Chapter 28: 24 New Players, Reinforcements are Here
September 12. 6:00 in the evening.
After the release of the test qualifications, after three days of a tormenting wait, the day of entering the game finally came.
Following the tutorial on the official website, Du Mingdao put on a helmet, lay flat on the bed, and closed his eyes.
Will this really work?
The second the thought appeared in his mind, he noticed a beam of light passing through the darkness and flashing straight into his eyes.
Wait a second… Weren't my eyes closed?!
Du Mingdao sat up from the damp nurturing cabin and looked around, his dull gaze was gradually replaced by a strong shock.
This……
Is it the game world?!
Metallic walls and floor tiles, streamlined hatches… Those made it look like it was straight out of a sci-fi book, but the faint steam evaporated from his shoulders as he started to grow colder and colder.
He took a deep breath of the game world air, and he faintly smelled something unpleasant.
Du Mingdao didn't know whether everything in front of him was real.
Whatever it was, the 100% immersion made him speechless.
This feeling… It's a bunker!
Simultaneously, the cabin beside him suddenly opened; a humanoid lizard with dark green scales all over his body sat up from it.
The moment he met his eyes, Du Mingdao was taken aback.
"What the fuck?! What the hell is this?"
"What is what?"
"Who are you? An NPC???"
"What NPC? I'm a player! I’m Garbage_pickup_level_99... Who the hell are you?"
"You are Garbage?! I'm Hold_the_sword_execution! Damn, you are the newcomer who joined the group a few days ago? Why are you so ugly?"
"You’re ugly!" His amber pupils glared at him. The lizard man looked dumbfounded. Obviously, he hadn't figured out the situation.
But soon, his gaze fell on his scaly dark green skin, and his dazed pupils gradually became horrified.
He hurriedly lowered his head and looked left and right, his claws fumbled around on his body, his tail twisted with his body, like a gecko falling into a mud pit.
The next moment, his gaze landed between his legs.
Immediately afterward, he let out a sorrowful cry, "Damn it! Why don't I have that thing?!"
Du Mingdao almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
"You already look like this, but you still care about that?!"
"Why don’t I have that?! Liar! This game designer is a fucking liar! Since there is a lizard man character, why can't I create a female character?"
"If you don’t want to be a lizardman, let's swap."
"Get lost."
There was a body scanning device connecting to the dormant chamber. Players could see their own attributes and levels. Those were information published on the official website.
Garbage stretched out his index finger and touched the interface. Soon, the attribute panel was projected on the screen.
[ID: Garbage_pickup_level_99]
[Genetic sequence: Mutant Lizardman]
[Level: LV0]
[Attributes]
[Strength: 8]
[Agility: 7]
[Constitution: 8]
[Perception: 8]
[Intelligence: 2]
[Talent]
[Cold-blooded. More stealthy, and slower action in low-temperature environments.]
[Rough Hand. Higher endurance, and difficult to operate complex machinery.]
[Physical regeneration. Stronger resilience, difficult to level up genetic sequence level.]
Huh? This attribute is actually not bad!
Garbage vaguely remembered that it was written on the official website that the attribute benchmark value of a normal adult male was 5, which fluctuated between ±2.
Obviously, his benchmark value was not based on adult males. Except for the lower intelligence attribute, his other four attributes were all outrageously strong.
The point was… He didn’t think he was stupid!
So what if he had lower intelligence?
It did not affect him at all!
Realizing this, Garbage immediately became so happy that he couldn't stop smiling, and he also stopped complaining.
Du Mingdao, who was sitting in the next nurturing cabin, looked at the lizardman smirking there, and asked with concern, "Are... are you alright?"
"Haha, I’m great! Let's go, let's get out of this room and meet other players!" With that, Garbage jumped out of the nurturing cabin.
He found that the lizardman had another advantage. There was no need for clothes. It didn't matter much if he was or was not wearing clothes; he didn’t have anything that he needed to cover.
Staring at this lively lizard, Du Mingdao was absolutely bewildered.
The next moment, he suddenly noticed that there was a piece of paper stuck to this guy's ass.
"You have something on your ass."
"Where?"
Garbage also felt a strange sensation on his buttocks after learning he had something there, and he quickly stretched his claws to his behind.
It was the first time he controlled this body and he was not quite used to it. His claws scraped against each other for some time before scratching off the piece of paper.
As the paper was waterproofed, it didn’t get wet. However, the text written on it was not Chinese, nor was it any language he knew.
Garbage was confused as he scratched his head with his claws.
"What's the stuff written on this?"
...
In the lobby of Shelter 404…
The space that was originally fairly spacious was now full of new players.
All sorts of people were standing around, their faces filled with awkward looks. There were hints of surprise, excitement, and curiosity.
Before entering the wasteland, almost everyone thought that this so-called "fully immersive virtual reality game" might just be a joke made by a few boring fans.
Even if they received the helmet from the game company, most people were still skeptical.
Now… All of their suspicions were gone!
If they could find anything more realistic than what they were experiencing at the moment, it could only be in real life!
Passing through the automatic door, Garbage caused quite a stir when it came out of the room.
At first, everyone thought he was an NPC, but after asking around, they realized that he was also a player, and it was very likely that he had the legendary hidden class!
Bathed in everyone’s envy, Garbage, who seemed to have forgotten the fact that he did not have his little brother, smiled quite proudly.
Is that thing important?
It is not important at all.
"Brother, team up with me. I will protect you!"
Garbage cocked his chin and patted the shoulder of Sword who was standing next to him. The latter gave him a dumbfounded look and didn't bother to pay attention to him.
He might be a little stronger than the others, but that was only in the early stages of the game!
Du Mingdao also received a lot of attention when he came out of the room along with the lizardman.
Unfortunately, his genetic sequence was just an ordinary strength type, and there was nothing special about it.
While the players in the lobby were looking at them, he was also secretly observing the others.
Except for Garbage, most players seemed to be relatively normal, at least on the surface, they seemed similar.
From their physical features, most of them looked to be strength type and constitution type players. There were also a small number of perception type, agility type, and intelligence type players.
What surprised Du Mingdao the most was that there were actually two female players!
One of them was 180cm tall and had a curvy figure. More importantly, her shelter uniform was stretched to the limit, so she should also be a strength type.
The other one was a bit shorter, close to 150cm tall. There was nothing remarkable about her physique, and at the very least, she didn’t seem to be of the strength type.
Du Mingdao used to study civil engineering at the university, and he had been working for many years, so his visual observation was very accurate. Especially in the evaluation of distance and size, there was generally not much error.
Both girls came out of the same room and seemed to be quarreling with each other already.
"Who is this little girl? Are you still drinking milk?"
"You… So what if you are tall in the game! Maybe you are short in real life!"
"Hehe, from this kind of response, it is obvious that you are not very old in real life. Are you a primary school student?"
"Hehehe, unfortunately, this Elder Sister works as a director in a fashion design company, unlike a certain someone who only looks for validation in game."
"Hehehehe, just a mere director, I thought you were the president of some big corporate group. What company do you work for, little sister?”
"Hehehehehe, it’s none of your business!"
Du Mingdao couldn’t help but shake his head in annoyance. "..."
From what he could tell, those two were no different from elementary school students!
Of course, those two weren’t the only ones being noisy.
After waiting for such a long time, the players who had finally gotten the qualification for the closed alpha test were very excited. They kept exclaiming in amazement as they touched everything they could see.
Someone even slammed their heads against the wall, but they didn't cry out in pain. They only giggled silly while holding their heads in the corner.
Moreover, their reaction seemed quite normal.
There was also a player who grabbed the player next to him, begging the person to slap him. He wanted to try what it was like to be beaten up, so he would be mentally prepared to fight the monsters later on.
Du Mingdao’s hair stood on end upon seeing what was happening.
Did he enter the game world or did he get into a lunatic asylum?
From seeing someone taking off their pants, planning to take a dump to performing an even crazier behavior, A majestic voice came from the direction of the entrance and passed through the lobby.
"Quiet."
Everyone fell silent in an instant.
The majestic voice seemed to carry a special pressure, causing the players in the lobby to keep quiet. All eyes subconsciously turned to look at the source of the voice.
Du Mingdao was no exception.
Looking at the man standing at the door, the expression on his face instantly became excited.
NPC!
Opening plot!
This should be the legendary Administrator!
Although it was the first time for him to play this game, he had been following the posts of Ample Time on the official website for some time. He was quite familiar with the in-game settings.
The other players here were the same. They held their breaths as they looked forward to the beginning of the plot.
When Chu Guang selected players, in addition to referring to the occupations they filled in, he also checked their post history on the forum, online duration, and activity level. He avoided those primary school students with the eighth-grade syndrome as much as possible. After all, those kids were the most likely to cause trouble in the game.
They were more suitable for moving bricks on the construction site, not in Shelter 404.
Looking around the players in the lobby, Chu Guang slowly continued. He spoke in a calm and serious voice.
"Welcome to Shelter 404. I am the Administrator, codename Dawn.”
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