It was impossible to expect little players to keep secrets, so after Murphy slightly leaked so “inside information” to Brother Loyalty, before afternoon arrived, news about “large numbers of newcors joining in three days” had already spread all over the forum.
For those eagerly waiting players, 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 mbers were “reserve test personnel,” and repeatedly assured that once the production of gaming helts increased, everyone on the forum would be able to enter the ga 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, so 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 newcors have such strange nas? 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 to co 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 dinsional portal to enter the otherworld! We must rebuild the na 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 eting RP parties in ga, this is the forum, which belongs to the real world realm, brothers. Can we talk normally?
So you’re saying these forum newcors are all RP players?】
Archmage Marin: 【Yes, you can basically think of it that way. After Typal posted his ga 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 extrely interested in this kind of surreal ‘call to duty’. The ‘Black Scythe Council’, ‘Farstrider Camp’ and ‘MI:7’ are all eager to try, while the ‘Deep Mountain Mining Company’ and ‘Craftsn Council’ are also actively contacting us.
Even the ‘Blood Sail Pirates’ and ‘Blackwater Pirates’ have been alerted.
However, currently the Torrent Knights Order doesn’t plan to issue larger scale summons to our compatriots, 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-proclaid 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 players were rare in any ga, but looks like there are quite a lot?】
Wholesale Invincible Old Fording: 【Haha, few in one ga, but add up multiple gas and isn’t it a lot? Those groups of ours also have Novice thresholds, only veteran role-playing players 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 Wasteland Scavengers.
Oh right, I think I also copied the link to an EVE group earlier, those guys seed 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?】
ow King: 【We’re dood! If they all co in there won’t be any way forward for us regular players, these guys will do everything possible to maintain that fantasy flavor, this is really troubleso.】
Lumina Yanghen: 【What’s wrong? Looking down on us RP players? We’re not inflexible either, and most of us are order aligned. We empathize better with NPCs than regular players and are willing to spend ti doing those quest chains regular players 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 forr 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, regular players might not have the patience to do administrative managent.
This really needs you roleplay 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 ti tomorrow? Bring your brothers and co with us to Smuggler’s Woods to collect so debts.】
Onboard Joy Stick: 【Huh? What do you an? What debts are we collecting in that ghostly place?】
Dump Truck didn’t explain, but posted a screenshot of the “Thief Hog’s ssage” quest triggered earlier in ga, 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!】 ʀαꞐổ𝐛È𝐬
Sword Saint Ashina: 【Eliminate what? Hog is an NPC force we worked hard to cultivate, it and the Blood Claw Clan are currently the only gnoll tribe we can communicate with, and didn’t they explain 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 na was even personally given by Lord Murphy. If you go eliminate the Blood Claw Clan, 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 assessnt starts tomorrow, I need to work hard with my brothers to pass the assessnt 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, ladies wouldn’t understand, yes I can fly, but I don’t need to fly all the ti right? Those armored warhorses are so cool.
Besides, I can fly, but do I have to let a modern commander 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 spec into mobile deep strike doctrine! How do you expect to do multi-line penetration without mobility in actual combat?】
Sinking Fish Playing Gas at Work: 【@Fatal Orchid Huahua, sister, let ask, are there many girls in our ga?】
Spicy Gugu Chicken: 【Yo, a wild girl appeared! Master ball, throw!】
Lumina Yanghen: 【@Sinking Fish Playing Gas at Work, not many, just five of us now, but once you’re in ga we can look out for each other, where are you from, girl?】
Sinking Fish Playing Gas at Work: 【Sigh, called here by an unreliable boss to play gas with him, besides there are three other unfortunate sisters together, we can’t not play or we’ll get our wages docked.】
Heaven’s Chosen Grayman: 【Wait! When I was having barbecue with Little Rich Brother last night he ntioned 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 ga, the administrative departnt 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 overti for several days straight, she looks completely exhausted.】
Sister Pogranate 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 stupid, I was drunk unconscious from your drinking gas last night, just woke up from the hangover, are students nowadays such heavy drinkers?】
dical 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 issues later, I see Alpha company has quite strong capabilities, might bankrupt little brother with just one lawyer’s letter.】
dical 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 requirent that we can’t use the ga na, just feels really strange.
Anyway everyone watch it first, if you have any feedback you can tell , this is my first ti making sothing like this, still not very skilled.】
Sword Saint Ashina: 【Got it! Getting you a captain subscription right away.】
Feel You Poor: 【 too too, gotta support our own brother’s work.】
Life Is Pretty Good: 【Mm mm, count in.】
Dump Truck Iaido: 【Damn, you did pretty well, aweso aweso, I’ll get you one too, to show support, keep it up!】
dical Insurance Warrior Great Sion: 【Damn damn! Don’t do this, brothers! The pressure is too much!】
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Just as dical Insurance Warrior Great Sion’s CG movie was being uploaded to the video platform, Brother Loyalty who was busy adjusting weapon ballistics in the Crimson Citadel forward camp warehouse looked at the ti on his character interface, ntally calculated the ti flow rates between the two worlds, then chose to log out and rest, taking off his helt in his office.
He would actively exit the ga at this ti every day, not for any particularly important reason.
Purely because there were twenty minutes left until work ended, just enough ti to listen to his subordinates’ work reports for the day, then everyone could happily end their ti slacking off at work and go ho.
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 minutes later, the office door was pushed open and two subordinates walked in.
“I’ve sorted out the helts for you, just in ti for the dev team’s promise of new player entry, you can follow this batch of selected testers to enter Transia.
Rember!
First thing after logging in three days later is to disguise yourselves properly, don’t expose any tells.”
Brother Loyalty blew out a smoke ring, patted the black helt on his desk, and said to the two distinctly characterized subordinates before him:
“Then, our team’s dium to long term mission is to help 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 our later missions.
And once we have a basic foundation, it’ll beco easier to ‘mix in sand’ later, doing military industry is clearly the best choice in Transia’s environnt.”
“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 surveillance 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, then complained:
“These good things never fall to us, every day it’s all these trivial matters, but in my opinion, we’ve definitely landed a big job this ti.
This project doesn’t look that big yet, but it’s definitely worth following long term.
What I an 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 ga apart from those inexplicable transportation links and completely incomprehensible technology points, basically no major issues.
Don’t worry, the higher ups have given enough ti.
Consider this a vacation this ti, 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 Ziwei complained:
“We can’t exactly write about your current experience dealing with WWI level arms in the ga in the report right? That’s just asking to get wages docked.”
“So I plan 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 departnts, 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 so ideas now.
At present, regardless of what background ‘they’ have or what they want to do, if they can see so value in us from this and grant us higher freedom of action permissions in this reality ga, then digging deeper becos possible.
Also I applied to the superiors yesterday for several new team mbers to assist us, they’ll arrive tomorrow.
You two rember to behave properly, the newcors this ti are young comrades, 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 one lady with ID codena ‘Lumina Yanghen’ confird overseas should we arrange for her return to the country?”
“No need for now.”
Brother Loyalty glanced at a set of data on the computer 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 ho.
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 ti, a staff mber covered in sweat reported:
“Team leader, 10 minutes ago, a gaplay highlight clip of 《Reality Realm》 was uploaded to a site, currently trending rapidly.
This is codena ‘Alpha’ first breakthrough from small circle social groups to actively penetrate into the public information sphere.
Should we intervene?”
“Get to work, damn it! Have to work overti again, my wife stewed soup waiting for to drink at ho!”
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 confird case of ‘third kind contact’, I feel both fortunate and helpless. Just when I was about to safely retire, ran into this.”
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