Chapter 1
In the early morning, the bright sunlight was firmly blocked by the heavy blackout curtains, and only a trace of light could be exposed from the corners. On the soft big bed in the room, lay a boy who was sleeping on his back.
He was wearing a fluffy one-piece pajamas. Most of the quilt had fallen on the carpet, leaving only a small corner on the bed. The boy turned over, his fair and slender legs kicked lightly, and the only remaining quilt was kicked off the bed like this, quietly stacked with the large army.
Suddenly, a snow-white kitten stuck its head out of the small door left on the door.
It quietly observed someone who was sleeping in for a while, then walked into the room with graceful steps, and jumped onto the bed lightly. The kitten sat down next to the boy’s head, stretched out its claws and pushed the owner, but there was no response. Pushed again, still no response.
The kitten suddenly panicked, and quickly rubbed its head against the master’s fair face, and from time to time pushed his head against him, trying to support the master. Being disturbed by it like this, the person on the bed couldn’t sleep anymore. He closed his eyes, reached out and put the kitten in his arms and kissed him, then opened his eyes and sat up.
“Ah… it’s already 8:40?!” Ye Xu glanced at the electronic clock on the bedside table, and suddenly exclaimed.
Today is the opening day of the world’s first holographic online game “Lingyuan”. At nine o’clock, the game that many game fans have been looking forward to for five years will be released. For this reason, Ye Xu ordered a customized version of the expensive game cabin three months in advance, and also went to the offline experience store of the “Lingyuan” development company to experience the single-player version of the closed beta several times. Now the genuine version is about to be launched. What is he talking about? Don’t want to miss the first time online.
Ye Xu fearfully matched the nose with the kitten in his arms, kissed it again, and scratched its chin: “Thank you, Xiaoyu, for waking me up.”
He was a little surprised that the alarm clock he set yesterday didn’t go off, but he didn’t see his mobile phone after looking around. He hurriedly rummaged on the bed, he fell asleep halfway through playing on the phone last night, and he didn’t know where he fell.
Seeing this, the kitten struggled for a while, then jumped lightly to the pile of quilts on the ground, arched in three or two times, and pulled out the **** shovel officer’s cell phone. Ye Xu was accustomed to this. The cat was the most powerful at finding things in his house. He leaned over, reached for his mobile phone, and turned it on to check the alarm clock.
At this moment, the phone vibrated frantically when it happened to be every five minutes. Obviously, he forgot to turn on the alarm when he set the alarm, and used the vibration to remind him directly, but because it was still wrapped in a quilt on the ground, that little vibration couldn’t attract Ye Xu’s attention at all.
“…” Well, that’s no one else’s fault.
Now that the phone has been found, and there is no important information on it, Ye Xu no longer delays, and hurries to wash up. The game started at nine o’clock, and there were only less than twenty minutes left. He had to quickly finish his breakfast to avoid being late.
Seeing that her owner hurried into the bathroom, kitten Ye Yu didn’t have time to open the curtains to enjoy the morning sun as usual, tilted her head, jumped out of bed lightly and ran directly to the floor-to-ceiling window. It wandered around the curtain, finally found a suitable angle, bit the corner of the curtain, and then dragged it to the side.
I don’t know if the rollers on the top of the curtains are very lubricating, or if the blackout curtains just look heavy but are actually very light, and the kitten pulled the curtains to the side with ease. The dazzling sunlight suddenly poured on the whole bed, illuminating the brightly decorated and warm bedroom.
“Meow~” As if the major event in life was completed, the kitten squatted on the edge of the bed and let out a soft cry, and licked its little paws gracefully.
In the bathroom, Ye Xu was changing clothes, changing the cute one-piece pajamas into normal home clothes.
As a quasi-adult man who turned 18 in half a year, Ye Xu actually had no interest in taking the cute route. But the three brothers in the family felt that he was still the soft and cute baby when he was a child, so all the pajamas in his wardrobe were of this style. But Ye Xu couldn’t stand the satisfied expressions of his brothers every time they saw him wearing plush pajamas, so he never made up his mind to ask for normal pajamas.
Forget it, he is an adult, he must know how to understand the bad tastes of his brothers. Isn’t it a plush pajamas? Anyway, I don’t wear it out, my family is used to it, it’s not ashamed.
After changing clothes and washing up, Ye Xu picked up the kitten that was still licking its paws, and ran downstairs while stepping on cotton slippers. The air conditioner at home is a little low, and wearing cotton slippers is just right, but the slippers are not convenient to move quickly, and it is inevitable to reduce the speed when going down the stairs.
Because it was too late, the brothers had already finished breakfast and went to do their own business. There was only Ye Xu, a little lazy cat left in the house, who hadn’t eaten yet. The servant, Auntie Ye, was taking care of the potted plants by the stairs, and when she heard the footsteps, she looked up and saw that it was Ye Xu and smiled.
She is an old man who has been in the Ye family for many years, has no husband and children, and is more than 20 years older than Ye Xu and his brothers, so she has always regarded these four young men as her own sons. Coincidentally, her surname is Ye, and she has a good relationship and is a good person. The Ye Xu brothers are very close to her.
Seeing Ye Xu coming over at this moment, she complained that Ye Xu didn’t get up early for breakfast, and she was not afraid of having an upset stomach, but she moved very quickly and turned her head into the kitchen to give Ye Xu some food. The food prepared this morning is Ye Xu’s favorite food. In other words, every meal of the Ye family is prepared according to the taste of Ye Xu, the youngest child in the family.
Seeing the soup dumplings, soy milk, and a small bowl of meat porridge brought out by Aunt Ye, Ye Xu happily thanked him, handed the kitten Ye Yu to Aunt Ye as a gift, and sat down happily to enjoy it. Aunt Ye smiled and hugged the cat tightly, and licked her heartily for a long while before she was willing to let it play by herself.
“Where are my brothers and the others?” Ye Xu asked after drinking the porridge and eating the soup dumplings.
Aunt Ye said: “I went back to my room. It seems to be playing the game you mentioned earlier? They said that there is a new function in the game, so go in ahead of time to try it out. I don’t understand this, but they asked me to play with it. What you said, and I told you not to rush online, if you don’t get enough sleep, sleep for a while.”
Although Aunt Ye didn’t speak clearly, Ye Xu still understood what the brothers meant.
His three older brothers are all professional gamers, and they are more interested in the game “Lingyuan” than him. Although their family has a large number of shares left by their parents before their death, they can eat dividends every year to maintain a luxurious life, and they do not need to play games to make money to support their family. However, the brothers formed a guild with friends during college, and were reluctant to give up this effort. After graduation, they simply became professional players.
They were in a hurry to go online, but they didn’t want Ye Xu to be in such a hurry. After all, Ye Xu is not a professional player, so he doesn’t need to squeeze into the game at the first time, and he doesn’t need to rush to the ranking list. The brothers hope he just has to enjoy the game and not get himself too tired.
Ye Xu accepted the kindness of his brothers, but he couldn’t sleep anymore. So after eating, I said goodbye to Aunt Ye and hurried back to the room.
Eight fifty-four, six minutes left, in time.
After logging into the game, Ye Xu knew what the “new function” that Aunt Ye was talking about was. In fact, it is the closed beta copy he played in the offline experience store before, which allows players to experience the operation of various occupations in the holographic online game in advance, so as not to rush into the game and not know how to play.
This function was turned on at 7:00 in the morning, and an announcement was posted on the official website in advance to notify everyone last night. But very unfortunately, Ye Xu went to the graduation party last night, and he came back very late. After swiping the news on his phone, he fell asleep without seeing the news at all.
Fortunately, he has experienced several closed beta instances before, so it doesn’t matter if he loses the opportunity to exercise now. He directly entered the interface for creating an account, and he could create an account in advance half an hour before the server was launched.
Regarding occupation and nicknames, he had already thought about it, and six minutes was enough to create a character. The female voice of the system, which was completely inaudible as a synthetic voice, rang softly, asking him if he wanted to adjust his appearance.
This holographic online game directly scans the player’s appearance data to generate characters, but if the player doesn’t like it, it can be adjusted. The height can be adjusted up and down by 10 cm, the appearance can be adjusted up or down by 10%, and it can also be adjusted in parallel to make a strange face.
Ye Xu chose to adjust in parallel, keeping 50% similarity, so that he would neither reveal his identity in reality nor feel that his face was too unfamiliar and unaccustomed to. The figure has not changed, but the height has been firmly raised by 10 cm.
As a man of 1.7 meters, he has always been dissatisfied with his height. A handsome guy is only 1.8 meters tall, okay? And the long legs can run far, and it can also have more advantages in the game.
[Please enter the game nickname. 】
Ye Xu entered without thinking: “The law of falling leaves.”
[The nickname has not been preempted, and the race is being automatically matched, please wait…Congratulations to the player for matching the elf race, do you want to choose the elf race? Yes/No (select Terran). 】
The race setting is one of the information given in advance on the official website. It is said that players cannot freely choose their race and can only perform random matching. If no special race is matched, the player can only choose the human race.
Although Ye Xu was lucky enough to match the elf race, he did not intend to accept this race. Because the talents of the elves are “wood affinity” and “agility”, but Ye Xu has long wanted to play Summoner. For the profession of Summoner, these two talents of the elves are not as easy to use as the “skills of all spirits” and “wisdom” of the human race.
Wisdom talent, as the name suggests, gets a 5% bonus to the human race’s wisdom attribute. The Master of All Souls increases the deterrence of all animals and plants by 5%, that is, the damage of animal and plant monsters attacking human players will be reduced by 5%. This is applied to the summoner, which can increase the success rate of the summoner to capture the animal and plant type summons by 5%.
These were all things Ye Xu had learned about in advance. Don’t look at the closed beta copy, which was just a single-player copy. It was free to choose a professional race to play with. Ye Xu and his brothers have summed up a lot of experience and data by relying on the internal test copy, which is more than one step ahead of ordinary players.
“No, choose the human race.” Ye Xu blinked, disliking the system’s slow number creation speed, and actively urged, “Can you drive twice the speed? I’m in a hurry.”
The very user-friendly system female voice suddenly doubled the speed: “The account has been established, please roll the dice to determine the lucky value of the account. If the lucky value is too low, you can choose to delete the account and rebuild. There is no limit to the number of rebuilds.”
Ye Xu: “…” I didn’t expect it to be possible.