Reborn: I'll Never Fail My Childhood Sweetheart Again-Chapter 398 - 157: The Artsy Guy Extends His Claws Toward the Junior Again
Very soon, another National Day is approaching.
But before National Day, there’s a major online event in 2001—"Legend of Blood" is launching!
When it comes to Legend of Blood, many young people from later generations might not be familiar.
But no one would find "Chacha Hui" unfamiliar.
This nickname came from his awkward Mandarin when endorsing a certain online game.
"Hello everyone, I am Chacha Hui, exploring the lazy moon, this is a brand new version you haven’t experienced before, you only need to play for three minutes, and you will love this game just like me!"
The game is called "Playful Blue Moon," which is a variant version of "Legend of Blood."
Later, Chen Xiaochun’s adapted line "If you are a brother, come and hack me" also originated from the same online game.
Looking back at the history of domestic game development, 2001 is an absolute milestone.
This year saw a surge of major game releases, with both local game companies and high-quality foreign games thriving everywhere.
First, in January, came the import of the 2DMMORPG "Stone Age" developed by the island country’s JSS company, the most popular online game on the market before Legend of Blood became a blockbuster.
It operated for a full fifteen years, until 2016, marking the end of an era, one of the longest-living online games.
Two months after "Stone Age" was introduced, Cosmic Country’s Actoz company developed the martial arts online game "Millennium," which was all the rage and stood alongside two other Cosmic Country-produced games, "Red Moon" and "Dragon Clan," released in May and June.
In July, the domestic online game "Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Legends Online" launched, the first game to break into the international market, sparking a wave of martial arts online games in Southeast Asian countries.
However, although the aforementioned major games were impressive, after the release of "Legend of Blood" at the end of September, they were all overshadowed.
Any old online gamer should know what this game represents.
At its peak, it occupied more than two-thirds of the national online gaming market at the time, and in every internet cafe, anyone who walked in would see everyone playing Legend of Blood.
In that era, what concept was thirty million registered users and over one million online users?
Even in later times with ten times the number of netizens, such achievements would still be astounding.
Shabak sieges with deserted streets.
The excitement of a boss dropping a rare item.
Trading a Dragon Slayer for a house.
These all made people’s blood boil.
In the boys’ 302 dormitory, Zeng Kaiping was excitedly saying, "Third Brother, is the download finished? Hurry up and get online!"
Legend’s internal test began in early September, but the official public test opened today at the end of September.
During the internal test phase, this masterpiece was already eagerly anticipated by all, showing a trend of huge popularity; young folks dived in early, indulging for a long time without even having time for concubines later, one became a Hed tycoon and founded a guild, spending a fortune to buy a Dragon Slayer, looking impressive as ever.
"Alright, let’s go!"
Su Zelin nodded.
In his past life, the loafer often played games, escaping classes all day for it.
But in this life, it was just for nostalgia.
He quickly logged into the game; the public test was the 1.10 version "Three Heroes’ Legend."
Looking at that coarse screen, Su Zelin couldn’t help but feel emotional.
"Charge forward, let’s do it!"
Zeng Kaiping shouted excitedly.
As soon as he left the newbie village, he slaughtered chickens and deer, skinned them to sell to the butcher afterwards, cursing whenever a deer ran away, though this deer meat was of higher quality and sold for more money.
Some beginners were so engrossed in just skinning that they got up to level ten or more just from that.
In these times, gaming happiness was just that simple.
In later times, game graphics improved, special effects were impressive, yet the desire to play was lost.
While the two were engrossed in the game, a graceful silhouette entered the dorm—it was Huang Panpan.
"Panpan junior, you’re here."
Everyone was already used to seeing Huang Panpan, greeting her casually, even Zeng Kaiping chasing a deer took time to say hi.
"Hey senior classmates, I just passed by the milk tea shop downstairs, saw there was a new release on the billboard, so I bought a few cups for everyone."
Huang Panpan said with a bright smile as she placed the bag she was holding on the table.
The junior sister was quite clever.
She put some thought into pleasing Su Zelin’s roommates, occasionally buying them breakfast or milk tea, so naturally, they would say good things about her to the senior.
"You’re so considerate, junior!"
Everyone thought this little rich junior sister was really too sensible, making it hard not to welcome her into the dorm.
Huang Panpan took two milk teas from the bag, sat down beside Su Zelin: "Senior, playing a game? What game is this?"
"Legend of Blood!"
Su Zelin replied offhandedly.
When the junior first joined, she pestered him every day; seeing her face would give Su Zelin a headache, wishing she’d leave immediately.
Recently, Huang Panpan had come less often; even when she did, she would just sit for a moment and leave, so Su Zelin didn’t rush her out.
"Oh, so this is Legend of Blood, I’ve been hearing the boys in class talk about it a lot, is it fun?"
Generally, girls weren’t interested in such fighting games, but the junior sister watched with great interest.
As long as it was something Su Zelin liked, she would be fond of it too.
"It’s okay, a lot of people play it."
Su Zelin chuckled.
"Do you play often, senior?"
The junior sister asked, somewhat intentionally.
"I play every now and then."
Su Zelin didn’t think much about it.
Huang Panpan’s eyes lit up.
Recently, Teacher Zeng gave her the third piece of sage advice—cater to his interests.
