register for me." Lu Mingfei asked with a face full of saliva, and used wet wipes to help Chen Wenwen.
Wiping the mouse, he felt that his image at this moment was somewhere between a scumbag and an electronic fraudster.
But Chen Wenwen had almost no hesitation. After Lu Mingfei asked, she took out her mobile phone and followed the registration window prompts on the webpage to send a text message. Within a few seconds, she received the verification code and successfully registered. There was a countdown button to grab the code.
It also lights up, and there are less than twenty seconds left.
"Sure enough, you boys all like games." Chen Wenwen also noticed that the entire Internet cafe became quiet during the final countdown. There was a rare quiet atmosphere in the misty environment. This contrast made people feel a little weird.
But there was no time to appreciate it carefully, because the countdown had already reached ten seconds.
"It's not that we like to play games, I'm just helping my friends grab the code." Lu Mingfei temporarily suppressed his desire to talk more to Chen Wenwen, turned to look at the screen, and put his hand on the mouse, entering a state of concentration.
"Can you just click it after the countdown ends?" Chen Wenwen saw that Lu Mingfei was so focused, and moved her eyes from the boy's side face to the screen. She sat upright on the computer chair and put her left hand on her white skirt.
His right hand is lightly holding the mouse on his leg, like a good student taking a computer class at school.
"Yes, just click on it but don't have high expectations." Lu Mingfei lightly scratched his left hand, "Just give it a try. My other friends will also grab it together."
After he finished speaking, the countdown also ended. He and Chen Wenwen pressed the mouse button almost at the same time. As expected, the computer page got stuck. A few seconds later, someone in the Internet cafe made a howling sound, accompanied by "the network card is stuck" and "it crashed."
"It's stuck!" A series of shouts made Chen Wenwen look up in shock and look around, thinking that some tragic tragedy had happened.
Lu Mingfei looked at the webpage hesitantly. He wondered if he was also stuck, so he refreshed it and pressed the button to grab the code. The webpage immediately popped up with a message saying "Sorry, the qualifications for the closed beta test have been issued."
] prompt window.
"Ah." Lu Mingfei raised his hand and slapped himself on the forehead, feeling a little headache.
This cannot be blamed on the Internet cafe network card. This is a very typical code grabbing failure. In fact, he said before that he has experience. Indeed, he has many times of code grabbing experience, but he has never succeeded.
"Mingfei?"
When Lu Mingfei was thinking about whether he should call Su Xiaoqiang and the others to ask about the situation there, Chen Wenwen beside him suddenly reached out and touched his arm and pointed at his screen, "Is this successful?"
Lu Mingfei was stunned for a moment and immediately looked at Chen Wenwen's screen. He saw a pop-up window from the web page on the screen, with a long row of text reminders on it:
[Congratulations on qualifying for the closed beta test. The activation code has been sent to your mobile phone mailbox. If you have not received it, please check the SMS spam box to avoid automatic and accidental deletion of the qualification SMS to prevent harassment.]
At the same time, the mobile phone on Chen Wenwen's desk also vibrated and lit up, and the screen reminded her that her text box had received a new message.