<h4>Chapter Ch139 - Little Vic Bought An Outside World</h4>


    <i>trantor: xiin</i>


    <i>editor: kara</i>


    Odin had defeated Vantico! With a 50% health advantage!


    Vantico’s three major techniques had been broken through, and he hadn’t had the upper hand any time they’d fought!


    As one of the matches that had been the most anticipated in the top eight semi-finals of the National Championships, while everyone had guessed that the win rate was 50/50, Odin had actually achieved an indisputable victory.


    As soon as the results hade out, the news that the ‘third runner-up of the National Championships had been defeated’ had spread rapidly, and the percentage of people who felt that Odin would win the championship rose up!


    Within a day, the process of the entirepetition was dissected and analyzed by various experts and clubs, and all kinds of assassin strategies were changed ordingly.


    Odin and Vantico’s game had basically been Vantico attacking first with his techniques tounch a closebat assault. After the match had ended, the ‘closebat assault’ assassinbat style had been beaten down so much that it was ck and blue. They could only choose to keep a low profile temporarily.


    The style that had fared even worse afterwards was the ‘stealth’ style. The two top assassins had barely used stealth skills at all during the entirepetition, and there was practically no opportunity to sneak around and ambush. As soon as the game had ended, and the news had spread... countless assassins had cried and wailed as they left the ‘stealth’ style and joined up with other styles.


    Moreover, Odin and Vantico’s characters had both been set up in a very extreme manner. They hadn’t focused on skills at all and had pushed all their attributes to the limit. The fighting styles and schools that relied more on core skills and stealth were suddenly much less popr.


    The only style that had won a great victory was the ‘de-fighting’ style. Due to the indisputable fact that Lord Four had awed the entire league with his fighting ability, assassins and even other closebat professions had all begun to adopt the motto of ‘winning with no skills is a skill’.


    This also made Oriental professions, who shared simr traits, very tense. Many fans of Oriental-styled swordsmen shouted, “If you have the ability, then write your own motto. Don’t copy our ‘winning with no skills is a skill’ or our ‘no sword in my hand but a sword in my heart’, and to the independent nine fox de series, hey, we’re warning you!”


    The positioning of the Oriental system professions was quite vague. They considered themselves to be of the ‘ancient martial arts’ school. Currently, the ‘sect leader’ of this school was an Oriental swordsman, who had entered the top 8 for the second time and was a ‘quasi’ top 4 finalist.


    The reason why he was a ‘quasi’ top 4 finalist was because, ording to the system’s algorithm, after each yer had lost for the first time, they might be matched up with another yer within three positions above or below them in the next scheduledpetition. So, the current fourth ce could end up being beaten out of their fourth ce position, and Vantico, who’d been dropped to the 5-8th ce bracket, could also make his way back into the top three.


    Thepetition for the rankings in the National Championships was still fierce, but there were some things that were beyond a doubt:


    Odin was the top assassin of the year.


    It was very difficult. After having thought about it for a long time, they decided to temporarily call the crowdfunding project, ‘The diamond crowdfunding gift for the number one beauty in e-sports’.


    Themon fans were good at gags. Sometimes, they would call it ‘selling tickets to join the number one beauty club’ or ‘the e-sports circle’s number one dog food wholesale contract’.


    Tyron: “......”


    Victorughed every time he looked at the forum.


    Tyron had stood at the arena and ‘educated’ all the CP cults. Over the past two days, they’d been as well behaved as quails, and they did as they had been told and stoppeding up with new updates. They had felt so wronged that they’d retreated into a corner to draw circles in the ground and sprout mushrooms.


    It was impossible to eliminate thempletely, but this was already the best possible oue.


    Victor was so excited about this that he ate two big oranges. Later, when they went out for a walk in the evening, he bought his husband a luxury gift.


    big orange – meme. basically sex in a riding posture.


    Tyron opened up the box and saw a key-shaped ornament inside.


    He looked at it for a moment and guessed, “What is it? A car? A spaceship?”


    Victor replied shyly, “I bought you an outside world.”


    Tyron: “......”


    The old antique stared at the key for a while and felt that he was embarking on the road of no return towards a life of being a kept man.


    “Only the evaluation team has gone in.” Victor smiled and said, “They said that this wormhole is quiterge. There are intelligent creatures in the world on the other side, and the simrity rate of the physicalws is 40%, so the evaluation of this outside world is A2. Seeing that such a good project had almost gone unsold, I had entrusted someone to buy it at a discount.”


    This ‘outside world’ was actually a small wormhole that the Alliance had discovered led to a different ne.


    In this era, many gamepanies had started off by buying an outside world wormhole. With these wormholes, they would hire or offer rewards to groups of professional PVE teams to go out and explore, open up the unknownnds, and protect their initial base. After that, thepany’s logistics department would focus on building up the infrastructure of the base––including a special novice factory that manufactured character avatars. This was called a ‘closed beta’.


    When the unexplored areas were opened up, they would begin to colonize the outside world and open up the avatar creation in this outside world as a ‘public beta’, allowing yers to register and begin customization. The ces that had been developed by the professional PVE teams would be used as game maps, instances, and so on to provide a secondary development area. At this stage, thepany’s logistics department would constantly collect more information rted to the outside world and strive to establish aplete world framework.


    After the framework for the game was set up, the game could then be yed directly. The ‘customization fee’ for arge number of yers pouring in and creating customized avatars would bring in the first batch of ie, and the ‘point cards/monthly cards’ money-charging models would maintain the outside world and provide long-term ie. Additionally, there were ie streams from advertising and other ventures. If a scientific research team happened to be interested in the physical rules, social culture, etc. of this outside world, then they would also obtain an additional subsidy from the government for scientific research.


    Of course, if thepany went bankrupt due to bad management, then the wormhole would be taken back for auction to pay off the debt.


    Generally speaking, one wouldn’t make too much of a loss developing a wormhole, because there were too many things that could be yed with in this era. Even if the outside world was about to encounter an apocalypse, they could just make it into a doomsday survival game; if the difficulty level was too high, then it was even better as they could set up signboards for ‘The Chaoyang Alliance’s most difficult and heartbreaking game’ and target it specifically at the high-end PVE yers (they called themselves hardcore yers); if there was no biological life, then it could be made into a scenery-watching game. In any case, it couldn’t be any worse than the game, <Mountain>.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_(video_game)


    Because they were still in the midst of the National Championships, the two people had only taken a look at the evaluation report for the outside world and didn’t go in.


    Primarily, this was because they were afraid of bing addicted to it...


    Victorughed and said, “There’s a new way to y now! There’s a very popr program called ‘Life in the Outside World’. After a program group had purchased an outside world, they specifically invited people to join and y a survival-mode game, deliberately controlled their memories, and then had people go in with a mobile phone that allowed them to broadcast live...”


    This program was very famous, and even Tyron had taken a casual look at it.


    Every visitor who had been forced to ‘lose their memories’ after entering the outside world woke up like they’d just been struck by lightning! Their expressions were so confused! Some would dance ecstatically, “My god! I’ve transmigrated! Hahahaha, I’m going to walk up to the peak of the world!”


    Then, they would spend months or years in the outside world, holding onto a ‘mobile phone that allowed them tomunicate with the audience back home’. Some of them would go the farming route and lead a moderately well-off life; some would strive for hegemony, relying on the information they had obtained through the live broadcast room to climb up the science and technology tree.


    Each person’s personality was different, and what they had done after they had crossed over was also different. It was very interesting to watch.


    This program had already entered its second season. Now, it was no longer popr to bring ‘mobile phones’. Instead, bringing a ‘space’, which was basically a small, enclosed wormhole storage space, was more popr. Some of these portable spaces had been arranged in an idyllic manner; the seeds and nts avable in the interster age and the grain production quality were enough to scare people to death; some of these spaces were also giant electronic libraries orputers, providing their owners with arge amount of knowledge reserves orputing power.


    It was said that the nning for the third season intended to bring in a ‘system’. At that time, the program group could use the ‘system’ to release tasks to the yers so that the interaction between the yers and the viewers would increase.


    Victor added, “There’s another way to y that hasn’t be popr yet. It’s mainly yed by a group of idle rich second-generations. Themon word used for a person who enters an outside world to explore is a ‘transmigrator’. These yers will trade the outside worlds they own and y nonstop, and it’s called ‘quick transmigration’.”


    A group of rich second-generations would take wormholes worth tens of millions each and not focus on developing them. Instead, they would monopolize or use them in exchange games amongst the other rich, upper ss members in their own small circles. This kind of y was like buying an ind on Earth that wasn’t open to the public and specifically using it for their own holidays.


    It had been a long time since the old antique had sighed emotionally and said “You interster people really know how to y.” Now, he had discovered that he still hadn’t fully integrated into this era with its chaotic society.


    He put away the key to the wormhole and said, “After the National Championships are over, I’ll take you to y there together.”


    Victor waved his hand and spoke a little shyly, “I don’t even have the strength to truss a chicken. I might have to rely on youpletely for protection.”


    Tyron also felt that this kind of feeling was quite new. When he had been a zing angel, he’d fought all sorts of battles, but he’d seldom taken a little oil bottle with him... Cough, cough. At most, he’d taken a team with him to carry out a task that required multiple people.


    He found this opportunity to be quite rare, “When the timees, I’ll be responsible for exploring, and you’ll be responsible for farming at home.”


    Victor’s eyes suddenly lit up, and he nodded like chicken pecking at rice, “Yes, yes! You, the general, will explore and open up the territory outside, and I’ll stay at home and defend thends!”


    The two of them came to a spontaneous agreement.


    What Tyron wanted to do was to battle in all directions, fighting until he was in the top position so that he could protect his family behind him, allowing Victor to have the freedom to research, watch scenery, y on live broadcast, and y with whatever he wanted in the outside world.


    What Victor wanted to do was to study science and technology, make money, develop their territory, develop a strong army, and have a stable and sufficient logistics system and military strategy so that his old antique could sweep across the maind unhindered, fighting whomever he wanted.